An Officer & Three Maniacs

Murder of Ronald Wodesick

June 2nd, 1982 / the woods off Lampkin Road, near Gulfport, Mississippi

Victims

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 4 November 2023.

Outcome

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Other people

The timeline

1. September 8th, 1965 name withheld here is born; her mother is a stripper in Mobile, Alabamaabout 0:10:45
2. 1978 a covered name marries at 13, faking her age, and is divorced by 14about 0:11:43
3. Aged 14, covered name works as a bartender and stripper in the Gulfport and Biloxi bars and sometimes sells herselfabout 0:13:26
4. 1981 name withheld here, 16, meets 26-year-old airman Ronald Wodesick at the Sports Page bar, tells him she is 20 and moves into his apartment (Sports Page bar)about 0:17:04
5. 1981 After a few weeks Ronald learns a covered name real age, panics about the military and tells her to move out (Ronald Wodesick's apartment)about 0:17:17
6. 1982 Ronald starts dating Sandra Sowashabout 0:18:12
7. 1982 covered name tells John Cooper she caught Ronald and Sandra in bed and threatened to kill Ronald; Cooper repeats it to Ronaldabout 0:18:40
8. the night before the murder name withheld here stands outside Ronald's apartment yelling obscenities (Ronald Wodesick's apartment)about 0:19:21
9. June 1st, 1982 On the phone to her friend Gina Pacal, a covered name says she loves Ronald but would also like to kill himabout 0:20:06
10. early June 1982 covered name befriends name withheld here a covered name, a 29-year-old unemployed man living in his car, and complains that Sandra took Ronald from herabout 0:20:49
11. June 2nd, 1982 covered name and name withheld here a covered name drink and dance at the Red Garter Lounge in the Buena Vista Hotel and 15-year-old covered name joins them (Red Garter Lounge)about 0:21:41
12. June 2nd, 1982 At closing time name withheld here asks a covered name to take her to Ronald's apartment for her van and clothes and to beat Ronald up (Red Garter Lounge)about 0:23:53
13. June 2nd, 1982 covered name takes four knives from his car and the three hitchhike to a point near Ronald's apartmentabout 0:24:43
14. June 2nd, 1982 name withheld here arms a covered name and covered name, posts name withheld here on the porch as lookout, and he and a covered name go into the apartment (Ronald Wodesick's apartment)about 0:26:39
15. June 2nd, 1982 Ronald and Sandra are woken and walked out at knifepoint into Ronald's white van; covered name takes Ronald's wallet and his two children are left asleep in the apartment (Ronald Wodesick's apartment)about 0:27:24
16. June 2nd, 1982 name withheld here drives west along US 90, turns off and tries to race an approaching train; Ronald grabs the wheel and prevents a crash (US 90)about 0:28:44
17. June 2nd, 1982 At a covered name suggestion, covered name rapes Sandra at knifepoint in the back of the moving van (US 90)about 0:30:37
18. June 2nd, 1982 The van stops off Lampkin Road and name withheld here marches Ronald about fifty feet into the woods with a butcher knife at his back (Lampkin Road)about 0:31:28
19. June 2nd, 1982 a covered name shouts 'Kill him'; covered name calls for Sandra to be brought in, Ronald fights him and is beaten nearly unconscious (Woods off Lampkin Road)about 0:32:30
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