Sheriff: Louisiana Man Who Died Trying to Hide Murders Killed 3 Wives

Fox News ^ | Monday, May 07, 2007

[Sopater]

COVINGTON, La. — A 78-year-old man who died after setting a fire to hide the murders of his third wife and her brother had killed two previous wives, a sheriff says.

Everette Simpson had served a total of 20 years for the two killings.

He spent nine years in a California prison for second-degree murder of his first wife, who was hacked 16 times with a butcher knife in 1960, and 11 years in Louisiana for manslaughter of his second wife, attacked with knife and hatchet and then smothered with a pillow in 1983, authorities said.

He died of smoke inhalation April 3. Estelle Simpson, 69, and her brother, Allen Martin, 75, were bludgeoned in their sleep.

"This is incredibly frustrating for people who spend their careers chasing these monsters," St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said Friday. "Everyone deserves a second chance, but when you start letting out cold-blooded murderers not once but twice, you've got to wonder what's going on."

Simpson was charged in 1960 with first-degree murder of Virginia Hudson, 35, in Los Angeles, and was convicted of second-degree murder, Strain said. He pleaded guilty in 1983 to manslaughter of Ruby Richardson in Shreveport, the sheriff said.

[Sopater]

I guess the good Lord had to take things into His own hands since no one was getting him off the street down here.

[JamesP81]

Question: what kind of woman marries a man who has killed two previous wives?

[whatexit]

"manslaughter of his second wife, attacked with knife and hatchet and then smothered with a pillow in 1983, authorities said."

Manslaughter? Hard time proving intent? Defense argued he intended to shoot her, but since he didn't...?

[billhilly]

A blonde?

[threechamps]

Three Champs: Moron who wrote headline should be fired.

[Little Ray]

“Everyone deserves a second chance,...”

Wrong. Fire that man at the next election. Your life may depend on it.

[MeanWestTexan]

One who thinks she has no other alternatives.

[Midtowngirl]

One who doesn’t know he killed two previous wives.

[VeniVidiVici]

Hmmmm. Who else do we know from St Tammany Parish that is infamous?

[lilylangtree]

Justice comes slow but it does arrive.

[balch3]

Louisiana is a den of inequitey that would make Sodom and Gomorah blush.

[PAR35]

He spent nine years in a California prison for second-degree murder of his first wife, ... and 11 years in Louisiana for manslaughter of his second wife

Looks like wives are worth a little more in Louisiana than they are in California.

[theDentist]

Everett Simpson took a knife
to the first of his 3 wives
Served his term and tried again
butcher two led him to the pen
Then again they set him free
went and skewered number three
killed her brother as a joke
then died too late from too much smoke.

[livius]

Everette Simpson had served a total of 20 years for the two killings.

If they'd put him to death the first time, there'd be 1 piece of garbage dead and 3 decent, productive citizens still alive.

[GOPologist]

Question: what kind of woman marries a man who has killed two previous wives?

A masochist.

[TheDon]

Yet another reason to execute convicted murderers to protect society.

[sticker]

stupid and ugly

[LivingNet]

Question: what kind of woman marries a man who has killed two previous wives?

Hopefully my mother-in-law.

[Paleo Conservative]

Question: what kind of woman marries a man who has killed two previous wives?

The same kind who write letters to prisoners hoping to marry one.

[JewishRighter]

Well, it’s like I always say, the death penalty never acts as a deterrent /s off