Twelve years after the brutal deaths of a young mother and her son in Heflin, police have new information they are pursuing in an effort to solve the crime, said Heflin police Chief A.J. Benefield.
Benefield said that based on the new information, his department in the last couple of months started interviewing people about the 2002 killings of Monica Rollins, a young mother, and her son Dalton.
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