Sheriff says father who killed his four children did so over ‘several months’

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A North Carolina the father accused murder their four children and stuff them in the trunk According to the local sheriff, one car did this over several months.

On Monday, 38-year-old Zebulon resident Wellington Delano Dickens III turned himself in PolicePolice say she told Johnston County authorities that her four murdered children were inside the trunk of a car in her garage, and her three-year-old son was alive inside the home.

Dickens’ three-year-old child was found safe and multiple bodies were found in the car, which had been there for a “long time,” the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. News release Tuesday

The father was initially charged with one count of murder, but was then charged with three more counts of murder. Dickens is being held without bond, and information about his legal representation was not immediately clear.

Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, has been accused of murdering his four children and keeping them in the trunk of his car over the course of several months, according to the local sheriff.

Wellington Delano Dickens III, 38, has been accused of murdering his four children and keeping them in the trunk of his car over the course of several months, according to the local sheriff. ,Johnston County Sheriff’s Office via AP,

Sheriff Steve Bizzell said at a news conference Wednesday that Dickens killed his three biological children, Leah Dickens, 6, in May; Zoe Dickens, 9, in August and Wellington Dickens, 10, in late August or early September, as well as stepson Sean Brasfield, 18, in September.

Sheriff’s Capt. Don Pate said the family lived a “very secluded” life and the children were home-schooled.

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“The neighbors said they never saw him come out, and he was homeschooled, so he was confined to the house,” Pate said.

According to police, it is still unclear how Dickens’ children died or why he killed them.

Police cars blocked off Dickens' home in Zebulon, North Carolina on Tuesday

Police cars blocked off Dickens’ home in Zebulon, North Carolina on Tuesday ,AP/Alan G. breed,

Bizzell said, “As sheriff, as a father and as a grandfather, I can stand here and say there is no reason for a father to murder his children.”

Bizzell also revealed that Dickens’ wife, Stephanie Rae Jones Dickens, died at home in April 2024. Stephanie, who was three months pregnant, was found dead by Dickens, and he told authorities that she had suffered severe bleeding the night before, but did not receive medical attention.

According to Bizzell, the cause of her death was attributed to complications of a miscarriage.

Dickens’ great uncle Charles Moore told the local outlet Ural-TV that they had not seen Dickens, an Iraq War veteran, for almost a year, but he seemed fine.

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