Rick Faulkner
Appearances
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
If this was the Halloween killing and it was at South Webster, Ohio, I'm pretty sure that's McWhorter. I got it. I remember the case now. Once you do a homicide, you don't forget it. So what's McWhorter got to do with you? Kid was bound to lose the way he was brought up. When we got him, he was a nice kid. He didn't have an ax to grind with the world, but bad shit seemed to happen around him.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
He would have been maybe 18, 19. McWhorter was a follower. This guy that was a victim was not a good guy. And that was pretty well uncontroverted. He was a bad guy, no question about it. And the way he was treating this little girl, she was young. He pimped her out to local guys. The whole thing was about what he was doing with the daughter and how mean he was to the kids.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
And they were all scared to death of him, roughed him up pretty bad. It was certainly one of those brought upon by a very emotional circumstance. It wasn't justifiable, but it was certainly understandable.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
They jumped up from behind the coal pile, shot him, didn't kill him. Let him bleed out. They pulled him out from underneath the truck, rolled him up, put him in the back. It was the middle of the night, because it was close to midnight when they got over to the gas station with him rolled up in a rug, laying in the back of a pickup truck.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
And they were going to take him out in the forest and bury him. And then they come up with the idea that one of them knew where there was a well, and they'd just drop him in the well. And then Grandma found out where he was and started talking to him about the ghost was walking the ridge out there someplace. And I rode with the deputies out there with the kid for a couple of weekends.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
We're trying to place it from the boy's memory because they had driven out there in the middle of the night on Halloween because he was very, very specific where they came from. And there's only three ways up on top of that ridge. And we went through literally a half a dozen different locations of wells. And we got into one that seemed to fit his description because there was a
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
radio tower, not too far he described. Well, there's only one radio tower out there. It's at a place called Rowe. We made a serious effort because it's in an area that I had originally grown up in. And so we knew from his description as to where all this was.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
And we knew that there were wells out there because if you walk those hills and ridges, you got to be aware that there's wells out there that you could fall into. So we knew where this little community of roe had been located. When we was up there looking, we went through several of these wells, got down in this well and dug it up, and there was trash and such in it, and they found some bones.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
Turned out the bones we found were bovine in nature. We never did find the body.
Lords of Death
6 | Angel of Death
He felt bad about it, but he gave a confession and statement and then did a plea on it because we put him to a manslaughter. They didn't have anything really to put him except a testimony to co-defendants. They didn't have a body. You know, it's very rare that you can convict somebody, but you can without a body as long as they're clear that he's dead.