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Suspect charged with second murder:
Detectives say the justice system failed
Michelle Zepeda, Fox Toledo, December 3, 2009

In 1978 Willie Washington confessed to killing his girlfriend and her mother in Flint, Mich.

Former Flint Police Chief Fay Peek, the lead investigator in the late 1970s case, said Thursday it was the most vicious crime he ever investigated.

Peek said the now 52-year-old Washington used a shotgun to blow off a dead bolt lock on his girlfriend's house door. He then fatally shot the 18-year-old's mother in the head, and fatally stabbed his girlfriend 18 times with a knife.

Peek was blown away when the judge gave Washington a 15-20 year sentence.

A Flint native, Washington moved to Toledo after having served eight years after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Thelma and Tanya Cox.

" I can't believe he did anything less then 40 for taking the life of two people. I don't know what kind of system allows that."

Three decades later, Washington is facing another murder charge in the Glass City.

In November Toledo cold case detectives charged Washington with the February 2008 murder of 24-year-old Gordon Wright, whose body was found stuffed inside a wall of a burning home in February 2008.

Wright allegedly tried cover up the crime by setting a house on fire.

Bret Vinocur says this is another example of our broken justice system. His organization BlockParole.com works daily trying to keep dangerous criminals like Washington behind bars rather than paroled early.

" They're releasing more and more people each day do to budget cuts I'm afraid more of this will happen as more are released."

Washington is currently in prison on a parole violation for a robbery in New York State. He was to have have been released from from the Orleans Correctional Facility in Albion, NY, which is about 60 miles west of Rochester, NY, Nov. 20.

He might be processed for extradition back to Toledo and Lucas County to face the new murder charge. Extradition proceedings are pending. According to the New York offender information Web site, Washington could be held as long as 2013 before being extradited to Toledo.

Detectives said Washington could face life in prison.

 

 
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