The prosecution presented opening statements in the trial of Joseph Ray Daniels, who is charged with five counts in connection with Joe Clyde's death: first-degree murder; first-degree murder during the commission of an underlying felony of aggravated child abuse; aggravated child abuse; initiating a false report; and tampering with evidence.
Joseph Daniels’ confession admissible in trial next week, judge rules
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A judge ruled that Joseph Daniels’ confession is admissible in his trial that’s scheduled to start next week in Dickson County.
Daniels is charged with criminal homicide in the 2018 disappearance of his 5-year-old son Joe Clyde. In three years, Joe Clyde has still not been found.
Dickson County Circuit Court Judge David Wolfe ruled Friday that Daniels’ confession, which Daniels has since recanted and says was coerced, can be admitted in trial and heard by the jury so long as the state attorney general’s office can provide enough evidence to corroborate the confession during the trial.
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A Tennessee man accused of murdering his missing 5-year-old son returned to court Thursday – even as the body of the boy who s been presumed dead by authorities remains missing three years later.
Joseph Daniels, now 30, told a 911 dispatcher on April 4, 2018, that his autistic and nonverbal son – Joseph Baby Joe Clyde – had escaped from their home in rural Dickson County, Tennessee, WKRN reported. My son has escaped. We cannot find him, Daniels is heard saying on the call. He must ve unlocked the door. He got out.
Law enforcement and volunteer search crews scoured the area, as then-Dickson County Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe described both a mental and physical toll on the community that the child hadn t been recovered. But then shocking news came just four days later – when it was announced that Daniels allegedly confessed to beating his son to death and disposing of the body and was charg
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