She was alive when he set her on fire with gasoline and set a fan to make it more intense.
Another one worthy of death, execution date set by the governor.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on March 13 signed death warrant for a Palm Bay man who beat Marlys Sather before setting her on fire in 1990.
okcthunderwire.usatoday.com
The retired Palm Bay detective who solved the horrific 1990 murder of a widow beaten with a hammer and set on fire by a young next-door neighbor says he does not plan on attending the newly set execution date.
On March 13, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a death warrant for Chadwick Willacy, who has spent 36 years on death row for the murder of Marlys Sather, 56. Willacy, now 58 and held at Florida State Prison in Raiford, is set to be executed by lethal injection April 21.
“I will not be attending; (Willacy) is not worthy of my time,” said Jorge Santiago, recalling the first homicide case he worked solo after joining the Palm Bay Police Department.
“I remember what that day was like … it was a brutal scene, and I just couldn’t believe it.”
Prosecutors said on Sept. 5, 1990, Sather, who worked at Harris and had obtained a top government clearance for her work, arrived home unexpectedly during the lunch hour to sell her car. Willacy, who frequently mowed her lawn, had already broken into her home, where he surprised her.
“He hit her several times and thought he had to kill her because she’s his next-door neighbor and could identify him,” Santiago said. “He had tried to get some money from her the day before, an advancement for cutting her grass.”
Willacy bludgeoned Sather with a hammer and a squeegee, tied her wrists and ankles with wire and duct tape and “choked and strangled her with a cord with a force so intense that a portion of her skull was dislodged," court documents said.
Willacy then stashed her car, jogged back, and went to great lengths to hide his crimes, prosecutors said. He disabled the smoke detectors, poured gasoline from the garage over Sather, placed a fan at her feet to provide oxygen for the fire, and set her on fire, court records said.
She was alive at the time, an autopsy showed. She had managed to pull free from her shoes before succumbing to the flames and smoke inhalation, court records said.
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Romans 13
Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will [
a]bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.
4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to
execute wrath on him who practices evil.
That poor woman. I can't begin to imagine the suffering she endured while facing the inevitable.