Prentiss Hare, 37, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in the death of Tiffany Chambers, from Jacksonville, in Clark County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. It is his second murder conviction. He was previously found guilty of choking 35-year-old Deshun Lumford to death in 2016.
Hare killed Chambers in Springfield and then dumped her body in Greene County in 2015, according to Clark County Assistant Prosecutor Dan Driscoll. Chambers was missing until the spring of 2016, when her remains were found in Spring Valley Twp.
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Hare killed Chambers without a weapon, Driscoll said.
“She was led to an ally behind 144 West Pleasant Street in the city of Springfield and Prentiss Hare killed Tiffany with his bare hands,” he said.
Hare is also a suspect of the Florida slaying of Michael Frazier, Driscoll said. He isn’t charged with his death, but Hare did admit that Chambers was killed because she was a witness to Frazier’s death, Driscoll said.
Driscoll also said Hare is being investigated for other unsolved Clark County murders, but he declined to go into specifics.
Brittany Abdullah was one of Chambers’ best friends and told the Springfield News-Sun that her friend did not deserve to die.
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“Tiffany was one of the most caring individuals I ever met,” Abdullah said. “She was a very caring, loving person.”
Another friend of Chambers, Melissa Story, told the Springfield News-Sun that she is happy to see Hare in prison for a long time.
“I’m glad that he pled guilty,” said Story, a high school friend of Tiffany Chambers. “This guy obviously has a violent history and I hope that he is put away for a long time. It’s where he needs to be.”
Defense attorney Anthony Vannoy, who represented Hare in both cases, wasn’t able to be reached for comment on Friday.
Chambers’ family and friends deserved to properly lay her to rest, Story said.
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“She’d been missing for a while and to know she was there all alone for such a long time was really sad,” Story said. “She didn’t deserve this.”
Driscoll said Hare is a dangerous person who shouldn’t be on the streets.
“This was a bad dude and we are safer that he is never going to get out of prison,” Driscoll said.
Abdullah said she wishes she could have confronted Hare at sentencing.
“He will never see the light of day again and I am ecstatic about that,” she said.
The death penalty was part of the conversation, Driscoll said, but the office felt the long prison sentence served justice.
Hare was previously convicted of choking Lumford while arguing over $70 and drugs.
“For no real reason at all,” Assistant Prosecutor Andrew Picek said during Hare’s sentencing for the first murder.
Clark County Common Pleas Judge Richard O’Neill sentenced him to the maximum, 26 years to life in prison, in the case.
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