The son that yelled “MOM”

Teresa was like most working mothers in America. 

Lived in Arlington, TX with her husband who each had children from previous marriages that were all grown and out of the house.

She went to work, went home, and had family functions with their blended families and kids.

It wasn’t until January of 2022 that her life would change and eventually be taken away from her.

Taken away by someone she protected and cared for all of his life.

Her youngest son, Nathan Lee Woodard. Who was only 26 the day of the murder.

One cold night in the middle of January, Nathan began terrorizing and taunting his mother. Showing up to her home late at night, trying to get into their vehicles, trying to get into their home, even slashing the tires of his mothers Mustang. The couple who live across the street even ran him off the property a few times as they spotted him going through their mailbox, trying to get into the front door, and attempting to get into his step fathers truck.

 Knowing he wasn’t acting like a normal person, son, or even acted like he actually belonged there. Telling him they didn’t care who he was or what he was trying to do that he needed to leave. 

They believed that he had been estranged from his mother for sometime as they have lived in their home for 14 years and had never seen him at his mothers house before. 

He would eventually be caught on the property, asleep between his mothers and the neighbors houses. 

At which time Teresa decided to criminally trespass Nathan from her home. He was taken into police custody and transported to Arlington City Jail.

 The days leading up to the murder, Teresa went down to city hall and took out a protective order against her son. 

SIDE NOTE-

For a mother to be scared enough of her son to take out a protective order says so many different things on so many different levels.

On February 28, 2022 in BROAD DAYLIGHT as Teresa was returning home, she pulled into her driveway hit the garage door opener to go from her vehicle to inside her home, like every other time she arrived home after a long day. 

Little did she realize, Nathan was kneeled behind her side neighbors truck hiding, waiting for her to exit her vehicle. 

Once Teresa made it to a standing point between her vehicle and the garage door, she heard “Mom” and turned around to see Nathan walking towards her in a black hoodie, black gloves, and black pants. She was blind sided, (I’m sure not expecting her own son to do the heinous acts  he was about to carry out,) grabbed by the throat and slammed to the hard concrete between the vehicle and garage. 

She fought back, the whole attack from start to finish lasted 28 mins. 

Nathan stabbed, cut, and sliced his mom 20 TIMES! 

2 different security systems caught the act on camera. 

1 was from Teresa’s home from the 1 camera her husband just installed above their garage that even got Nathan calling “MOM” before choke slamming her to the ground. She fought back as hard as she possibly could as she was short and petite.

At one point the neighbor who also had security cameras that caught the act from start to finish, from Teresa rounding the corner of the street, Nathan rounding the corner right after (AS IF HE WERE WAITING THERE FOR HER) running down the street to not miss her and her get into the home in time, the actual attack, and Nathan leaving and walking the whole way down the street until he rounded the corner out of site of cameras. Pulled into his driveway, by this time Teresa wasn’t moving as she was prior to the man returning home from the store so it’s unknown if she was knocked out, couldn’t yell, or gave up already.

 As the man was getting out of the vehicle and retrieved his bags from the backseat of his wife’s vehicle, Nathan stops what he’s doing glances over the roof of his moms car and watches the man. Walks around his mothers car, carefully to not be seen, and watches and follows until the man is inside his house and the door closes behind him.

At this point, Nathan goes into his mothers garage and grabs some form of item (it’s unknown if this was the murder weapon he grabbed it if he already had his weapon and used it) he walks back over to where his mother is laying on the ground barely moving her legs. (The upper portion of Teresa can not be seen as she is laying on the opposite side of her vehicle where she is blocked from view.) another 5 to 10 mins go by before Nathan is seen standing and walking back to the garage where he puts the previously retrieved item back in the corner next to the door. Walks over to Teresa once more then simply leaves the body, property, and begins walking down the road in no hurry or panic. As if he was over at a friends and was leaving to return to his own home. 

Nathan is seen at one point grabbing his mother purse from the ground and throwing it to the side.

It didn’t seem as though he even opened it. So it is not believed that he took any items or was committing the act in order to rob Teresa. 

It is known however, Nathan was homeless due to his drug addiction. 

In personal ideas of the reason behind the attack, Teresa might had cut her son off, stopped supplying him with funds to fuel his drug habit. Or possibly told him that he was no longer welcome until he cleaned up his act and got off the drugs. 

There is no way to say if these personal thoughts are real of course as those are just the thoughts that surfaced in my own brain.

Teresa’s husband returned home with the garage door still open. He eventually located his wifes bloody body on the front lawn and contacted the authorities.

Authorities began to respond on scene. At which point began their search for the suspect, blocking the street, driveways, and not allowing people to leave or return to their homes if not home at the time of police arriving on scene. 

Police saw the cameras on the neighbors home across the street. Knocked on their door to question the homeowners as to if their cameras worked and recorded the incident.

The homeowner’s retrieved the recording of the murder from start to finish, eventually providing the detective on the case with the flash drive of the act. 

Nathan was not located until 24 hours after the murder.

At which time they arrested him and booked him into the Arlington City Jail. 

Teresa was DOA. No medics were ever on the scene. 

The only emergency vehicles on seen other than police were that of the Coroner Office.

When taken into custody, the charge was murder. Upon my personal investigation and locating the police report with the arrest information and warrant it states “Crime of Passion” which just sounds like a load of BS.

Nathan has a bond amount of $200,000 for a murder charge. A cold, hateful, violent murder to his own mother with a bond of $200,000..

I don’t care what my mom has EVER DONE or NOT DONE to me in my life, she doesn’t deserve a fate as such. I would never be able to justify such a punishment done to my own mother especially at my own hand. 

Did he have any feeling of his crime? Before? During? After? 

There have not been any public updates on the case, Nathan, or his court proceedings.

I have been checking into and following along on my own accord.

What are your thoughts? Feelings? Ideas of what his thought process was that lead up to his actions? 

Until next time crime junkies, 

Peace, love, and Unlawfully Murderous.