Ex husband of Tricia Todd arrested | Steven Williams charged with murder
Channel: True Crime Dump
Date: 2019-01-19

Williams said he had planned to kill Todd in advance, but although he spent all day with her the day of the murder, he couldn’t get up his nerve. 

Finally, Williams told them he determined to do it, and texted Todd their two-year-old daughter who was spending the night with him in an Air Bnb, was sick.

When Todd arrived, Williams said he first tried to strangle her, but waited for her to regain consciousness so he could force her to reveal her email password and other information.

Williams said he planned to write fake emails to make Todd’s family think she had gone to Haiti on a mission trip.

But when Todd regained consciousness, she only “screamed” so Williams said he beat her in the head with a club until she quieted. Then he choked her to death. Their daughter was sleeping in the next room.

Williams then took Todd’s body to a remote site in the HungryLand Preserve where he had already dug a hole and readied a container with acid. It was there that he cut up her body with a chainsaw and buried her remains in an acid filled container.

One of the dozens of DVDs in the case file shows Williams buying the acid in a North Carolina Home Depot months before the murder.