David Neal Cox , the Mississippi man sentenced death who was executed on 17 November for the murder of his wife in 2010 and the sexual assault on his daughter of 12 years, confessed in his last days to having also murdered his sister-in-law.
The First Circuit District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that David Neal Cox wrote a note to the district attorney’s office that revealed the alleged location of the body of Felicia Cox, who had been missing since July 2007. The letter was personally delivered by the Office of Capital Post-Conviction (CPCC) two days after Cox’s execution.
CPCC said that Cox made the confession shortly before he was executed. and renounced his attorney-client privilege after his death. “Mr. Cox felt deep regret and wanted to bring closure to his family,” the CPCC said in a statement on Tuesday.
The prosecutor’s office said that Cox had long been suspected of being responsible for the disappearance of Felicia Cox.
The Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Department , the District Attorney’s Office and Mississippi State University Archeology and Anthropology experts have launched a search and recovery effort in hopes of finding the remains.
“We would like to emphasize that locating the remains of Felicia Cox is not a foregone conclusion. We hope that the information is accurate and that the recovery efforts are successful so that Felicia’s family can give her a proper burial, ”said the Prosecutor’s Office.
David Cox, from 50 years, he became last month the first inmate executed in Mississippi in nine years. He had pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting their young daughter while his mother was dying more than a decade ago.
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