Four individuals from the Tyler District based Westfall family, including Paul and Letha Westfall, were sentenced in the 2014 twofold murder of Nathan and Krystal Maddox, who were gunned down external a Baptist church on January 18, after a court-endorsed appearance of Nathan’s five-year-old girl.
Nathan Maddox was the Westfall family’s previous child in-regulation, with whom they were entangled in a drawn out guardianship fight as a result of which Paul and his little girl Kristen Westfall shot Maddox and his better half of north of a year. Letha and her child, Cameron, was additionally engaged with the killings, in spite of the fact that they didn’t shoot the shots.
Both Paul and Letha Westfall conceded and are at present carrying out their separate life punishments at the Smith Unit in Lamesa, Texas, and at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville.
The debut episode of Blood Relations on ID will annal the twofold manslaughter of Nathan and Krystal Maddox. Named Blood Bond, the all-new episode will air on Thursday, December 29, 2022, at 8:00 pm ET.
“A shooter ruthlessly firearms down Nathan and Krystal Maddox outside a far off Texan church after two or three visits their young girl; when examiners investigate the case, they find a trap of misdirection that paralyzes the local area.”
This article will additionally examine the convictions of Paul and Letha Westfall.
Paul and Letha Westfall, alongside their little girl Kristen and child Cameron, were associated with the 2014 Maddox shootings
At the point when Nathan Maddox and his new spouse Krystal were shot and killed, Paul Westfall, his better half Letha, their little girl Kristen, and their child Cameron were completely blamed for gunning down their previous child in-regulation and his new wife. The homicides occurred in January 2014 before Mount Carmel Baptist Church. The passings were brought about by a care disagreement regarding the separated from couple’s young girl.
The Tyler Region Stupendous Jury arraigned Paul and Letha Westfall and their girl Kristen in May 2015. In the mean time, the old couple’s child, Cameron Westfall, was accused of two counts of messing with or creating actual proof and was saved a homicide accusation. He was accused of discarding the thought deadly weapons in a lake on or close to the Westfall ranch at Colmesneil.
Agents found instant messages and other proof that Letha Westfall was inside the congregation at the hour of the shooting and didn’t shoot the couple. They did, nonetheless, find evidence that she messaged Paul and Kirsten to illuminate them that the pair was preparing to leave the foundation after the regulated appearance, after which the shooting happened.
Letha postponed her right to a preliminary in the spring of 2016 and conceded in kind for a lifelong incarceration. In spite of being given a lifelong incarceration, in the event that she is as yet alive in the wake of serving 30 years in jail at 86 years old, she will actually want to apply for parole. Kristen Westfall was sentenced for homicide by a jury a couple of months after the fact. She got a lifelong incarceration without the chance of parole.
Paul Westfall was at first considered “bumbling” to stand preliminary in May 2014. Nonetheless, things changed in four months, and he at last admitted to the wrongdoing. Paul at last entered a blameworthy request to two first-degree murder allegations in 2017. He was given a lifelong incarceration, similar as his significant other. Paul likewise agreed to a waiver that expresses the case won’t be pursued as a component of the plan.
Where could Paul and Letha Westfall today be?
Since the older couple Paul and Letha Westfall both entered separate request bargains for their jobs in the homicides of Nathan and Krystal Maddox, they were both given sentences identical to life terms in jail. That’s what sources express, on the off chance that alive subsequent to serving 30 years, Letha will be qualified for parole in 2044, while Paul’s understanding incorporated a no-claim proviso.
Letha is apparently spending time in jail at the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, and Paul stays in a correctional facility at the Smith Unit in Lamesa, Texas.