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    Timothy Nelson Evans - Mississippi


    Wenda Holling, 70



    Timothy Nelson Evans



    Jury selection begins in capital murder case

    Timothy Evans is on trial this week in a capital murder case alleging he killed Wenda Holling, his 70-year-old landlord.

    Evans, 56, had been a boarder at Holling's home in Kiln about two years.

    Dozens of jurors were summoned to Hancock County Circuit Court for jury section on Monday.

    Judge Lisa Dodson is presiding over the trial, which is expected to last the week.

    If found guilty, Evans faces a death sentence or life without parole.

    Holling's family reported her missing Jan. 5, 2010. Her remains were found three weeks later in Harrison County. A road crew discovered her body Jan. 26 on Turan Road just north of East Wortham Road.

    An autopsy showed she died of strangulation.

    Investigators have said Evans told them Holling had gone on a vacation to Florida. Federal marshals and Columbia County, Fla., deputies arrested Evans a month later at a Lake City motel.

    Deputies later said Evans confessed he had killed Holling. Evans allegedly put Holling's body in the trunk of her own car and used her bank card to buy beer and cigarettes before he disposed of her remains.

    In a letter to the Sun Herald, Evans said he killed her three days before her family reported her missing.

    In a Sun Herald interview that followed, Evans said he been planning the murder for several weeks. Evans said he had used a pillow to smother Holling from behind as she sat in a chair watching television, but she fought back.

    "The pillow wasn't working so I just used my hands," he said.

    Evan told the Sun Herald he had made peace with God and wanted to confess.

    He later pleaded not guilty on an attorney's advice.

    http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/19/...#storylink=cpy
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    State, defense rest in Hancock County capital murder case

    Jurors in the capital murder trial of Timothy Evans will hear closing arguments today, when attorneys likely will debate Evans' taped confession to a sheriff's investigator and a Sun Herald reporter's testimony about Evans' confession to her after his arrest.

    The state and the defense rested their cases Wednesday in Hancock County Circuit Court.

    Evans is on trial for the slaying of Wenda Hollings, a 70-year-old Kiln woman who had rented a room to Evans at her rural home on Mississippi 603. He is accused of strangling her and stealing her credit card in 2010.

    Closing arguments are set for 9 a.m. before Judge Lisa Dodson.

    Wednesday morning, reporter Donna Harris told the jury Evans wrote her after his arrest and sent her a detailed letter that showed how he began to plan the killing days before it happened. He asked for an interview to tell his story, she said, and told her he had made his peace with God and would not accept a plea bargain.

    Evans confessed to Harris and a Hancock County sheriff's detective that he killed Holling after she caught him stealing her credit card out of her purse. She was sitting in a recliner, watching television, he said, on that Saturday afternoon.

    "I put a pillow over her head and when that did not work, I got on top of her and strangled her," Evans said in a recorded interview.

    Evans' letter, written in chronological order, read like a "to-do" list of how he decided to come up with a plan Dec. 20, 2009, then began to figure out when and how to kill Holling and what to do with the body. He said he looked for a place to bury her body on Dec. 29, and killed her about 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2010.

    Number four on his list was "4:30 p.m., planned party time, too."

    Evans noted he later checked in at a Lake City, Fla., hotel and used Holling's credit card at a gas station across the street so federal marshals could find him. They arrested him at the hotel Feb. 18, 2010.

    "I followed through with the plan," the letter said. "I have asked God for forgiveness because I know man will not forgive me."

    The theft of Holling's credit card is the underlying charge that makes the murder charge a capital offense. Capital murder is punishable by death or life without parole.

    The jury on Wednesday also heard a recorded interview in which Evans, 56, confessed details of the killing to Detective Lt. John Luther of the Hancock County Sheriff's Office.

    In the recording, Evans said he had been drinking and Holling caught him stealing her credit card. He said Holling ordered him to get out, "but I just didn't care any more."

    Evans said he tried to smother her with a pillow, "but it didn't work."

    "She was still breathing," he said. "I put a coat over her. I got on top of her and squeezed her neck."

    Evans said he layed her on a bed, and he went out for the evening. A friend has testified he and Evans had steaks and drinks at a Kiln bar.

    Evans said he later changed Holling's blouse because the one she was wearing was bloody, and he threw her blouse in the trash with her prescription eyeglasses.

    The next morning, Evans said, he put Hollings in the trunk of her silver Kia Rio and drove several places, bought beer and gas, and drove a neighbor to a Biloxi business. Evans told the detective he was worried about an odor coming from the trunk, and told his passenger he had hit a skunk and was going to take the vehicle to a car wash.

    Later, Evans sent the detective a written confession to clarify some of the details, Luther said.

    Holling's family reported her missing Jan. 5, 2010. About 30 members of Gulf Coast Search and Rescue spent three days checking for her in a five-mile radius of her home.

    A Harrison County road crew found Holling's body in woods off Turan Road on Jan. 26, 2010.

    http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/21/...#storylink=cpy
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    Hancock County jury begins deliberating in Evans murder trial

    A sequestered Hancock County jury began deliberations Thursday morning in the capital murder trial of Timothy Evans.

    In closing arguments, District Attorney Joel Smith urged jurors to "show him the same mercy" he showed Wenda Holling on Jan. 2, 2010.

    Although Evans pleaded not guilty, the jury heard Evans confess to robbing her of her credit card and strangling her in a taped interview with a detective and in a confession to Sun Herald reporter Donna Harris.

    Holling, 70, of Kiln, had rented a room to Evans.

    The jury left the courtroom and went behind closed doors at 9:39 a.m.

    http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/22/...#storylink=cpy
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    Hancock County man convicted in 2010 murder of landlord

    A jury in Hancock County has found Timothy Evans guilty of capital murder in the robbery and strangulation death of a 70-year-old woman.

    WLOX reports Evans had been a tenant at the home of Wenda Holling in Kiln at the time of the killing in 2010.

    It took jurors about two hours to reach their verdict Thursday.

    The sentencing phase of the trial was expected to begin later Thursday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

    The case was the first capital murder trial in Hancock County since 2001.
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    Hancock County jury deliberating over death penalty for Timothy Evans

    http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/23/...iberating.html
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    Timothy Evans sentenced to death

    A Hancock County jury has decided Timothy Evans should be put to death for the capital murder of Wenda Holling, his 70-year-old landlady.

    The jury began deliberating on the death penalty Friday morning in the sentencing phase of Evans' capital murder trial.

    The jury convicted Evans, 56, Thursday in the slaying and robbery of Wenda Holling. The woman had rented a room to Evans at her rural home on Mississippi 603, where he strangled her on Jan. 2, 2010, and stole her cash and credit card.

    District Attorney Joel Smith and Assistant DA Matthew Burrell sought the death penalty for Evans, who admitted he robbed Holling and used her money to "party" after he killed her.

    Only a jury can impose a death sentence. If the jury had not decided on death by lethal injection, the judge would have imposed a sentence of life without parole.

    A death sentence has an automatic appeal.

    Evans confessed to the crimes in a recorded interview with Detective Lt. John Luther of the Hancock County Sheriff's Office and in a letter to Sun Herald reporter Donna Harris. Harris subsequently interviewed Evans while he was held at the Pearl River County jail. She and Luther testified at Evans' trial.

    Evans was moved to the Hancock County jail for the trial, which started Tuesday.

    The jury had been sequestered since the trial began.

    http://www.sunherald.com/2013/08/23/...#storylink=cpy
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    Death row inmate loses fight to set execution date

    JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled against a death row inmate from Hancock County.

    Convicted killer Timothy Nelson Evans asked the court to throw out his appeals and set an execution date right away. In his handwritten letter to the court, Nelson claimed he has received improper medical care in prison because of racial bias on the part of the employees.

    But the court denied his request, noting that appeals are mandatory for all death row inmates in Mississippi. Wednesday's court ruling also stated that "Evans's claims regarding the conditions of his confinement are outside the purview of his pending direct appeal and require that he first pursue relief through administrative channels."

    In 2013, Evans was sentenced to death for the murder of 70-year-old Wenda Holling. She was found dead on the side of a road in January 2010, three weeks after she was reported missing

    http://www.wdam.com/story/33829932/d...ppeals-process
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    Convicted killer asks MS Supreme Court to overturn death sentence

    JACKSON, MS (WLOX) - Timothy Evans was sentenced to death in 2013 for the capital murder of 70-year-old Wenda Lafern Holling. Wednesday, the Mississippi Supreme Court will consider a request from Evans to overturn his death sentence.

    Evans admitted to investigators he strangled Holling to death on the afternoon of Jan. 2, 2010. The next day, he loaded her body into the trunk of her car and drove to a wooded area in Harrison County. Evans said he dumped Holling’s body in the woods and then went to the store to buy beer and cigarettes.

    Attorneys representing Evans argued he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol when he killed Holling. Investigators said Evans had been renting a room in Holling’s home in the Kiln at the time of her death.

    During his trial, investigators played a confession tape Evans recorded shortly after his arrest. In the tape, Evans detailed how he sat on Holling's chest and strangled her to death.

    http://www.wlox.com/story/34399762/w...death-sentence

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    Court upholds death sentence for convicted murderer

    By WLOX Staff
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    JACKSON, MS (WLOX) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a Hancock County man convicted of capital murder in the death of his 70-year-old landlord.

    In 2013 Timothy Evans was sentenced to death after confessing to the January 2010 murder of Wenda Lafern Holling.

    Holling was strangled in her Hancock County home where Evans rented a room. According to his statement to police, Evans admitted he first tried to smother the victim, then strangled her and disposed of the body.

    Holling's was found on the side of a Harrison County road, after being missing for three weeks.

    In appealing the death sentence, Evans lawyers argued 10 points; including failing to determine Evans' competency, whether the jury selection was constitutional, and prosecutorial misconduct.

    CLICK HERE to read the full list of Evans' appeals


    However, the court found no error and upheld the death penalty.

    http://www.wlox.com/story/35675422/c...icted-murderer
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    The Coast is a ‘death penalty hotspot’ and it trapped this alcoholic killer, attorney says

    BY ANITA LEE
    The Sun Herald

    The Mississippi Coast is the state’s “death penalty hotspot,” according to numbers compiled for a death-penalty brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Hancock County killer Timothy Nelson Evans.

    “He had the misfortune to commit his crime in the Second Circuit Court District of Mississippi, comprising three counties — Hancock, Harrison and Stone — on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, where the death penalty is fairly routinely sought in such murders,” attorney Alison Steiner of the State Public Defenders Office in Jackson writes in request for Supreme Court review.

    The homicide rate is “dramatically higher” in Hinds County, but from 1976-2017, the death penalty was imposed more often on the Coast: 36 times compared to 26 in Hinds.

    Steiner argues the high court should consider Evans’ case because Coast prosecutors are seeking the death penalty more often than prosecutors do in other court districts, making Nelson’s death sentence “arbitrary.”

    She also incorporates arguments against the death penalty as “cruel and unusual punishment” in violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.

    The request for Supreme Court review lays out the details of Evans’ case.

    He is a lifelong alcoholic. When he was released from prison for felony DUI, former girlfriend Wenda Holling allowed him to move into her trailer in Kiln. Evans was unable to hold down a job because of his drinking, so he looked to Holling for money.

    She tired of supporting him while he drank. When she threatened to cut him off, the day after New Year’s 2010, he strangled her to death. Evans put her body in the trunk of her car and dumped it in Harrison County, where it was discovered several weeks later.

    Her family reported her missing. Evans told police that Holling was visiting friends in Florida. Then he took off for Florida in her car. He was using Hollings credit cards for food, drink and gas.

    When police discovered the credit-car use, Evans was arrested and admitted killing Holling.

    Evans drew one of 25 death sentences imposed in Mississippi since 2000, with one-third of those sentences meted out in the Second District.

    “Indeed,” Steiner argues, “the Second District’s absolute ‘lead’ in the number of death sentences its prosecutors have elected to seek has grown even larger as more and more prosecutors in other circuit court districts have exercised their discretion and elected not to seek such sentences even when they are available.”

    Joel Smith, district attorney for the Second District, could not be reached to comment. This story will be updated if and when he responds to a message from the Sun Herald.

    http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/...#storylink=cpy
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