Parole denied for former Pelham cop who murdered wife's ex-husband and his new wife in Hoover

Jeff McCord, a former police officer in Pelham and Birmingham, pleaded guilty in 2003 to the Hoover murders of Alan and Terra Bates in one of the Birmingham-area's most high-profile killings in recent decades. McCord's then-wife, Jessica Bates McCord, was also convicted in the ambush shootings deaths of her ex-husband and his new wife.