On this date, April 30, 1997, 11-year-old Sarah Patterson was murdered
by Bobby Wayne Woods. He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on December
3, 2009. Let us not forget Sarah and thank God that another child killer was
executed.
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Sarah
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Summary: In the early morning hours Woods went to the home of his ex-girlfriend,
Schwana Patterson, 35, who had had kicked him out a few days earlier. Her two
children, 11-year-old Sarah and 9-year-old Cody, were sleeping inside. Woods
crawled through an open window into the children's bedroom. He grabbed Sarah's
foot and began beating her chest, then sexually molested her. Woods then forced
both children to leave through the window in their nightclothes, put them in
his car, and drove to a cemetery. There, he beat and stomped Cody on the head
and strangled him. With Cody unconscious, Woods then drove away with Sarah.
Cody survived. Based on Cody's statement, police found Woods and asked him
where Sarah was, hoping to find her alive. Woods answered, "You will not
find her alive. I cut her throat." He then led them to her body.
QUOTE 1: “I’m
not a person that likes harm done to anybody, but I believe in justice being
done,” Larry Patterson said after watching his daughter’s
killer die. “She had no choice. She didn’t get a second
chance.”
QUOTE 2: “I put
this behind me a lot of years ago,” said Cody
Patterson, now 21, who stood outside the prison and chose not to see Woods die.
“It has been a long time coming. I’m glad to know it’s
done. I knew it was going to be done sooner or later. “I seen his picture...
That’s all I wanted to see,” he said, adding that he recovered from his
injuries and that nightmares about the attack have stopped, but that he still
had “the scars on the back of my head.”
AUTHOR: Family members of
Sarah Patterson, who was murdered by Bobby Wayne Woods on April 30, 1997. He
was executed by lethal injection in Texas on December 3, 2009.
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