Crazy Cousin Carnage

In June 1999 Depoy, an unincorporated community on a gravel road a few minutes from Greenville in Muhlenberg County, western Kentucky, was home to the Wimberley family. Adele and Eugene Wimberley had raised two daughters, Beverly and Jean, on Wimberley Lane. Beverly had married Todd Wedding, a newspaper delivery man, and Jean had married Johnny Vincent, who worked for a food distributor. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The cousins grew up close, and in the 1990s both settled on the same lane, Joey in a grey mobile home with his wife Amy and their daughter Brooklyn, born in July 1997.

Joey was a Greenville police officer and pastor of New Cypress Baptist Church in nearby Graham. Amy, whose maiden name was Hambrick, was a waitress at John and Sue's, the community's only restaurant. this part of the story is covered for now Relatives described him as a big, muscular man with a high, feminine voice, a hunter who had taken up karate. In 1998 doctors diagnosed bipolar disorder and prescribed lithium. For a time he seemed better, but in early to mid-June 1999 he stopped taking the medication.

On Tuesday 15 June 1999 Beverly, frightened by his behaviour, asked Amy to drive her to the courthouse in Greenville, where she obtained a 72-hour mental health warrant, formally an emergency protection and involuntary admission order. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now At a hearing the hospital decided he no longer met the threshold for detention, and he was sent home, angry with his parents, Joey and Amy.

On 24 June Amy told a friend she did not expect to live much longer and that she felt watched. details of the account remain covered until revealed Just after 6.15 a.m. on Sunday 27 June, Joey was carrying Brooklyn to the family car so Amy could take the sick child to the emergency room. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Amy's brother Derek Hembrick, who had stayed overnight, called 911.

When officers arrived they found Joey dead between the door and the car and Amy dead inside, four months pregnant. details of the account remain covered until revealed He had given her ice cream and a banana and put cartoons on. Inside the house police found ammunition staged in every room and firearms hidden behind a portable fireplace; a Dodge Intrepid outside had been hosed out.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In a second interview at 4.30 p.m. he described killing his parents. On Saturday 26 June he had asked Todd to drive him to a nearby cemetery to visit his grandmother's grave, then attacked him there with an aluminium baseball bat and left him in the wetland. He returned, shot Beverly in the head with a 10-gauge as she sat in her Dodge pickup, and dumped her body in the same wetland. A search team found both bodies in standing water about 15 feet off the road. He had also taken about $1,200 in cash. He said he killed the four because they had been involved in committing him.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now Jean and Johnny Vincent raised Brooklyn. The four funerals were held together, and the case was later the subject of an Investigation Discovery American Monster episode, A Wedding and Four Funerals.