Hell and Gone Murder Line: William Vick Part 3

Hell and Gone

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On January 23, 2023, just six days after William Vick was found dead on his bedroom floor at 1954 County Road 3259 in Clarksville Arkansas, police did a welfare check on his wife Larenda’s mother, 72-year-old Martha McLean, who lived in a detached house on the property with William and Larenda.

They found Martha struggling to breathe with drugs including lorazepam and morphine around her. Martha had overdosed and was close to death, but paramedics administered Narcan, a drug that blocks opioids. So Martha's breathing improved, and she survived.

Matt Foster with the Arkansas State Police wrote that Martha had a pen and a partially handwritten note in her hand when he found her. The note stated that Martha didn’t want to hurt anyone. And after he found her, he executed a search warrant for the property, and he found a second handwritten note where Martha confessed to tampering with William’s medication and to killing him.

But why did Martha kill William, and what really happened to her?

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0:37.1	On January 23rd, 2003, just six days after William Vic was found dead on his bedroom floor
0:43.9	in Clarksville, Arkansas, police did a welfare check on his wife, Lorenda's mother, 72-year-old
0:49.9	Martha McLean.
0:51.4	Martha lived in a detached house on the same property with William and Lorenda.
0:56.4	They found Martha struggling to breathe, with drugs, including Larazepam and morphine
1:01.7	around her.
1:03.4	Martha had overdosed and was close to death.
1:06.2	But paramedics administered Narcan, a drug that blocks opioids and can be used in the case of overdose.
1:13.1	They administered that drug three times, so Martha's breathing improved, and she survived.
1:19.9	Matt Foster with the Arkansas State Police wrote in his report that when he found Martha,
1:25.3	she had a pen and a partially handwritten note in one hand.
1:29.4	The note stated that Martha didn't want to hurt anyone.
1:32.8	And after he found her, he executed a search warrant for the property.
1:37.6	That's when law enforcement found a second handwritten note.
1:41.3	And in that note, Martha confessed to tampering with her son-in-law
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