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Local West Georgia News

Has Farrah Strength Killed Before?

A hearse may have been used for body disposal.

by D. Tim Clark

July 30, 2010

As first reported locally yesterday by The Information Age, the City of Carrollton Police Department confirmed they had found and recovered a body believed to be missing, former University of West Georgia student Marcelle `Marcy` Elliott.

Additionally, Carrollton residents Farrah Strength and Joshua Clay have been arrested, charged with murder and could appear in court as early as today in the matter.

Police believe Strength lured Elliott back to Carrollton from her parents home in Cobb County, Georgia under the guise of returning a book, but with the intent to do Elliott harm.

Two crime scenes
The murder is believed to have taken place at 530 Lovvorn Road in Carrollton, not far from where Elliot`s car was discovered. Her automobile was found at the Loft Apartments and she was last seen walking nearby on July 23rd.

The body was then driven, possibly by hearse, out Hays Mill Road and then dumped next to a small creek on Laurel Road in rural Carroll County, Georgia.

Has Farrah Strength killed before?
According to Strength`s neighbor E.J. Critten, Strength told him and a friend of his, `I have killed before and I don`t have a problem with killing again,` just a few weeks ago. Also according to Critten, Strength was acting strange last Sunday when he said hello to her.

Critten described how he said hello to Strength while she was at her mailbox; she jumped as if being shot; she looked through him as if he was not there; and she then hurried back into her house without saying a word.

Carroll County residents may recall the death of Farrah Strength`s father, Jerry Michael Strength, during May of 2003. Recall Strength`s mother, Christine Strength was charged with murder after unloading two handguns into him at the family trailer located on Hays Mill Road.

While Christine Strength was arrested and charged with murder, the Carroll County Grand Jury `No Billed` the matter.

According to sources, there was no doubt in anybody`s mind at the time when Christine Strength shot her husband, she meant for him to die.

Was Farrah Strength involved?
Today, we have to ask a few questions.

Was Farrah Strength involved in the killing of her father? Was she boasting to her neighbor about participating in the demise of her father back in 2003 when she said `I have killed before?`

One thing is fairly certain. She has been arrested, charged with murder and today she is sitting in the Carroll County jail for the likley murder of Marcelle Elliott.

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