OZARK — Coley Lewis McCraney is sentenced to life in prison without parole after his conviction Wednesday in the 1999 murder of Dothan teens Tracie Hawlett and J.B. Beasley. The
MICHELLE MANN sentence six-man, six-woman jury returned the sentence after 15 minutes of deliberation following several hours of testimony from the victims' families in a Thursday sentencing hearing.
Burgoon said the loss of her daughter, J.B. Beasley, left “a hole inside of me that is bigger than me.” A Dale County jailer called McCraney “one of the best inmates we have there. I would say the best.” A second jail officer concurred, telling the court that McCraney has lead Bible studies in the Dale County Jail since his incarceration four years ago.
A DNA test received from a law enforcement resource center in 2019 had McCraney’s name as a possible match with DNA found at the scene when the girls’ bodies were discovered Aug. 1, 1999. DNA obtained from a swab that McCraney voluntarily provided to police in 2019 led to his arrest. Thomas, Dale County Assistant District Attorney Emmett Massey and State Attorney General Steve Marshall have prosecuted the case and in closing arguments outlined the events of July 31, 1999 as they unfolded during the trial. Beasley had been celebrating her 17th birthday and had been invited to a party in Headland. Beasley picked up Hawlett at around 10 p.m. After not finding the Headland party, the teens decided to meet some of their “guy friends” at the gas station in Midland City.
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