UPDATE--Jury Convicts Jimmy Atteberry in 90 Minutes

by Michelle Says So | June 19, 2008 at 03:42 am | 382 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

UPDATE:

This is an update from the post I wrote yesterday regarding my dismissal of the jury in the 1985 murder of Lisa Lightfoot.

ORIGINAL STORY:

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/opinion-i-was-robbed-my-civic-duty

INDIANAPOLIS -- Jimmy Atteberry was found guilty Wednesday in the 1985 rape and murder of an Indianapolis woman.

Jimmy Atteberry was arrested in 2007 in Missouri after DNA linked him to the crime.

Officials said Atteberry lived in the same apartment building as Lisa Lightfoot, 19, whose body was found a day after she was reported missing.

Police called Atteberry a person of interest in 1985. He had already been convicted of rapes in Missouri and Illinois. Atteberry is scheduled to be sentenced on July 2.

Shortly after the arrest, Lisa Lightfoot's brother told 6News he was relieved."That's all I needed to hear," Joel Lightfoot said.

OPINION:

I will update this story after Atteberry's sentencing. In all likelihood he will probably spend the rest of his years in prison. Considering his prior felonies of rape, his multiple prison sentences and time served for sex offenses in both Missouri and Illinois, he should never be free again.

Who knows who else he may have raped and/or killed? At least he's gone from our world.

I hope the judge takes all that information into account since this is not a death penalty case. It is obvious this monster is not fit to return to society, EVER.

Let him rot, just like he did when he stabbed Lisa Lightfoot to death and dumped her body on dirty railroad tracks. He was going to let her rot. An eye for an eye, I always say.

Thank God for DNA evidence, and kudos to the cold case investigators who re-opened Lisa's file by cross-checking the DNA national database. Otherwise, he would have been released in Missouri and on the streets to rape, terrorize, or even kill again.