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The Daily Crime

"Everyone stayed pretty hopeful and optimistic until last Friday"

The Daily Crime

VAULT Studios

True Crime

4.3627 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In July, 22-year-old Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. was arrested and charged with the murder of Ole Miss student Jimmie Jay Lee. ABC24 Reporter Brittani Moncrease tells us about the ongoing investigation. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, Daily Crime listeners. This is Will Johnson. A quick programming note will be taking a few days off for the long holiday weekend. No new episodes on Friday or Monday of Labor Day weekend. We'll be back with a brand new episode on Tuesday. Coming up.

0:13.9

And in that laptop, what they found was he actually has searched online. How long does it take to strangle someone?

0:21.1

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. You're listening to The Daily Crime.

0:28.2

Old Miss student Jimmy J. Lee was last seen alive on July 8th of this year.

0:33.1

Missing Old Miss students' car has been found, but the search is still on to find the student.

0:37.9

On July 22nd, 22-year-old Sheldon Timothy Harrington, Jr., was arrested and charged with his

0:43.4

murder.

0:44.1

It all started with Jay Lee missing.

0:46.2

I think that everyone stayed pretty hopeful and optimistic until last Friday when they announced

0:50.5

that he was murdered, that he would still be able to come home safe.

0:53.6

It was just a 360 moment to be like, wow,

0:56.5

we didn't think that he would be dead

0:58.3

and we wouldn't think that someone that we knew

1:00.4

and were in close quarters with

1:02.3

would be responsible for his murder.

1:08.9

I'm joined now by Brittany Moncrise, ABC24 reporter in Memphis.

1:13.2

Brittany, thanks for being here with us. We appreciate it.

1:15.0

Thank you.

1:15.9

Brittany, before we get into what we know about what happened back in July with Jimmy J. Lee,

1:21.4

let's talk a little bit about him. What do we know about him as a person?

1:24.7

So, yeah, so Jimmy J. Lee, his friends commonly call him Jay Lee or just

1:29.8

Jay. He was a student at Ole Miss and he had just graduated this past spring of 2022 and he was

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