Posted on 09/30/2025 4:50:35 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell
LAYTON, Utah (ABC4) — A 92-year-old Idaho man was arrested in Utah after traveling across state lines with a plan to kill his nephew and his nephew’s wife.
Billy J Nevills, 92, has been arrested on two counts of attempted murder. He has not been formally charged yet.
According to the arrest statement, on Sept. 28, 2025, Nevills traveled from his residence in Twin Falls, ID, to Utah. He would allegedly later tell investigators that he was driving around and looking for his nephew’s house with the intention of killing him.
The Layton City Police Department located Nevills in Layton on the morning of Sept. 29, and he was taken into custody. ABC4 has reached out to police for more information regarding how he was located, but has yet to hear back.
During an interview with the police, the 92-year-old explained that he wanted to murder the two over a family trust and will issue.
Nevills stated that when his wife’s sister passed away, his wife was supposed to inherit her sister’s estate. However, Nevills’ nephew was able to get the will changed and “ultimately placed the entirety of the sister’s inheritance” in the nephew’s name. Due to this change, Nevills said that he and his wife lost all of their claim to the inheritance.
Arizona man accused of assaulting McDonald’s employee in Summit County According to Nevills, his wife is currently living in a care facility and has been diagnosed with dementia. He believes that his nephew “took advantage” of her due to “her diminished mental health capacity.”
Due to his belief that his nephew “stole money which was rightfully meant for” his wife, Nevills allegedly became angry and decided to kill his nephew. Layton City Police officers located a sticky note with his nephew’s address in his pocket, and Nevills explained that he’d purchased a Glock handgun several weeks ago to commit the crime.
During the interview with Nevills, he stated that he was driving around looking for his nephew’s house, and would have “already killed” him if he had access to GPS on his phone. Twin Falls, ID, is roughly 200 miles away from where Nevills was found in Utah.
Nevills also allegedly told investigators that he planned to go to his nephew’s residence, kill him and his wife when they opened the door, place the gun on the ground, call 911, and wait for police to arrive.
According to court documents, after being taken into custody, Nevills said that he would kill his nephew and his nephew’s wife “in front of officers if he was able to do so.” He said that he has “nothing else to live for and is willing to do whatever it takes” to kill his nephew.
Nevills was arrested and booked into the Davis County Jail, where he is currently being held without bail.
Obviously.
,,, until he got shorted on potatoes and gravy.
This sounds too much like a local case I was involved with. An old neighbor, (a judge) and his wife were childless, but the judge had an illegitimated daughter from an old liaison forty years prior. As the judge was getting on, and then his wife died, he wrote out a new will, and asked my Dad and another neighbor to witness it, then he filed it at the courthouse. A year later, he died, (with an estate of several millions) and a nephew, whom the old judge despised produced a will five years older than the one Dad had witnessed, and got EVERYTHING.... the will the judge signed was never found, strangely... When enough money is involved, you don’t know what can happen.
What was he planning to do with the money, take it with him ?
What was he planning to do with the money, take it with him ?
That’s why it’s called a stretch in prison...
Manipulation of estates is rampant.
“So....two weeks??????...”
Jeez - you beat me!
I can well believe the actions of the nephew.
It’s seen too many cases of greed like that in families when it comes to inheritances and the old man’s actions are understandable, if that is the case. Not justifiable, but I get it.
That said, I’m not surprised that dementia is involved. That leaves open the possibility that the nephew is actually innocent.
What a complicated situation.
Your post reminded me of how irritated my dad’s oldest brother (IOW, my uncle) became upon learning that the widow of one of his younger brothers had willed her entire estate to her niece, having had no children of her own. It seems the brothers had some kind of pact among themselves about their estates. However, the younger brother passed first so his wife had full control of all the assets and the unwritten pact was of no concern to her. I should note that the irritated uncle was definitely not without personal assets so it was not as much about the money as it was feeling that the pact should have been honored by the widow.
Also, never let anyone know what you’re worth if you can help it.
Or less. 😆
I understand he had plans to go to college. He wanted to be a dentist so he could help people.
Not the course of action I would have recommended. A Glock can be difficult for a 92-year-old to rack. Something like a Smith & Wesson M&P EZ, either in 9mm or .380, that would have been more like it. Just trying to be helpful here.
The nephew and his wife may have been sorry sacks of crap and his mother may not have wanted to will them anything. They could have been abusive and mean. So many young people have no respect for elderly or anyone else.
The nephew and his wife may have been sorry sacks of crap and his mother may not have wanted to will them anything. They could have been abusive and mean. So many young people have no respect for elderly or anyone else.
That hurts more ways than one.
Or maybe the dead woman thought it would be better to leave her money to someone who had years of life yet, instead of someone who has one foot in the grave. For all we know, the old man and his wife are total jerks. The old man is obviously not someone with high morals.
Where there are any number of helpless people just waiting for this demented old kook to kill them?
And of course the staff to murder because demented old kook decided they took his pudding cup?
You sure are careless with other people's lives.
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