Posted on 12/02/2005 9:08:50 AM PST by cookiedough
Posted on Fri, Dec. 02, 2005
Prosecutors: Hargon said 4-year-old 'didn't even cry' before being killed
HOLBROOK MOHR
Associated Press
YAZOO CITY, Miss. - Earnest Lee Hargon's ex-wife testified Friday that he admitted killing his cousin, his cousin's wife and 4-year-old son on Valentine's Day 2004.
The testimony of Lisa Ainsworth came in the second day of Hargon's capital murder trial in Yazoo County. The family's disappearance attracted national action.
Prosecutors said Hargon beat and shot his 27-year-old cousin, Michael Hargon, then shot Michael's 29-year-old wife, Rebecca, in the arm before beating and strangling her and the couple's son, James Patrick. The state is seeking the death penalty.
The trial judge ordered a recess a short time into Ainsworth's testimony after the woman became too emotional to continue.
Before the break, Ainsworth testified that Earnest Lee Hargon left their home in rural Smith County late on the night before the family disappeared and returned early the next morning, wet and shoeless.
"He said, `If anybody asks you, I was with you all night.' Ainsworth testified. "`He said, `I went to see Mike ... things got out of hand."
The Smith County farm is only a few miles from where the bodies were found and about 75 miles southeast of Michael Hargon's Vaughan community home in rural Yazoo County.
At dinner that night, Ainsworth testified that she told Hargon that Rebecca Hargon would be calling.
"He said, `I got them ... all three,'" she said.
Ainsworth said in the days following, Hargon changed the carpet and cleaned up his black Corvette that authorities said was used to transport the bodies.
Because of the publicity surrounding the slayings, jury selection took place in Marshall County in north Mississippi and jurors were taken to Yazoo County, about 45 miles northwest of Jackson.
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Oh, you're probably right.
I'd like to see anyone who defends him put their money where their mouth is. Let Earnest come and live with them and their family. Any takers? I thought not.
I agree with you let these people come live next to Judges and the jury (M.Jackson, OJ and others)that let these people off. The death of these people is to good for them. They should do to them what they do to people they kill. If people like him was made live next door to Judges it stop some of this very fast. Or put them next door to all the Hollywood big shots homes. Or maybe all the liberals in Washington (Kennedy, Kerry, Clinton and etc.). Put them in there neighborhoods alone with the rapists and all the con.
Here's a link to a local television station's coverage of the case.
http://www.wjtv.com/
Case is already going to the jury on Saturday.
http://www.wjtv.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WJTV/MGArticle/JTV_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768497394&path=
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