Monday, November 4, Melody Farris, 59, was found guilty of killing her husband with a gunshot to the ribs and burning his body following a questionable defense hearing.
A particularly traumatic scene. One afternoon in July 2018, Scott Farris drove to his family farm in Alpharetta, Georgia, and discovered a fire burning on the property. “I get closer, I look, and I start to see bones,” he remembers. The young man immediately called the police, who determined that the bones were human and that they belonged to Scott’s father, Gary Farris, a prominent lawyer.
Upon hearing the news, Scott Farris remembers “seeing his mother cry,” but “it seemed fake.” And for good reason, if those close to him once thought that Gary Farris had fallen ill while burning, the reality was much more macabre. The lawyer was shot in the chest before his body was deliberately burned. And suspicion quickly fell on his wife, Melody Farris, 64, whose trial was held Monday, November 4, in the town of Cherokee, Arkansas.
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On the stand, Melody Farris pleaded not guilty and gave no reason for her actions. But according to their children, cited by the “Tribune Ledger News”, the couple had argued “about money” shortly before the murder, Melody Farris had several extramarital affairs during their thirty years of marriage and their Relations were “extremely tense”. The court also pointed out the fact that the mother was the sole beneficiary of a $2 million life insurance policy taken out by the victim.
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Concerning the circumstances of this crime, investigators managed to demonstrate that Gary Farris was killed inside the family home. Blood belonging to the victim was found in the kitchen, stairs and basement of the building. But one element caused confusion: the lawyer was killed with 38 caliber ammunition and only his son Scott has this type of ammunition.
However, according to the accused’s defense, cited by Fox News, he too would have reasons to have killed his father. “He thought you were a profiteer,” one of the lawyers told him. Son’s response: “I love my father, he was my pillar and no, I was not a profiteer.” Defense insistence: Scott would have been better able to move the body of his 300-pound father to where he was burned than his 60-pound mother…
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Melody Farris was nevertheless found solely guilty of all the charges against her. Prosecutors denounced his “premeditated malice”. Her sentence will be set in December.
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