Local news anchor woman found beaten and stabbed

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  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    I was watching CNN and they say....News just IN!!

    Then it was on FOX news......I was thinking, why would this make national news.

    Anyway, hope she recovers ok and they find out who did this to her.

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    Arkansas Television Anchor Attacked in Home

    Monday, October 20, 2008

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    Anne Pressly

    An Arkansas television anchor who filmed a bit role for the movie "W." was found in her home early Monday suffering from life-threatening injuries caused by a brutal beating.

    Anne Pressly, 26, the morning anchor for KATV-TV in Little Rock, was found by her mother at about 4:30 a.m. lying in her bed and bleeding from "severe injuries," police said.

    "We do believe she was beaten," Sgt. Cassandra Davis of the Little Rock Police Department told FOXNews.com. She said the injuries were to the upper body and included stab wounds.

    Click here for photos.

    Pressly was listed in critical condition at a local hospital, Davis said.

    Pressly may have been attacked during a robbery, as her purse is missing. But Davis said that police haven't found any forced entry to her home on Club Road in Little Rock.

    "It’s not a neighborhood known for any violent crime," Davis said.

    Police do not have suspects in the case, but said they were questioning neighbors, friends and co-workers, Davis said.

    Pressly was seen in "good condition" at 10:30 p.m. and her mother, who normally gives Pressly a wake-up call, found her daughter, Davis said.

    "She didn’t get an answer so she went to the address on Club Road, and she found her daughter inside the residence lying in the bed suffering from some severe injuries," Davis told FOXNews.com.

    Pressly's dogs, which were also missing, have been found.

    Early Monday afternoon, a man who answered a phone listed for Pressly's mother, Patricia Cannady, said the family had no comment.

    According to her resume on the Internet Movie Database, the ABC anchor played a news commentator in Oliver Stone's new movie, "W." She also played a sorority girl on the soap opera "As The World Turns."

    Pressly won her role in "W.", which was filmed in Shreveport, La., when she went to the city for a story on the movie and Shreveport's film industry. She appears briefly as a conservative commentator who speaks favorably of President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech.

    KATV's Web site notes that Pressly's most notable interview was with Vice President Dick Cheney. Pressly was returning from a story in Humphrey and traveling through Stuttgart, where the highway was blocked in front of hunting supply store Mack's Prairie Wings.

    It turned out that Cheney, an avid hunter, was inside. Pressly asked for an interview, which she conducted on the ammunition aisle.

    Pressly is a 2004 graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.

    During its 11:30 a.m. newscast, anchor Jason Pederson read a story about the attack and said Pressly was hospitalized.

    "We would ask that you keep Anne in your thoughts and, especially, in your prayers," Pederson said.

    Her fans had created a Facebook prayer page Monday afternoon.

    Click here for Anne Pressly's IMDb.com page.

    FOXNews.com's Sara Bonisteel and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Bet this is going to make the tabloids; missing dogs, no forced entry...

    S

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    yeah. something must be up.

    purps

  • John Doe
    John Doe

    Does anyone else think she looks like Ann Coulter?

  • AudeSapere
    AudeSapere

    Yikes.

    I wonder if she is related to Jamie Pressly (of 'My Name is Earl')?

  • Tired of the Hypocrisy
    Tired of the Hypocrisy

    Little Rock? Clintons old stomping grounds....

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa
    Does anyone else think she looks like Ann Coulter?

    A police spokesman said Pressley was "beaten and stabbed" and that her injuries were "life-threatening." The police do not have a suspect. Pressley has a small role in the current movie, "W," Oliver Stone's portrayal of George W. Bush. She played commentator Ann Coulter in the movie, much of it filmed in Shreveport.

  • CaptainSchmideo
    CaptainSchmideo

    Just looked it up on Wikipedia.

    No relation to Jamie Pressly, even though the resemblance is striking!

    I hope she recovers!

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    update~~Well, I did not post that this woman did die.

    A friend of mine that is a cop told us this am that they caught the killer last night.

    He raped, beat, tasered, cut off her breasts, and killed her, to rob her.

    They said that she never had a chance, but let the public think that so that maybe the killer would come forward.

    I can't find anything online that they did catch the killer, I am sure something will be posted soon.

    purps

  • mama1119
    mama1119

    This story is just horrifying. What a horrible sick person. That poor family.

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