A search for Lee was launched in July 2022 after the Ole Miss University student went missing and his car was found near an apartment complex in Oxford, Mississippi.
A few weeks after Lee went missing, fellow Ole Miss graduate Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr, 24, was arrested in connection with the case and later tried for capital murder.
Police testified that on the day Lee vanished, Herrington was seen on surveillance footage buying duct tape in Oxford before he drove to his hometown of Grenada, Mississippi, which is about an hour away.
A search for Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee was launched in July 2022 after the Ole Miss student went missing.
Authorities interviewed Herrington, who maintains his innocence, twice on the day of his arrest and he gave conflicting information about the hours before Lee vanished, police testified at the trial in December 2024.
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