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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018

280 paving is nearing completion

Cliff Williams / The Record

Mayor Wayne Smith speaks to the Dadeville Kiwanis Club about new jobs potentially coming to Dadeville at last Thursday’s meeting.

By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

Mayor: new jobs, industry coming to Dadeville By CLIFF WILLIAMS Staff Writer

Dadeville Mayor Wayne Smith shared some good news of possible businesses and industry coming to the City of Dadeville. “We are close to breaking ground on a revised truck stop and 40 room hotel,” Smith told the Dadeville Kiwanis Club last Thursday afternoon. “We feel a major restaurant will soon be piggy backing on it too. Something like Waffle House or a Huddle House.” Smith explained the city is looking at a new tax to help bolster revenues for the town. “We are in the process of putting in a lodging tax before the hotel goes in,” Smith said. “It will provide extra monies for the budget.” He explained with Dadeville being close to several attractions, the lodging tax could prove fruitful. “We have Auburn football, bass tournaments on the lake and families looking to stay near family, I think the hotel will do well,” Smith said. “Maybe a hotel will turn day visits into two, three day visits.” Smith said he was also talking to Alabama Power about creating a campground somewhere between DARE Park and Smith Mountain with sites from primitive up to fully improved. Currently the closest campground is Wind Creek State Park. Smith did not stop the See JOBS • Page A5

Mitch Sneed / The Record

It might appear as if Gary Ingram Paving has left the Highway 280 paving project almost complete, but that is not the case. Crews are having to wait to complete the project. “We are up to a point of having to wait several weeks for a curing period,” Gary Ingram Paving’s Jeff Harte said. “We have to wait for that before we apply a final special layer of asphalt in certain areas.” Harte said the paving will be See PAVING • Page A8

Clate McDaniel sits stoically, showing little emotion as the jury delivers a guilty verdict in his murder trial Friday at the Tallapoosa County Courthouse in Dadeville. McDaniel will be sentenced on July 29 and, under Alabama law, faces at least 20 years and no more than 99 years, or the potential of a life sentence.

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Jury finds McDaniel murdered Norman Crayton in 2016 By MITCH SNEED Editor

A Tallapoosa County jury took just 50 minutes to find Clate McDaniel guilty of murder. After more than two years of legal wrangling, four full days of testimony and evidence, a 12-person panel, made up of seven women and five men where seven were white and five were black, found that evidence showed beyond a reasonable doubt that McDaniel murdered Norman Crayton in a green field off Barron’s Bridge Road on Jan. 17, 2016. When the verdict was read, McDaniel, who was dressed in a lightcolored, long-sleeved button-down and khaki pants, sat next to his attorney Davis Whittelsey. His expression never changed as he looked into the See MCDANIEL • Page A5

Gary Ingram Paving’s Jeff Harte said the bulk of the work on Highway 280 in Dadeville is done, but crews are in a waiting stage for now.

AG’s office gives witness training to law enforcement By MITCH SNEED Editor

Mitch Sneed / The Record

District Attorney Jeremy Duerr talks with victim Norman Crayton’s brother Darryll Young who thanked him for his work in the case after McDaniel’s guilty verdict was delivered Friday.

Local man kills wife, mother-in-law, self at Tallassee Walmart

Petition for protection told of Tresea Miller’s life of domestic abuse

Law enforcement officials from Tallapoosa County, Dadeville, Alexander City and Lee County took part in a training seminar Tuesday designed to help them be more effective witnesses if called on to testify in court. Effective Courtroom Performance for Law Enforcement Officers was a seminar organized and directed by the office of Alabama See TRAINING • Page A8

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Three people – two women and a man – are dead in an apparent murder-suicide in the parking lot of Tallassee Walmart on Tuesday morning. A press release issued Tuesday afternoon by the Tallassee Police Department identified the dead as 65-year-old Harold Miller, his wife, 58-year-old Tresea Miller, and See SHOOTING • Page A3

Cliff Williams / The Record

Harold Miller rammed his car into his wife’s car in the parking lot of Tallassee Walmart on Tuesday and then shot at least nine times through the windshield of her car, killing his wife Tresea Miller and his mother-in-law Barbara Buttles. Monday Tresea Miller requested an order of protection for herself, her adult son as well as Buttles. Documents show Tresea lived a life of abuse.

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The petition for the protection order that Tresea Miller, one of two women shot to death in a murdersuicide in Tallassee on Tuesday, had issued in hopes of protecting her from her estranged husbandturned-killer Harold Phillip Miller contained details of a torturous 43-year marriage. The order, signed by Tallapoosa County Circuit Judge Tom Young See ABUSE • Page A3

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