Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Killer of Mail Carrier

Marie Youngblood was driving a Jeep in some ways similar to this one, which was used for rural mail delivery in North Carolina at around the same time period as Youngblood was murdered in Texas. Christopher Ziemnowicz/Wikimedia Commons

Justice Department lawyers at an Oct. 31 hearing rejected a plea offer from a man accused of killing and burning the body of a mail carrier.

James Wayne Ham is on trial in a Houston court for the 2013 killing of 52-year-old postal carrier Eddie “Marie” Youngblood.