Daddy in GA kills 28 y.o.daughter with hatchet,then dismembers her w/chainsaw & forces employee to bury body parts in yard
Joe1orbit
Hello,
Quite an interesting news story out of Georgia on this slow news Sunday. A 54
year old man named Edward Wright has confessed to murdering and dismembering
his 28 year old daughter, Francesca Regina Wright. He killed her way back in
November, then used a hatchet and chainsaw to cut her body up into seven
different pieces, but was only arrested on Friday, after confessing to police,
following a very long investigation.
Quite a fascinating story, overall, is emerging, in this case. Police say
that the primary reason why Edward chose to kill his daughter, was an ongoing
dispute they had been having, over the fact that his daughter was planning to
MOVE out of the country, to Holland, and that Grandpa Edward felt his daughter
was not raising his granddaughter properly. He told police: "I did this for my
granddaughter." Ha! Cool, he kills and dismembers the mommy of this 7 year old
girl, out of the belief that what he is doing is best for his seven year old
granddaughter. He was also upset over the fact that his 28 year old daughter
had apprently run up $20,000 worth of telephone charges, on Edward's BUSINESS
phone line, by calling various psychic hotlines over and over!
It was Francesca's boyfriend who reported her missing, and he too was
heavily into phone psychics. In fact, AFTER Francesca disappeared, and for the
1 1/2-2 months since, he himself has spent about $16,000 on phone calls to
psychic hotlines, looking for "clues to her whereabouts." Ha! She was already
dead, and one of the motives for Edward becoming enraged at her was because SHE
had spent $20,000 on calls to psychic hotlines herself! What delicious irony
that the boyfriend then goes on to waste $16,000 of his own money, calling
psychic hotlines himself!
Edward owned a construction company, and after killing daughter Francesca, he
TOLD one of his employees that he had "taken care" of her. He then showed the
employee seven closed green gargabe bags, that contained the dismembered body
of Francesca. Being the boss of the company, he knew that his employee, Joe
Aeger, was planning to install a septic tank at his own home, in the backyard.
Edward then ASKED Joe to bury the seven gargage bags in his backyard, while he
was putting in the septic tank! Joe, being an employee, and frightened for his
own safety as well as that of his wife and NINE children, felt he had no choice
but to agree to his bosses' suggestion, and so that is what they did, buried
all seven garbage bags in Joe's backyard. This took place in November, just
before Thanksgiving.
Joe says that he threw in all seven garbage bags, without looking inside, and
he also threw in a chainsaw. Despite all this, Joe is NOT expected to face any
criminal charges at all. Police apparently accept the fact that he was not
acting as an "accomplice", but was simply too afraid of Boss Edward to either
refuse to help him bury the dismembered body, or to report the incident to
police, for the past month and a half. Boss Edward did not tell Joe that he
himself had killed Francesca, instead he told him that he had hired a hitman,
who had performed the murder and dismemberment.
Edward did indeed confess to the killing, on Friday. He tells police that he
killed his daughter with a HATCHET, then cut her body up into seven pieces,
with his trusty old chainsaw. He apparently was quite obsessed with his 7 year
old granddaughter, and in fact the granddaughter did live for some period of
time with him.
On Friday, Joe finally decided that he couldn't keep this secret any longer.
He wrote down what he knew, then went to his church & spoke to the pastor. The
pastor told him to go the police, after hearing his story, and that's what Joe
did.
Police went to Joe's house, dug up the backyard, and found Francesca's
dismembered body. They tapped Joe's phone line, and then had Joe call up
Edward. In that conversation, Edward confessed to the crime, and he was NOT
happy over the situation, telling Joe that he "wanted to cement my head
together". Police instructed Joe to agree to meet with Edward, and when edward
arrived at the meeting site, police jumped out and rushed Edward, taking him
into custody.
Grandpa Ed is charged with murder. Friends & neighbors express their usual
shock over learning their genial Edward, pal and buddy and "ideal grandfather
who doted on his granddaughter", is indeed a murderer and dismemberer. After
Francesca disappeared almost 2 months ago, the seven year old granddaughter
LIVED with Edward and his wife. She lived with Grandpa, obviously having no
idea that it was grandpa who had KILLED her mother. Even NOW, AFTER Edward's
arrest, the 7 year old girl has NOT been seized by the State, and CONTINUES to
LIVE with Edward's wife, Linda! It has not been PROVEN that Edward's wife KNEW
that Edward had killed his daughter, but it certainly has not been DISPROVEN
either. Your pathetic society continues to FORCE this little girl to remain in
the possession of her grandmother, wife of the man who murdered and dismembered
her mother! This is done solely due to the INSANE "Sacred Blood Bond" myth,
upon which your pathetic culture chooses to place value.
Anyway, this is quite a fascinating and intriguing murder and cover-up by
Edward. A nice way to liven up a dull Sunday.
If you would like to see a photo of 54 year old Edward Wright, our daughter
murderer-dismemberer, as he looked on Friday or yesterday, in his mug shot,
simply point your web browser to:
http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/011898/NWSwrightside.html
If you'd like to see a photo of 28 year old Francesca, smiling broadly and
happily, simply point your web browser to:
http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/011898/NWSwrightmurder.html
Don't worry, that photo of Francesca was taken BEFORE she was dismembered, so
do not worry about seeing any gore. Francesca WAS a very attractive woman, with
a nice smile. Now she is dead, and dismembered, courtesy of her Daddy.
Take care, JOE
The following two articles both appear courtesy of the 1/18/98 online edition
of The Savannah Morning News newspaper:
Dismembered body found
Chief suspect is victim's father
By Ben Schmitt / Savannah Morning News
A 28-year-old mother is found buried in a makeshift grave, her body sliced in
seven pieces by a hatchet and chain saw. The chief suspect in the horrific
killing: The victim's father. Chatham County police say they have only one
motive in the case, a dispute over a 7-year-old girl. ''How do you kill your
own daughter and dismember her?'' a sickened investigator asked. ''This is one
of the most cold-blooded crimes I have ever dealt with.''
Joe Aeger's coffee had gone cold and he prepared to leave the Whitemarsh Island
Huddle House restaurant, when his boss, Edward Wright, started talking about
problems between him and his 28-year-old daughter.
Wright, glancing across the table at Aeger, said he didn't want his daughter to
take his 7-year-old granddaughter away from him. Then he looked up at Aeger,
with a cold stare, and recanted his concern.
The problem had been taken care of, Aeger said Wright told him. It was in
seven, dark green garbage bags in the back of his van.
Wright, the owner of a construction company, knew that Aeger had plans to
install a small septic tank in the backyard of his Effingham County home. He
calmly offered to pay for the backhoe for the work, Aeger said, that is if
Aeger would put the bags stuffed with Francesca Regina Wright's body parts in
the hole.
Aeger decided he had little choice. He already was involved and could be
risking his life, and that of his wife and nine children, if he refused.
So Aeger got into his GMC pickup truck, and Wright followed him in his van.
They drove west on Interstate 16, exited at Old River Road and turned right on
to River Oak Drive in the River Road Farms subdivision in Effingham County.
There at Aeger's 235 River Oak Drive residence, he said the two of them
transferred the bags containing Francesca Wright's body parts from the van into
the trailer hitched to Aeger's truck.
The next morning was Thanksgiving eve. Aeger said he rented the backhoe and dug
a hole next to his house. When he finished, the hole was six feet deep and six
feet in diameter.
Aeger picked up the seven bags, never looking inside, and threw them inside the
hole, along with a chain saw that he said Wright gave him.
''I put those bags in the hole, knowing that I would be bringing them back
up,'' Aeger said Saturday morning, cigarette in hand and standing over the
partially exposed hole where he had led police a few hours earlier.
How it began
Police say Wright confessed, after his arrest late Friday, to using a hatchet
to kill his daughter and then use the hatchet and a chain saw to cut her up.
''He told us his daughter was taking his granddaughter to Holland,'' said
Chatham County police Maj. Billy Freeman. ''He said he didn't like what she had
been doing during the past year.''
Aeger said Wright gave him a similar reason for killing Francesca.
But Aeger knew there were other problems between the father and daughter, going
back at least a year.
Francesca had been handling payroll and clerical work for her father's
business, Wright Construction Co. Her father fired her for running up an
enormous phone bill on the company, Aeger said.
The bill totaled more than $20,000, mainly with calls to a psychic hot-line,
Aeger said.
Wright was furious, Aeger recalled, and his relationship with his daughter
seemed soured from then on. Wright also talked sometimes of his hatred for
Francesca's boyfriend, Ronald Story, with whom she lived with on La-Vista
Circle in Pooler, Aeger said.
But the motive police are investigating the most is the dispute over
Francesca's 7-year-old daughter, who split time between the households.
Living with the guilt
Aeger, his wife, and four of his children, continued living in the River Oak
Drive home -- the rest of the family unaware that the kids' play area was now a
grave.
Aeger, who had bought the 0.7-acre plot of land six years earlier, continued
landscaping the front yard and putting on finishing touches to the
2,000-square-foot, single-story house.
He also kept working as a foreman for Wright Construction. For the first few
days after the burial, Aeger said Wright joked about how he'd see his
daughter's car parked in the Kmart parking lot on Victory Drive. Shortly after
the killing, Wright said he dropped the car off there, Aeger said.
''He'd say he couldn't believe how stupid the police were leaving that car
there,'' Aeger said.
Police eventually found the car Nov. 30, five days after Story reported his
girlfriend missing.
The entire time Francesca's body lay beneath his property, Aeger said he
believed a tale that Wright had spun, that he'd hired a hit man from Ohio to
kill his daughter for $5,000.
In addition to burying the woman, Aeger repainted and recarpeted Wright's
bathroom in his Wilmington Island home, where the dismembering occurred, police
said.
But fear and guilt eventually got the best of Aeger. He quit his job a week
ago, after working six years for Wright.
On Friday, he drove to Mount Olive Christian Church on Montgomery Crossroad,
arriving at 3:30 p.m. He asked for his pastor.
But before he set out for the church, Aeger told his son-in-law to look under
the front seat of his truck if he disappeared.
''I told him there was a tablet with everything written down that he'd need to
know,'' Aeger said.
Gene Clay, pastor of the church, couldn't get over how scared Aeger looked when
he sat down with him.
''He was a nervous wreck, literally,'' Clay said. ''I made a phone call to the
Pooler police and verified the woman was missing. Then I sent him directly to
the police.''
Catching a killer
At 4 p.m. Friday, Aeger walked into the Pooler Police Department and unburdened
himself. Pooler officers, realizing the possible slaying occurred on Wilmington
Island, called in Chatham County police.
By 4:30 p.m., Aeger was on the phone calling Wright, with a police phone tap
and a plan to set up a meeting. But Wright never answered.
Officer from both departments then followed Aeger out to River Oak Drive and
started digging with shovels next to the house.
''We found the first bag with a body part around 6 (p.m.),'' Freeman said.
The bag was full of straw and lime, which would have helped the flesh dissolve.
Still, the body part wasn't badly deteriorated, Freeman said.
At 8 p.m., Aeger's phone line was tapped again and he placed another call to
Wright.
The plan was to tell Wright that the Pooler police had requested Aeger to come
to the station. He told Wright he was unsure why and was scared.
By the time the phone conversation ended, Wright had confessed to the entire
crime, police said. He told Aeger if he dug up the lawn, there also would be a
bag full of his bloody clothing, police said. Aeger said he now realized no hit
man was ever involved.
''He wanted to meet me,'' Aeger said, squeezing his hands on each side of his
head. ''He said he wanted to cement my head together.''
A meeting was set up at the Waffle House on Interstate 95 and Ga. 204.
When Wright pulled in at 10 p.m. and got out of his vehicle, police
gang-tackled him. Aeger watched through his truck window.
By that time, the Effingham County Sheriff's Department had volunteered to help
dig up the remaining bags with a backhoe.
Around 10:30 p.m., the seventh and final bag was pulled from the pit. Some of
the officers helping pull out pieces of Francesca's body from the bags
vomitted.
Officers pieced together Franseca's entire body before sending it off Saturday
to a crime lab in Atlanta for an autopsy. They also found the bag of bloody
clothes and chain saw.
After the officers left, Aeger hopped in his truck and headed up Old River Road
to the Silver Dollar Bar and Grill in Bloomingdale.
''He looked upset and shook up when he came in,'' the bar's owner, Charlie
Jones said. ''He said he needed a couple of stiff drinks and had a lot on his
mind. Later he came and talked to me and told me what happened.''
Aftermath
Wright, 54, spent Friday night in the Chatham County jail and returned there
with no bond Saturday morning after being arraigned in Chatham County
Recorder's Court on a murder charge.
''I would hope he's prosecuted to the fullest extent,'' Freeman said.
Police charge that Wright waited with his daughter at his Wilmington Island
home, until the rest of the family went out Nov. 25. Then he took a hatchet to
her, Freeman said. He dragged her dead body into a bathroom and used the
hatchet and chain saw to cut her up, Freeman said.
He carefully cleaned the bathroom, put his daughter in the bags, placed them in
the van and later drove her car to Kmart, police said.
''This was premeditated,'' Freeman said. ''(Wright) freely admits that he did
it.''
As for Aeger, Freeman said he won't be charged as an accomplice.
''We're using him as a witness, and he came forward,'' Freeman said. ''He
freely admits he knew what was in the bags. Quite frankly, had we discovered
the body up there without his help, certainly he would have been charged. But
we have some audiotapes where the father admits that he killed her.''
Aeger's story seemed believable to Freeman.
''When he told me about it, I thought, 'If he just did this to his daughter,
what was I to him?' '' Aeger said. ''I was afraid.''
Police also haven't charged any of Francesca's relatives with helping cover up
the slaying. None of the relatives could be reached for comment Saturday.
''But we are still probing whether they had knowledge of it,'' Freeman said.
While discussing details, Freeman says he is still sickened by the crime.
''In my 33 years of law enforcement, this is one of the most cold-blooded
crimes I have ever dealt with,'' he said. ''How do you kill you're own daughter
and dismember her?''
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Accused killer's 'only hobby' was being grandfather
By Bob Sechler / Savannah Morning News
Edward Wright, accused killer and father of the victim. If friends and
neighbors needed to talk to Edward Wright, they always knew exactly where they
could find him: with his little granddaughter.
Wright was known for spending most of his spare time with the girl, teaching
her to fish in Chatham County's numerous waterways and taking her to feed the
ducks at Lake Mayer.
His granddaughter ''was his only hobby,'' said Rick King, a southside resident
and former neighbor before Wright moved to Wilmington Island.
''He was the ideal grandfather, as far as I'm concerned,'' King said.
But the 54-year-old Wright's attachment to the girl, who now is 7, may have
gone beyond normal grandfatherly care and possibly turned deadly Nov. 25.
Chatham County police say that's the date Wright killed his own daughter,
28-year-old Francesca Regina Wright, with a hatchet and then dismembered her
with a chain saw. The body was recovered Friday from a makeshift grave in
Effingham County.
Edward Wright confessed to the horrific slaying after his arrest for the crime,
telling police he didn't want Francesca to go through with plans to move his
granddaughter out of the country to Holland. He also was displeased with how
Francesca was raising the girl.
''He just said he did it for his granddaughter,'' county police Maj. Billy
Freeman said.
The grandchild lived with Wright and his wife, Linda, over the two months
between Francesca's slaying and the discovery of the body, a time in which
Francesca was considered a missing person by police. The child continues to
live with her grandmother.
Wright kept up a firm facade throughout the two months, going so far as to
attend his son's wedding Nov. 29 -- four days after the gruesome killing.
The crime allegedly took place at Edward Wright's neat and well-kept home off
U.S. 80 on Wilmington Island, a secluded spot where the houses are spaced far
apart and access is by dirt road only.
Most residents in the area didn't know Edward Wright or the family and remember
nothing out of the ordinary on the day of the slaying. But they're stunned by
the crime nonetheless.
''I never would have imagined that somebody would do that,'' said Kristy
DeFoor, who recently relocated to Chatham County from Gainesville, Ga. ''It's
pretty shocking, especially when you've just moved down here.''
King, who lived next door to Edward Wright on Savannah's southside several
years ago before the Wrights moved first to Port Wentworth and then to
Wilmington Island, said he wouldn't have thought Wright capable of such an
atrocity.
''That doesn't sound like Ed to me,'' King said.
Francesca Wright had been living in Pooler with her boyfriend, Ronald Story,
who owns the Boar's Head restaurant on River Street. Her 7-year-old daughter
lived with her during the week but still spent most weekends at her
grandparents.
Neighbors in Pooler remembered Francesca as outgoing and friendly, an
''excellent mother,'' by one account.
''They (Francesca and Story) were just good people,'' said Allison Hartley.
''My heart hurts for Ron and the little girl.''
Hartley said she met Francesca several years ago. At the time, Hartley was
working for the Savannah Pennysaver, and Francesca would come by the office to
place advertisements for her father's business, Wright Construction Co.
About 10 months ago, the two women coincidentally ended up living next door to
each other in Pooler and struck up a friendship.
Hartley said she never heard Francesca mention any friction she was having with
her father. But Hartley does remember that Francesca's parents were a big part
of her daughter's life.
''I know that the grandparents spent a lot of time with their granddaughter,''
she said. The girl ''would spend weekends over there with them.''
Francesca apparently didn't confide in Hartley or many other people about her
plan to move to Holland with her child -- the trigger that police say may have
led to the killing.
Another source of strife in the family, police said, was Francesca's habit of
ringing up large telephone bills with calls to a psychic hot-line, where advice
and predictions are available for a fee.
Francesca apparently charged the calls to her family's construction business,
causing her father to fire her from her job as a bookkeeper last year.
Story, who reported Francesca missing to police, also was a customer of the
psychic hot-line. Police say he made about $16,000 in calls to the hot-line
after Francesca came up missing, searching for clues to her whereabouts.
Police informed Story of the discovery of Francesca's body Saturday morning,
and he left town to be with his family in Atlanta.
''She (Francesca) was a wonderful, fantastic person,'' said Ray Story, a waiter
at the Boar's Head who isn't related to Ronald Story.
''Everybody loved her,'' he said. ''She could have been a movie star.''
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The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire:
Man arrested in slaying, dismemberment of daughter
January 18, 1998
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A man was charged with murder Saturday for allegedly
killing his daughter with a hatchet before cutting her body into seven pieces
and burying them in a makeshift grave.
Police said Edward Wright confessed Friday to killing Francesca Regina Wright,
28, on Nov. 25. Wright, 54, used a hatchet and chainsaw to cut her up,
authorities said.
"He told us his daughter was taking his granddaughter to Holland,'' Chatham
County police Maj. Billy Freeman said. "He said he didn't like what she had
been doing during the past year.''
Joe Aeger, a former employee of Wright's, said problems between the two began
after she ran up a $20,000 telephone bill on his business phone, largely for
calls to psychic hotlines.
Aeger said Wright approached him after the slaying and showed him seven dark
green garbage bags in the back of his van.
Wright, the owner of a construction company, knew that Aeger planned to install
a septic tank in his backyard. He offered to pay for the backhoe if Aeger would
put the bags in the hole, Aeger told police.
In addition to burying the woman, Aeger repainted and recarpeted Wright's
bathroom in his home, where the dismembering allegedly occurred, police said.
Aeger confessed to police Friday, and Wright was arrested later in the day.
Freeman said Aeger will not be charged as an accomplice.
xs...@pitnet.net
... I guess this is one "oops" we wont be seeing in those pucking
psychic line ads ad naseum , huh ... my bet is Grandpa had been
sexually abusing daughter and then granddaughter and didnt want
his "victim" removed from his reach... solo
On 18 Jan 1998 17:49:11 GMT, joe1...@aol.com (Joe1orbit) wrote:
primary reason why Edward chose to kill his daughter, was an
ongoing dispute they had been having, over the fact that his
daughter was planning to MOVE out of the country, to Holland, and
that Grandpa Edward felt his daughter was not raising his
granddaughter properly.
calling various psychic hotlines over and over!
remove x in xs...@pitnet.net to send email
Joe1orbit
xs...@pitnet.net Wrote:
>... I guess this is one "oops" we wont be seeing in those pucking
>psychic line ads ad naseum , huh ...
Hello solo,
The fact that your society allows ads for psychic hotlines to air on TV, and
to be published in newspapers, is a beautiful illustration of exactly how
perverse and pathetic your culture is. The culture you live in is a LIE-BASED
one, from every imaginable side of the spectrum. Life is nothing more than an
endless and all-encompassing series of LIES, in which your society seeks to
entertain, comfort, and brainwash you, using every form of lie and hypocrisy
imaginable.
So, you don't want to believe in god? No problem, says society. We will allow
an army of professional, capitalistic LIARS, to suck you dry, and comfort you
in times of distress. We will legally sanction and encourage their lies,
although what they are doing is nothing more than FRAUD and EXTORTION of
already brainwashed and mentally INFERIOR humans. I'm speaking of psychics, of
course.,
> my bet is Grandpa had been
>sexually abusing daughter and then granddaughter and didnt want
>his "victim" removed from his reach...
That's a very interesting theory. I wonder if the 7 year old granddaughter
will be interviewed by police-hired psychotherapists, to try and determine
whether or not she was indeed sexually abused by grandpa?
>solo
Take care, JOE
DOG3
> Joe:
>
> Grandpa Ed is charged with murder. Friends & neighbors express their usual
>shock over learning their genial Edward, pal and buddy and "ideal grandfather
>who doted on his granddaughter", is indeed a murderer and dismemberer. After
>Francesca disappeared almost 2 months ago, the seven year old granddaughter
>LIVED with Edward and his wife. She lived with Grandpa, obviously having no
>idea that it was grandpa who had KILLED her mother. Even NOW, AFTER Edward's
>arrest, the 7 year old girl has NOT been seized by the State, and CONTINUES
>to
>LIVE with Edward's wife, Linda! It has not been PROVEN that Edward's wife
>KNEW
>that Edward had killed his daughter, but it certainly has not been DISPROVEN
>either. Your pathetic society continues to FORCE this little girl to remain
>in
>the possession of her grandmother, wife of the man who murdered and
>dismembered
>her mother! This is done solely due to the INSANE "Sacred Blood Bond" myth,
>upon which your pathetic culture chooses to place value.
>
>
The child should be removed at once. Her care should be taken over by *proven*
responsible caregivers.
I don't buy that grandmother knew nothing. I see all kinds of possibilities
here. Why did the grandmother not report her daughter missing ? Too many
loose ends here. I suspect sexual and mental abuse and possibly physical abuse
as well.
Michael
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