Murder verdict returned
September 21, 2006
Jerae James

Darrell Todd MaurinaProsecutors ask jurors to give death penalty to Luther Martin for death of Waynesville High School student Jerae James

Guilty of murdering a Waynesville High School student.

Guilty of murdering her unborn baby.

Those were the dual verdicts handed down Tuesday evening by a Pulaski County jury after about three hours of deliberation in a case that has been repeatedly delayed since October 2001 when Jerae James, then 17 and a student at Waynesville High School, was found dead inside the trunk of her burned-out car in a field near the St. Robert sewage treatment plant. the rest