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Escapee caught
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
An inmate who escaped from the Dyer County Justice complex Wednesday was arrested Friday morning in a motel south of Millington. Kenneth Wayne Brashier, 23, was arrested at 9:45 a.m. Friday at Albert's Cabins, a motel on Highway 51 south of Millington...
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Foster care by Dyersburg family, community, children's best memories
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
Minutes after police arrested Robert and Bessie Dodd on Jan. 6, 1983 for the torture and murder of her five-year-old son, Clint Hoover Coles, the four other children in the family needed a home. What they found was stability, love and happiness never before experienced...
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Family tree was rooted in violence
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
The last days of Clint Hoover Coles' short life were no different than the years of neglect that led to his death in a Dyersburg hotel in 1983, said the older sister that secretly cared for him. "I can remember more than I want to about what she [Bessie Lorene Dodd] did to my brother," said Danielle Ward...
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Sister, brother split on mother's release
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
Bessie Lorene Dodd's oldest daughter has not formed a definite opinion of whether or not her mother should be granted parole from a Tennessee prison a quarter-century after murdering her son, but is leaning against her release. Her brother, David, said his mother should be allowed her freedom...
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Family ripped apart
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
McRAE, Ark. -- The dark-haired six-year-old girl who in 1983 told investigators of the years of torture that lead to the death of her brother, Clint Hoover Coles, is now a 29-year-old mother of three. Married to a man she met while both were in state custody in Oklahoma, Danielle Katheleen Mae Ward lives in a trailer park along a railroad track in the Arkansas countryside...
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Release not likely, says parole board member
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
The release on parole of convicted murderer Bessie Lorene Dodd is not likely, said former Dyersburg state representative Ronnie Cole, who since 2002 has served on the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole. "We don't take kindly to child killers," said Cole...
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Stepfather convicted of second murder
(Local News ~ 05/08/06)
The man serving a life sentence for the 1983 murder of his stepson in Dyersburg was convicted of a second murder in 2001 while in prison. Robert Dodd, 43, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the October 1999 killing of an inmate at the Northeast Correctional Complex in Mountain City...
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