A Michigan judge ripped into a killer who brutally murdered a news radio anchor and attacked the victim’s young children last year, telling the perp he should have just killed himself instead of wreaking havoc on the family.
Arthur Williams, 55, was given the scathing tongue-lashing on Thursday just before the judge sentenced him to life in prison over Jim Matthews’ slaying and the attack on his family near Detroit last September.
“You’re a pedophile, you’re a murderer and you’re the embodiment of evil,” Macomb County Circuit Court Judge James Biernat said, according to The Detroit News.
“The only thing that’s amazing is you didn’t kill all of them.”
Williamson had pleaded no contest to fatally stabbing and bludgeoning Matthews with a hammer and to assaulting his two children — ages 5 and 10 — and long-time girlfriend during the rampage.
The killer then tried to take his own life by overdosing.
“Try to commit suicide before you do any of this,” the judge told him. “Take yourself out so you don’t kill people and try to rape 5-year-olds.”
Prosecutors said Williamson, who knew the slain victim’s long-term girlfriend Nichole Guertin, had gone to the family’s home the night of Sept. 23 to smoke crack while Matthews was working the overnight shift.
Guertin testified during the trial that Williamson slashed her throat with a knife and zip-tied her wrists and ankles when she refused to role play for him — before he then turned on the kids and attacked them.
When Matthews returned home from work, Williamson struck him with the hammer and cut his throat.
Guertin testified that she managed to escape the home with her daughter and was able to call for help.
When cops arrived, they discovered Matthews’ body inside the home and his bloodied and severely injured son tied up in a closet.
Williamson was later found in the basement after trying to overdose in a botched suicide attempt.
In a victim impact statement read out by prosecutors during the sentencing, the little boy who was found in the closet told Williamson he hated him “for what you did to me and my family.”
“You ruined all of our lives. … You put me and my mom and my sister through hours of hell. …You are evil. You left me with trauma. We didn’t deserve what you did,” the boy wrote.