



Posted 13 January 2013 - 10:28 AM
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MISSING PERSON
Karen Denise Steed
MISSING SINCE: November 25, 1997
LAST SEEN: Piedmont, Alabama
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 67.0 in
WEIGHT: 120.0 lbs
EYES: Green
HAIR: Blond/Strawberry
Steed was last seen at her residence in Piedmont, Alabama on November 25, 1997. Her 1982 beige Ford Fairmount with Alabama license plates 11DW289 was discovered abandoned on Interstate 20 in Cleburne County, Alabama on December 18, 1997, nearly three weeks after Steed's initial disappearance. There was no sign of her at the scene and she has never been heard from again.
Contact Calhoun County Sheriff Office at 205-236-6600 with information.
Case #: M-079263666 NamUs MP #: 2349
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Posted 13 January 2013 - 10:30 AM
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Posted 13 January 2013 - 10:33 AM
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Posted 13 December 2014 - 07:41 PM
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Piedmont man charged with murder in 2009 cold case
Posted: Aug 16, 2013 7:26 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 23, 2013 7:33 PM EDT
By WBRC Staff
PIEDMONT, AL (WBRC) - Calhoun County officials announced a major development in the murder of 28-year-old Carla Fuqua of Piedmont.
Calhoun County Sheriff Larry Amerson said Jimmy Ray Steed was indicted by a grand jury for Fuqua's murder. Fuqua went missing in 2009 and her body was found in December 2012 in a wooded area of Highway 21 south of Piedmont.
Steed, also from Piedmont, is already in custody of the Calhoun County jail on several charges of manufacturing meth after officials found 15 meth labs in his home, which caught on fire after he was jailed.
In today's conference, Sheriff Amerson said he couldn't talk about the evidence in the Fuqua murder case, but said they received several tips after Fuqua disappeared. Amerson noted that Fuqua knew Jimmy Steed.
Amerson said Steed is also a suspect in three missing persons cases in Piedmont: his wife, Karen Steed, Patrick Burrows and Jeffrey McFry. Karen Steed and Patrick Burrows both went missing in the same geographical area, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office said on their Facebook page.
Steed has not been charged in any of the missing persons cases, but Sheriff Amerson said he is pleased to have the indictment against Steed in Fuqua's murder case.
Fuqua's family says they do not have closure today. Her mother, Darlene Cook, said she doesn't believe Steed acted alone.
"I'm happy that they got him. I feel like there's more. If they had them all, maybe I would feel better," Cook said.
Calhoun County's DA says there is "direct evidence" against Steed in this case as well as circumstantial evidence. Steed will remain in the Calhoun County Jail until his court date.
In the meantime, the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help with any information in the disappearances of Karen Steed, Patrick Burrows and Jeffrey McFry. Anyone with information is asked to contact Calhoun County Sheriff Office at 205-236-6600 with information.
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Posted 01 March 2015 - 06:16 PM
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Jimmy Steed sentenced to 105 years in prison for 2009 Carla Fuqua murder
By William Thornton
on February 17, 2015 at 1:08 PM, updated February 17, 2015 at 2:05 PM
A Calhoun County judge today sentenced a Piedmont man to 105 years in prison in a six-year-old murder case.
Jimmy Ray Steed, 55, was sentenced this morning by Circuit Judge Brian Howell.
Steed entered a guilty plea in December to murder charges in the 2009 disappearance and death of Carla Michelle Fuqua.
He also pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and manufacturing methamphetamine. Steed received 75 years for Fuqua's death and 30 years for drug charges.
"This came about because of a lot of hard work by the sheriff's office and the cold case unit," said Assistant District Attorney Tim Burgess. "They just continued to work it and kept going to get the evidence needed."
Sheriff Larry Amerson said he was pleased with the sentence, feeling "justice was served."
"This is another success for our cold case unit, and an example of the support and partnership we've had with the district attorney's office," Amerson said.
Steed was indicted in August 2013 in the death of Fuqua, who was last seen Oct. 29, 2009. Her remains were found on Dec. 4, 2012 in a wooded area south of Piedmont near Alabama 21 at the old Piedmont Brickyard.
Authorities said the last outgoing call made from Fuqua's cell phone that night was at 9:21 p.m. She was living on Piedmont Springs Road at the time of her disappearance, and told her roommate the night she vanished that was going to meet someone. A friend dropped her off at Steed's home, but Steed denied seeing her that night.
Fuqua's roommate was later charged with fraudulent use of a credit card after she used Carla's vehicle and debit card at several locations.
Steed was already in the Calhoun County Jail in the fall of 2013, on charges stemming from his arrest earlier that August, when he was indicted for Fuqua's murder. Investigators caught Steed manufacturing methamphetamine at his home on Hughes Road in Piedmont. Burgess said investigators found 14 meth labs on Steed's property.
Two days after his arrest, his house burned. Authorities said it wasn't the first time one of Steed's homes had burned during an investigation.
Amerson said investigators hope Steed's conviction will mean breaks in three long-running missing persons cases. Because Steed remains a suspect in them, prosecutors kept details of Fuqua's death "close to the vest," Burgess said.
Calhoun County authorities have long suspected Steed in the disappearances of James Patrick Burrows, Jeffrey Scott McFry and Steed's wife, Karen Steed.
All of them went missing within a geographic mile of Steed's home.
"We certainly feel anyone who knows anything would be encouraged to come forward, as there's no danger of him getting out," Amerson said. "Someone may have been afraid to do so before."
On Aug. 21, 1990, Burrows was reported missing. His motorcycle was found sunken in a bog near a friend's house more than a year after his disappearance.
McFry went missing less than a month after Burrows, with evidence he was forcibly taken.
Karen Steed, 29, disappeared on Nov. 23, 1997, and was last seen at her home in Piedmont. Her car was found on Interstate 20 a month later in Cleburne County.
Steed had never been ruled out as a suspect in any of the killings, and he was known by all of the victims.
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Posted 09 October 2015 - 05:39 PM
Karen is still missing.
Calhoun County Sheriff Office at 205-236-6600 with information.
Case #: M-079263666 NamUs MP #: 2349
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