Leroy Charley, the man convicted of the aggravated homicide of a woman who was beaten, bitten, partially strangled and stabbed 20 times in the chest, recently was denied parole and remains incarcerated in Ohio’s Southeastern Correctional Institution.

The body of 42-year-old Sue Forbes, Charley’s victim, was found at noon May 25, 2003, in her bed in her home in Martins Ferry. According to a transcript from the 7th District Court of Appeals, her shirt had been raised in an exposing manner, and her zipper was down.

Court records state that Forbes was last seen at 12:30 a.m. that day outside her home with Charley. They had been dropped off by the victim’s cousin, who heard them arguing and observed that Charley had to assist the seemingly intoxicated Forbes to her house. Forbes had previousl

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