Michael Woodmansee : Father Declares He Will Kill Him for the Murder of His 5-Year-Old Son
Michael Woodmansee To Be Released Early
It is not hard to imagine where John Foreman is coming from. He wants, vengeance, he wants revenge and he wants a closure – albeit in an extreme way – for the murder of his son. He wants to see his son’s killer Michael Woodmansee dead, and he is saying he will kill him if he released from prison.
Back in 1975, the 16-year-old Michael Woodmansee took the life of John Foreman’s five-year-old son Jason. Jason Foreman was considered “missing” until 1982 when Woodmansee attempted to snatch another young boy. The boy escaped and the police began to question Woodmansee and was found to be responsible for Jason Foreman disappearance and death.
Woodmansee was given a 40-year sentence, but now Woodmansee will be released twelve years earlier than previously planned. News that very much upset the Foreman family. Foreman says if Woodmansee is let out of prison that he will kill him “as aggressively and as painfully” as he killed his son. Saying, point blank, that “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 said in a radio interview.
Could you relate to his quest for vengeance or should he respect the choices of the prison system and their option to release Woodmansee early?
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well id woodmannsee give 40 years for sentense so think that how intellegent he was….
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Well I believe in a mandatory death penalty for any sexual molestation or killing of children. Then this poor father would not be in this position.
The dad is an idiot. He should be charged with making a terrorist threat.
If he doesn’t like his son’s killer *only* getting 35 years then I wonder how he would like being the victim of the Duke rape hoax, in which the criminal got NOTHING. We need to eliminate chivalry from our society and have equal justice for everyone.
I fear for the next victim of this predator Woodmansee if someone doesn’t get to him first. I wonder how many actual victims there were before he got locked up. This entire situation is very sad.
Very sad indeed. I hope the best for the Foreman family, they don’t need any more tragedy in their lives.
Charles,
He went to prison in 1982, I believe. If my math is correct, he has served 29 years, not 35. He is being let out 11 years early for killing and eating a 5 year old boy, and was caught because he was trying to do it again. How on earth does that relate to the Duke rape hoax?
What in the world is a prison reward system. We put people in prison for bad acts against other people. I know some people can be helped. Someone who stills but not one who kills can be helped. I agree with the father of the son that was taken away. By that I won‘t call Woodmansee
an animal, an animal is to good for that classification . I would make sure I was there when our legal system lets him out. The death penalty is what this person should have received. I am a Christian but I can’t forgive this person. He killed once but tried to do it again. Let him out in my neighbor hood, I think he would rather be back in prison.
I would feel the same way this father does. I don’t think someone that dangerous should be released, ever. Now it will be someone else’s child.
It is not hard to imagine where this guy comes from and how many lives he will save if he completes his plan.
Should John Foreman kill the murderer of his 5-year-old son Jason at any time after that murderer’s parole, then Foreman stand trial for such, as a member of the jury I would judge the law that brought Foreman before a jury severely and Foreman not at all, rendering a not-guilty verdict. That would be the case even if Foreman killed his little boy’s murderer in an as-promised brutal and protracted fashion. Any and all of the past, present, or future bad in this situation redounds implicitly to Jason Foreman’s murderer and complicitly to the Rhode Island criminal-justice system.
I think it was a bad idea to announce that he plans on killing him, then the police will be watching a little closer. Don’t tell the world you’re going to kill the bastard, just kill him.
Honestly I can’t even imagine how I would feel in this father’s shoes and hope I never can. To me someone who abducts and kills people for kicks is someone who should NEVER be released into society again. Period.
If someone murdered, sexually assaulted, boiled and ate pieces of my son’s flesh and the shellacked his bones I imagine that I would feel the same way as Foreman! My prayers are with the entire Foreman family.
What a horrible story. This monster should never, ever be released from prison. I can only imagine the anguish the victim’s family has had to endure. That being said, I don’t believe in the death penalty, let alone a private revenge killinga. I don’t think that we, as a society or as individuals, should allow hate to turn us in to the thing we despise.
If he gets out, let the man kill the bastard. When the state charges the father for murder, father pleads not guilty and gets a jury, jury returns a verdict of not guilty. Justice served. That is why we have juries after all. Regardless of what judges and politicians try to tell you, jury nullification is sometimes justified. If even that fails and the man is convicted, the governor can pardon him. What happens if a governor pardons the father who put down the cannibal child killer who ate his son? He gets re-elected. That’s what happens. If this waste of humanity has any sense, he will break some kind of law or regulation to keep his twisted ass inside. Out here, he is dead. Who will protect him? I don’t want a cannibal child killer loose. I have a child too. If something like that happened to my child, I would feel and act the exact same way as this father. So if he does it, put me on that jury. If you get put on that jury, then consider what I just wrote. Justice does not necessarily mean what judges and politicians say it means.
If someone did this to my precious four year old, there is no amount of torture that would be enough for me to inflict. Killing this demon would be too good. I would let him live in the worst physical pain for as long as possible. I would make it my life’s mission to torture and then exterminate him.
I believe this father is doing the right thing, I am a mother of a 6 yr old and I can say if nething like that ever happened to my daughter n the killer was allowed out of prison I would b at the prison gates waiting for him so that he wont make it very far to hurt someone else. This man should have never be allowed out of prison. First I believe that if you kill some1 then yuo should be given the death penalty n not the electric chair or some drugs in a vein, I believe they should die the same way they killed their victims. the boy was 5 years old he didnt even stand a chance with this adult, then he tried to get another kid, this man needs help which he will never get since he is a sick individual and I believe that this man will do it again and who will it fall on now, the fucked up justice system who allow the worse to b out on the street but make the noncriminals (drug dealers or drug users, theifs, etc) pay along time in prison. this man shouldnt b allowed to sit in our prison system soakin up all of our taz dollars. To the dad, I am with you 100% on what you plan on doing to this man