Cold case gets warmer with arrest of Dyersburg man
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DYERSBURG, Tenn.- U.S. Marshals arrested 33-year old Randall Kirkpatrick in connection to the 2003 shooting death of his wife Deborah Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick is charged with murder. Investigators initially believed Deborah Kirkpatrick’s death was a suicide. Randall Kirkpatrick told investigators in 2003, he found his wife at home in eastern Alabama with their then 22-month-old son. She had been fatally shot. Neighbors said Kirkpatrick remarried and lived with his wife and four children in Dyersburg. Neighbors said Kirkpatrick had a short temper. He could often be heard yelling at his children and wife from surrounding yards, according to neighbors. At a news conference in Calhoun County, Alabama Deborah’s sister, Ann Parris said her sister had been planning to live Kirkpatrick more than a decade ago. Parris also said the arrest is not closure, but she does expect to see justice for Deborah’s death.
