YAZOO CITY, Miss. - A Yazoo County jury on Saturday convicted Earnest Lee Hargon of killing three relatives on Valentine's Day 2004.
The jury of nine women and three men returned a guilty verdict after about two hours of deliberations.
Hargon was accused in the slayings of his cousin, Michael Hargon; Michael's wife, Rebecca; and the couple's 4-year-old son, James.
The family disappeared from their home in Vaughan on Feb. 14, 2004. Blood and spent bullet casings were discovered at the home. Their bodies were found about three weeks later buried in woods off a road nearly 100 miles southeast of Vaughan.
Hargon was convicted of murder in the death of Michael Hargon and two counts of capital murder in the slayings of Rebecca Hargon and the couple's son.
Death penalty sought in "Precious Doe' case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a man accused of beheading his 3-year-old stepdaughter, whose body was unidentified for nearly four years and was known only as "Precious Doe."
Harrell Johnson, 26, was initially charged with second-degree murder in the death of Erica Michelle Green. That charge has been upgraded first-degree murder, allowing for the death penalty.
Erica's body was found in a park in Kansas City in 2001, when she would have been almost 4. Her head was discovered in a trash bag nearby.
