Police said that Derrick Dearman, 27, of Leakesville, Miss., has bee... . Ambulances wait along Jim Platt Road west of Citronelle, Ala., joining a stream of law enforcement vehicles at the scene of multiple homicides on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016.
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Sheriff: 5 slain in Alabama massacre included pregnant woman
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Citronelle murder suspect en route to Mobile County
Derrick Ryan Dearman, the 27-year-old man accused of killing five adults and an unborn baby boy in a 'gruesome' manner, is currently on the road back to Mobile County. According to authorities, Saturday, August 20, 2016 Dearman unlawfully entered a home located off Jim Platt Road in Citronelle and attacked the victims, while they slept.
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Murder suspect confesses to reporters
He was then led to Metro Jail where he faced more questions. This time... from the media, including FOX10 News reporter Renee Dials.
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The Latest: Massacre suspect charged with 6 counts of murder
Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, will be charged wi... . Crime scene tape marks the home on Jim Platt Road near Citronelle, Ala., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, where authorities said five people were killed on Saturday.
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The Latest: Massacre suspect charged with 6 counts of murder
A photo provided by the Greene County Sheriff's Department shows Derrick Dearman, a suspect in the Saturday massacre of five adults in Citronelle Ala. Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, will be charged with six counts of capital murder, Mobile County sheriff's spokeswoman Lori Myles said Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
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The Latest: Judge denies bond for man held in 5 killings
A photo provided by the Greene County Sheriff's Department shows Derrick Dearman, a suspect in the Saturday massacre of five adults in Citronelle Ala. Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, will be charged with six counts of capital murder, Mobile County sheriff's spokeswoman Lori Myles said Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
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Citronelle quintuple homicide: Funerals begin for 5 killed in Alabama massacre
A service is scheduled Friday morning in Citronelle for Shannon Randall and husband Joseph Adam Turner, plus Randall's brother, Robert Lee Brown. Services will be held Saturday for Justin and Chelsea Reed, who were married.
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Saraland PD arrest Citronelle man
On August 26, 2016, members of the Saraland Police Department Narcotics Unit, along with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant in Citronelle, AL. Officers located ICE methamphetamine, prescription pills, drug paraphernalia, and U.S. Currency.
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No longer homemade in labs, methamphetamine remains a raging and violent concern for police
A soldier stands in what was identified as "metal reactors" after a seizure of a large clandestine methamphetamine lab at a ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico. U.S. authorities, including those in Alabama, claim that meth in its purest form -- called "ice" -- is being imported at alarming levels.
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'Don't do drugs,' lottery a loser, hottest cooler: AL.com must-read stories
An ongoing controversy about how best to preserve what was once Huntsville's only high school for blacks -- which closed 50 years ago and has fallen into disrepair -- appears to have finally reached a suitable resolution for all involved. The deaths of five people in Citronelle in Mobile County, described by law enforcement as a "horrible scene," eventually led to Derrick Dearman being charged with six counts of capital murder.
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Centennial Businesses Part 2: Alabama firms founded more than 100 years ago
Last week, we posted a list of Alabama businesses that have been in operation for more than a century. We asked readers to submit names of others and compiled those into Part 2, listed in this slideshow.
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Suspect in murder of 6 in south Alabama pleads not guilty
A Mississippi man accused of killing five people and an unborn child in a south Alabama home pleaded not guilty during an arraignment hearing Wednesday. Investigators say the killings in Citronelle were carried out with blows from an ax and gunshots .
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Citronelle murder suspect enters not guilty plea
In spite of confessing to members of the media to the murders of five adults as well as an unborn child, murder suspect Derrick Dearman entered a plea of not guilty during his first court appearance Wednesday, August 31. The 27-year-old Dearman is accused of 'gruesomely' murdering five adults, one of whom was pregnant, in a Citronelle home on Saturday, August 20. According to officials, an axe as well as one firearm was used during the attack which happened while the victims were asleep. The victims have been identified as 26-year-old Robert Lee Brown, husband and wife Chelsea Marie Reed, 22, and Justin Kaleb Reed, 23, as well as their unborn son; and Joseph Adam Turner, 26 and his wife 35-year-old Shannon Melissa Randall.
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Man accused of south Alabama massacre pleads not guilty
A Mississippi man accused of killing five people in a south Alabama home with blows from an ax and gunshots pleaded not guilty Wednesday, and the father of one victim said he hopes the case goes to trial because he wants to see what prompted the attack. Derrick Dearman, 27, of Leakesville, Mississippi, glanced at his relatives a few times during a brief arraignment hearing before Mobile County Judge Rick Stout.
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Police: Alabama massacre suspect injected 'ice,' confessed
A photo provided by the Greene County Sheriff's Department shows Derrick Dearman, a suspect in the Saturday massacre of five adults in Citronelle Ala. Dearman, of Leakesville, Mississippi, will be charged with six counts of capital murder, Mobile County sheriff's spokeswoman Lori Myles said Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.
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Citronelle home of 'gruesome' murders burned down
The Citronelle home where five people, including a pregnant woman, were murdered on Saturday, August 20 burned down on Sunday, September 4. According to the Citronelle Fire Department, they discovered the home on fire at approximately 8:12 a.m. Sunday after receiving a phone call that a house was on fire. Fire officials as well as members of the Citronelle Police Department said they could see smoke from the Jim Platt Road entrance and that they had to cut the chain on the gate to get onto the property.
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Arrests continue to rise as drug units combat influx of ice
Work in communities and in courtrooms across Alabama is ongoing as narcotics agents try to curb the spread of a powerful form of methamphetamine. Court records say Derrick Dearman, the 27-year-old man accused of killing five people, including a pregnant woman in a Citronelle home, told investigators that he parked in the woods nearby and injected ice into his veins shortly before the killings.
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House where five slain with axe, gunshots mysteriously burns down
Investigators had gotten a tip that the home in Citronelle, Alabama, would be burned - and then it went up in flames Sunday morning, Mobile County sheriff's officials said. Derrick Dearman, 27, of Leakesville, Mississippi, is accused by authorities of killing five people, including a pregnant woman, in the home on Aug. 20. He then kidnapped his ex-girlfriend, Laneta Lester, and a 3-month-old infant Lester grabbed from the house, authorities have said.
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Court documents reveal details of Dearmana s nightmare killings
Nearly two weeks after being charged with six counts of capital murder, Derrick Dearman entered a not guilty plea in Mobile County's district court. Robert Brown, the father of one of the victims, was present for the hearing and said Dearman didn't make eye contact with him or any of the other family members of the victims.
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States . But millions of women are surviving the disease thanks in part to early detection and improvements in treatment In honor of breast cancer awareness month, the Mobile County Health Department and Family Health are offering free breast cancer screenings at a different location each weekday during October.
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