Man arrested in TV anchor death
Police on Wednesday arrested a man on a capital murder charge in the beating death of a television anchorwoman but offered neither a motive behind the attack nor details about why they suspected him.
Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, fled his Marianna home earlier Wednesday with a 25-year-old woman and three young children, police said.
Vance was arrested without incident at a home in Little Rock.
Anne Pressly, 26, died Oct. 25, five days after she was found in her home severely beaten in the head and upper torso.
She never regained consciousness.
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