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Five indicted for capital murder in Hartselle murder-for-hire case
Updated Apr 22, 2021;
A Morgan County grand jury indicted five people this week on capital murder charges in connection a 2020 Hartselle murder.
Logan McKinley Delp, 36, of Madison; LaJuhn Keith Smart, 25, of Huntsville; Aaron Carter Howard, 40, of Toney; Jaclyn Elaine Skuce, 38, of Madison; and Angela Stolz, 34, of Huntsville, were all indicted on three counts of capital murder this week, according to the Morgan County District Attorney’s Office.
WHNT is reporting that Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson said he will personally prosecute the case.
Logan McKinley Delp faces capital murder charges in the shooting death of Larry Sheppard.
Decatur City Councilman cleared of election complaint
Complaints against Councilman dismissed By Bayne Hughes and WAFF 48 Digital Staff | January 15, 2021 at 6:54 AM CST - Updated January 15 at 6:54 AM
DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - The youngest City Councilman in Decatur history has been cleared of complaints related to his 2020 campaign.
According to our news partners at the Decatur Daily, General Counsel Hugh Evans closed his investigation of the complaint against Hunter Pepper this week. The complaint was made by Charles Kirby, the District 4 council incumbent who lost to Pepper in the Aug. 25 municipal election.
Pepper, 18, is one of four new members, all under age 40, elected in August to the five-member council to serve a four-year term. Councilman Billy Jackson was the only incumbent reelected. Two incumbents did not run again. The new council took office Nov. 2.
Alabama man sentenced to life without parole for killing ex-wife at her bakery
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
A Morgan County man was sentenced today to spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2015 murder of his ex-wife at her bakery in Decatur.
Roger Dale Stevens, 68, was convicted of capital murder last month for the killing of Kay Letson Stevens. Kay Stevens was 62 when she was shot to death at the Corner Bakery on Nov. 14, 2015 a day after her divorce was finalized. Prosecutors said Roger Stevens killed his ex-wife because “she got everything” in the final divorce decree.
“The love of money is the root of all evil, and Kay Stevens felt the full brunt of that evil that day,” said Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson, who prosecuted the case with Assistant DA Paul Matthews.
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Roger Dale Stevens, convicted of shooting his ex-wife to death at her Decatur bakery five years ago, will spend the rest of his life in an Alabama prison.
Stevens, 68, was sentenced this morning by Morgan County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Howell after his conviction last month of capital murder for killing Kay Letson Stevens, 64, outside the Corner Bakery and Eatery on Sommerville Road.
Life without parole was the only sentencing option available to Howell after Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson decided to not to seek the death penalty.
âThere are no winners in this,â Brenda Suggs, who was Kay Stevensâ sister and business partner, said after todayâs 40-minute hearing.