{"id":160930,"date":"2022-12-09T04:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=160930"},"modified":"2022-12-09T06:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:17:38","slug":"double-homicide-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/12\/09\/double-homicide-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Double homicide under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAULDING \u2014 A Paulding County man has been charged with two counts of murder, after admitting to killing a woman and her husband and stealing their car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the murder charges, Clay Dockery, 23, is charged with theft. He remains in custody in Ashtabula County, where he was arrested on Thursday after confessing to killing Celecitas Pelegrino Williams, 60, and Bruce B. Williams, 81. Co-workers of the woman were concerned because she hadn\u2019t reported to work for two days, hadn\u2019t called off and wasn\u2019t answering her phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies discovered the bodies of the victims in a barn on their property in the 6500 block of Road 123 in Latty Township. As the scene was being processed, a call was received from the Ashtabula County Sheriff\u2019s Office indicating they had interaction with Dockery, who was in possession of a vehicle owned by Williams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Paulding County Coroner\u2019s Office, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Ashtabula County, Ohio Sheriff\u2019s Office are assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dockery will await court proceedings in Ashtabula County and will eventually be extradited back to Paulding County.&nbsp; At that time, an arraignment date will be set in Paulding Municipal Court on the aforementioned charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no other information expected to be released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\u00a0 PAULDING \u2014 A Paulding County man has been charged with two counts of murder, after admitting to killing a woman and her husband and stealing their car. In addition to the murder charges, Clay Dockery, 23, is charged with theft. He remains in custody in Ashtabula County, where he was arrested on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 05:34:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160933,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160930\/revisions\/160933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}