Deadly Wives: Michelle Despain got her father to hire men to kill her husband for the insurance money

Marc Evan Despain

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Family, friends honors Marc Despain with memorial service
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Despain’s parents speak out on Michelle’s arrest
Trigger man pleads guilty to murdering Jonesboro businessman
Second Defendant Pleads Guilty in Murder for Hire Conspiracy
Father-in-law pleads guilty in Craighead County slaying
Third defendant sentenced in murder-for-hire case
Wife Pleads Guilty In Murder For Hire Case
Michelle Despain pleads guilty to hindering apprehension in connection to husband’s murder
Michelle Despain sentenced in husband’s murder
New information released to Region 8 News in Michelle Despain case

Movies/Documentaries
Dateline: Root of All Evil
Fatal Vows: The Ties That Bind

Defendants
Michelle Despain – pled guilty, sentenced to 30 years in prison
Carl Kelley – pled guilty, sentenced to 35 years in prison
Terrance Barker – pled guilty, sentenced to 35 years in prison
Johnny Hubbard – pled guilty, sentenced to 18 years in prison

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 712759
Name: Despain, Michelle R
Race: CAUCASIAN
Sex: FEMALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: GREEN
Height: 65 inches
Weight: 175 lbs.
Birth Date: 06/06/1978
Initial Receipt Date: 09/22/2014
Current Facility: McPherson Unit
Facility Address: 302 Corrections Drive Newport, Arkansas 72112 Map
Mailing Address: 302 Corrections Drive Newport, Arkansas 72112
Custody Classification: C2
Good Time Class: I-D
PE / TE Date*: 09/16/2019
Total time*: 30 yrs.
* may be affected by other laws and regulations

Aliases

Michelle Renee Kelley
Michelle Renee Reese

Current Prison Sentence History

Offense Hinder Appreh. Or Prosec.
Sentence Date 09/17/2014
County CRAIGHEAD
Case # 2012-592
Sentence Length 180 mo

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 153916
Name: Kelley, Carl D
Race: CAUCASIAN
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: GREEN
Height: 69 inches
Weight: 249 lbs.
Birth Date: 03/31/1953
Initial Receipt Date: 01/11/2013
Current Facility: Cummins Unit
Facility Address: 3001 Hwy. 388, Grady, AR 71644-0500 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 500 Grady, AR 71644-0500
Custody Classification: C2
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: 02/28/2036
Total time*: 35 yrs.
* may be affected by other laws and regulations
Aliases

Scars, Marks, & Tattoos:

Description
(HARLEY DAVIDSON 100 YEAR LOGO)
LEFT SIDE- (EAGLE HEADS)
RIGHT SIDE-(BEAR HEAD)
(BROKEN DAGGER)
(MM’S) (RAM HEAD)
(13 SKULLS)
(HARLEY DAVIDSON LOGO),(SPEAR WITH A SKULL AND SNAKE)
(SKULL AND CROSSBONES) “HARLEY BLOOD”, “AMAZING GRACE”
“IN MEMORY OF EDDIE”

Current Prison Sentence History

Offense Murder-1st Degree
Sentence Date 01/03/2013
County CRAIGHEAD
Case # 2011-1111
Sentence Length 420 mo.

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 53225
Name: Barker, Terrance O
Race: BLACK
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 69 inches
Weight: 157 lbs.
Birth Date: 10/28/1983
Initial Receipt Date: 09/24/2012
Current Facility: Ouachita River Correct. Unit
Facility Address: 100 Walco Lane, Malvern, AR 72104 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1630, Malvern, AR 72104
Custody Classification: C2
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: 03/01/2036
Total time*: 35 yrs.
* may be affected by other laws and regulations

Aliases
Terrance Odell Barker
Scars, Marks, & Tattoos:

Description
SCAR
“TIARE”
(STAR)
“ELROD”

Current Prison Sentence History

Offense Murder-1st Degree
Sentence Date 09/14/2012
County CRAIGHEAD
Case # 2011-1109
Sentence Length 420 mo.

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 152800
Name: Hubbard, Johnny M
Race: BLACK
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 70 inches
Weight: 215 lbs.
Birth Date: 08/14/1960
Initial Receipt Date: 07/20/2012
Current Facility: Wrightsville Unit
Facility Address: 8400 Hwy. 386 East, Wrightsville, AR 72183 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1000, Wrightsville, AR 72183-1000
Custody Classification: C2
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: 02/21/2025
Total time*: 58 yrs.
* may be affected by other laws and regulations

Current Prison Sentence History

Offense Hinder Appreh. Or Prosec.
Sentence Date 06/29/2012
County CRAIGHEAD
Case # 2011-1110
Sentence Length 216 mo.

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Christopher Helms

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INMATE INFORMATION

Jessie Mae Johnson
Booking #: 26071030
Age: 55
Gender: F
Race: B
Address: PORTLAND, AR
Arresting Agency: CWPD
Booking Date: 05-13-2017 – 5:46 am
Charges: MURDER 1ST DEGREE
Bond: $0.00

Yell County Homicides: James Arthur Bowden charged with the murders of 3 people, including Lieutenant Kevin C. Mainhart; Death penalty possible

Victims
Lieutenant Kevin C. Mainhart, 46 [Yell County Sheriff’s Dept]
Ciera Miller, 17
Rita Miller, 61

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People gather to honor fallen deputy in Yell County
Arkansas police: Suspect identified who killed deputy, 2 others
School mourns the death of student killed in triple homicide
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KATV speaks with father of Yell Co. triple-homicide suspect
Hostage in Yell Co. standoff recounts what suspect told her inside surrounded home

INMATE INFORMATION

Offender Name: BOWDEN, JAMES
Custody Status: In Custody
Age: 42
Location: Conway County Jail
Race: White
Contact Facility: Conway County Jail

Monsters Among Us: Kenneth Williams killed Dominique Hurd, went to prison, escaped, and killed two more people; Sentenced to death

Victims
Dominique Nicole “Nikki” Hurd, 19 [12/13/1998 Pine Bluff, AR]
Cecil Boren, 57 [10//02/1999 Grady, AR]
Michael Greenwood, 24 [10/02/1999 Buffalo, MO]
[also confessed to the murder of Jerrell Jenkins, 36 12/813/1998 Pine Bluff, AR]

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Lifer escapes, murders two more
Killer Who Fled Prison Is Caught After Deadly Chase
Escaped convict from Arkansas caught in Missouri after crash
Killer charged with murdering while on the loose
Kenneth Williams v State of Arkansas 2001 (conviction and sentence affirmed)
Arkansas death row inmate says he killed a fourth person
AR Executions Recap: What Kenneth Williams did to Land on Death Row
Family Helps Father’s Murderer Meet Daughter, Granddaughter Before Execution
Missouri family buys plane ticket to Ark. for Kenneth Williams’ daughter
An Arkansas Family Prepares to Witness the Execution of their Father’s Murderer
Daughter & Widow Of Murdered Victim Ask Arkansas Governor To Halt Execution
Kenneth Williams, convicted murderer of UAPB cheerleader, to be executed Thursday
Kenneth Dewayne Williams – Arkansas Execution – April 27, 2017
For Arkansas Community, an Execution Is ‘the One We’re Waiting On’

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 000957
Name: Williams, Kenneth D
Race: BLACK
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 71 inches
Weight: 206 lbs.
Birth Date: 02/23/1979
Initial Receipt Date: 02/29/1996
Current Facility: Cummins Unit
Facility Address: 3001 Hwy. 388, Grady, AR 71644-0500 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 500 Grady, AR 71644-0500
Custody Classification: SK
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: Death
Total time*:
* may be affected by other laws and regulations

Monsters Among Us: Jack Harold Jones raped and killed Mary Phillips in front of her 11-year-old daughter; Sentenced to death

From Jones’ appeal: On the afternoon of June 6, 1995, seventeen-year-old Darla Phillips dropped her eleven-year-old sister Lacy off at Automated Tax and Accounting Service in Bald Knob, where their mother, thirty-four-year old Mary Phillips, worked as a bookkeeper.   Mary was planning to take her daughter to a 3:00 p.m.   dentist appointment.   Darla and her fifteen-year-old brother Jessie were expecting their mother and little sister to return to their home in Bradford around 4:30 p.m.   or 5:00 p.m.   They never arrived.

A black-haired male entered the business before Lacy and her mother could leave for the dentist’s office.   According to Lacy’s testimony at trial, the man had a teardrop tattoo on his face and more tattoos on his arm.   The man had come into the business earlier that day to borrow some books.   When he returned, he complained that he had been given the wrong book.   He then told Lacy and her mother that he was “sorry,” but that he was “going to have to rob (them).”   He ordered Mary to lay down on her stomach, and then made Lacy lay down on top of her mother.   After retrieving the cash out of the register, he took them into a small break room.   The man took Lacy into a bathroom off of the break room, tied her to a chair, then left.   When he returned, Lacy, now crying, asked the man not to hurt her mother, to which he replied, “I’m not.   I’m going to hurt you.”   He began to choke Lacy until she passed out.   After Lacy lost consciousness, Jones struck her at least eight times in the head with the barrel of a BB gun, causing severe lacerations and multiple skull fractures.   When Lacy woke up, she saw blood and began to vomit.   She went back to sleep and awakened later when police, seeing her bloodied body and thinking she was dead, were taking photographs of her.

Police found Mary’s body nude from the waist down.   A cord from a nearby Mr. Coffee pot was wrapped around her neck and wire was tied around her hands, which were positioned behind her back.   Bruises on her arms and back indicated that she had struggled with her attacker prior to her death.   According to autopsy results, Mary died from strangulation and blunt-force head injuries.   Rectal swabs indicated that she had been anally raped before she was killed.

Victims
Lorraine Anne Barrett, 32 [6/1/1991 FL]
Mary Phillips, 34 [6/6/1995 AR]

Find-A-Grave: Lorraine Anne “Lori” Barrett
Lawmen recall Jack Jones’ chilling murder, rape of Mary Phillips
Jack Jones Jr v State of Arkansas 1997
Victim’s family urges no mercy for Arkansas death-row inmate
Parole board recommends denying clemency to Arkansas death row inmate
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Man expected to plead guilty to 1991 rape, murder
Murderpedia: Jack Harold Jones Jr
Jack Harold Jones, Jr. – Arkansas Execution – April 24, 2017
Arkansas death row inmate Jack Jones executed
Arkansas executes another inmate
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Listen to the Full Interview from One of the Media Witnesses of Jack Jones Execution
Death Row Inmate Jack Jones’ Last Words (includes written statement)

INMATE INFORMATION

Final Words: “Well, I just want to let the James family and Lacey how sorry I am. I can’t believe I did something to her. I tried to be respectful from the time I took and become a better person. I hope I did better. I hope over time you could learn who I really am and I am not a monster. There was a reason why those things happened that day. I am so sorry Lacey; try to understand, I love you like my child.”

ADC Number: 000940
Name: JonesJr, Jack H
Race: CAUCASIAN
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 71 inches
Weight: 220 lbs.
Birth Date: 08/10/1964
Initial Receipt Date: 04/17/1996
Current Facility: Cummins Unit
Facility Address: 3001 Hwy. 388, Grady, AR 71644-0500 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 500 Grady, AR 71644-0500
Custody Classification: SK
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: Death
Total time*:

Monsters Among Us: Marcel Wayne Williams kidnapped, raped and killed Stacy Rae Errickson; Sentenced to death

From Williams’ appeal: On November 20, 1994, Stacy Errickson, the victim, on her way to work, stopped at the Jacksonville Shellstop for gas.   The time was approximately 6:45 a.m. Williams approached Errickson’s vehicle, drew a firearm, and forced her to move from the driver’s seat to the passenger’s side.   Williams then drove Errickson’s car away from the convenience store.   Williams then took Errickson to several automated teller machines and coerced her to attempt withdrawals.   A total of eighteen transactions yielded the sum of $350.   The last transaction occurred at 7:37 a.m. These transactions were recorded by security cameras at several banking facilities.   Stacy Errickson did not make it to work that day, nor did she pick up her child from the babysitter at the end of the day.

Police arrested Williams on an outstanding warrant on November 29, 1994, and questioned him based on physical evidence linking him to two other assaults on women.   During the course of an intensive interrogation lasting some thirteen hours, Williams admitted having abducted Errickson from the convenience store and robbing her through ATM withdrawals.   However, he denied any sexual assault and assured the officers that to the best of his knowledge Errickson was alive.   Appellant attempted to implicate others as accomplices asserting that they were the ones responsible for physically harming her.   Based upon information Williams supplied, the police recovered a sheet matching Williams description as one he used in connection with the abduction and also recovered a gold ring which Williams identified.   On December 5, 1994, police discovered Stacy Errickson’s body buried in a shallow grave.   Other evidence adduced at trial indicated that witnesses Tammy Victoria and Tammy Keenahan identified Williams as a man they had seen on the morning of November 20, 1994, at the Shellstop.   They also testified that after they left the station he followed them in a car and attempted to stop them until they sought refuge at the air force base.   Williams subsequently returned to the Shellstop and abducted Stacy Errickson.

On April 5, 1995, the Pulaski County prosecutor by felony information charged Williams with capital murder, kidnapping, rape, and aggravated robbery.   The information also asserted that Williams had four prior felony convictions.   The Pulaski County Circuit Court tried Williams on these charges beginning on January 6, 1997.   Appellant was convicted on all counts.   During the sentencing phase of the trial the prosecutor introduced evidence in support of three aggravating circumstances, and the appellant offered one mitigating circumstance.   The jury found that all three alleged aggravating circumstances existed beyond a reasonable doubt and that Williams’s mitigating circumstance was also established.   In balancing these findings the jury recommended a sentence of death, which the trial court accepted.

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Victim’s family on Arkansas execution: ‘Ready for it to be done’
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Victim says death row inmate has found God, should not be executed
Marcel Wayne Williams v State of Arkansas 1999
Monday Executions Still on for Two AR Inmates
AR Executions Recap: What Marcel Williams Did to Land on Death Row
Marcel Wayne Williams – Arkansas Execution – April 24, 2017
Arkansas death row inmate Marcel Williams executed
Double Execution in Arkansas Marks First in U.S. Since 2000

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 000943
Name: Williams, Marcel W
Race: BLACK
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BLACK
Eye Color: BROWN
Height: 74 inches
Weight: 198 lbs.
Birth Date: 08/20/1970
Initial Receipt Date: 02/28/1986
Current Facility: Cummins Unit
Facility Address: 3001 Hwy. 388, Grady, AR 71644-0500 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 500 Grady, AR 71644-0500
Custody Classification: SK
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: Death
Total time*:

Aliases
Lifestyle Lifestyle
Marcel W Standridge
Marcel Williams
Marcel W Williams
Marcell W Williams
Life S Williams
Life style W Williams
Marcell Wayne Williams

Scars, Marks, & Tattoos:
2 SCAR ON RIGHT COLLAR BONE
PENNY SIZE
SCAR BEND OF LEFT ELBOW.
TATTOO:LIONHEAD UP
PER RIGHT ARM
2 SCAR ON RIGHT COLLAR BONE
PENNY SIZE SCAR BEND OF LEFT ELBOW.
TATTOO:LIONHEAD UPPER RIGHT ARM
TATTOO:$ RIGHT HAND
TATTOO:EAGLE LEFT CHEST
TATTOO:HEART W/2 ROSES FRONT LOWER LEFT
1/2 SCAR FRONT UPPER LEFT LEG
1/2 SCAR LEFT BUTTOCK

Monsters Among Us: Don William Davis shot & killed 62-year-old Jane Martha Daniel after robbing her house; Sentenced to death

From Davis’ appeal: Sharon Haley, who with her husband Mike were also victims of a burglary and neighbors of the murder victim, testified that at about 4:15 p.m. on October 12, 1990, she returned home and found that her screen door was taped open and the wooden door between the garage and the kitchen standing open. When she entered the house, she noticed that a hand gun that had previously been on the bed table was gone and that a console television was pulled away from the wall and the wires disconnected. Fearful, she called the 911 emergency number from the garage phone and went to a neighbor’s house.

Once the police arrived, they asked her to take an inventory of her property. She noted the following items missing:

several guns and appliances, a videocassette recorder, a large Sharp convection/microwave, a thirteen inch Sharp television set, both of her jewelry boxes, an Amish quilt, an older model Realistic brand stereo component set, her wedding ring, antique locket, a small gold chain, a couple of ladies watches, a Mickey Mouse watch, diamond earrings, a set of sapphire earrings, pearls, pearl earrings, and a couple of costume black onyx earrings; her husband’s two high school class rings and one college rings; a cluster ring with pearls and rubies missing, a couple of silver rings with turquoise stones and a matching silver bracelet; silver herringbone chain; while gold ring with a pink zircon; costume choker; tools from the garage; a crossbow; her husband’s collection of Harley-Davidson t-shirts & leather jacket; Yankee and Penn State t-shirts; special run bottle of Wild Turkey liquor wrapped in a wooden box; and a bottle of Crown Royal.
Mike Haley testified concerning the many firearms and weapons stolen from their home during the burglary. His list included: a 410 shotgun, a .22 rifle, Marlin Model 39-A, with a banner scope, a Ruger M-77 6 mm deer rifle, a Stevens double barrel shotgun, a .44 magnum pistol with a scope and a Winchester Model 50, 20 gauge shotgun. Also missing were a crossbow and crossbow arrows as well as numerous types of ammunition for the firearms.

At about 10:00 p.m., the same day as the Haley burglary, the Haleys’ neighbor, Richard Daniel, returned home from a business *261 trip and noticed the door of his garage into the kitchen hallway was open. As he entered the house, he saw a rice pan and bowl out in the kitchen, and it startled him when he noticed a Kool cigarette butt in the rice bowl (especially since neither he nor his wife smoked). Noting that the storeroom door was ajar, he entered to find his wife, Jane, lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She was lying with her head face down in a cardboard box towards the wall, obviously, dead. Like Mrs. Haley, Mr. Daniel called 911 for help.

Police attempted to trace Mrs. Daniel’s activities during the day. An employee of the Rogers Diagnostic Clinic testified that the victim came into the clinic around lunchtime to get a flu shot. Mrs. Daniel’s beautician, Gaye Tarron, testified that Mrs. Daniel had a standing appointment every Friday at 2:30 p.m. and had never skipped an appointment without calling first. On October 12, 1990, for the first time in ten years, Mrs. Daniel missed her appointment and did not call.

About two weeks after his wife’s death, Daniel and his daughter searched the house for missing items. They found that an expensive Lucien Piccard watch was gone as well as a couple of pearl necklaces, a gold rope necklace, and a matching gold necklace and bracelet. Also missing were a jewelry bag and a Nikon camera.

At the time of the murder, the appellant, Don Davis, was living with three roommates in a house in Bentonville. One of the roommates, Renee Davis, testified that during the time they were living together, Don Davis had been bringing stolen merchandise home. On the day of the murder, the appellant had come home sometime between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. acting frightened, according to his roommates, telling his girlfriend and roommate, Susan Ferguson, that “somebody got hurt.” Property seen in his possession that day included a Realistic stereo, a number of guns, a black motorcycle jacket, a videocassette recorder, a television, a microwave, numerous t-shirts, and tools. Later that day the appellant allegedly admitted to Renee and Susan that “somebody had gotten killed” but emphasized that he did not do it claiming that he had been next door when the murder occurred. He said that he “didn’t know why he shot her, she was cooperating.” Among the many items of property Davis had in the car was a gun covered by a white towel. He told Renee that if she touched the “towel it would be her death sentence.”

According to Susan, Renee told appellant to get rid of the stolen property because she did not want it in her house; Davis left and returned about thirty minutes later explaining that he had dumped the property in the woods in a remote area. Four days after the murder a number of the items taken in the Haley burglary, as well as Mrs. Daniel’s house and car keys, were found in a remote area of Benton County. Renee told her other roommate, Dwayne, about Davis’s suspicious behavior and the stolen property. He urged her to go to the police.

Ultimately, the police arrived at Davis’s home to question Renee, and she and the other two roommates agreed to let them search the house. Among the many items discovered in the house was a .44 magnum Redhawk revolver, which the State later alleged was the murder weapon that killed Jane Daniel. Also discovered was the Amish quilt taken from the Haley residence. Inquiries at pawn shops in the area revealed that Davis had pawned many items taken from both the Haley and Davis residences.

By this time, Davis had fled the state by taking a bus to Las Vegas, Nevada and ultimately arriving in California. Witnesses from several pawn shops in Las Vegas testified that they had loaned the appellant money on goods he had pawned. These goods matched the description of goods stolen from the Davis and Haley households. Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the appellant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and arrested him. While being arrested, Davis asked the agents for the cigarettes that had been in his car; he described them as Kool filter kings, the same brand of cigarette found at Mrs. Daniel’s house. Investigators also found Davis in possession of the black leather jacket stolen from the Haley house. Detective Steven Mark Russell testified that he travelled to Albuquerque to transport Davis back to Rogers, Arkansas, *262 and once they arrived in Rogers, Davis specifically asked for some Kool cigarettes.

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Last meal request granted for Don Davis

INMATE INFORMATION

ADC Number: 000920
Name: Davis, Don W
Race: CAUCASIAN
Sex: MALE
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: GREEN
Height: 75 inches
Weight: 220 lbs.
Birth Date: 11/23/1962
Initial Receipt Date: 03/10/1992
Current Facility: Cummins Unit
Facility Address: 3001 Hwy. 388, Grady, AR 71644-0500 Map
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 500 Grady, AR 71644-0500
Custody Classification: SK
Good Time Class: I-C
PE / TE Date*: Death
Total time*:
* may be affected by other laws and regulations

Aliases
Don The Juan