JASON FOREMAN - 5 yo (1975) - S Kingstown (NW of Narragansett Pier) RI

A plea deal intended to spare a murdered child's family the horrific
details of his death has come back to haunt residents of a historic town
in Rhode Island. The killer, an accused cannibal who was a teenager when the crime was committed more than 30 years ago, will be free before the end of the year, according to police.

"We do not know what his plans are or if he is [planning on coming back
here], but it is definitely something we plan on discussing," a
spokesman for the South Kingstown Police Department told AOL News today.

While police have yet to formulate a plan for the impending release of
convicted murderer Michael Woodmansee, the father of his victim, a
5-year-old boy named Jason Foreman, is not mincing words.

"I do intend, if this man is released anywhere in my vicinity, or if I
can find [him], I do intend to kill this man," John Foreman told Rhode Island's WPRO News talk radio today.

According to The Providence Journal,
Woodmansee was a withdrawn 16-year-old boy on May 18, 1975 –- the day
he lured Jason into his home, stabbed the boy in the heart and hid the
small body in a trunk.




Rhode Island Department of Corrections




Convicted killer Michael Woodmansee benefited from a reward system that shaved 12 years off his 40-year prison sentence.



Woodmansee lived up the street from the Foreman home. The day he took
Jason's life was the boy's mother's 25th birthday -– a time of happiness
that would forever after be associated with pain and heartache.

Woodmansee later told police he had fantasized that "it would be easy
[to kill someone], easy to get away with it, and some form of fun,''
according to the Journal.

For eight years, frustrated authorities conducted a nationwide manhunt
for Jason. Some feared he had been kidnapped, but no one suspected the
whole, horrific truth -- that a disturbed killer had taken his life,
removed his flesh and shellacked his bones.

The pieces in the case began to come together on April 15, 1982, when a
bearded Woodmansee invited a 14-year-old newspaper delivery boy named
Dale Sherman into his house. After supplying the boy with hard liquor
and beer, Woodmansee attempted to strangle the teen, police said. Sherman fought back and managed to escape and run home, where his dad called police.

Taken to police headquarters, Woodmansee initially denied any
wrongdoing. Because the allegations involved a boy, investigators
decided to question him about Jason. Shortly thereafter, he confessed to
sexually assaulting and killing the child, police said.

When authorities searched Woodmansee's home, they found Jason's skull
and other miscellaneous bones on top of the man's dresser. They also
discovered a journal in which he detailed the young boy's gruesome
death, police said.

On Feb. 24, 1983, Woodmansee pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. According to The Associated Press,
prosecutors agreed to the plea bargain to spare the family the horrific
details of the boy's death and to avoid a grisly trial.

After sentencing Woodmansee, Superior Court Judge Thomas H. Needham
ordered his journal and all other evidence in the case sealed. Needham
said the accounts within it were too disturbing for Jason's family to
see.

For decades, rumors have surfaced about the journal. Speaking with WPRO
today, John Foreman alleged that Woodmansee was a cannibal and said the
killer had eaten his son's flesh off his bones.

The boy was finally buried in March 1983, roughly two weeks after his killer pleaded guilty. Jason's mother, Joice, who often spoke with the media about the case, died in 2000.

For more than 25 years, Woodmansee has remained behind bars, all but
forgotten by the general public. All that changed last week, however,
when the now 52-year-old convict was transferred to a correctional
institution in Cranston. The move is part of a process to prepare
Woodmansee for his August release date.

The killer, according to the Journal, has benefited from a prison reward
system that shaved roughly 12 years off his 40-year prison sentence.

Superior Court Judge Susan E. McGuirl, the former state prosecutor who
agreed to the plea bargain, did not immediately return calls for comment
from AOL News today. Speaking with the Journal, she said news of
Woodmansee's pending release was "shocking."

"Certainly there would not have been any anticipation of him getting out in 28 years," she told the newspaper.


While Woodmansee's plans for the future remain unclear, one thing that
is clear is that he is won't get a warm reception if he decides to
return home.

"I have taken the position that he is not welcomed in this community and
that as a resident and the police chief, I don't think it would be safe
or prudent for him to be here," South Kingstown Police Chief Vincent
Vespia told The South County Independent.

Jason's father cannot bear to think that his killer could return to their town.

"I have been able to visit Jason and his mother, Joice, at their
gravesite with only love in my heart for them. But now I'm afraid to
visit, now that the terrible memories are back to haunt me and my
family," John Foreman told the Journal. "There is no forgiveness in me,
only revenge."

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Woodmansee later told police he had fantasized that "it would be easy
[to kill someone], easy to get away with it, and some form of fun,''

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A woman whose baby brother was
murdered and allegedly eaten by a teenage cannibal has spoken of her
family's nightmare as the killer is set to be released from jail.Raven Aubin, 47,
was just ten years old when her five-year-old brother Jason Foreman disappeared in 1975.
It would be eight years before her family discovered the truth of what happened to him - a truth that tore their family apart.
Now killer Michael Woodmansee is set to be freed from jail 12 years early,
possibly walking the streets of Rhode Island before the end of the year,
according to police.The news has torn open the old
wounds. Mrs Aubin's father John has already threatened to take revenge
Woodmansee should they cross paths, telling a radio station in March: 'I do intend to kill this man'.
Now Mrs Aubin, too, is reliving the horror.
'Michael dismembered my brother limb by limb,' she told the MailOnline.'Soon after, he was eating my
brother’s flesh, like the animal he was,' she claimed.'No. He was worse than an
animal. Animals kill to eat, to suit a need. Michael killed for pure
sport,' she claimed. 'Michael killed just because he could.'
Woodmansee was just 16 years old when he committed the horrendous child murder 36 years ago.
He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder on February
24, 1983, in a plea deal with prosecutors to spare the Foreman family
the horrific details of Jason's death.He was jailed - but the early plea meant that
the charges of cannibalism were never proven in court.Mrs Aubin, however, remains convinced.'This
deranged killer murdered my baby brother, and as he watched him die, he
scribbled notes in a journal,' she said. 'It was a how-to book on
murder.' The disturbing
journal has been legally sealed and protected by the courts, because it
reportedly contains sickening details about how Woodmansee ate the boy’s
flesh, and shellacked his bones as souvenirs.Mrs Aubin said the killer should remain
in prison for life, because of the nature of the crimes.According to a local newspaper,
Woodmansee was a withdrawn 16-year-old boy on May 18, 1975, when he lured Jason into his home.

Horror: Investigators searched for little Jason's body
for eight years before the shocking truth emerged

He stabbed the little boy in the heart and hiding his small body in a trunk.
It remained undiscovered for eight years as authorities searched for the missing boy in a huge manhunt.
'The search went on for years,' said Mrs Aubin.

'It was insanity. It’s hard to explain what this did to my family. We’d been torn apart.
'My father became and alcoholic and my mother became depressed and they both suffered mood swings.'But
on April 15, 1982, a bearded Woodmansee tried to strike again, luring a
14-year-old newspaper delivery boy named Dale Sherman into his house.
After plying the boy with alcohol, Woodmansee attempted garrote the boy, police said.
But Sherman fought back and police were called - and suddenly, all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.
When Woodmansee was interviewed by police he admitted that he fantasized
about murder: 'It would be easy [to kill someone], easy to get away with
it, and some form of fun,'' he said, according to a newspaper.
Shortly thereafter, he confessed to sexually assaulting and killing Jason
Foreman, police said - pleading guilty to second degree murder before
the case could go to trial and the cannibal charges be proven.But soon, details
of the horrific murder began to leak out.'Atop Michael’s dresser was a box,'
Mrs Aubin, who was privy to much of the police information not released
to the public, claimed.

'Inside were my brother’s shellacked
bones: his arms, legs, a small jaw, a few spine and rib bones, and his
skull. The bones were washed and finished for display,' she claimed.
'Michael coveted them; he treated my brother’s bones like trophies,' she alleged.
'Next to the box was the disgusting journal.'According
to Mrs Aubin, within hours of killing Jason, Woodmansee had boiled his
body parts to speed up the process of removing the flesh from the bones.
'This lunatic ate my baby brother,' she said.
'Imagine a life trying to accept that as fact?

'To cannibalize someone for the sake of wondering what it is like,
that to me is more demented than the thought of killing someone.

'To this day, I have nightmares about this. I wake up screaming, and I know it’s not just a dream. It’s my real life.'
But prosecutors agreed to a plea
bargain to spare the family more grim details of the boy's death and to
avoid a grisly trial, and the journal was sealed for ever.Thirty years later,
Woodmansee, now 52, is set to be released from prison 12 years early due to good behaviour.To
Mrs Aubin, the thought is terrifying. 'How can this man be let back out
on the street? What if he thinks about killing again?' she said.'With Michael,
thoughts are dangerous. He doesn’t see the world in the same colours as normal people.
'Nobody wants him on the streets. And to be honest, he won’t be safe on them.'My family and the whole state of Rhode
Island are rallying to keep this maniac behind bars, but legally, there
is little we can do.'To her father, however, the pain of his release may be blinding.‘I
do intend, if this man is released anywhere in my vicinity, or if I can
find him after the fact, I do intend to kill this man,’ he told WPRO-AM radio in March.
Superior Court Judge Susan E. McGuirl, the former state prosecutor who agreed to
the plea bargain, said that news of Woodmansee's pending release was
'shocking'.She told a local newspaper: 'Certainly there would not have been any
anticipation of him getting out in 28 years.'The killer, who has served nearly all
of his sentence at prisons in Massachusetts for his own protection,
faces huge public anger if he returns to Rhode Island.But police say they are preparing for that possibility.‘We
do not know what his plans are or if he is [planning on coming back
here], but it is definitely something we plan on discussing,’ a
spokesman for the South Kingstown Police Department told AOL News in March.
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