Scott Abbott is a jilted lover and knife killer of four

**Sister Iroz** · March 7th, 2009, 09:40 PM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC-TV MyFoxAL.com) - The Hueytown Police department is currently investigating the murder of four people in a home on Woodland Drive in Hueytown.

Hueytown Police chief Chuck Hagler held a new conference on Saturday afternoon. Hagler confirmed that four people - two adult males and two adult females - were found violently murdered in a home at 225 Woodland Drive.

Police believe that the incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Hagler said that there is a person of interest in custody.

http://www.myfoxal.com/dpp/news/2009..._investigation
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**Sister Iroz** · March 8th, 2009, 09:26 AM

A Hueytown neighborhood's calm was shattered Saturday when four bodies were discovered in a home on Woodland Drive, the victims of what Hueytown police described as a particularly violent crime.

Police Chief Chuck Hagler said the killings are believed to have happened early Saturday. The bodies were discovered about 11 a.m., he said.

"It was a particularly horrific crime. It was a very violent crime scene, one of the worst scenes I've ever been on in 20 years," Hagler said.

The victims are two men and two women, all believed to be in their 20s, Hagler said. He did not release their identities. A man described as a person of interest has been taken into custody, he said.

Hagler described the community where the slayings occurred as a quiet middle class neighborhood. "We don't feel like there is some homicidal maniac on the loose."

Hagler said there was evidence of drugs in the home, but it is too early to say whether drugs are connected to the homicides.

Hueytown City Council President Ray Roberson said he felt it was an isolated incident. "I feel sad for the people and for their families. That kind of thing doesn't happen around here."

Roberson, who has lived in Huetown 31 years, said he can't recall any crime of this magnitude in the community. "Our police will take care of it."

David Vincent, who has lived on Woodland Drive for more than a year, said the house was divided into two residences and two families had lived there. One of the families moved out just days earlier, he said.

John Dillard, who has lived on the same streetfor about a month, said he has never seen anything suspicious. "This is a quiet neighborhood."

Vincent agreed that the neighborhood is quiet and safe, "almost everybody is close-knit," but he had noticed an increase in traffic at the home in the past two weeks.

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http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnew...830.xml&coll=2

**Dakota Valkyrie** · March 8th, 2009, 09:45 AM

I'm willing to bet it was drugs or gangs. Since Hueytown, Alabama probably isn't a hotbed of gang activity, it's most likely drugs.

Although, it is home of the Alabama Gang:

Hueytown was home to one of the dominant racing groups in NASCAR, the Alabama Gang. The city's main thoroughfare, Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive, takes its name from drivers Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, Davey Allison, Clifford Allison and Neil Bonnett.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueytow...e_Alabama_Gang

But, then again, you can never tell about them rabid NASCAR fans...

**Kimberix** · March 8th, 2009, 09:49 AM

I say drugs as well, plus with the other family moving out it would give any crackhead a better chance at getting what he wants....but who knows.

BTW! Special....love your avatar....;)

**Sister Iroz** · March 8th, 2009, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Dakota_Valkyrie

I'm willing to bet it was drugs or gangs. Since Hueytown, Alabama probably isn't a hotbed of gang activity, it's most likely drugs.

Although, it is home of the Alabama Gang:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueytow...e_Alabama_Gang

But, then again, you can never tell about them rabid NASCAR fans...

I agree with drugs having something to do with it especially when cars have being coming in and out.

**Just my luck sucks** · March 8th, 2009, 11:50 AM

The victims are two men and two women, all believed to be in their 20s, Hagler said. He did not release their identities. A man described as a person of interest has been taken into custody, he said.

How does just one person overtake 4 young adults? I'll bet there are more involved than just one guy.

**MichaelJCheaney** · March 8th, 2009, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Just my luck sucks

How does just one person overtake 4 young adults? I'll bet there are more involved than just one guy.

Line 'em up against the wall and execute them.....

You gotta figure that even if there are 4 adults present, a guy comes in with a gun, chances are the 4 adults submit to his wishes, because they are all too stunned to take the guy down......Much the same way that Virginia Tech happened.

Nobody wants to take the risk of playing hero, and getting killed themselves.

So Yea. I could see one person doing this.

**~Absynthe~** · March 8th, 2009, 12:47 PM

the hubby says it is a small quiet town I am going with drugs also. it is the burbs of birmingham.

**RaVen Blackehart** · March 9th, 2009, 06:28 AM

A 24-year-old man has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of four people found Saturday in a home on Woodland Drive in Hueytown.
News Staff/Jeremy GrayWoodland Drive home where four people were found slain Saturday.

Scott Lamar Abbott is charged in the deaths of William Chad Gilbert, 31; Jeri Lynn Cole, 27; Nika Sandlin, 24 and Joshua Gilleo, 26, Hueytown police said during a Sunday evening press conference.

All four were stabbed to death and there were signs of a struggle with at least one victim, police said.

Abbott was taken into custody in Gadsden Saturday while seeking medical care for cuts and knife wounds, police said.

Police said they believe there was a prior relationship between the defendant and one of the victims, who they would not identify.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/03/...apital_mu.html

**Dakota Valkyrie** · March 9th, 2009, 06:58 AM

Stabbed!!!??? He must have snuck up on them as they slept.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · March 9th, 2009, 07:01 AM

Investigators said they believe Abbott was the jilted boyfriend of one of the victims, and lived at the home where the murders took place as recently as two weeks ago.

Detectives believe that Abbott broke into the home early Saturday morning, then individually stabbed each of the four victims multiple times.

Police caught up with Abbott when he checked himself into a Gadsden hospital for treatment of knife wounds on Saturday - wounds that police believe he received during a struggle with at least one of the victims.

Doctors became suspicious about his story of how he received the wounds, and contacted authorities in Gadsden, who then contacted Hueytown investigators.

Authorities said that Abbott has a history of prior convictions, and a history of mental health treatment.

http://www.myfoxal.com/dpp/news/2009...icide_Hueytown

**Sister Iroz** · March 9th, 2009, 07:23 AM

Hueytown Police charged Scott Lamar Abbott with four counts of capital murder Sunday evening, saying he was a jilted lover who stabbed to death four people inside a Hueytown house on Saturday.

Abbott, 24, was picked up in Gadsden on Saturday, where he had sought treatment for stab wounds, said Chuck Hagler, the Hueytown police chief. The defendant was taken from Hueytown to the Jefferson County Jail Sunday.

He is charged with killing William Chad Gilbert, 31; Jeri Lynn Cole, 27; Nika Sandlin, 24; and Joshua Gilleo, 26. All but Gilleo were residents of the house at 225 Woodland Drive, where the bodies were found Saturday morning, Hagler said.

Gilleo's last known address was in Pelham, and police are trying to confirm if he had recently moved into the house or was just visiting the night the four people were killed.

Abbott had been living at the house until he was asked to leave about two weeks ago, Hagler said in a news conference Sunday evening. The 6-foot-7-inch man, who has worked as a male stripper, had a relationship with one of the victims. Hagler declined to name the former girlfriend.

"There was at least one couple there," Hagler said of the victims. "We believe there was a dating couple there also."

Hagler declined to give many details of the homicides, which he called one of the most horrific he had seen in 20 years in law enforcement. He believed the killer moved from victim to victim starting about 3 a.m. Saturday, inflicting multiple stab wounds in each. At least one of the victims fought back, Hagler said.

"It was a large, complicated and very violent scene," Hagler said earlier Sunday.

Police found signs of drug activity in the house. But Hagler said drugs only played a peripheral role, if any, in the homicides.

"We believe this was a scorned boyfriend," Hagler said.

The chief said he believed forensic evidence from the scene will link Abbott to the crimes.

"There is also both evidence and eyewitness testimony before and after the homicide scene that we believe links him to the scene," the chief said.

He is scheduled to make an initial court appearance in Bessemer this morning.

Abbott pleaded guilty to a child abuse charge in 2004 in DeKalb County and was sentenced to three years in prison, court records show. He also pleaded guilty to a driving-under-the-influence charge in Etowah County last year, court records show.

Hagler said the scene was rivaled only by the October 2004 deaths of Rebecca Jean Sampson, 26, and her son, Troy Nate Gann, 9, in Hueytown. Their throats were cut.

Adam Thrash Jr. was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in that case. News staff writers Jeremy Gray and Victoria Coman contributed to this report. evelasco@bhamnews.com

http://www.myfoxal.com/dpp/news/2009...icide_Hueytown

**Sister Iroz** · March 25th, 2009, 05:51 PM

Jefferson County - Testimony shows a former male stripper accused in the stabbing deaths of his estranged girlfriend and three other people at a home in Hueytown has a history of mental problems.

A psychiatrist testified Monday during a hearing in Jefferson County that 24-year-old Scott Lamar Abbott has a history of psychiatric treatment dating back to his childhood.

Also during Monday’s hearing, the judge denied a request from Abbott’s attorney to check Abbott into Taylor Hardin Secure Mental Health Facility. Instead, doctors will go to the jail for Abbott’s mental competency evaluation.

The next preliminary hearing is set for April 2, 2009.

http://www.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/...history/65143/

**Nell** · March 28th, 2009, 01:11 PM

Scott Abbott MySpace~ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=231063082

Jeri Cole MySpace~ http://www.myspace.com/lyricsmom27

Nika Sandlin MySpace~ http://www.myspace.com/nikathefreak

William Gilbert MySpace~ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=291080894

Josh Gilleo MySpace~ http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=191601503

**Ninja0980** · March 30th, 2009, 02:48 AM

Been reading up on his history.. served previous time in prison (No shocker) as well as several mental hosiptals over the years and suffers from PTSD, Bi-polar disorder and a couple of other mental problems. Apprently tried slashing his stomach after hearing voices (sad he didn't hear them earlier). Have to see how the trial plays out but I imagine we'll find another person who fell through the cracks. Only thing I'm still curious about is how someone could kill four people with a knife without anyone hearing anything.

**Hellsbells** · December 2nd, 2010, 11:50 AM

Man gets life in prison for Ala. quadruple slaying

A judge has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole for his conviction in the stabbing deaths of a former girlfriend and three others.

Judge Mac Parsons abided by a unanimous jury recommendation Wednesday in sentencing 26-year-old Scott Lamar Abbott, who was convicted of capital murder in October.

Wearing handcuffs and ankle shackles, Abbott apologized before a large basement courtroom filled with friends and relatives of the victims. "It was truly an act of rage," he told the court.

Some of the victims' relatives had urged the judge to sentence Abbott to death by lethal injection.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/01...ruple-slaying/