AL - Kenneth Hood, 87, found dismembered, Magnolia Springs, 6 Nov 2014

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Accused Killer of 87 Year Old Foley Man Served 20 Years in Georgia Prison for Molesting 14 Year Old

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BAY MINETTE, Alabama - The suspect in the murder of 87-year-old Kenneth Hood of rural Foley had been out of Georgia state prison for slightly more than seven months after serving a 20-year sentence for molesting a 14-year-old girl in 1994.

Minton was released from the Georgia Dept. of Corrections on March 19...

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Neighbor Recalls Murder Victim As An Outstanding Citizen...

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Minton is Carolyn Hood's son. He moved into the house in March, Morgan said.

Morgan said Hood was a retired corrections officer.

"I can honestly say I'm horrified they used his mug shot to identify him as a victim," Morgan said. "It portrays him like a mean old man. He wasn't. He was a good, outstanding man who served our society as a prison guard his whole entire life."
 
Baldwin County authorities charge victim's stepson with murder, abuse of corpse in gruesome body dismemberment

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"This was a violent act and it was an act that happened over a period of time," Mack said...

"I think there was a level of planning that was scary to me to see the well-thought-out after effects of this crime," District Attorney Hallie Dixon said. "The cutting up of the body and getting down to the water and all of those things, to us, were indicative to a well-thought out and scarily cold (murder)."
 
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"You just can't believe that Mr. Hood lost his life to this man," says Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon. She described Minton as a habitual offender. "This man has had a 34 year long criminal history. Everything from sodomy and rape to what we have now murder and financial and drug crimes and pretty much alcohol crimes and it appears he has covered all avenues of criminal activity."

Dixon asked for and got a million dollar bond six days after the first discovery of human remains and the beginning of an investigation into the dismemberment murder of 87-year-old Kenneth Hood, a retired former corrections officer in the federal prison system.

"Anyone that has been in law enforcement very long has seen a lot of violent death," says Major Anthony Lowery, "but this certainly stands out."
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An investigation into a grisly murder last month could lead to additional charges, according to a Baldwin County court motion filed by prosecutors Wednesday...

District Attorney Hallie Dixon, following a Nov. 14 bond hearing, said that her office is investigating whether the murder charge can be increased to a capital offense, punishable by death. Dixon has said that Minton's extensive criminal history makes him eligible for life imprisonment without parole. In Alabama, there are 18 ways a murder can be elevated to a capital case, but there are some questions as to whether Minton would be eligible for a capital murder charge.

Minton is being held in Baldwin County Jail on $1 million bond.
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http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/01/murder_house_carries_a_stigma.html

While the neighborhood seems to be psychologically moving on, the home where the killing took place remains vacant. The only immediate next-door neighbor to the Hood home... keeps a watchful eye on the property.

Days after Hood's death, gawkers would drive by to check out the house. Today? No one aside from Joe Minton, William Minton's brother, has been inside the home, according to the neighbor...

Minton's family cannot use the proceeds for any potential sale of the house to finance his court case, or to bond him out of the Baldwin County Corrections Center.
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William Minton killed his 87-year-old stepfather by striking him in the head with the corrugated side of a dumbbell bar handle during an argument on Nov. 6 inside the family's rural Foley home, a Baldwin County Sheriff's investigator testified Thursday.

Minton, 55, then dragged the lifeless body of Kenneth Hood into the garage. Within the next day, the officer said, Minton used a reciprocal saw he had recently purchased to carve up Hood's body before discarding body parts into creeks south of Magnolia Springs. Minton told investigators that Hood "always wanted to be buried at sea" and that's why the body parts were dumped into Weeks and Nolte creeks...

The killing, according to District Attorney Hallie Dixon, occurred because of an argument over money that the victim, Kenneth Hood, had been lending to the children and other family members of his wife, Carolyn.
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http://fox10tv.com/2015/01/08/grand-jury-to-hear-minton-murder-dismemberment-case/

A Baldwin County Grand Jury will now review the case against murder suspect William Minton... Minton’s preliminary hearing was Thursday, January 8...

Prosecutors said Minton admitted to killing Hood after he said Hood threatened his mother’s life with a knife. During a statement after his arrest, investigators told the court that Minton claimed he didn’t mean to kill his stepfather. Prosecutors said all of Minton’s actions after the killing indicate otherwise.
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A 79-year-old Montgomery woman who authorities once described as an "invalid" was indicted by a Baldwin County grand jury Tuesday with assisting her son in the brutal murder of her late husband nearly two years ago.

Carolyn Hood is being held in the Baldwin County Corrections Center on $100,000 bail after she was indicted on a charge of aiding and abetting a capital murder.

Her son, 57-year-old William Minton, faces capital murder and abuse of corpse charges and is scheduled to go before a jury in December.
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Carolyn Hood, the 79-year-old Montgomery woman accused of assisting her son in the brutal murder of her husband nearly two years ago, pleaded not guilty to a capital murder charge Wednesday.

Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon said she will not seek the death penalty against Hood, citing her age and physical shape. Hood, who was in a wheelchair, was arrested Tuesday and spent the night in the Baldwin County Corrections Center before she was released on $100,000 bail.
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Why prosecutors are pursuing charges against a frail Carolyn Hood in murder of husband
Carolyn Hood, the 79-year-old frail woman who lives in an assisted care facility in Montgomery, was aware of the brutal murder of her husband two years ago and was "absolutely not" aghast that her son dismembered his body, Baldwin County District Attorney Hallie Dixon said Wednesday.

"Regardless of your age, regardless of your relationship to a victim or how pitiful you may want to appear, if you participate in helping murder someone, you face consequences," Dixon said after Hood pleaded not guilty during an arraignment hearing on a charge of assisting a capital murder.

"The evidence is clear for us that (Hood) helped promote and assist in the commission of this murder and to enjoy the spoils in it," Dixon said following the hearing at the Baldwin County Courthouse in Bay Minette.
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