Wrongful Death Man Says Victim Pleaded to Be Killed

A man accused of murdering an Anderson County woman in 2011 says he did so, but only because the woman asked him to.

That’s just one of the many details outlined in a handwritten statement by Terrence Cram.

In the hand written statement obtained by LEX 18, 48-year-old Terrence Cram details how he bludgeoned Tena McNeely in January 2011 – something he claims she pleaded for him to do.

Police arrested Cram in Arizona six months after police say Cram’s landlord was found beaten to death in her Anderson County home. Officers say Cram stole her credit cards using them across the country.

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In the four page statement, Cram wrote that on the day of the murder he returned to the house he shared with McNeely after a shopping trip and that’s when he “found the basement door ajar and the light on.”

Cram claims he found McNeely at the bottom of the stairs after a bad fall. Cram said he was going to call 911 when “she yelled no!”

That’s when cram writes McNeely pleaded with him to kill her, something he says she had asked him to do many times in the past.

“She said she couldn’t move her left leg and the rest of her body was wracked in pain” he wrote. “Please, please kill me! I can’t and won’t live like this,” according to his statement.

“The only close instrument at hand was a double sledge/maul…. I showed it to her and asked again,” Cram wrote. “She said yes again.”

At that point, “I asked her to close her eyes. I kissed her on her forehead,” the written statement says.

In graphic details Cram describes how he hit her repeatedly until she stopped moving. “I had to stop her pain” he wrote.

Cram is charged with murder, tampering with evidence and fraudulent use of a credit card. His trial is expected to begin May 12.

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