ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 30, 1996 TAG: 9601300061
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: COLUMBIA, S.C.
SOURCE: Associated Press
K.C. Beasley still doubts the woman indicted in the death of his paralyzed son 28 years ago will be tried any time soon, because he's afraid the prosecutor is in no hurry to bring her back from a Virginia prison.
``I just don't know. ... I'm just wondering if they'll ever serve the papers on her,'' Beasley said Friday.
Frances Beasley Truesdale is serving a 20-year sentence for killing Jerry Daniel Truesdale, her fourth husband, as they drove through Roanoke in 1988. Last week, she was indicted in the 1967 death of her third husband, Ronald ``Little Red'' Beasley.
Ronald Beasley's father said he believed Solicitor John Justice is not very vigorous about the case, primarily because Justice said earlier that he saw no need to hurry a trial so long as Truesdale remained in prison in Virginia.
Late last year, after South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon's office volunteered to prosecute the case, Justice said he hoped to put Truesdale on trial in March or April.
Beasley, 79, has been in poor health, and said he was afraid he would die before Truesdale was tried.
Beasley shouldn't worry, Fairfield County Sheriff Herman Young said. ``From what I understand from the solicitor, he's ready.''
Young was a boyhood friend of Beasley's son and said he always suspected that Truesdale killed him.
The county coroner ruled that Beasley committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. His wife was the only witness.
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