Victim on left.
Posted on 08/04/2014 5:57:08 PM PDT by Steelfish
Strangled Counselor Fought For Her Life, Police and Evidence Indicate Aug 4, 2014, ABC NEWS via GOOD MORNING AMERICA PHOTO: Maggie Daniels, 31, was found dead in her North Carolina apartment on June 28, 2014.
Maggie Daniels, a popular North Carolina school counselor, apparently fought for her life before she was strangled, Newton Police Chief Donald Brown told ABC News today.
Police are also looking at what they believe are "selfie" photos in the suspect's phone that may detail injuries he allegedly suffered as a result of Daniels' efforts to fight him off, an officer told ABC News.
Sharmon Odom, 34, is charged with the murder of Daniels, 31. Odom didn't answer any questions as police took him to jail on Saturday, but had a smirk on his face. Odom, who lived in the same apartment complex as Daniels, appeared in court today.
Surveillance Footage Could Hold Clues in School Counselor's Murder
"She died of strangulation," Brown told ABC News. "There was a struggle... We think that she fought back when Sharmon Odom attacked her in her unlocked apartment.”
A search warrant obtained by ABC News indicated there were signs of a violent struggle in Daniels' apartment as she fought to live. Several items in her apartment were damaged, the search warrant said, but did not say what was damaged. She was found dead on June 28. Major Timothy Hayes of the Newton Police Department told ABC News that investigators believe Daniels' body was found a day after she was killed.
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DNA should wrap this one up in short order.
Worst part is, the perp’s mother slapped around a couple of reporters out in front of the courthouse today when they were arraigning her dreadlocked “good kid” for capital murder. And you wonder where he gets it?
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Just damn.
Real Pretty girl.
How do you crush the life out of someone so beautiful.?
I’m sure was equally a beautiful woman inside.
Terrible.
Same thing happened a few years ago in Little Rock AR. SOB got life because he was “mentally challenged”.
Always a good time to remind folks that almost no Black women are ever murdered by white males.
Victim on left.
accused perp.
That’s only if you use White math./sarc
Good and evil.
What a disgusting piece of excrement he is. I bet he even smells like excrement.
damn... why the heck was her door unlocked? when i was in my mid twenties, i lived alone... sometimes i would get scared at night, and i would move my bed right up against my bedroom door... my biggest fear is waking up at night with a stranger in my room... i have read many of Ann Rule’s writings and watch a lot of Forensic Files... but i am not afraid to be alone...
Off with his head!!!
Good time for NC to switch to the guillotine. Watching that bastards head roll during a caution at Charlotte Motor Speedway is worth the money.
It would look like a shredded tire shedding "gator tail".
The story says there was a large patch of hair missing on his head, that they found in his closet. I hope it has her DNA on it somehow. The only evidence they mention is physical appearance and selfies tied to the exact date. And he lived in same building I think?? I forget already, but I sure hope they have all they need to hold him but good. She must have been so scared, breaks my heart!
WTF?
That was my question. I think if nothing bad has ever happened to you, you get this false sense of security, that things like that happen in other places. When my daughter was away at college, she like to leave her sliding glass door opened to let the fresh air in. Of course I freaked and worried till she finally came back home and got her Master's at a local university.
His DNA is tied to the scene and he was on the run and captured in Winston-Salem.
http://www.wbtv.com/story/26180462/police-issue-warrant-for-suspect-in-the
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