Originally Posted by Bladewire

And the plot thickens - the woman he murdered was the mother in law of former congressman, and secretary of defense, Paul McHale. A revenge killing for his wife?

"The Mississippi Department of Corrections said Byrd spent a little over 25 years in prison for the murder of Lucille Trimm during a robbery. He was convicted of capital murder on Feb. 8, 1980, and was paroled Nov. 2, 2006. Trimm was the mother of Martha Rainville, the first woman in the history of the National Guard to serve as a state adjutant general when she became adjutant general in Vermont in 1997. Rainville lives in Virginia and is married to the Hon. Paul McHale, a former congressman from Pennsylvania and a former assistant secretary of Defense."