Anne Pressly

 

Anne Pressly was an American news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was born in South Carolina and move to Little Rock when her mother remarried during her senior year in high school. After earning her BS in Political Science from Rhodes College in Memphis she was hired at KATV in 2004, producing Good Morning, Arkansas and anchoring the MidDay Arkansas and Saturday Daybreak news programs. She was promoted to a full-time reporter position in November of 2004. A chance meeting with a casting director while working on a story helped her land a small role as a conservative commentator in Oliver Ston'es film, W. On October 2, 2008, a half-hour before she was due to appear on the staion's Daybreak program police were alerted by her mother when Pressly failed to answer her wake-up call. She was found unresponsive in her bed with injuries sustained to her head and upper body consistent with a beating. She had been raped, her left hand broken and her face crushed beyond recognition. The attacker took her laptop, her purse and a credit card. She was hospitalized and died five days later. A suspect, Curtis Lavelle Vance, has been arrested for the murder and he is scheduled to be tried in November of 2009.