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    I wish more DR Inmates were like this

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    Map from executed murderer leads to likely remains of sister-in-law

    By Dennis Romero
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    A hand-drawn map offered to authorities a day after the state of Mississippi executed killer David Neal Cox has led to the apparent remains of his missing sister-in-law, authorities said Monday.

    David Neal Cox, convicted in the 2010 murder of his estranged wife, Kim Kirk Cox, had long been suspected in the 2007 disappearance of Felicia Cox, then 40.

    Before his scheduled execution, which took place Nov. 17, the woman's daughter, Amber Miskelly, wrote him a letter pleading for a location.


    Image: The hand drawn map. (First Circuit District Attorney's Office - John Weddle.)

    "I thought I had more time," Miskelly told NBC affiliate WTVA of Tupelo.

    Pontotoc County Coroner Kim Bedford on Monday night said those remains, recovered in her jurisdiction Sunday, appear to be the those of Felicia Cox.

    "We have reason to believe it is" her, she said.

    Prosecutor John Weddle of the state's First Circuit District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Monday that DNA would be used to make an official determination.

    Miskelly and other relatives of Felicia Cox were present and viewed excavation of the remains, he said.


    Authorities searched this property in Pontotoc County, Miss., Sunday. Pontotoc County Coroner Kim Bedford said there is reason to believe remains found there are those of Felicia Cox, 40, missing since 2007. (First Circuit District Attorney's Office - John Weddle)

    On Oct. 26, David Neal Cox made an "admission of guilt" to his attorneys regarding the missing person case. It's not clear if this followed Miskelly's letter. Nor is it clear if the convict said he had anything to do with her death.

    During a Dec. 6 press conference, Weddle said, "There is no indication that anyone other than Cox is responsible for Felicia Cox’s death."

    The Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel said in statement he had waived attorney-client privilege, effective postmortem, so family could be told where the missing woman's remains were located.

    The case unfolded quickly after the execution, with his attorneys handing over that map to what it appears to describe as a familiar property on Cane Creek Road in Pontotoc County during a Nov. 19 meeting with prosecutors, Weddle said.

    The prosecutor said Sunday's search was aided by ground-penetrating radar equipment from Mississippi State University and cadaver dogs from Columbus, Mississippi.

    "Mr. Cox felt deep remorse and wanted to bring closure" to Felicia Cox's family, David Neal Cox's state counsel said in a Dec. 6 statement that revealed his confession.

    Miskelly said she always suspected him because her mother had gone to visit her sister before she was reported missing.

    “He was literally the last person with her when she was alive,” Miskelly told WTVA.

    She said she's the one who filed the missing person report.

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    Remains identified after Mississippi man's pre-execution tip

    By Associated Press

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi authorities say they have identified the remains of a woman found following a tip from an inmate prior to his execution last month.

    The woman has been identified as 40-year-old Felicia Cox, who disappeared in 2007, said John Weddle, who is the district attorney for several northern Mississippi counties. Her body was found on land that had once belonged to her family in Pontotoc County, Mississippi.

    In a post on Facebook Wednesday afternoon, Weddle said authorities were able to identify Felicia Cox by matching her DNA with her daughter, Amber Miskelly. Miskelly was 18 when her mother went missing. He said authorities expect autopsy results within the next two weeks.

    Felicia Cox's remains were discovered on Dec. 12 following a tip from inmate David Neal Cox, who became the first inmate executed in Mississippi in nine years when he was put to death last month.

    In a post to his official Facebook page following the discovery of the remains, Weddle thanked Felicia Cox's family, the investigators, archaeologists, anthropologists and others who helped spearhead the search.

    “We are thankful the family can now begin the process of giving Felicia Cox a burial,” he said.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...tip/ar-AAS5PXv
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