Prudence Hockley: Teacher beaten to death by pro bodybuilder boyfriend out on Georgia Parole

A recent parolee still on probation in Georgia was charged Friday with second-degree murder after Seattle police say he bludgeoned his girlfriend to death on Christmas Eve

Prudence Hockley, 55, was found unconscious by her 13-year-old daughter in the family's driveway following a heated discussion with Johnnie Lee Wiggins, a competitive bodybuilder and former Cobb County resident. The daughter told police she heard a loud thump against the house and, according to a certificate of probable cause filed Friday in Seattle, the diminutive high school teacher sustained "significant head and facial injuries" and was bleeding profusely from the back of her head.

"What did you do to my mom?" the 13-year-old asked Wiggins as he walked toward his car. According to police documents, Wiggins calmly told the girl, "It was [Hockley's friend]," then drove off.

Wiggins, 48, was in Washington illegally, violating terms of his recently reworked probation for a first-degree assault conviction for which he served five years at the Coffee Correctional Facility in southeast Georgia, a state Department of Corrections official told the Atlanta Joual-Constitution on Friday.

He had been previously allowed to relocate to Seattle after a national parole board granted his request to be placed under Washington's supervision following his 2008 release from prison. Wiggins had largely avoided trouble there, landing a job as a fitness instructor at a local gym, according to published reports.

But on May 16, Wiggins was arrested after allegedly attacking one of his parole officers. A search of his home yielded a "large quantity" of anabolic steroids, according to a case summary released late Friday by King County, Wash., prosecutors.

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