Chickamauga man tells police elderly mother killed, dismembered teens
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Posted 5:32PM on Tuesday, November 26, 2002
JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE - A man charged in the grisly slayings of two Georgia teenagers says his elderly mother did it. <br>
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A police officer testified Monday that 51-year-old Howard Hawk Willis of Chickamauga told him it must have been his mother, Betty, who killed the teens. <br>
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Washington County Sheriff's Department Sergeant Kenneth Phillips was testifying at a preliminary hearing for Betty Willis. <br>
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She faces two counts of abuse of a corpse, accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and solicitation to tamper with evidence. <br>
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The son is charged with murdering 17-year-old Adam Chrismer and his wife of two months, 16-year-old Samantha Foster Leming. <br>
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The teens were last seen traveling with Willis. <br>
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Chrismer's head and hands were found in a lake at Johnson City. His other remains and those of his wife were recovered in a storage warehouse.