Inmate says he gave Houston police tip about Maleah's whereabouts before Quanell
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A Harris County Jail inmate says he supplied Houston police investigators with the Arkansas location where Derion Vence had allegedly dumped the trash bag containing little Maleah Davis’ remains five days before she was found.
The inmate, [removed name] , who is being held while awaiting transfer to a Texas prison, told the Houston Chronicle he met with investigators on May 26 to share information he gleaned from Vence that narrowed the search for the 4-year-old’s body to a rural highway near Hope. But authorities didn’t start their search in the neighboring state until May 31 when Houston activist Quanell X told authorities that Vence had given him the same location.
Based on the evidence Vence’s lawyer, Dorian Cotlar, said he has reviewed, he has no reason to dispute [inmate] account. And Quanell X likely learned nothing from Vence that police didn’t already know, he said.
Vence wandered over to [inmate] door as early as May 22 to score some extra chow, the inmate said Tuesday.... handed him crackers and soup — and eventually, Vence shared his side of what happened to the little girl...
“He says, ‘Man, I didn’t kill her,’” [inmate]who was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. Vence initially told him that Maleah “died in her sleep, that she had the flu.”
[inmate] said he was among the few inmates on the sixth floor who were not hounding Vence with threats.
I removed the inmates name...much more at link.
