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Murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett
1999 double murder in Alabama, US
Murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett
The murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett were a double child murder that occurred in Ozark, Alabama, on August 1, 1999, in which two high school students named J.B Beasley and Tracie Hawlett—both 17—from Dothan, Alabama, disappeared after leaving their homes to celebrate Beasley's birthday on July 31, 1999. The next day, authorities found the girls' bodies in the trunk of Beasley's car in Ozark. Beasley and Hawlett died from a gunshot to the head. DNA was found in Beasley's underwear, leading police to believe she had been raped. The double murder remained unsolved for 20 years, despite having DNA, as there was no match in the database. In August 2018, Ozark police department reached out to Parabon NanoLabs to solve the murders. In March 2019, 45-year-old Coley Lewis McCraney was arrested, and charged with four capital murder charges for the killings of Beasley and Hawlett. McCraney was a truck driver and preacher with no criminal record who lived about a mile from the street where...
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