Published 1:38 pm Tuesday, August 11, 2026 MOULTRIE — The murders of five people, including a 3-year-old boy, in a home on Highway 37 sent a shock through the community in November of 2004. On Friday, Alexander Woods III, the man who was tried and convicted for the homicides, was officially released from prison. Woods’ conviction was overturned in 2022 but he remained incarcerated for a separate crime. Friday was the latest possible release date for his other conviction. Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brad Shealy said Woods cannot be retried for the Colquitt County murders. The victims, Juan Carlos Resendez, 3; his mother, Katrina Watts Resendez, 29; his father, Jaime Cruze Resendez, 24; Katrina Resendez’s mother, Betty Faye Watts, 50; and the family’s housekeeper, Liliana Alegria Aguilar, 30, were shot “execution style” in their home, where the Resendezes’ nephew found them when he came home from school. Woods, a Lowndes County man, was convicted of five counts of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. He was sentenced by Senior Superior Court Judge E. Tracy Moulton to five consecutive life terms. On May 31, 2022, Superior Court Judge Howard McClain ordered Woods a new trial. “Judge Howard McClain took over this case on remand because Judge Moulton retired, and Judge Brian McDaniel has a conflict as he was the prosecutor who tried this case,” Jason McLendon, of McLendon Law Firm and co-counsel for Woods, said in an email interview, at the time.…
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