Family speaks on crash victim's past crime

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) - A day after the victims of a fiery crash in Monroe County were identified, a family that still mourns the victim of one of the men killed spoke out.

23-year-old Nathan Gaudet was among those who died in the crash late Monday night. He was a Bedford resident, but had moved there from Moline, Ill., where in 2005, he pleaded guilty to playing a part in the gruesome murder of a 16-year-old girl.

Gaudet, who was 16 at the time, admitted to using his grandfather’s hand saw to cut off Adrianne Reynolds’ head and arms to keep authorities from identifying her body through dental records and fingerprints. It was part of a cover-up for his two friends who beat Reynolds to death outside a Taco Bell in Moline. They were both convicted of murder.

“I feel sad for his family, but sometimes what you give is what you get,” said Adrianne’s father, Tony Reynolds, after the news of Gaudet’s death.

Reynolds said now the murder has come full circle.

“Somebody who admitted to doing something that horrific - I am not going to lie. I probably said, ‘I hope you burn in hell,’” Reynolds said. “Everybody said he will, but maybe the devil got tired of waiting for him.”

Gaudet was released from juvenile detention in 2008 and moved to Bedford.

The other two who died in the crash were 24-year-old Justin Thomas and 23-year-old Sean McClanahan, both of Georgetown, near New Albany.