From her home in Georgia, the sister of Marcelle Jerrill Waldon has read about his ongoing murder trial in the double slayings of a former Lakeland city commissioner and her husband in November 2020.
She still calls him a “monster.”
Waldon, 39, is on trial in Bartow on two first-degree murder charges, among a long list of charges against him. He is accused of stabbing Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson to death in their Lake Morton home.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty if Waldon is convicted.
In a phone interview Friday from Georgia, his sister recalled many details of growing up with him – including details she shared with a Ledger reporter in 2020 following his arrest. Because she alleges he molested her, the Ledger is not naming her.
“I’m not here to defend him,” she said. “I’m against him because I already know about him.”
She said she understands his lawyers must defend him, however, “I don’t like how they try to make it seem like the evidence is not accurate or as if he’s innocent or try to portray that he is an innocent man.”