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Weirdo dad! Necrophiliac who killed stepdaughter and had sex with her corpse, contesting terms of divorce from victim’s mom – Gregory Graf was convicted in 2014 of shooting Jessica Padgett and recording himself abusing her corpse

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers"><&sol;header>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">Gregory Graf&comma; 55&comma; was convicted in 2014 of shooting Jessica Padgett and recording himself abusing her corpse<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">Pennsylvania man who killed stepdaughter and defiled her corpse is contesting terms of divorce<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">Necrophiliac Gregory Graf fatally shot 33-year-old Jessica Padgett in Allentown&comma; Pa&comma; in 2014 and buried her behind the home he shared with his wife&comma; the victim&&num;8217&semi;s mother<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">Graf&comma; then 53&comma; made a video recording of himself having sex with the corpse of the newly wed mother-of-three<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">He was convicted in 2014 and sentenced to life<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">He is contesting the terms of divorce from his ex&comma; Danelle Graf&comma; which splits assets twenty-five percent to seventy-five percent in her favor<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;080000&semi;">He was previously in agreement with the divorce provisions<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-215319" style&equals;"font-size&colon;10&period;72px&semi;" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;gregory-graf-3&period;png" alt&equals;"Gregory Graf 3" width&equals;"599" height&equals;"781" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;Gregory Graf is serving a life sentence for killing and abusing the body of his stepdaughter&comma; Jessica Padgett&period; Police said Graf likely tried to sexually assault his stepdaughter on Nov 21&comma; 2014 before he shot her in the head and buried her body&comma;on his property<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A man convicted of killing his stepdaughter and having sex with her corpse is contesting the terms of a divorce from her mother&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Although a psychopath has been sent away for life&comma; 18 months after he was found guilty of killing and burying his stepdaughter&comma; Gregory Graf was back in court via video feed from his Pennsylvania prison cell&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;55-year-old Gregory Graf said Monday that he never agreed to the financial terms of the divorce between him and his ex-wife&comma; Danelle Bittner&comma; the mother of his&comma; victim Jessica Padgett&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The divorce settlement splits assets but would give him only 25 percent of the assets shared with his longtime wife&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When Graf was arrested&comma; he was the owner of a fencing company and was building another home in Florida&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Through the trial and civil proceedings&comma; he was represented by prominent Philadelphia defense attorney Jack McMahon&comma; who<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mcall&period;com&sol;news&sol;police&sol;mc-nws-allen-township-gregory-graf-stepdaughter-murder-finances-20170717-story&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">told The Morning Call<&sol;a> his client was happy with the agreement when it was reached in February&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But Graf contests his &&num;8216&semi;agreement&&num;8217&semi; with the financial settlement&period; Hee felt abandoned by McMahon he said&comma; claiming the lawyer didn&&num;8217&semi;t give him the proper information&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t know what is going on&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Graf said&period; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m not a legal person&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;McMahon&comma; who sent another attorney to Monday&&num;8217&semi;s hearing in his place&comma; said he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t know why Graf is unhappy with the settlement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-215276" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;jessica-padgett-3&period;png" alt&equals;"Jessica Padgett 3&period;png" width&equals;"732" height&equals;"489" &sol;>Jessica Padgett was fatally shot in the head by her &&num;8216&semi;sicko&&num;8217&semi; stepdad November 21&comma; 2014&period; Gregory Graf then proceeded to sexually abuse the body of the newly wed mother-of-three before burying her behind a shed<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Graf was convicted in 2014 of fatally shooting 33-year-old Jessica Padgett and recording video of himself abusing her corpse&period; A jury viewed that video at trial and convicted Graf of first-degree murder after only a few minutes of deliberation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;During the murder trial&comma; the prosecutor said necrophilia motivated graf to fatally shoot his stepdaughter in November of 2014&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The case was shut when a video recording he made showed Graf  sexually abusing the body of Jessica Padgett&period;  The video was discovered on Graf&&num;8217&semi;s computer&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;33-year-old Padgett&comma; a mother of three&comma; was married just weeks earlier on August 1&comma; 2014&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was last seen alive on Nov&period; 21&comma; when she left work at a day care center&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Graf was arrested five days later after police found her body buried behind a shed on the property where he lives with his wife&comma; the victim&&num;8217&semi;s mother&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He was charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse&comma; after he admitted to killing Jessica and burying her behind a shed on his Allen Township property&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Padgett’s mother&comma; Danelle Graf&comma; was in Florida at the time of the shooting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-215350" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;gregory-graf-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Gregory Graf 4&period;jpg" width&equals;"338" height&equals;"599" &sol;><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-215352" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;danelle-graf-and-jessicas-husband-mica-pagett&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Danelle Graf and Jessica's husband&comma; Mica Pagett&period;jpg" width&equals;"338" height&equals;"600" &sol;><strong>Gregory Graf &lbrack;left&rsqb; is contesting the financial provisions of the divorce which give the bulk of the family&&num;8217&semi;s assets to Jessica&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; his ex-wife Danelle Bittner&comma; seen holding hands during the murder trial &lbrack;photo&comma; right&rsqb;&comma; with Jessica&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Michael Pagett<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body">In court&comma; Graf offered no larger rationale for why he has been uncooperative&period; He complained over how his fencing company was closed down&comma; and said he feels his lawyer has discarded him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m out here&period; I don’t know what is going on&comma;” Graf said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m not a legal person&period;”&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t know how you can have a divorce settlement without all the proper information&comma;” said Graf&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I just don’t understand that&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Presiding judge Samuel Murray rejected Graf’s claim&comma; and granted Bittner the power to execute the financial arrangements on his behalf&comma; as her attorney was seeking&period; Murray read from a court transcript from when the decree was entered into&comma; when McMahon said he had gone over the settlement with Graf item by item&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As everyone knows&comma; my client is in jail&comma;” McMahon said at the time&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I had a call with him this morning&comma; the jail arranged it&period; I spoke to him about this settlement and the terms as we described it&period; He authorized me to agree to it&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Murray noted that Graf has done nothing to challenge the terms since then&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a court order&comma; Mr&period; Graf&comma;” Murray said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-215400" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;jessica-pagetts-family&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Jessica Pagett's family&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"422" &sol;>Jessica Padget&&num;8217&semi;s family members speak to the media after a guilty verdict of first-degree murder was handed out to Gregory Graf&comma; 18 months ago&period; Jessica&&num;8217&semi;s mother Danelle Bittner &lbrack;second left&comma; standing&rsqb;&comma; Padgett&&num;8217&semi;s father Thomas Kaczmar &lbrack;left&comma; seated&rsqb; and her husband Michael Padgett &lbrack;center&comma; seated&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Under the settlement&comma; Graf is slated to receive &dollar;130&comma;000 from two mutual funds and to get 25 percent of the proceeds from the future sale of the home in Edgewater&comma; Fla&period; An avid hunter&comma; his guns&comma; hunting equipment and mounted animal heads would be sold at auction&comma; with all proceeds going to him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mcall&period;com&sol;news&sol;police&sol;mc-nws-allen-township-gregory-graf-stepdaughter-murder-finances-20170717-story&period;html">Morning Call quotes<&sol;a> Jack McMahon  as saying he cannot speak for Graf’s motivations&period; he debunked any claim that he abandoned his client or that he did not grant prior approval to the settlement&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In fact&comma; he agreed and was happy with it&comma; so who knows what’s going on&quest;” McMahon said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;regarding whether Graf will ever see the money from his estate remains an open question&period; Padgett was a mother of three children&comma; and her husband&comma; Michael Padgett&comma; sued Graf last year for wrongful death seeking to foreclose on his assets for the benefit of the children&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A civil trial is scheduled next year&comma; when a jury would be asked to determine monetary damages&period; Graf is also represented in that case by McMahon&comma; who suggested his client’s claims on Monday could change that&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am &lbrack;his lawyer&rsqb; for the time being&comma;” McMahon said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But when he makes comments like that&comma; I don’t know&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;07&sol;the-shed-where-jessica-piagett-was-buried&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;612" alt&equals;"The shed where Jessica Piagett was buried&period;jpg" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Jessica Padgett&&num;8217&semi;s body was found behind the shed of the home her mother shared with her stepdad in Allen Township&comma; Pa&period; on November 27&comma; 2014&period; She had been shot in the head and sexually molested&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Jessica&&num;8217&semi;s murder&comma; left family and friends scratching their heads since Jessica appeared to have a good relationship with Graf&comma; one of her &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;2 dads” she wrote about in a March 2011 post&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Some people have 2 dads and I love both of mine VERY much&comma;” she wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Love you Daddy and Greg&excl;&excl;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police said Graf an ex-con who has convictions for theft dating to the 1980s and did time in prison in 1995 after convictions for possession with intent to deliver drugs and conspiracy&comma; was also an avid hunter&period; He shot his stepdaughter inside the home&comma; using one of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;numerous” firearms found at the residence&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Throughout the trial Graf&&num;8217&semi;s defense attorney&comma; Jack McMahon didn&&num;8217&semi;t deny that Graf killed Padgett&comma; but argued instead that &&num;8220&semi;something snapped&&num;8221&semi; and the shooting was not premeditated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The jury did not buy the defense argument&comma; Graf is now serving a life sentence in prison&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Padgett&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Michael Padgett&comma; is suing Graf&comma; hoping to win monetary damages for the woman&&num;8217&semi;s three children&period; McMahon is also representing Graf in that case but said&comma; in light of Graf&&num;8217&semi;s comments&comma; he may reconsider&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;allContentWrapper" lang&equals;"en-US">&NewLine;<article class&equals;"trb&lowbar;ar">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;ar&lowbar;main">&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;ar&lowbar;page">&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;em">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;em&lowbar;m"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<aside class&equals;"trb&lowbar;em ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;em&lowbar;mb"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;aside>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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