AN OAK GROVE MAN WHO IS CHARGED WITH MURDERING HIS FATHER LAST NIGHT APPEARED BY VIDEO IN CHRISTIAN DISTRICT COURT THIS AFTERNOON FOR HIS ARRAIGNMENT.

            THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE, JUDGE JIM ADAMS SPOKE TO 56-YEAR OLD DARRELL TIDWELL.

            JUDGE ADAMS SAYS THE MURDER CHARGE CARRIES A POTENTIAL PENALTY OF 20 YEARS TO LIFE WITH OR WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE AND ALSO THE DEATH PENALTY.

            TIDWELL ENTERED A NOT GUILTY PLEA AND STATED HE UNDERSTOOD THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM AND THAT HE COULD NOT AFFORD AN ATTORNEY.

            THE MURDER CASE IS CONTINUED UNTIL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21^ST FOR A PRELIMINARY HEARING.

            TIDWELL’S BOND WAS SET AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS CASH ONLY.

            ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT THE CARTER ROAD RESIDENCE SHORTLY AFTER 8:30, THEY FOUND 86-YEAR OLD KENNETH TIDWELL DEAD ON THE FLOOR.

             THROUGH THE COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION, THEY COLLECTED EVIDENCE TO CHARGE HIS SON—56-YEAR OLD DARRELL TIDWELL—WITH HIS FATHER’S MURDER.
            THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES BY DETECTIVE BILLY SUMNER AND STATE POLICE WERE ASSISTED ON THE SCENE BY OAK GROVE POLICE AND THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
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