Florida Stripper On Trial For Her Involvement In The Killing Of A Marine
Trial began this week for Michelle Ashely. Ashley is accused of being involved in the murder of a Marine. Reports tell us that in 1997, Ashley was working at the strip club “lookers” when she met former Marine Keith Jones. After meeting, the two checked into the Tides motel in Fort Myers. The next day the hotel manager went to check the room and found Jones dead. According to prosecutors, “Mr. Jones was shot in the head with a contact shot. Contact shot means the gun was touching the skin or was right against the comforter which was touching his head.”
When investigators first questioned Ashley in 1997, she said four people robbed and killed Jones. The state is telling us in 2022 that four masked men killed Jones and that Ashley set up the crime. Ashley’s attorney is saying that the four men were never arrested or questioned. The defense also claims Ashley was not recorded while she was giving her initial statement and that she is a victim of the kidnaping herself. Trial is currently underway.
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Which Florida City Made The List With Highest Murder Rates In U.S.
There’s lots to love about the Sunshine State, but we’re also notorious for the craziest crimes. One Florida city even ranked in the top 15 for highest murder rates in America. It’s not really a list we love to see Florida on, but we can’t say we’re not surprised with all the insane stuff that happens here.
Our friends at neighboorhoodscout.com ranked the top 30 cities in the country with the highest murder rates per 1,000 residents. They condensed their research by including cities with 25,000 or more people. They collected their data by the number of murders reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city. The city population data comes straight from the US Bureau of the Census at the time of each analysis. For instance, the 2022 list population uses 2020 population figures. The 2021 list uses 2019 figures, and so forth.
There were 14 new cities making the list this year. “The newcomer on this list with the highest murder rate is Saginaw, MI. The number of murders in Saginaw more than doubled from the previous year.” Thankfully (and surprisingly) only one Florida city was ranked in the research.
Here’s the top 15 cities with the highest murder rate. Click here to see the full list.
Shandra “Babs” Littleton is a member of the WiLD Squad. She’s originally from Detroit but has spent most of her “grown-up” life in Fort Myers, Florida where she graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University. Babs loves to write about everything from Tampa concerts, to WiLD murders that happened in Florida, and her favorite businesses.
