Jarvis Earl Hickerson and Amalia Alexander (Harris County Sheriff’s Office).
A Texas man who retaliated against his girlfriend, by killing her and dumping her body in a field after she filed domestic violence charges against him, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Jarvis Earl Hickerson, 40, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the 2016 killing of 32-year-old Amalia Alexander on Sept. 19, 2016, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced in a news release .
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It was a long wait for justice for the victim’s family, in pain over the gut-wrenching killing and the similarly long wait for any kind of healing.
“He took her body far away and left her there to rot,” Laura Alexander, Amalia’s sister, said in 2023, local ABC affiliate KTRK reported. “Left her there to rot and let the animals tear her apart. Think about that.”
Ogg remarked about the lag, saying: “Eight years is too long for anyone to have to wait for justice, but our Domestic Violence Division was able to get life without parole, which was the appropriate sentence.”