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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