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Former JFL Contractor, Nedra Dodds, Indicted On Murder Charges In Atlanta

ST. CROIX -- Nedra Dodds, a former metro Atlanta-based plastic surgeon stripped of her medical license in February of 2014 by the Georgia Composite Medical Board in connection with two patient deaths, and was briefly employed as a contract worker at the Juan F. Luis Hospital (J.F.L.) before being dismissed after The Consortium reported on the matter, was indicted on Thursday, January 28 on a felony murder charge, which carries a mandatory life sentence, as well as other charges, according multiple Georgia news reports, including CBS46 in Atlanta. Dr. Dodds' former assistant, Kevin McCowan, was also indicted on felony-murder and other charges. Consumer investigative reporter Adam Murphy of the CBS affiliate in Atlanta investigated Dr. Dodds, a former model, for seven months after learning of the deaths of two young women following procedures of liposuction and a buttocks reduction at Dodds’ now-defunct Opulence Aesthetic Medicine practice in Kennesaw, Ga. The State Medical Board su...