Larry Paul McClure Sr, 55, of Pendleton, Kentucky has been charged with first-degree murder after he confessed to the grisly killing of Minnesota man John Thomas McGuire, 38, in a written letter to police on November 4.
McGuire was dating McClure's daughter Amanda Michelle Naylor McClure, 31, when he was brutally murdered by being hit in the head with a bottle of wine, tied up, injected with methamphetamine and strangled on or around February 14.
Amanda and her sister Anna Marie Choudhary, 32, who is also McClure's daughter, both also face murder charges in connection to McGuire's death.
The trio allegedly killed McGuire together and buried his body in a shallow grave on their residence before later moving the body to a side-yard location in Skygusty.
Just three weeks after the Valentines Day murder, Larry McClure and his daughter Amanda traveled to Virginia to get married on March 11, according to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
The details of the harrowing Valentines Day murder and of the incestuous relationship between McClure and his daughter Amanda were revealed during a preliminary hearing for the murder case on November 5.
Prosecutors say McClure and his two daughters were all in on the murder plot.
'On or about February 14, Mr. John McGuire was struck in the head with a bottle of wine, then tied up, and then injected with two vials of methamphetamine. After the injection, he was strangled,' West Virginia State Police Trooper K.M. Saddler, the lead investigator in the case, testified in the preliminary hearing.
Larry McClure, was originally arrested for failing to register as a sex offender, and later disclosed to West Virginia State Police the location of the body, which was found on September 24.
A breakthrough in the case came on November 4 when McClure wrote a letter to police confessing to the crime and detailing the grisly murder.
McClure painted his daughter Amanda as the ringleader of the plot.
He said he does not know her motive for the killing, but alleged she was spending McGuire's monthly Social Security checks.
'I cannot tell you why Amanda wanted John McGuire dead,' he said.
'I am asking for this to be over and not waisting [sic} the taxpayers money and hurting the family members on both sides of this. John McGuires family and my family.
'All I can do is hope for mercy on this, but my sentence on this really does not matter because I am old and in bad health. I will never live to see the parole board in (15) years anyway and that is OK.
'I will say I am sorry for my part in this crime to both my family and John McGuire’s family.'
He closed out his letter saying he pleads guilty no contest adding, 'I just want it over. NO TRIAL NO TAXPAYER MONEY SPENT FOR A TRIAL.'
The shocking criminal complaint revealed Larry McClure and his daughter had an incestuous relationship and got married just three weeks after the murder.
Trooper Saddler says that additional charges could be filed against the suspects for their incestuous relationship.
'There will be further review of the case for more charges pending the grand jury indictments,' citing the marriage 'and other acts'.
Saddler said the case remains under investigation by the West Virginia State Police Welch detachment.
All three suspects are currently in South Central Regional Jail.
McGuire, who had six children and was from Minnesota, had been on the way to see his mother when he had disappeared and had reported him missing, KCHK reported.
His family had set up a Facebook page to help raise funds to bring his remains back to his hometown.
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