WOMAN SENTENCED TO 50 YEARS IN DEATH OF EMILY HACKER
One of the four suspects accused in the 2017 death of a Rockdale woman has been sentenced.
(Milam Co. Jail)
32-year-old Candice Nicole Jones of Rockdale was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison, for her role in the death of Emily Hacker.
Hacker’s body was found burned and buried in a shallow grave in rural Burleson County near Lyons, over a week after she was reported missing in January 2017.
Jones plead guilty in April to a first-degree felony murder charge. She will be eligible for parole after completing half her sentence.
According to autopsy results, Hacker died from blunt force trauma. Arrest affidavits show the likely motive for the killing was revenge, for Jones being implicated by Hacker on a gun possession charge.
(Rockdale Police Dept.)
32-year-old Edward Brannon Barry of Caldwell has also plead guilty to murder in the case. His sentencing is scheduled for August 16th.
Also charged with capital murder are 24-year-old Ashley Yvonne Wesson-Zawadzke and 37-year-old John Wayne Stewart, both of Somerville. A fifth suspect, 30-year-old Kevin Cormier of Caldwell, was charged with tampering with evidence. Trial dates for these three have not been set.