A Fort Payne Woman Charged With Capital Murder Personally Writes Letters to a Dekalb County Judge

  • David Gambino The Decatur Daily, Ala. (TNS)
  • A Fort Payne woman charged with capital murder for allegedly kidnapping a Hartselle woman and pushing her off a cliff in 2021 submitted character reference letters, along with one she personally wrote, to a Dekalb County judge Tuesday.
  • Jessie Eden Kelly, 22, is accused of killing Mary Elizabeth Isbell, a Hartselle woman who disappeared in 2021. Kelly remained in Cherokee County Jail with no bond on Thursday.
    “I ask that the court to please take these letters in consideration on my behalf of who I am, rather than just what I’m being portrayed in black and white,” Kelly wrote in a letter to a judge dated Feb. 7.
    At the time of her mother’s arrest in June, Kelly was in custody in Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to Missouri on a felony theft charge, according to a Dekalb County sheriff’s spokesperson. She was extradited to Alabama in July.

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