THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, January 13, 1995 TAG: 9501130490
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
A judge on Thursday sent to the grand jury capital murder and firearms charges against a Chesapeake man who is alleged to have paid $3,000 to have his wife killed.
Police say Clark C. Bedsole Sr., owner of Clark Electric in Deep Creek, paid Marlon D. Williams to kill his wife on Nov. 9, just days before a hearing on their pending divorce.
Helen Bedsole, 44, was found by her roommate in the kitchen of their modest brick ranch home in the 1100 block of Shore Drive. She had been shot twice, in the head and the neck, at close range with a .38-caliber handgun.
Judge Frederick H. Creekmore, in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, certified the charges after he heard a conversation recorded by police in which Williams bragged to a friend that he had killed Helen Bedsole, a longtime C&P Telephone employee.
A preliminary hearing for Williams, who also faces capital murder and firearms charges, is set for today in General District Court.
KEYWORDS: MURDER MURDER-FOR-HIRE TRIAL by CNB