Woman charged in 1975 murder to remain in county jail

VINCENNES, INDIANA - A Georgia woman who authorities say kept quiet for 27 years about her involvement in a murder will remain jailed in Knox County, Indiana, despite testimony that she might have tried to overdose on medication. <br> <br> The sheriff&#39;s department had asked that Mae Dicks be transferred to the state prison system because it would be better able to monitor and treat her. <br> <br> In August, a Knox County grand jury indicted Dicks and her ex-husband, Wayne Gulley, on murder charges after police said the two of them in 1975 had abducted 23-year-old Sherry Gibson and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Lindy Alton, while the couple were parked in rural Knox County. <br> <br> Alton survived the attack, but Gibson was raped and murdered. Gulley has denied any involvement in the attacks, and they both are scheduled to face trial in February. <br> <br> Sheriff&#39;s Chief Deputy Fred Kimmel testified during a court hearing yesterday that 47-year-old Dicks, of Toccoa, Georgia, posed a danger to herself, and the facilities at the jail are not equipped to handle her. <br> <br> He said Dicks had at times refused to eat or take her medications and had told jailers that she had no reason to live.