TAMPA The man who investigators say abducted and killed a Seffner woman and left her body in a burning stolen van has been brought back to Hillsborough County from a holding cell in the Panhandle. Kenneth Ray Jackson, 25, arrived from Franklin County and was booked in the Orient Road Jail with no bail set. He is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree arson in the slaying of Cuc Thu Tran, 50. ...more

October 3, 2007

SEBRING — State's attorneys will seek death penalty charges against the four people charged with the arson-related murder of Bryan "Red" Fanning. ...more

September 27, 2007

SEBRING — The Highlands County Sheriff's Office announced Friday that a grand jury indicted two more suspects in the Bryan Edward "Red" Fanning arson, kidnapping and murder case, bringing the total number of suspects to four. The grand jury found there was probable cause to indict Terrence Jerome "TJ" Barnett, 26, of Frostproof and Leeann Parker, 25, of Lake Wales, who were charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, first-degree arson and robbery. Both Barnett and Parker remained in the Polk County Jail on unrelated methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession charges, according to Donna Wood, Polk County sheriff's public information ...more

September 22, 2007