Ronnie May remembers the look on the faces of Elizabeth Sennett's sons when she was found killed in 1988. “You see the horror and disbelief in their faces,” said May, the then-chief investigator with the Colbert County Sheriff’s Office.
Ronnie May remembers the horrific scene on March 18, 1988, when he responded to a call from Charles Sennett, a Church of Christ pastor in Sheffield.
“You feel for the victim and what they went through - and the horror she went through in her last minutes,” May said. Smith ultimately confessed to his role, along with John Forrest Parker and a third man who had arranged it, according to law enforcement and court documents. At his first trial the jury voted to sentence Smith to death. At a second trial the jury voted 11-1 to recommend life without parole but the judge overrode it and sentenced him to death.According to court records summarizing the case, Charles Sennett Sr.
May said he rode to the hospital in the ambulance hoping Mrs. Sennett would say something. But she never did, and doctors declared her dead a short time later.And later May said he realized he had actually met Charles Sennett Sr. just weeks before the murder. The suspects’ names came up from a call to CrimeStoppers, May said. After that call, investigators got the pastor back in for an interview for “the better part of hour and he denied and denied,” he said.
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