Pamela Long Wiggins, 47, has been arrested and charged as an accessory to murder in the slayings of Byrd Billings and Melanie Billings of Beulah, Florida. Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan announced the eighth arrest in the case at an 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night.
Wiggins was discovered on her 47-foot yacht, The Classy Lady, at Wharf Marina in Orange Beach, Alabama, 40 miles west of Pensacola. One of the murder suspects, Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr., was a friend of the woman, and was a witness at her marriage ceremony last year.
Wiggins, a successful real estate agent, owns eight residential properties in Santa Rosa County and also owns Magnolia Antique Mall east of Tiger Point. She is married to Jimmy Malden Jr., who told ABC’s GMA today that he has been trying to divorce her for years.
Wiggins, who has a long list of alias identities, was charged with felony grand theft in 1988. In a plea agreement, she speaded gulty to a misdemeanor. Other names provided by Sheriff Morgan include Pamela Laverne Long, Pam Long, Pamela L. Long, Pamela Malden and Pamela Laverne Long Coco.
View latest news conference video below. See more photos of suspects and victims here.
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