Black arrested for brutal murder of White TV anchor woman
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Gman
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Nice follow-up article on this evil crime: Excellent video at link, watch it!!
Kristen Edwards and Anne Pressley
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=6393888&page=1
Anne Pressley and rape victim, Kristen Edwards
Kristen Edwards
(please notice the two photos of Kristen Edwards. One is obviously prior to her being raped by nigger Vance and the other photo is obviously after her being raped by nigger Vance. You can see the damaged soul of Kristen Edwards mirrored in her face. One can feel her pain and see the damage that was done to her by this evil nigger rapist. It is a very sad photo and tells a story just by her visage! I wish all white girls could see these two photos and understand that white women should never be around niggers!!! Contact with beasts of the field (niggers) was forbidden by God for white woman for very good reasons!!!! This poor white girl is probably wounded for life because of this evil nigger, Curtis Vance! He should be hung forthwith!!)
Anchorwoman's Murder Probe Cracks Cold Case
Exclusive: Police Say DNA Links Second Rape Case to Anne Pressly's Alleged Killer
The investigation into the murder of popular Little Rock, Ark., anchorwoman Anne Pressly may help solve a second crime.
New details are surfacing about the prime suspect in the Anne Pressly case.Kristen Edwards, of Marianna, Ark., was raped and attacked in April. Police say that DNA evidence from Pressly's crime scene matched Edwards' attacker, and detectives from both cities collaborated to search for a suspect. Curtis Lavell Vance was arrested Nov. 26 and charged with Pressly's murder.
Pressly, 26, a rising star on the local morning news scene, was beaten into a coma and raped in her apartment in October after a break-in, apparently by a stranger who took her laptop computer, a credit card and little else. The face so many in her hometown had come to know was crushed beyond recognition.
Some 100 miles away, Edwards, a schoolteacher and fan of Pressly, was attacked while getting ready for work.
"It was a surprise," Edwards told ABC News. "He was hiding in my living room, and I never saw it coming. Never saw it coming." Edwards' attacker had come at her from behind, and forced her to lie on her stomach so she could not see his face. (remember, the nigger is an ambush hunter!)Crime Scene: 'Blood All Over the Walls'
Edwards said her rapist warned her not to turn around, and told her he had a gun and would kill her if she tried to look at him. And while she feared for her life until the end, she survived.
"I pretty much did as I was told to do," she said. "I didn't look, I didn't fight, I stopped yelling -- that sort of thing."
But Anne Pressly fought back against her attacker. (God bless you Anne!!) Doctors also found that her left hand had been broken -- a defensive wound.
Pressly's mother, Patti Cannady, found her daughter the morning after the attack.
"It was brutal," she said. "Blood all over the walls; could not recognize her."
Five days after the attack, Pressly's brain stem ruptured and she died.
"It is the worst nightmare that any human being could ever have to face," said Patti Cannady. "It is a nightmare to lose a child. To find your child. Our lives will never be the same."
She said she is determined to look her daughter's murderer in the eye.
"I am not leaving," she said. "I will see this person eye-to-eye. They'll have to face me. And God." (heartbreaking how much misery and chaos one nigger can inflict upon a white family with one act of TNB!! These evil creatures need a severe dealing from the white race!!)
DNA Evidence Holds Key to Case
Kristen Edwards also wants the opportunity to confront her attacker.
Arkansas anchorwoman Anne Pressly, right, was killed in her home in October. Police say DNA evidence from her case matches that from the rape case of Kristen Edwards, left.
(ABC/Courtesy KATV/Pressly Family)"It's important for me to face him," she said. "I want to say to his face what he's done to me. I want that opportunity." (Kristen, don't expect any remorse from this beast of the field, they are not human so don't expect a human response! The beast will probably just mutter, "I din't do nuffin!!)From day one, Little Rock police had powerful evidence in Pressly's case. She had fought her attacker and detectives recovered DNA from sperm, blood and his skin, taken from beneath Pressly's fingernails. (God bless you Anne!!!)
"We believed that we had enough to charge somebody if we just knew who that person was," said Lt. Terry Hastings, the public information officer for the Little Rock Police Department.
Two hours away in Lee County, Edwards' case remained unsolved.
"I knew if they ever found a suspect and could match DNA, but I didn't see his face, I didn't know if there would ever be a suspect," said Edwards.
Related
Slain Anchorwoman's Father 'Frustrated' but OptimisticWATCH: Anchorwoman Attack Case ContinuesWATCH: Reward Offered in Anchor Attack"I have no shame whatsoever in what happened to me," she continued. "What happened to me was not my fault. I did everything that you're, I guess, supposed to do when something like that happens to you." (God bless you, Kristen. You did nothing wrong and you were fortunate to survive. May you get the satisfaction of seeing the nigger rapist, Vance, executed!!)
Edwards went to the hospital immediately after the attack, so detectives working her case had her rapist's DNA to compare. But for seven months there were no breaks in the case.
"I was incredibly and still am to some extent, scared," Edwards said. "There was a lot of fear that whoever it was, was still around."
The week of Thanksgiving, the Arkansas State Crime Lab reported that the DNA gathered at Pressly's crime scene matched that of Edwards' rapist.
And days later, Marianna police detective Carl McCree and Police Chief Vincent Bell stopped a car with suspicious plates. Bell said that in a city of only 5,000, the car triggered "the sixth sense that we sometimes as police officers have." (I am guessing it was not the car that triggered your sixth sense but seeing a nigger behind the wheel....)"The conversation that [the driver] was having with me connected him with the city of Marianna and Little Rock," Bell added. "There was a red flag."
The Marianna police called Little Rock and 15 minutes later detectives were questioning Curtis Vance, who agreed to a DNA sample swabbed from his cheek.
Pressly's Mother: 'Why Did You Hurt My Child?'
A day later, the DNA gathered by police in two Arkansas towns paid off.
Kristen Edwards, of Marianna, Ark., was raped and attacked in April. Police say that DNA evidence from Pressly's crime scene matched Edwards' attacker, and detectives from both cities collaborated to search for a suspect.
(Courtesy Kristen Edwards)"It took a day to get [the DNA evidence] compared," said Hastings. "On Wednesday afternoon, investigators were notified that it was a match."
Vance's DNA matched both cases, but he had fled from his home, and Little Rock police held a Thanksgiving eve news conference asking for help.
A woman in Marianna said she had seen a man who resembled Vance near her home, and Lori Garner, a personal trainer at a gym only a handful of blocks from where Pressly lived, told police she saw a man stalking women around the gym just before the murder. She and her client agreed Vance was the man they had seen.
"I feel confident with my opinion that it was him," she said.
The tips paid off almost immediately. Within an hour and a half police had surrounded a Little Rock home and Curtis Vance gave up peacefully.
Vance has said only one word in public since his arrest: A simple "No," when asked if he'd killed Anne Pressly. (A nigger lying and denying the crime???? No way!!! Thats a first!!)Related
WATCH: News Anchor Attack MysteryThree's a Crowd in Deadly Love TrianglePolice told ABC News that while Vance denies the murder, he did admit to being at Pressly's house.
"We believe he probably saw her in the neighborhood, probably getting gas, maybe doing something else and then followed her and attacked her," said Hastings. "He denied being involved in it in any way. But his DNA told us otherwise." (Whites, remember the impulsive nature of the nigger and it's desire for instant gratification of any desire no matter how evil!!)
Today, Edwards finally feels a little safer, believing the faceless man who raped her is no longer a threat.
"It completely changes your life. It changes your family's life and your friends and co-workers," she said. "I mean, it's devastating. I don't want to see him on the street, ever." (misery and chaos, the nigger contribution to white society!!)
Pressly's parents hope that a trial will answer the questions that keep them up at night.
"What kind of monster are you that would take the life of an innocent child?" Patti Cannady said. "What fills you with rage and hatred and no respect for human life? Why did you have to hurt my child and take her life?" (I will answer: this dark creature is an evil beast of the field that has no human conscience and for that matter is not human at all! These dark creatures were never meant to live free as they now do, they were meant to live under white rule and be ruled with a very firm hand by the white! These dark creatures known as niggers, have an genetic hatred and envy of whites and seek to do them harm, especially the white women and children! Our deepest sympathies to you and your family on the loss of Anne. We know this was a great loss!)
"When I had to go to Anne's house and close it up for the last time ... It was hard," said Guy Cannady. "When I walked out that door, locked the door for the last time and walked away … it's something I'll never forget." (our sympathies to you, sir. Your loss was great. May the nigger that killed your daughter Anne, be executed and soon!)
Kristen Edwards and Anne Pressley
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=6393888&page=1
Anne Pressley and rape victim, Kristen Edwards
(please notice the two photos of Kristen Edwards. One is obviously prior to her being raped by nigger Vance and the other photo is obviously after her being raped by nigger Vance. You can see the damaged soul of Kristen Edwards mirrored in her face. One can feel her pain and see the damage that was done to her by this evil nigger rapist. It is a very sad photo and tells a story just by her visage! I wish all white girls could see these two photos and understand that white women should never be around niggers!!! Contact with beasts of the field (niggers) was forbidden by God for white woman for very good reasons!!!! This poor white girl is probably wounded for life because of this evil nigger, Curtis Vance! He should be hung forthwith!!)
Anchorwoman's Murder Probe Cracks Cold Case
Exclusive: Police Say DNA Links Second Rape Case to Anne Pressly's Alleged Killer
The investigation into the murder of popular Little Rock, Ark., anchorwoman Anne Pressly may help solve a second crime.
New details are surfacing about the prime suspect in the Anne Pressly case.Kristen Edwards, of Marianna, Ark., was raped and attacked in April. Police say that DNA evidence from Pressly's crime scene matched Edwards' attacker, and detectives from both cities collaborated to search for a suspect. Curtis Lavell Vance was arrested Nov. 26 and charged with Pressly's murder.
Pressly, 26, a rising star on the local morning news scene, was beaten into a coma and raped in her apartment in October after a break-in, apparently by a stranger who took her laptop computer, a credit card and little else. The face so many in her hometown had come to know was crushed beyond recognition.
Some 100 miles away, Edwards, a schoolteacher and fan of Pressly, was attacked while getting ready for work.
"It was a surprise," Edwards told ABC News. "He was hiding in my living room, and I never saw it coming. Never saw it coming." Edwards' attacker had come at her from behind, and forced her to lie on her stomach so she could not see his face. (remember, the nigger is an ambush hunter!)Crime Scene: 'Blood All Over the Walls'
Edwards said her rapist warned her not to turn around, and told her he had a gun and would kill her if she tried to look at him. And while she feared for her life until the end, she survived.
"I pretty much did as I was told to do," she said. "I didn't look, I didn't fight, I stopped yelling -- that sort of thing."
But Anne Pressly fought back against her attacker. (God bless you Anne!!) Doctors also found that her left hand had been broken -- a defensive wound.
Pressly's mother, Patti Cannady, found her daughter the morning after the attack.
"It was brutal," she said. "Blood all over the walls; could not recognize her."
Five days after the attack, Pressly's brain stem ruptured and she died.
"It is the worst nightmare that any human being could ever have to face," said Patti Cannady. "It is a nightmare to lose a child. To find your child. Our lives will never be the same."
She said she is determined to look her daughter's murderer in the eye.
"I am not leaving," she said. "I will see this person eye-to-eye. They'll have to face me. And God." (heartbreaking how much misery and chaos one nigger can inflict upon a white family with one act of TNB!! These evil creatures need a severe dealing from the white race!!)
DNA Evidence Holds Key to Case
Kristen Edwards also wants the opportunity to confront her attacker.
Arkansas anchorwoman Anne Pressly, right, was killed in her home in October. Police say DNA evidence from her case matches that from the rape case of Kristen Edwards, left.
(ABC/Courtesy KATV/Pressly Family)"It's important for me to face him," she said. "I want to say to his face what he's done to me. I want that opportunity." (Kristen, don't expect any remorse from this beast of the field, they are not human so don't expect a human response! The beast will probably just mutter, "I din't do nuffin!!)From day one, Little Rock police had powerful evidence in Pressly's case. She had fought her attacker and detectives recovered DNA from sperm, blood and his skin, taken from beneath Pressly's fingernails. (God bless you Anne!!!)
"We believed that we had enough to charge somebody if we just knew who that person was," said Lt. Terry Hastings, the public information officer for the Little Rock Police Department.
Two hours away in Lee County, Edwards' case remained unsolved.
"I knew if they ever found a suspect and could match DNA, but I didn't see his face, I didn't know if there would ever be a suspect," said Edwards.
Related
Slain Anchorwoman's Father 'Frustrated' but OptimisticWATCH: Anchorwoman Attack Case ContinuesWATCH: Reward Offered in Anchor Attack"I have no shame whatsoever in what happened to me," she continued. "What happened to me was not my fault. I did everything that you're, I guess, supposed to do when something like that happens to you." (God bless you, Kristen. You did nothing wrong and you were fortunate to survive. May you get the satisfaction of seeing the nigger rapist, Vance, executed!!)
Edwards went to the hospital immediately after the attack, so detectives working her case had her rapist's DNA to compare. But for seven months there were no breaks in the case.
"I was incredibly and still am to some extent, scared," Edwards said. "There was a lot of fear that whoever it was, was still around."
The week of Thanksgiving, the Arkansas State Crime Lab reported that the DNA gathered at Pressly's crime scene matched that of Edwards' rapist.
And days later, Marianna police detective Carl McCree and Police Chief Vincent Bell stopped a car with suspicious plates. Bell said that in a city of only 5,000, the car triggered "the sixth sense that we sometimes as police officers have." (I am guessing it was not the car that triggered your sixth sense but seeing a nigger behind the wheel....)"The conversation that [the driver] was having with me connected him with the city of Marianna and Little Rock," Bell added. "There was a red flag."
The Marianna police called Little Rock and 15 minutes later detectives were questioning Curtis Vance, who agreed to a DNA sample swabbed from his cheek.
Pressly's Mother: 'Why Did You Hurt My Child?'
A day later, the DNA gathered by police in two Arkansas towns paid off.
Kristen Edwards, of Marianna, Ark., was raped and attacked in April. Police say that DNA evidence from Pressly's crime scene matched Edwards' attacker, and detectives from both cities collaborated to search for a suspect.
(Courtesy Kristen Edwards)"It took a day to get [the DNA evidence] compared," said Hastings. "On Wednesday afternoon, investigators were notified that it was a match."
Vance's DNA matched both cases, but he had fled from his home, and Little Rock police held a Thanksgiving eve news conference asking for help.
A woman in Marianna said she had seen a man who resembled Vance near her home, and Lori Garner, a personal trainer at a gym only a handful of blocks from where Pressly lived, told police she saw a man stalking women around the gym just before the murder. She and her client agreed Vance was the man they had seen.
"I feel confident with my opinion that it was him," she said.
The tips paid off almost immediately. Within an hour and a half police had surrounded a Little Rock home and Curtis Vance gave up peacefully.
Vance has said only one word in public since his arrest: A simple "No," when asked if he'd killed Anne Pressly. (A nigger lying and denying the crime???? No way!!! Thats a first!!)Related
WATCH: News Anchor Attack MysteryThree's a Crowd in Deadly Love TrianglePolice told ABC News that while Vance denies the murder, he did admit to being at Pressly's house.
"We believe he probably saw her in the neighborhood, probably getting gas, maybe doing something else and then followed her and attacked her," said Hastings. "He denied being involved in it in any way. But his DNA told us otherwise." (Whites, remember the impulsive nature of the nigger and it's desire for instant gratification of any desire no matter how evil!!)
Today, Edwards finally feels a little safer, believing the faceless man who raped her is no longer a threat.
"It completely changes your life. It changes your family's life and your friends and co-workers," she said. "I mean, it's devastating. I don't want to see him on the street, ever." (misery and chaos, the nigger contribution to white society!!)
Pressly's parents hope that a trial will answer the questions that keep them up at night.
"What kind of monster are you that would take the life of an innocent child?" Patti Cannady said. "What fills you with rage and hatred and no respect for human life? Why did you have to hurt my child and take her life?" (I will answer: this dark creature is an evil beast of the field that has no human conscience and for that matter is not human at all! These dark creatures were never meant to live free as they now do, they were meant to live under white rule and be ruled with a very firm hand by the white! These dark creatures known as niggers, have an genetic hatred and envy of whites and seek to do them harm, especially the white women and children! Our deepest sympathies to you and your family on the loss of Anne. We know this was a great loss!)
"When I had to go to Anne's house and close it up for the last time ... It was hard," said Guy Cannady. "When I walked out that door, locked the door for the last time and walked away … it's something I'll never forget." (our sympathies to you, sir. Your loss was great. May the nigger that killed your daughter Anne, be executed and soon!)
Davy of old England
Senior Reporter
Truly heartbreaking post and stunning commentary. This should be compulsory reading for all white females.
Hope all is well with you Gman.
Hope all is well with you Gman.
Gman
News Editor
I am well Davy and thanks for your kind words about my above posting. I was haunted by those two photos of Kristen Edwards, they tell such a story! As a long-time student of the nigger (I know, a morbid study indeed), I have seen how much misery and chaos a single nigger can cause to the white race. This evil crime is a perfect example of that! As our superior but naive and benovolent race allows these dark beasts of the field to have their freedom (mistakingly of course), we now suffer the consequences by being vexed daily by TNB. Anyway, good to hear from you!
Gman
Gman
News Editor
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1208/579185.html
Nigger rapist, Vance
Anne Pressley
Little Rock - The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that a newspaper must appeal a judge's order sealing jail records involving the suspect in the death of KATV's Anne Pressly to the Pulaski County Circuit Court.
Justices denied the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's attempt to overturn Little Rock District Judge Lee Munson's order closing the records from public view. In a 3-page per curium order, the court said that the paper should have first gone to the Pulaski County Circuit Court, instead of the Supreme Court.
The newspaper appealed Munson's order sealing the jail records for Curtis Lavelle Vance, who's been charged with capital murder in the October death of the KATV morning anchor.
Pressly was found severely beaten in her Little Rock home on October 20th. She died five days later without regaining consciousness. Vance was arrested by Little Rock police on November 26th.
Nigger rapist, Vance
Little Rock - The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that a newspaper must appeal a judge's order sealing jail records involving the suspect in the death of KATV's Anne Pressly to the Pulaski County Circuit Court.
Justices denied the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's attempt to overturn Little Rock District Judge Lee Munson's order closing the records from public view
. In a 3-page per curium order, the court said that the paper should have first gone to the Pulaski County Circuit Court, instead of the Supreme Court. The newspaper appealed Munson's order sealing the jail records for Curtis Lavelle Vance, who's been charged with capital murder in the October death of the KATV morning anchor.
Pressly was found severely beaten in her Little Rock home on October 20th. She died five days later without regaining consciousness. Vance was arrested by Little Rock police on November 26th.
White Sail
Junior News Editor
http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/new...-Jailhouse-Inform/r2G8NHT2J0yVy7aA-ipptw.cspx
KATV Anchor Murder: Defense Wants to Quash Jail Talk
Last Update: 12:51 pm
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Defense lawyers for a Marianna man accused of beating an Arkansas television anchorwoman to death want to prevent police from using jailhouse informants against their client.
In a motion filed to Pulaski County Circuit Court, public defender Katherine Streett asks a judge to bar police from "attempting to elicit information, evidence or statements" from Curtis Lavelle Vance while in jail. Streett lists "double-celling" as one way police could get the information -- meaning they would send in a cellmate who would report back on conversations with
Vance.
Vance, 28, was arrested in the October slaying of Anne Pressly, a morning anchorwoman for Little Rock ABC affiliate KATV. Pressly, 26, died at a hospital five days after the attack. She never regained consciousness.
KATV Anchor Murder: Defense Wants to Quash Jail Talk
Last Update: 12:51 pm
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Defense lawyers for a Marianna man accused of beating an Arkansas television anchorwoman to death want to prevent police from using jailhouse informants against their client.
In a motion filed to Pulaski County Circuit Court, public defender Katherine Streett asks a judge to bar police from "attempting to elicit information, evidence or statements" from Curtis Lavelle Vance while in jail. Streett lists "double-celling" as one way police could get the information -- meaning they would send in a cellmate who would report back on conversations with
Vance.
Vance, 28, was arrested in the October slaying of Anne Pressly, a morning anchorwoman for Little Rock ABC affiliate KATV. Pressly, 26, died at a hospital five days after the attack. She never regained consciousness.
Justin Igger
Commentator
Niggers lie, cheat, steal, rob, burglarize, carjack, kidnap, rape, murder, vandalize, drug take and sell, drink, and are just generally, are smelling, stinking, kinky haired ugly, creatures from mars. They said they were from there, and there creature ancesters where Green. They are parasites to the whole world. Living off others hard work. They even say they invented things. They have never invented anything but..... Trouble where ever they stoop to.
Gman
News Editor
The saga continues.....
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0309/604151.html#commentsform
"Iz dint do nuffin!!" Murderous raping nigger scum, Vance
Attorneys Alleged Vance's Rights Violated
Little Rock, AR -
Lawyers for a man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman say he has spoken at least twice with police detectives without legal counsel present.
A team of public defenders say those interviews have violated Curtis Vance's constitutional right to having lawyers with him when questioned by authorities. Lawyers made the claim in a motion filed before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza.
Little Rock police declined to comment about the claim
.
Piazza will hear from lawyers in a hearing Tuesday morning.
Vance, 28, of Marianna faces a capital murder charge in the death of Anne Pressly, a morning anchorwoman for Little Rock television station KATV.
Copy of pathetic motion that the nigger's rights were violated:
http://static.katv.com/documents/vance_motion.pdf
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0309/604151.html#commentsform
"Iz dint do nuffin!!" Murderous raping nigger scum, Vance
Attorneys Alleged Vance's Rights Violated
Little Rock, AR -
Lawyers for a man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman say he has spoken at least twice with police detectives without legal counsel present.
A team of public defenders say those interviews have violated Curtis Vance's constitutional right to having lawyers with him when questioned by authorities. Lawyers made the claim in a motion filed before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza.
Little Rock police declined to comment about the claim
.
Piazza will hear from lawyers in a hearing Tuesday morning.
Vance, 28, of Marianna faces a capital murder charge in the death of Anne Pressly, a morning anchorwoman for Little Rock television station KATV.
Copy of pathetic motion that the nigger's rights were violated:
http://static.katv.com/documents/vance_motion.pdf
Gman
News Editor
Nigger charged with an additional rape from before Anne Pressley's murder
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0309/604669.html
video of nigger Vance at the link
Little Rock - The man charged in the death of KATV's Anne Pressly now faces separate rape and burglary charges in Lee County.
Lee County Circuit Court documents filed Monday accuse Curtis Lavelle Vance in an April 21st attack at a home in Marianna. The documents allege Vance was armed with a "deadly weapon" during the robbery.
Vance, 28, faces a capital murder charge in the death of Pressly, a KATV morning anchor. Police say they matched DNA from an unsolved rape in Marianna to evidence collected from Pressly's home after
she was attacked in 2008.
Pressly, 26, was found severely beaten in her Little Rock home on October 20th. She died five days later without regaining consciousness. Vance was arrested by Little Rock police on November 26th.
Vance appeared Tuesday in Pulaski County Circuit Court. Judge Chris Piazza denied requests by defense lawyers to stop police and jailhouse informants from talking to Vance.
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0309/604669.html
video of nigger Vance at the link
Little Rock - The man charged in the death of KATV's Anne Pressly now faces separate rape and burglary charges in Lee County.
Lee County Circuit Court documents filed Monday accuse Curtis Lavelle Vance in an April 21st attack at a home in Marianna. The documents allege Vance was armed with a "deadly weapon" during the robbery.
Vance, 28, faces a capital murder charge in the death of Pressly, a KATV morning anchor. Police say they matched DNA from an unsolved rape in Marianna to evidence collected from Pressly's home after
she was attacked in 2008.
Pressly, 26, was found severely beaten in her Little Rock home on October 20th. She died five days later without regaining consciousness. Vance was arrested by Little Rock police on November 26th.
Vance appeared Tuesday in Pulaski County Circuit Court. Judge Chris Piazza denied requests by defense lawyers to stop police and jailhouse informants from talking to Vance.
Rasp
Senior Editor
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Man Accused In Anchor Death Pleads In Second Attack
MARIANNA -- The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman pleaded not guilty Thursday to a rape in Marianna -- an alleged assault that gave police DNA evidence linking him to last fall's attack in Little Rock.
Curtis Lavelle Vance, wearing shackles and a bullet-resistant vest, was escorted by six law officers as he entered the Lee County Courthouse. Vance told Circuit Judge Ann B. Hudson that he had no money and hadn't worked since 2007, when he lived in the small town surrounded by the rice fields of the Arkansas Delta.
Hudson accepted Vance's plea and set a jury trial for July 27.
Vance, 28, faces a capital murder charge in the killing of Little Rock television station KATV
anchorwoman Anne Pressly. Police say a DNA sample collected at the journalist's home matched a sample from an unsolved rape in Marianna, about 90 miles east of Little Rock, last April.
Pressly was attacked Oct. 20 at her home in Little Rock and died five days later. Vance's trial in that case is set for Sept. 9.
In the Marianna attack, an arrest warrant for Vance alleges he broke into a home in April only blocks away from the house he shared with the mother of his three children. When the woman inside got out of the shower and went to make a cup of coffee, she found Vance standing in the corner of her living room, the warrant alleges.
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Vance hit the woman, told her he had a gun and raped her, the warrant claims. Vance then asked the woman what she did for a living and demanded an ATM card and money from her, the warrant claims. When the woman said she only had $3, police say Vance shoved the women inside of a bathroom and locked the door.
"He told her that, 'I know this hou
se. ... Don't go anywhere,"' the warrant reads. The woman escaped through the back door. Vance allegedly stole her mobile phone.
Genetic material collected during a rape examination matched Vance's DNA, the warrant claims.
Vance stayed quiet during the short court hearing Thursday, at one point giving his address as a home in Little Rock. He faces felony rape, residential burglary and aggravated robbery charges in the Marianna attack.
The woman he allegedly raped attended the hearing, sitting in the front row near John Johnson, the chief deputy prosecutor in Pulaski County handling the Pressly case. The woman declined to speak with reporters.
When a reporter asked Vance if he was worried about the DNA evidence against him, Vance only shook his hand and said "No." Vance's lawyer, Bill James of Little Rock, said he would seek independent testing on the samples.
"There's a lot of evidence allegedly against him," James said. "I'm not confident of anything until we get in t
here. We're going to do our best. We're going to do everything we can for him."
James acknowledged he faced a battle with public perception, as Vance is escorted to hearings in bullet-resistant vests and shackles. However, he said he didn't know whether such measures were necessary.
"I haven't seen anything from the families in this case to lead me to believe he's in any danger," James said. "Sometimes we think it's a little bit of a show. But it's always a show until you need it."
James said he wants to portray Vance in way more than the "one-dimensional" view of him as a suspect in the crimes. The lawyer described Vance as a soft-spoken man who gets nervous in court and has only a 10th grade education.
But police say Vance loitered around homes he's suspected of burglarizing and in the downtown square, near where a graying statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee proclaims "no braver bled for a brighter land, no brighter land had a cause so grand." Men on a roof across th
e street from the park heckled a television reporter filming a report near the statue Thursday.
Outside of agriculture and small machine shops, most jobs are at the nearby state and federal prisons. The county clerk still keeps docket records in a bound paper notebook, with crossed-out closed cases dating back to 1978.
"You really don't have a lot of options as far as jobs are concerned," said Ray Norman, 34, as he waited for his clothes to dry at a coin-operated laundry across the street from where Vance lived. "I don't really think it gives them permission to do what they do, but I think that's why a lot of them get into mischief -- no job opportunities."
Norman, laid off in December from his job maintaining rural highways for the state, said he saw Vance occasionally at the city's welfare office and walking along the streets. Norman never learned his name until his arrest for Pressly's killing.
"When you see him on the news, that's a very different thing," Norman said.
MARIANNA -- The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman pleaded not guilty Thursday to a rape in Marianna -- an alleged assault that gave police DNA evidence linking him to last fall's attack in Little Rock.
Curtis Lavelle Vance, wearing shackles and a bullet-resistant vest, was escorted by six law officers as he entered the Lee County Courthouse. Vance told Circuit Judge Ann B. Hudson that he had no money and hadn't worked since 2007, when he lived in the small town surrounded by the rice fields of the Arkansas Delta.
Hudson accepted Vance's plea and set a jury trial for July 27.
Vance, 28, faces a capital murder charge in the killing of Little Rock television station KATV
anchorwoman Anne Pressly. Police say a DNA sample collected at the journalist's home matched a sample from an unsolved rape in Marianna, about 90 miles east of Little Rock, last April.
Pressly was attacked Oct. 20 at her home in Little Rock and died five days later. Vance's trial in that case is set for Sept. 9.
In the Marianna attack, an arrest warrant for Vance alleges he broke into a home in April only blocks away from the house he shared with the mother of his three children. When the woman inside got out of the shower and went to make a cup of coffee, she found Vance standing in the corner of her living room, the warrant alleges.
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Vance hit the woman, told her he had a gun and raped her, the warrant claims. Vance then asked the woman what she did for a living and demanded an ATM card and money from her, the warrant claims. When the woman said she only had $3, police say Vance shoved the women inside of a bathroom and locked the door.
"He told her that, 'I know this hou
se. ... Don't go anywhere,"' the warrant reads. The woman escaped through the back door. Vance allegedly stole her mobile phone.
Genetic material collected during a rape examination matched Vance's DNA, the warrant claims.
Vance stayed quiet during the short court hearing Thursday, at one point giving his address as a home in Little Rock. He faces felony rape, residential burglary and aggravated robbery charges in the Marianna attack.
The woman he allegedly raped attended the hearing, sitting in the front row near John Johnson, the chief deputy prosecutor in Pulaski County handling the Pressly case. The woman declined to speak with reporters.
When a reporter asked Vance if he was worried about the DNA evidence against him, Vance only shook his hand and said "No." Vance's lawyer, Bill James of Little Rock, said he would seek independent testing on the samples.
"There's a lot of evidence allegedly against him," James said. "I'm not confident of anything until we get in t
here. We're going to do our best. We're going to do everything we can for him."
James acknowledged he faced a battle with public perception, as Vance is escorted to hearings in bullet-resistant vests and shackles. However, he said he didn't know whether such measures were necessary.
"I haven't seen anything from the families in this case to lead me to believe he's in any danger," James said. "Sometimes we think it's a little bit of a show. But it's always a show until you need it."
James said he wants to portray Vance in way more than the "one-dimensional" view of him as a suspect in the crimes. The lawyer described Vance as a soft-spoken man who gets nervous in court and has only a 10th grade education.
But police say Vance loitered around homes he's suspected of burglarizing and in the downtown square, near where a graying statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee proclaims "no braver bled for a brighter land, no brighter land had a cause so grand." Men on a roof across th
e street from the park heckled a television reporter filming a report near the statue Thursday.
Outside of agriculture and small machine shops, most jobs are at the nearby state and federal prisons. The county clerk still keeps docket records in a bound paper notebook, with crossed-out closed cases dating back to 1978.
"You really don't have a lot of options as far as jobs are concerned," said Ray Norman, 34, as he waited for his clothes to dry at a coin-operated laundry across the street from where Vance lived. "I don't really think it gives them permission to do what they do, but I think that's why a lot of them get into mischief -- no job opportunities."
Norman, laid off in December from his job maintaining rural highways for the state, said he saw Vance occasionally at the city's welfare office and walking along the streets. Norman never learned his name until his arrest for Pressly's killing.
"When you see him on the news, that's a very different thing," Norman said.
Justin Igger
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Black accused in TV anchor death appears in 2nd case
Curtis Lavelle Vance
The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman has pleaded not guilty in a separate rape and burglary case in his hometown of Marianna.
Curtis Lavelle Vance arrived at the Lee County Courthouse Thursday wearing a bullet-resistant vest and escorted by six police officers. In a brief hearing, Circuit Judge Ann B. Hudson accepted the plea and set trial for July 27.
Little Rock police detectives say a DNA sample from the crime scene of TV anchorwoman Anne Pressley's slaying last year linked Vance to her killing and the
Marianna attack.
As he arrived at the courthouse, the 28-year-old only shook his head and said "No" when asked whether he was worried about the DNA evidence.
Man Charged In TV Anchor's Murder Facing Rape Trial In July
Suspect in TV anchor's death charged with rape The Associated Press
Vance pleads not guilty in Lee County rape case Forrest City Times-Herald
Vance Makes Appearance, Facing Rape Charges WREG
Curtis Lavelle Vance
The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman has pleaded not guilty in a separate rape and burglary case in his hometown of Marianna.
Curtis Lavelle Vance arrived at the Lee County Courthouse Thursday wearing a bullet-resistant vest and escorted by six police officers. In a brief hearing, Circuit Judge Ann B. Hudson accepted the plea and set trial for July 27.
Little Rock police detectives say a DNA sample from the crime scene of TV anchorwoman Anne Pressley's slaying last year linked Vance to her killing and the
Marianna attack.
As he arrived at the courthouse, the 28-year-old only shook his head and said "No" when asked whether he was worried about the DNA evidence.
Man Charged In TV Anchor's Murder Facing Rape Trial In July
Suspect in TV anchor's death charged with rape The Associated Press
Vance pleads not guilty in Lee County rape case Forrest City Times-Herald
Vance Makes Appearance, Facing Rape Charges WREG
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Prosecutor: Man admits killing Ark TV anchorwoman
Posted: Jun 16, 2009 5:21 PM
Updated: Jun 16, 2009 11:07 PM
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Posted: Jun 16, 2009 5:21 PM
Updated: Jun 16, 2009 11:07 PM
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http://www.the state.com/crime/story/880083.htmlLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A handwritten motion by the man charged in the slaying of an Arkansas television anchorwoman from South Carolina will be the focus of a court hearing.
The motion by Curtis Lavelle Vance asks Judge Chris Piazza to relieve his team of state-provided public defenders. Vance claims his defense lawyers "already criminally and conspiratorially" crippled his defense by withholding material from him.
The hearing will be held Tuesday morning at the Pulaski County courthouse.
Vance faces a capital murder charge in the death of Anne Pressly, a morning anchorwoman from Greenville, S.C., for Little Rock television station KATV. Vance's case is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 9. Prosecutors have yet to say whether they'll seek the death penalty.
Gman
News Editor
This nigger's trial will be starting soon. Anyone want to bet that the national coverage of this trial will be little or none????
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Nigger Vance
Anne Pressly
Judge Allows Vance Tapes, DNA as Evidenceposted 10/08/09 3:46 pm Little Rock - A judge has agreed to allow DNA evidence and all taped confessions from Curtis Vance when he is tried next month for the slaying of KATV's Anne Pressly.
Circuit Judge Chris Piazza on Thursday turned away arguments by Vance's attorneys to keep jurors from seeing the evidence. Vance is charged with capital murder in the beating death last October of the KATV morning anchor.
Vance, 28, of Marianna, is charged with rape, residential burglary and theft, and is set for a trial November 2nd. He pleaded not guilty.
Vance testified Thursday that police tricked him into confessingity:but also said he knew what he was doing when he signed papers acknowledging he understood his rights.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1009/666776.html
Anne Pressly
Judge Allows Vance Tapes, DNA as Evidenceposted 10/08/09 3:46 pm Little Rock - A judge has agreed to allow DNA evidence and all taped confessions from Curtis Vance when he is tried next month for the slaying of KATV's Anne Pressly.
Circuit Judge Chris Piazza on Thursday turned away arguments by Vance's attorneys to keep jurors from seeing the evidence. Vance is charged with capital murder in the beating death last October of the KATV morning anchor.
Vance, 28, of Marianna, is charged with rape, residential burglary and theft, and is set for a trial November 2nd. He pleaded not guilty.
Vance testified Thursday that police tricked him into confessing
ity:but also said he knew what he was doing when he signed papers acknowledging he understood his rights. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Gman
News Editor
Nigger's trial to start soon. Lawyers trying all the usual tricks!!!
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Little Rock - Attorneys for the man accused of killing KATV Anchor Anne Pressly and raping a woman in Marianna have requested a delay in both trials.
Defense laywers filed two motions Tuesday. One objects to prosecutors potentially removing jurors from the original pool based on their feelings on the death penalty. The motion indicates the defense is concerned prosecutors will deliberately try to stack the jury with members who favor capital punishment. The second motion asks that portions of statements made by Vance to Little Rock police during four separate interviews, specifically all references to prior crimes be thrown out before the Little Rock trial.
A third motion filed Wednesday asks for a continuance in the Little Rock trial so they can have more time to explore whether Vance may be mentally retarded :headbash::tantrum:
. Prosecutors filed a counter-motion Wednesday asking that the delay be denied because the defense has made given no previous indication that they plan to pursue a defense of not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease in Anne's case. The defense motion indicates they want the extra time to determine if such a defense is an option open to them. Arkansas law stipulates that this kind of plea must be entered before trial begins. A previous defense motion requesting a continuance for the same reason was denied by the same court October 8th. This newest request includes testimony from two additional defense experts who claim proper study of whether or not Vance is mentally retarded required more time than a November 2nd start date would allow.
Another previous motion filed by the defense asked that Vance's trial in Marianna be delayed until the Little Rock trial was finished. It has not officially been ruled on at this time.
All four motions filed this week will be discussed in a hearing in Pulaski County Circuit Court Friday morning.
If Judge Chris Piazza does not grant the defense motions, the Marianna case is currently set to begin Monday, and the Little Rock trial on November 2nd.
Vance has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Little Rock - Attorneys for the man accused of killing KATV Anchor Anne Pressly and raping a woman in Marianna have requested a delay in both trials.
Defense laywers filed two motions Tuesday. One objects to prosecutors potentially removing jurors from the original pool based on their feelings on the death penalty. The motion indicates the defense is concerned prosecutors will deliberately try to stack the jury with members who favor capital punishment. The second motion asks that portions of statements made by Vance to Little Rock police during four separate interviews, specifically all references to prior crimes be thrown out before the Little Rock trial.
A third motion filed Wednesday asks for a continuance in the Little Rock trial so they can have more time to explore whether Vance may be mentally retarded :headbash::tantrum:
. Prosecutors filed a counter-motion Wednesday asking that the delay be denied because the defense has made given no previous indication that they plan to pursue a defense of not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease in Anne's case. The defense motion indicates they want the extra time to determine if such a defense is an option open to them. Arkansas law stipulates that this kind of plea must be entered before trial begins. A previous defense motion requesting a continuance for the same reason was denied by the same court October 8th. This newest request includes testimony from two additional defense experts who claim proper study of whether or not Vance is mentally retarded required more time than a November 2nd start date would allow.Another previous motion filed by the defense asked that Vance's trial in Marianna be delayed until the Little Rock trial was finished. It has not officially been ruled on at this time.
All four motions filed this week will be discussed in a hearing in Pulaski County Circuit Court Friday morning.
If Judge Chris Piazza does not grant the defense motions, the Marianna case is currently set to begin Monday, and the Little Rock trial on November 2nd.
Vance has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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Defense to Challenge DNA Evidence and Confessions in Anne Pressly Murder
Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 4:24 pm
UPDATED 4:22 p.m.: Defense to Challenge DNA Evidence and Confessions in Anne Pressly Murder
By CHUCK BARTELS
Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A defense lawyer for the man accused of killing a TV anchorwoman in her Little Rock home has indicated that she plans to challenge DNA evidence and recorded confessions her client gave police.
As defense lawyer Katherine Streett questioned prospective jurors on Monday. She asked how they would react to evidence being challenged. Streett represents Curtis Lavelle Vance, who is charged with capital murder for the October 2008 bludgeoning death of KATV personality Anne Pressly.
Circuit Judge Chris Piazza excused a number of prospective jurors who had business or personal conflicts, including one woman who said she's a distant cousin of Vance.
Testimony could begin Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Defense to Challenge DNA Evidence and Confessions in Anne Pressly Murder
Reported by: Associated Press
Last Update: 4:24 pm
UPDATED 4:22 p.m.: Defense to Challenge DNA Evidence and Confessions in Anne Pressly Murder
By CHUCK BARTELS
Associated Press Writer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A defense lawyer for the man accused of killing a TV anchorwoman in her Little Rock home has indicated that she plans to challenge DNA evidence and recorded confessions her client gave police.
As defense lawyer Katherine Streett questioned prospective jurors on Monday. She asked how they would react to evidence being challenged. Streett represents Curtis Lavelle Vance, who is charged with capital murder for the October 2008 bludgeoning death of KATV personality Anne Pressly.
Circuit Judge Chris Piazza excused a number of prospective jurors who had business or personal conflicts, including one woman who said she's a distant cousin of Vance.
Testimony could begin Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.