THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 26, 1995 TAG: 9507260361
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
The 22-year-old triggerman in a murder-for-hire scheme pleaded guilty to capital murder and firearms charges Tuesday.
Marlon D. Williams of Portsmouth could receive the death penalty for shooting Helen Bedsole on Nov. 9, 1993, for $4,000. He will be sentenced Oct. 10.
Clark Bedsole, owner of Clark Electric, hired Williams to kill his wife of 25 years while they were undergoing a bitter divorce.
Detectives secretly taped Williams talking to a police informant about the shooting. During that conversation, Williams said he shot Helen Bedsole in the head and neck as she stood in the kitchen of her Geneva Shores home.
Williams also said Clark Bedsole wanted to collect on his wife's insurance policy.
Williams also is accused of slashing the throat of an elderly woman in Suffolk on Oct. 2, 1994. He told Judge Russell Townsend that he plans to plead guilty to charges of malicious wounding and statutory burglary in that case.
In May, a jury convicted Bedsole of capital murder in the slaying of his wife and recommended a life sentence.
KEYWORDS: MURDER FOR HIRE SHOOTING CAPITAL MURDER by CNB