Tuesday, June 28 2011 11:49 PM EDT2011-06-29 03:49:52 GMT
It has been one year and still no justice for a Heartland couple shot and burned in their home. It's a story that rocked Ripley County last summer. Family members want to know why no one has been charged in the murder of their loved ones.
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon says she has expanded her virtual legal clinic program to provide assistance to domestic violence victims in southern Illinois' Cairo Women's Shelter.
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon says she has expanded her virtual legal clinic program to provide assistance to domestic violence victims in southern Illinois' Cairo Women's Shelter.
A viewer sent us these pictures of flags flying on Brown Church Road.
SHANNON COUNTY, MO (KFVS) -
A jury trial has ended in a guilty verdict for a Ripley County woman who was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Court papers show a Shannon County jury found Youngblood guilty late Thursday night on both counts of murder in the first degree.
Melissa Youngblood was charged in connection with the deaths of Ed Atkinson and Bonnie Chase, who died back in July of 2010.
Youngblood was the first of four defendants to stand trial.
Her husband David Youngblood pleaded guilty last June of killing not only Atkinson and Chase, but two other people as well.
Police say Irene and Loyd Piatt were also shot and killed, and their home set on fire.
Two others have yet to stand trial for the four murders.
David and Melissa's daughter Chantale Youngblood, and also Keith Boyles.
A family member of the Piatt's told Heartland News that the guilty verdict in Melissa's case came as a relief.
"We need to thank all the people for praying that justice would win this week, " said Imetta Farrar. "So many have told me they we praying. We were happy she got convicted, but there is still two more to go."
Tuesday, March 13 2012 8:25 PM EDT2012-03-14 00:25:07 GMT
Attorney General Chris Koster's office filed more charges Tuesday against three people for allegedly murdering Edgar Atkinson and Bonnie Chase, and Loyd and Irene Piatt, in two separate incidents.
After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.
After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.
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Authorities say they have found a child's body believed to be that of an 18-month-old girl as they continue to investigate a series of Kansas farm deaths.
A body recovered amid an intensive search is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm days ago, authorities said Sunday.
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."
The trucker was hauling drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him....
Melissa Youngblood
Youngblood was the first of four defendants to stand trial.
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