BLACK Imprisoned serial killer 'OF WHITE PEOPLE' James Bradley decides against removing attorney

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http://www.wwaytv3.com/2014/04/30/m...-charged-with-murder-of-missing-shannon-rippy

Man convicted of killing child charged with murder of missing Shannon Rippy
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 5:30pm.

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- The search for a missing woman ended last night, but not the way family and friends had hoped.

Last night police accused James Bradley, who was convicted of a 1988 murder, of killing Shannon Rippy Vannewkirk. She was last seen alive April 5 at the Husk bar in downtown Wilmington.

After countless prayers, more than 20 days of searching and more than 1,000 hours of detective work, police now believe they have found Vannewkirk.

"Our gut told us early on this was not going to be a good outcome," Police Chief Ralph Evangelous said at a Wednesday morning news conference.

Tuesday morning investigators discovered human remains off Hoover Road in Hampstead.

"We are waiting on confirmation of those remains from the medical examiner's office," Evangelous said.

Bradley has been charged with murder before. According to a 1988 story in the Fayetteville Observer, Bradley killed his 8-year-old stepdaughter by beating and strangling her.

He was released from jail in 2013. Tuesday night, police arrested him at a traffic stop.

Investigators have not released many details in the case. They think that Vannewkirk and Bradley knew each other.

Friends say they both worked for Mott Landscaping. We reached out to the owner, but have not heard back.

Bradley also declined an interview. He is in the New Hanover County Jail without bond.

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/article_f49bfb97-3de6-562c-b9f8-b388bd751866.html

LITTLE IVY GIBSON BELIEVED KILLED AT HOME, SHERIFF SPOKESMAN SAYS


Monday, June 13, 1988

Alisa Ivy Gibson, 8, whose body was found in the Ann Street landfill Saturday afternoon, apparently was killed at her home, a spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department said this morning.

The girl had been beaten and strangled, according to sheriff's public relations officer Harold Little.

Her stepfather, James O. Bradley, 25, has been charged with murder and is being held in jail without bail.

The Fayetteville Observer learned from sources close to the investigation that the child had been struck in the face and knocked against a television set. Some type of silk material was used to strangle her, the sources said.

Although Little refused to comment, The Observer learned that homicide detectives believe the child's lunchbox may have been placed in the wooded area off Applebury Lane, where it was discovered Thursday afternoon after the youngster was reported missing.

The box reportedly was found by Bradley as he and deputies were searching the area around their home at 2413 California St. in Westgate Mobile Home Park.

Ivy was reported missing Thursday after she failed to show up at Cumberland Mills Elementary School.

A squad of detectives had searched the area between her home and the school for hours but reported they could find no clues.

Bradley reportedly told detectives the body had been placed in a trash dumpster at the end of California Street.

The dumpster was emptied by a private trash collection service and taken to the landfill.

Detectives and landfill workers sifted through several tons of garbage before the body was found at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday.


http://portcitydaily.com/2014/04/30...-of-missing-woman-man-charged-with-her-death/

Shannon Rippy Vannewkirk

 

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http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/...ington-murder-suspects-suv-matches-dead-woman

Attorneys: Blood in Wilmington murder suspect’s SUV matches dead woman
Updated at 5:00 PM 3/17/17

A new trial date for James Bradley in the presumed death of Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk is set for June 12.

A new trial date for James Bradley in the presumed death of Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk is set for June 12.

WILMINGTON – Blood found in James Opelton Bradley’s SUV was a DNA match for a missing Wilmington woman whose decomposing body was found in a shallow grave in Hampstead in 2014, attorneys in the case revealed in court Friday.

Bradley, 54, of Wilmington is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Elisha Tucker, 34, also of Wilmington. Tucker’s remains were discovered April 29, 2014, buried in a field when investigators were searching for Bradley’s missing co-worker Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk, 53, of Wilmington, who was last seen three weeks earlier on April 5, 2014.

Though Van Newkirk has never been found, the discovery of Tucker's body prompted prosecutors to charge Bradley with Van Newkirk's presumed death. He was slated to go to trial next month in her killing. Only circumstantial evidence tied Bradley to Tucker and he denied knowing her. Then, when the blood test results came back in November as a DNA match to Tucker, the state announced it also was charging Bradley with Tucker's killing. She had been missing since August 2013. This time the state decided to seek the death penalty.

 

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http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/...guilty-in-murder-of-shannon-rippy-van-newkirk

BREAKING: Bradley found guilty in murder of Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk

Updated Jun 29, 2017 at 2:59 PM

Superior Court Judge Paul Jones sentenced Bradley to 30.4 to 37.5 years in prison.

WILMINGTON -- More than three years after Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk was last seen, a New Hanover County jury on Thursday found James Opelton Bradley guilty of second-degree murder in her presumed death.

Superior Court Judge Paul Jones sentenced Bradley to 30.4 to 37.5 years in prison. His defense attorneys said they would appeal.

Bradley, 54, of Wilmington -- a convicted murderer -- was charged with first-degree murder April 29, 2014, after Wilmington Police Department detectives looking for Van Newkirk unearthed a woman’s nude and bound body from a shallow grave in a Pender County farm field.

Van Newkirk, 53, of Wilmington was last seen April 5, 2014, at the Husk Bar in downtown Wilmington. Her mother Roberta Lewis reported Van Newkirk missing after she didn’t show up for a brunch to celebrate her 54th birthday on April 6, 2014.

 

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Imprisoned serial killer James Bradley decides against removing attorney

Bradley was convicted of killing his 8-year-old stepdaughter in 1988 and then later convicted in connection to the killings of Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk and Elisha Tucker.

www.wect.com

Imprisoned serial killer James Bradley decides against removing attorney​

James Bradley(NC Department of Public Safety)
By WECT Staff
Published: Apr. 10, 2024 at 1:32 PM MST|Updated: Apr. 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM MST

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Serial killer James Bradley appeared in court on Wednesday, April 10, to withdraw his motion to remove his current attorney Jonathan Broun.
Bradley was convicted of killing his 8-year-old stepdaughter in 1988 and then later convicted in connection to the killings of WHITE Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk and Elisha Tucker. While officials were searching for Newkirk as a missing person case, Tucker was found dead on land she worked on with Bradley on April 29, 2014. Bradley was released from prison in 2013 and was not charged in Tucker’s killing until 2016.
Newkirk’s body was never found, and Bradley was sentenced for the murders in 2019. In 2021 Bradley tried to ask for a new trial but was denied by the appeals court.
Bradley had filed a motion to remove Broun back in July of 2023, and he said in court that he had done so because he was not hearing back from him as often as he expected. However, Bradley said he wanted to now withdraw the motion, and it was granted by the court.
During his time in court he had three infractions: one in Nov. 2023 for lock tampering, one in Nov. 2021 for profane language and one in June 2019 for assaulting a person with a weapon.

 

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WHITE Shannon Rippy Van Newkirk

Shannon Rippy VanNewkirk - The Charley Project​

Race White. Date of Birth 04/06/1960 (64)

VanNewkirk was last seen at The Husk, a bar in the 30 block of south Front Street in Wilmington, North Carolina, at 7:00 p.m. on April 5, 2014. She had gotten a new haircut and a spray tan and was getting ready to celebrate her upcoming birthday, which was the next day. She has never been heard from again. When she missed the planned birthday lunch in her honor, her family became concerned. They had left presents in front of her home on south 5th Street. They returned on Monday and the presents were still there, untouched, so they notified police.

On April 29, James Opelton Bradley was arrested for first-degree murder in VanNewkirk's case. A photo of Bradley is posted with this case summary. He and VanNewkirk were coworkers at Mott’s Landscaping and he had a romantic interest in her. At the time of her disappearance, he was on parole for another murder; he had killed his eight-year-old stepdaughter, Ivy Gipson, in 1988 and served almost twenty-five years in prison. He was released fourteen months prior to VanNewkirk's disappearance.

Bradley and VanNewkirk exchanged seventeen phone calls between April 1 and April 5, but the communication abruptly ceased the same day she disappeared. He changed his story about the day of her disappearance at least three times. In the final police interview before his arrest, he admitted he was in his truck with VanNewkirk on the day she was last seen, but said they got an argument over VanNewkirk's relationship with another man, and she jumped out of his truck and ran away. He has maintained that story ever since.

When police were searching for VanNewkirk's body on land Bradley had often worked on as a landscaper, they found a woman's nude body wrapped in duct tape and trash bags in a shallow grave in a field in Hampstead, North Carolina. At first authorities thought the body was VanNewkirk's, but it turned out to be that of 35-year-old Elisha Marie Tucker. She'd died of blunt force trauma, and her blood was found in Bradley's SUV. In 2016, he was charged with her murder as well.

Bradley was convicted of second-degree murder in VanNewkirk's case in 2017, and sentenced to 30 to 37 years in prison. In 2019, he was convicted of Tucker's murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

VanNewkirk's body has never been found.

 

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Elisha Marie Tucker.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/elisha-tucker-obituary?id=28113610

Elisha Marie Tucker​

1979 - 2014

 

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Alisa Ivy Gibson

Alisa Ivy Gibson (unknown-1988) - Find a Grave...

Below is an excerpt from a news article about serial killer James Bradley. The first victim of James Bradley was his own stepdaughter, 8-year-old Alisa Ivy Gibson. On June 9, 1988, James reported that Alisa had been kidnapped from her bus stop in Fayetteville, North Carolina. However...

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"The first victim of James Bradley was his own stepdaughter, 8-year-old Alisa Ivy Gibson. On June 9, 1988, James reported that Alisa had been kidnapped from her bus stop in Fayetteville, North Carolina. However, officers found several inconsistencies in his statements and began to suspect his involvement in her disappearance. Under stringent questioning, James' defense finally broke and he confessed to killing Alisa 2 days after the reported incident.

James claimed that he was sick and sleeping when his sleep got disturbed by Alisa playing the television loudly. According to him, James snapped and beat her, before killing her by wrapping a sock around her neck and choking her to death. When realization dawned on him about what he had done, he allegedly tried to cover up the crime by putting Alisa's body in a garbage bag and taking it to the local garbage dump. On January 22, 1990, James pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was handed a life sentence.

However, since the crime occurred before the North Carolina Structured Sentencing Act was enacted, James was eligible for parole and he was discharged after 23 years, on February 11, 2013."