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Trial date set for Prestonsburg man charged in federal child porn case
LONDON, Ky. — A trial date has been set for a Prestonsburg man charged with possessing child pornography.
Jimmy Ray Brown, 31, of Cliffside Apartments, faces a single charge of possessing child porn. He was arrested Sept. 9, after the FBI, Kentucky State Police and Prestonsburg Police raided his home.
Agents with the FBI’s Huntington office began investigating in order to identify a person downloading and sharing child porn videos using the BitTorrent file sharing service. Investigators say the computer’s internet connection was associated with approximately 1,833 instances of suspected child pornography being possessed or exchanged over a little more than three months.
During his arraignment on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Hanly Ingram ordered him to stand trial on Dec. 8 in London federal court. The trial is expected to last two days.
If convicted, he will face up to 20 years in prison.
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Eastern Kentucky murderer dies on death row
EDDYVILLE, Ky. — A man who spent 29 years on death row for a brutal Perry County murder has died before his date with the executioner.
Donald Herb Johnson, 59, pleaded guilty in 1994 to murder, burglary and sexual abuse related to the death of 61-year-old Helen Madden. Following a protracted legal battle over his sentencing, during which he tried to withdraw his guilty plea, he was given the death penalty in September of 1997.
On the evening of Nov. 29, 1989, Johnson went to the Bright N Clean Laundry in Hazard, where he asked to use the phone. Madden allowed him to use the phone repeatedly, but he kept getting busy signal, and she finally had to tell him he had to leave because she was about to close.
Instead, court records say he “lost it,” and he proceeded to beat, stab, sexually assault and torture Madden. Her naked and disemboweled body was found by a coworker the next morning.
Madden had suffered at least two dozen stab wounds and her body had been so disfigured by the attack that the coworker was unable to recognize her, despite having worked with her for 13 years.
Johnson died on Friday and is scheduled to undergo an autopsy, but the Lexington Herald-Leader quoted officials in a report Tuesday that his death “does not appear to involve any criminal activity.”
No cause of death has yet been reported.
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