Woman Pleads Not Guilty To Kidnapping And Murder Of Seven Year Old
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A woman accused in the kidnapping and death
of a girl in east Arkansas entered an innocent plea today in
Crittenden County.
Jo Ann Buchanan is charged with capital murder in the death of a
seven-year-old girl for whom she was a babysitter. Police say
Patricia Ann Miles of Gilmore was kidnapped and suffocated. Her
body was dumped in a Mississippi County bean field.
Buchanan was jailed on a kidnapping charge in August.
Prosecutors waited months to file the capital murder charge on
which she was arraigned today.
Patricia was last seen alive August 15th as she rode her bicycle
to a grocery store in Gilmore. Her body was found four days later.
Authorities say Buchanan was linked to the killing through fiber
evidence.
