It took nearly a quarter of a century to get this case to trial but only a couple of hours to find suspect guilty
OZARK, Ala. - Dale County jurors on Wednesday found Coley McCraney guilty of brutally killing two Dothan teens.Dothan teens JB Beasley and Tracie Hawlett died in the summer of 1999 when their assailant forced them into the trunk of Beasley’s car and shot each in the head.
On the witness stand Monday McCraney claimed to have met Beasley briefly a few weeks before she died and insisted the 17-year-old tracked him down at his mother’s house. That following day police found those classmates in the trunk of Beasley’s Mazda 929 about a half mile from McCraney’s home, estimating the bodies had been there since about the time McCraney claimed the teens dropped him off in Ozark after their rendezvous.
McCraney may have dug a deeper hole when he testified that he did not know until his 2019 arrest that Beasley died, claiming he knew her by the name “Jennifer.”Though on the road with his trucking company, he regularly returned home to the Ozark area where the girls’ photos were prominently displayed and featured frequently on television broadcasts and newspapers.
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