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Columbia Police Identify Suspect in Murder of 22-Year-Old North Carolina Woman

“She was working two jobs to become a teacher. She adored kids.”

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Nanker Phelge May 6, 2025 at 10:39 pm

“Despite severe weather Saturday night, officers tracked Dickey throughout the evening and into the next morning. By Saturday afternoon, a resident reported someone emerging from the woods and stealing another vehicle”

You can count on Fitsnews to not get days of the week right.

“Despite the severity and frequency of these offenses, many of Dickey’s charges were dismissed or pled down over the years.”

Can’t blame this on judges. Just who is the grand poobah of prosecutors in this state? Anyone got a clue? Hmmm

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AC Top fan May 7, 2025 at 7:03 am

The judges did however hand down the lenient sentences

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Katie Top fan May 7, 2025 at 9:12 am

It IS the judge that sentences a convicted criminal. Sure, the state recommends sentences, but it is ultimately the judge who sentences criminals.

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AC Top fan May 7, 2025 at 7:02 am

The last actual tough prosecutor in the Columbia area was Dick Harpootlian and his assistant David Pascoe. The idiots who have run the office afterwards had no problem not putting criminals in jail, I mean at least one was a criminal who took extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime

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Katie Top fan May 7, 2025 at 9:09 am

A big detail is missing…when was the victim actually shot; when he broke in the house and stole her cards?

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Squishy123 (the original) May 8, 2025 at 12:36 pm

Sometimes there just needs to be a tree with strong limbs in the back of the jail. Where were the friends she was visiting at the time of the murder?

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Kati Jo August 19, 2025 at 5:00 am

Shame on the system for letting this career criminal out on what they call a clerical error. That’s what they’re blaming it on. The prosecutors and the judges who handled his cases should feel extremely guilty because by allowing this man to only serve 600 days altogether for 39 crimes, 25 of which are felony crimes. This beautiful girl would be alive if they had actually done their jobs. Stop letting people get off easy when they commit crimes like this. Armed robbery should have a 20+ year sentence no parole when you hold a gun to somebody. You should at least be serving 20 years. This man will never rehabilitate and he deserves the death penalty and I pray that he gets it. If the prosecutor doesn’t go after the death penalty, he needs to be out of the prosecutor‘s office and in a different job. There’s no other option for this man. He’s obviously a very sick person, and he does not deserve to live.

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