At age 12, Rick Ennis confessed to murdering his mother and his stepfather. Thirteen years later, he became the prime suspect in the disappearance of Auburn University honors graduate Lori Slesinski.
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) On the morning of Oct. 20, 2021, Lee County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyron Ponds made a traffic stop in Beauregard that turned into a shootout. Ponds, a 34-year-old Army veteran, had graduated from the police academy in Selma two months earlier, and it was only his sixth day of working alone as a deputy.