Hill, however, later named Quintin Tellis, and still later, in August 2020, recanted his testimony in a notarized letter that authorities suspect Tellis helped to write.
That led police to a man named Eric Hill Jr., who first alleged that a man against whom he had a grudge had ignited Chambers. The site was approximately 38 miles from where Buddy was burned and the same distance by a slightly different route from where Coker burned to death.Ĭhambers managed to speak just three apparent words before she died under sedation at a Memphis hospital at 2:36 the next morning, interpreted by ten first responders as: “cold,” “thirsty,” and the name “Eric.”
MISSISSIPPI FIRE DOGS SERIES
Summarized Kriti Mehrotra in a Cinemaholic series reviewing the 2021 Prime Video multi-part documentary Jessica Chambers: An ID Murder Mystery, “The Goody’s Department Store saleswoman was found engulfed in flames, trying to walk down the side of Herron Road in Panola County,” just south of Tate County, “slowly moving away from her burning car. There never was a “Yoknapatawpha County,” but Faulkner lived almost all of his life in Marshall and Lafayette counties, rarely far from the Tate County, Panola County, and Benton County lines.īoth the Buddy case and the Coker case must have reminded Lance of the Decemmurder of Jessica Chambers, who was reportedly ignited after someone squirted lighter fluid up her nose––possibly the modus operandi used to burn Buddy.Įven children and adolescents in the region are likely aware of the Chambers case, probably the most publicized murder in Mississippi since the civil rights era. Indeed, some of Faulkner’s writings highlighted both cases in which crimes against animals preceded murders of humans, and cases in which crimes against humans led to crimes against animals.įaulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, the 19 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, and the 19 National Book Award, for his many stream-of-consciousness Gothic novels and stories set in “Yoknapatawpha County,” Mississippi.įaulkner’s plots and themes centered on black-and-white racial relations during the first half of the 20th century, but animals issues were often in the background. The Buddy saga, meanwhile, may be just a part of a much bigger and darker story which, as a whole, might have inspired William Faulkner (1919-1962). “He has been feeling so well, we gave the approval to go ahead with his neuter surgery,” the Tunica County Humane Society posting added, apparently oblivious to the ironic pun. He carries them around so everyone can see them,” the Tunica Humane Society continued. He can see and he is loving every minute of his new life,” the Tunica Humane Society posted to Facebook.īuddy “is happy and playful and walking the halls of the hospital with a great big ball in his mouth. Treated for three and a half months at Mississippi State University, near Starkville, Buddy’s “eyes are no longer covered with heavy bandages.
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TUNICA, Mississippi––“Each New Day is a Celebration of Light and Life for Buddy!” bannered the Tunica Humane Society of Tunica, Mississippi on Augabove a glowing update about a young dog whose face was set afire on Apby a juvenile who has not been identified by law enforcement. (Beth Clifton collage) The Buddy case parallels local human deaths
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