Thomas Broderick, Nelson’s cousin, said after the robbery, Scott Nelson told his father, “You’re never going to hurt me or my mother again.” James Nelson said his brother had previously asked Lawrence Nelson to stay with him, but their father refused. In 1994, when Scott Nelson was about 30, he was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison for robbing his father with a gun of $10,000 and a car. As a teenager, Scott Nelson began using drugs and alcohol, his defense attorney Chelsea Simmons said. They burned furniture to keep warm because the heat didn’t work anymore in the home Lawrence Nelson built, and then moved to a trailer, James Nelson said. With his two older brothers out of the house and his father refusing to help financially, Scott Nelson’s life with his mother took a bleak turn.
Shortly after the family moved to New Hampshire, Lawrence and Joan Nelson divorced after he had an affair with another woman, James Nelson said. Nelson, 55, was found guilty last week of kidnapping 56-year-old Jennifer Fulford from her employer’s Winter Park home during a 2017 robbery and killing her in a field, where he left her body. The testimony about Scott Nelson’s childhood came as the jury in his murder trial decides whether he should spend the rest of his life in prison or be executed. “I don’t know how dealt with it,” James Nelson said.
The two moved to a trailer, where Scott Nelson was in charge of making repairs and being his mother’s emotional support.
But the next time James Nelson saw his brother, the car was gone – Scott Nelson sold it because their mother needed money.Īs a 12-year-old, Scott Nelson became his schizophrenic mother’s primary caretaker after his abusive father divorced her, James Nelson testified Tuesday. As a high school student, Scott Edward Nelson worked hard at a landscaping job one summer and saved enough money to buy a nice car, his brother James Nelson told jurors.
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