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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Police hunt for killer in burning death of 19-year-old Mississippi woman



Investigators are hoping Jessica Chambers' final words will lead them to the killer or killers who burned the 19-year-old teenager alive in a gruesome murder Saturday that has stunned the small Mississippi community of Courtland.

Chambers, of Panola County, was found badly burned on a road near her burning car Saturday night in what authorities have labeled a homicide.

"They have ripped everything I have," the teen's mother, Lisa Chambers, told Fox affiliate WDBD-TV. "She left to go clean out her car and was going to get [herself] something to eat."

Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby said the young woman died after she was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire on a road in Courtland, Miss., a town with a population of 460 people. More