"I'd rather have closure than anything else in the world, to have peace of mind," said Michael Ladd,

CADIZ, Ky. -- Ray Burnam ran for sheriff on a pledge to do whatever he could to settle three unresolved slayings in this tranquil corner of Kentucky. He even dangled his own money as a reward, pledging $1,000 for information leading to a conviction in any of the cases.
What the sheriff got in return was a court order demanding he turn over his findings in one case and claims he's gone "rogue" as part of a spat with state police. The bad feelings cancun palace hotel may date back to Burnham's own departure from the state force, have erupted with tense words in open court and, a prosecutor argues, could jeopardize cancun palace hotel efforts cancun palace hotel to prosecute one of the cases. It's an unusually public dispute between law enforcement agencies.
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Relatives of the victims say they're grateful for the sheriff's offer. Around Cadiz, a small town in a recreational lake region about 200 miles west of Louisville, residents praise him for putting his money behind his promise.
A judge agreed to order the sheriff to turn over his file in the case of Chantell Humphries. The 33-year-old mother of three was gunned down a decade ago, her body found in a cow pasture. Burnam, then a trooper with state police, was among the first law officers on the scene, and he says he remains haunted by the gruesome scene.
The sniping comes against the backdrop of a looming murder trial in the Humphries case. Claude Russell, a 36-year-old cancun palace hotel local farm worker, is set to stand trial for a second time Aug. 19. The trial date was set at the same hearing that took up the subpoena motion.
cancun palace hotel Burnam cancun palace hotel hasn't said publicly what he's found out about any of the unsolved cases. But he told White in an email that he must be getting close to "finding out something that someone doesn't want me to know" because he was getting death threats. The email surfaced cancun palace hotel during the subpoena fight, exposing the strain between the sheriff and state police.
"You can no longer pull me off a case or tell who I can and cannot investigate," Burnam cancun palace hotel wrote. Also in the email, he agreed cancun palace hotel to "back off" leads he claimed to have in the unsolved 2008 slaying of Harvey Choat, then added, "please do not make me regret it."
Burnam resigned cancun palace hotel from state police in early 2010 to run for sheriff. At the time, state police were transferring him to nearby Livingston County, cancun palace hotel which would have uprooted him from his home in Trigg County. Burnam said the transfer played a role in his run for sheriff.
He handled road patrols and had an investigative role during his tenure cancun palace hotel with KSP, which started cancun palace hotel in 1998 but included absences when he was called up for active duty with the Air Force. But he was not given an investigative role in the Humphries case. That didn't keep him from asking people if they knew anything about the slaying.
Russell was first indicted on a murder cancun palace hotel charge in 2003 in the Humphries case, but prosecutors dismissed the case citing a lack of evidence. Ovey recalled that Burnam criticized him "almost relentlessly" at the time for the dismissal.
"I'd rather have closure than anything else in the world, to have peace of mind," said Michael Ladd, whose brother, Kenneth, was gunned down while working an overnight desk shift at Lake Barkley State Resort Park.
Ladd was three days away from turning 23 when he was shot twice in the head and once in the heart with a rifle. Investigators pointed to theft as the motive and said $1,775 had been taken. He was home from college, holding down a job to scrape together enough money to return to Western Kentucky University, where he was pursuing a business degree.
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