BO DUKES TRIAL
For close to 15 years and counting, Georgia and at some points even the nation has kept an eye on the Tara Grinstead case. She was a well-known school teacher that disappeared from her hometown of Ocilla in south Georgia in 2005. Arrests for her murder weren't made until 2017. I was honored to cover one of the trials in the case from start to finish. I live blogged trial proceedings each day for a week, wrapping up each web story with a daily recap.
FULL TRIAL COVERAGE
After a four-day trial and guilty verdict this week, Judge Robert Chasteen, Jr. sentenced Bo Dukes to the maximum sentence of 25 years for lying to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and concealing Grinstead's death.
After a four-day trial in Wilcox County Superior Court, a jury found Bo Dukes guilty on all four of his charges Thursday.
Bo's girlfriend, Brooke Sheridan, said Bo suffered from panic attacks and suicidal thoughts after his June 2016 interview with the GBI.
The third day of trial proceedings for Bo Dukes in Wilcox County brought out six new witnesses, video footage of a GBI interview with Dukes and pictures of human bone fragments.
Day two of trial proceedings for Bo Dukes brought forth 11 new witnesses and two recorded GBI interviews to Wilcox County Superior Court.
Five men and seven women were chosen as jurors in the trial for Bo Dukes, the man accused of concealing Tara Grinstead's death, in Wilcox County on Monday.
Bo Dukes, the man accused of helping to conceal Tara Grinstead's body, is set to go to trial Monday in Wilcox County Superior Court.