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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: John
"Woody"
Raymond Woodring
(John R. Woodring, Raymond Woodring, Woody X)
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Sex: Male |
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 37 |
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Height: 5'10" |
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Weight: 190 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Wanted for :
First Degree Murder, Sylva, NC;
Sep 18, 2006
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Sylva, NC |
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Possible Location : Knoxville, TN
Altoona, PA
Fort Washington, MD
Houston , TX
Cops discovered Woodring's stolen getaway car at a Greyhound bus terminal in Knoxville; they think he might have parked it there to throw them off his trail. They also think he might have bought a ticket and hopped a bus to Anywhere USA. |
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Last Known : Sylva, NC
This is in Jackson County. |
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Traits |
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Likes the outdoors: fishing, hunting, and boating. |
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Likes talking on his cell phone |
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Hangs out at bars |
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Drinks Bud Light beer |
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Enjoys photography |
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Has own photograph web site |
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Wrote and published a book about conversations with inmates |
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Case Story |
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Security Guard Finds Honda In Greyhound Parking Lot |
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On September 26, an off duty cop working as a security guard at a Greyhound bus terminal in Knoxville noticed a suspicious car in the parking lot. Cops say it's the same car that John "Woody" Woodring stole before he allegedly killed his wife Bonnie in Sylva, North Carolina.
North Carolina investigators loaded the vehicle onto a flatbed truck and took it back to a crime lab in Asheville, where they'll process it for evidence. Cops say Woodring grabbed the car and a sawed-off shotgun from a neighbor's house.
As Sylva is only about 120 miles from Knoxville, investigators think that Woodring might have parked the car at the bus terminal to throw them off his trail. They're also trying to figure out if Woodring just bought a ticket and hopped a bus to Anywhere USA.
According to investigators, no witnesses saw Woodring at the bus station in Knoxville, and he didn't show up on the surveiillance cameras. |
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Cops: Abusive Husband Ends Wife's Life |
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It all started with a 911 call from the Woodrings' neighbor:
OPERATOR: Jackson County 911. Do you have an emergency?
CALLER: Yes, um, our neighbors, the Woodrings up here on Kitchens Branch...
OPERATOR: Uh-Huh
CALLER: His son, her son is down here saying someone is beating his mother. You need to get somebody up here
John "Woody" Woodring was supposed to stay away from his wife after she took off. According to authorities, on September 13 the courts granted Bonnie Woodring a restraining order against her husband. But when Bonnie went home with her 13 year-old son Josh to pick up their things, Woodring allegedly choked her so bad that she had to be taken to the hospital.
Cops in Sylva, North Carolina issued a warrant for Woodring's arrest. By the time they got to the house, Woodring was already on the run. He tried to reach out to Bonnie in a message he posted on their photography website, but she wouldn't take him back. Cops say this only made him angrier.
Fearing for her safety, Bonnie entered the REACH shelter for women. But cops say even that wasn't enough protection. They say Woodring broke into the shelter at around 9:00 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2006 brandishing a stolen sawed-off shotgun. He forced Bonnie into the kitchen at gunpoint, where police say he brutally ended her life. |
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His Last Chapter: Behind Bars |
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Bonnie had good reason to be afraid of her husband. Sure, he was an ex-Marine with a temper who police say abused each of his four wives. But he was also a true-crime aficionado with a sick fascination for chatting up bad guys. He'd spend long hours at his computer writing letters to criminals like Ira Einhorn and Eric Robert Rudolph.
Woodring complied all of his musings in a self-published book titled "The Convict Speaks." His theory was that anyone, including the worst criminals, can change. Too bad the 35 year-old graduate teacher's assistant at Western Carolina University didn't heed his own advice.
As it turns out, Woodring had had his own run-ins with the law. Bonnie, wife number four, had complained to the courts for months that Woodring was abusive. In fact, cops say Woodring had a 15 year history of arrests for domestic violence involving various women, including getting banished from a reservation after police say he assaulted his Native American wife. |
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