Summary of Offense:
On the afternoon of September 5, 1990, Marlys Sather returned home from work on her lunch break and discovered her neighbor, Chadwick Willacy, burglarizing her home. When Willacy noticed that Sather was in the house, he struck her over the head several times with a blunt object hard enough to fracture and dislodge part of her skull. Willacy bound her hands and ankles with wire and duct tape. He then wrapped a telephone cord tightly around her neck in an effort to strangle her. When this failed to work, Willacy doused Sather with gasoline and set her on fire. Medical examiner’s reports indicate that Sather died from smoke inhalation. Sather’s son-in-law discovered her body when he went over to her house following a call from her employer notifying the family that Sather never returned from her lunch break.
Willacy was resentenced to death in Brevard County on November 20, 1995.
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