On this
date, 30 April 1997, 11-year-old Sarah Patterson was murdered by Bobby Wayne Woods.
He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on 3 December 2009. Let us not
forget Sarah and thank God that another child killer was executed.
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Sarah Patterson
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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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