HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Jacob Shaffer will not go on trial Oct. 29 on charges he killed a Huntsville man in case where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Shaffer's trial date has been continued ...

Shaffer was given a chance to make a statement before sentencing and he turned to face Monica Wellman, Sidney Wade Dempsey's daughter, who was in the courtroom. "I would like to apologize for what I ...

-- Jacob Shaffer has admitted killing six people in three locations in July 2009 and from the time the murders were first reported there has been speculation about what drove Shaffer's rampage in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Friday morning, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A man who killed his estranged wife and four other people in Tennessee in 2009 admitted Friday to killing a sixth person in north Alabama at the start of the rampage. Jacob Shaffer, ...

FAYETTEVILLE, TENN. -- Jacob Shaffer killed his wife, Tracie Shaffer, last during a two-state, six-person killing spree Saturday, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials said this morning. "He was ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. - A judge set a January 2011 trial for a man charged in the slayings of his estranged wife and four other people in southern Tennessee. At a hearing today, Circuit Judge Robert ...

FAYETTEVILLE, TN (AP) -- Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a man charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his estranged wife, three members of her family and ...

FAYETTEVILLE, TN -- First, alleged murderer Jacob Shaffer bought two stun guns. Then, later that Friday afternoon purchase, according to Lincoln Co., Tenn., Sheriff Murray Blackwelder, the 30-year-old ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Jacob Shaffer beat a Huntsville man to death in 2009 then hitched a ride to Lincoln County, TN where he killed 5 more people. He’s now pleaded guilty to the Madison County ...

FAYETTEVILLE, TN (AP) -- A man charged with murdering his estranged wife and five others returned to court briefly but a judge postponed a hearing on a defense request to pick jurors outside Lincoln ...

HUNTSVILLE -- Sidney Wade Dempsey died in his small apartment inside a marble company, brutally beaten and stuffed in a barrel near the car bench seat he used as a bed. His killer, Jacob Shaffer, 33, ...