Conviction: Second-Degree Murder
DOC#  0118151
Parole Review Date: 01-21-2004
Sentence: 40 yrs
Has Served: 10 yrs 9 mths to date

Crime Story
This incident occurred November 18, 1992. Jimmie Edwards got into an argument with the victim because she was playing her music too loud. A fight erupted and Edwards strangled the victim to death with his bare hands. He then hid her lifeless body inside a storage-building behind his home and padlocked the doors. In an attempt to get rid of evidence of her presence inside the home, he hid her bookbag and purses in the attic; a place he knew his wife would not enter.

Twenty-four hours later, after a search for the victim, Edwards and his wife filed a missing person report with the police. After finding that the victim's telephone had been pulled from the wall, the victim's mother searched the attic and found the purse and book-bag. She then searched the storage shed behind the house and found her child's body.

Edwards confessed to the murder, stating it was an accident and he never intended to kill his stepdaughter. Jimmie Edwards plead guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to serve 40 years in prison

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