Toddler murder case to be profiled on TV

Published 3:56 pm Friday, May 8, 2009

The case of Marion Faye Cason, convicted by a Suwannee County jury in 2006 for the murder of her two-year-old daughter, will be featured on WeTV Tuesday night at 10 p.m. Live Oak Police Chief Buddy Williams and Lt. Keith Davis were interviewed for the show.

“I felt like it was a high profile case,” Williams said. “It was kind of neat for them to be here and I think LOPD will be represented fine.”

Williams was a lieutenant at the time and helped interview Cason and convicted child abuser Fredrick L. Stegall, Cason’s live-in boyfriend at the time, who was alone with the child when paramedics arrived. Stegall, 47, had been released from prison just months earlier.

Davis, an LOPD sergeant at the time, was the responding officer that night.

“The call originally came out for a child not breathing but when things looked suspicious they (paramedics) called for police to back them up,” said Davis.

Davis said he was interviewed by producers of “Women behind bars,” the series which will air Cason’s story, for hours.

“I told them the whole story of what I had seen,” said Davis.

Serenity Miller died Jan. 2, 2003, while in the care of Cason and Stegall, but the circumstances of the child’s death are unclear. Prosecutors said she was abused over a considerable period of time.

Cason, now 30, was sentenced to life plus 20 years without parole on Dec. 20, 2006 for the murder of Serenity. Stegall was sentenced to 19 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.