Christine Moody, 37, said to reporters as she was escorted to a police vehicle.<\/b><\/a> “I think Jeremy and I would’ve done it again given the opportunity.”<\/p>\nThe Moodys were arrested last July after Union County authorities say they killed the Parker\u2019s after pretending their car broke down near the couple\u2019s home and then later holding them at gunpoint.<\/p>\n
In a rundown of the grisly murder, 16th Circuit Solicitor Kevin Brackett said the Moodys admitted to authorities they killed Charles Parker because he was a convicted sex offender. But, \u201cGretchen Parker was not,\u201d Brackett said, adding that the couple claims she died because of her \u201cpoor judgment\u201d in marrying a sex offender.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Moody confessed to deputies he shot the Parker\u2019s before his wife stabbed them. After they were arrested at his parent\u2019s home in Lockhart –a tiny town west of Chester and York counties– Jeremy Moody told investigators had he not been arrested, he would have kept killing.<\/p>\n
Police found the name of Jeremy Moody\u2019s next intended victim written down on an envelope. Authorities also found a \u201cmanifesto\u201d of manuscripts Jeremy Moody compiled that coalesced his \u201cAryan…white supremacist\u201d outlook on blacks, Jews and sex offenders, Brackett said. Both Moodys have claimed affiliations with a white supremacist group operating in the Upstate called Crew 41. They have maintained that the Parkers’ deaths had nothing to do with the group –something authorities confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
When Alford asked Christine Moody if she received any promises in return for pleading guilty –a standard question for judges to pose before accepting a guilty plea– she replied: \u201cJust fame and fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given the chance to speak in court, Christine Moody, a breast cancer survivor disabled in a car accident, recited Psalm 69:1-20 from the Bible. She apologized for breaking the sixth of the Ten Commandments — \u201cThou shall not kill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeremy Moody\u2019s lawyer, 16th Circuit Public Defender Harry Dest, said his interactions with his client, whom he called \u201cpolite,\u201d \u201crespectful\u201d and \u201ccandid,\u201d had always been pleasant. He said members of Jeremy Moody\u2019s family had been sexually abused by a grandfather for years.<\/p>\n
Reading letters from pastors and relatives, Dest said Jeremy Moody was an avid churchgoer involved in vacation Bible school who \u201cled three youths to be saved.\u201d . He wanted to preach to children and teens, but was tormented by his best friend\u2019s suicide. Since he was 17, Jeremy Moody suffered from several mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which caused him to see hallucinations, hear voices in his head, develop paranoia and nurture a grandiose complex that placed him as \u201cthe right hand of God.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeremy Moody told Alford if he had been on his medications, he would not have killed the Parkers. He asked to be given the chance to \u201cgrow old\u201d with his wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s more to Christine than what she\u2019s been charged with and what she\u2019s pleading to here today…these things don\u2019t happen in a vacuum,\u201d said Christine Moody\u2019s lawyer, Rock Hill attorney Derek Chiarenza, who listed sexual abuse, a car accident, an abusive first husband, a cancer diagnosis three months after marrying Jeremy Moody in 2009, post-traumatic stress disorder and mental illness preventing her from empathizing with others.<\/p>\n
In conversations with her, Chiarenza said Christine Moody was \u201clucid, intelligent and witty\u201d and penned a 17-page biography. He suggested his defense of her would have included testimony that her husband, whom she met online, heavily influenced her actions. But, Christine Moody refused to lessen her culpability. In court, she said she and Jeremy Moody have a \u201cfairy-tale love like nothing anyone\u2019s ever experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dest and Carienza asked Alford to sentence their clients to 30 years in prison –the minimum number of years defendants can serve for murder.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are gonna do it again\u201d if they get 30 years, Brenda Franklin, Charles Parkers\u2019 sister, told Alford. \u201cI think, if it\u2019s OK with you, I\u2019d like for them to have life in prison without parole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melissa Cole, Gretchen Parker\u2019s sister, called the Parker\u2019s \u201cso called people\u201d and \u201canimals\u201d who \u201cbutchered\u201d her sister and brother-in-law and then bragged about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I have left are memories and (taking) flowers to the grave,\u201d she said. \u201cIt has brought a lot of pain, anguish, restless nights…I ask you, just throw away the keys.\u201d<\/p>\n
As he was escorted to police vehicles by officers taking him to prison, Jeremy Moody said his sentence was unfair because \u201cchild molesters do not deserve to live.\u201d As he left court, he shouted to the Parker\u2019s relatives: \u201cSee you perverts later…that\u2019s what child molesters get.\u201d Outside of court, Christine Moody wished death on the Parker\u2019s grieving relatives, saying: \u201cMay they die also.\u201d She said her lawyer told her to appear regretful in court.<\/p>\n
After court, Dest said he could n
\not address Jeremy Moody\u2019s comments because he did not hear them, but said about his client: \u201cThere\u2019s a severe mental illness there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Parker\u2019s relatives seemed unscathed by the harsh comments, saying they felt justice was served and were relieved the Moody\u2019s could hurt no one else. There was no doubt in Tammy Jones\u2019 mind that the Moody\u2019s would have tried to commit more executions if Charles Parker, her uncle, had not installed the security camera system that captured the Moody\u2019s on the slain couple\u2019s property the day of the murder.<\/p>\n
About the Moody\u2019s demeanor in court, both she and Melissa Cole admitted they \u201cfelt like ripping their throats out\u201d and wanted to \u201cchoke them,\u201d but added they hoped to be able to forgive them \u201cin time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad they will never see daylight,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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If Jeremy and Christine Moody were allowed to, they said they would kill more sex offenders and anyone around them. They actually found a way to be no better than the sex offenders.<\/h3>\n