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We feel compelled to update you on Edward Wycoff, the Sacramento County truck driver who killed his sister and brother-in-law, Paul and Julie Rogers, in their El Cerrito home in 2006 because they had "screwed up" his family. The completely batshit insane, lawyer-hating, egomaniacal bigot, who was somehow allowed to represent himself at trial despite the fact that he obviously has a personality disorder of some kind and might be legally insane, was convicted last week of first-degree murder. He threatened, you see, to "blow up the Public Defender's Office" if they didn't get off his case. Jurors yesterday recommended the death penalty in the case, despite the fact that the victims' son spoke on behalf of the family to say that they did not condone the death penalty (the son actually fought for an insanity plea for his uncle).
According to The Oakland Tribune, Wycoff reads at a sixth grade level and kept books around the house like The Vigilante's Handbook and Techniques of a Silent Killer. He had killed at least 17 cats in his neighborhood in order to "protect other wildlife," and he said openly that he "could have been a serial killer" if it weren't his "good morals."
The moral offenses he cited at trial as having been committed by his sister and her husband, in his own defense, were things like how "they disobeyed him by using salad dressing at a family dinner" and were "out to destroy" him when they didn't invite him to Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner in 2005. (Would you?) He said they were rich liberal lawyers who had cheated him out of his late father's house, and he showed no remorse during the trial for having murdered them with a knife and a wheel-barrow handle. (He avoided using a gun because he didn't want to boost the cause of gun-control supporters.) Also, he got Lasik surgery before the murders in order to do it correctly, and did we mention that on the night of the murders, January 31, 2006, two of the Rogers' children were home, one 12 and one 17 (the aforementioned son)? Read more about Wycoff at LoonWatch.com.
He requested that his final sentencing be scheduled for December 8th, his birthday, and as he was walked out of court in shackles he shouted, "Dead man walking!"
So we suppose the lesson here is don't ignore your crazy relatives and *always* invite them to holiday dinner.
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Killing neighborhood pets is a common prelude to murdering people. Scary.