Charleston Murder Trial Continues
{Charleston, West Virginia}...Testimony in the Charleston murder trial of Garland Murray continued Thursday. Prosecutors say Murray killed Gregory Poole and left his body in the front yard of a home in North Charleston in April 2010. Kanawha County Sheriff’s Detectives testified that phone records show multiple calls between Murray and Deshawn Taylor before and after the murder. The prosecution said text messages between Poole and Taylor before the murder show a drug deal was set up to lure Poole and his wife, Ebony, to a spot so Murray and Taylor could kidnap, rob and kill them. Prosecutors say Gregory Poole met with Murray and Taylor but wouldn't tell them where the money and the drugs were. After the murder, Murray and Taylor attempted to kidnap Ebony. Margaret Cavender, a North Charleston woman who spotted the dead body of Poole testified she spotted Poole's body as she drank her morning coffee. She also described hearing the shots that killed him in the middle of the night, unsure whether or not they were firecrackers.
