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Earnest Lee Hargon Stabbed to Death PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) Earnest Lee Hargon, on death row since December 2005 for murdering a Vaughan couple and their young son, was stabbed to death Tuesday night by a fellow inmate at the state prison in Parchman. Sunflower County Coroner Douglas Card says the 46-year-old Hargon was stabbed 30 times. The incident, which occurred at the prison's maximum security unit, is under investigation. Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps says Hargon died at the prison hospital after being stabbed about 8:53 p.m. Epps says Hargon was cleaning a tier at Unit 32 when inmate Jessie Wilson...

Hargon Sentenced To Death In Triple Murder Case POSTED: 5:11 pm CST December 2, 2005UPDATED: 3:32 pm CST December 5, 2005 YAZOO CITY, Miss. -- A Yazoo County jury has sentenced Earnest Lee Hargon to death for the murders of three relatives. The jury returned the decision Monday afternoon after about five hours of deliberation at the courthouse in Yazoo City. The 45-year-old Hargon was convicted Saturday in the murders of his cousin Michael Hargon, 27, Michael's wife, Rebecca, 29, and the couple's son, James Patrick, 4. Video

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...

<p>YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — The bodies of three family members who disappeared from their home on Valentine's Day were found in a wooded area of Mississippi yesterday, and a relative was charged with murder, authorities said.</p> <p>Warren Strain, spokesman for the Mississippi Highway Patrol, told CNN that the bodies of what are believed to be Michael and Rebecca Hargon and their 4-year-old son had been found.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Monday accused the United States of forcing him out of office in a "coup d'etat." Aristide told CNN in an interview from the Central African Republic, where he is in exile, that the United States "forced" him to leave the country after a bloody rebellion. "I was told that to avoid bloodshed I'd better leave," he said. "No one should force an elected president to move," Aristide added. Asked about allegations he was kidnapped, he said in a text of the interview released by CNN: "As I said, I called this...

<p>YAZOO CITY, Miss. — Mississippi authorities have found the bodies of two adults and a child in the search for a missing couple and their young child, Fox News has confirmed.</p> <p>Authorities said it was too early to determine if the bodies were those of Michael and Rebecca Hargon (search) and their 4-year-old son, James Patrick, missing since Valentine's Day. Complete autopsy results were expected sometime Tuesday, authorities told Fox News.</p>

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) -- A relative of a family of three who vanished on Valentine's Day was charged with murder Monday as authorities searched a wooded area near the suspect's home for any trace of the family. Authorities said the bodies had not been found, but prosecutor James Powell said the evidence showed that the family was dead. Teams of law officers using portable lights searched into the evening hours for the bodies. In a Yazoo County courthouse about 100 miles away, Earnest Lee Hargon, a 43-year-old truck driver, heard the three capital murder charges read and was ordered...

(Yazoo City-AP) -- A surprise delay was ordered in today's (Monday) court hearing for Earnest Lee Hargon while investigators sped 100 miles southeast to the truck driver's home in pursuit of what investigators called "profound new developments" in the case. The delay came only minutes before Hargon was to be informed of new felony charges he would face in the Valentine's Day disappearances of Michael and Rebecca Hargon and their 4-year-old son, James Patrick, all of the Vaughan community. Investigators headed south to Smith County to return to the area of Earnest Hargon's Taylorsville-area home. An intense search of the...

<p>TAYLORSVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- After two days of intensive searching, investigators say they've exhausted any hope of finding the missing Yazoo County family near the property of a relative suspected in the case.</p> <p>"We've done everything we can do here," State Highway Patrol spokesman Warren Strain said. "We've exhausted all the information we have developed regarding this site and the buildings on it."</p>

Person in Custody; Search Warrants Issued in Case of Missing Family in Rural Mississippi Feb. 28, 04 By Jack Elliott Jr. / Associated Press Writer TAYLORSVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Investigators moved on what appeared to be the first big break in the search for a missing couple and their young son Saturday as officers took someone into custody for questioning and searched a southern Mississippi veterinary clinic. Highway Patrol and Smith County authorities closed off a county road on both sides of the Leaf River Veterinary Services. The clinic was given as a residence address by Earnest Lee Hargon, an...

<p>JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (search) and the FBI (search) were preparing Saturday morning to search locations in Smith County as investigators appear to be focusing in on a suspect in the disappearance of a Yazoo County family.</p>

<p>VAUGHAN — Friends and relatives of Michael and Rebecca Hargon wept and prayed for answers Friday night.</p> <p>About 70 people gathered at Ellison United Methodist Church for a short prayer service. They watched as three candles were lighted in honor of the missing couple and their 4-year-old son, James Patrick.</p>

<p>At least two things bother criminal investigation experts about the weekend disappearance of the Hargon family from their Vaughan home.</p> <p>The Yazoo County family left home in a hurry without Bull, the family dog, and asthma medicine that 4-year-old James Patrick Hargon takes twice a day. "That's a huge red flag," said Brent Turvey, a forensic scientist and criminal profiler with Knowledge Solutions of Bend, Ore. "We don't have them following a normal pattern.</p>

A Week Later, Relatives Still Looking for Answers in Mississippi Family's Disappearance Feb 19, 2004 By Ralph D. Russo / Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Nearly a week has passed since relatives of Michael and Rebecca Hargon last saw the young couple and their 4-year-old son, all of whom appear to have vanished amid unexplained violence. Investigators spent three days searching the Hargons' house in the small town of Vaughan, about 40 miles north of Jackson, for clues to what might have happened the family. What authorities found were dried blood droplets throughout the house, bullet holes in...