Willard Clifton LandCharges against the man accused in the October steak knife slaying of a 24-year-old Dunlap woman were bound over last week for a Monday hearing before a Sequatchie County grand jury.
An indictment could be handed down as soon as today, according to Sequatchie County Sheriff Ronnie Hitchcock.
Authorities say 72-year-old Willard Clifton Land already had spent 15 to 20 years in a California prison for murder in the 1970s when he was arrested in connection with the Oct. 11 slaying of Kerry Summer Angel, a former Sequatchie County High School cheerleader when she attended school there.
The killing happened at the home of a third person atop Cagle Mountain, east of Dunlap, Tenn., at 210 Keener Road where Angel was found with a five-inch-deep wound in her shoulder. The scene of the homicide is about nine miles northeast of Dunlap in a sparsely populated area a mile or so off of state Highway 111.
According to investigators’ early reports, a witness told authorities that Angel and Land were arguing over pills — described as Xanax and hydrocodone — and everyone present was intoxicated.