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This was the big story yesterday. My new nickname for this guy is "slashy".
needless to say, I've made a ton of Lassie-Slashy jokes today. <G> And no, I don't wonder why I don't get along with most of my coworkers.
M.E.B.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/0717mansionmurder17.html
It was supposed to be the simple sale of a luxury motor home, but it turned into a struggle that left the proposed buyer dead by his own knife and a slew of unanswered questions.
It turns out that the prospective buyer, William Oleary, 51, is a suspected child pornographer from Florida. But police don't know why he brought the weapon Monday to the 6,700-square-foot Scottsdale home and stabbed seller Randall Winter in the neck.
Winter, 36, wrested the knife from his attacker and stabbed back, fatally wounding Oleary, police said. Winter then ran into his home, locked the door, and told his horrified wife to call 911.
Winter, a contractor whose $1.3 million home is in the 9300 block of East Happy Valley Road, was taken to John C. Lincoln Hospital-North Mountain in Phoenix where he was in serious but stable condition late Monday.
"The family is all in shock," Winter's mother-in-law said at the hospital where the family kept vigil. "We don't know why this happened."
Scottsdale police said Oleary, of Lakeland, Fla., came Friday, Saturday and Monday to Winter's north Scottsdale home to look at the Prevost XL-45 luxury coach Winter was selling. But when Oleary arrived in a rented Cadillac with Florida plates Monday morning to finalize the deal, he pulled a knife and stabbed Winter, officials said.
According to Florida newspaper accounts, Oleary was arrested June 1 in Lakeland and charged with possession of obscene material for allegedly having stored 400 pictures of nude children on his computer.
Oleary had been free on $25,000 bail.
Police arrested Oleary after his wife of seven years found the pictures and called authorities.
Oleary's estranged wife, Theresa, said Monday that she doesn't believe Oleary had any ties to Arizona and doesn't know why he came here.
However, she said she found a book of his titled How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, as well as such survival gear as camping equipment and a water purifier. But he left Florida without those things, she said.
Theresa said she believes her husband may have wanted the motor home to hide out in.
A bail bondsman had been looking for Oleary since he disappeared, she said.
"My concern is for the victim and his family," Theresa said. "I have not shed a tear for Bill. . . . He never should have been released from jail."
Officer Scott Reed, a Scottsdale police spokesman, said Oleary showed up at Winter's home in response to a newspaper ad about the motor coach, which is kept in a specially built garage. Such a motor home can be worth as much as $1 million, depending on the custom features inside, according to one dealer.
Winter's wife, Cary, and the couple's four children were at home and were not injured. Reed said Cary called 911 while her husband kept pressure on his neck wound.
Oleary's body was found near the entry to the RV garage. A knife with a 5-inch blade was recovered at the scene, Reed said.
Police contacted Theresa Oleary in Florida, and she said that a similar knife was missing from their home.
Debbie Gilbert of Scottsdale, who knows the Winter family, drove by the scene Monday and said she was shocked to hear of the stabbings. Her son, Andrew, attended kindergarten with one of the Winters' children.
She has met Randall a couple of times at birthday parties and other events, she said.
"He's just a really nice guy, a good father," Gilbert said. "They're (the Winters) such nice, normal people.
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