CULLMAN, Ala. – The murder trial of Randall Dewayne Hogan, 71, began Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Cullman County Circuit Court, more than six years after Vinemont resident Jeffery Glenn Wilhite disappeared from the West Point community.
Hogan is being tried under an April 2026 indictment charging him with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence. The charges are allegations, and Hogan is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
The indictment accuses Hogan of killing Wilhite on or about April 2, 2020. It further alleges Hogan treated Wilhite’s remains in a manner that would outrage ordinary family sensibilities and removed or concealed physical evidence connected to the alleged killing…