Connie Ridgeway Murder

The recent publicity surrounding Rogersville police may have one positive outcome. Someone submitted the murder case of Connie Ridgeway to the blog Alabama Cold Cases. At this point, the case is extremely cold and may never be solved. 

However, if you have any information concerning the death of Mrs. Ridgeway and hesitate to contact local authorities, we urge you to contact ALEA. This lady's family needs closure.

After we published ZAR's blog yesterday, we received some comments that could very well be taken as threats against either him or any of us who regularly blog here. If you disagree with ZAR or anyone who posts here, please feel free to contact us with your rebuttals. We do not allow libel or threats, but we certainly allow you to disagree. Your guest blog will be published within a few days of receipt.

No, we don't know if ZAR actually lives in Anderson or if that is part of his online humorous persona. Wherever he lives, he's entitled to his opinions, just as you are entitled to yours...except the ones about meeting someone in a dark alley.

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

Football Before Murder?/Wife Beaters Page

From a faithful reader:

Have you see the candlelight memorial that has been organized? It's Saturday at 6pm at Heritage Park.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1638323876440806/

Here is something very important.  On the day Connie Ridgeway was murdered (Oct 23rd), Chief Terry Holden was in Tuscaloosa for the Alabama football game.  He received the call and did not come back to Rogersville until Sunday, Oct. 25th.  This is quite possibly the first murder in the town limits and the chief law enforcement officer chooses to watch Alabama play football.  He is currently running for Lauderdale County Board of Education. He enjoys titles, but not the responsibility that goes along with it.  I don't know a chief around that wouldn't have turned their vehicle around and come back to town after hearing of a murder in their town.  I love Alabama football myself, but it doesn't take priority over the death of one of our citizens.  He is not fit to serve."

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A new FB page:

Wifebeaters Should Not Be Allowed to Teach

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Shoalanda