RIPLEY, Miss. (Court TV) — A Mississippi man is standing trial for a second time on expenses that he murdered his daughter’s boyfriend throughout a theft.
Jeffrey Spence reacts to a mistrial being declared in his homicide trial on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (Court TV)
Jeffrey Spence stood trial on homicide expenses within the demise of Kirby Carpenter for the primary time in September 2025, however the choose in that case declared a mistrial when the jury was deadlocked in a six-six cut up and couldn’t attain a verdict.
At the time of his demise, Carpenter was relationship Jeffrey Spence’s daughter, Caitlin Spence, who beforehand pleaded responsible to accent to homicide in an settlement with prosecutors. Caitlin Spence testified at the first trial, telling the jury that her father confessed his involvement to her after she discovered the sufferer’s physique on his property. Caitlin Carpenter even testified about texts together with her household the place her father recommended opening a enterprise known as “Assassin Inc.”
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The sufferer’s physique was discovered subsequent to his driveway, roughly 30 toes from the carport. His truck was there, locked, with groceries inside; the keys to the automobile and a considerable amount of money had been nonetheless in Carpenter’s pocket when his physique was discovered. Crime scene pictures offered throughout Jeffrey Spence’s first trial present {that a} curtain was draped over the sufferer’s physique and a toolbox was positioned on prime.
Jeffrey Spence’s protection maintains he had no involvement in Carpenter’s killing and that the defendant was at his house in Virginia on the day of the homicide. At the primary trial, Jeffrey Spence’s lawyer emphasised the truth that Carpenter was identified to promote medication and frequently acquired threats from individuals he did enterprise with, suggesting in opening statements that Carpenter bought lab diamonds to a Tennessee jeweler and in addition bought meth.
