Murder for Hire
he 44-year-old Linton woman was a mere 5 feet tall, weighed barely 100 pounds and had an attractive smile.
And, with the mental ability of a grade-school child, she would have a hard time telling anyone if something happened to her, Greene County Prosecutor David Powell said in his opening statements Tuesday at the trial of one of the men accused of killing her.
"Pam was an innocent," Powell said. "She lived the last two weeks of her life in an absolute hellhole."
Powell then sketched out the details of the case against Roger Long, a 47-year-old drifter from Bedford.
He began by describing how investigators believe Long and several others abducted Foddrill as she was walking home from the store one day in 1995, tied her up and repeatedly sexually assaulted her before beating and stabbing her to death. Her partially decomposed body was found four months later near Lawrenceville, Ill.
Long is being held in the Greene County Jail without bond on charges of murder, criminal confinement, criminal deviate conduct and conspiracy.
The trial, in Greene Superior Court with Judge David Holt presiding, is expected to last about three weeks. Twelve jurors and four alternates from Morgan County are hearing the case.
For two years, Foddrill's killing went unsolved.
hen in late 1997, Lawrence County Jail inmate Tim Cazee said Long told him he was involved in Foddrill's rape and murder, Powell said.
Several months later, Wanda Sue Julius Hubbell, 37, of Linton, admitted being present when plans to abduct Foddrill were discussed, Powell said. She said she was also present and participated in the sexual assault.
According to Powell, Hubbell said she first saw Foddrill in the back of a van. Hubbell told police she recalled Foddrill saying she just wanted to go home.
When Hubbell saw Foddrill later, she was "lifeless but alive," pale and hardly moving, so Long and the others decided they would have to kill her, he said.
"I'm not going to stand here
And, with the mental ability of a grade-school child, she would have a hard time telling anyone if something happened to her, Greene County Prosecutor David Powell said in his opening statements Tuesday at the trial of one of the men accused of killing her.
"Pam was an innocent," Powell said. "She lived the last two weeks of her life in an absolute hellhole."
Powell then sketched out the details of the case against Roger Long, a 47-year-old drifter from Bedford.
He began by describing how investigators believe Long and several others abducted Foddrill as she was walking home from the store one day in 1995, tied her up and repeatedly sexually assaulted her before beating and stabbing her to death. Her partially decomposed body was found four months later near Lawrenceville, Ill.
Long is being held in the Greene County Jail without bond on charges of murder, criminal confinement, criminal deviate conduct and conspiracy.
The trial, in Greene Superior Court with Judge David Holt presiding, is expected to last about three weeks. Twelve jurors and four alternates from Morgan County are hearing the case.
For two years, Foddrill's killing went unsolved.
hen in late 1997, Lawrence County Jail inmate Tim Cazee said Long told him he was involved in Foddrill's rape and murder, Powell said.
Several months later, Wanda Sue Julius Hubbell, 37, of Linton, admitted being present when plans to abduct Foddrill were discussed, Powell said. She said she was also present and participated in the sexual assault.
According to Powell, Hubbell said she first saw Foddrill in the back of a van. Hubbell told police she recalled Foddrill saying she just wanted to go home.
When Hubbell saw Foddrill later, she was "lifeless but alive," pale and hardly moving, so Long and the others decided they would have to kill her, he said.
"I'm not going to stand here