Dionne Eatmon and Aundra Marshall were sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murders of two people
According to court documents Dionne Eatmon and Aundra Marshall would kidnap Clarence and Allison Kile. The couple who failed to pay a drug debt would later be beaten and set on fire
Dionne Eatmon and Aundra Marshall would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Dionne Eatmon is incarcerated at Holman Prison
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Dionne Eatmon And Aundra Marshall Case
The evidence adduced at trial tended to show the following. Late on the night of February 5 and into the early morning hours of February 6, 2004, Rick Kile and his wife, Allison, went to a house on Jesse Owens Avenue in Brighton, where it was known that drugs were freely used. People could purchase and/or smoke crack cocaine and marijuana at the house.
Eatmon, Aundra “Dra” Marshall,1 and several other people were at the house when Rick came in. Allison waited in the car. Witnesses testified that Rick and Marshall began to argue over $200 Rick owed Marshall for drugs Rick had gotten earlier. Ollie Taylor, who was at the house when Rick and Marshall were arguing, testified that Marshall told Rick that he “didn’t trust [Rick] no more, because [Marshall] had shot at Rick, and Rick had called the police and filed a report. So, he wasn’t taking no second chances with him no more, and he wanted his money right then and there.” (R. 603.)
Rick and Marshall began fighting. Taylor said that “Rick had got the better of Aundra” (R. 603-4), and Marshall “hollered” for Eatmon to help him. Eatmon grabbed an iron bar used to bar the door and hit Rick twice. Rick stopped fighting and said he would get the money for Marshall. Marshall then made Rick sit on the floor.
Allison, who was still waiting in the car, blew the horn. Marshall told Steven Mayes and Rhonda “Molly” Wells, who were also visiting the house, to bring Allison into the house. The two brought Allison up to the house. Meanwhile, Marshall told Taylor to cut the electrical cord from a fan in the kitchen. Taylor brought Marshall the cord, and Marshall bound Rick’s wrists behind his back.
Marshall led Rick down to the Kiles’ car and put him in the trunk. Marshall went back into the house, where Allison was sitting on a couch praying. Marshall tied her hands with a cloth then led her to the car and forced her into the trunk with Rick. Rick then began to struggle, using his knees to prevent Marshall from closing the trunk. Marshall again asked for help from Eatmon, who again used the iron bar to beat Rick in the legs. Rick yelled out that he thought Eatmon had broken his legs and that he could not “hold on no longer.” (R. 613.) Marshall then closed the trunk. After loading kerosene in the car, Marshall and Eatmon drove off in the Kiles’ car with Rick and Allison in the trunk.
They parked the car on Watts Street in Brighton. Mattie Louise Thomas, who lives on Watts Street, testified that she was awakened by a loud noise before daybreak on February 6, 2004. She said she looked outside and saw two young black men running up the street and a car burning at the end of the street.
After igniting the Kiles’ car, Eatmon and Marshall went to another drug house on Watts Street and enlisted Sidney Nelson to drive them away from the scene. At trial, Nelson and another man at the Watts Street crack house, Julian “Fat” Lathan, identified Eatmon as one of the two men who came to the house early that morning looking for a ride.
The fire department arrived at Watts Street. After dousing the car fire, firefighters opened the trunk of the car and discovered two bodies, later identified as Rick and Allison Kile.
Dr. Gregory G. Davis, Jefferson County assistant medical examiner in the coroner’s office, performed the autopsies on the Kiles. He testified that both Rick and Allison had injuries indicating they had been strangled, but their deaths were caused by a combination of assault and “inhalation of products of combustion” or carbon-monoxide poisoning. (R. 471-72.) Both bodies were severely burned.
Testing conducted by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences indicated that both Rick and Allison had been doused with gasoline. The inside of their car had been doused with gasoline on the driver’s side and kerosene on the passenger’s side.
Eatmon presented no evidence in his defense during the guilt phase of the trial.
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