Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Shirley Rogers pleads guilty to federal charges.
The woman who discovered Gary and Helen Wells brutally stabbed to death in their Terramont Drive home last October pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal fraud charges. U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles said Shirley Rogers, 52, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of fradultently using another person's debit card without permission and one count of using another person's name and personal identification number to complete the debit card fraud. Judge G. Ross Anderson will sentence Rogers at a later date. According to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, during and before September 2012, Rogers had been employed as a housekeeper for a family in Greenville, later confirmed to be the Gary and Helen Wells. Near the end of August, 2012…
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Home invasion ends in bloodshed.
Greenville County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a shooting death in the Berea area that occurred during a home invasion. At approximately 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office received a call from 28 Lora Lane stating that shots had been fired at apartment A. When deputies arrived, they found 28-year-old Alali Shakoor Perkins Sr. in the driveway of the home. The incident reportedly began when two unidentified black males, approximately 30-years-old, armed with guns arrived at the Berea home. One of the suspects dressed in all dark clothing and a ski mask forced his way into the residence as the second suspect held another victim at gunpoint in the driveway. Perkins struggled with one of the suspects as he was …
Friday, October 26, 2012
Greenville County Sheriff's Office confirms an arrest has been made in the stabbing deaths of Gary and Helen Wells.
Patch.com will be on hand at 1 p.m. today to report on the Greenville County Sheriff's Office's arrest in the murders of an elderly couple that rocked a quiet Eastside community earlier this month. The Greenville County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest in connection with the murders of Gary and Helen Wells. "Yes, an arrest has been made, but at this time additional information is not going to be released due to there still being an ongoing investigation," said Jonathan Smith, public information officer for the GCSO. Gary Wells, 78 and Helen Wells, 77, were found dead Oct. 3 morning in their 10 Terramont Drive home on the Eastside when the housekeeper couldn't get anyone to come to the door. She asked a next door neighbor to help, who …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office released the audio Thursday of the 911 call made by a neighbor after he discovered Gary and Helen Wells stabbed to death at their 10 Terramont Drive home. Some descriptions given during the call are graphic.
WARNING: The following is a 911 call made by an individual at a double-murder scene. Some of the descriptions are graphic. Patch.com obtained the audio Thursday of the Oct. 3 911 call made from 10 Terramont Drive, where a neighbor discovered the occupants, Gary and Helen Wells, stabbed to death. On Oct. 3, Gary Wells, 78 and his wife Helen Wells, 77, were discovered after the housekeeper Shirley Rogers couldn't get anyone to come to the door that morning. Rogers went to next door neighbor Douglas Doughty to ask for help. When Doughty peered through a window of the home, he saw Gary Wells laying on the floor in his own blood. The 911 audio, obtained by Patch from the Greenville County Sheriff's Office through the Freedom of Information …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
But Shirley Rogers has not been named a suspect in the death of Gary and Helen Wells.
The housekeeper for the elderly couple that was brutally stabbed to death last week in their Eastside home was arrested the day of the murders for allegedly defrauding one of the victims, the Greenville County Sheriff's Office has confirmed. Jonathan Smith, public information officer for the GCSO, said Shirley Ann Rogers, 51, was arrested on Oct. 3 on charges of financial transaction card theft and financial transaction card fraud for allegedly taking Helen Wells' bank card and using it without her permission. Smith said Rogers, the housekeeper for the family, told investigators that she arrived at the 10 Terramont Drive home of Gary Wells, 78, and Helen Wells, 77, on the morning of Oct. 3 for work. When she couldn't get anyone to come …
Friday, October 5, 2012
With no arrests made for the brutal slaying of an elderly couple, investigators aren't releasing much of what they know, but confirm they don't believe the crime to be random.
The two people found stabbed to death in their Terramont Drive home on Wednesday were likely not the victims of a random crime, investigators believe. Jonathan Smith, public information officer for the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, said that after Gary and Helen Wells were found stabbed to death in their home at 10 Terramont Drive on Wednesday, extra patrols have been assigned to the area due to concerns of those in the community. The GCSO has stated that investigators do not believe that there is a threat to the general public, although no arrest has been made. "At this time we have not made an arrest, although, evidence at the scene leads investigators to believe that this was not a random crime," Smith said. "Investigators are …
Gary and Helen Wells were both stabbed to death in their Eastside home on Wednesday.
Gary and Helen Wells, the couple discovered dead in their Terramont Drive home Wednesday morning, were stabbed to death, the Greenville County Coroner's Office confirmed Thursday. Deputy Coroner Mike Ellis told Patch that autopsies conducted Thursday revealed that Gary Wells, 78, and Helen Wells, 77, died from multiple "sharp force trauma," and confirmed that both deaths had been classified as homicides. The Wellses, active members at Taylors Baptist Church, were discovered Wednesday morning after the housekeeper couldn't get anyone to come to the door at their 10 Terramont Drive home. The housekeeper went to the next door neighbors, who often do yard work for the couple, to ask for help. The neighbors found the couple dead inside when …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Gary and Helen Wells were found dead Wednesday morning on Terramont Drive.
The Greenville County Coroner's Office has confirmed that two bodies found at 10 Terramont Drive on the Eastside were those of Gary Wells, 78, and Helen Wells, 77. The couple, active members at Taylors First Baptist Church, did not respond when a housekeeper knocked on the door Wednesday morning, according to Thomas Ragsdale, whose father-in-law lives next door to the house near Hudson Road. When the housekeeper couldn't get anyone to come to the door, she went to the next door neighbors, who often do yard work for the couple, to ask for help. It was then that the neighbors discovered the door was actually unlocked. Ragsdale said there was blood on the front doorknob, and that when his in-laws made entry to their neighbors' home, they …
Friday, September 21, 2012
Report comes on the heels of Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October.
South Carolina is a deadly place for women. So says a new report out by the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center, which has ranked the state second in the entire nation in the rate of women killed by men. The state's murder rate was 1.94 per 100,000 according to the VPC report "When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2010 Homicide Data". The annual VPC report details national and state-by-state information on female homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender. The study uses the most recent data available from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report and is released each year to coincide with Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The 10 states with the highest…
Monday, December 12, 2011
Susan Hendricks is expected to appear for a preliminary hearing Monday
The woman police say killed four of her family members for insurance money appeared before a judge, according to WYFF. Susan Hendricks, 48, of Liberty was charged with four counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Marshall Wayne Hendricks, 20, Matthew Wayne Hendricks, 23, Mark Wayne Hendricks, 52, and Linda Ann Burns, 64. Investigators found nine life insurance policies totaling $700,000 in Hendricks' home, each with her listed as the beneficiary. On Oct. 14 Sheriff's deputies responding to a 911 call found two people dead in a mobile home on a Pinedale Road property and two others dead in a second mobile home approximately 100 yards away on the same property. Investigators say the motive for the killings was an attempt to claim money …
Debbie Mcelrath
7:29 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012
Number one i am sad for the couple and their family ,I also think if the guy had not helped out they may have no leads because the maid may not have stuck around..You have your opinion but i also have mine and i still think it was poor taste. Debbie more ›