Murder case against Wellington woman headed to Grand Jury

Lori Williamson

A Wellington woman waived her right to a preliminary hearing in a Calhoun County Courtroom Monday, sending  the case against her in connection with the August stabbing death of her boyfriend to a grand jury .

41 year old Lori Williamson, was arrested by Calhoun County sheriff's deputies Aug. 7th and charged with murder  in the stabbing death of 50 year old John Fitzgerald Hicks. Hicks was pronounced dead  the day before at his home on  Webster Road in Wellington, according to Calhoun County Coroner Pat Brown.

George Allen Meighen, Williamson’s defense attorney, talked with Williamson at length Monday before she waived her right to a preliminary hearing in Calhoun County District Judge Chris McIntyre’s courtroom.

Hicks lived with Williamson at the Wellington home, according to Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson.

Deputies arrived at the home on Aug. 6 and found a man lying in the yard bleeding as well as signs of a struggle inside the home, Amerson has said. Williamson at first said she did not know what happened to Hicks, but later told investigators she and her boyfriend had been arguing and that she stabbed him once in the chest.