21 y.o & his 18 y.o.girlfriend accused of bludgeoning 3 elderly people to death in cross-country crime spree
Joe1orbit
Hello,
Over in Colorado, a fellow named John Esposito, aged 21, and his 18 year
old girlfriend, Alicia Woodward, are under arrest. They are both charged
with three murders, accused of going on a cross country killing spree,
bludgeoning to death three elderly people, two in Oklahoma and one in
Colorado. body of 85 year old Lola Davis was found on August 20th, and on
Thursday, police found an elderly husband & wife, bludgeoned to death and
stacked on top of one another, in Texas. A police official confirms that
John and Alicia have confessed to having committed all three murders.
John is a high school dropout who engaged in satanic rituals and
attempted suicide twice, in 1994 and 1995. He is known for having written
letter ot satan, and signing them with his own blood. Yum! And his parental
lineage is nothing to sneeze at either, John's father is a convicted killer
who shot a man to death and then cut off his head, hands, and feet. Guess
that John did not fall far from the family tree. His daddy, despite the
murder and head, hands, & feet severing, only received a 20 year sentence,
and was apparently paroled after serving less than 5 years in prison. Let's
hope that his son is as lucky as he was, judicially speaking.
Prosecutors in both Oklahoma and Georgia say they will seek the death
penalty if John & Alicia are convicted of the killings, but somehow I
venture to guess that 21 year old John stands a much better chance of being
legally murdered by your pathetically judgemental society, than does his 18
year old gal pal.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 9/5/97 online edition of The
Athens Daily News newspaper:
Slaying suspects
to be tried in
Morgan County first
By Robert Harper, Staff Writer
Two fugitives who face charges in the killing of a woman whose
bludgeoned body was found Aug. 20 in Morgan County signed extradition
papers in a Colorado court Friday to return them to Georgia.
John A. Esposito, 21, and Alicia Woodward, 18, both of Pemberton,
N.J., remained jailed Friday in Durango, Colo., where they were arrested
Wednesday. They have been charged with murder in the slaying of 85-year-old
Lola Davis of Lumberton, N.C.
The two are also charged in the slayings of Lawrence Snider, 91, and
his wife, Marguarite, 86, both of Oklahoma City. Their bodies were found
Thursday stacked on top of each other in a grassy area outside Adrian,
Texas. They had also been bludgeoned to death, according to Oklahoma police
Sgt. Nate Tarver.
The Oklahoma City district attorney's office is also considering
filing charges against the pair, according to U.S. Attorney Henry Solano of
Denver.
Morgan County Sheriff Ken Pritchett said the Morgan County district
attorney had spoken with the district attorney's offices in Amarillo,
Texas, and Oklahoma City and "they all agreed that it would only be fair if
they were brought back to Morgan County first, because the first crime they
are charged with occurred here."
While authorities continued sorting out the details of the
cross-country killing spree Woodward and Esposito have been charged in,
acquaintances and police described the two as an odd couple.
She is the daughter of a high school economics teacher, a shy teen-ager
who played in a marching band and worked as a waitress before dropping out
of high school.
He is the nephew of a mobster and the son of a killer who once cut off
the hands, head and feet of a man he'd shot to death.
Woodward was described by neighbors as a troubled teen-ager who
struggled to keep baby-sitting jobs in her neighborhood in Marlton, N.J.
She ran away once at age 16, but the missing persons report filed by
her family was dropped when she returned home, according to police in
Evesham Township. At 17, she dropped out of Cherokee High School in
Marlton, much to the chagrin of her mother, Sharon Woodward, a high school
teacher.
"Everyone was surprised to hear she was involved in something like
this," said Steve Richard, a neighbor. "That's what happens when you hang
out with the wrong people."
Some of Esposito's family could fit that description.
His uncle is Raymond Esposito, a Philadelphia mobster who worked for
John Stanfa before being convicted last November of murder, extortion,
kidnapping and other charges along with Stanfa and six other associates.
Raymond Esposito, 55, of Gibbstown, N.J., was known in the Mob as "the
man with half a heart," according to his lawyer, Robert Madden.
John Esposito's father, Giovanni Esposito, 42, was convicted of
manslaughter eight years ago. He shot a man to death and hid the body in a
shed for several days before cutting off the head, hands and feet. Only the
torso was recovered. Giovanni Esposito was sentenced to 20 years in prison
but was released in 1991 and has completed his parole since, said Kim
White, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections.
John Esposito, who grew up in suburban Camden, N.J., quit West Deptford
High School in his senior year and joined the U.S. Army Reserve, but he was
discharged in October 1994 when he couldn't produce a high school diploma
or equivalency, according to Army Reserve spokeswoman Sgt. Dorothy Young.
Esposito, who once engaged in satanic rituals, tried to kill himself
in 1994 and 1995, the Camden/Cherry Hill (N.J.) Courier-Post reported
Friday. He once wrote letters to Satan and signed them with his blood, the
paper reported.
In August, he moved to a boarding house in Berlin, N.J., where he met
Woodward in a store, according to one police source.
"They became boyfriend and girlfriend," said Berlin police Sgt. Michael
Hayden.
However, other published accounts indicate the couple knew each other
for a longer time. The Trentonian newspaper of Trenton, N.J., quoted
neighbors as saying the couple shared a small home in Pemberton Township in
Burlington County, N.J., earlier this year and that they left in July,
owing nearly $2,000 in back rent and damages.
They took off for Florida - in Esposito's 1986 Pontiac Grand Am - on
Aug. 31.
U.S. Magistrate David West ordered Esposito and Woodward held without
bond Thursday in La Plata County Jail in Durango until an Oct. 11 hearing
on a federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder in
Davis' death. The hearing will be held in U.S. District Court in Durango.
Pritchett said the pair had confessed to all of the killings.
Esposito and Woodward were arrested Wednesday during a routine traffic
stop in Mesa Verde National Park near Durango, driving a car registered to
the Sniders, authorities said.
The Sniders' ATM card had been used in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona
and Colorado since last Saturday to withdraw more than $1,000, Tarver said.
The day Davis' body was found, her 1978 Buick Electra was found in
Talladega, Ala. Police there had a chance encounter with Esposito and
Woodward when an officer stopped them because they appeared suspicious,
identified them and then released them, Pritchett said.
The encounter took place just two-tenths of a mile from where Mrs.
Davis' car was found. Her groceries were in the car's back seat.
"If they're the ones that did it, I hope they burn 'em good. I don't
see how people can be that mean," said the victim's husband, Forester M. Davis.
Authorities in both Oklahoma and Georgia said they will seek the death
penalty if Esposito and Woodward are convicted of the killings.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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nobody knows what and how that affected his childhood knowing his father was a murderer. A pray for him everyday and that girl.God bless the victims but I don't think dey should be executed......
