(CNN) — The son-in-law of a couple killed in a bombing at their rural Tennessee home has been charged with planting the deadly device, authorities announced Thursday.
Investigators arrested 49-year-old Richard Parker on two counts of felony first-degree murder and two counts of felony premeditated murder in connection with a package bomb that exploded at the rural Tennessee home of Jon and and Marion Setzer, investigators announced Thursday. Bond was set at $1 million, said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Jon Setzer, a retired lawyer, died Monday when the package bomb detonated outside their home near Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville. Marion Setzer died Wednesday evening at Vanderbilt Hospital. He was 74; she was 72
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Son-in-Law Arrested in Tenn. Package Bomb Deaths
The son-in-law of a Tennessee couple killed when a package exploded at their home has been charged with first-degree murder in their deaths.
State Fire Marshal’s Office spokeswoman Katelyn Abernathy said Richard Parker is also charged with unlawful possession of a prohibited weapon.
Reached by telephone the day before the arrest Thursday, Parker declined to talk about the deaths of Jon and Marion Setzer with The Associated Press. Parker ran Legacy Restorations, a business that specializes in historic restorations, according to its website. His house was just behind the Setzers’ in a semi-rural area of Lebanon, about 40 minutes east of Nashville.
Parker was convicted of arson in 1993 in Giles County and sentenced to four months of probation, according to records.
Abernathy said she did not have any information about a possible motive for the bombing that killed 74-year-old Jon Setzer and his 72-year-old wife Marion, shocking friends and neighbors, who described the couple as kind, giving and devout.
Jon Setzer was an attorney who handled wills and trusts, but he had been in very ill health in recent years. Friends said he was on dialysis and had heart problems and high blood pressure, among other health issues.
Marion Setzer had formerly worked as a dental hygienist.
The blast at their home on Monday at about 5 p.m. killed Jon Setzer immediately and critically injured Marion Setzer, who died at the hospital on Wednesday.
Son-in-Law Arrested in Tenn. Package Bomb Deaths
OK, folks, let’s all take a deep breath, a step back, and un-jerk our knees!
A couple of points:
1. It wasn’t the son who did the deed, it was the SON-IN-LAW. As in, the husband of the daughter of Jon and Marion Setzer.
2. The top Story Highlight in the CNN article is “Authorities won’t disclose a motive for the bombing”. This usually means that there’s more to the story than immediately meets the eye, and it’s often something sexually-related.
Could it be that the son-in-law was doing what needed to be done, as retribution for an abusive father. To be blunt, could it be that Jon Setzer was a long-time sexual abuser of his daughter?
Now before everybody jerks knees again, just — think about it!
Is it possible…?