Man accused of burning 19-year-old cheerleader to death admits to meeting her on day of murder and wiping out their text thread
29-year-old Quinton Tellis' retrial has begun, with several new testimonies seeming to indicate that he is guilty of Jessica Chambers' murder
A man who is accused of setting a cheerleader on fire and killing her after they had sex admitted that he deleted a series of text threads between them after her death four years ago. According to FBI Special Agent Dustin Blount, 29-year-old Quinton Tellis admitted to deleting texts between him and the victim, 19-year-old Jessica Chambers, just a few days after her murder on December 6, 2014.
The case has already seen a lot of drama, with the previous trial ending in a hung jury. The current hearing, which is in its third day, therefore, had jurors selected from Starkville, which is more than 120 miles away because of the pretrial publicity surrounding the case.
