Mariah Woods' accused killer to face death penalty trial
In a 911 call released Friday afternoon, the man charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mariah Kay Woods can be heard frantically telling a dispatcher that his girlfriend's 3-year-old is missing.
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Prosecutors also got the go-ahead to try the case as a capital murder case.
Adolphus Earl Kimrey II, 32, is charged with first-degree murder and felony child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. Kimrey, the boyfriend of the girl's mother, was previously charged with obstruction of justice and concealing a death.
"We've looked through the house two or three times, here in the yard," he told the dispatcher. "It's not like her to go outside at all, not in the middle of the night or in the morning by herself."
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Search warrants released Friday indicate that people saw Kimrey load something "bigger than a bookbag" into a van and leave the home he shared with Kristy Woods and her children on the night of Nov. 26.
Among items seized at the home on Dawson Cabin Road were the girl's pajamas, a section of wall from her bedroom, duct tape, part of a floor mat from the van, four bottles of bleach, a syringe, a shovel, several pieces of carpet, blue overalls, men's underwear, two "homemade" sexual devices, nail polish remover, a black bag with duct tape, a white pipe with a nozzle on it and several receipts found in a trashcan outside.
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Onslow County District Attorney Ernie Lee said during a brief court hearing Monday that there was at least one aggravating factor that qualifies the case for a possible death sentence, but he didn't elaborate.
Defense attorney Wally Paramore didn't contest Lee's assertion, and the judge approved Kimrey's case as a capital murder case.
No one tried on Onslow County has been executed in at least 30 years. Three people from Onslow County are currently on death row, with the last conviction coming in 2001.
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