WITN
April 17, 2015
A 20-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl are facing murder charges after the sheriff says they planned and murdered the teen’s mother.
Lenoir County Sheriff Ronnie Ingram says 20-year-old Roderick Wyche and a 13-year-old girl are both charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Sheriff Ingram says the two met at the library in La Grange a few weeks ago and started a relationship. The girl’s mother who is the murder victim, 33-year-old Wanda Dethlefsen, opposed the relationship and told her daughter not to be with Wyche.
Sheriff Ingram says the pair planned Dethlefsen’s murder and Wyche carried it out by stabbing Dethlefsen several times with a kitchen knife while she slept. The teen called a family member after the crime, who then told the teen to call 911.
The Sheriff’s Office has charged the 13-year-old daughter as an adult, but Ingram says it will be up to the District Attorney on whether they will proceed with trying her as an adult.
Sheriff Ingram says charges are pending against Wyche for the under-aged relationship with the victim’s daughter.