Wednesday, June 19, 2002
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Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
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Saw Beverley alive weeks after disappearance, 2 witnesses say By JOHN MUNFORD
Two defense witnesses have testified in court that they saw Beverley Watson at the Peachtree City Kmart in the weeks after she was reported missing from her Fayette home in January of 1997. But the accounts of Arthur Jafferies and Sherry Childress Newsome differed in several ways. Both however, said they spoke with a woman at the store and she asked them about coloring her hair when she found out they were both hairdressers. Jafferies said he saw Beverley Watson's face on a missing poster at the Kmart on the same day and he added that he told Newsome at the store that he thought that woman was Beverley Watson. Newsome said however, that the two discussed the matter days later on the phone when he called her after noticing Beverley Watson's picture on television. "I have no doubt at all the woman we saw was Beverley Watson," said Jafferies who is 51 and admitted to having memory problems due to a medical condition. Jafferies said Beverley Watson "disappeared as quickly as she was there." Newsome said "We didn't realize it together he called me." She added that she wasn't absolutely positive that the woman they saw was Beverley Watson. Both Jafferies and Newsome said the woman they spoke to appeared nervous and anxious when they encountered her at the store. Fulton County Prosecutor Sheila Ross pointed out to the jury that Jafferies had been convicted of burglary in 1990.
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