The youngest of three children born to Dr. James Vestal Jay and Rebecca Dillingham, who were married in Buncombe County, NC on 12 September, 1897.
All three of the Jay children were savagely murdered by their natural father, James Vestal Jay.
Further research has concluded that James Vestal Jay was convicted of one count of second-degree murder in Superior Court on December 2, 1903. He was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor in the state penitentiary in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Jay did not live to serve his consecutive sentences, which were to continue after he had served his first sentence. Each count of murder was to be preceded by a separate and new trial for each child that he murdered.
All three of the Jay children were savagely murdered by their natural father, James Vestal Jay.
Further research has concluded that James Vestal Jay was convicted of one count of second-degree murder in Superior Court on December 2, 1903. He was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor in the state penitentiary in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Jay did not live to serve his consecutive sentences, which were to continue after he had served his first sentence. Each count of murder was to be preceded by a separate and new trial for each child that he murdered.
The youngest of three children born to Dr. James Vestal Jay and Rebecca Dillingham, who were married in Buncombe County, NC on 12 September, 1897.
All three of the Jay children were savagely murdered by their natural father, James Vestal Jay.
Further research has concluded that James Vestal Jay was convicted of one count of second-degree murder in Superior Court on December 2, 1903. He was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor in the state penitentiary in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Jay did not live to serve his consecutive sentences, which were to continue after he had served his first sentence. Each count of murder was to be preceded by a separate and new trial for each child that he murdered.
All three of the Jay children were savagely murdered by their natural father, James Vestal Jay.
Further research has concluded that James Vestal Jay was convicted of one count of second-degree murder in Superior Court on December 2, 1903. He was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor in the state penitentiary in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Jay did not live to serve his consecutive sentences, which were to continue after he had served his first sentence. Each count of murder was to be preceded by a separate and new trial for each child that he murdered.
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