Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler said Sunday that a mother and son whom authorities found in a house fire south of Jasper died in a murder-suicide.

Dale Ellis

Dale Ellis covers the federal courthouse beat for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, reporting on criminal and civil matters that impact Arkansans. He joined the newspaper in January 2018, working from the Pine Bluff bureau before taking up his current beat in January 2021. Dale started in news in 1998 at the Heber Springs Sun-Times where he was a reporter and columnist. He has also worked at the Searcy Daily Citizen as managing editor and at the Wynne Progress as managing editor. Dale has state government, education, radio and television experience as well.

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