MARKS, Miss.–Jayme Lynn Tubbs, of Quitman County, will not be getting a new trial, though she argued to the state Supreme Court, that there was not enough evidence to convict her in the trial in which she was sentenced to life in prison in the 2019 murders and dismemberment of April Jones and Will Polk.
Tubba and Keith Coleman, Jr., both got life sentences for the murders and desecration of the corpses.
The court rejected Tubbs’ appeal this week, 9-0, not buying her argument that not only was there not enough evidence, but that an officer was allowed to present hearsay testimony in her trial.
Tubbs and Coleman murdered the two, possibly because of romantic reasons, although drugs were also involved. The two had accepted a ride to Taco Bell from Tubbs and Coleman, but were instead ambushed in a field, shot and body parts cut off after the murderers made a trip to Walmart to buy the necessary tools for the dismemberment.
The head and hands of the victims were put into a backpack and dumped in a slough, while the rest of the bodies were burned with callousness by the perpetrators, said the court.
