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Bowie Co. triple murder trial moved to Rusk Co.

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Rachel Pittman, 17 (Courtesy: Bowie County Sheriff's Office) Rachel Pittman, 17 (Courtesy: Bowie County Sheriff's Office)
34-year-old Amanda Doss and 11-year-old Guinevere Doss 8-year-old Texas Johnson were killed in their Redwater, Texas home in May of 2011, which was then set on fire. 34-year-old Amanda Doss and 11-year-old Guinevere Doss 8-year-old Texas Johnson were killed in their Redwater, Texas home in May of 2011, which was then set on fire.
Pittman was arrested in August of last year, nearly three months to the day after the three bodies were pulled from the smoldering rubble of their rural Bowie County home on May 11th, 2011. Pittman was arrested in August of last year, nearly three months to the day after the three bodies were pulled from the smoldering rubble of their rural Bowie County home on May 11th, 2011.
BOWIE CO., TX (KSLA) -

The capital murder trial of a Redwater teen indicted in the murder of a Bowie County mother and her two children has been moved to Rusk County.

Rachel Pittman, now 17, was indicted in February for capital murder for the deaths of 34-year-old Amanda Doss and 11-year-old Guinevere Doss and a separate murder charge for 8-year-old Texas Johnson. She has pleaded not guilty.

She was certified as an adult to face those charges. Because she was 16 at the time of the crime, Pittman will not be eligible for the death penalty if convicted, but she could face life in prison.

At pre-trial hearing Wednesday in New Boston, both the state and the defense agreed on a change of venue from Bowie County to Rusk County because of pre-trial publicity. The judge also agreed and granted the motion.

Pittman is now set to stand trial in Henderson in mid-January.

Pittman was arrested in August of last year, nearly three months to the day after the three bodies were pulled from the smoldering rubble of their rural Bowie County home on May 11th, 2011.

She has been held on $3 million bond since her arrest. She's due for another pre-trial hearing November 7. At that hearing in Bowie County, Judge Leon Pesek, Jr. will decide whether to grant or deny a motion by Pittman's attorneys to suppress the confession she gave to investigators at the time of her arrest.

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