Several high-profile cases involving murder allegations against local suspects are slated to go to arraignment later this month in Cullman County Circuit Court.

On the June 29 arraignment docket in the court of Circuit Judge Greg Nicholas are a Hartselle man and his grandmother, each accused of playing a role in the death and concealment of a missing Hartselle man, Daniel Ray Osborne II, in late March.

Andrew Maresh, 19, and his grandmother, 66-year-old Susan Winton Smith of Fairview, each have been charged with murder in connection with Osborne’s death. Law enforcement said they discovered Osborne’s body on March 26 on Smith’s property, after he had gone missing over the preceding weekend.

Maresh faces a single count of murder. Smith faces a charge of murder, as well as a single count of first degree hindering of prosecution. A second man, 20-year-old Tyler Stephen Hudson of Baileyton, also was arrested along with Maresh, but is not set for arraignment this month.

A Cullman woman also is set for arraignment in connection with the death of 33-year-old Leslie Clements, who whose body was found inside an apartment on Fuller Street in Cullman in September of 2016.

Kayla Thursby, 31, faces a single count of murder along with a count of first degree theft of property in connection with the case. Thursby and 36-year-old Jerome Flanagan were charged with murder earlier this year after a lengthy investigation into Clements’ death yielded both suspects as persons of interests before they faced criminal charges.

Also facing murder charges is 27-year-old William Thomas Maddux, who turned himself in to Cullman Police in January after a warrant had been issued for his arrest in connection with the Nov. 12, 2017 shooting death of 56-year-old Perry Shoemake, his stepfather.

Maddux is accused of killing Shoemake at Shoemake’s Carrol Acres home. Prior to turning himself in, Maddux had been discharged from UAB Hospital after spending more than a month there for treatment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Another murder case involving a 2017 traffic accident that killed a Cullman High School athlete will set Cullman resident Bradford Neal Meeks, 28, on the arraignment docket.

Meeks faces a single count of reckless murder, as well as a litany of traffic-related charges in connection with allegations he was driving under the influence of alcohol at the time his vehicle collided with the one in which Curtis Wilson, 15, was a passenger. Wilson died in the accident; his mother Ashely, who was driving the vehicle when the May 7, 2017 accident occurred, was injured.

In addition to the reckless murder charge, Meeks faces charges of DUI (.08 or higher blood alcohol), DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol), violating the open container law, third degree assault, and two lane violation charges.

All of the suspects who have yet to enter a plea will have the opportunity to do so on June 29, ahead of the scheduling of a future criminal trial docket.