COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rachael Anderson’s murder has people asking a lot of questions about the past of the man taken into custody and charged with killing her.
53-year-old Anthony Pardon was arrested Thursday in the Linden area near the home where he lived with his mother and sister. Debbie Pardon said her family was grieving the loss of her daughter when SWAT descended on the neighborhood. “My daughter passed Tuesday in a car crash on 11th Avenue. I got two kids and I can’t even view her body because her face is so messed up.”
We asked, what can you tell us about your brother? "Nothing. Did you know he was in trouble? Please don’t do this. I got a funeral to plan and two grandbabies, 3 and 6.”
Neighbor Andre Kelley called the news of the arrest “horrific.”
Kelley said he had spent time with the family and with Pardon but couldn’t imagine him killing a woman. Kelley said he recently had been looking clean cut and well dressed. “I seen him. He was so well groomed. Watch. Hair. It’s like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
Neighbors said the place where Pardon was living was a little house with big secrets. Bernadine Price said, “you still don’t know what is going on behind closed doors.”
Court records show in 1980 when Anthony Pardon was 15-years-old he was convicted of raping a nine-month-old baby. Then in 1981, court records show Pardon raped the mother of a friend at knifepoint, tied her hands and feet, put her in the trunk of a car, and drove her to Valley Dale, where he tried to drown her in the river behind the entertainment venue. Records said Pardon put the victim’s head under the water, but a Good Samaritan intervened and she lived. Pardon went to prison for 25 years.
A former Alabama teacher imprisoned for sleeping with two of her students is appealing her conviction, claiming state mandates infringe upon her constitutional right to have consensual sex with anyone over the age of 16.
According to Tuscaloosa News, Charli Jones Parker, 31, pleaded guilty to having contact with students younger than 19. She is currently serving a three-year prison sentence.
The same month Parker pleaded guilty, a Morgan County Circuit Judge ruled that the law prohibiting sex between a school employee and student was unconstitutional.
Parker's attorney argues that this violates the equal protection clause because it treats school employees differently than other professions, criminalizing "private consensual sexual relationships."
The age of consent in Alabama is 16.
“Alabama law does not make it a crime for members of other occupations to have consensual sex with 16-, 17- and 18-year-olds, even when there is a position of trust or authority,” said Parker’s appellate attorney, Virginia Buck.
Buck raised a hypothetical scenario in which a 21-year-old janitor working for a Tuscaloosa school system went on spring break and had sex with an 18-year-old senior from a district high school.
Under that law, she said, he would be guilty of a Class B felony. However, she argues that a 65-year-old "doctor, minister, therapist, or attorney" is not subject to the same criminal liability.
“School employees have been unfairly singled out and are being sent to prison for something that, at most, might cost people their job or their license in any other profession,” she said. “Certainly, anyone who has sexual contact with someone without their consent, or who is under the age of consent, should be criminally punished. But to send someone to prison for a consensual sexual relationship with someone over the age of consent solely because they are a school employee treats school employees differently than everyone else.”
AL.com reports Parker was arrested in March 2016, days before her husband was arrested on the same charges.
She was indicted on 13 counts of a school employee having sex with a student under the age of 19.
A homeless man who murdered a Kansas woman and her 4-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Keith Hawkins was sentenced Friday for capital murder in the August 2017 deaths of 24-year-old Alyssa Runyon and her daughter, Zaylynn Paz. The victims’ bodies were found at their duplex in Newton, Kansas. Police said the girl was stabbed and her mother was strangled.
Hawkins was arrested in Texas. Authorities said he was homeless and was visiting Runyon.
The victims’ families agreed to a plea deal that dropped two counts of first-degree murder in exchange for his guilty plea to capital murder. Authorities said Hawkins was a sex offender but his prior conviction was not placed on the public offender registry.
HENDERSON - A Henderson man accused of breaking a woman's nose for not giving him a ride was indicted this week.
The Henderson County grand jury indicted Justin W. Epps, 22, 2200 block of Melwood Place, on a charge of second-degree assault in connection with the alleged crime that occurred in October.
Henderson police said Epps asked a co-worker to give him a ride to a gas station. She did, but then refused to drive him from the gas station to a friend's house, officials said. Epps allegedly responded by punching the woman in the face. The victim told police she got out of the vehicle and began to run, but Epps chased her and continued hitting her, a news release said.
The victim was able to get away from Epps, but not before receiving a broken nose, a cut and neck injuries, city police said.
When Epps was located, he said, he "slapped (the victim) and head-butted her." Epps also said the victim had grabbed him.
BOISE - A federal court judge has ordered the state of Idaho to release or re-try a man convicted of murder in a shaken baby case more than two decades ago.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush ruled Wednesday that Ada County would have 120 days to either release Edward Stevens or give him a new trial, in part because prosecutors earlier failed to disclose some favorable evidence to Stevens' defense attorney.
The judge also found that investigators failed to maintain the proper chain of custody for some of the evidence. Chain of custody rules are intended to ensure that evidence for criminal cases isn't tampered with.
The judge said the prosecutor should have discovered and disclosed that some of the key evidence used to support the shaken-baby theory came from tissue samples that may have been damaged by the embalming process.
Stevens maintains the child was injured during an accidental fall.
Chester "Snake" Turley, or Snake Jailbird, Albert Knickerbocker Aloysius Snake, also known as Professor Jailbird and Detention Bird, is a recidivist criminal, always getting arrested, but rarely appearing to stay in prison. He speaks with a "Valley Boy" accent and has a tattoo of a snake on his arm, which is presumably the source of his nickname. He is partial to fast cars and fast women, and has a knack for reckless abandon.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The suspect in the Westerville police shooting has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder.
Columbus Police filed the charges against suspect Quentin Smith on Sunday afternoon.
According to police, a call came into the Westerville Emergency Dispatch 911 center Saturday as a hang-up.
When officers responded to a call in the 100 block of crosswind Drive. Shots were fired at them, killing Officer Anthony Morelli and Officer Eric Joering.
The Westerville city manager said Joering, 39, spent 17 years on the force. Morelli, 54, had 30 years with Westerville police.
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