Connie Ridgeway/Erin Blalock

We've received several questions about the murder of Connie Ridgeway of Rogersville. Any info we have is from a source at the Lauderdale County Sheriff's office which was called in to assist Rogersville officers in the investigation. Nothing here is written in stone.

* Ridgeway was stabbed three times and her throat slit

* There had not been a murder in Rogersville since 1957?

Our research shows a murder in the Rogersville police jurisdiction in 1990. A woman stabbed her newborn infant to death with scissors. So, at this point all information is suspect. We do understand that, speaking of "suspect," there is none in Ms. Ridgeway's murder.

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An upbeat story from a reader (for a change):

Erin Blalock wife of Police Officer Shane Blalock ran a half marathon (13.1 miles) pushing this little boy who attends the Cerebral Palsy Center in Tuscumbia. This run was a fund raiser for UCP and Aiden with them help of Erin walked across the finish line at the end.. That's what heroes are made of!

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Shoalanda