The family of Barbara Beers in Johnston City is still reeling over the situation that took place a few weeks ago in Williamson County.
Barbara Beers
That was when people in the vicinity of McInturf Lane, south of Marion, called police to report that a body was found at the side of the road, that body being Beers.
Evidently no one saw the vehicle, or person responsible for dumping Mrs. Beers’ body…but authorities were lead to locate another Johnston City woman, Tamera Williams, who is still being held in a Tennessee jail after she was found driving Beers’ car.
Here is the story that’s your first Read the Lead for the December Special Edition, “Multiple murder counts charged“:
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WILLIAMSON CO.—A Johnston City woman is awaiting extradition from Tennessee after authorities have alleged that she murdered another Johnston City woman in mid-November.
Tamera Williams, 30, is being officially charged with multiple counts of murder in Williamson County after the body of Barbara Beers, 66, was found south of Marion on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013.
The discovery was made by authorities after a call came in to Williamson County’s 911 dispatch at about 3:30 p.m. that day; the caller was a neighbor to the yard on McInturf Lane, located about six miles south of Marion just off Hudgens Road, where Mrs. Beers’ body was found. Hudgens Road is accessible to the north-south state highway 37, which is not far from Interstate 57.
Reports to Disclosure indicate that the initial discovery of Mrs. Beers’ body was believed by the person who saw it, as a passerby, to be discarded trash, giving the impression that the body had been hastily dumped with little regard to the location before whoever placed it there moved on.
Mrs. Beers had been stabbed multiple times; while that was not determined immediately to have been cause of death, a later autopsy showed it to be the case.
When Williamson County investigators identified the body as that of Mrs. Beers, they quickly learned that her vehicle had been taken. Developing leads possibly from cell phone pings (Jackson County sources had reported to Disclosure that there was interest in pings discovered to have come from south of Crab Orchard Lake in the hours immediately following the discovery of the body, but no further information was made available), investigators stated their belief that Williams had taken Mrs. Beers’ car and was already out of Illinois, and on her way to Georgia.
Williamson County investigators did not reveal what it was that prompted them to believe Williams could be on her way to Georgia, although the immediate inference might be to be with family. But that, as well as how authorities were able to “track” her (as stated in a Williamson County Sheriff’s Department press release), went unexplained.
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