CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A murder victim’s family is outraged after a judge refused to revoke bond for one of four suspects accused in the brutal murder of Mary Collins in Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood in 2020.
The judge did not revoke bond for the suspect, America Diehl, despite her being accused of repeatedly not charging her electronic monitor.
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Mecklenburg County Judge David Strickland said Diehl has been on the monitor for four years and has been cooperative in the case, she has a job and she’s going to work.
Diehl faces charges of concealing and failure to report a death and felony accessory after the fact of murder in the stabbing of 20-year-old Mary Collins. …