The search for a missing man in Pike County is over.

72-year-old Luther Collins has been tracked down in good condition in Georgia, police said.

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Police say Collins had traveled to Pike County from Bunnell, Fla., to bury his wife. The search for him began when Collins left Pikeville on Friday to travel home, but never made it back to Florida.

Police say Collins suffers from early-stage dementia.

The man who pleaded guilty in the beating death of his landlord in 2011 has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

47-year-old Terrence Cram was sentenced to 25 years for murder, five years for tampering with evidence and five years for fraudulently using a credit card in the beating death of 49-year-old Tena McNeely. The two five-year sentences are to be served concurrently.

The defense attorney reminded the judge that Cram was very cooperative at time of his arrest and has a lack of criminal history besides this incident. He asked the court for the lowest possible sentence of 20 years.

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“No sentence will take away the pain this family is feeling,” said the judge.

Cram will be eligible for parole after 85 percent of the sentence is served. Cram pleaded guilty to the charges in April.

Police say Cram beat McNeely to death in January 2011 at their Anderson County home, where the victim’s family says Cram rented a room for about five years. Police say Cram was also using McNeely’s credit cards for six months in several states after her death.

In a handwritten statement obtained by LEX 18, Cram says he only killed McNeely because she begged him to do so. He claims in the four-page letter he found McNeely at the bottom of the stairs after a bad fall that day and when he was going to call 911, “she yelled no!”

“She said she couldn’t move her left leg and the rest of her body was wracked in pain” he wrote. “Please, please kill me! I can’t and won’t live like this,” she said, according to his statement.

In graphic details Cram described how he hit her repeatedly until she stopped moving. “I had to stop her pain” he wrote.

Police arrested Cram in Arizona six months after the victim was found dead in her home.

Tena McNeely was the daughter of state Trooper James McNeely, who died in the line of duty during a flood rescue in Frankfort in 1972.

Nelson County, Va., resident was sentenced to six years and three months in prison after she was found guilty earlier this year of arson and insurance fraud.

Linda Blackwell had been under investigation for arson and insurance fraud by the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation‘s Appomattox Field Office for the past five years. She was charged with Arson and Obtaining Money by False Pretense for fires in Aug. 2009, Feb. 2012 and May 2013. In the Aug. 2009 fire, Blackwell was also charged with first degree murder, of which she was acquitted.

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Blackwell was found guilty in March 2014 of two Obtaining Money by False Pretense charges, one Attempt to Obtain Money by False Pretense and two Arson charges. Judge J. Michael Gamble, Nelson County Circuit Court, sentenced her to five years on each of the arson charges and five months on the Obtain Money by False Pretense charges to run concurrently for a total sentence of six years and three months. When Blackwell is released in six years, she will have a five-year suspended sentence conditioned on her being on probation for 20 years.

In addition to being fined $3,000, Blackwell will also have to make restitution of more than $350,000 to Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.

The case was investigated by Virginia State Police special agents Gary Hack, Brian Childress and Fred Solomon. Blackwell was prosecuted by Nelson County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney Anthony D. Martin.

t’s been just over a year since two Carter County residents disappeared without a trace. Now, the family of one of the missing has hired private investigators to step in and help solve the case.

What happened to Molly Miller on July 2nd 2013 and where is she now? These are the questions that haunt Miller’s family.

In May, her cousin, Paula Fielder spoke out about the family’s fears.

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Fielder said, “You know in your head that the worst has happened but you want to believe it in your heart that they’re still out there somewhere” and they want to know where.

That’s why they say they’ve hired private investigators to solve the mystery and bring Molly home.

Investigator Caroline Gear said, “Currently getting his team together, then they will be up, headed up to Oklahoma over the weekend and we’ll begin the investigation.”

Gear, with Klein Investigations, says their team of 9 investigators want to make it clear they’re here to work alongside local law enforcement and not step on any toes.

Gear added, “We’re not here to hinder or help any law enforcement just to basically come in as a third party and do our own independent investigation.”

OHP Captain Ronnie Hampton said, “Once we turned our case in to the prosecutor in January and they were charged with crimes, at that point our investigation into the Molly Miller incident was pretty much over.”

Hampton says they began investigating the case after James Con Nipp, who’s now behind bars in Love County, allegedly led troopers on a chase with Miller and Haynes in the car in July.

Investigators say Nipp was the last person to see, or hear from, Molly Miller and Colt Haynes.

Hampton added, “We still receive usually one or two calls a week on the molly miller incident and we still pass that information on to the appropriate law enforcement agency.”

Klein Investigators say they’ve set up a new hotline number and are asking for the public’s help.

Gear said, “What we’re stressing most right now about that is, it’s an anonymous hotline. You do not have to leave your name or you number, just your tip”

The hotline number is 580-798-8157 or you can submit your tip via email to mollymillertips@hotmail.com.

The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office have arrested five people following a drug investigation.

The group was arrested at a home on E. Pittsburg Church Road, one mile north of London, June 3 around 2 p.m.

Flora Westfelt, 24, is charged with possession of controlled substance (methamphetamine) first degree, possession of marijuana and wanton endangerment first degree.

Westfelt was found in a vehicle with the drugs, rolling a marijuana cigarette and had two small children with her.

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Elvis Proffitt, 37, and Janita Elkins, 36, both are charged with possession of a controlled substance first degree (methamphetamine) and possession of marijuana.

Lawrence Stevens, 52, is charged with trafficking in a controlled substance first degree (methamphetamine).

Stevens was found at a residence with a quantity of crystal methamphetamine and two sets of digital scales.

Roger Isom, 31, fled into a mobile home when he saw officers approaching and was found with a quantity of crystal methamphetamine. He’s charged with possession of a controlled substance first degree and possession of drug paraphernalia.

All five were lodged at the Laurel County Detention Center.

Social Services was contacted about the two small children and released them to family members.

A Madison County man wanted in connection with a nightclub shooting that left one injured has been arrested.

34-year-old Richard Duerson was wanted in connection to a shooting at Manhattan Night Club on Water Street near the Eastern Kentucky University campus on May 20 that sent a person to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.

Duerson faces multiple charges, including assault and wanton endangerment.

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According to the arrest warrant, Duerson was asked to leave the club after he punched a woman in the face. Once outside, he is accused of firing a gun four times through the night club’s front glass door, ultimately hitting a person inside in the leg. That person was taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital where they were expected to make a full recovery from their injuries.

A Madison County man wanted in connection with a nightclub shooting that left one injured has been arrested.

34-year-old Richard Duerson was wanted in connection to a shooting at Manhattan Night Club on Water Street near the Eastern Kentucky University campus on May 20 that sent a person to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.

Duerson faces multiple charges, including assault and wanton endangerment.

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According to the arrest warrant, Duerson was asked to leave the club after he punched a woman in the face. Once outside, he is accused of firing a gun four times through the night club’s front glass door, ultimately hitting a person inside in the leg. That person was taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital where they were expected to make a full recovery from their injuries.

Monday marked the end to a week-long search for a man who Lexington Police described as a danger to himself and others.

James Caldwell showed up June 2 at a medical facility in Corbin.

When Caldwell seemingly vanished, police issued arrest warrants for stalking and terroristic threatening after he was accused of writing a graphic letter.

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LEX 18 has obtained a copy of the incredibly descriptive letter Caldwell accused of leaving for one woman.

These are just some of the overly graphics threat included in the two-page letter:

“I’ve thought about getting a Super Soaker and as you pull your keys to open the front door, spraying you with gasoline and setting you on fire.”

“Shooting you at work and then shooting myself or hurting one of your co-workers.”

“Breaking into your house, hanging myself from the banister.”

“Murdering your parents because it would completely ruin your life.”

“Once I was laying in bed at night and for no reason at all, I came up with a plan to hurt random people Lexington, then coming and hurting you too…like some serial killer was in Lexington…I even once followed a couple home in an attempt to prepare victims.”

Junnell Harris said it was left last week on a vehicle outside of her Lexington home.

“When I started reading it, I knew immediately what it was and who it was from,” she said.

According to Harris, the letter was addressed to her 21-year-old daughter.

“I’ve never read anything like that and I just couldn’t believe that a guy that much older than my daughter that she never had a relationship with would threaten something so graphic like that,” she said. “It’s just total shock and disbelief that this can happen.”

Harris said her daughter has tried to get a protective order against Caldwell but under Kentucky law the two had to be married or share a child. She added that the two were never romantically involved.

“I have to be married to somebody or dated and lived with somebody or have a child by somebody for somebody to protect us from somebody wanting to do these violent things? It just doesn’t make sense to me and whatever it takes, I’m going to do it,” Harris said.

The letter also includes the description of a vivid dream where the writer murders a woman as she wakes up to find she’s been stabbed in the jugular.

There’s even mention of a mouse head being including in the letter, but then the writer changes his mind and scratches the paragraph out.
Lexington Police said Caldwell suffers from a mental illness.

However, Caldwell’s family denies that and said he appears to have had a mental breakdown.

Police are on the lookout for a 9-year-old boy who went missing Friday afternoon after leaving school.

The Clearlake Police Department (CPD) has been looking for Nathan Ayers who, according to his foster mother, did not come home from Pomo Elementary School on Friday afternoon, Officer Michael Carpenter stated in a press release Monday.

The CPD received the call just before 2 p.m. and performed an extensive search, but they could not find Nathan, Carpenter stated. Nathan was entered into the Missing Unidentified Person System (MUPS).

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He was described as white, approximately 4-feet-10-inches tall, about 100 pounds with shaggy brown hair and brown eyes. At the time of his disappearance, he was wearing a red sweatshirt, green shirt, blue jeans and black and white tennis shoes, according to Carpenter.

Carpenter stated Nathan maybe in the company of his former guardian Tracy Barsolo. Barsolo has an outstanding arrest warrant and is wanted by the CPD for questioning.

Barsolo is described as a white woman, approximately 5-feet-4-inches tall, weighing approximately 160 pounds, with red hair and hazel eyes.

The CPD is also working with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the California Department of Justice Missing Person Unit, Carpenter stated.

The CPD is asking for public assistance in finding Nathan and Barsolo. Anyone with information regarding the location of Nathan and Barsolo should call the CPD immediately at 994-8251.

Kentucky State Police are searching for a man last seen in Pikeville.

Police say Luther Jefferson Collins, 72, traveled to Pike County from Bunnell, Fla. to bury his wife. Collins left Pikeville on Friday to travel home, but never made it back to Florida. Police say Collins suffers from early-stage dementia.

Collins stands about 5’10” and weighs between 110 and 115 pounds. He has grey and brown shoulder length hair, with long sideburns and a goatee. He was last seen wearing dark colored wind breaker pants, a black Harley Davidson T-shirt and black Nike shoes.

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Collins was driving a green Dodge van, Florida registration plate 1613IX, and was towing a 14-16 foot black enclosed easy rider trailer behind his vehicle.

Anyone with information Collins’ whereabouts should contact Kentucky State Police Post 9, Pikeville at (606) 433-7711 or 1-800-222-5555.