Wayne Edgar Edwards
This is 49-year-old Wayne Edgar Edwards.
Wayne Edwards is not a fan of divorce, and takes “til death do us part” very seriously.
Wayne Edwards decided to prove this decisively on the 4th of January, 2008, when he ambushed his 46-year-old estranged wife, Deborah Edwards, at about 7:20 in the evening as she drove onto the driveway of her home.
Deborah Edwards’ children, who range in age from 11 to 20, were sitting at the windows, behind locked doors, alerted by their mother via cellphone that Wayne Edwards was outside and was probably waiting for her.
So Deborah’s kids were watching as their mom drove up in her white Cadillac and pulled into her driveway.
They were watching as Wayne Edgar Edwards got out of his red Chevrolet.
They were watching as Wayne Edwards walked over to the driver’s side door of Deborah’s car.
They were watching as Wayne Edwards pointed a gun at their mother’s face and pulled the trigger three times.
Deborah Edwards was able to push her Cadillac’s On-Star button as she began the process of dying. On-Star contacted a 911 operator within a minute, and two minutes after that, Deborah’s children called 911.
Police arrived quickly, but Wayne Edwards was already gone. Deborah Edwards was transported by ambulance to a local hospital where she died from the wounds she suffered.
A few hours later, at 2 in the morning, Wayne Edwards turned up, hiding in the back seat of a car, driven by his friend Abdul Wahid Salahudeen, as it sat in the parking lot of a local hotel.
This isn’t the first time that there have been domestic problems or physical issues between Wayne Edwards and his wife. The last seven years have seen the Arlington police dispatched to the Edwards residence several times, mostly for domestic disturbances.
Deborah Edwards has, in the past, made use of the Arlington Victim’s Assistance Unit and the Arlington Women’s Center.
Wayne Edwards will now be making use of the local jail, where he’s being held on murder charges and has had his bail set at an even million dollars.
Update:
Unfortunately for Wayne Edwards, the jury rejected his “the-devil-did-this-to-me” defense, convicting Wayne Edgar Edwards on the 11th of September, 2008, of murdering his wife. Wayne Edgar Edwards was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
The jury deliberated about 90 minutes before finding Mr. Edwards guilty, then took less than an hour to decide his punishment.
Before the guilty verdict and sentence, Mr. Edwards, 49, took the stand in his own defense Thursday.
Y’all already know I did not kill my wife. I was in the devil. That was the devil. … I would never kill anybody.
When his attorney, David Jones pressed him, Mr. Edwards admitted that he was holding the gun the night his wife was killed, but said he did not pull the trigger.
I was there to hurt somebody. I was there all right. The devil did this to me and my family. Until you showed me that picture of that bullet hole in her face, I did not believe it. That was my best friend. I’ve got a lot to say about Deborah. She was a beautiful thing.
The couple’s four children were in the courtroom and began crying. Some left as their father – who was separated from Mrs. Edwards at the time of the slaying – continued testifying.
When cross-examined by prosecutors, Mr. Edwards said he drove to his wife’s home with a gun he had retrieved from a storage unit.
I was furious. I was delirious. I was a maniac. I was insane. It was temporary, but I was insane.
He said Mrs. Edwards saw him as she drove up to her home:
She had the most beautiful look on her face I’d ever seen. She looked at me like ‘It’s all over’. My body was there and took the life of my wife.
Does Wayne Edgar Edwards deserve Hell?
- Yes (93%, 136 Votes)
- No (7%, 11 Votes)
Total Voters: 147
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26 Comments »
shooting someone at point blank, i’m amazed she didn’t die instantly. i hope this guy gets the chair.
While the kids watch…
Dirtbag should not have an appeal process. Go straight to death row, die, that way my tax dollars won’t go to his care and tending.
“F”er
See this right here is another prime example of shitty government. No offense admin, but if you have the police dispatched to your house on multiple occasions for domestic abuse you better count your blessings that CPS was never called.
If the parents are fighting constantly and the kids are there why wasn’t anything done to re-evaluate the situation. Was it because there was never any obvious physical harm done to the children? That can be the only thing I can think of.
If anything I want to know why there were never any charges placed on him or in affect.
Oh, another thing, the eldest child being 20, you would think that she/he would’ve difused the situation by saying that he was there waiting for there mom. Maybe the cops could’ve got there to remove him. Yes you’re probably saying, well maybe there will have been a next time. Well maybe there wouldn’t have. Who knows.
Why would I take offense?
It’s not my house.
CPS is swamped with cases so unless there is proof that the children are in danger the CPS really has nothing to do with it.. This was obviously domestic violence that escalated and escalated.. The kids definately should have warned their mom and told this piece of shit to leave before the polie were called on him but the problem is abusive men don’t really care about jail, as long as that woman who they think they own is still theirs or dead.. I have no compassion for this waste of life and hoefully he will be murdered in jail so we won’t have to wait on leathal injection…
Admin..the shitty government part. I thought you were a CO.
@Brit,
It’ll be a cold day in hell when all government employees actually agree with everything the government does ;)
Point taken. I did have an (now ex) undercover cop by me booze and party with me at the beach when I was like 16.
Jeez, Britany, didn’t we all?
Mine also left me pot on my bedroom windowsill, and stopped by late at night trying to convince me to go park, party and makeout with him. Never got anywhere with me, but he got far enough with other teen girls in the neighborhood to earn being kicked off the force.
His next job was a security officer at my high school. Talk about putting the fox in the henhouse. He died of a brain tumour several years ago. I named his brain tumour ‘karma’.
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I just thought it was bitchin to have someone “hot” and older buying me booze. the really “cool” thing was she used to be an undercover prostitute cop in LA. ha ha…oh man those were the days.
Some of the comments left on here are cruel. Deborah which is the victims name did everything she could to protect her daughters. The father never lived with them at the address that she was murdered at. He was stalking her. I dont know if it was choice of words in the article but her children were not watching anything happened they heard the gunshots and ran outside to find their mother dying. Deborah was a good mother and worked very hard to take care of them. Please show a little more respect.
FIRST OF ALL IF WE WERE WATCHING THIS HAPPEN TO OUR MOTHER DO YOU THINK WE WOULD HAVE LET IT HAPPEN!!!!!!! I SIT AND WISH EVERY DAY SINCE SHE PASSED WHAT COULD WE HAVE DONE TO CHANGE DA FACT THAT SHE IS GONE AND I CANT DO ANYTHING!!!!!!I JUX WISH I WOULD HAD SEEN HIM GETTING OUT OF THE CAR!!!!!!NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!!! THIS IS VERY HARD FOR ALL 4 OF US AND I WOULD GREATLY APPRICIATE THAT YOU CHANGED THE WORDING TO YOUR ADD….. AND PLEASE DONT PUT STUFF ON HERE THAT YOU DONT REALLY KNOW!!!!!!!THANKYOU
You tell em Brittney!! You guys, please be more sensitive on here. You never who comes on. I didnt even know this website existed. Deborah was my second cousin and Brittney is my third cousin. This is my family. And I don’t appreciate the mess you all are talking without even knowing the facts. And even if she did see him coming, she’s a young adult, but he’s a grown man, he could’ve hurt her or gained access to the house and hurt the other kids. These kids are hurting like the rest of our family, so please show somoe respect!!!
Updated with trial information, guilty verdict and sentencing information.
The man deserves to be be tortured to almost the point of death, then given excellent medical treatment, so he recovers. Then the process needs to be repeated.
If this is too “harsh” then do medical research experiments on him. When his usefulness is over, overdose him on morphine sulfate.
This is such an upsetting story, i really feel so sad for this poor lady and her family… She did nothing but try to divorce an abusive husband, and having had an abusive husband myself i know that trying to get away from them is nowhere as easy as it sounds… What a terrible waste of a life! Deborah RIP and may god bless her family… ;(
Hark, I can hear it now! Wayne is himself taking a few loads to the face!
Idiot. “You divorced me, so I’m going to shoot your face off!” Doesn’t seem like a fair trade to me. Sheesh.
tHIS IS COMPLETLY STUPID AND KINDA LATE BUT JUX LIKE MY SISTER SED SPEAK ON WUT YU KNO… DNT PUT IT AS IF WE WATCHED OUR MOTHER DIE!!!
I think you’re misunderstanding the writer’s point when he wrote the passage you object to. What he was trying to say was that your father killed your mother while you, his children, watched him do it. It was meant to show that he didn’t care about you, not that you didn’t do anything to help your mother. No one in their right mind would expect children to try and stop a mad man armed with a gun from committing murder.
Believe me, we’re all on your side here. We feel nothing but pain and sorrow for what the four of you have been through, and I doubt there even one of us who wouldn’t give anything to take that pain away.
So if it makes you feel better to come here and bitch us out, please continue to do so. But it might be better if you believe what I’m telling you and see this place as a just a bunch of people who hate what happened to your mom and want to support you and your siblings.
No all the comments are saying abuse nd stalking and stuff that is not true that is my problem soo I feel like if everyone that isn’t affected stay in yur lane show sympathy but watch wut yu say
This man is my Uncle he was/is a great man. His actions that night were terrible but he was not!!!! He did many many many great things for many people including his wife and kids. I dont think that he is in hell and like Nana and Brittany my little cousins said you should talk what you know, not what you think. I know that everyone was hurt by his actions. Aunt Debs family has suffered and so has ours. You people are sick. I will never condone what he did but I know the MAN so I know that he was/is a wonderful person. He WAS insane at that moment. He was truely Dangerously In Love with his wife. He would never have hurt her in his right mind that was his best friend he didnt lie. He loved his wife. You people know nothing! You have no idea how happy they were when they were happy. You have no idea how he would go to the school and have lunch with his kids. He was a great father!!!! You have no idea that they would drive cross country just as happy as pigs in shit all of them together. When it was good for them it was GREAT! You have no idea the turmoil that he was going through yes he took a life and in turn gave his own. I love my Uncle Wayne he did many things for me personally that let me know that he wasnt horrible. He was sweet caring generous and funny. Aunt Deb knew these things about him she knew that in his heart he meant her no harm. Im sure that neither of them really knew what he was going to do that night. I am not here to make right his wrong but none of you know him. It hurts me to see his picture under such a heading cause I know and love him. I hate to know that he did this horrible thing but there are still people in the world that love him so you shouldnt just put stuff like this up. My Uncle was a confused man that only GOD can judge.
As far as his kids watching him shoot their mother how could you believe that is what happened? I mean really No one would sit and watch such a thing and not try to stop it perhaps we will see you in hell for being a judgmental butthead. Through it all I LOVE MY UNCLE WAYNE!!!!!! AS WELL AS MY AUNT DEB AND MY LITTLE COUSINS
You people dont know him or them this site has just pissed me off and to know that Nana and Brittany read this just makes me sick to my stomach they have been through enough.
You can destroy a masterpiece with a single brush stroke.
Something as small as termites can destroy a multi-million dollar mansion.
Three bullets destroyed your aunt and your uncle and instantly removed the title “great” from his life.
I keep looking for a psychological name for what you folks are feeling. This connection to family that forces you to defend the indefensible, so illogically and so passionately that you take the insult to a murderer as an insult to yourself. You didn’t need to add that millstone, you picked it up and added it to your own burdens.
You all run to the Bible, and search for that same one liner, and never bother to finish the chapter it’s in. Never. Not a one of you ever bothers to read it for yourself, and you yell and scream at the speck in our eye, while you steadfastly refuse to remove the plank within your own.
Sorry for your loss, I honestly am, but I don’t think telling modern parables of loss and destructive personalities, as warning tales filled with social relevance to domestic violence and murder are poor uses of this website or the time of those writing and reading. Once upon a time women had to count their husbands as one of the leading causes of their own probable deaths. That’s a sour point in society, I wish could simple be removed as a fear. My wife has it in writing, and I’ll reiterate it here, “If I strike her or threaten to kill her, she’s to shoot me, at least twice, in the head.” Real men don’t need to kill the ones they love. Real men don’t need to even consider the concept, “If I can’t have her, no one will.” It takes a real man to be great.
Great fathers do not murder the mother of their children. It doesn’t matter if he occasionally did acceptable and normal fatherly things. Great fathers – good fathers – GOOD ENOUGH fathers do not harm their children’s mother. Period.
He failed at being a husband. He failed at being a father. He failed at being a decent human being.
Period.
Who made you GOD, and where’s the trust, that you would Think to put something in writing, so low minded. What a way to start a marriage!
Its clear you also have mix emotion. But, who are you to judge.
What, should everyone hold Hate in their Hearts until they leave the Earth? Be mature by displaying common sense and let the family mourn the way they see fit. This is a family in tremendous pain. If you can’t show compassion your opinions and egotistical way of thinking aren’t needed
EGO = Easing GOD Out
Let GOD be the Judge.
No one made me God. no one made you God either. God wasn’t made. Try reading the Bible before you claim to know the will of God. After you’ve read the Bible, try to understand the passages you read. “Judge note, lest ye also be judge,” is from Matthew 7:1(read the whole chapter, focus on anything to do with trees and their fruits and question whether a tree that can kill someone is a good tree or a bad tree, then ask yourself why you can “judge” such a tree, the chapter answers the questions). The story of the Adulteress (John 8:1-11) is also commonly cited by the relatives of criminals to in some way keep them from civil justice and the infamous discussion by their peers. Note that Jesus could have judged, but he chose not to, in large part to prevent the Pharisees from abusing him–special note, adultery was actually common despite being against the law of Moses, and many of the Pharisees themselves were adulterers.
Your relative took a gun and shot another human being. He did it like so many other abusive, stupid, bastards have done to their wives so many, many times. He’s a statistic, he’s a story young men should be told about to teach them to never, ever take a life from their own personal vanity. Abuse and violence against your partner is never about love for someone else, it is always about personal vanity and personal pride.
Your Uncle displayed his bruised ego when he killed your aunt. I’m trying to explain to you that it’s your bruised ego that won’t let other human beings learn something from your Uncle’s senseless act.
My wife and I have had to help friends and loved ones through abusive relationships. When we were dating there were 3 major events where we had to deal with people like this. In an email, I wrote to her before we were married, I said, “If I ever hit you, or threaten to kill you, please, I give you permission to put 2 bullets right between my eyes. This is not who I want to be.”
I don’t want to be like your Uncle. I don’t want anyone to be like your Uncle. I want children and other men to read the example of your stupid, stupid Uncle and see how stupid and senseless his crimes were. I think of it like showing a child how to identify a coral snake or a copperhead. A man who shoots his wife is dangerous, is wrong, and should not be emulated.
I know this is off the subject but I found this website by searching on Bing for hotel marketing. How did you optimize your website to rank so high in the search engine results?