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James “Jamie” Ray Ward had reportedly been convicted of kidnapping another woman from her house in Gordon County on December 18, 1989, leaving her 9-year-old daughter sleeping. As per court documents, James drove her to an abandoned warehouse, forced her to wear undergarments he had brought along with him, and raped her multiple times.
Nearly 30 years ago, Ward kidnapped a pregnant woman, broke her ribs, stuffed wads of paper down her throat, suffocated her and dumped her body in the woods. A jury convicted him of murder and...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — 30 years ago, dozens of teenagers gathered for a party at a remote cabin just outside of Marshall. One of those party-goers died, and her death has attracted state and national...
Jamie Ray Ward was convicted in the death of Nikia Kay Gilbreath in 1989. A jury gave him the death penalty but that was overturned in 2010 because of a problem during the trial.
Gilbreath was 23 years old when Jamie Ray Ward kidnapped and murdered her, and he was convicted in 1991. Linda Tucker, the mother of Nikia Gilbreath, poses at her home in Rocky Face, Ga., holding...
But for nearly two decades, the town has been haunted by the sudden, mysterious death of 16-year-old Janie Ward. The story was that Janie fell backward off a porch at a high school party in the woods.
A motions hearing is set Jan. 7 for James “Jamie” Ray Ward, who in 1991 was sentenced to death by a jury for the 1989 murder of Nikia “Niki” Gilbreath of Villanow and her unborn son.