BEAUFORT | One of two suspects in a 1987 rape and kidnapping case in Carteret County was found not guilty at trial this week and the fate of the second remains uncertain after a hung jury.A Carteret County jury acquitted Etharay Jefferson, 62, of Morehead City, while the judge declared a mistrial for co-suspect Jerry Cornelius Jones, 66, of Newport, according to information from District Attorney Scott Thomas. [...]
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