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    John William Hummel - Texas Execution - June 30, 2021



    Jodi Ruth Hummel, 5



    Joy Keziyah Hummel


    Clyde Bedford


    John William Hummel


    Taped statements reveal details of three Kennedale deaths


    FORT WORTH -- 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.

    Defense attorneys Fred Cummings and Larry Moore, are asking state District Judge Ruben Gonzales to rule that Hummel's statement to officers and other evidence should not heard by the jury at his trial.

    Prosecutors Miles Brissette and Bob Gill have called eight witnesses to try to show that the statements were properly obtained and should be admissible.

    A quick confession

    Kennedale police questioned Hummel not long after firefighters found the bodies of Joy Hummel, 34, their 5-year-old daughter, Jodi, and Clyde Bedford. But they had no reason to hold him.

    Hummel drove to California, where he checked into a San Diego motel before walking across the border into Mexico to buy drugs.

    As Hummel came back across the border, his lack of proper identification -- he had only his Texas driver's license -- led border agents to check a national database, which showed he was being sought in Texas. Agents took him into custody.

    When two Kennedale police officers and an investigator for the Tarrant County district attorney's office arrived, Hummel wasted little time confessing to the killings, the officers testified this week.

    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.

    'A horrible, horrible thing'

    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.

    He insisted that he did not use gasoline to set the fire.

    In testimony Thursday, arson investigator Lt. Joey Lankford said a trained arson dog "hit" on four areas with accelerants. But a chemist with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives did not detect accelerants in the samples, he said.

    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."

    Gonzales will rule on the defense motions to suppress the evidence sometime after the hearing ends. It is scheduled to continue today.

    http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/01...#ixzz1BfiVO7Ol

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    Emotions overflow in trial of Kennedale man accused of killing family members

    Jurors were warned Monday morning that the capital murder trial they were about to hear would be long and the evidence would be graphic.

    And it didn’t take long for things in the courtroom to get emotional.

    Just minutes into prosecutor Miles Brissette's opening statement, the defendant, John "Johnny" Hummel, was holding his face in his hands and crying. Meanwhile, the victims' loved ones, seated in the gallery, consoled each other and wept.

    Hummel, 35, is on trial in state district Judge Ruben Gonzalez's courtroom, accused of killing his wife, Joy; his 5-year-old daughter, Jody; and his father-in-law, Clyde "Eddie" Bedford; and then setting fire to the family's home at 600 Little School Road in Kennedale and driving away. If convicted of capital murder, he will face the death penalty.

    During his hourlong opening statement, Brissette, who is trying the case with Bob Gill, told the jury that Hummell, a former U.S. Marine who worked for a security company, was having an affair with a woman he had met at a convenience store and one night, after a rendezvous at her apartment, he returned home and slaughtered his sleeping family.

    Brissette said that Hummel had been standing in the kitchen in the early hours of Dec. 17, 2009, contemplating what to do when he decided to take a kitchen knife and slit his pregnant wife's throat.

    "His wife wakes up and the fight is on," Brissette told the jury. "The fight is on for her life and the life of her fetus."

    During the struggle, Brissette said, Hummel grabbed a nearby baseball bat and beat his wife on the back of her head, before using other weapons in his collection, including a Samurai sword, a smaller Japanese sword and, finally, a medieval dagger, to kill her.

    After his wife "was dead at his feet," Brissette said, Hummel went into his father-in-law's bedroom, where he "proceeded to destroy Clyde Eddie Bedford's skull" with the baseball bat.

    Afterward, Brissette said, Hummel went into his daughter's bedroom, where she was sleeping alone in her bed - something she had only recently started doing because she was scared of monsters.

    "He took the aluminum bat and killed her by smashing her head in, as well," Brissette said.

    Afterward, Brissette said, Hummel placed a role of toilet paper next to each of the bodies and set them on fire. Brissette said Hummel then went shopping at Walmart stores to try and establish an alibi before retuning home several hours later to find emergency personnel fighting the blaze at his home.

    When Hummel pulled up, Brissette said, he calmly and coolly asked, "Did anyone make it out?"

    Brissette said Hummel willingly went to the police station, where he made a statement and gave authorities his clothes and shoes, as well as consented to a search of his house. Afterward, Hummel drove to his work place in Arlington, where he waited three hours for his paycheck.

    "He never says, 'My house burned down and my family is dead,'" Brissette said. "He takes his check and that's the last anyone sees of John Hummel in the state of Texas."

    Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, Hummel drove to Oceanside, Calif., where he rented a hotel room for two nights.

    Later, he and another man traveled to Mexico and on Dec. 20, Hummel was detained trying to re-enter the country in San Ysidro, Calif., without the proper paperwork.

    By this time, he was wanted in Texas and was turned over to authorities in San Diego until local authorities could arrive to interview him.

    Brissette said Hummell confessed to the killings and told officials where he had dumped the weapons.

    "We know who did it, how he did it and why he did it," Brissette told the jury. "He wanted to be single. ... We have to bring evidence in here and it's going to be graphic evidence. The state is going to bring a forensic anthropologist who had to rebuild the skulls of Eddie and Joy - she had to put them back together."

    In his brief opening statement, Hummel's defense attorney, Larry Moore, who is working with Fred Cummings, agreed that the case is "graphic, disturbing and horrific."

    But he told the jury to continually ask themselves what the evidence tells them about who committed the killings and why.

    "You're not going to hear a reasonable rational explanation for why they occurred," he said.

    http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06...#ixzz1PBSnda30

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    Jurors in Hummel capital murder trial examine weapons

    FORT WORTH -- Jurors in the capital murder trial of John "Johnny" Hummel spent much of Friday viewing weapons that, according to DNA analysis, were used to kill Hummel's pregnant wife, disabled father-in-law and young daughter.

    Investigators found the weapons in a large, green trash bin behind an auto parts store on Pioneer Parkway in Arlington several days after the slayings. Hummel told them where to look after he was arrested in Southern California, where he confessed to killing his family and burning down their house.

    Prosecutor Miles Brissette first displayed photos of the weapons -- an aluminum baseball bat, broken kitchen knife, two long swords and a dagger -- on a large screen in the courtroom. Later, he held them up in front of the jury box.

    During the presentation, Hummel sat mostly expressionless at the defense table. Jurors appeared to watch and listen intently.

    Hummel, 35, is accused of repeatedly stabbing and beating his wife, Joy, 34, and then using the bat to also kill his father-in-law, Eddie Bedford, 57, and his daughter, Jodi, 5.

    A DNA expert testified Friday that Joy Hummel's and Bedford's blood were found on the pants Hummel was wearing at the time his family was killed, that Jodi's blood was found on the bat and that Joy Hummel's blood was found on the swords.

    If convicted of capital murder, Hummel, a former Marine and security guard, will face the death penalty.

    During five days in state District Judge Ruben Gonzalez's court, jurors have seen Hummel's videotaped and written confession in which he details how he killed his family the night of Dec. 17, 2009, and burned down their house in Kennedale so he could be free to pursue a relationship with another woman.

    Hummel confessed three days after the killings when he was arrested while trying to return to Southern California from Tijuana, Mexico, where he and another man had gone to buy drugs, according to court testimony. Hummel said in his confession that he fled to Southern California after the slayings.

    Hummel's defense team of Larry Moore, Fred Cummings and Pam Hernandez has suggested that prosecutors will not be able to prove that Hummel killed his wife and father-in-law during the same criminal transaction, as his indictment says. They have also suggested that Hummel gave his confession while high on marijuana and crack-cocaine.

    Under cross-examination Thursday morning, Tarrant County District Attorney Investigator J. Rizy testified that Hummel told him he had cocaine in his possession when he was arrested, but officials didn't find it and he later ingested it when he was allowed to use the bathroom.

    In response to questioning by prosecutor Bob Gill, however, Rizy said Hummel appeared "very alert" and "very oriented" at the time of the interview and did not appear to be under the influence of anything.

    The trial is expected to resume at 9 a.m. Monday with more testimony from prosecution witnesses.

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    Science takes center stage in Hummel capital murder trial

    The trial of John "Johnny" Hummel turned scientific Monday with jurors hearing how DNA, fingerprints and trace evidence were used to identify and to help determine what happened to three people found dead in a burned-out house in 2009 in Kennedale.

    Scientists and analysts from various disciplines dominated the sixth day of testimony in the capital murder trial as prosecutors Miles Brissette and Bob Gill continue to methodically lay out their case against Hummel.

    The 35-year-old former Marine is on trial in state District Judge Ruben Gonzalez's court, accused of killing his pregnant wife, Joy; disabled father-in-law, Clyde Bedford; and daughter, Jodi, 5, and then setting fire to the family's home.

    A DNA forensic analyst testified that Joy Hummel was pregnant with a girl.

    If convicted, prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Hummel, who is being defended by Fred Cummings, Larry Moore and Pam Fernandez.

    Hummel confessed to the crime after he was arrested in California. He told investigators that he beat his wife with a baseball bat and then stabbed her with a two swords and a dagger, before resting for a short time and then fatally beating Bedford and Jodi. After his family was dead, Hummel told investigators that he torched his house and began working on his alibi by going to places where his presence would be captured on surveillance video.

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    Hummel jury to hear closing arguments

    Closing arguments are expected to begin in the capital murder trial of John "Johnny" Hummel at 1:30 p.m. today, with jurors deliberating immediately afterward.

    Prosecutors Bob Gill and Miles Brissette rested their case Wednesday morning after calling two friends of the victims.

    Beverly Taylor, a former co-worker of Clyde "Eddie" Bedford, testified that Bedford was a hard-working man who spent more than a decade working at a Fort Worth plumbing supply house before retiring after developing debilitating rheumatoid arthritis.

    Over the years, Taylor testified, she got to know Bedford, 57; his daughter, Joy, 34; and his granddaughter, Jodi, 5.

    Bedford was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys and NASCAR, Taylor said, and enjoyed spending time with his family.

    Joy Hummel, she said, was always happy and laughing, fun to be around.

    "She was a very good mother and worked very hard for her family," Taylor said.

    She described Jodi as "precious - the prettiest little girl I have ever seen."

    Trish Murphy, a longtime friend of Joy Hummel, also shared a bit about the Hummel family.

    She said Bedford had become crippled from his arthritis and she rarely saw him out of his scooter or recliner. Joy Hummel, a licensed massage therapist, would often give her dad therapeutic massages on his hands to help relieve his pain, she said.

    "Joy is one of the most amazing people I have ever known," Murphy told the jury, crying. "She was loving, compassionate, caring. She was a dedicated wife and friend. ... She was an excellent mother."

    The defense team of Larry Moore, Fred Cummings and Pam Fernandez did not ask Taylor or Murphy any questions and rested their case shortly after prosecutors. State district Judge Ruben Gonzalez then recessed until 1:30 p.m. so that he and the attorneys can prepare instructions for the jury, which will begin deliberating this afternoon.

    John Hummel, 35, is accused of killing his wife, daughter, and father-in-law on December 17, 2009, and then setting the family’s Kennedale house on fire to cover up the crime. If convicted of capital murder, the trial will enter the punishment phase, in which Hummel faces the death penalty.

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    Jurors hear how prison life could be for convicted Kennedale killer

    FORT WORTH — The Hummel family had a daily routine.

    Each morning before she went to work, Joy Hummel dropped off her disabled father, Clyde “Eddie” Bedford, at a Kennedale senior center and then took her little daughter, Jodi, to kindergarten.

    Each afternoon, Phillip King, a friend and volunteer at the senior center, drove Bedford home so he could be there to greet his granddaughter when she got off the school bus.

    And Dec. 17, 2009, was no different.

    "I told Eddie, 'I'll see you tomorrow if the Lord is willing,' " King testified on Monday. "He said, 'Yes, I'll see you tomorrow if the Lord is willing.' "

    But King didn't see Bedford the next day. That night, Bedford, 57; his pregnant daughter, Joy, 34; and beloved granddaughter, Jodi, 5; were brutally killed by Joy's husband, John "Johnny" Hummel, inside their Kennedale home, which was then set on fire.

    King was one of three prosecution witnesses who testified on Monday before prosecutors' Miles Brissette and Bob Gill rested their cases in the punishment phase of Hummel's capital murder trial. Jurors in state district Judge Ruben Gonzalez's court convicted the 35-year-old ex-Marine last week and are now hearing evidence to decide whether Hummel should be sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his family, or to death.

    To sentence him to death, jurors must find that there is a probability that Hummel would be a continuing threat to society and that there are no mitigating factors that would make a life sentence more appropriate.

    In their effort to spare his life, the defense team of Larry Moore, Fred Cummings and Pam Fernandez on Monday called Frank AuBuchon, a criminal justice consultant who was employed in the prisoner classification section of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for nearly twenty years.

    After AuBuchon showed jurors a 17-minute video depicting prison life, he testified that Hummel would likely be classified as a G3 inmate, which means he would be in general population and have personal contact with loved ones.

    "Other than his crime, he is a rather unremarkable person," AuBuchon said. "There is nothing that would make me want me to put him in more restrictive custody than in G3."

    AuBuchon then told the jury that no matter what they decided – life in prison without parole or the death penalty – Hummel would die in prison.

    "There is no doubt John Hummel is dying in the Texas penitentiary – anyway you go," he said. "And if he tries to get out, he is going to be killed. His life is going to be as a prisoner. It will be as good or as a bad as John Hummel decides to make it."

    On cross examination, prosecutor Gill suggested that there was no way to guarantee that inmates will not commit future acts of violence and AuBuchon acknowledged that inmates escape, engage in violent behavior and assault staff. Gill also pointed out that G3 inmates are allowed "emergency absences" to attend funerals; can live in dormitories; and can work outside the main building of the prison facility.

    "It is certainly preferable than being executed, isn't it?" Gill asked.

    "Possibly," AuBuchon replied.

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    You can only imagine the defence attorney's face when he discovered what his client was accused of. This is open goal for the prosecutors.

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    Kennedale man sentenced to death for killing family

    Update: The jury has sentenced John Hummel to death.

    http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06...#ixzz1QbejmLeD

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    Another tool who deserves to be hung in public......

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    Name: Hummel, John William
    TDCJ Number: 999567
    Date of Birth: 11/14/1975
    Date Received 06/29/2011
    Age (when Received): 35
    Education Level (Highest Grade Completed): 12
    Date of Offense: 12/17/2009
    Age (at the time of Offense): 34
    County: Tarrant
    Race: White
    Gender: Male
    Hair Color: Brown
    Height: 5' 10"
    Weight: 202
    Eye Color: Brown
    Native County: Tarrant
    Native State: Texas
    http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_ro...ummeljohn.html

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