Attorney Generals office Cold Case Unit working 2002 Heflin murders

The Alabama Attorney General Office Cold Case Unit has announced that its investigators are  working on the 2002 killings of a Heflin mother and her child.  The bodies of 23 year old Monica Faye Pritchett Rollins,  and her 6-year-old son, Dalton Scott Rollins, were found inside the family’s Heflin mobile home on Sugar Hill Road on Sept. 16, 2002.  Rollins’ unborn baby also died as a result of the attack. Her 2-year-old son, Aaron, had hidden inside a closet during the attack, and was found unharmed.  The mother and son were stabbed to death.  Heflin police Chief A.J. Benefield contacted the Attorney General Office’s Cold Case Unit in June 2014 and the two agencies began working the case together then. The Cold Case Unit announced the agency’s involvement in a post on the Attorney General Office website in February.  Benefield declined to say whether any new evidence has been found in the 12-year-old homicides, citing the ongoing investigation, but he said that investigators are “looking at different avenues and still doing interviews.”  According to the state Attorney General’s Office website, the Cold Case Unit targets unsolved homicides in which DNA evidence exists that could lead to a suspect.

Anyone with information on the killings are urged to contact the Alabama Attorney General’s Office Cold Case Unit tip line at 866-419-1236 or email ColdCaseTips@ago.state.al.us.