Homicide

What initially was a case of suspected child abuse has now become a homicide investigation. On July 26 Jessica Noble brought her 4-year old son, Nathaniel Knox, to Fort Logan Hospital and told doctors that when she had returned from shopping she found the boy unresponsive. Noble said that Knox had fallen on the stairs of her Rice Lane home in Stanford and struck the back of his head when he tried to follow her. The hospital summoned law enforcement because they suspected child abuse when the boy appeared unresponsive, bruised and with what appeared to be adult bite marks on his body.

A Lincoln grand jury today indicted two more men in connection with the 2002 double murder of Bo Upton and Ryan Shangraw. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Burdette sealed one of the indictments at the request of commonwealth's Attorney Eddy Montgomery, because the suspect has not yet been arrested. But the indictment of Charles E. Smith, 26, Richmond, was not sealed. Smith was already was in custody on an unrelated charge out of Madison County. Smith was indicted on two counts of murder and other, lesser crimes associated with the six-year-old homicide, which is said to have been drug related.

SHOCK PROBATION HEARING TODAY Homicide defendant Richard Parsons' shock probation hearing takes place at 9:30 a.m. today. Coverage by Fred Petke. We will update this story in today's paper or on our Web site as we get more information. LOCKS OF LOVE DONATION A 4-year-old donates her hair to the Locks of Love program for children who have lost their hair because of a medical diagnosis. Photos by James Mann. GARDEN CLASS SATURDAY The Clark County Public Library will host two garden classes on Saturday.

A judge indicated she would likely grant shock probation for a Lexington man who killed his passenger in a crash 14 months ago.Richard Parsons, 51, is serving a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to reckless homicide in December for the death of his passenger, Dwayne Laliberte. "I can't tell you I'll make a bench decision today," Circuit Judge Julia Adams said during the hearing this morning. "I can tell you I'm probably inclined to grant the motion. " Parsons' attorney, Ernesto Scorsone, argued the court could exert more control over Parsons by imposing more conditions on his probation than the state could after releasing him. Parsons has already served approximately five months of his sentence and would be able to meet the parole board next month.

After serving nearly five months of a two-year sentence, a Lexington man wants to be released from prison after killing his friend in a car crash a year ago. Richard Parsons, 51, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in December 2007, nearly a year after the crash on Ky. 627 near Hall's on the River. His passenger, Dwayne Laliberte, was pronounced dead at the scene. Thursday morning Parsons and his attorney Ernesto Scorsone will appear in Clark Circuit Court to seek Parsons' release on shock probation.

HARRODSBURG - Police believe a woman whose skeletal remains were found along a Mercer County parkway was a homicide victim. The remains were discovered Wednesday near Martha Lane Collins Bluegrass Parkway by a deer hunter scouting the area. State police said the female victim is in her late teens to possibly mid 20s. Trooper Chris Lanham, spokesman for the Richmond post, said Dr. Emily Craig, state forensic anthropologist, determined from the state of the bones that the case is a homicide.

Residents of Paris continue to grieve for a 6-year-old boy who was found slain inside his grandfather's garage Saturday. Meanwhile, police are developing new leads in the case. Wesley Dylan Mullins of Winchester died of blunt force trauma in what police officers are calling one of the most horrific murder cases they've seen. "We have a primary person of interest," Paris Police Chief Tim Gray said yesterday. "I don't know that we're close to making an arrest. " Gray said police have gathered physical evidence from the apparent scene of the crime - the storage garage behind grandfather Bobby Mullins' Paris home - and turned it over to the Kentucky State Police's crime lab for analysis.

A Lincoln County jury deliberated only 25 minutes before finding Carol Foley of Crab Orchard guilty of manslaughter and fetal homicide Tuesday. Foley wrecked her mother's pickup on Hwy 643 about two miles south of Crab Orchard on Nov. 22 of last year, killing her passenger Brandy Ison Simpson and Simpson's unborn child. Toxicology reports showed that Foley's blood alcohol level was 0.10 two hours after the accident, above the state's legal limit of 0.08. The jury, consisting of eight women and four men, recommended that Foley receive eight years in prison for the manslaughter charge and 10 years for the fetal homicide charge, to be served consecutively.

STANFORD - It took a Lincoln County jury just 20 minutes Tuesday to convict a Crab Orchard woman of manslaughter and fetal homicide in the traffic deaths of her pregnant friend and the unborn fetus. The jury recommended 18 years in prison for Carolyn Foley, 27, who was remanded to jail without bond to await formal sentencing on Aug. 24. The jury recommended eight years in prison for the second-degree manslaughter charge and 10 years for third-degree fetal homicide, to be served consecutively.