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St. Landry Kidnapping, Murder Suspect Pleads Guilty The man who kidnapped and murdered a Ville Platte woman last year will spend the rest of his life in prison. Philip Dewoody received three consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty this morning to first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated rape. The first-degree murder charge stemmed from the death of Joyce Thomas. Thomas disappeared from Ville Platte last March. State troopers found her body was found days later off I-49 between Sunset and Opelousas after Dewoody led them to it. The aggravated rape and aggravated kidn...
Opelousas man pleads guilty in first degree murder case, three life sentences handed down Phillip Dewoody pled guilty to the first degree murder of a St. Landry Parish woman who went missing in 2020. and last updated 2021-03-17 20:33:00-04 OPELOUSAS, La. â Philip Dewoody has pleaded guilty and been given three life sentences Tuesday in a kidnapping and in the murder of Joyce Thomas. Dewoody, 54 pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the slaying of Thomas. He also pleaded guilty to the aggravated kidnapping and rape of another woman. The three life sentences will run consecutively, o...
Phillip Dewoody, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted one woman and killed another, was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. Dewoody took a guilty plea Wednesday in St. Landry Parish before Judge Ledricka Thierry. He will serve the three life sentences in exchange for the district attorney's office not seeking the death penalty. The plea was accepted by the victims' families. "Finally justice was delivered today for these two victims and their families," District Attorney Chad Pitre said in a release. "The victims and their families have some amount of closure knowing this defen...
Alabama saw a 31% jump in COVID vaccines last week, now slowed by supply Updated Feb 18, 2021; Posted Feb 18, 2021 Large-scale COVID vaccination sites like this one at the Hoover Met Complex opened across Alabama in early February 2021.UAB Media Relations Facebook Share For one beautiful week, Alabama’s drive-thru vaccine clinics operated so smoothly, you’d think they also offered waffle-cut fries. “People were commenting that we had a Chick-Fil-A type process,” said Maegan Austin, spokeswoman for Vaughan Regional Medical Center, which ran a drive-thru clinic in Selma that gave out ...