A grandfather’s worst nightmare became a reality when he returned to his Florida home and found his son outside who told him, “I wouldn’t go in there if I were you. I killed someone.” Thomas Rodda went inside and discovered his grandson, 16-year-old Stephen Lee Rodda, had been murdered. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said 37-year-old Stephen Thomas Rodda, who has a problematic history with meth abuse, allegedly kill his own son with an angle grinder power tool. “We’ve got an evil, evil man in custody, and we’re going to do our best to see that he spends the rest of his life in prison,” Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference. The Law&Crime Network’s Sierra Gillespie has the disturbing details.
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The murderer/convict has been in and out of the system due to the justice system, which is ironic, for it’s called the justice system, where there is no justice. The individual is 100% responsible for his actions, but the so-called justice system allowed him to commit the crimes that he did!!
I never did hard drugs I don't even drink they forced pills and narcotics upon me
My adopted parents gave me lethal amounts of pills and injected me with meth and heroin since I was 5
I really love the way Sheriff Judd speaks at the press conferences. He is very compassionate for the victims.
We need more law enforcement like him.
My condolences to the relatives of the children in both cases.
How is it someone continues to break the law repeatedly, yet he was free. Free to murder.
9:36 SSRIs are to blame
It’s a shame that Floridians and the Governor call San Francisco names about the drugs, but you hear stories like this in California 🤷♀️😠
WTF is wrong with these people killing their beautiful children im just sick to my stomach 😪
“everybody who murders somebody has a hitch in their giddy up” lmfao
if you guys put him in jail and not decide to kill him.. I don't even know. You know how sick you have to be to murder somebody with an angle grinder, absolutely batshit evil, put him down.
I hope 🙏 the devil 👹 pulls out his best torture 🔒🔥 techniques for this peice of shyt!
With any luck this sicko will meet a much worse death than he inflicted on his own flesh and blood son. Child killers don't get to live out their sentence in Florida prisons I hope.
Meth heads are devils
It sounds premeditated. The father shows up with a power tool??? and kills his son…why??? I can't imagine the horror that the boy felt when his father came at him with an angle grinder. RIP young man Stephen.
Thoughts and prayers. Am I right gang?
Shame on America ,he should put in guilitine not fed milk food rest of his life.
Chat gpt chips will be all around us soon and in us.
Sheriff GradyJudd is one of the best ! He goes above and beyond ❤. Other Sheriff's should follow his lead.
Wow this is horrific 😳
My word, this is absolutely awful. There are some evil people in the world. Who could do that to their own son?
Trash disgusting disturbing! Hope he gets what he deserves! No doubt evil comes in different races
wth SC? dropped the ball
wth? rest peacefully young man. truly unfathomable. grady judd is heroic
I can't believe his son was so much responsible person inspite his father has all this issues and he wasn't around he was capable enough to have a good life and his own father steal that from him RIP young man
That’s genuinely terrifying wtf
What a terrible way to go. RIP🙏
Grandma isnt in "rehab for drugs" shes in physical rehab for an injury
I do meth and I just want to say that I will never murder anybody.
In fact, I don't even go around anybody when I do meth.
There’s some real evil scumbags out in the world. Sadly, things are only going to get worse. It says so in the Bible and these events are all part of “the last days.” Parents murdering their own children does not surprise me anymore. I survived an abusive father & two, abusive, vicious stepmothers. I think both the stepmothers would have murdered me if they thought they could get away with it.
It's political terrorism. Several of the family annihilation cases in recent months were because family members were sick of hearing ridiculous conspiracies, and became the enemy to the mindless brutes.