Monday, November 16, 2009

Really? You really want to say that?


Slipped and fell on the gravel and accidentally stabbed the pizza delivery guy to death?

Yeah, that theory will really work? I think it will just piss a jury off more.

Really.

Suspect in 2007 pizza deliveryman slaying faces own statements at trial
By Zeke MacCormack - Express-News

PIPE CREEK — As the court considers a last-minute motion to suppress incriminating statements by Karl Hodson Jr., his parents have launched an extra-judicial initiative to downplay his role in the 2007 slaying of a pizza deliveryman near Boerne.

Despite past admissions by their son, they contend Leon Poe was fatally stabbed by Jenilee A. Sheppard, Hodson’s former girlfriend and current capital murder codefendant, whom they say manipulated their chivalrous son to take the fall for her.

“He fell in love with this monster,” said Carol Hodson during an interview at her Pipe Creek home, where journals the Hodsons say were written by Sheppard, 25, cast her in a dark and disturbing light.

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