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Western Carolinian Volume 60 Number 01

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  - Western Carolina University
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  - HL_WesternCarolinian_1994-06-16_Vol60_No01_01
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^fegtaPLD , The Voice of the Catamounts Volume 60 Issue 1 Seven Await Trial For Murder Near WCU "Gruesome, horrific crime" shocks community Scott Swift Staff Reporter Two miles from the campus of Western Carolina University sits the yellow and white three-bedroom trailer where Tony Cecil Queen, 24, of nearby Tuckasegee, is alleged to have been murdered. Tucked snugly behind a bed of trees about 100 feet from old highway 107, is the site of a crime a reporter on the beat for thirteen years called, "the most gruesome horrific crime I have ever covered." Standing on the wooden stairway leading to the front door you can see through the kitchen window a bouquet of multicolored plastic flowers resting on the bar. Little else remains inside the musty trailer besides a couple of ice trays in the sink, the imitation stone wall covering in the living room, and several white garbage bags in the hallway leading to the three bedrooms. The tiny middle bedroom is shielded from the sun by curtains decorated with cartoon images of characters from the movie "The Empire Strikes Back", and the room's gray carpeting is sprinkled with white powder. In the corner of the paneled 10'xlO' room is a narrow closet (84"xl4"x24") whose door frame is punctured with holes, which, as reported in the Raleigh Nexus and Observer, were made by nails used to seal the closet that held the tortured body of Tony Queen until he suffocated to death. Seven acquaintances of Queen, including five that resided regularly at the trailer with him, were arrested on April 13th by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department and charged with first degree murder and first degree kidnapping. They are: Carlton Eugene Anderson, 18, Sylva; Kenneth Ray Fox, 34, Sylva; Vickie Jumper Fox, 30, Cullowhee; Michael Blain Hagedorn, 17, Franklin; Robert Lee Trantham, 18, Sylva; Michelle Shook Vinson, 19, Cullowhee; Walter Thomas York, 18, Sylva. The News and Observer reported that although Vickie Fox was Queen's girlfriend, Kenneth Fox, her estranged husband and father of her 5-year-old daughter, stayed at the trailer on a regular basis. According to the Sylva Herald, several other people may have known about the crimes going on at the trailer. (The following chronology has been constructed from published accounts in the Sylva Herald, the Raleigh News and Observer, and court documents.) April 2 - Kenneth Fox told his probation officer that Queen had fondled the Fox's 5-year-old daughter. April 3 - Detective Jim Ashe went to the trailer to locate Queen. He was told that Queen had gone to Georgia or Tennessee to look for work. Russell Queen filed a missing persons report after spotting his brother Tony's pickup truck for sale at a local flea market and finding some of his brother's clothing and personal belongings in a state maintenance yard near the trailer. April 4 - Jackson County Sheriff detective Sgt. Jim Ashe and NC State Bureau of Investigation Agent Kevin West learned that Queen had been staying in the trailer with Vickie Fox. Through interviews they also learn that Hagedorn, York, Trantham, Vinson, and three children were all staying at the same trailer. They were visited regularly by Kenneth Fox. Carlton Anderson also visited the trailer and stayed the night of March 19th. April 11 - A search of the trailer found the presence of blood on some items. A blue 1982 Oldsmobile 98 Regency was also searched. April 12 - According to a search warrant filed in the Jackson County Courthouse, an unidentified defendant took the investigators to Toccoa, Georgia, where the defendant stated that "he, along with at least three of the other defendants, disposed of the body." April 13 - Forensic experts with NC State Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the Stephens County, Georgia, SheriffsDepartment recovered the body and transported it to the NC State Medical Examiner Office in Chapel Hill for an autopsy. The seven defendants were arrested and charged with first degree murder and first degree kidnapping. May 2 - Each defendant was indicted on one count of first degree murder and first degree kidnapping by a Jackson County Grand Jury. Queen, a lifelong resident of Tuckasegee, moved into the trailer with Vickie Fox, her 10-year-old son, and 5-year- old daughter shortly after Fox rented it around March 1st. Four of the other defendants moved in shortly thereafter. A search warrant filed by Kevin West of the State Bureau of Investigation states that at least five of the defendants admit to participating, to varying degrees, in different acts of physical violence against Queen while at the trailer between March 19th and March 25th. They also admit that he was bound and held against his will. The News and Observer reported that three of the four children living at the Queen Murder Continued on Pace 3 Closet in which the suffocation of Tony Queen, 24, allegedly took place. Photo By Justin Menickelli June 16, 1994 Hootie & The Blowfish "Blow" Roof Off Bailey's • See Page 8 Ben Anderson Waves WCU Farewell • See Page 6 Jason Beverlin, WCU Pitcher is Drafted. See Page 8 Traffic Jams in Sylva? Wendy's Opens June 7. See Page 2

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Western Carolina University
- Format
  - Publications (documents)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1994-06-16
  - Date digitized: 2019-11-06
- Extent
  - Dimension: 14" x 11.25"
  - Pages: 20 pages
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Jackson County (N.C.)
  - Cullowhee (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - WCU Students Newspapers Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_WesternCarolinian_1994-06-16_Vol60_No01
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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