Kenny Jeffers testified when he arrived at the home, Irick was standing on the porch with his arms hanging limply by his side. Jeffers found Paula unconscious on the floor with a pool of blood between her legs. She was not breathing, but Jeffers could feel a pulse. Kenny Jeffers wrapped Paula in a blanket and rushed her to Children’s Hospital.
Paula Dyer was essentially dead on arrival at Children’s Hospital. Nonetheless, Dr. Jim Kimball tried unsuccessfully to revive the child for about 45 minutes. Dr. Kimball testified Paula “was not breathing,” her face was blue, and she was “oozing blood” where she was brutally raped anally and vaginally. Dr. Kimball ruled asphyxiation the cause of death.
By the time Kathy Jeffers arrived at the hospital, her daughter was dead.
Dr. David Douglas Wilson, a pathologist at the University of Tennessee hospital, performed Dyer’s autopsy and agreed asphyxiation was the cause of death. Along with a severely torn rectum and vagina from the rape, he noted Paula was hit in the head with a blunt object or fist that may have knocked her unconscious. She also had injuries to her neck and face, likely caused by pressure from a hand.
the punishment should have fit the crime- He should have suffered the same fate his victim did-