The Region - News from May 16, 1986

A one-time bingo parlor manager and convicted felon testified that Stephen M. Homick told him last September he was going to be paid $20,000 to kill someone in Los Angeles at the request of Neil and Stewart Woodman. The witness, Stewart Siegel, 48, of Las Vegas was the first witness at the preliminary hearing to link the Woodman brothers to the murders of their parents. He said the conversation occured after Homick asked him to explain the traditions observed on the Jewish Day of Atonement. Gerald and Vera Woodman of Brentwood were gunned down Sept. 25, after a post-Yom Kippur dinner. The prosecution contends their sons arranged their murders to collect on a $500,000 insurance policy. “I tried to explain to (Homick, a co-defendant) the meanings of the two holidays and approximately what time the fast was over,” Siegel said, “. . . There was a discussion about him killing someone for the Woodmans.” Homick never revealed the name of the victim, he testified.