Monday, July 9, 2012

Nicholas County Grand Jury To Hear Murder Case

{Summersville, West Virginia}...A quadruple murder case is headed to the Nicholas County grand jury after officials in Magistrate Court were notified Monday that 26 year old James Roy Belknap of Leviasy waived his preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday in Summersville. Belknap was arrested in May after he allegedly killed Steven Hendrix, his girlfriend Amber Martin, and Hendrix's two children, 6 year old Dakota and 4 year old Kaylee. Police believe Belknap owed Hendrix money in a drug deal and Hendrix went to his house to collect it. The criminal complaint says some of the victims were killed in Hendrix's van and all their bodies were stripped and thrown over a hillside on Belknap's property. The Nicholas County grand jury next meets in September. Belknap remains jailed without bail. Police have also charged Mark Haynes and Wanda Einstein of Nicholas County. They were allegedly helping Belknap get around after police began looking for him.