OZARK-Coley Lewis McCraney was formally sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday following his April conviction in the murder of two Dothan teenagers 24 years ago.
Thirty Third Judicial Circuit Judge Bill Filmore affirmed the jury's sentence in a five-minute hearing in Ozark Thursday as required by law.
People are also reading… A DNA test received from a law enforcement resource center in 2019 had McCraney’s name as a possible match with DNA found at the scene. McCraney voluntarily provided a DNA swab to police in 2019, leading to his arrest. During the trial, the jury heard from multiple forensic scientists and saw photos of the girls as they had been found with their gunshot wounds to the head described in detail. They also were shown photos of the vehicle that the girls were found in. Photos shown to the jury included the jeans the girls were wearing, muddied and damp from the knees down and their tennis shoes in the same condition.
“We’ll allow our voices to be heard in court,” Marshall said about the appeal. “But we are very confident that we will prevail and are ready to defend this case upon appeal.
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