BENTON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - The defense called its first witness on Thursday in the trial of the woman accused of murdering her stepmother in 2022. That witness was the defendant - Samantha Bevans.

I know I did this." Samantha Bevans told jurors it was a burglary that went wrong, and she never intended to enter the house but did so after they had to force their way in through a window and Talley ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The murder trial of a Palo woman accused of suffocating her stepmother with a pillow in July 2022 is on ...

A jury has found a Palo woman guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her stepmother, KCRG reports.Samantha Bevans was found guilty on Monday of working with her boyfriend, Tacoa Talley, to ...

Authorities said they arrested two people in connection to the death of a Palo woman, who was found dead after a welfare check on a home on July 15.The Benton County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa ...

BENTON COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) -- Wednesday, the prosecution in the murder trial against Samantha Bevans called five witnesses, before they rested their case. Samantha is accused of killing her ...

VINTON — A prosecutor said Tuesday that authorities don’t always know the motive in a murder case, but the “cold blooded” killing of a Palo woman — who was “suffocated to death with a pillow in her ...