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Vance trial: jurors hear police interviews; detective testifies

Photo by Steve Keesee

Curtis Vance arrives at the Pulaski County Courthouse, Little Rock, Monday for the second week of his capital murder trial in the death of TV news anchor Anne Pressly.

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Pulaski County jurors on Monday heard Curtis Lavelle Vance tell police several stories about his involvement in the beating death of Little Rock TV news anchor Anne Pressly before ultimately admitting to detectives that he’d attacked the 26-year-old in her home during an October 2008 break-in.

“I lost it,” Vance told police during 4 1/2-hour video interview played for the jurors who will decide on the capital-murder charge against him.

“This situation, I guess it got out of hand,” he said later after telling the detectives he’d committed a “sick crime.”

In addition to the Feb. 24 recording, a 2 1/2-hour audio recorded interview that police conducted with Vance on Dec. 10 was played for the ...


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This article was published November 10, 2009 at 4:19 a.m.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/10/2009

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