LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the woman accused of killing a Mount Dora couple at their apartment in December.
Vickie Williams was charged last month with first-degree murder and grand theft in the slayings of Darryl and Sharon Getman, a retired couple in their 80s.
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The filing, dated Feb. 23, 2023, seeks the death penalty against Williams due to the killings being “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
The Mount Dora Police Department said officers responded to the Waterman Village senior living complex on Dec. 31 and found the couple stabbed to death inside their home.
According to interim police Chief Mike Gibson, a woman — later identified as Williams — was escorted from the complex by security the day before New Year’s Eve, though she was seen entering again that night.
Afterward, Williams went to an apartment, knocked on the door and asked a resident inside whether she could take a shower, according to the police department. Gibson said the resident hit an alarm button, and the woman then grabbed a set of keys and fled.
The Getmans’ vehicle was seen departing the complex early the next day and Williams was later caught driving it, police said.
“It appears it was a random crime,” Gibson said during a news conference. “I believe it was someone that was simply passing through and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event.”
In interviews, Williams insisted that she got the car from an acquaintance in Georgia named Fuller Blue, that she was living in the car, and that she hadn’t been in Florida in years.
Williams is currently being held on no bond at the Lake County jail.
Williams Death Penalty Filing by Sam Dunne on Scribd
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