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The charges later were dismissed.Ĭriminal law experts said Wednesday that the previous trial will make it extremely difficult for prosecutors to win a conviction of Stanley Dishon now.įormer prosecutor Kent Wicker said prosecutors will "start with the tremendous load of having to explain why they got it wrong the first time and why they should have any credibility now." A judge declared a mistrial after a detective testified that Brooks had failed a lie-detector test, which is not admissible.
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The development is the latest turn in a tortured case in which authorities already unsuccessfully tried another man for the murder.ĭavid "Bucky" Brooks, a neighbor of Jessica's, was charged in January 2001 but set free about two years later. No date has been set for Dishon's arraignment on the kidnapping or murder charge, for which he could face the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty to that charge and was already in Bullitt County Jail on a $250,000 bond when he was indicted in Jessica's murder. Greenwell said detectives began to look at the uncle after receiving a tip but declined to give details.ĭishon also was indicted in August on charges of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing another girl 31 years ago. Michael Mann, Bullitt County commonwealth's attorney, wouldn't comment on why Dishon, 55, had not been questioned about Jessica's death. He was sentenced for those crimes to 10 years in prison and permanently placed on Kentucky's sex offender registry.ĭuring an emotional news conference Wednesday, Greenwell, who was a deputy at the time of Jessica's murder and the first to arrive at her home when she was reported missing in September 1999, said he doesn't know why Dishon wasn't interviewed previously. Victims of the sex offenses that Dishon was convicted of three years later included another niece. A man indicted on charges of kidnapping and murdering a Kentucky teenager was charged three years after her 1999 death with sodomizing and sexually abusing two other girls.īut Stanley Dishon, Jessica's Dishon's uncle, didn't emerge as a suspect in the 17-year-old's death until about six months ago and wasn't interviewed about the murder until recently, Bullitt County Sheriff Dave Greenwell said Wednesday.įBI investigators had concluded in 1999 that Jessica was "violently sexually assaulted." sheriff emotional about indictment in 1999 murder