In the same moment that the Martin County Sheriff’s Office made its entire case file of evidence accessible to the public about the April murder of Hobe Sound mother Tricia Todd, detectives divulged that her murderer had finally recounted his entire grisly crime.
During the time that Steven Williams was being imprisoned in an Orlando prison following his conviction for murder, Detective Michael Oliver was one of the two investigators who performed an interview with him.
This is how the killer describes the method in which he murdered Tricia Todd.
Oliver reported that Williams had stated that he had intended to kill Todd in advance; however, after spending the entire day with her on the day of the murder, he was unable to muster the courage to follow out his plan. Williams was unable to carry out his plan.
Last but not least, Williams informed them that he was determined to complete the mission, and he also sent a text message to Todd notifying him that their daughter, who was staying the night with him at an Air BnB, came down with an illness.
He waited for her to regain consciousness so that he could force her to provide her email password and other information, according to Williams, who added that he initially attempted to choke her. However, he waited for her to regain consciousness. This transpired at the time that Todd arrived.
Williams stated that he intended to produce bogus emails in order to deceive Todd’s family into believing that she had traveled to Haiti on a mission trip. This was done in order to confuse them into believing that she had been there.
Williams said that he struck her in the head with a club until she fell silent. However, at the time when Todd regained consciousness, she simply “screamed,” which led Williams to declare that he did this. After that, he committed the act of choking her to death. The two of them were sharing the room with their daughter, who was also sleeping there.