Presser of the Week: 16-year-old Stephen Lee Rodda
Who Killed...?
Bill Huffman
3.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this week's special episode of Who Killed? |
| 0:11.3 | Got more Sheriff Grady Judd coming at you. |
| 0:15.0 | There was a crazy murder that happened in his territory where a father actually murdered his own son, |
| 0:26.1 | a 16-year-old who was an 11th grader at Frostproof High School. |
| 0:31.9 | Now, the situation here is pretty awful. |
| 0:38.6 | The grandfather told investigators that it was not uncommon for the suspect to say bizarre things, |
| 0:45.2 | and this was according to Sheriff Judd, but according to authorities, the suspect has a history of using meth and has had psychotic episodes previously. |
| 0:55.9 | So when detectives said they found his grandson dead, they did a preliminary investigation |
| 1:01.9 | and they decided that the suspect had used an angle grinder, a heavy-duty saw, to kill |
| 1:09.9 | this 16-year-old. |
| 1:12.5 | Quote, to have this worthless individual murder his son is inexplicable, |
| 1:18.4 | Sheriff Judd said, during a news briefing Monday afternoon. |
| 1:23.2 | The homicide case was interrupted when the suspect fled the scene. |
| 1:30.6 | And again, this is one of those tragic cases where you have somebody that is entirely too evil to even maintain the decency around his own children. |
| 1:43.1 | Now, they have caught the suspect, |
| 1:45.9 | and this is the press conference to Sheriff Grady Judd, |
| 1:52.8 | and he is always one to spell it out how it is. |
| 1:58.1 | So this is just another special episode of the press conference from our |
| 2:03.0 | friends at Polk County it's Labor Day afternoon we're outside of Lake |
| 2:11.7 | Wells just west of Lake Wells and once again in just eight days time we have another parent that has |
| 2:23.3 | murdered their child, their teenage child who was only 16. |
| 2:30.3 | Let me show you Stephen Thomas Rada. Stephen Thomas Rada is 37 years of age. He was living |
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