Summary of Offense:
Ernest Suggs was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Pauline Casey. Pauline Casey worked at the Teddy Bear Bar in Walton County. On August 6, 1990, the bar was found unlocked and cash was missing. Furthermore, Casey’s purse, keys, and car were found at the bar, but the victim was not. Ray Hamilton, a neighbor of Casey’s, reported to police that Casey and a customer, who he did not recognize, were playing pool when he left. The police were put on alert looking for the man and the man’s car that matched Hamilton’s description.
Ernest Suggs was pulled over based on the description of the car. Suggs permitted police to search his home and car. They found $170 in small bills, hand and fingerprints belonging to Casey in Suggs’ car, and blood that matched the victim’s blood on a shirt belonging to Suggs. In the bay behind Suggs’ residence, the police also found a key to the bar and a beer mug similar to the beer mugs at the Teddy Bear Bar. The police matched Suggs’ tire tracks from his automobile to tracks found on a local dirt road. In a search of this area, police found Casey’s body a short distance from the road on which the tire tracks were found. She was stabbed twice in the neck and once in the back. Suggs was arrested after the discovery of Casey’s body. Ernest Suggs asserted that he had been framed for the murder of Casey.
Suggs was sentenced to death in Walton County on July 15, 1992.
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