A Walker County couple is under arrest on charges they beat and strangled a 76-year-old man.
Michael Earnest, 49, and Alecia Earnest, 55, are charged with first-degree elder abuse and neglect, second-degree financial exploitation of the elderly, domestic violence-strangulation and second-degree theft of property.
The victim, Jimmy Lynn Pearce, is the father of Alecia Earnest and the father-in-law of Michael Earnest, court records show.