I’d been invited by the Prosecutors office to write a Victim Impact Statement. I was told the Judge would read and review them .. and we could present them the morning of sentencing ..
I flew in for the proceeding ..
.. none of us knew if we would have the opportunity to address RIC at all ..
We were told at the hearing that only one person could speak .. and O’Neill was so rude to him .. to all of us .. yet so gentle with RIC BEEDY Ffs
Here is my rambling potentially incoherent Victim Impact Statement:
Honorable Judge O’Neill,
There’s a tremendous significance to the date September 19th ~ one year on this day Eric Beedy told me Gloria was alive and sitting next to him on his couch.
It’s fitting that he heads to prison on this day.
If I’m permitted to speak before the court on that date, this journey for me will have come full circle.
I apologize for the length of this document, yet appreciate the chance to submit this for consideration.
Your Honor,
My name is Teresa Petersen, I am the high school friend who initiated the messages with “Gloria Montgomery”,
her fiancé Eric Beedy,
and who sought out Gloria Montgomery’s family, all because something felt “off”.
I am the one of the two or more friends, who went back and forth with “Gloria Montgomery”, on messenger, on the 18th of September, and with Eric Beedy on September 19th, 2021.
Eric Beedy assured me, not to worry. He had her. He was getting her help.
He gave me hope that my kind and gentle friend of 39 years was in good hands, safe in a hospital and being taken care of. I could breathe easy.
She wasn’t breathing at all.
Gloria had already been very dead by six days.
Eric Beedy kept up the lie that he’d gotten her help, and later, that she’d been seen on the streets.
Knowing she was a few feet away from him, under trash, decaying in the heat of a late Ohio Summer.
Eric would criticize her in his messages to me, saying he could no longer condone her actions .. and could not be in her life anymore, fully knowing her life had already ended.
In October, when the Family & Police started looking for her, he wished me and Gloria “the best”, and said he heard she got on a bus and left the state.
To my horror now, Eric actually offered to assist me in looking for Gloria ~ knowing she was dead, on his property ~ covered by the trash he placed on her.
After her badly decomposed body was found, he blamed her, saying she would berate him for alcohol, this was her fault.
He also complained that The city “owed him a new front door” on his CONDEMNED house ? after removing the door to get to her body.
Eric Beedy then began to send me desperate messages
Distraught.
HE needed to be with her, and his grandson.
He had NOTHING to stay here for.
That the “Sunlight would no longer shine upon his face”.
I asked him to hold on. For his family and his grandchildren.
I was Coaxing the Man I knew did something to my girlfriend … to stay on the earth.
While Gloria’s family and children will never see her again.
I no longer had my friend.
“Something is really wrong.” Was all I sent to Eric, and he unleashed this.
Eric told me “don’t worry, I’ve got her”.
I replied, to that Man; “I love you so much for this”,
as she laid there, alone, pinned between furniture and the front door, dead.
Your Honor,
I have never been so manipulated into such a disturbing web of deception,
to the point where Eric claimed to be suicidal over Gloria .. to ME ..
after HE sent his new girlfriend to Gloria’s Vigil.
He managed to put just enough time between the day she died,
and the day she was found ~ with the perfect ingredients:
the heat, her isolation from her family and locals .. and very few people asking about her.
It all worked to his benefit.
That autopsy; inconclusive.
The charges; non existent.
Eric Beedy is an Evil, deceptive, and deeply troubled Man.
I focused an incredible amount of time, putting together all the pieces of this puzzle ~ that Eric Beedy kept handing me.
I was in Ohio in Springfield in September, October/ November & December of 2021.
My fifth granddaughter was born; THE day after Gloria’s destroyed body was found and I was so numb, holding a newborn baby with nothing to offer her OR my daughter who had just given birth.
I can’t fix those memories for my daughter.
In November I led her vigil, Where they discovered Gloria’s body. While I was still in shock.
I had surgery on Dec 6th, and by December 12th I was back on a plane heading up to Ohio .. for her funeral, to speak and physically help bury her with a shovel and my hands.
I then flew out, exhausted, to my family for a Christmas I don’t even remember.
In doing so, for all this, I’ve been called a “Four Foot Troll Lookin Bitch” by Eric Beedy’s daughter ~ on line, threatened and accused of setting him up.
I’ve been told I should have deleted everything in my phone, not shared it with the authorities, and backed away ~ because “why are you needed?”
Eric has called me an Attention Whore who should die an abusive death, and be haunted by Gloria’s death for the rest of my life.
Horrible things have been said to me by strangers, family and friends ~ who didn’t understand how or why I was involved.
It was emotionally devastating.
I no longer feel safe coming back to my childhood hometown of Springfield Ohio.
I live in fear of retaliation by him, his family or his friends.
And I’ve lost mutual High School friends who stand by him.
Eric, in turn, has benefited from the kindness of this court on many occasions, and he has constantly failed to use those opportunities to better himself.
Winding back up before you, again and again.
Your Honor,
Please take this opportunity to send a message to Mr Beedy.
If there’s a way for NO early release, please have him serve his full sentence,
Eric Beedy knows what happened to Gloria Montgomery, and it is cruel and inhumane, that rather than give her family and friends any type of closure with the truth, he will take his lies to his own grave.
Thank you for your consideration,
Teresa Ann Petersen