In the quiet community of Bucks, Alabama, the life of 60-year-old Douglas Gordon McKinney, a Caucasian male, was violently cut short on December 15, 2016. What began as an ordinary day ended in a tragic double homicide that also claimed the life of his 54-year-old wife, Lisanne Watkins McKinney. The couple was found slain, their deaths the result of gun violence that shattered the peace of their rural surroundings.
The heinous nature of the crime prompted an immediate and intensive
investigation by law enforcement. The search for the person or persons responsible culminated in a manhunt that led authorities to a suspect. Stephen Lavern Weaver, a resident of the same Bucks community near the Mobile and Washington County line, was taken into custody the day after the murders.
Following his capture, Weaver was charged with two counts of capital murder for his alleged role in the deaths of Douglas and Lisanne McKinney. The arrest brought a swift, albeit somber, development to a case that had deeply affected the local community, leaving friends and family to mourn the sudden and brutal loss of the married couple.
