anyone feel like this is more than a coincidence? Occam's razor theory here? I really really really like this guy for the crime. Dna or no dna match.
Police investigate possible link to murder of dothan teens
http://www.wiregrass.com/ozark/news.html
investigators are performing dna testing on a work release
prisoner, after he admitted to murdering a montgomery woman by beating
her and ditched her car last week in ozark, at the same location on
herring ave. Where the two dothan teens were found murdered almost
three years ago.
Eugene eutsey, a 24-year-old barbour county man, was in a prison
work release program in montgomery and was working on a cleaning crew
at rave motion pictures, a movie theater on vaughn road in montgomery,
early on the morning of may 1, 2002. The cleaning crew was being
supervised by 42-year-old melva johnston, who was reported missing at
the same time that eutsey also went missing from the work site. Eutsey
was arrested by enterprise police at around 3:00 saturday morning.
They said that he was riding a bicycle through downtown enterprise.
After he was arrested, eutsey eventually told police where johnston's
body and car could be found. The missing woman's pontiac grand am was
located on herring ave. In ozark, while her body was found behind the
rave movie theater in montgomery.
Police say eutsey probably wanted johnston's car to escape from
his work release program. Eutsey confessed to the murder and he was
taken to the montgomery county jail without bond.
Eutsey is now a suspect in the murder of two dothan teenagers almost
three years ago in ozark. Ozark police chief tony spivey said eutsey
has relatives and friends in ozark and was known to visit the city
frequently around the time of the murders of tracey hawlett and j.b.
Beasley in the summer of 1999. Spivey also said there were some
similarities in the murders in ozark and the montgomery murder, which
weren't going to be released at this time. Ozark investigators
traveled to montgomery last and questioned eutsey. He denied any
knowledge of the ozark murders but a dna sample was sent to the lab to
be checked against dna from the double murder. Eutsey is considered a
suspect until the dna results come back, which will be in about four
to six weeks. So far, more than 100 people have been dna tested in the
case without a match.
Eutsey's criminal record includes three felonies, with one of
them occuring while he was on a work-release job in barbour county.
Eutsey allegedly stole a car in feb. 2001 while in the work-release
program in barbour county. Eutsey is serving a 15-year sentence for
theft, unlawful breaging and entering and burglary, and had only been
in prison for less than a year before being placed in the montgomery
work-release program.
There is still a $45,000 reward being offered for information in the
ozark murders.