{"id":5672,"date":"2023-04-06T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02bc160040002453"},"modified":"2023-04-06T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:08:07","slug":"man-gets-life-in-prison-after-mother-murdered-body-dumped-in-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/man-gets-life-in-prison-after-mother-murdered-body-dumped-in-field\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN GETS LIFE IN PRISON AFTER MOTHER MURDERED, BODY DUMPED IN FIELD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On April 4, 2023 Richard Jordan, 42, was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of murdering 21-year-old Alexus Fraley in Charlotte, NC. Richard&#8217;s girlfriend Ashley Helms, 28, was also charged with murder. Alexus had 2 young kids.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/3-trukkll-blu2.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p> Alexus was found dead on an abandoned field on Dixie River Rd. Charlotte, NC on April 27, 2018. Alexus was reported missing on April 13th. Her body was decomposing.<\/p>\n<p>On April 27, 2018 Richard was arrested charged with kidnapping and murder in connection with this case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Richard&#8217;s girlfriend Ashley was arrested also charged with murder and kidnapping. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 5 years later at the court trial, Richard was found guilty of murder, kidnapping, and concealing a death.<\/p>\n<p>After deliberating for about four hours, the jury found Richard guilty. The judge then sentenced Richard to the mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. <\/p>\n<p>Charges against the co-defendant Ashley Helms are pending.<\/p>\n<p> Richard was arrested in 2008 accused of murdering 20-year-old Kevin Cano and 20-year-old Jamie Aubrey-Marquis Gill in Charlotte, NC. The 2 men were shot to death inside a Chevy Impala. <\/p>\n<p>Richard was later acquitted of the double murder charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man and his girlfriend are accused of murdering Alexus Fraley, this is Richard&#8217;s 3rd time being charged with murder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,163,82,361,360,14,763,19,52,54,151,178,219,215,216,57,153,150,166],"class_list":["post-5672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boyfriend","tag-court","tag-dead-body","tag-double-homicide","tag-double-murder","tag-female-victim","tag-field","tag-found-dead","tag-girlfriend","tag-homicide","tag-judge","tag-missing","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-mother-dead","tag-murder","tag-prison","tag-prison-sentence","tag-prison-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}