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By Publisher Augusta, GA – The Richmond County jury’s decision closes one of Augusta’s longest-running criminal cases — and confirms prosecutors’ circumstantial case in the killing of 16-year-old Janell Carwell. After nearly nine years of investigation, delays, and litigation, a Richmond County…
by Publisher AUGUSTA, Ga. — After nearly nine years of delay, weeks of testimony, and a final round of hard-fought closing arguments, the fate of Leon and Tanya Tripp is now in the hands of a Richmond County jury. Jurors deliberated for several hours Thursday after closing arguments wrapped in…
Charles Rollins – Publisher Augusta, GA – The GCG Newsroom has launched a new YouTube channel as part of our effort to expand how we deliver local news and give readers more direct access to the stories shaping our community. The channel already includes extensive video coverage of the ongoing…
A Homicide Without a Mechanism and a Constitutional Question That Could Eclipse It – And Cause a Mistrial Augusta, GA – For most of Thursday, the Tripp trial revolved around bones. A veteran forensic pathologist from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told jurors that the skeletal remains…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Defense casts Tanya Tripp as a manipulated spouse while prosecutors lay out a timeline of deception, setting up a trial that may hinge on forensic certainty and proof of knowledge nearly nine years after Janelle Carwell’s disappearance. After nearly nine years of delay,…
Staff Reports AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jury selection stretched into a second full day Tuesday in the murder trial of Leon and Tanya Tripp, charged in the 2017 death of 16-year-old Janell Carwell. Attorneys and the court continued working through panels of prospective jurors in Richmond County Superior…
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Nearly nine years after the death of 16-year-old Janell Carwell, the criminal trial in the case is set to begin February 23, 2026, in Superior Court of Richmond County. Carwell was reported missing in April 2017 and was later found dead. The case drew significant attention in…
Dear Readers: I was born one hot August day in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1982. I grew up a healthy, happy child, and the word never was only really a part of my world in a positive way: I was never worried that WHETHER I’d not have enough to eat. I was never […]
