Morley Swingle over the years

Southeast Missourian archive

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Morley Swingle is stepping down as Cape Girardeau County's prosecuting attorney after accepting a job as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office. Swingle, 57, came to the office as an assistant in 1982. He was elected the county's 30th prosecutor in 1986.

Published Jan. 2, 1987 Morley Swingle, having served the past several years as an assistant prosecutor, took over Thursday as prosecuting attorney of Cape Girardeau County. He won election to the post in November and succeeds Larry Ferrell, who did not seek reelection. (Missourian archive)
Published June 15, 1988 Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle and investigator Karen Buchheit look over a stack of files in preparation of compiling a 10 most wanted list of people with outstanding arrest warrants in the county. (Missourian archive)
Published March 26, 1989 Cape Girardeau County Prosecutor Morley Swingle, left, shows photographs of former county prosecutors to Circuit Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., himself a former prosecutor. (Missourian archive)
Published Jan. 30, 1991 Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle boxes books from his office in the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau to move to his new office on the second floor of the courthouse in Jackson. The move is one of several that have been planned for various county offices during the year. (Missourian archive)

A great deal of research led up to Morley Swingle's latest book, "Bootheel Man." Swingle poses with some of his research materials in his home on Monday, November 12, 2007. (Aaron Eisenhauer)
Prosecuting attorney Morley Swingle speaks at a press conference announcing charges have been filed in five unsolved Cape Girardeau, Mo. murders against Timothy W. Krajcir on Monday, December 10, 2007 at the Osage Centre in Cape Girardeau. (Aaron Eisenhauer)
Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle addressed the Cape Girardeau County Commission Monday, May 5, 2008. (Fred Lynch)
Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle presents opening statements to the jury Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 in the Ryan Patterson murder trial at the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson. (Fred Lynch)
Prosecuting attorney Morley Swingle shows defense attorney Christopher Davis, left, and his client Clay Waller a photo of Jacque Waller during the opening moments of Waller's preliminary hearing Wednesday morning, July 25, 2012 at the Jackson Courthouse. Waller is charged with the murder of his wife Jacque who went missing June 1, 2011. (Laura Simon)