Terry Wedding is a killer from Kentucky who was convicted of the murders of four family members
According to court documents Terry Wedding was upset that his family had committed him to a short term stay in a mental hospital to help deal with his bipolar disorder. Once released from the mental hospital Terry would beat his father Todd Wedding to death with a bat, fatally shot his mother Beverly Wedding and his cousin and his wife, Joey and Amy Vincent.
Terry Wedding would be arrested, plead guilty to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to four life without parole sentences
Terry Wedding Now
| Name: | WEDDING, TERRY T Active Inmate | ||
| PID # / DOC #: | 245808 / 145706 | ||
| Institution Start Date: | 3/01/2001 | ||
| Expected Time To Serve (TTS): | LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE | ||
| Classification: | Medium | ||
| Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ? | LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE | ||
| Parole Eligibility Date: | LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE | ||
| Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date: | LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE | ||
| Location: | Kentucky State Reformatory | ||
| Age: | 52 | ||
| Race: | White | ||
| Gender: | M | ||
| Eye Color: | Blue | ||
| Hair Color: | Brown | ||
| Height: | 6′ 0 “ | ||
| Weight: | 234 |
Terry Wedding Case
A Muhlenberg County man accused of killing four people pleaded guilty to their murders over the weekend.
In a quiet, slightly quavering voice, Terry Todd Wedding admitted in court on Saturday to killing his parents, a cousin and his cousin’s pregnant wife during a latenight rampage in June 1999.
Terry Wedding, 29, who has been treated for bipolar disorder, told Muhlenberg Circuit Judge David Jernigan he was “guilty but mentally ill” when asked how he pleaded to each of the four slayings.
Wedding faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for each of the four murder counts.
Commonwealths Attorney Ralph Vick had planned to seek the death penalty against Wedding at his trial, scheduled to begin March 6.
Wedding killed his parents, Beverly and Todd Wedding, and his cousin and his wife, Joey and Amy Vincent, allegedly in revenge for their having committed him to a short stay in Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville.
The Vincents lived next door to the Weddings in Depoy, which is south of Owensboro.
Court records show that about 6 p.m. on June 26, 1999, Wedding had asked his father to go with him to visit the grave of his grandmother at a nearby cemetery
There Wedding beat his father to death with an aluminum baseball bat and dumped his body in an abandoned railroad bed. He later led his mother to the same spot and shot her.
About 6:15 a.m. the next morning, the Vincents were preparing to take their 1yearold daughter, Brooklyn, to the hospital because she had been sick during the night.
From his parents’ kitchen about 100 yards from the Vincents’ mobile home, Wedding shot Joey Vincent with a highpowered rifle as he was getting into his car. He went to the car and struggled with Amy Vincent, 22, for the child before shooting her. He then took the child, who was not hurt, back into his parents’ residence with him.
She was there with him when he later surrendered to police that morning.
Jean Vincent, the mother of Joey Vincent, said Saturday that Brooklyn, now 3, lives with her and her husband.
She said she was supportive of Saturday’s plea agreement that allowed Wedding to avoid the possible death penalty.
“Nothing is going to bring them back, no matter what they do,” she said.
Wedding is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 26.
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