Yeah I decided to google Wormboy.
PORT ORCHARD — Two men accused of murder in two separate stabbing cases, one where a 21-year-old confessed to killing his elderly grandfather, pleaded guilty Friday in Kitsap Superior Court and will be sentenced next month.
William "Willie" Bradley Jackson III, 21, was charged in December for the death of his grandfather, Hurene "Hap" Bradley Jackson, 90. Hap Jackson was a popular figure in veteran communities, including the American Legion and the Fleet Association. Willie Jackson pleaded to a count of premeditated first-degree murder. He is scheduled to be sentenced April 29.
Both men confessed to Kitsap County Sheriff's Office investigators following their arrests.
In the case of Willie Jackson, he made statements that he was angry at his father but planned to kill his grandfather, whose Rocky Point House he shared. Deputies were called Dec. 15 after Willie Jackson told a 911 dispatcher that he killed his grandfather.
Immediately after the slaying, he went to his computer and wrote to an online community about what he had done. The change in plea came without an agreement in place with prosecutors, said Chief Deputy Prosecutor Chad Enright. Willie Jackson could face between about 20 and 27 years in prison. At the sentencing hearing attorneys will make their own recommendations to the judge for how long Jackson should spend in prison.
Sentence and diagnosis (spoiler: not ASPD XD)
PORT ORCHARD — A Kitsap Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced a 21-year-old Bremerton man to more than 26 years in prison, the maximum allowed by law, for the December fatal stabbing of his elderly grandfather.
William "Willie" Bradley Jackson III — rail thin, wearing shackles and jail-issue scrubs with his long hair pulled back into a bun — declined to make a statement before Judge Jeanette Dalton sentenced him.
Jackson had turned himself in, confessed and pleaded guilty to the charge of killing Hurene "Hap" Jackson, 90, but was not offered a plea agreement by prosecutors.
After his arrest, a psychiatrist diagnosed Jackson as being on the autism spectrum, although high-functioning. His attorney, Stephen Lewis, said that did not excuse his crime, but could help explain Jackson's seeming lack of remorse, disconnect to his family and interest in serial killers.
"It was clear something was wrong with him, but it wasn't clear precisely what it was," Lewis told Dalton.
Dalton said she didn't think Jackson would receive adequate treatment for the disorder in prison, and wondered how he might be more dangerous once released after changing to survive the violence of the prison system, so she sentenced him to the maximum, 320 months.
"The only thing I can do is keep him away from the community for as long as I can," Dalton said.
Willie Jackson confronted Hap Jackson on Dec. 15, armed with knives, and asked him how he wanted to die, according to court documents. After stabbing Hap Jackson, Willie Jackson listened to music, drank some of his grandfather's liquor and corresponded about the killing on an online forum for "sociopaths" where he also posted a photo of Hap Jackson's body. Court documents say Willie Jackson had planned to kill himself, but instead called 911.
Hap Jackson had served in the Navy, worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and was active in veteran organizations. Willie Jackson lived with him in his Rocky Point home.
Hap Jackson's son, and Willie Jackson's father, William Jackson, asked Dalton to sentence Willie Jackson to the maximum allowed and called him a "low life" and "stupid."
"I don't hate you for what you did, I feel sorry for you," William Jackson said, later adding: "He can have fun living in there with the real killers," referring to prison.
Two possible motives were offered for Willie Jackson's actions, including his anger at his own father, and anxiety that his grandfather would die and leave him without a place to live. Lewis said Willie Jackson, who researched laws about murder to confirm Gov. Jay Inslee's moratorium on the death penalty, may have reasoned he could live in prison.
"Most rational people look at that and it doesn't make a lot of sense," Lewis said, who asked Dalton sentence him to the middle of the 240- to 320-month range. "Maybe to him that makes sense."
In arguing for the maximum sentence, Deputy Prosecutor Breanna Peterson noted Willie Jackson didn't appear to have animosity toward his grandfather, "Just that he was weak enough for the defendant to kill."