Little Rock TV newsreader dies

[Okla-homey]

Sad dealio. Anne Presley. 26 years old. Some perp beat her senseless in her home and she died yesterday never having regained consciousness.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9808/annepressly2007byt5.jpg

[OUHOMER]

Very sad deal, hopefully they will find the perp..

[Okla-homey]

Very sad deal, hopefully they will find the perp..

I bet she knew the perp. People generally don't randomly break in and deliver epic beatdowns.

[olevetonahill]

OJ did it .

[Frozen Sooner]

I bet she knew the perp. People generally don't randomly break in and deliver epic beatdowns.

Obviously you've never been around me and a bottle of Jaegermeister.

Very sad story though.

[Okla-homey]

Obviously you've never been around me and a bottle of Jaegermeister.

Very sad story though.

You know you're going to have to cop for all that sorta stuff on your law skool applications right?;)

[Tailwind]

Horrible thing to happen. RIP Ms Presley. :(

[nmsoonergirl]

I bet she knew the perp. People generally don't randomly break in and deliver epic beatdowns.


Heck, happens with frightening frequency in Albuquerque...

[tulsaoilerfan]

Sad news, indeed, and she was a very attractive woman

[Scott D]

I'm just curious and I guess in a devil's advocate way. Would you have posted a thread about this tragedy at all if she wasn't a blonde with bright teeth, Homey?

[BudSooner]

I don't know, it seems to be making the rounds in the media the past couple of days.

[Okla-homey]

I'm just curious and I guess in a devil's advocate way. Would you have posted a thread about this tragedy at all if she wasn't a blonde with bright teeth, Homey?


There you go again...;)

[PalmBeachSooner1]

That is truly sad. I did hear that she played some role in the production of the movie "W." I'll research it.

[picasso]

Obviously you've never been around me and a bottle of Jaegermeister.

Very sad story though.

sad how? the way it affects you or the fact that you drink that crap?

[Frozen Sooner]

sad how? the way it affects you or the fact that you drink that crap?

Sad like someone stapled a bird to my face and painted it.

[picasso]

Sad like someone stapled a bird to my face and painted it.

it wasn't stapled, it was a floating metaphor. get wit the program Froz!

and I know that stuff is purple when you toss it back up.

[Frozen Sooner]

I left a floating metaphor in the toilet an hour or so back.

And I have no recollection of what it looks like when you throw it back up. :D

[Scott D]

There you go again...;)

at least this time I acknowledged that it was an actual tragedy, unlike that previous incident. :)

[OU-HSV]

Very sad news.
I remember watching this gal on the news during the couple of years I lived in Arkansas.
I have lots of family in Arkansas and some in the Little Rock area. It's scary how many disturbing nut jobs are out there in this country capable of doing this. I sure hope they catch the wacko that did this and I hope they make them pay for what they've done.

RIP Anne. My thoughts are with her family and friends.

[BudSooner]

I left a floating metaphor in the toilet an hour or so back.
Heh!

[Okla-homey]

Arkansas authorities have made an arrest in this case.


Nov 27, 7:08 AM EST

Police nab suspect in anchor's death, seek answers

By TOM PARSONS
Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Police for weeks had neither a suspect nor a motive in the beating death of a popular television anchorwoman. A suspect is now in custody, but many questions remain unanswered.

Officers arrested Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, at a home in Little Rock on Wednesday night - tipped to his location after police held a late-evening news conference to reveal him as their suspect. "We went there and he's in custody," said Lt. Terry Hastings, a police spokesman.

Vance was charged with capital murder in the death of Anne Pressly. The 26-year-old anchorwoman, who had a small part in the President George W. Bush biopic "W," died Oct. 25 - five days after being severely beaten in what police described as a random attack at her home.

Vance lived in Marianna, in eastern Arkansas, but had numerous contacts in central Arkansas, Police Chief Stuart Thomas said. He named Vance as the suspect earlier Wednesday night and said Vance was traveling with a woman, three kids, a pistol and "lots of extra ammunition."

Within an hour of the news conference's end, officers were at a home south of downtown. Vance apparently was not armed when arrested, Hastings said early Thursday.

Police did not disclose what led them to suspect Vance, with Thomas saying only that the capital murder charge was based on "a very, very solid case due to solid detective work."

Hastings had said previously that DNA and other evidence from the scene gave police a portrait of the person they were looking for, though they did not have a name until this month. One of Pressly's credit cards was used at a gas station after the beating, but Hastings said security camera footage didn't provide a good look at the person using it.

Pressly lived alone in the city's Pulaski Heights section, a mix of mansions and bungalows near a country club. Her mother, visiting from out of town at the time of the attack but not staying at her daughter's home, found Pressly on Oct. 20, a half-hour before the anchorwoman was due on KATV's "Daybreak" program. The mother checked on the woman after she didn't answer her daily wake-up call.

The anchorwoman had been beaten severely on the head and upper torso. She never regained consciousness.

In the police station lobby before Thomas' news conference, several of Pressly's KATV colleagues quietly wiped tears from their faces. The station raised $50,000 for a reward fund.

Pressly was a native of Greenville, S.C., and moved with her family to Little Rock while she was in high school. She was a graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., which has discussed establishing a scholarship to honor her.

In the Oliver Stone movie "W" - the subject of a news story she covered as the film was being shot in Shreveport, La. - Pressly appeared briefly as a conservative commentator who speaks favorably of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" event on an aircraft carrier after the start of the Iraq war.

© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[olevetonahill]

I wish we Could get an arrest on the 2 little Girls Murdered Here.:mad:

[tulsaoilerfan]

I wish we Could get an arrest on the 2 little Girls Murdered Here.:mad:

No ****; this story has totally faded from the spotlight; can't say i'm surprised but it's a damn shame:mad:

[SOONER STEAKER]

Nancy Grace should be fueling the fire for the girls in Oklahoma instead of focusing on the mother in Florida who killed her daughter and hide the body.

All of these are very sad stories. IT'S A TROUBLED WORLD.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Hope they fry the perp.

[Frozen Sooner]

Nancy Grace should shut her pie hole.

Yeah.

[StoopTroup]

Curtis Vance.

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Police Chief Stuart Thomas said. He named Vance as the suspect earlier Wednesday night and said Vance was traveling with a woman, three kids, a pistol and "lots of extra ammunition."