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    David Reuben Green III and Alexis Morgan Green Plead Guilty In 2009 NC Slaying Of David Reuben Green Jr

    The teenage children of a man who was found dead in a freezer face possible murder charges as adults in Wake County Superior Court.

    David Reuben Green III, 15, and Alexis Morgan Green, 17, initially were charged as juveniles after the body of their father, David Reuben Green Jr., was found in October. Investigators think the death might have occurred in 2009.

    The teens' cases were transferred to adult court this month after a judge reviewing the juvenile petitions found probable cause of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

    A Wake County grand jury is likely to review the cases in early January, when indictments could be brought in Wake County Superior Court, prosecutors said.

    In North Carolina, defendants younger than 16 are usually tried in juvenile court, although some cases are transferred to the adult court system.

    Alexis Green's case started in juvenile court, according to prosecutors, because she wasn't an adult when investigators think the death occurred.

    David Reuben Green Jr. was found dead Oct. 6 at 8617 Ray Road. His body had been stuffed in a basement freezer.

    Wendy Edmond Green, the live-in girlfriend of the deceased and mother of the teens, was charged shortly after that with murder.

    She could face the death penalty in the case. But both her children were under 18 when investigators believe the killing occurred, making them too young to be tried capitally.

    Few details about the case have been made public.

    Green was reported missing in September. Once that month, investigators searched the home where he lived with Wendy Edmond Green.

    It was not until October, though, when investigators returned to the house where the power had been turned off and discovered a foul odor and the body in the freezer.

    In search warrants released this month, investigators said they suspected mother and daughter of playing "an active role in the planning and commission" of Green's death.

    Investigators took blood, hair and saliva samples from at least two of the accused after hearing from people familiar with the family that David Green's girlfriend and children planned his death, then cleaned up the scene in an effort to conceal evidence.

    Investigators and a family member said Green had been slain months earlier, the victim of blunt force trauma.


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    Children indicted in father's murder

    A grand jury has indicted 17-year-old Alexis Green and 15-year-old David Green, III on first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in the death of their father.

    Officers discovered 51-year-old David Green Jr.'s body dismembered and stuffed in a freezer inside his home on Ray Road on October 6. He was reported missing on Sept. 1.

    Within hours of finding him, authorities arrested the teen's mother: Green's live-in girlfriend, 41-year-old Wendy Edmond Green, and charged her with Green's murder.

    Wendy Green had apparently moved out of the house on Ray Road sometime after Green was last seen.

    Alexis Green was in the Wake County Jail when her father's body was found. She's serving time for a burglary and failure to appear in court.

    David Green III was in St. Paul, Minnesota living with a friend. He was later brought back to Raleigh.

    Earlier warrants released in the case revealed detectives suspect David Green, Jr. may have died of severe injuries from unknown cutting instruments.

    Authorities say the Greens had domestic and custody issues in the past, including an assault on Wendy Green in 2007. David Green, Jr. was arrested and charged in that incident. Court documents show Wendy sued for custody of the children and David Green Jr. wanted his name added to his daughter's birth certificate.

    Alexis and David Green III are due back in court the week of February 17.

    Officials said Wendy Green could face the death penalty in the case, but, because both teens were under 18 when authorities believe the murder occurred, they will not be charged capitally.

    Although authorities have said all three played active roles in the planning and commission of the murder, they have not given a motive for the alleged crime.

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    Trial Date Set For “Freezer Murder” Of Man In Raleigh

    RALEIGH - On Thursday Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens set September 12 as the trial date for the defendants in the murder case of David Ruben Green Jr., age 52.



    Green’s live-in girlfriend, Wendy Edmond Green, age 41, and their two teenage children, Alexis Green and David Ruben Green III, were charged in October with Green’s murder.



    Earlier that month, Wake County Sheriff’s Office investigators discovered Green’s headless body inside a powerless freezer in the family’s Wake County home. He had been reported missing around a month earlier.



    Initial reports indicated that Green might have been in the freezer since January of last year. A preliminary autopsy found that Green had received fatal blows to the head.



    According to some reports, the children were reported to have been playing with some of the body parts that were stored in the freezer.



    In an interview with the (Raleigh) News & Observer, a cousin related to the victim said that investigators “think the suspects fed parts of David Green's body to their pit bull and brought friends...to show them their father's mutilated and quartered body."



    Wake County Assistant District Attorney Jason Waller, lead prosecutor in the case, declined to specify all charges in the case or whether the three defendants would be charged together or separately.



    The children will be tried as adults, but since the alleged crime occurred before age 18, they would not receive the death penalty if they are found guilty.



    No judge has yet been assigned to the case.

    http://www.raleightelegram.com/2011041405.html

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    Mother awoke teen son for gruesome chore: killing his father

    The teen, following his mother's orders, bludgeoned to death his father, David Ruben Green Jr., a Wake County man who worked construction and helped with his family's business.

    On Friday in Wake County Superior Court, David Green III, now 16, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. His attorney filed notice to appeal the sentence.

    Wendy Edmond Green, 42, pleaded to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and received 30 years. Alexis Green, 18, who admitted to helping her mother and brother hide their father's body, received a six-year prison sentence for accessory and unrelated burglary charges.

    The killing, according to Assistant District Attorney Jason Waller, stemmed from a comment the father made on Jan. 18, 2009, after he noticed that Alexis, who was 15 at the time, was pregnant.

    Within earshot of his wife and children, he said he planned to take his daughter to the doctor the next morning. If he found out she was pregnant, he said, he planned to kill her mother, his common-law wife Wendy Green.

    That night after the father went to bed, Wendy Green huddled with her children in her daughter's room. Mother and daughter had been hiding the pregnancy from the father. As the father slept, the mother decided to enlist her children in killing their father.

    Son initially balked

    On Jan. 19, when Wendy awoke her son, they went into a home office, officials said. As his mother took long draws on a marijuana cigarette, the teen protested repeatedly that he did not want to kill his father, that he couldn't. At one point, investigators said, Wendy told him, "I'll give you $500 to do it."

    The mother then handed her son a Samurai-style sword and followed him into the room where his father slept. The teen balked. He couldn't slash his father.

    The teen then retrieved what he called a grudge hammer - a metal cylindrical sledge used to crack slate and other stone. But he balked at using that, too. Then he fetched a smaller, carpenter-style hammer and knocked it against his father's head. Worried that such a blow would only anger the man, not leave him incapacitated, David landed another blow forceful enough to crack the skull, prosecutors contend.

    Alexis, though not actively a part of the violence, according to prosecutors, spurred her brother and mother on. "Alexis said, 'Well if y'all are going to do this, do it,' " Waller recounted for the judge.

    David Green Jr. did not die immediately.

    His children told investigators that he got up, stumbled around the house for five or six hours, upright and crawling, begging for help.

    No one called emergency dispatchers. Instead, they hid his car keys and cellphone, prosecutors said.

    On death watch, high

    Waller contends that mother and daughter smoked marijuana together. David III hid, worried that his father would survive the bludgeoning, according to the son's attorney, David S. Brannon.

    "He told me, 'I thought my father was Superman,' " Brannon recounted.

    Late in the afternoon on Jan. 19, 2009, David Green Jr. died. His daughter checked for a pulse, prosecutors contend. Then Wendy Green and her children slid the lifeless man onto a sheet, taped up his arms, and pulled him with the aid of a dog leash down to the basement freezer, where his body would not be discovered for 22 months.

    For the first few days after the death, Wendy Green and her son and daughter moved from hotel to hotel. They bought rug cleaner, prosecutors contend, and worked to clean the house on Ray Road in North Raleigh.

    As time went by, Alexis had the baby, which since has been adopted. David III was in and out of school.

    Some time in 2009, prosecutors say, Wendy Green left her children to fend for themselves in the home, occasionally sending money. She was in Lumberton more and more, caring for her ailing father, then eventually settling there for good.

    Alexis got into trouble then, accused of burglary, in part because the teens had to make ends meet however they could, said her attorney, Ronnie Ansley.

    "It became somewhat like a 'Lord of the Flies' experience," Ansley said.

    Father's family worries

    David Green Jr.'s extended family initially thought they hadn't heard from him because he had argued with them on Christmas Day 2008. But after a while, prosecutors said, his mother, Veddie Green, was curious about her son's absence from important family events.

    Wendy and the children offered up lie after lie about David Green Jr.'s absence.

    Finally, a missing person report was filed with authorities and a private investigator began looking into David Green Jr.'s whereabouts. In October 2010, Wake County investigators found the badly decomposed and decapitated body in the basement freezer the family had put it in almost two years earlier. David Green III had taken an ax to the body nine months earlier, determined to chop it into pieces and dispose of it as his mother had initially planned, prosecutors said.

    Brannon said David Green III, who since his arrest last fall has been going to school regularly in the juvenile detention center and playing on the football team there, was a victim of "emotional incest." But Waller, the prosecutor, said the son was old enough to make choices the day he killed his father, and he showed that ability by at least twice refusing to use the sword and grudge hammer.

    Mother called the force

    Initially, the cases against the son and daughter were in juvenile court, but a judge bound them over to adult court. The teens, prosecutors say, provided investigators with details about the incident. But Wendy Green, who was represented by attorney Jim Freeman, did not.

    Freeman said Wendy suffered from a form of battered-wife syndrome, unable to work and suffering from emotional abuse. Prosecutors described her as the driving force behind the crimes.

    "She used two young teenage kids to do what she couldn't do," Waller said.

    Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/09/...#ixzz1WveCbfr2

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