TBI special agents and the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department charged an Ohio woman in her husband’s 2023 death in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.

Earlier this year, TBI agents joined an investigation launched after 37-year-old James Matthew Maddox died in June 2023 at his home on Gimlet Road. Investigators later determined that his wife, 39-year-old Jocelyn Rose Fouth Maddox, caused his fatal injuries and, months before the incident, had attempted to run him over with a vehicle.

On Tuesday, following the investigation, the Lawrence County Grand Jury returned indictments charging Maddox with second-degree murder and aggravated assault. The next day, Wednesday, she was arrested in Ohio by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Mount Vernon P

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