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Woman arrested in connection with Lazenby murder

Saturday, September 15, 2012

A sixth arrest has been made in connection with the murder of attorney Blake Lazenby in Sylacauga in July 2011.

According to Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens, Teresa Baker Taylor, 53, of Alexander City, was arrested Friday morning for solicitation of and conspiracy to commit murder. Her bond was set at $1 million by Circuit Judge Bo Hollingsworth.

Giddens said Taylor had been involved in a relationship with Earnest “L.A.” Files, Jr., and had represented herself as Lazenby’s wife.

Files had also worked for Lazenby’s wife as a landscaper. Blake and Jeannie Lazenby were in the midst of a four-year divorce battle when he was killed.

According to testimony that has come out so far, about a year before the murder, Files, 56, approached Calvin McCall Haynes, 30, and asked him to kill his girlfriend’s husband for $85,000. In a recorded statement played at Files’ preliminary hearing, Haynes said Files and a white woman with two children had approached him and offered him the cash on the scene. The woman was allegedly Taylor, even though she claimed to be Mrs. Lazenby, Giddens said.

Haynes said he did not want any part of the murder himself, but mentioned it to Ocie Lee Lynch, 30. Lynch in turn approached Charles Andrew Joseph Hendricks, 21, and Jeremy Lee Cade, 22.

Lynch and Hendricks are each charged with capital murder during the commission of a burglary, and Hendricks faces an additional charge of theft of property in the first degree in connection with the theft of Lazenby’s vehicle, which was burned out and abandoned in Cahaba.

Cade was charged with theft of property in the first degree and receiving stolen property, also in connection with the theft of the vehicle.

Lynch and Haynes are also charged with solicitation of and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the case.

A conviction for capital murder carries a penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole or death by lethal injection. Solicitation and conspiracy are Class A felonies, punishable by 10 to 99 years or life in prison. Theft of property in the first degree is a Class B felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison.

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