FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE
March 4, 2013
For More Information, contact:
Luther Strange
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
Alabama Attorney General
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AG STRANGE ANNOUNCES INDICTMENTS OF HUEYTOWN
BROTHERS FOR VIOLENT SEX CRIMES IN 2009 COLD CASE
(MONTGOMERY)–Attorney General Luther Strange announced that two
brothers from Hueytown have been indicted* for violent sex crimes in a cold case.
Jason Lee Campbell, 32, and David Wesley Campbell, 37, are charged with first-degree
kidnapping, first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, first-degree robbery and attempted
murder. The crimes were committed in November of 2009 against a 40-year-old woman
who was attacked in the 200 block of Eureka Place in Hueytown.
Notice of the indictments has been served on the defendants at the Jefferson
County Jail where they have been incarcerated. Evidence was presented to a Jefferson
County Grand Jury on January 29, 2013, resulting in the indictments. The Campbell
brothers were formerly charged for these crimes by warrant in the Bessemer Division of
the Jefferson County Circuit Court.
The charges against the Campbells are a result of an investigation by the
Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit. The Cold Case Unit is operated within the Attorney
General’s Office, in partnership with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, to
investigate violent sexual crimes that previously had been closed due to lack of
investigative leads. This program is funded by a grant from the U.S Department of
Justice.
Attorney General Strange commended the Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit
and others involved in handling this case, noting in particular St. Clair County Sheriff
Terry Surles and his Investigative Unit, Hueytown Police Chief Charles Hagler and his
Detective Division, and Bessemer Division District Attorney Arthur Greene and his
prosecution team.
If convicted, the defendants face penalties of life imprisonment for each count
with which they are charged, all of which are class A felonies.
*An indictment is merely an accusation. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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