Bennie And Blade Reed are two teen killers from Indiana who were convicted in the murder of Richard Voland
According to court documents sixteen year old Bennie Blade and his brother thirteen year old Blade Reed would go to a neighbors home in search of alcohol. The two teen killers would force their way into the home and attack the elderly couple killing Richard Voland
Bennie and Blade Reed would be arrested and convicted
Bennie Reed was sentenced to sixty years in prison
Blade Reed was sentenced to thirty years in prison
Bennie Reed Now
| DOC Number | 204028 | |
| First Name | BENNIE | |
| Middle Name | ||
| Last Name | REED | |
| Suffix | ||
| Date of Birth | 12/1991 | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Race | White | |
| Facility/Location | Wabash Valley Level 4 Facility | |
| Earliest Possible Release Date* * Incarcerated individuals scheduled for release on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday are released on Monday. Incarcerated individuals scheduled for release on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday are released on Thursday. Incarcerated individuals whose release date falls on a Holiday are released on the first working day prior to the Holiday. | 11/17/2037 | |
Blade Reed Now
| DOC Number | 196682 | |
| First Name | BLADE | |
| Middle Name | J | |
| Last Name | REED | |
| Suffix | ||
| Date of Birth | 08/1995 | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Race | White | |
| Facility/Location | Putnamville Correctional Facility | |
| Earliest Possible Release Date* * Incarcerated individuals scheduled for release on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday are released on Monday. Incarcerated individuals scheduled for release on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday are released on Thursday. Incarcerated individuals whose release date falls on a Holiday are released on the first working day prior to the Holiday. | 01/31/2026 | |
Bennie And Blade Reed Case
Physical and sexual abuse as a toddler followed by emotional trauma, foster care placements and then adoption into a dysfunctional family marked Blade Reed’s first 14 years.The teen will now spend the next 14 behind bars for his part in a brutal attack against elderly neighbors last year that left 84-year-old Richard “Dude” Voland dead and his wife of almost six decades shot and stabbed. A judge sentenced him today to 30 years in jail, of which he will serve half; he gets credit for nine months spent in jail since his arrest.Reed’s older brother Bennie, 17, fired the shot that killed Dude Voland and also the one that struck Mary Voland in the stomach. He received a 60-year sentence for murder and aggravated assault. He likely will serve half of his time
The Reed brothers rode their bicycles a mile or so to the Volands’ Helmsburg home in the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 2008, intending to steal beer. The two took along a .25 caliber handgun stolen from another neighbor. They knocked on the door and asked to use the phone. When Bennie Reed pointed his gun at Dude Voland and said “no one needs to get hurt,” the 50-year National Rifle Association member drew his own weapon. Reed tried to knock it from the man’s hand, and a bullet fired from the gun hit him in the arm. The teen then fired back, and a bullet from the stolen gun struck the man in the head.Bennie Reed then shot Mary Voland in the stomach with her husband’s handgun after she came out of the bedroom and provided medical care to her husband and also to Reed.As the boys were leaving the house, without beer and wearing bloody clothes,
Bennie Reed told his brother to cut the woman’s throat since she had witnessed her husband’s shooting. The then-13-year-old admitted he sawed back and forth on the woman’s neck with a kitchen knife.This afternoon, he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and robbery resulting in serious injury. He told his 78-year-old victim he was sorry, that he wished he had never gone to her house that night, that he would take it all back if he could.During a previous hearing back in November, Brown Circuit Judge Judith Stewart determined that despite an agreement between the prosecutor and defense attorney that Blade Reed should spend the time until his 18th birthday not in prison but at the Indiana School for Boys with other offenders his age, the law does not allow that placement. So Reed will be incarcerated with other youthful violent offenders in a special housing unit at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Carlisle.Brown County Prosecutor Jim Oliver said justice was served. “This plea was justice. He committed an adult crime and he has received adult consequences,” Oliver said in a written statement.
“Blade Reed pled guilty to what he agreed with his brother to do that night, which was to commit an armed robbery. He received the maximum disposition for his attack on Mrs. Voland.”Cited among aggravating circumstances at the sentencing hearing was the recognition that the boys played on Richard Voland’s kindness to gain entry to his home that night. Oliver listed three mitigating circumstances: the boy’s age, that he didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt and his accepting responsibility for his actions.Oliver said the violence of the attack left sleepy Brown County shaken. “This crime was traumatic to the whole community and I hope closing it out will provide peace to the Voland family and restore some sense of peace to our community,” he said after Reed had been taken away from the courtroom and the Voland family dispersed.“This doesn’t happen in Brown County.”