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TEEN GIRL DOUSED, BURNED ALIVE IN MISSISSIPPI

 

Police seek clues in 'horrific' crime

 

A grisly killing in a small town in Mississippi has local residents on edge and looking for answers.

 

A blond-haired teenager with no known enemies was found walking down a rural road on fire Saturday night. She had been beaten, doused with lighter-fluid and set ablaze.

 

Jessica Chambers, 19, of Panola County was found engulfed in flames near the charred shell of her car sitting on the roadside in the town of Courtland. The town has a population of 460.

 

She was flown to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, but later died. Preliminary autopsy results reveal Jessica died of severe burns to 98 percent of her body, according to a report by Fox affiliate WAFF of Huntsville, Alabama.

 

“They have ripped everything I have,” Lisa Chambers, Jessica’s mother, told WAFF. “She left to go clean out her car and was going to get her something to eat.”

 

Jessica never made it home. Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/teen-girl-doused-burned-alive-in-mississippi/

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Interesting Developements on The Jessica Chambers Murder...

Sent in by Jeffery

 

Nailing the actual guilty party, however, could turn out to be not all that complicated. That’s because some black terrorists in the victim’s immediate circle have left a rather obvious trail of specific, racially-oriented murder threats.

One week before, and on just the day before Jessica Chambers was carjacked and burned to death, certain blacks among her intimate circle and acquaintance were involved in Facebook exchanges wherein calls for the rape and burnings of white women and children, especially the families of white police officers, were posted. Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2014/12/interesting-developements-on-jessica.html

 

 

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Seems to be lots of problems with the town's police/DA/fire/etc on this one. Of course since the victim is white can't expect much help from media and national law enforcement.

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Violence Against Women That @JaclynF and @JessicaValenti Will Never Mention

 

Posted on | February 24, 2016 | 21 Comments

Feminists are highly selective in terms of what crimes against women they notice. Suppose, for example, that an embittered Ivy League girl wants to get her ex-boyfriend expelled from school. This is an urgent cause to feminists, and Emma Sulkowicz carrying a mattress around campus becomes a national news story. Or suppose that a crazy girl at a top-tier state university makes up a tall tale about being gang-raped at a fraternity. Again, this is urgent to feminists, and Rolling Stone will publish a lurid 9,000-word article about Jackie Coakley’s imaginary rape by the fictional “Haven Monahan. Stigmatizing fraternities and boys at Ivy League schools as rapists is what the feminist agenda is all about.

 

On the other hand . . .

 

Jessica Chambers, 19, was burned to death in Mississippi. The case remained unsolved for more than a year, but now police say they’ve arrested the monster responsible for this atrocity:

 

A 27-year-old man has been indicted in the December 2014 burning death of Mississippi cheerleader Jessica Chambers, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Scissors-32x32.png

http://theothermccain.com/2016/02/24/violence-against-women-that-jaclynf-and-jessicavalenti-will-never-mention/

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Man indicted in mysterious Mississippi burning death of Jessica Chambers

By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Steve Almasy, CNN

Updated 3:28 PM ET, Wed February 24, 2016

 

(CNN)For 14 months, a town of 500 in northwest Mississippi grappled with the mysterious burning death of one of its daughters, Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old who left her mother's house in pajama pants, reportedly to clean her car. She never returned.

 

When police found her later the night of December 6, 2014, not far from her mother's Courtland home, her car was on fire and Chambers had burns over 98% of her body. She said something to a firefighter -- authorities wouldn't say what -- before she was rushed to a hospital, where she died the next day.

Courtland and Panola County residents didn't get all their answers Wednesday, but they learned that a man being held in Louisiana in connection with another homicide victim was indicted this week in Chambers' death.

 

Quinton Tellis, 27, faces a capital murder charge in her slaying, said John Champion, district attorney for Mississippi's 17th Circuit Court. The charge is capital murder because her death occurred during the commission of another crime, third-degree arson, he said.

 

Champion added he was "very, very confident" that there would be no additional charges or suspects.

"We do feel like, at this point, that he acted alone this case," he said. Scissors-32x32.png

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Suspect in Burning Death of Jessica Chambers Extradited to Mississippi

By Alexandra Rockey Fleming

Posted on June 29, 2016 at 5:40pm EDT

Murder suspect Quinton Tellis has returned to Mississippi to face charges in the 2014 burning death of teenager Jessica Chambers.

Tellis, 27, is being held in the DeSoto County Jail in Hernando, where he’ll remain until his legal proceedings in the state are completed. He has not yet entered a plea.

 

Chambers, a 19-year-old former cheerleader, was found engulfed in flames near her car on a rural road in Courtland, the hometown she shares with Tellis, on Dec. 6, 2014. She was flown to Regional Medical Center in Memphis with burns over 98 percent of her body, and died in the hospital. Investigators said she had been doused with an accelerant at the scene and left to die.

 

Tellis was transferred from Louisiana’s Angola Prison on June 23 after pleading guilty last month to one count of unauthorized use of a credit card. The card belonged to a slain Monroe, La., Taiwanese exchange student Meing-Chen Hsiao, who was found stabbed to death in her apartment in August 2015. (The cases of Hsiao and Chambers are considered unrelated.):snip: 

http://people.com/crime/jessica-chambers-suspect-quentin-tellis-extradited-to-mississippi/

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Quinton Tellis trial date set for June 2017

 

PANOLA COUNTY, Ms (KNOE 8 News) -

Quinton Tellis, the man accused of killing 19 year old Jessica Chambers, will stand trial on June 19, 2017.

In December of 2014, Chambers was found with 98 percent of body burned in Panola County, Mississippi.

She later died at a hospital.

Monroe police have also named Tellis as a suspect in the death of a ULM exchange student.

Meing-Chen Hsiao was found dead in her apartment, near ULM in August of 2015.

Police say Tellis used the student's debit card after her death.

Tellis has not been charged in the Hsiao murder.  :snip: 

http://www.knoe.com/content/news/Quinton-Tellis-trial-date-set-for-June-2017-397616191.html

 

 

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Jessica Chambers murder trial to begin in October

POSTED 1:25 PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017, BY ERYN TAYLORUPDATED AT 02:24PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The trial date for the man accused of setting a Panola County teen on fire then leaving her to die on a country road several years ago has officially been set.

Quinton Tellis’ trial will begin Tuesday, October 10. :snip:   http://wreg.com/2017/09/20/jessica-chambers-murder-trial-to-begin-in-october/

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The Jessica Chambers murder trial

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Chambers and Tellis rode around in her car for a while that morning before Chambers dropped off Tellis at his house and she went home to take a nap, prosecutors said. Chambers then picked up Tellis at about 5:30 p.m. and they went to a fast-food restaurant, Champion said.

Citing statements Tellis made to investigators, Champion said Tellis and Chambers had sex in her car later that evening. Champion said he believes Tellis suffocated Chambers and thought he had killed her.

Tellis then drove Chambers' car with her inside it to the back road, ran to his sister's house nearby, jumped in his sister's car, stopped to pick up gasoline from a shed at his house and torched Chamber while she was in her car, Champion said.

The nitty-gritty above with more @ Fox

Posted by Brock Townsend at Friday, October 13, 2017  

https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-jessica-chambers-murder-trial.html

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Final Update: MISTRIAL Verdict Reached in Jessica Chambers Murder Trial – *Update1* Maybe – *Update2* “NOT GUILTY” – *Update3* “Note Quite” – *Update4* Mistrial…

 
Via comment by Anonymous on The Jessica Chambers murder trial
'' Unbloodybelievable! What country is this where the criminal is innocent and the innocent is the criminal''
 
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  I believe you'll get yours, one way or another.
 
 According to Tish Clark the jury in the trial of Quinton Tellis  for the murder of Jessica Chambers, has reached a verdict:

MISTRIAL!

After an afternoon of absolute chaos in the jury deliberation process the jury states they are deadlocked. The judge in the trial of Quinton Tellis declares a mistrial.
 
More @ The Last Refuge
 
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JESSICA CHAMBERS: SPEECH EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON THE RELIABILITY OF HER ACCUSATION "ERIC DID IT"

by WILL HUNTSBERRY

AUGUST 2, 2018 • 3:47 PM ET

Speech Pathology is set to be a big issue in Quinton Tellis's second murder trial. Could it convict or exonerate him?

When emergency workers found Jessica Chambers stumbling on the side of the road with more than 93 percent of her body burned she told them something that would come to dominate the case: “Eric did it.”

At trial, eight first responders testified she said this—one wasn’t sure if she said “Eric” or “Derek”—multiple times before she died. But the man prosecutors believe killed her is named neither Eric nor Derek. His name is Quinton Tellis.

The case will be looked at anew in the upcoming Oxygen docu-series “Unspeakable Crime: The Murder of JessicaChambers.”

During Tellis’s murder trial last year, prosecutors tried to sow doubt over whether Chambers’ words could be trusted since she was suffering such severe medical trauma. 

The first trial ended in a mistrial and now prosecutors plan to try Tellis for the crime again and, this time, use a speech pathologist to help bolster their case.:snip: https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/jessica-chambers-speech-experts-reliability-accusation

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PREVIEW OXYGEN'S NEW SERIES 'UNSPEAKABLE CRIME: THE KILLING OF JESSICA CHAMBERS'

AUGUST 1, 2018 • 1:00 PM ET

A teen burned alive leaves a small town divided in Oxygen's new docu-series "Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers."

Oxygen Media, the network for high-quality true crime programming, takes a deep dive into the horrific December 2014 murder of Jessica Chambers, the Mississippi teen who was doused with gasoline and set on fire, in the active crime investigation docu-series Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers,” premiering on Saturday, September 15, at 7pm ET/PT. Inspired by the reporting of BuzzFeed News’ Investigative Reporter, Katie J.M. Baker, and directed by Emmy Award®-winning and Academy Award®-nominated Joe Berlinger (BROTHER’S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST TRILOGY), the five-part series explores the murder of 19-year-old Chambers and takes an inside look into the trial of Quinton Tellis, a local black man accused of the crime. With tensions high, a small Mississippi town seeks the truth while facing a growing racial divide over guilt or innocence.

 “This case has many layers of mystery, but at the heart of it all, it’s about finding justice.” said Rod Aissa, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Oxygen Media. :snip: https://www.oxygen.com/unspeakable-crime-the-killing-of-jessica-chambers

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PREVIEW OXYGEN'S NEW SERIES 'UNSPEAKABLE CRIME: THE KILLING OF JESSICA CHAMBERS'

AUGUST 1, 2018 • 1:00 PM ET

A teen burned alive leaves a small town divided in Oxygen's new docu-series "Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers."

Oxygen Media, the network for high-quality true crime programming, takes a deep dive into the horrific December 2014 murder of Jessica Chambers, the Mississippi teen who was doused with gasoline and set on fire, in the active crime investigation docu-series Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers,” premiering on Saturday, September 15, at 7pm ET/PT. Inspired by the reporting of BuzzFeed News’ Investigative Reporter, Katie J.M. Baker, and directed by Emmy Award®-winning and Academy Award®-nominated Joe Berlinger (BROTHER’S KEEPER, PARADISE LOST TRILOGY), the five-part series explores the murder of 19-year-old Chambers and takes an inside look into the trial of Quinton Tellis, a local black man accused of the crime. With tensions high, a small Mississippi town seeks the truth while facing a growing racial divide over guilt or innocence.

 “This case has many layers of mystery, but at the heart of it all, it’s about finding justice.” said Rod Aissa, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Oxygen Media. :snip: https://www.oxygen.com/unspeakable-crime-the-killing-of-jessica-chambers

Just a reminder this Oxygen's new docu-series "Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers." premiering on Saturday, September 15, at 7pm ET/PT

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Jessica Chambers case: Jurors deliberating the fate of Quinton Tellis

Ron Maxey, Memphis Commercial AppealPublished 12:16 p.m. CT Sept. 30, 2018 | Updated 7:48 p.m. CT Sept. 30, 2018

 

BATESVILLE, Miss. – Jurors in Quinton Tellis' capital murder decided to resume deliberations Monday after 4½ hours spent Sunday behind closed doors weighing the evidence.

The jury from Oktibbeha County began deliberations at 2:35 p.m. Sunday following six days of testimony in a second trial nearly a year after the first that ended in a hung jury. Their work began following testimony in the morning from three defense witnesses, a prosecution rebuttal witness and roughly two hours of closing arguments from the two sides.

The judge called jurors into court for a progress report shortly before 7. The forewoman said they’re making progress but need ”a little more time.”

Dinner was ordered as jurors continued deliberations. 

Deliberations continued until around 7:30 p.m. and are set to resume at 9 a.m. Monday.

Closing arguments

"I believe we have proven every element required" for a conviction on the capital murder charge against Tellis for the December 2014 burning death of Jessica Chambers, Assistant District Attorney Jay Hale told jurors during the first half of the prosecution's closing argument. :snip:     https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/09/30/closing-arguments-set-begun-sunday-afternoon-quinton-tellis-retrial-jessica-chambers-murder/1475403002/

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Did Jessica Chambers talk or did responders misunderstand? Jury could not decide

Ron Maxey, Memphis Commercial AppealPublished 4:16 p.m. CT Oct. 1, 2018 | Updated 4:52 p.m. CT Oct. 1, 2018

BATESVILLE, Miss. — Two lines will stick out from the retrial of Quinton Tellis for the 2014 burning death of Jessica Chambers. 

The first came quickly, when defense attorney Darla Palmer told the jury in her opening statement that Chambers “walked and talked” after first-responders found her and asked who had set her on fire.  

More: Jessica Chambers trial jury hangs again

Days later, burn specialist Dr. William Hickerson of Regional One Hospital in Memphis dropped another gem when he told Palmer during cross-examination: “My momma didn’t raise no liar.”

In the end, jurors apparently couldn't decide which signature line was closer to the truth. For the second time in a year, jurors deadlocked after roughly 11 hours hours of deliberation spanning two days. District Attorney John Champion would not say afterwards whether he will try the case a third time  
:snip: 

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/10/01/jurors-quinton-tellis-retrial-death-jessica-chambers-could-not-decide-between-competing-theories/1482893002/

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Jessica Chambers' boyfriend is shot and killed five years after she was burned to death

  • The former boyfriend of Jessica Chambers was found shot to death Friday
  • Travis Sanford, 33, was jailed when Chambers was burned to death in 2014
  • He was shot to death early Friday at a home in Courtland, Mississippi 
  • A suspect has been taken into custody, but hasn't been charged yet
  • The suspect in Chambers' death, Quentin Tellis has been tried twice but on both occasions the trial resulted in a hung jury

PUBLISHED: 09:39 EDT, 16 March 2019 | UPDATED: 11:32 EDT, 16 March 2019

Someone fatally shot the former boyfriend of a Mississippi woman who was burned to death, and investigators are questioning a suspect.

Travis Sanford, 33, was killed Friday morning at a home in Courtland, Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby said.

District Attorney John Champion confirmed that he was Jessica Chambers' boyfriend when she was burned to death in Courtland in 2014. 

Sanford was incarcerated at the time and was cleared in her death, Darby said.

The suspect in Sanford's death fired a shotgun while running from Sanford's house about 7:30am on Friday morning the Clarion Ledger of Jackson quoted Darby as saying. Sanford's girlfriend and two small children  :snip: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6816707/Jessica-Chambers-boyfriend-shot-killed-five-years-burned-death.html

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