High Heat Headsman Not Guilty!
Thomas L. Seklovich heads for a local bar to celebrate his acquittal shortly after leaving the Spayd County Courthouse Monday. |
- If it's
hot enough to fry an egg, it's hot enough to get away with murder. Jury
agrees homicide of 70-year-old man is justified.
By Hieronymus Jacobin DDB Two years and five days after he was arrested for the decapitation of an elderly man, Thomas L. Seklovich was again a free man. "Ha! ha! ho! heeee!," Seklovich, 29, chittered as he walked out of Spayd County Courthouse. "I'm gonna go get me a beer and a hummer!" Not far from the acquitted man's jubilation stood a dejected Elmer P. Holdsclaw Jr., son of the decapitated Elmer P. Holdsclaw Sr. "What's wrong with this country?" Holdsclaw Jr. said. "He admitted on live television to sawing my dad's head off and now he's walking out of here free as a bird?" Seklovich's attorney, Lawrence Mathers III, readily admitted his client mercilessly tore the head off of a 70-year-old man. But Mathers' strategy wasn't to deny the charges - he claimed the homicide was justifiable. |
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"There was never any doubt Thomas killed the old bugger," Mathers said, "what we set out to prove, quite successfully, was the old man had it coming. Sort of the old-school Texas 'He Needed Killing' Defense."
During the two-week trial details of the horrid crime were presented before the jury. Including what Mathers' called the turning point in the testimony, where Seklovich recanted the days leading up to the murder.
Seklovich told the jury how he would walk past Holdsclaw's home every morning. He told them how Holdsclaw would torment him.
"It was over 90 degrees for a week and every day that old bastard would grin his toothless grin at me and say, 'Hot enough for ya?'" Seklovich testified. "How is a man supposed to just bear that kind of snide elderly-man torture every day?'
He went on to detail the events of the eighth day of being asked "Hot enough for ya?':
| "I was walking to my car, he lived
two doors down from me, when he opened that geriatric mouth of his and
asked it again...
"I just couldn't take it, it was about 100 that day and there he was on his porch in the same shirt he always wore sneering at me... "I walked up to him and said, "Too fucking hot old man, too fucking hot." I then hit him in the head with the oscillating fan he had, knocking him out cold... "I ran home and grabbed my hunting knife and returned to find the old bastard trying to get to his feet. I told him he wouldn't bother anyone anymore and that's when I did it." |
This is a picture taken of Elmer P. Holdsclaw Sr. and his son (obscured by the fan) about two weeks before the grisly murder.. |
Seklovich then spent about 45 minutes methodically sawing through Holdsclaw's neck.
"I would've been done in a half hour, but it was too damn hot and I needed to take a break for some lemonade," Sekovich said. "That old guy's neck was tougher than you would've thought.".
The only witness to the crime was Dewey Stackhouse, who was in the neighborhood collecting used clothing for First African Methodist Episcopal Church.
"I didn't know what was happening," Stackhouse said. "I just figured they were crazy white people."
Last month Stackhouse was sentenced to five to seven years in state prison for failing to provide assistance to someone in distress.
In an unrelated story, Spayd County Courthouse officials said their investigation into last week's pipe bomb explosion at the building was continuing.
The explosion destroyed the building's central air-conditioning unit, which is not expected to be repaired for at least another month.
Officials said temperatures in the building have been over 90 degrees
since the unit was destroyed. They added temperatures in the jury room
during deliberations were in excess of 100 degrees.
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