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JODI HUMMEL - 5 yo (2010) - Kennedale/Forth Worth TX

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Post by TomTerrific0420 Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:49 pm

FORT WORTH -- Tarrant County prosecutors will seek the death
penalty for a 34-year-old Kennedale man accused of fatally stabbing his
pregnant wife, fatally beating his 5-year-old daughter and his
father-in-law, and setting their home on fire the week before
Christmas, District Attorney Joe Shannon said Wednesday.A
grand jury returned three indictments Wednesday morning, each accusing
John William Hummel of capital murder. Each indictment carries the
punishment of death by lethal injection or life without parole, Shannon
said.None of the indictments involves the fire.One
indictment accuses Hummel of fatally stabbing his wife, Joy Hummel,
with a knife, a dagger and a sword during the same "criminal episode"
in which he beat her father, Clyde "Eddie" Bedford, to death with a
baseball bat.A second indictment accuses him of killing his
child, Jodi Hummel, who was beaten to death with the same bat. The
charge is capital murder because Jodi was under 6.The third
indictment is the most unusual. It accuses Hummel of committing capital
murder by killing Joy Hummel and her unborn child in the same criminal
episode."This is the first capital murder we've ever indicted involving the death of an unborn child," Shannon said.Motive not disclosedNeither Shannon or Fred Cummings, Hummel's court-appointed attorney, would discuss details of the case."There
is a motive, but I can't disclose it because it's ethically
prohibited," Shannon said. "It might in some way taint the jury
process."Cummings, who is defending Hummel with Larry Moore, said he was not surprised by the indictments."When
you look at all the factors -- the tender age of his daughter and the
fact his wife was pregnant -- they haven't done anything that surprised
me," Cummings said. "Now that it's indicted, it gives me an idea how to
proceed."Cummings noted that the prosecutors did not seek an indictment for murder in the commission of arson"By eliminating arson, they eliminate all that brouhaha over the arson commission," he said.Cummings
was referring to the furor that erupted last fall when an arson expert
wrote a report for the Texas Forensic Science Commission that
investigators in a Corsicana capital murder case used outdated
techniques and did not sustain a finding of arson.The
defendant in that case, Carl Willingham, was convicted of killing his
three daughters by setting their house on fire in 1991. He was executed
in 2004.Before the commission heard testimony from the
expert, Gov. Rick Perry replaced three members of the panel, including
the chairman.Later he replaced other members. The commission still hasn't heard the testimony.Accelerant foundIn
affidavits made public on New Year's Eve, investigators said Hummel
admitted that he bought gasoline on Dec. 18, killed his family, set the
home at 600 Little School Road on fire and drove away.After
returning to the house later, Hummel gave a statement to police and
handed over his clothes and footwear. What appeared to be dried blood
was found on his pants and socks, police said.Fire officials
using a trained dog found accelerant poured in at least two areas of
the three bedrooms as well as in a central area of the
1,100-square-foot house.Authorities later tried to contact
Hummel, but he never returned the calls or contacted church friends who
filed a missing-persons report that led to his Dec. 20 arrest in
California.Hummel told investigators that he dumped several
items behind an auto parts store off Pioneer Parkway in Arlington.
Police later found a baseball bat and other items in a trash container.


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Post by MililaniGirl Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:27 pm

Taped statements reveal details of three Kennedale deaths
Posted Friday, Jan. 21, 2011


BY MARTHA DELLER
mdeller@star-telegram.com

FORT WORTH -- On the morning that John Hummel's pregnant wife, daughter and father-in-law were found dead in the burned debris of their Kennedale home, Hummel told police he knew nothing about the deaths or what caused the fire.

Only two days later, Hummel gave a different account to officers who had flown to San Diego to arrest him -- a story involving rat poison, a baseball bat and samurai swords.

"I killed my family and set the house on fire" was Hummel's opening line in a two-hour statement that was videotaped Dec. 20-21, 2009, in the San Diego County Jail.

In February, a Tarrant County grand jury indicted Hummel, now 35, on three capital murder charges. Prosecutors have chosen one charge to try him on -- that he killed his wife, Joy Hummel, and her father, Clyde Bedford, during the same "criminal episode." They are seeking the death penalty.
The videotaped statement was played this week at a pre-trial hearing, revealing publicly some details of the Dec. 17, 2009, slayings -- and possibly the motive behind them.

Defense attorneys Fred Cummings and Larry Moore, are asking state District Judge Ruben Gonzales to rule that Hummel's statement to officers and other evidence should not heard by the jury at his trial.
Prosecutors Miles Brissette and Bob Gill have called eight witnesses to try to show that the statements were properly obtained and should be admissible.

A quick confession

Kennedale police questioned Hummel not long after firefighters found the bodies of Joy Hummel, 34, their 5-year-old daughter, Jodi, and Clyde Bedford. But they had no reason to hold him.
Hummel drove to California, where he checked into a San Diego motel before walking across the border into Mexico to buy drugs.

As Hummel came back across the border, his lack of proper identification -- he had only his Texas driver's license -- led border agents to check a national database, which showed he was being sought in Texas. Agents took him into custody.

When two Kennedale police officers and an investigator for the Tarrant County district attorney's office arrived, Hummel wasted little time confessing to the killings, the officers testified this week.
Hummel told them that his plan to kill his family began about two months earlier, when he became involved with another woman and wanted to be single again.

He first tried to kill them, he said, by putting rat poison into ground turkey, which he then mixed into spaghetti sauce. He left the meal for his family while he went to work.

His wife told him later that she threw it out because it tasted strange. Hummel said he quickly came up with another plan.

The next night, Hummel said, he dressed in his security guard uniform and left as though he were going to work. After visiting his girlfriend and putting gas in his van, he returned home and parked the van where it could not be seen.

Hummel said he first stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife. When she awoke and began screaming and struggling, he said, the knife broke.

He then grabbed a baseball bat and struck her on the head until she was unconscious. He then used what he described as samurai swords and daggers to continue stabbing her -- he didn't know how many times.

'A horrible, horrible thing'

Hummel said he used the bat to kill his daughter and father-in-law before he set the house on fire by lighting rolls of toilet paper and putting them in piles of clothing.

He insisted that he did not use gasoline to set the fire.

In testimony Thursday, arson investigator Lt. Joey Lankford said a trained arson dog "hit" on four areas with accelerants. But a chemist with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives did not detect accelerants in the samples, he said.

On the videotape, Hummel said he dumped his weapons behind an Arlington auto parts store, then tried to establish an alibi by entering several stores so that he would appear on the stores' security videotapes.

He said he returned to the house about 5 a.m. so that he could appear to be shocked by the fire.
While talking with Kennedale police and an ATF agent that morning, Hummel handed over receipts from the stores and some clothing.

Later, Hummel said, he realized that there was blood on his pants and socks. That's why he fled to California, he said.

On the tape, Hummel told the investigators that he was glad he had been arrested. He signed several documents waiving his Miranda rights and allowing police to search his van. He then asked how fast he could be returned to Texas.

"I did a horrible, horrible thing," he said. "I know I'll spend the rest of my life in jail -- or put to death. I accept it. I deserve it."

Gonzales will rule on the defense motions to suppress the evidence sometime after the hearing ends. It is scheduled to continue today.
Martha Deller, 817-390-7857


http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01/20/2785086/taped-statements-reveal-details.html
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Post by mermaid55 Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:02 pm

Man convicted of killing his family, burning down house in 2009

Posted Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2011





FORT WORTH -- After sitting through eight days of testimony, jurors delivered a swift verdict Wednesday, convicting John "Johnny" Hummel of killing his family and burning down their Kennedale house with the bodies inside.
Hummel, a former Marine and security guard, showed no reaction when state District Judge Ruben Gonzalez read the verdict.
The victims' loved ones, who filled one side of the courtroom, hugged one another and wept quietly after the jury was led away.
The jury deliberated for a little over an hour before convicting Hummel, 35, of capital murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife, Joy, 34, and his disabled father-in-law, Clyde "Eddie" Bedford, 57.
During the past two weeks, the jury has heard that Hummel killed his 5-year-old daughter, Jodi, but the district attorney's office prosecuted Hummel on the indictment accusing him of killing Bedford and Hummel's wife during the same criminal transaction.
The punishment phase began after the verdict. Hummel faces life in prison without parole, or the death penalty.
Earlier in the day, during closing arguments before a packed courtroom, prosecutors Miles Brissette and Bob Gill portrayed Hummel as a monster who killed his family so he could be free to pursue other women, including a convenience store clerk whom he had sex with on one occasion.
They reminded the jury how Hummel returned home the night of Dec. 17, 2009, and stood in the kitchen deliberating how he was going to wipe out his sleeping family. He first tried to slit his wife's throat with a dull knife and then beat her with a baseball bat and stabbed her with two Japanese swords and a dagger.
"This was a very personal killing," Brissette told the jury.
After his wife was dead, Hummel was winded and had to rest before going into Bedford's bedroom with the bat, Brissette said.
"That monster ... went one by one, room by room, and snuffed out their lives," Brissette said. "He went with the same bloody bat and walked through a very small house and killed his father-in-law. And with the same bloody bat, he went back through the house and killed his daughter."
Afterward, Hummel gathered up the weapons, set his house on fire and then went shopping, trying to establish an alibi. Later, after investigators interviewed him at the Kennedale police station, Hummel picked up his paycheck and headed west to California.
He was detained three days later returning to California from Mexico, where he had gone to buy drugs, and confessed to killing his family.
"The state has left no stone unturned on this," Brissette said.
Defense strategy
Defense attorney Larry Moore, who is working with Fred Cummings and Pam Fernandez, argued that prosecutors failed to prove that Hummel killed his wife and father-in-law during the same criminal transaction, since he took a break between the killings. Moore asked the jury to find Hummel guilty of the lesser charge of murder in Bedford's death.
Moore also asked the jury to acquit Hummel of killing his wife, arguing that prosecutors failed to prove what specific weapon caused her death.
"Even if you feel he is guilty of the murders, that is not sufficient," Moore said. "The only evidence you have are the words of Mr. Hummel. And before you can even consider it, you have to believe it was a free and voluntary act, free from any coercion or persuasion. ... It's very easy for you to be angry at John and sympathetic to the loss the families have suffered in this case, but do not let that cloud your judgment."
During his summation, prosecutor Gill told jurors that they probably had no idea what lay in front of them after they were selected for jury duty.
"Never in your wildest imagination could you have imagined anything as depraved and cruel and lawless as the behavior Mr. Hummel exhibited," Gill said.
Video confession
After the verdict, the punishment phase began with prosecutors showing the rest of Hummel's videotaped confession taken in California after his arrest.
In the interview, Hummel tells investigators that he first tried to kill his family on Dec. 16, 2009, by putting rat poison in ground turkey meat that he used to prepare his family a spaghetti dinner.
"They all noticed," Hummel said. "The meat turned green when I added the rat poison ... and they believed that the meat had gone bad."
Hummel, who wasn't at home when the family sat down to dinner, said his wife called and told him that the meat was bad and that the family had to order a pizza.
"They could tell right away something was wrong," he said.
The next day, he killed his family.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/22/3172785/man-convicted-of-killing-his-family.html#ixzz1RpD3ziYY

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Post by mermaid55 Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:06 pm


Kennedale man sentenced to death for killing family

Posted Monday, Jun. 27, 2011


Update: The jury has sentenced John Hummel to death.
FORT WORTH -- John "Johnny" Hummel grew up in a house without love, reared by parents who rarely hugged or held him.
"Emotions were not allowed in the Hummel home," testified Antoinette McGarrahan, a clinical psychologist who interviewed and diagnosed Hummel after he killed his family and burned down their Kennedale house. "They were told to shut it up, dry it up and suck it up."
Because Hummel was unable to express joy or sadness, or deal with childhood problems -- including being teased as a kid -- McGarrahan said he stuffed his emotions away until he finally blew up on Dec. 17, 2009.
"I think he stuffed his emotions for 30-something years ... and they came out in a flood of emotional rage," McGarrahan testified. "At the time of the offense, there was not much thinking going on."
McGarrahan, a defense witness, was the final person to testify Monday during Hummel's capital murder trial. Last week, Hummel, 35, a former Marine and security guard, was found guilty of killing his pregnant wife, Joy, 34, and disabled father-in-law, Clyde "Eddie" Bedford, 57. The jury also heard that he killed his 5-year-old daughter, Jodi.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/27/3183673/jurors-to-decide-punishment-for.html#ixzz1RpDw1R8y

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