New details in William York Sr. homicide

The investigation file in the death of William York Sr., 88, includes previously unreported details on what happened at his Tipp City home the day he was beaten to death by his granddaughter’s boyfriend.

The granddaughter, Hope Earnshaw York, told a relative in a jail phone call after her arrest in the 2015 murder of her grandfather that Richard Terrel, her boyfriend, “freaked out” and started hitting him with a metal baseball bat during an argument she attributed to “nit picking.”