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Terry Todd WEDDING

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

   
 
 
Classification: Spree killer
Characteristics: Parricide - Revenge
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: June 27, 1999
Date of arrest: Same day
Date of birth: 1972
Victims profile: His parents, Manville Todd Wedding, 59, and Beverly W. Wedding, 56 / Police officer Joey Vincent, 29, Wedding's first cousin, and Vincent's wife, Amy, 22
Method of murder: Shooting / Beating with a baseball bat
Location: Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Status: Pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on January 29, 2001
 
 
 
 
 
 

June 28, 1999 - Terry Todd Wedding

Accused of killing his parents, a popular police officer and his pregnant wife, Terry Todd Wedding, 27, pleaded innocent to four counts of murder.

According to police Wedding shot and killed his mother, bludgeon his father to death with a baseball bat, then shot and killed police officer Joey Vincent, a pastor and Wedding's first cousin, and Vincent's wife.

Police believe Wedding first killed his parents, Manville Todd Wedding, 59, and Beverly W. Wedding, 56, in an open field about a mile from the family home in Depoy, Kentucky.

Then he killed Vincent, 29, and his 22-year-old wife, Amy, in the driveway of their home, which is adjacent to the home of Wedding and his parents. The Vincents' 3-year-old daughter was found inside unharmed.

 
 

June 28, 1999 - Terry Todd Wedding

Fatricidal rampager Terry Todd Wedding, 27, was being held without bond for killing his parents and two neighbors. Wedding pleaded innocent Monday to four counts of murder and one count of theft for allegedly taking $1,200 from his parents' home.

 
 

Murder (4 counts) and Theft

On June 27, 1999, Terry Todd Wedding went on a deadly rampage that shocked the state of Kentucky. He shot his mother Beverly to death, then murdered his first cousin and next-door neighbor Joey Vincent and Joey's pregnant wife, then retrieved a baseball bat and bludgeoned his father Manville Todd to death. Then he stole $1,200 from the parents he had just murdered.

He was taking lethal revenge for his relatives committing him for a short stay in Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Wedding pleaded guilty to the murders and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In Greenville, a small town of about 4,500 people, flags flew at half-mast. Library worker Sandra Galyen said "I think everyone's just in shock. You hear something like that about such good people and you just don't believe it. You know deep down it's the truth but your mind just won't let you believe it."

References:  Steve Bailey. "Police, Town Searching for Reasons for Multiple Killing." The Daily Ardmoreite [Ardmore, Oklahoma], June 29, 1999; Associated Press. "Man Pleads Guilty in Murder of Relatives." The Cincinnati Enquirer, January 29, 2001, page 7.

 

 

 
 
 
 
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