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Dad who ‘murdered son with mechanical saw’ is ‘nasty, evil person’, police say

Stephen Thomas Rodda, 37, is accused of murdering his 16-year-old son with a power tool at the family mobile home where the youngster lived with his grandfather, who returned home to find the teen’s mutilated body

A father accused of killing his own son with a mechanical saw before leaving his mutilated body for the teen’s grandfather to find was described as a “nasty, evil” person by cops.

Stephen Thomas Rodda, 37, was arrested for the murder of Stephen Lee Rodda, 16, inside the Polk County mobile home in Florida where the victim’s grandfather, Thomas Rodda, lived. A police report states 67-year-old Thomas returned home to find Stephen sitting outside the home, before he uttered the chilling words: “I wouldn’t go in there if I was you. I killed someone. You may need to call the police.”

Police have not released a motive in the killing, but Sheriff Grady Judd described the father as a “nasty, nasty evil person”, adding: “We’ve got an evil, evil man in custody and we’re gonna do our best to see that he spends the rest of his life in prison”.

Sixteen-year-old Stephen Lee Rodda was living at his grandfather’s house while his grandmother was in rehab, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. His grandfather had returned from visiting his wife when he walked into the nightmare scene inside the mobile home.

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