After announcing to his playmates that he was going home, he ran toward the Peace Dale Volunteer fire station located at the bottom of the hill on High Street.
Jason lived in the Peace Dale section of South Kingstown on High Street not more than 30 yards up the hill on the same side as the fire house.
Jason's mother, Joice Foreman, last heard her son's laughter through the open window, at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon.
Woodmansee pleaded guilty to second degree murder in 1983, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison as a result of a plea bargain.
Woodmansee and his legal counsel agreed that after his release from prison he would be voluntarily committed to Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston indefinitely.
[8] Woodmansee was released from prison on September 11, 2011, after having served 28 years of the 40-year sentence and was immediately committed to the state hospital.