DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) – A suburban Detroit man who spent 16 years in prison for killing his first wife pleaded guilty Wednesday in the slayings of his two daughters and two stepchildren and in the torture of his second wife.
Gregory Green, 50, admitted to the slayings in Dearborn Heights District Court right after he was ruled competent to stand trial.
“He wanted to get it over with,” defense attorney Charles Longstreet II told reporters.
Authorities say Green killed his daughters, Koi, 5, and Kaleigh, 4, last September by carbon monoxide poisoning by leaving them in a car with the engine running. He then fatally shot his stepchildren Chadney Allen, 19, and Kara Allen, 17, in front of their mother, Faith Green, his second wife.
Faith Green, 39, was slashed across her face with a box cutter, shot in the foot and tied up but survived the Sept. 21 attack. She also was the mother of Koi and Kaleigh and had twice filed for a divorce. A judge rejected a personal protection order for her in 2013.