DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — The man charged in the murder of Jessica Chambers is back in Mississippi.
Quinton Tellis arrived at the Desoto County Jail around 6:15 p.m.
Tellis was indicted in the Chambers case back in February at the same time he was in jail for an unrelated case in Monroe, Louisiana.
He entered a guilty plea to unauthorized use of a credit card that belonged to a murdered ULM student on the first day of his trial.
Teelis waived his extradition rights to Mississippi where he is set to face first-degree murder charges for Chamber’s death back in December 2014.
hambers was set on fire on a rural road in Panola County.
Around 98% of her body was burned.
She later died from her injuries.
Learn more about the Chambers case via our archive.
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