A Jackson County judge on Monday ensured a woman accused of a brutal 2023 murder will remain behind bars, denying bond for Tapanga Steadman during a hearing in Alabama. Steadman is the second person charged in the death of 25-year-old Jamari Moore, whose body was discovered wrapped in plastic and weighted with concrete at a local boat launch nearly three years ago.
The hearing on April 28, 2026, shed new light on the forensic trail that led investigators to Tapanga Steadman.
An investigator testified that Moore was last seen alive in a photo he sent his mother, showing him eating dinner with Tapanga inside their apartment…