By 20 September, 1993, Eddie James had been taken in by a sympathetic family named Dick. He rented a room in their house, and returned home from a party that evening to see Betty Dick’s four grandchildren sleeping in the living room. This infuriated him, because he believed that Betty’s daughter, Lisa Neuner, the mother of the children, was mooching off Betty for some nights on the town. He decided to punish Lisa by killing her eight-year-old daughter, Toni. He picked her up by her throat, took her to his room, raped her, and strangled her to death. He then went to Betty’s bedroom, bashed her head in with a brass candlestick, kicked her several times in the groin, then stabbed her 11 times in the chest and abdomen with a knife, attempting to sever her breasts. Betty screamed and woke one of her grandchildren, Wendi, who came into the room, and was bound and gagged by James, who locked her in the bathroom, returning from the kitchen with a butcher knife, with which he stabbed Betty in the back, killing her. Then he robbed the house, and left in her car. The TV show America’s Most Wanted aided in capturing him. He pled guilty or nolo contendere to all counts.