By Pat Peterson

Former capital murder suspct Eric Buzbee talks exclusively to News 5 about life after his aquittal and about Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon re-opening the Bobby Wilson capital murder case.

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Arriving by boat, former capital murder suspect Eric Buzbee met us at his grandparent’s fishing camp in Spanish Fort. Buzbee, who spent nearly two years behind bars before he was found not guilty in the capital murder of Bobby Wilson, says he still can’t shake the label of “accused murderer.” Continued at WKRG.com

By Kim Lanier, Press-Register

A crew from the Discovery Channel television show “On the Case with Paula Zahn” was in Baldwin and Mobile counties last week conducting interviews for a show about the death of a Spanish Fort businessman and the man tried three times for capital murder before finally being acquitted. Complete coverage at al.com

A Mobile developer has pleaded guilty to receiving high-end antiques and heirlooms stolen from wealthy homes in Mobile and Baldwin counties.

Sixty-year-old Matthew Boykin Walker pleaded guilty Thursday in Mobile to four counts of receiving stolen property. He faces up to 20 years in prison on each count when he is sentenced Dec. 9.
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Matthew Boykin Walker, the man accused of being the ringleader in a high dollar antique heist, has pleaded guilty to four counts of receiving stolen property.
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Alleged Burglaries May Unveil the Many Sides of Matt Walker

By Rob Holbert

Mobile County Sheriff’s deputies had to be shaking their heads in near disbelief as they entered to search two west Mobile houses last October. They were awash in stolen goods, including, antiques, appliances, fireplaces, staircases and even an elevator.

There was also expensive art along with a large silver bowl bearing an engraving suggesting it was a gift from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to then-Sen. John F. Kennedy on his wedding day.

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Alex Pappas

SPANISH FORT, Ala. — Leslie Eric Buzbee stood on the bank of Bay Minette Creek at his grandfather’s fish camp Friday afternoon as a free man, holding his toddler son for the first time in two years.

“I’m honest and I told the truth,” said Buzbee, with a fishing boat behind him and clad in khakis and a button-down shirt. “And the jury found the truth.”

After two previous mistrials, the third jury to hear arguments in the Buzbee case sent the Spanish Fort man home Friday, acquitting him of capital murder in the 2007 killing of Arthur “Bobby” Wilson, 71.

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