“He wished to put with [her],” declare police in Denton, per an arrest affidavit seen by native Fox affiliate KDFW.

Officers had been dispatched to an house unit on Could 19 following a welfare concern name, per a press launch from the division. Reporting from KDFW states that the decision got here in response to a “very foul odor” emanating from the house.

Upon arrival, police discovered the deceased stays of LaVera Wardell, 39. She had a traumatic damage to the top according to being shot. Police additionally recovered a shotgun on the scene, per the Denton Report-Chronicle.

She and her fiancé William Joseph Oddo III, 52, lived there collectively, however that is not the place they discovered him. In addition they reported there was a historical past of home violence calls associated to the couple.

Oddo was in the end picked up at a lodge in Mount Nice, with police arresting him on a felony warrant for tampering with or fabricating bodily proof. This was based mostly on their discovery that he’d allegedly bought and used cleansing provides to tamper with the crime scene.

After interviewing the suspect, officers rapidly obtained a further warrant for homicide, per the discharge. Per KDFW, Oddo allegedly informed police that he shot his fiancée weeks earlier than her physique was in the end found in his dwelling.

Based on a timeline allegedly offered by the suspect, and detailed in an arrest warrant affidavit, Oddo and Wardell acquired into an argument on Could 6. He claims that the argument acquired bodily, with Wardell charging at him with a knife.

It was in response to this, Oddo stated per the affidavit, that he shot her within the head with a shotgun.

Police consider that after her dying, Oddo tried to scrub the scene to stop her physique from being discovered. On Could 13, every week after Wardell’s obvious dying based mostly on Oddo’s personal alleged timeline, he was noticed shopping for numerous cleansing provides at totally different shops.

Investigators had been capable of decide that the partitions and flooring had been cleaned of blood proof by the point police discovered Wardell’s physique after one other week had handed.

Based on the arrest affidavit, Oddo admitted that he cleaned the scene, however stated he did so as a result of he “wished to put with” the stays of his fiancée, which he says he did “for about three days.”

After his arrest on June 2 at a motel, he reportedly informed police he’d lastly left the house due to the odor. Witnesses reported that his automotive was gone from the house advanced after Could 14.

When requested why he didn’t name police, per the affidavit, Oddo reportedly stated it was as a result of he “didn’t wish to discuss concerning the incident with anybody.”

Oddo is being held in Denton County Jail on a $160,000 bond.