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[corilin]

http://ricksblog.biz/?p=7144

 

[Gene]

Grand Jury is convening. I guess we will not know the results (charges) until tomorrow:

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090811/NEWS01/90811011

 

[Spyglass]

$164,000, jewelry were in second Billings safe...

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090811/NEWS01/90811018

 

[Lossmitpro]

$164,000, jewelry were in second Billings safe...

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090811/NEWS01/90811018

"There were no drugs, guns or any other items which suggested illegal activity found in the home."

Sorry, but c'mon -- who among forum readers or contributors has such a set-up themselves, or knows anyone who does? Who needs that kind of cash in the home? In this day of electronic banking and instant crediting, ACH, wiring of funds, etc it just makes no sense, IMHO, for a legitimate businessman to need that much cash. It was already established that the auto actions keep a 'book', and will accept checks at least until you go into the book, like Tice.

 

[daisy7]

Grand Jury Indicts 8

Six men and a teenage boy each were indicted today on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invastion in connection to the shooting deaths and robbery of Byrd and Melanie Billings.

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http://pnj.com/article/20090811/NEWS01/90811023

 

[SuziQ]

Read the indictments at the below link:

http://blogs.findlaw.com/courtside/2009/08/fla-grand-jury-indicts-7-for-billings-family-murders.html

 

[daisy7]

Channel 3 interview with Cab Tice

http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/raw_news/videos/vid_137.shtml

 

[KeenEyes]

Channel 3 interview with Cab Tice

http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/raw_news/videos/vid_137.shtml

Really appreciate your eye for detail and keen organizational skills which will prove so useful when this comes to trial.

 

[daisy7]

The State Attorney’s Office has filed a motion to increase Pamela Long Wiggins’ bond to $500,000.

The Gulf Breeze real estate agent and antique broker was arrested in July in connection with the deadly home invasion at the Beulah home of Byrd and Melanie Billings.

Long Wiggins, 47, is scheduled to appear in court in Escambia County at 9 a.m. Monday before Circuit Judge Frank Bell.

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http://pnj.com/article/20090812/NEWS01/90812011

 

[daisy7]

http://www.gulfbreezenews.com/news/2009/0813/front_page/003.html

Nothing new, but gives the name of PLW's attorney, which I hadn't seen before.

According to Escambia County Court records, Wiggins' attorney - Patrece Cashwell - entered a written plea of 'not guilty' Aug. 5 on Wiggins' accessory after the fact charge.

 

[daisy7]

Outtakes
by Rick Outzen

YOU CAN BE A STAR In case you missed it, I had a cameo appearance on Dateline NBC about the murders of Bud and Melanie Billings. I was sandwiched in between interviews of Sheriff David Morgan and Henry "Cab" Tice and commercials for Viagra, McDonald's and the latest GI-Joe movie.

Although I think the real reason I was included in the hour-long show was to help increase the sales of widescreen televisions, I did field a few questions from interviewer Keith Morrison on the double homicide that took place over a month ago.

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http://inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=10505

 

[daisy7]

Is The Mafia Involved In The Billings Murders?
by Rick Outzen

Cab Tice tells investigators of his ties to Mexican organized crime

The arrest of Henry Cabell "Cab" Tice, the used car dealer that The Daily Beast exclusively reported as the prime target of whether the murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings, parents of 17, were murders for hire, has taken the investigation of the grisly double homicide into the direction of international organized crime.

After nearly three hours of questioning on Thursday, Aug. 6, Tice was arrested for grand theft. Sheriff David Morgan says that Tice's arrest is not directly related to the murders but does shed some light on the possible reach of the Mexican mafia into the Florida Panhandle.

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http://inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=10507

 

[megamami]

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090813/NEWS01/90813012
Murder suspects arraigned
Kris Wernowsky, August 13, 2009

"Gonzalez Jr. asked that a request for a bond hearing be revoked.'

Guess he doesn't want to get out now, afterall? (Just trivial, but his attorney's name is interesting ...see picture title)

 

[megamami]

http://ricksblog.biz/?p=7169

Turner: “Gonzalez tried to ‘hit’ me”

“When they showed on television the mug shot of Patrick Gonzalez, I knew that was who tried to break into our house while we were in it,” says Turner. “I saw his face as he drove away. I’m convinced that he was there to kill me.”

 

[Spyglass]

7 plead not guilty to slaying Fla. couple at home

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Seven suspects are pleading not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the slaying of a Florida couple who adopted 13 children, many with special needs.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FLORIDA_COUPLE_SLAIN?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

 

[Spyglass]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_DUI_SECRET_RECORDINGS_FLOL-?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

In the far right column, of this page, see the Latest from AP videos. The video of the "not guilty pleas" is the first shown now, but if that changes, there is a link for the playlist.

 

[daisy7]

The surviving members of Byrd and Melanie Billings’ family will ask the court to block public access to crime scene photos and video surveillance footage from the victim’s home.

Ashley Markham, daughter of the Beulah couple shot to death on July 9, asks that the State Attorney’s Office be barred from releasing the photos and video to the co-defendants and the public, including the media.

Under state law, the usual process is for the state to release documents to be used in prosecutions to the defendants’ lawyers during the “discovery process.” At the same time, the documents become open to the public.

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http://pnj.com/article/20090813/NEWS01/90813020

 

[daisy7]

ESCAMBIA COUNTY - Six suspects in the Billings murder case are being arraigned today on their newly upgraded charges.

Leonard Gonzalez Junior... Leonard Gonzalez Senior... Wayne Coldiron... Gary Sumner... and Frederick Thornton all now face two counts of first degree murder.

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http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_3294.shtml

 

[daisy7]

Court mulls whether to seal evidence

The surviving members of Byrd and Melanie Billings' family are asking the court to block public access to crime scene photos and video surveillance footage from the victims' home.

Eddins said he will release other material in the case, including defendants' statements to law officers, on Monday. He called that material "voluminous."

The hearing Thursday brought together for the first time the seven defendants accused of going to the Billings home. At least 10 defense attorneys were in the courtroom.

More than 25 armed Escambia County sheriff's deputies lined the walls of the courtroom. Deputies in civilian clothes sat behind several of the defendants, who sat handcuffed inside the jury box. Spectators were checked for weapons upon entry into the courthouse and, in an unusual step, again directly outside the courtroom.

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http://www.pnj.com/article/20090814/NEWS01/908140320/1006/NEWS01

 

[daisy7]

Early this week the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office had a forfeiture hearing before Judge Frank Judge concerning the 1971 Buick Gran Sport Convertible that Pamela and Hugh Wiggins own. As part of that hearing Investigator Thomas Watts submitted an affidavit as how the car is involved with Billings’ murder investigation.

According to Watt’s affidavit:

Co-defendants reported that Pamela Wiggins’ 2005 Chevrolet Venture was left at 9717 Mobile Highway, a predetermined location near the Billings’ home, on the night of the murders to aid in the suspects escape from the home.

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http://ricksblog.biz/?p=7190