A Little Rock-born grandmother who appeared in the movie "The Blues Brothers" died last week at her home in Altadena, Calif., as a wildfire raged through the community.
Born in Little Rock in 1929, Dalyce Curry, or “Momma Dee” as she was known to family, lived in Altadena, where she died in her home at the age of 95 amid the Eaton Fire last week.
Candace Chapman Scott, 37, of Little Rock, will serve a total of 15 years in federal prison for transporting stolen human body parts--including fetuses--out of Arkansas and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
A 37-year-old Little Rock woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in transporting stolen human body parts, including fetuses, out of Arkansas.
A Little Rock woman has been sentenced to more than a decade for stealing human remains and transporting them across state lines to sell them.
Although all of Curry’s family mementos, including numerous scrapbooks, were destroyed in the blaze, one prized possession — a 1981 blue Cadillac parked in front of her home that she had planned to rehab and rent to Hollywood production companies — was unscathed.
At age 95, there was no other way to describe Dalyce Curry, or “Momma Dee” to her large extended family, other than “fabulous.”
A Little Rock woman accused of selling stolen body parts online has been sentenced after a plea deal. Candace Scott Chapman was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. She was charged with selling 20 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000.
Chapman worked at the mortuary where the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock sent remains that had been donated to science. Jer
She settled in Los Angeles, where she never became a star but did rub shoulders with some of the elites of old Hollywood, including backing up singer Pearl Bailey, being an extra in a scene with Diana Ross in "Lady Sings the Blues" and being mentored by the first Black woman to ever sign a movie contract.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials with the UAMS Police Department are searching for a missing woman last seen on January 8 in Little Rock. 30-year-old Jacklyn Bailey was last seen leaving UAMS in a 2004 Blue Chevy Cavalier with AR license plate ASD57P.