Alex Wiederspiel

WESTON, W.Va. — The post-trial motions hearing in the case of Lena Lunsford, scheduled for Monday, has been delayed. Defense attorney Tom Dyer said the delay will be so he can add an additional motion, but said he “could not comment” to the nature of…

WESTON, W.Va. — While praising Judge Jacob Reger’s attempts to keep the murder trial of Lena Lunsford evenhanded, defense attorney Tom Dyer contends the guilty verdict was almost inevitable “once the decision was made to have this trial in Lewis…

WESTON, W.Va. — The prosecution believes they have a number of significant holes in the story that Lena Lunsford-Conaway told police about Aliayah Lunsford’s disappearance on September 24, 2011. The defense, led by attorney Tom Dyer, is arguing that…

WESTON, W.Va. — The children knew the fate that had befallen their 3-year-old sister but were too frightened to come forward in the immediate aftermath of Aliayah Lunsford’s death, Lewis County prosecuting attorney Christina Flanagan told jurors…

WESTON, W.Va. — Beginning 9 a.m. Monday, Lena Lunsford, the 35-year-old former Lewis County woman charged in the death of her daughter, will begin what is expected to be a two-week trial to determine her guilt or innocence in what is now the presumed…

WESTON, W.Va. — Ahead of next week’s pre-trial motions hearing, Lena Lunsford-Conaway’s defense has filed a motion to delay the trial scheduled to begin in February. “I would anticipate that this motion will be granted,” Attorney Tom Dyer said in a…

WESTON, W.Va. — Lena Lunsford-Conaway will at least have to sit through a jury selection, a Lewis County judge determined Monday. Circuit Court Judge Jacob Reger refused to grant the defense’s motion for a venue change in the case of Lunsford’s…

WESTON, W.Va. — The location of Lena Lunsford-Conaway’s trial likely won’t be decided Thursday, but how Judge Jacob Reger makes that decision could be in play at a Thursday afternoon hearing. Judge Reger is expected to rule on whether…

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — The attorneys appointed to represent Lena Marie Lunsford Conaway filed a motion this week to obtain a publicly funded jury consultant. “We’ve got a very opinionated potential jury panel down there in Lewis County, and we have…

WESTON, W.Va. — Next month’s trial of a Lewis County woman charged in the 2011 death of her 3-year-old daughter has been postponed until October. The defense team for Lena Marie Lunsford-Conaway, 34, requested extra preparation time in a motion Judge…

WESTON, W.Va. — The highly anticipated trial of Lena Marie Lunsford-Conway, 34, formerly of Bendale, WV, indicted for numerous charges in connection with the 2011 death of her then 3-year-old daughter Aliayah, is set for June 19, 2017. A Lewis County…

WESTON, W.Va. — The case of the Lewis County woman charged in the death of her three year old daughter will now head to a Grand Jury. Lena Lunsford waived her preliminary hearing Wednesday. She is charged with child abuse with death in the case of…

BENDALE, W.Va. — With a soft, reassuring voice and a number family and community members in church, Reverend Ronald C. Brown led the first of what could be many memorials for Aliayah Lunsford, the three-year-old girl who went missing on September 24,…

WESTON, W.Va. — The Lewis County Grand Jury’s November term comes to an end without an indictment against Lena Lunsford, who’s preliminary hearing in the death of Aliayah Lunsford has been delayed until Wednesday, November 16. However, the Grand jury…

WESTON, W.Va. — Aliayah Lunsford’s family members had choice words for the recently arrested Lena Lunsford, the woman police believe dealt the fatal blow to her 3-year-old daughter on Sept. 24, 2011. “How could you do this to your own child?” Tina…

The mother of 3-year-old Aliayah Lunsford struck a fatal blow to the child’s head on Sept. 24, 2011, and then concocted a false story about her daughter’s disappearance, according to a criminal complaint released Friday. Lena Lunsford was arraigned…

JACKSON’S MILL, W.Va. — Friends and extended family gathered at the Jackson’s Mill Baptist Church Saturday to hold a prayer vigil for a child that no one has seen a trace of in precisely five years. Aliayah Lunsford, 3, of Bendale, seemingly vanished…

BENDALE, W.Va. — Saturday marks five years to the day since three-year-old Aliayah Lunsford went missing from her Lewis County home–with still no resolution of any kind for family members. “Based on the experiences here at the National Center, we…