Barrow Journal

While a conviction in a murder trial is supposed to bring some semblance of finality to a tragic event, in the case of Jim Lynn, it has raised even more questions.

After last week’s verdict in the murder trial of a Winder woman, it seems there are more answers to come about what the defendant has attempted to cover up in his life. After three full days of testimony and a little more than an hour of deliberation, a Barrow County jury convicted him of murdering his wife and the mother of his children. Jim Lynn is now sentenced to serve the rest of his life somewhere behind bars without the possibility of parole for those actions.

Is justice served? We can make the argument that he received the harshest sentence possible for this case, but sadly, that will never come close to suffice for the ones who are missing a daughter, a mother, a sister, an aunt or a friend. [Full Story »]