Coley McCraney took the stand and told how he met JB Beasley at a Dothan mall and struck up a friendship.
during his Capital Murder trial in Ozark but admitted he had sex with JB Beasley the night she died along with her friend Tracie Hawlett in 1999.
“I was coming out of Radio Shack, and she was walking by, and I introduced myself and struck up a conversation ,” he told jurors. McCraney said he and JB agreed to meet at the Ozark convenience store, where the girls were last seen a few hours before the murders. He said he agreed to provide his DNA 20 years later after police it could help in their cold case investigation.He said a few weeks later, police called him to come back in, and a few days later, after dropping his cargo in Louisiana, he headed to Alabama and called to let officers know he was en route.A few hours later, officers charged him with killing Beasley and Hawlett and raping Beasley.
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