Navy reservist charged with 12 sex crimes against children as far back as 1993
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell said his office s investigation began when one of the three victims wrote a letter to his office in January 2020 Author: Sam Clancy Updated: 6:24 PM CST March 10, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. A man was charged with 12 sex crimes related to incidents that occurred in St. Louis County dating back as far as 1993 and as recently as 2003, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell said in a news conference Wednesday.
Ephriam Granderson, 52, was charged with 12 crimes including rape, sodomy, statutory rape and statutory sodomy in connection with alleged crimes against three victims over the span of 10 years. Bell said Granderson a US Navy Reservist was taken into custody at an Atlanta airport by the US Marshals Service after getting off a flight from South Korea, where he was stationed.
By TAYLOR TIAMOYO HARRIS | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Published: March 11, 2021 CLAYTON, Mo. A reservist in the U.S. Navy faces a dozen charges after prosecutors say he sexually abused at least three children in St. Louis County dating back to 1993. Ephriam P. Granderson, 52, assaulted three children on numerous, but separate, occasions between 1993 and 2003, according to charges filed under seal March 1. The children were between 9 and 16 years old at the time of the alleged assaults. The charges were unsealed Wednesday. Granderson faces six counts of statutory rape, four counts of statutory sodomy and one count each of rape and sodomy. Granderson was deployed in South Korea, and he was arrested just before 5 p.m. Wednesday by U.S. Marshals at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Man suspected of killing wife, 2 kids shoots himself
Bobby McCulley III filed for a divorce from his wife just five days before he killed her and two children
In St. Louis County,
Bobby McCulley III killed himself on Friday after he was wanted in a homicide involving his own family, per
Roseann Williams McCulley, 34, just five days before he shot and killed her and her two children,
Kayden Johnson, 13, and
she had from a previous relationship.
According to the police reports, he held the victims against their will for hours before shooting them at the St. Louis residential address. His wife and her children were living at the residence.
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Bookings at the St. Louis County jail dropped by 47% between February and October of the coronavirus pandemic. St. Louis County’s average daily jail population also decreased by an average of 30% from 2016 to 2019.
The number of people booked at the St. Louis County jail dropped by 47% between February and October, as the coronavirus pandemic hit the region and officials imposed restrictions on public gatherings.
The county’s results were similar to those of 25 other cities the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance examined across the country. Its study found that bookings in most of the examined cities were still below pre-pandemic levels by October.
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Charles A. Weiss, Stephen R. Snodgrass And Jonathan B. Potts
What are lawyers to make of the story of Donald Nash?
On the one hand, it is the kind of case for which people go to law school. A group of dedicated attorneys, working pro bono, undertakes a years-long effort to free an unjustly convicted man, winning key victories in the state’s highest court and finally securing his release from prison.