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Top left,Randy on his horse.Center top is Jack collecting evidence.Robert is in the top right directing traffic. The center left is Billy walking back to his unit.In the middle is Tommy and Mike.Beside the badge is Coca.At the bottom left is Buck,next to him in the center is Jimmy Martin with the Arkansas Game and Fish.In the photo in the bottom right is,Gene Hendrix on the left,Robert next then Lonnie Curtis,retired this year then Mike Godfrey who is a Law Enforcement Officer for the Arkansas State Parks.
This is a bust that Coca made.She found the dope in a metal gun safe.Pictured are from left to right are, Sgt.Randy Gibbins, Reserve Deputy Donald Ansley, K-9 Officer Jim Morrell, K-9 Coca, Deputy Robert Hutcheson, Mena Police Officer Ronnie Richardson, Mena Police Officer Todd Cannon and Reserve Deputy Gene Hendrix.
Roberts gets the death penalty.
A Polk County jury took less than thirty minutes today, (Friday, May 19,2000) to convict Karl Roberts of Capitol Murder. After a lunch break court resumed to hear the penalty phase of the trial. After hearing the aggravating and midigating circumstances, and testimony from the victims family and the Roberts family. It took the jury forty five minutes to return with the death penelty.
Roberts, thirty one, was charged with the May 1999 rape and murder of his niece, Andria Nichole Brewer, twelve years of age. Andria had been reported missing by her father, and after a three day search by members of the Polk County Sheriff's Office, family members, friends and the FBI, Roberts took officials to the body of Adria. She had been covered by a brush pile. Roberts confessed to the rape and murder before taking officials to the site, after he failed a lie detector test.
Though the jury had recieved cheers from the audence for the guilty verdict, they were silent when the jury handed down the sentence of death by lethal injection.
Karl Roberts, being escorted from the courthouse by Deputy Robert Hutcheson.
Photo and part of the text from the Mena Star.
You can go to the Andia Memorial page to read more, click here.