Man gets life for murder of woman found in Flint River 25 years ago

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Man gets life for murder of woman found in Flint River 25 years ago

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Carl Millard

Patton Jr. pled guilty Friday to killing a Jonesboro woman whose body

turned up on the Fayette side of the Flint River over 25 years ago.

The plea was

accepted in DeKalb County Superior Court, since that's where Liddie Evans

and her boyfriend Joe Cleveland were shot and killed at Patton's residence.

Patton was sentenced to two life prison terms, which are added to the

two life sentences he got the week before in Clayton County for two related

murders.

Roy Evans wishes

he could have a little more justice for his mother. He's upset that Patton's

wife, Norma, won't ever face charges for his mother's killing.

"They

said she planned it and participated in it," Roy Evans said Friday

afternoon.

Norma Patton

was given immunity from murder charges by prosecutors in exchange for

testimony against her husband. Mrs. Patton said her husband shot and killed

Evans and Cleveland because he was worried that Cleveland had told his

girlfriend about two murders Cleveland had helped Patton commit in Clayton

County.

The Pattons

were originally arrested for the killings days after Evans's body was

discovered in the Flint River. They were later set free after a test on

blood in the trunk of a car owned by the Pattons didn't match up with

any of the victims' blood.

Evans said

he and his family have been haunted over the years by memories of Carl

Patton Jr., who was also known as "Hotshot."

Evans recalled

that Patton always wore a pistol in a holster on his belt.

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