The Arlington killing in 2012 was fueled by money and resentment, and it was months in the planning.
, 49, is now serving life in prison after admitting he orchestrated his father's killing. The two men he paid to carry out the crime are set to be sentenced — one in December, the other in January.
Despite his nickname, Pierre said he wasn't interested in killing anyone. Still, he and Wood Jr. batted cartoonish cruelties back and forth, both men said. Wood Sr. ate at McDonald's twice a week; they would poison his hamburger. Neighbors sometimes left him food; they would leave him tainted banana bread. He still cleaned his own gutters; they would push him off the roof.
The middleman who drove him to the site of the murder, Wood Jr. and attorneys for Edmonds have said, was in some ways the driving force behind it.the person who ultimately orchestrated this situation," an attorney for Edmonds said in court,"someone who makes things happen."The missing wallet was one sign that Wood Sr. had not fallen to his death, but there were others. Neighbors and relatives told police Wood Sr. always locked the door.
He was conservative. He was disappointed in his two adopted children for getting divorced and for not living up to what he saw as their potential, and he wasn’t shy about saying so, his children said. He didn’t believe in cursing. He used a belt on his kids, the way his father had with him.He never had a credit card, paid for everything but real estate in cash. He hated for anyone to ask him about or for money.
Decades later, Wood Sr.’s daughter would remember those times fondly. His son would say they were part of the motivation for murder. Wood Jr. still maintains that he didn’t know Edmonds and Pierre were planning to kill his father that October night. In July, the trio drove to Wood Sr.’s house and Pierre and Edmonds went to the door with a key Wood Jr. had copied; they were scared off by his father’s shouting.
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