Teen Indicted on Capital Murder Counts
Posted/updated on: February 11, 2012 at 7:44 am
TEXARKANA (AP) — A 17-year-old northeast Texas girl has been indicted on capital murder counts in the deaths of a Texarkana mother and her two children. The Bowie County grand jury returned the indictment Thursday against Rachel Nicole Pittman of Redwater. She remains in the Bowie County jail under $3 million bond and is set for arraignment today.
She’s accused in the May 11 deaths of Amanda Doss, 34, and her two children, Guinevere Doss, 11, and Texas Johnson, 8. Their bodies were pulled from the charred ruins of their home in Redwater, a rural community 13 miles southwest of Texarkana. If convicted, Pittman could be sentenced to death or life imprisonment without parole. A gag order prevents investigators and attorneys from commenting.
