Randall Kenneth ReedThe case against a man accused of killing a 70-year-old East Ridge woman was bound over to the Hamilton County grand jury Tuesday.
Randall Reed, 43, has been charged with first-degree murder in the June 15 suffocation death of Jane Stokes. He also is charged with aggravated robbery and taking her credit cards and using them within hours after her death.
East Ridge City Court Judge Arvin Reingold bound the case over after listening to testimony from an East Ridge detective and Reed’s former employer in a preliminary hearing.
A neighbor had found Stokes’ body the morning after Stokes had failed to show up for her longtime job at a Chattanooga accounting office, her face secured with plastic wrap and her wrists bound behind her back.
During questioning from Hamilton County Assistant District Attorney Darren Gibson, Detective Gwen Cribbs described the scene where Stokes was found in her bedroom at her longtime home on Hardin Drive.