A Less Than Genius Murder Plot

this part of the story is covered for now He grew up in Petal, across the river from Hattiesburg, in the Church of God: Sunday school, youth rallies around the state, summer camps, choir and ushering. His brother Robert remembered a good boy and a nice kid. 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 He joined the army and served five years, including the First Cavalry Division, and flew three back-to-back tours in Vietnam as a helicopter gunner with an M60. The military counted thirty-three months of combat. He said afterwards that his helicopter was once sent to a hut after another aircraft was shot down; he emptied his gun into it and the only people inside were women and children, and he said the memory traumatised him and that he was given no therapy. In 1970 the army court-martialled him for falsifying official documents, and he served nine months in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth. He left the army in 1971.

Back in Hattiesburg he married and had three children within five years. He worked transient jobs, among them a year as plant manager at the Swift Farm Service Center, a fertiliser plant, and a few months at a shipyard in Morgan City. He left or was sacked from the fertiliser plant over what he called embezzlement: $43,000, which the hosts translated as about $166,000 in 2026 money. By January 1976 he had exhausted every line of credit, with bad checks across the south-east and debts on a car, a boat, department store cards and more.

On January 10th, 1976, in Baton Rouge, he traded a 16-gauge shotgun at a pawn shop for a .38 pistol and $75. He told his parents he was going to the coast for a physical for an offshore oil rig job and drove to Gulfport. He checked into the Twin Star Motel as Jack Wilson, paid cash and took room 110.

Edwina Rose deGroux was born in New Orleans on June 20th, 1940, and grew up in Metairie, one of several children. She attended St Catherine of Siena Grammar School, Metairie High and East Jefferson High. She met Charles Wesley Marter at Louisiana State University, where he studied finance, and married him in 1962. Chuck Marter became a banker, and by the early 1970s the family had moved to Gulfport, where he was a senior vice president at Gulf National Bank with responsibility for the whole loan portfolio. They bought a house on Southern Circle, a circular drive off a scenic road, and had two sons: Eric Charles, born in 1965, and Kevin Paul, born in 1973. Edwina was a housewife and a relentless volunteer: St James Catholic Church, the auxiliary of the Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, founder of the St James Booster Club, secretary of the PTA, den mother for Troop 204. She played bridge and tennis, drove a convertible Beetle and was remembered by neighbours as always smiling.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He hung up, found the one Marter in the phone book and drove past the house at noon. Several cars were in the drive, so he waited. At about two in the afternoon he came back, saw one car left, rang the house, heard a woman's voice and hung up.

He returned in a suit, carrying a clipboard and a manila folder, with the .38 strapped inside a cut-out trouser pocket. He told Edwina he was from the electric company, investigating defective circuit breakers in the area. She let him in. Once the door was shut he drew the gun and told her she was being kidnapped for ransom. She protested that her three-year-old was asleep upstairs and that she could not leave. He put the gun to her head and walked her out to the car. He remembered his folder, went back for it, looked in on the sleeping child and left.

He made her drive. They took US 90 to US 49 north, past the Gulf National Bank building where her husband worked, and out to a logging road north of East Wortham Road in Harrison County. There, according to the state, he made her kneel and shot her once in the back of the head from a few inches. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The medical examiner found the bullet entered the lower right back of the skull, travelled upward and exited above the left eye, and that she was stationary and on her knees. Her body was found face down with her hands behind her back.

At 3.40 that afternoon Chuck Marter, at the bank, took a call from Jack Wilson: your wife is with me, she is unharmed, bring $50,000 and leave it on a blue jacket beside Highway 49. The FBI was called, the money was recorded and photographed, and that night Chuck drove up and down Highway 49 looking for a jacket that was not there. this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed Chuck left the money on a blue jacket there. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it 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 He led them to the logging road, where Edwina was found. Divers recovered the .38 from the Big Biloxi River the next day; it fired as it came out of the water.

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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 He was pronounced dead at 6.16 p.m. He was seventy-nine. Chuck Marter, who had remarried and moved to Lafayette, Louisiana, with the boys, was still alive at eighty-eight. Edwina is buried in St Louis Cemetery No. 3 in New Orleans.