Convicted Murderer Posts Selfie On Instagram From Prison

ROSWELL, GA -- The Georgia Department of Corrections is investigating how a convicted double murderer was able to post a selfie onto a popular social media app from one of its facilities.

Jeffrey Andrew Hazelwood, who is serving a life sentence in the August 2016 murders of Natalie Henderson and Carter Davis, appeared to have snapped the photo of himself and uploaded the picture onto Instagram, Gwendolyn Hogan, spokesperson with the department confirmed to Patch.

The agency was alerted Friday morning by a media outlet of the post and the tip was sent to its investigation team. The Instagram post was found and was subsequently removed (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app).

"That's all we can really say right now," Hogan added.

The news comes a week after the one-year anniversary of when the two teenagers' bodies were found behind a Publix grocery store in Roswell during the early morning hours of Aug. 1, 2016. Roswell police were able to determine that Hazelwood stalked the 17-year-olds before fatally shooting them.

After killing the pair, Hazelwood then used Henderson's credit card to buy gasoline, returned to the scene of the crime and stole jumper cables from the car the two teens were using. A delivery driver called the police at about 6 a.m. after finding the teens' bodies.

Henderson, 17, was a rising senior at Roswell High School while Davis, also 17, was entering the same level at River Ridge High School in Woodstock.

After his arrest, Hazelwood was indicted, but later pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

State records show he's being housed at Baldwin State Prison. Hogan said the problem of cell phones inside state prisons is not unique to Georgia or any other state across the country. As such, the department is investigating how Hazelwood obtained the phone and who provided the device to him.

Photo: Jeffrey Hazelwood. Credit: Georgia Department of Corrections