Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of Mississippi student disappeared. Oxford Police Chief Jeff McCutchen testified Tuesday in the capital murder trial of Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr.
Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., left, who is on trial in the 2022 death of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee, confers with his defense attorney Kevin Horan in Oxford , Miss., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. Relatives of Jimmie “Jay” Lee look over the courtroom during the capital murder trial of Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., who is charged in Lee’s 2022 death, in Oxford , Miss., on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr.
Lee has not contacted friends or family, and his financial transactions and once-prolific social media posts have stopped since the day he went missing, investigators testified. Google records obtained through a warrant showed that Herrington searched “how long does it take to strangle someone” at 5:56 a.m., University Police Department Sgt. Benjamin Douglas testified last week.
On the day Lee vanished, Herrington was also seen on security cameras buying duct tape in Oxford and driving to his own hometown of about an hour away, police have testified. Herrington operated a furniture moving business with another man while they were students at the University of Mississippi, and they had a white box truck that Herrington drove to Grenada, Baker said. Security cameras at several businesses and a neighbor’s house showed Herrington and the truck in Grenada hours after Lee disappeared, Baker said.
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