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Apr 26, 2021 · On May 10 that year, after he had reached southwest Virginia, he encountered James L. Jordan, who fatally stabbed Mr. Sanchez and seriously wounded another hiker in one of the worst episodes...
May 2, 2020 · James Louis Jordan, 30, of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, was arrested in the early morning of Saturday, May 11, 2019. He was charged with one count of murder and one count of assault with the intent to murder within the special maritime territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Apr 26, 2021 · James Jordan, the Massachusetts man who killed an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker and seriously wounded another in a May 2019 attack, has been ruled not guilty in connection with that case by reason of insanity. The judge accepted Jordan’s plea in Abingdon, VA, not far from the AT trail town of Damascus, following a hearing last Thursday.
Apr 23, 2021 · The May 11, 2019 booking photo shows James L. Jordan, of West Yarmouth, Mass. Federal authorities say Jordan was arrested in an attack on the Appalachian Trail that left one person dead...
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Heart-wrenching letters from Sanchez’s family, filed as victim impact statements with the court, beg the judge to ensure Jordan never leaves the hospital. Sanchez’s mother, Claudia Duncan, wrote that her family’s lives have been “shattered beyond words.” “I can never be who I once was,” Duncan wrote. “My husband has lost the wife he once knew and m...
The hikers on the trail May 10 knew Jordan when they saw him. Less than three weeks before the fatal attack, he’d been arrested after threatening several hikers on the trail as he hiked through Tennessee and North Carolina. In a Facebook post on April 21, the sheriff in Unicoi County, Tennessee, wrote that hikers at the trailhead at Devils Fork had...
Meanwhile, Jordan went back to the campsite, where Sanchez and Morrill remained. As they prepared to leave, Jordan made statements to Sanchez and Morrill about people “hunting” him, and he accused Sanchez of hitting him with a rock. Sanchez denied hitting him and, like JH and GH before him, tried to defuse the situation. Jordan advanced on him with...
Morrill was flown for treatment to Bristol Regional Medical Center in Bristol, Tennessee. The Press reportedthat it took about 50 staples and 10 sutures to close all her wounds. It also took a lot of painful physical therapy and grueling exercise to regain feeling in and use of some of her muscles, particularly in her arms. She addressed the physic...
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Apr 24, 2021 · April 24, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. A man who terrorized a group of hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Southwest Virginia in 2019, stabbing two people, one of them fatally, has been found not...
Apr 25, 2021 · The worst case scenario occurred in Virginia on the Appalachian Trail. According to the criminal complaint , he approached four hikers on May 10, 2019 while playing his guitar, singing, and “acting disturbed and unable” in Smyth County.
