John W Hummel killed his wife,daughter & father in law, then went to Mexico for drugs

[MadeaBecBec]

Before he left for Mexico, Hummel set them all on fire!!

Clyde E Bedford,57, Joy Hummel,34 and Jody Hummel,6

KENNEDALE, Texas—A man accused of killing his pregnant wife, daughter and father-in-law and then setting fire to their Kennedale home is back in Texas.
John Hummel, 34, was returned Thursday. He faces capital murder charges in the deaths this month of 5-year-old Jody Hummel, Joy Hummel and 57-year-old Clyde "Eddie" Bedford. Joy Hummel was stabbed to death; her father and daughter died of head trauma.

Dallas television station WFAA reports investigators found evidence of multiple fires in the home. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, an arson dog sniffed out possible accelerants.

Authorities arrested John Hummel while he was attempting to re-enter the U.S. from Mexico.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/texas/ci_14102742

KENNEDALE (December 31, 2009)—John Hummel, 34, who’s accused of killing his pregnant wife, daughter and father-in-law and then setting fire to their home was headed back to Texas Thursday.

Tarrant County Sheriff's deputies were expected to arrive later Thursday from San Diego with Hummel, who faces capital murder charges in the deaths earlier this month of his 5-year-old daughter Jody Hummel, wife Joy Hummel and 57-year-old father-in-law Clyde "Eddie" Bedford.

Joy Hummel was stabbed to death; her father and daughter died of head trauma.

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/80423822.html

John W Hummel

No mugshot yet, but I'll find one as soon as it's posted!

John Hummels friends reported him missing when he didn't show for the Memorial. Cold hearted sociopaths don't usually grieve for their victims, do they? Thank God this crime was committed in Texas, they have a fast track to death beds!!

Rest Peacefully, Mr. Bedford, Joy and Jody! Justice is on it's way!

[backlash]

He should be killed for that fugly shirt in his picture, much less his horrific crime.

Very happy that this happened in Texas.

[MadeaBecBec]

"Mr. Hummel admitted that he stabbed his pregnant wife (Joy Hummel) numerous times,' the affidavit stated. "Mr. Hummel then told investigators he went to his father-in-law's bedroom and killed Clyde E. Bedford by beating him with a baseball bat. After using the baseball bat on his father-in-law, he went into his daughter's bedroom and killed his daughter Jody Ruth Hummel by striking her with the bat."

The document contains no information about a motive. Investigators say Hummel told them that on the night of the murders he left for work in his security guard uniform, but instead drove around for hours. He told authorities that after the murders he removed several items from the house and threw them into a dumpster in Arlington. Police recovered those items, including a baseball bat.

Video at the link of his arrest:
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/tripl...-80439282.html
WTH? A security guard?? Damn!
He will probably plead guilty to save himself from the death penalty!!

[MadeaBecBec]

He should be killed for that fugly shirt in his picture, much less his horrific crime.

Very happy that this happened in Texas.

Oh I am with ya! That shirt, is what? 40 years old?

[ImmortalOne]

Wow.... what the fuck is wrong with people?! The human race disgusts me.

[myra manes]

First of all ..

Cocok-sucker ..

[carolinablue]

God bless Texas! and their express lane for the DP.

[crickett]

Give him the fast track to the DP. Glad it's in Texas.

[this is going badly]

Sick fucker. He's going on my father's day card list.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

On the morning that John Hummel's pregnant wife, daughter and father-in-law were found dead in the burned debris of their Kennedale home, Hummel told police he knew nothing about the deaths or what caused the fire.

Only two days later, Hummel gave a different account to officers who had flown to San Diego to arrest him -- a story involving rat poison, a baseball bat and samurai swords.

"I killed my family and set the house on fire" was Hummel's opening line in a two-hour statement that was videotaped Dec. 20-21, 2009, in the San Diego County Jail.

In February, a Tarrant County grand jury indicted Hummel, now 35, on three capital murder charges. Prosecutors have chosen one charge to try him on -- that he killed his wife, Joy Hummel, and her father, Clyde Bedford, during the same "criminal episode." They are seeking the death penalty.

The videotaped statement was played this week at a pre-trial hearing, revealing publicly some details of the Dec. 17, 2009, slayings -- and possibly the motive behind them.
[...]

Hummel told them that his plan to kill his family began about two months earlier, when he became involved with another woman and wanted to be single again.

He first tried to kill them, he said, by putting rat poison into ground turkey, which he then mixed into spaghetti sauce. He left the meal for his family while he went to work.

His wife told him later that she threw it out because it tasted strange. Hummel said he quickly came up with another plan.

The next night, Hummel said, he dressed in his security guard uniform and left as though he were going to work. After visiting his girlfriend and putting gas in his van, he returned home and parked the van where it could not be seen.

Hummel said he first stabbed his wife with a kitchen knife. When she awoke and began screaming and struggling, he said, the knife broke.

He then grabbed a baseball bat and struck her on the head until she was unconscious. He then used what he described as samurai swords and daggers to continue stabbing her -- he didn't know how many times.

Hummel said he used the bat to kill his daughter and father-in-law before he set the house on fire by lighting rolls of toilet paper and putting them in piles of clothing.
[...]

On the videotape, Hummel said he dumped his weapons behind an Arlington auto parts store, then tried to establish an alibi by entering several stores so that he would appear on the stores' security videotapes.

He said he returned to the house about 5 a.m. so that he could appear to be shocked by the fire.

While talking with Kennedale police and an ATF agent that morning, Hummel handed over receipts from the stores and some clothing.

Later, Hummel said, he realized that there was blood on his pants and socks. That's why he fled to California, he said.

On the tape, Hummel told the investigators that he was glad he had been arrested. He signed several documents waiving his Miranda rights and allowing police to search his van. He then asked how fast he could be returned to Texas.

"I did a horrible, horrible thing," he said. "I know I'll spend the rest of my life in jail -- or put to death. I accept it. I deserve it."

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01...l-details.html

[Michael Castlow]

well the trail starts June 13th here in Fort Worth. this one will be one you don't want to miss. i know that I will be there most of the time

[Robynne]

On the tape, Hummel told the investigators that he was glad he had been arrested. He signed several documents waiving his Miranda rights and allowing police to search his van. He then asked how fast he could be returned to Texas.

"I did a horrible, horrible thing," he said. "I know I'll spend the rest of my life in jail -- or put to death. I accept it. I deserve it."

How often do you hear this coming from a man who murdered three people in cold blood? I'm sure glad he realizes what he did was wrong. If only he would have thought about that before he killed his pregnant wife, five year old daughter, and father in law.
R.I.P. Joy Hummel and unborn baby, Jody Hummel, and Clyde Bedford. Your lives were taken too soon.

John Hummel, may you rot in hell for taking the lives of three innocent people.

[Jerri Blank]

How did I miss the original post here? This is very shocking to me!
Normally I have allot of crap to say but right now I'm so stunned I got nothing.

This is just soo heart breaking. :-(

[Jerri Blank]

Man convicted of killing his family, burning down house in 2009

FORT WORTH -- After sitting through eight days of testimony, jurors delivered a swift verdict Wednesday, convicting John "Johnny" Hummel of killing his family and burning down their Kennedale house with the bodies inside.


Hummel, a former Marine and security guard, showed no reaction when state District Judge Ruben Gonzalez read the verdict.


The victims' loved ones, who filled one side of the courtroom, hugged one another and wept quietly after the jury was led away.


The jury deliberated for a little over an hour before convicting Hummel, 35, of capital murder in the deaths of his pregnant wife, Joy, 34, and his disabled father-in-law, Clyde "Eddie" Bedford, 57.


During the past two weeks, the jury has heard that Hummel killed his 5-year-old daughter, Jodi, but the district attorney's office prosecuted Hummel on the indictment accusing him of killing Bedford and Hummel's wife during the same criminal transaction.


The punishment phase began after the verdict. Hummel faces life in prison without parole, or the death penalty.


Earlier in the day, during closing arguments before a packed courtroom, prosecutors Miles Brissette and Bob Gill portrayed Hummel as a monster who killed his family so he could be free to pursue other women, including a convenience store clerk whom he had sex with on one occasion.


They reminded the jury how Hummel returned home the night of Dec. 17, 2009, and stood in the kitchen deliberating how he was going to wipe out his sleeping family. He first tried to slit his wife's throat with a dull knife and then beat her with a baseball bat and stabbed her with two Japanese swords and a dagger.


"This was a very personal killing," Brissette told the jury.


After his wife was dead, Hummel was winded and had to rest before going into Bedford's bedroom with the bat, Brissette said.


"That monster ... went one by one, room by room, and snuffed out their lives," Brissette said. "He went with the same bloody bat and walked through a very small house and killed his father-in-law. And with the same bloody bat, he went back through the house and killed his daughter."


Afterward, Hummel gathered up the weapons, set his house on fire and then went shopping, trying to establish an alibi. Later, after investigators interviewed him at the Kennedale police station, Hummel picked up his paycheck and headed west to California.


He was detained three days later returning to California from Mexico, where he had gone to buy drugs, and confessed to killing his family.
"The state has left no stone unturned on this," Brissette said. [...]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06...is-family.html

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The guy who did this really makes me sick. Why can't people just walk away? there was no reason for this at all, he couldn't have possibly thought he'd get away with this could he have?

damn it why didn't he just file for a damn divorce. :-(

[kniption]

first that i read all of this. how sad. not that it matters, but that little girl was about the cutest kid ever.

they drive around for hours and never conclude that hitting themselves with a baseball bat may be the best option. ...when, very often, it is.