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Prosecutors: Hargon said 4-year-old 'didn't even cry' before being killed
SunHerald.com ^ | 12/02/05 | HOLBROOK MOHR

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sunherald.com ...


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The trial of Earnest Lee Hargon has finally begun.
1 posted on 12/02/2005 9:08:51 AM PST by cookiedough
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To: cookiedough

There is another article here:

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=news


2 posted on 12/02/2005 9:10:10 AM PST by cookiedough
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To: cookiedough

What kind of person shoots a four year old boy in cold blood? It's a good thing I am not on the jury.


3 posted on 12/02/2005 9:12:58 AM PST by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
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To: cookiedough

If any @#$$%^ anti-death penalty advocates whine, put them in the same cell with this guy for 48 hrs and no guards.


4 posted on 12/02/2005 9:14:11 AM PST by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: cookiedough

"The state is seeking the death penalty."

My head is about to explode. Seeking???


5 posted on 12/02/2005 9:14:43 AM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: BipolarBob

If I read the article right, he didn't shoot the kid, he beat and strangled him.


6 posted on 12/02/2005 9:15:30 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: cookiedough

I wonder which celebrity will the first to tell us how horrible it would be to kill this guy.


7 posted on 12/02/2005 9:16:23 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: cookiedough
The state is seeking the death penalty.

Why even bother? He should have been strangled by police when they apprehended him. Animals do not deserve due process.

8 posted on 12/02/2005 9:17:07 AM PST by montag813
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To: cookiedough

Get rid of him.


9 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:16 AM PST by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party)
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To: BipolarBob
What kind of person shoots a four year old boy in cold blood?

He did not shoot him. He strangled the child to death.

It's a good thing I am not on the jury.

Actually, I would sleep better knowing you and others like you were on the jury...especially during the penalty phase.

10 posted on 12/02/2005 9:19:50 AM PST by Prime Choice (Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
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To: dead
I wonder which celebrity will the first to tell us how horrible it would be to kill this guy.

Gotta wait a few years, or at least until everyone forgets about the real victims. Then you go in and re-write history.

11 posted on 12/02/2005 9:26:46 AM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: cookiedough
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.

Sounds like an appropriate death penalty case to me.

12 posted on 12/02/2005 9:29:41 AM PST by kennedy ("Why would I listen to losers?")
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To: cookiedough

I bet you Justice Breyer thinks this animal is a warm and fuzzy human being that should nurtured and loved. Why isn't that the way they do it in Zimbabwe? Thank Clinton for putting another mental case on the supreme court.


13 posted on 12/02/2005 9:32:52 AM PST by Calusa (Say Nick, was ya ever stung by a dead bee?)
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To: cookiedough

He should write a childrens book and have the Hollywood libs come to his defense.


14 posted on 12/02/2005 9:33:27 AM PST by jw777
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To: cookiedough

What a sick son of a beach...


15 posted on 12/02/2005 9:35:11 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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What kind of person shoots a four year old boy in cold blood? It's a good thing I am not on the jury.

He didn't shoot the four year old; It's worse.

...shot Michael's 29-year-old wife, Rebecca, in the arm before beating and strangling her and the couple's son, James Patrick.

16 posted on 12/02/2005 9:35:45 AM PST by TChris ("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
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To: Little Pig

This bastard would cry before he died if I could have some unrestricted time with him.


17 posted on 12/02/2005 9:36:41 AM PST by Sterco
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To: Prime Choice

The jury is probably chomping at the bit to convict this guy. Death penalty is a given, I'd think. I cannot see how anyone can defend Earnest's right to life after what he did. In one of the articles, the defense said something about Earnest's being under the influence of drugs being a mitigating circumstance in the penalty phase. I don't see how that could mitigate anything -- he chose to be on drugs.

In another case I read about (Carla Brucia) the defense attorney was quoted as saying that the defendant didn't take drugs, "drugs took him". What a bunch of horse s--t.
Like drugs reach out and grab people, forcing them to commit heinous crimes. That goes down as the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say.

I'm glad Lisa Ainsworth, the vet who was married to that POS testified against him. I read an article with an interview with her, early in the case, and she said something along the lines of standing by her man. I'm glad she didn't. That interview was done in the early days, I guess, when his now ex-wife didn't know the whole story and was probably in denial. I would never think my husband would or could do something like that, and I guess she didn't either, for a while.


18 posted on 12/02/2005 9:38:48 AM PST by cookiedough
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His attorney's a real brainchild taking the thing to trial. Of course if the stupid client insists...Whaddya gonna do...


19 posted on 12/02/2005 9:43:20 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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I bet the prosecution wouldn't let Earnest plead guilty and receive a life sentence. This trial is all about whether he gets the death penalty. The evidence against Earnest is a slam dunk.


20 posted on 12/02/2005 9:45:33 AM PST by cookiedough
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