A 63-year-old man in North Carolina may spend more than two decades behind bars for killing his own father, beating the 83-year-old man to death and then hiding his body beneath a tarp in the older man’s backyard. A New Hanover County judge on Monday ordered Marshall Todd Anderson to serve a sentence of 18 to 22 years in a state correctional facility for the 2024 murder of William Thomas Anderson, authorities announced.
According to a news release from the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office, deputies at about 8 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2024, responded to a call from a family member seeking a welfare check on the elder Anderson at his home in the 900 block of Marlowe Drive in Wilmington, North Carolina. The house is about 125 miles southeast of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Upon arriving at the scene, first responders said they searched the backyard of the victim’s home and found his body concealed outside. The elder Anderson was pronounced dead on the scene. His manner of death was determined to be a homicide and the cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma…