Miss. woman who killed boyfriend and locked his body in freezer denied appeal to overturn conviction

JACKSON, Miss. (TCD) -- An appeals court denied a woman’s motion to overturn her conviction after she was found guilty and sentenced to life for killing her boyfriend and locking his body in a freezer. The Mississippi Appeals Court released the opinion regarding Samantha Simmons' case Tuesday, Jan. 16, affirming her 2022 conviction of receiving stolen property and first-degree murder for killing Thomas Burns in 2018. A circuit court judge sentenced her to life in prison for murder, plus 20 years for the second charge. Burns and Simmons met in early 2018, a few months after his