Article: Man charged in killing of Green Beret's wife Convict accused of beating woman while her husband served in Afghanistan

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.--An acquaintance of a woman married to a Green Beret on duty in Afghanistan has been charged in her beating death.

John Lennon Wood, 20, of Fayetteville, was charged with first- degree murder over the weekend in the death of Angie Mosden, 40.

Mosden was killed early Thursday when Wood allegedly smashed in the glass French doors of her house and beat her with a baseball bat before stabbing her.

Police said two of the couple's three daughters were home and one, a 12-year-old, tried to stop the attack before she fled.

"I didn't do a ... thing," Wood said while being taken in handcuffs to a magistrate's office Saturday.

Mosden's husband, Green Beret Sgt. Maj. Richard Mosden, ...

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