Father Vows "I'll Kill Him" If Son's Murderer Released 12 Years Early

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/03/08/2011-03-08_father_vows_revenge_on_murderer_who_killed_his_young_son_in_1975_i_do_intend_to_.html?r=news/national

Father vows revenge on murderer who killed his son in 1975: 'I'll kill him' if he's paroled early'

BY Philip Caulfield
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 3:20 PM

The father of a boy brutally slain in Rhode Island 36 years ago, says he's going to kill his son's murderer if he gets out of prison early for good behavior.
John Foreman, whose 5-year-old son Jason was murdered by Michael Woodmansee in South Kingstown in one of the most horrific cases in the state's history, vowed to take revenge "as aggressively and painfully as he killed my son...

"I do intend, if this man is released anywhere in my vicinity, or if I can find him after the fact, I do intend to kill this man," Foreman told Providence's WPRO-AM radio on Monday.

Woodmansee was convicted of second-degree murder in 1982 and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He could get out as early as August, the Providence Journal reported.

In the interview, Foreman blamed himself, calling his decision to accept a plea deal that avoided a painful public trial "spineless."

"I've got myself to blame for that ... allowing him to be released early to become a predator to someone else," Foreman told the station. "I'm to blame for all that and I'll make that right.

"I cannot think; I cannot sleep. All I think about is trying to find a way to get to this man to kill him."

Jason Foreman's disappearance in May 1975 touched off a nationwide search across several states.

Woodmansee, who was 16 at the time, killed the child on the day he went missing, luring the boy into his home and stabbing him in the chest with a kitchen knife.

Woodmansee kept the body stashed at his parent's house for several years. He was finally busted in 1982 after he tried to strangle a 14-year-old paperboy.

After Woodmansee confessed, police found Foreman's shellacked bones in a box on top of his bedroom dresser.

Years later, he told police he had been thinking about what it would be like to kill someone and suspected he could get away with it.

Foreman's family was taking the father's pledge seriously.

"I think he'll do it, and that scares me a lot," Foreman's son, John, told Providence TV station WJAR, adding he was 100% sure his father would "go after" Woodmansee.

Amy Kempe, a spokeswoman for Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, said the attorney general is outraged that Woodmansee may get sprung early and has asked authorities to keep him locked up.

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Can't say I blame the Father. Another news report stated Woodmansee "ate" some of his victim, and kept his bones in his room for years.

OBTW, Illinois Gov., just commuted all death row inmates sentences, and ended ALL death penalty trials,....now they'll get life,.....or cop a plea, like this scumbag, and get out over 12 years early....At 16, you know the difference, and eating your victim and keeping the bones are not just the acts of a "misguided" youth....

I suggest they keep him in prison.

[Magnum]

They should give the father a medal for trying to get rid of the rubbish.....Only thing is, why should this scumbag have stayed alive in prison so long ? I don't blame the father one bit.

[ratcatcher55]

Good hunting.

[tombogan03884]

The pathetic part is that the Father will likely get a longer sentence than the scumbag.

[JC5123]

The pathetic part is that the Father will likely get a longer sentence than the scumbag.

This is one of those situations where I truly support Don't ask, don't tell. 

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[Timothy]

I'd do the same thing if the circumstances warranted.

This POS ate his son and kept his skull as a trophy!

[alfsauve]

Is there someplace you can sign up to be a volunteer to help the dad?

[PegLeg45]

Is there someplace you can sign up to be a volunteer to help the dad?

I might not be in a position to physically help the father....but if he followed through with the deed, I believe I would pony up some dough for his legal defense fund.

[Timothy]

With the mob still in control of the Providence area, the father won't even have to bother.

This guy won't live 24 hours I'd suspect.....lots of bodies still disappear in the northeast.  Kind of like a human waste disposal society!

[tombogan03884]

With the mob still in control of the Providence area, the father won't even have to bother.

This guy won't live 24 hours I'd suspect.....lots of bodies still disappear in the northeast.  Kind of like a human waste disposal society!

Been a few 40 something white guys turning up dead around Somerville and Revere Ma lately.
I don't know nothing, but their names have all ended with vowels.  

I'd do the same thing if the circumstances warranted.

This POS ate his son and kept his skull as a trophy!

This is one of those situations where I truly support Don't ask, don't tell.