‘All for a $10 pill’
Desperate for drugs, Wade Thompson, 39, stabbed, killed Michael Kenneth Wagnies in 2018, but he confessed to murder four years later, even after police cleared him of crime
A court heard how a Minto man’s deadly actions six years ago sent ripples of trauma and pain through a family, but it also heard how the offender’s confession was the only way the case was cracked.
Wade Thompson, 39, of Main Street in Minto, was back at the Burton Courthouse on Monday before Court of King’s Bench Justice Thomas Christie, scheduled for sentencing.
He pleaded guilty in February to second-degree murder in the Aug. 1, 2018, stabbing death of Michael Kenneth Wagnies, 62, in the victim’s Minto home.
Facts relayed to the court previously showed Thompson went to Wagnies’ home in the early-morning hours on the day of the murder, hoping to score drugs.