Wilda Edith Bullock
1915 - 2011
Resident of San Jose
Wilda (Billie) Edith Bullock resident of San Jose, CA entered into rest on July 5, 2011 at 5:18 a.m. in her home with her daughter and niece at her side.
Born Wilda Edith Ryan on October 28, 1915 in Portland, Maine to Sgt. James and Edith Ryan was the first of five children. Billie was a Marathon dancer in the early 1930's. She won the Tennessee State Championship. She married Ralph L. Bullock and together they raised six children: [redacted], Marsha (deceased) and [redacted]. Billie leaves many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
Family and friends are invited to attend a Memorial for Billie at Darling and Fisher Mortuary, 615 North Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos, CA. on July 11, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. followed by a burial alongside her late husband, Ralph L. Bullock, at Los Gatos Memorial Park, 2255 Los Gatos-Almaden Road, Los Gatos, CA.
Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on July 10, 2011.
FAIRFIELD - Leslie Ann (Harding) Bullock, 46, of Fairfield died Friday, May 2, 2003.
She was born Feb. 14, 1957, in Hartford, Conn., a daughter of Lester W. and the lateAnita J. (Cote) Harding. Leslie graduated from Canton High School in Connecticut.
In years past, she owned Bullock's Country Store in Garrattsville," N.Y., and four video stores in Maine. Leslie received her bachelor of arts degree in psychology, cum laude, at the University of Maine at Farmington in 1999. She was a member of the National Honor Society in Psychology. She worked for the state as a child protection services case worker with the Department of Human Services and was dedicated to the welfare of children. Leslie enjoyed the company of her many dogs and birds. She especially enjoyed the view overlooking her backyard. The most important part of her life was the love and deep devotion she gave to her own children, family and close friends.
She was predeceased by her mother, Anita J. Harding; her first husband and father of her three boys, Mark R. Bullock, who died in 1990, and a brother, Warren J. Harding. Survivors include her three sons, AB Roland C. Bullock, Communications and Computer Systems Operator, United States Air Force, Shane L. Bullock and Ryan C. Bullock of Fairfield; her father, Lester W. Harding of Canton, Conn.; her sister, Linda ,J. (Harding) Goodwin and brother-in-law, Gordon L. Goodwin of Marion, Mass.; two nieces, Wendy J. Goodwin of Marion, Mass., Andrea L. Goodwin of Warwick, R.I., and one nephew, Daniel G. Goodwin of Marion, Mass.
Visiting hours will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, at Lawry Brothers Funeral Home, 107 Main St., Fairfield. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, High Street, Fairfield, with the Rev. Marcel Dumoulin officiating. Committal prayers and interment will follow at Greenlawn Rest Cemetery in Clinton. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to the Bullock Educational Trust Fund (for her children's education), c/o Linda J. Goodwin, 356 Norridgewock Road, Fairfield ME 04937. .
A Skowhegan jury found Greg Warmke of Fairfield guilty Monday of murdering his ex-wife, Leslie Bullock, on May 2, 2003, at the Fairfield home they once shared. Mark and Leslie Bullock had three sons, Roland, Shane and Ryan.
Warmke found guilty in murder of ex-wife
By SHARON KILEY MACK, BDN Staff
This story was published on April 13, 2004 on Page B1 in all editions of the Bangor Daily News
SKOWHEGAN – A Skowhegan jury found Greg Warmke of Fairfield guilty Monday of murdering his ex-wife, Leslie Bullock, on May 2, 2003, at the Fairfield home they once shared.
Taking just over an hour to reach a verdict, the jury of eight men and four women rejected Warmke’s defense that he was insane at the time.
Justice Kirk Studstrup ordered a pre-sentence investigation of the Fairfield landscaper. Sentencing likely will be held at the end of summer.
Warmke, 45, was returned to Somerset County Jail in handcuffs, where he will be held without bail pending sentencing.
After four days of testimony, including Warmke’s confession that he executed the 46-year-old Bullock because he was angry about her treatment of him during their marriage and in the divorce settlement, the verdict apparently came as no surprise to those in the courtroom.
Neither Warmke, his family nor members of Bullock’s family showed emotion. There was a brief moment of disbelief when the verdict was misread, however. Justice Studstrup, noting the faces of the jurors, asked the verdict to be read a second time. The jurors found Warmke guilty of murder and determined he had not shown that he was mentally incompetent at the time of the killing.
Warmke attempted throughout the six-day trial to portray himself as the victim, saying during two days of rambling testimony that he was bullied and mentally abused throughout his marriage with Bullock, which ended a year before the murder.
More than 50 people attended the trial Monday, a larger than normal crowd at Somerset County Superior Court, even for a murder trial. Her three sons, Roland, Shane and Ryan, sat in the front row flanked by other family members. Co-workers of Bullock’s from the Maine Department of Human Services filled the back row, wearing bright yellow roses. Kim Miller of DHS said the roses were Bullock’s favorite.
Members of the Somerset County domestic violence office filled another row in the courtroom, wearing the purple ribbons of their cause.
After the 2 p.m. verdict, Bullock’s family gathered on the courthouse steps. Her sister, Linda Goodwin of Massachusetts, said the family believed justice had been served. She described her sister as a loving, kind person, who was “a mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, friend and co-worker. In all our minds, we know she is in heaven.”
Co-workers described Bullock as “gentle, thoughtful, always in a good mood.”
From the beginning of the trial, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson used Warmke’s own words to convict him. In letters written to Bullock but never mailed, Warmke said he was “looking forward to seeing the look in your eyes as I fire one shot to wound you and then another for the kill.”
“That’s exactly what Mr. Warmke did,” Benson told the jury Monday.
In his closing arguments, Benson cataloged 18 actions Warmke took that proved he not only was following a premeditated plan, but also appreciated the wrongfulness of his act.
He pointed out that Warmke scoped out the shooting location the day before the murder, that he detailed in letters that he was going to shoot Bullock, that he went to his apartment to get his gun, hid his truck and hiked through woods to get to Bullock’s house, and then told Bullock when he confronted her in the driveway, “I’ve come to kill you.”
Further, said Benson, he shot her twice, once in the torso and the second time in the head. By shooting a second time, Benson said, Warmke had to take several steps to eject a shotgun shell and reload.
Warmke’s attorney, David Van Dyke, maintained that Warmke was in a spiraling state of depression at the time of the murder and believed a white light in a dream was God telling him to kill Bullock. He described Warmke as “walking dead,” a man able to define himself only through a relationship with a woman. Van Dyke said Warmke was psychotically depressed after his three-year marriage to Bullock – his third marriage – failed. “Time doesn’t heal this wound. It gets worse and worse and worse,” said Van Dyke.
Van Dyke told the jury that Warmke abandoned his plan to kill Bullock when he arrived at the house but that the sound of a truck backing into the driveway triggered an uncontrollable response. “He turns and sees Leslie Bullock smirk and he shoots. He’s out of his mind at that point.”
“Even if you believe that Mr. Warmke abandoned his plan,” countered Benson, “and shot after he heard the truck beeping and saw Leslie Bullock smirk, it re-emerged in full flower and force.” Benson acknowledged that Warmke was depressed at the time of the shooting but said he was “still capable of acting knowingly and intentionally.”
“He’s angry, in a rage,” said Benson. “And he knows full well that what he does is wrong.” During the trial, Benson provided testimony from a psychologist and a psychiatrist who stated that Warmke was not delusional or psychotic when he shot Bullock, but rather was consumed by anger, rage and shame.