"Nightingail" by Gail Wagner (popular books to read .TXT) 📕

“Hearing (the testimony) in the courtroom can have a powerful effect on one’s view,” Hogue said.

By pleading guilty with a joint recommendation for sentencing, Wagner avoided a sentence of life without parole, Hogue said.

She faced the death penalty before a February hearing, but prosecutors dropped it in exchange for Wagner waiving her right to a jury trial. At trial, Chief Bibb County Superior Court Judge Martha Christian would have decided Wagner’s fate.

Wagner’s family and friends sat on both sides of the courtroom Tuesday.

Marsha Mathews, Wagner’s aunt, said she was scheduled to testify in her niece’s defense — not because she thinks Wagner is innocent, but to explain why she might have participated in a plan to kill her husband.

“I feel she felt trapped over the years,” said Mathews after the trial.

During the plea hearing, Frank Hogue told the judge that Wagner was abused as a child. The abuse ranged from emotional abuse that left her feeling unwanted and afraid of abandonment to her being locked in her room for days. Hogue also stated that Wagner’s parents were brother and sister.

In opening statements held Monday, prosecutor Elizabeth Bobbitt said Wagner asked Morey to kill her husband so she and Morey could be together. At the time of the killing, Bobby and Crystal Wagner were living with their son and Morey in a motel near Thomaston Road and Interstate 475.

Hogue said Crystal Wagner and Morey met about a year before the killing during a time when Wagner and her husband were separated. She later reunited with her husband, but later was again in a relationship with Morey and they lived together.

At the time of the killing, Bobby Wagner was under the impression that Morey was living in the motel room with the couple and their young son to help his wife, Hogue said.

Wagner suffers from a physical deformity caused by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, her other attorney, Laura D. Hogue, said Monday.

Bobby Wagner and Morey were friends. In the days prior to the killing, Bobby Wagner tried to get Morey a job at the towing company where he worked, Hogue said.

On Feb. 10, 2005, Bobby Wagner was in the shower when Morey struck him repeatedly on the head. The blows weren’t fatal and Bobby Wagner returned to the bathroom followed by his wife. Crystal Wagner came out and told Morey that her husband was calling the police. Morey went back into the bathroom, where he stabbed Bobby Wagner in the heart, Bobbitt said.

Morey dismembered Wagner’s body after discovering he couldn’t move him, Bobbitt said.

A sheriff’s office crime scene investigator testified Monday that authorities found rope in the motel room and two concrete blocks in the Wagners’ car. Bobbitt said Crystal Wagner and Morey had planned to tie Bobby Wagner to the blocks and dispose of him in a body of water.

Authorities found Bobby Wagner’s remains four days after the killing behind an abandoned house in Twiggs County, testified Lee Weatherby, a GBI crime scene specialist. Wagner’s body was covered by a pile of aluminum hubcaps and cast-iron sinks.

Morey pleaded guilty in 2006 to killing and dismembering Wagner. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Mathews said Bobby and Crystal Wagner’s young son is being raised by Crystal Wagner’s mother.

Information from The Telegraph’s archives was included in this report.

To contact writer Amy Leigh Womack, call 744-4398.

Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2010/03/17/1061650/woman-gets-life-sentence-for-murder.html#storylink=cpy

Birth:  Sep. 21, 1972

Bibb County

Georgia, USA

Death:  Feb. 10, 2005

Jeffersonville

Twiggs County

Georgia, USA

Bobby was born in Macon to Jack Wagner and Mary Ann Wagner. He joined the Army Reserve and was a supply specialist with the 352nd Maintenance Battalion in Macon and was discharged in 1999. He also worked as a mechanic and tow truck driver.

He is survived by his parents, older brother Jay Wagner and wife Sassie, son Kristopher Jordan (by his former spouse Michelle Cutrer), and son Auston Cole Wagner (by his spouse Crystal Mae Carver).

Bobby was found on Valentines Day dumped a few hundred yards down Georgia highway 18. He had been stabbed in the chest, cut up in the tub of a motel room he was staying in, stuffed into a garbage bag and put into the trunk of a Ford Taurus then dumped.

Two suspects (which include his spouse and a close friend) stand acussed of taking his life.

Burial:

Cremated, Ashes scattered.

Specifically: Ashes scattered in a family plot.

Now I think back to how I was so gullible. My Aunt used to threaten to take my food from me every time she saw something she liked. Hell she actually took my food from me a couple of times and I guess that’s how I became chubby. I used to be and am still a little afraid of people taking my food from me so I basically inhale it. I can’t really be blamed for it.

Or sometimes I think of the words I couldn’t say like pinecone or tape measure. I either stutter on tape measure or I couldn’t say pinecone.

Publication Date: 10-21-2014

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Dedication:
I dedicate this book to those who inspire me, and to my family and friends that stand strongly loyal by my side no matter the choices I make. Also to the The old me, whom I have seemed to lose touch with. Also to the one very special people in my life who continue to help me grow into a woman I tend to indulge in. Love you my wonderful fiancée, Wesley Whitaker. I also want to thank all those who believe in me and decide to read any book at all.