Overview

• Journee McGrew was formally charged on July 8 with second-degree murder and evidence tampering for the July 2 hammer killing of 41-year-old Waduta Woodley.
• Police say McGrew left a note reading “PEDO Touches Children” on Woodley’s chest and later told officers she had been groomed by him since age eight.
• Crime scene investigators documented bloody footprints trailing from the apartment entrance to a bathroom sink where they found the bloodied hammer.
• McGrew’s father, Victor Owens Sr., drove to her Jacksonville apartment after a distress call and urged her to summon police when she said, “I think he’s dead, Daddy.”
• Authorities report no prior formal allegations or charges against Woodley, raising questions about unreported abuse and gaps in child-protection enforcement.