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Chattanooga, Tennessee, 16th January 2009: I came home and my husband’s tied up. He’s not breathing. Help me! Accused: Guilty or Innocent? s1e2: Cold Case Killer or Innocent Teenage Girl? 911 call, ITVX 2022
The case went cold until ten years later. ibid. caption
Police found 68-year-old Franklin Bonner’s body. His home was ransacked and Bonner had ducktape over his mouth and nose which caused him to suffocate. ibid. news
Angel Bumpass was a child at the time of the murder. The court has decided she will be tried as an adult. ibid. caption
The defense team is exploring how Angel’s fingerprints could have got on the duct-tape. ibid.
You have nine unidentified fingerprints. ibid. defense
Mallory Vaughn not guilty; the defendant guilty of first-degree murder … Angel is sentenced to 60 years in prison.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge dismissed the case against a woman who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in the slaying of a man who was bound with duct tape and robbed when she was 13 years old.
Hamilton County Judge Amanda Dunn on Tuesday dismissed the first-degree murder and aggravated robbery convictions of Angel Bumpass, 28, news outlets reported.
Bumpass was 24 when she was convicted in 2019 in the slaying of Franklin Bonner, 68. A medical examiner determined he suffocated after being bound to a kitchen table with duct tape covering his feet, arms, nose and mouth in 2009. AP news article 9th August 2023, ‘A Tennessee judge throws out the case of a woman convicted of murder committed when she was 13’