The Holmes County Sheriff’s Department has announced the arrest of Terrence Kendale Sample, 33, in relation to the death of 21-year-old Makayla Winston of Goodman, who went missing last Thursday after leaving her home to show her boyfriend a sonogram of the baby, which was due on July 4.
Winston’s body was found by a relative of Sample's near his property on Monday, about six miles from where law enforcement officials had found her abandoned vehicle with the keys still in the ignition on Friday. Her cell phone was found in a nearby ditch, but the phone had reportedly been wiped of all text messages, but Match said the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations was working to recover the deleted messages.
Sample has been charged with murder, kidnapping, and capital murder.
Kosciusko attorney Richard Carter is representing Sample, who is the son of Attala County Justice Court Judge (West) Rosie Massey Sample.
Holmes County District Attorney Akillie Malone-Oliver told the media that both of her county's Justice Court judges recused themselves from hearing the case because they know the mother of the accused. As a result, Sample's arraignment was held in Yazoo County by Justice Court Judge Bennie Warrington, who denied Sample bond. He is now being held in the Holmes-Humphreys County Regional Correctional Facility, awaiting a preliminary hearing.
