GUILTY GA - Theresa Parker, 41, Lafayette, 21 March 2007 - #3

[joeskidbeck]

It has been confirmed by Sheriff Wilson. This is Theresa Parker's body. Prayers go out to her family. At least now they know where their beautiful daughter is and we know where the monster that killed her is!

 

[SuziQ]

For more than three years, Theresa Parker’s family just knew she was dead.
They suffered through months of fruitless searches for her body. They watched as the national media descended on her North Georgia neighborhood. They sat in court during the trial that convicted her husband Sam Parker of murder.
But because her body was still missing, they kept hearing the same thing from friends and others in the community: Maybe she just ran away from an abusive relationship. Maybe she’s alive. Maybe.

More and Presser video at the below link:
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/sep/23/find-brings-back-hurt/

 

[chicoliving]

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After three years of local and state police combing four counties in Northwest Georgia for Theresa Parker’s body, her remains were discovered Monday by a farmer in Chattooga County, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said. They were found next to a cornfield, about 100 feet from the Chattooga River near the Alabama state line.

“It’s just a miracle that he stumbled upon it,” Sheriff Wilson said at a news conference Wednesday evening.

The spot where her remains were found was about 10 miles from where Sam Parker grew up in Trion, Ga., a place where he went to fish and knew well, Sheriff Wilson said.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/sep/23/find-brings-back-hurt/

 

[Snarky247]

48 Hours on ID (my favorite channel - Investigation Discovery!) is currently airing The secret & will be repeating it at 11pm Central time.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/25655268/ex-cop-convicted-of-murdering-wife-pushes-for-new-trial

The former Lafayette cop convicted of killing his wife hopes the Georgia Supreme Court gives him a new trial. It's a case that rocked the town of Lafayette starting in 2007 when 911 dispatcher Theresa Parker went missing. In 2009, a jury found her husband, Lafayette police officer Sam Parker, guilty of murder.

Parker is currently serving a life prison sentence for the murder of his wife, but he's maintained his innocence all along. He filed for an appeal immediately following the conviction. It's a lengthy process that comes to a head Monday in Atlanta when his public defender tries to convince a Georgia Supreme Court to grant Parker a new trial.

 

[suspect 0]

new to this site...but i have missed alot over past few years and i searched for this specifically to see what all was posted about it....because...
i worked with Sam Parkers brother Kenneth for a long time- and Ken as he was called - was a part time Chattooga county deputy in addition to the
job where we both worked in Rome. Ken was himself a seemingly unstable sort of weird dude. He was younger than Sam. He got the part time gig
in the area he lived in- as some sort of favor from sheriff leadership in one county to the neighboring county and there were other long standing family ties
in both sheriff depts. Ken was grilled by the GBI many times- because he was working on his part time gig on the night that it is alleged that Sam may have taken his deceased wife on a "boat ride" on the chattooga river - and later when her remains are found- that is the area of the county Ken patrolled or was known to patrol that area.
It was not too long after Mrs Parkers investigation was full blown that suddenly Ken was not a Chattooga deputy and never has been since. Ken was never officially implicated but these all are strange coincidences. At our job we were told to NOT discuss this personal matter with Ken or ourselves because he had an "episode" and had to be out of work for a short while when someone asked him a direct question about it, but he also jokingly said...well she probably went on a long fishing trip somewhere..