Wednesday, March 31, 1999
No bond for suspect in girlfriend's slaying
Hubbard also faces 6 more charges
BY JANICE MORSE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — Christopher Allen Hubbard, accused of killing his girlfriend, concealing the young woman's body in her own car and driving with it to Tennessee, was ordered held without bond in his first court appearance Tuesday.
Mr. Hubbard, 19, appeared before Municipal Judge John G. Rosmarin on a murder charge in connection with the death of Jill Michelle Sexton, a Hamilton High School senior.
Mr. Hubbard, who remains in the Butler County Jail, also was in court to face six other offenses stemming from an alleged drunken-driving crash on March 21 — the day before he and Miss Sexton disappeared.
Mr. Hubbard is charged with leaving the scene of the accident at Grand Boulevard and Erie Highway, driving under the influence of alcohol, underage consumption of alcohol, failure to keep assured clear distance, a seat-belt violation and failure to appear in court on those charges. No one was injured.
Attempts to talk to Mr. Hubbard and his mother have been unsuccessful.
Miss Sexton's friends say Mr. Hubbard was upset because she was trying to break up with him. When Mr. Hubbard showed up near his aunt's home in Decatur, Tenn., last week, he had cuts on his neck and wrists, apparently self-inflicted, authorities said.
Services for Miss Sexton, 18, are set for 11 a.m. today at the Weigel Funeral Home. Her parents have declined interviews.
During today's school announcements, Principal Tom Alf said, he intends to read a poem from one of Miss Sexton's friends, “A Friend Never Forgets a Friend,” over the public-address system. Students will be excused to attend the funeral, he said.
Authorities so far haven't said where, when or how they believe Miss Sexton was killed. Some of those answers could come in a preliminary hearing Thursday, where officials must present evidence to show “probable cause” against Mr. Hubbard.
Although Miss Sexton's body was found on March 24, investigators were unable to officially identify it as hers until Monday because it was decomposed, Butler County Coroner Dr. Richard P. Burkhardt said Tuesday. He gave no estimated time of death.
Miss Sexton had last been seen around 7:15 a.m. March 22, when she left her grandmother's Hamilton home.
She never went to school that day, and a male — impersonating Miss Sexton's father — called the school's attendance office around 7:30 to report she would be absent because of illness, Mr. Alf said.
But when he talked to Miss Sexton's father the next day, “(Mr. Sexton) said, "I did not call off for her.'”
That, Mr. Alf said, heightened everyone's fears about Miss Sexton.
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