Thursday, October 17, 2013

Piedmont man pleads not guilty in cold case murder


A Piedmont man today pleaded not guilty  this morning to charges that he murdered a 28-year-old Piedmont woman who went missing in 2009.  52 year old Jimmy Ray Steed,  had been indicted by a Calhoun County grand jury in August in connection with the death of Carla Cook Fuqua, who was last seen alive at her Piedmont home on Oct. 29, 2009. Investigators from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and Cold Case Unit discovered Fuqua’s skeletal remains last December  in woods a short drive from Steed’s and Fuqua’s homes on Alabama 21.
The grand jury indictment alleges that Steed  killed Fuqua on or about the day she went missing by striking her with a bat or bat-like object.
Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson has said Steed also is a suspect in the cases of three other people missing from Piedmont.

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