ATHENS, Ga. - Six years after a young pastor was shot four times, wrapped in a rug and dumped in a well, his killer has finally been brought to justice.
On Thursday afternoon, Victor Blockum confessed to killing Charles Parker, 25, in 2012, solving a six-year mystery.
Blockum will serve 20 years without parole after confessing to voluntary manslaughter and armed robbery.
Prosecutors said Blockum was after $500,000 in a joint bank account, and he was willing to kill for it.
Blockum and Parker were business partners. Prosecutors believe that Blockum had been pressuring Parker to put him on the joint business account. A week after he did it, he was dead.
Just days after Parker’s disappearance, Blockum tried to access the account, but the GBI had already frozen the account.
Prosecutors said they were ready to go to trial and were confident they would win. When Blockum agreed to a plea deal, Parker’s family supported the move that would make sure he would stay locked up for decades.
