Man charged in fatal Overland Park hit-and-run is father of twins, leukemia survivor
He is accused of driving away from a wreck Saturday on
The wreck set off a multi-day search for the Honda Odyssey that police said may have struck Siebuhr's car, sending it careening into a head-on collision with Bloskey's vehicle, killing both drivers.
On Monday, law enforcement officers in
An
Woodworth was arrested Thursday and booked into the
Woodworth lives in a tidy, south
When a Star reporter visited the home Thursday, a woman who answered the door declined to speak.
A decade ago Woodworth, the father of twin boys, was the subject of a community fund-raising campaign after losing his job as a senior software support specialist at
He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at age 36. Unable to go to the office with his immune system weakened, he sporadically worked from home for a time.
But when he was unable to pinpoint a date when he could return to work, the company fired him.
At the time, Garmin noted that it had done more for Woodworth than required by law, giving him more than three months of unpaid leave. He was covered by long-term disability insurance.
Still, Woodworth told a reporter then that he felt the company let him down.
"Have a little bit of a heart is all I'm saying," he said. "I just don't know how they sleep with themselves at night."
Before Saturday's wreck, Woodworth had been cited in
In those court records, he listed a previous address in
In 1995, Woodworth pleaded guilty to speeding in
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