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He Claimed Not to Know His Victim_ The Bizarre Case of Ralph Wald [True Crime Documentary] · NO FILTER

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Speaker 1: On a spring night in Brandon, Florida, a seventy year
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Speaker 1: old retired US Army colonel awoke around midnight to find
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Speaker 1: a strange man on top of his wife in the
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Speaker 1: living room of the couple's home. Without delay or hesitation,
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Speaker 1: he found his gun and shot the man multiple times.
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Speaker 1: The attacker died on the living room floor. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: until the next day, when all the facts began to emerge,
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Speaker 1: that police informed the colonel that the man he killed
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Speaker 1: was not a stranger at all, and his wife was
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Speaker 1: certainly not being attacked. Hibert, I'm Kevin, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: Just Thought Lounge. Today's case contained some very colorful characters.
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Speaker 1: The story takes a few strange turns, but as bizarre
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Speaker 1: as it is, the ending is somehow tragically predictable. Let's
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Speaker 1: take a look. In twenty thirteen, Ralph Wald had lived
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Speaker 1: in his house on Clara Drive in Brandon, Florida for
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Speaker 1: nearly twenty years. A retired lieutenant colonel of the U.
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Speaker 1: S Army, he also had a successful career as a lawyer.
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Speaker 1: By that spring, Ralph had developed some health issues and
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Speaker 1: was slowing down a bit, but at seventy years old,
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Speaker 1: Ralph was certainly not finished living his life to the fullest.
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Speaker 1: About five months earlier, the Vietnam veteran had married for
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Speaker 1: the fifth time to a neighbor of his Forty one
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Speaker 1: year old Jonah Flores. Johna, was also a divorcee, just
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Speaker 1: like Ralph. She had a son already grown, but with
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Speaker 1: whom she was not very close. After her wedding, Jona
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Speaker 1: moved from her house next door to live with her
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Speaker 1: new husband. At just about midnight on March tenth, Ralph
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Speaker 1: awoke and got out of bed for a glass of water.
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Speaker 1: Heading towards the kitchen, he heard noises coming from the
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Speaker 1: other room. When he entered the living room, he caught
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Speaker 1: a glimpse of a man on top of his wife.
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Speaker 1: The vet promptly went back to his bedroom, where he
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Speaker 1: retrieved his thirty eight Smith and Wesson revolver. Ralph walked
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Speaker 1: back to the living room. He fired at the man
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Speaker 1: three times, killing him.
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Speaker 2: Oh a flying carrying with my wife, he await her, No, sir,
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Speaker 2: I hope.
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Speaker 1: So, while on the phone with the nine one one operator,
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Speaker 1: Ralph Wald refused to render aid to the man that
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Speaker 1: he had just shot, believing that he was a stranger.
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Speaker 1: Who had broken into his home and attacked his wife.
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Speaker 1: The seventy year old was unapologetic about the actions that
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Speaker 1: he had taken. Only later the following day, when the
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Speaker 1: identity of the man was revealed, did Ralph come to
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Speaker 1: realize that he was not a stranger and his wife
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Speaker 1: was not being forced into anything. The man he had
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Speaker 1: killed was thirty two year old Walter Conley. Walter was
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Speaker 1: an ex boyfriend of Jona's. He was an ex roommate
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Speaker 1: of hers, had worked with her for a time, and
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Speaker 1: it seems was her longtime lover. Not much has been
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Speaker 1: made public about the life of Walter Conley. He had
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Speaker 1: a few minor incidents on his criminal record, but nothing violent,
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Speaker 1: and he never served any jail time. What we do
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Speaker 1: know is that Walter had been romantically involved on and
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Speaker 1: off with john of Flores for years. He even had
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Speaker 1: a tattoo of her face on his arm. Their affair
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Speaker 1: had begun long before her marriage to Ralph and continued
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Speaker 1: after the wedding. Indeed, Ralph had met and spoken with
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Speaker 1: Walter on more than one occasion. The younger man had
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Speaker 1: been renting a room at Johnna's house on Clara Drive,
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Speaker 1: just next door to the home that Ralph and Johna shared.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks before the wedding, Johna was arrested and charged
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Speaker 1: with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for taking a
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Speaker 1: shot at Walter during one of their many disagreements. Our
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Speaker 1: rest documents show that she claimed to have asked him
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Speaker 1: multiple times to leave the property, but that he told
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Speaker 1: police she had invited him to stay on that occasion.
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Speaker 1: Ralph came down to the jail and bailed his future
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Speaker 1: wife out. The charges against her were eventually dropped. Johna
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Speaker 1: Flores was originally from Somerset, Pennsylvania. She had faced many
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Speaker 1: challenges in her life, including alleged mistreatment by her stepfather
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Speaker 1: as a child, which had left its mark on her
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Speaker 1: in later life. Johna also liked to drink quite a lot.
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Speaker 1: A self proclaimed blackout drinker. She told law enforcement that
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Speaker 1: she had no memory of exactly what took place on
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Speaker 1: the night that her husband shot and killed her lover.
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Speaker 1: She believed Ralph when he stated that he had no
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Speaker 1: idea that she was having an affair. He was oblivious
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Speaker 1: of how close she had been with Walter Conley, despite
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Speaker 1: having interacted with him on multiple occasions. He knew Walter
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Speaker 1: primarily as Johna's tenant. Investigators weren't buying it. Walter Conley
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Speaker 1: had a visible tattoo of her on his arm. It
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Speaker 1: was John of Flora's face. It was not reasonable to
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Speaker 1: believe that Ralph had never seen this, and then questioned
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Speaker 1: the nature of their relationship. The next day, Hillsborough County
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Speaker 1: Assistant State Attorney Chris Moody charged Ralph Wald with second
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Speaker 1: degree murder. The States planned to argue that Ralph had
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Speaker 1: killed Walter in a jealous rage. Ralph maintained that his
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Speaker 1: actions were consistent with Florida's standiard ground law. He found
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Speaker 1: an attacker inside his home and responded accordingly to save
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Speaker 1: his wife. Ralph Wald hired attorney Joe Episcopo to provide
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Speaker 1: him with a zealous in its spirited defense.
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Speaker 3: We're going to fight him on the streets, in the cities,
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Speaker 3: on the beaches, in the courtroom until I remove every
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Speaker 3: trace of mister Moody's infected fingers from my client's file.
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Speaker 3: The deceased actually used his wife as a human shield
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Speaker 3: when he saw the weapon. We have demanded speedy trial
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Speaker 3: because they would not grant a war hero entitled to
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Speaker 3: where the silver.
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Speaker 4: Star a bond.
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Speaker 1: Ralph Wald had served in the US Army for over
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Speaker 1: twenty years, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel and earning
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Speaker 1: a Silver Star, one of the highest decorations for military valor. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: Ralph earned a law degree from Stetson University College of
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Speaker 1: Law and assisted clients who couldn't afford their own attorneys.
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Speaker 1: Ralph's defense fought to have their client's military history and
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Speaker 1: many awards introduced at trial. They argued that his extensive
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Speaker 1: military training helped to explain how and why he responded
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Speaker 1: to an intruder so methodically. It would also help to
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Speaker 1: some degree to justify how emotionless he sounded on the
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Speaker 1: nine to one one call after just killing a man
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Speaker 1: in his living room. The retired colonel claimed to have
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Speaker 1: been directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of an
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Speaker 1: estimated one hundred and fifty enemy combatants in his career.
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Speaker 1: The use of lethal force when he felt threatened was
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Speaker 1: not new territory for the war. Veteran defense attorney Episcopo argued,
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Speaker 1: this was a military man trained to know what to
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Speaker 1: do with the enemy. You take your gun and you
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Speaker 1: kill them. The argument to include all of his past
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Speaker 1: service and accolades at trial failed. However, the judge believed
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Speaker 1: that introducing Ralph Walt's extensive military achievements would unfairly create
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Speaker 1: sympathy towards him and bias in the jury. That he
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Speaker 1: had a career in the army would of course be admissible.
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Speaker 1: The judge also denied bail. Ralph's health was a concern
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Speaker 1: for his attorneys. He required an extensive regiment of medications
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Speaker 1: every day to treat a growing range of conditions. Remaining
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Speaker 1: in custody for an extended period of time was not
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Speaker 1: an option. They requested to move forward rapidly.
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Speaker 3: I don't understand why the state wouldn't be ready. They
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Speaker 3: filed second degree murder charges.
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Speaker 2: I would assume that.
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Speaker 1: They're ready to prove that case. The trial commenced only
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Speaker 1: eleven weeks after the death of Walter Conley.
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Speaker 5: I went back to the living room where he shot
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Speaker 5: Walter Conley, not once, not twice, but three times, all
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Speaker 5: before Walter Conley was even able to finish pulling his
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Speaker 5: pants up.
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Speaker 1: The trial lasted only three days, but that short span
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Speaker 1: of time was packed full of salacious details. At the
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Speaker 1: core of the prosecution's argument was that Ralph was a jealous,
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Speaker 1: cuckholded husband, likely aware of the affair, and was pushed
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Speaker 1: into a murderous rage. In opening remarks, the prosecution told
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Speaker 1: the jury that Ralph Wald suffered from a reptile dysfunction,
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Speaker 1: which fueled his jealousy towards Walter Conley, a man less
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Speaker 1: than half his age. The defense provided even more unwelcome details,
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Speaker 1: explaining that the seventy year old had been informed by
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Speaker 1: his younger wife that she was incapable of being intimate
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Speaker 1: with him after suffering abuse as a child. The way
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Speaker 1: Ralph put it, she would joke a lot with me
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Speaker 1: that we were a perfect couple. She didn't want to
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Speaker 1: do it, and I couldn't do it. This sad fact
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Speaker 1: supported his defense. When he came across his wife and
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Speaker 1: her lover in the living room, he assumed that Walter
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Speaker 1: must have been forcing himself on her, but.
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Speaker 3: He never saw his face. They were on the ground
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Speaker 3: and he said get out. To this day, to this day,
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Speaker 3: his marriage has not been consummated because of these problems.
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Speaker 3: The deceased grabs Jona by the arms and using her
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Speaker 3: as a human shield, starts trying to avoid that gun.
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Speaker 1: On the second day, of the three day trial, john
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Speaker 1: of Flores took the stand for the defense. She testified
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Speaker 1: that when her husband shot Walter, she was blackout drunk
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Speaker 1: from too much cognac. As a result, she had virtually
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Speaker 1: no memory of the shooting.
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Speaker 4: I was drunken, probably blacked out.
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Speaker 1: I'm a blackout drinker. Johnna also told the jury that
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Speaker 1: she had tried to end the relationship with Walter Conley,
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Speaker 1: but couldn't. She said, I allowed him to continue to
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Speaker 1: show up. I didn't put a final stop to it.
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Speaker 1: I kept trying to, but it just never happened. Ralph
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Speaker 1: followed his wife to the stand. He spoke genuinely about
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Speaker 1: being in love with Johnna, stating that the horrible accident
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Speaker 1: gave him hope their relationship would still be salvaged. Key
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Speaker 1: to the standard ground defense was presenting a consistent version
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Speaker 1: of events, which Ralph Wald undeniably did from his matter
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Speaker 1: of fact nine to one one call to his insistence
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Speaker 1: at trial that if faced with the same circumstances again,
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Speaker 1: he would do exactly the same thing. Ralph never wavered,
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Speaker 1: even in retrospect, on the decision that he made that night.
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Speaker 6: I show him because he was forcing himself on my
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Speaker 6: wife and as far as I knew, when he finished
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Speaker 6: with her, he was going to kill me.
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Speaker 1: With all the facts of this situation made clear, Ralph
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Speaker 1: did express regret and sympathy for Walter Conley and his family,
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Speaker 1: but he still believed that the younger man was in
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Speaker 1: the wrong, saying, the man should not have been at
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Speaker 1: my house at midnight with my wife. I don't care
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Speaker 1: what you say about that. He should not have been there.
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Speaker 1: In closing arguments, the prosecution told the jury that it's
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Speaker 1: a personal insult to conduct that kind of activity in
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Speaker 1: a man's home, his castle. It cuts to the quick.
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Speaker 1: It's brazen, that kind of deep and personal insult. This
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Speaker 1: would make you want to lash out, and the defendant did.
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Speaker 1: It took the jury less than two hours to return
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Speaker 1: with their verdict not guilty. Upon hearing the jury's decision,
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Speaker 1: Ralph embraced his two lawyers, johna in the court each
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Speaker 1: day to support her husband, cried tears of joy. They
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Speaker 1: had agreed before the trial began that they would stay
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Speaker 1: together and work through the issues in their marriage.
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Speaker 4: My husband forgives me one hundred percent, but there are,
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Speaker 4: of course, and trust issues, and there's something that we're
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Speaker 4: going to go to counseling about which we should have
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Speaker 4: done prior to getting married. But you know, we're going
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Speaker 4: to work through it. We're going to work through it.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't give that man up for the world. I
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Speaker 4: am elated and ecstatic about the verdict, and I'm so
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Speaker 4: anxious to get him home. We haven't been able to
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Speaker 4: touch in three months, and you know, I just really
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Speaker 4: want to give him a nice, big bear hug. To
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Speaker 4: put your life in jeopardy for your wife's life, that's
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Speaker 4: a true gentleman, and that's an honorable man. What he
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Speaker 4: wanted to do to when he got out was to
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Speaker 4: take me to my favorite place to eat, which is
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Speaker 4: the waffle house.
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Speaker 1: While the media made a further spectacle of the couple
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Speaker 1: embracing and a joking over celebrations at the waffle house,
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Speaker 1: there was one group of people reportedly not laughing, the
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Speaker 1: family of Walter Conley. They stood stonefaced and watched on
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Speaker 1: while the man who killed their son celebrated his release.
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Speaker 6: My daddy told me, never do a news conference when
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Speaker 6: you're in your pajamas.
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Speaker 1: How do you feel that they'd been found not guilty?
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Speaker 5: Nice?
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Speaker 6: I think I've said all I'm going to say thank you.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate your interests.
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Speaker 6: Do you guys have my address?
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Speaker 7: Freeman my husband.
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Speaker 1: One juror, Lawrence Silverman, spoke publicly about the decision because
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Speaker 1: he felt that it was important to understand the jury's reasoning.
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Speaker 1: He said it came down to whether mister Wald felt
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Speaker 1: threatened in his home. Every juror believed the seventy year
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Speaker 1: old when he said that he felt exactly that. Ralph
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Speaker 1: and his attorney, Joe Episcopo, spoke to the press outside
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Speaker 1: of the home on Clara Drive following his release. The
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Speaker 1: retired colonel's medals un full disp He told reporters that
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Speaker 1: he was in the infantry for over twenty years. Part
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Speaker 1: of my job was to go out and keep my
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Speaker 1: people alive and stop other people from being alive, and
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Speaker 1: I did my job well. What happened here that night
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Speaker 1: I very much relate to close combat, the same sort
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Speaker 1: of thing I've seen in the tunnels in Vietnam.
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Speaker 6: I've thought from day one, Uh, I was not guilty
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Speaker 6: of a crime. All I wanted to do was protect
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Speaker 6: my wife.
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Speaker 1: With the verdict reached, that should have been the last
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Speaker 1: time that Ralph Wald found himself clashing with the legal system.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately it was not. He gave a few additional interviews
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Speaker 1: with local media in the weeks that followed, explaining how
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Speaker 1: he came to learn that the man he had killed
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Speaker 1: was Walter. He also said that the experience was not
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Speaker 1: one that he ever wished to repeat.
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Speaker 6: My response was Walter who he was? Simply not on
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Speaker 6: my mind.
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Speaker 7: Conley's family believes she set him up for death.
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Speaker 6: No, no, I'm sure not. Life is a matter of
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Speaker 6: experiencing things, and now I've gotten experience. I know what
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Speaker 6: it's about, and something I never look forward to doing again.
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Speaker 1: Ralph explained that he planned to stay with his fifth wife.
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Speaker 1: He would in fact end up filing for divorce the
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Speaker 1: next spring, in May twenty fourteen, but he dropped the
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Speaker 1: case a few months later.
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Speaker 6: My point is I took a bow, and a man's
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Speaker 6: only as good as his word, and.
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Speaker 1: That woman is Johnna, Yeah it is.
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Speaker 7: You want to die beside.
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Speaker 6: Johanna, Yeah, yeah, I'd like to live for a little
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Speaker 6: while a few more weeks.
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Speaker 1: On September sixteenth, twenty nineteen, roughly six years after the
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Speaker 1: death of Walter Conley, now seventy seven year old Ralph
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Speaker 1: Wald once again placed a call to nine one and
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Speaker 1: bringing Hillsborough deputies back out to the house on Clara Drive.
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Speaker 8: And one what's emergency? You th thinks something wrong with
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Speaker 8: my wife? Is your wife breathing?
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Speaker 1: At this point?
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Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know? Okay, all right, can
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Speaker 8: you tell me what's going on? I don't know what's
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Speaker 8: going on. My wife is non responsive? Okay? Is she conscious?
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Speaker 8: I know she's not responsive. No, she's not non responsive.
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Speaker 8: That's why I say. I was in bed. She was
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Speaker 8: out here on the couch. I came out and I
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Speaker 8: spoked or she could not respond, opens like all collapsed over.
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Speaker 7: Is she breathing?
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Speaker 8: I don't show.
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Speaker 7: Our office received the nine one one goal in reference
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Speaker 7: to an unresponsive female at five thirteen third Drive, so
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Speaker 7: that one deputies arrived on scene. Was apparent that the
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Speaker 7: female was deceased, and I had some upper body trauma.
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Speaker 7: Detectives have been I'm seen and are now in the
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Speaker 7: process of securing a search warm to further the investigation.
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Speaker 5: And that's all we have.
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Speaker 7: With Pinsch's questioning. The history of the house is a
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Speaker 7: little We've heard some stories about that.
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Speaker 6: What can you tell us about this place?
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Speaker 7: Sir, where we're in the history, but it is wait
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Speaker 7: early investigation to reveal anything further.
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Speaker 1: The scene inside the home was eerily similar to the
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Speaker 1: last time the deputies had been called out, but this
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Speaker 1: time it was John of Flores that lay dead in
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Speaker 1: the living room. Rolf claimed to have found Joanna unconscious
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Speaker 1: on the couch with blood pooling around her feet and ankles.
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Speaker 1: Responding officers discovered this was a result of a single
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Speaker 1: gunshot wound to the chest. Two vodka bottles, one empty
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Speaker 1: and the other about a quarter full, were on the
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Speaker 1: floor nearby. The home was described as cluttered, smelled of
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Speaker 1: cigarette smoke, and dirtied, with dog pieces on the floor.
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Speaker 1: Neighbors explained that Ralph's health had deteriorated further in recent years.
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Speaker 1: He was dependent upon Jona for care. Ralph explained that
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Speaker 1: she was a heavy smoker and drinker, as was he. Jona,
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Speaker 1: once a practicing nurse, had also developed medical problems. She
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Speaker 1: would have difficulty sleeping and experienced neuropathy, a numbness in
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Speaker 1: her feet. Jona had used a walker to get around.
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Speaker 1: When detectives asked Ralph if he had any mental health conditions,
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Speaker 1: he first said no, but later He mentioned he had
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Speaker 1: been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He also said he had
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Speaker 1: problems with his back, his heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys.
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Speaker 1: He was hard of hearing, he said, and had been
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Speaker 1: seeing a counselor for treatment of post traumatic stress disorder.
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Speaker 1: Ralph was asked if he had any guns in the house.
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Speaker 1: He said he didn't, but when investigators searched, they found
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Speaker 1: a rifle and t two handguns. The last weapon, a
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Speaker 1: thirty eight Smith and Wesson revolver, was found in a
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Speaker 1: nightstand in his bedroom. It held five rounds and one
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Speaker 1: spent bullet. The gun had handwritten marks on it, indicating
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Speaker 1: it had undergone testing with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
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Speaker 1: It was the same gun Ralph had used to shoot
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Speaker 1: Walter Conley. It had been used once again, this time
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Speaker 1: to kill his wife and my husband. Shortly after detectives
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Speaker 1: began questioning Ralph, he asked for an attorney. The last
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Speaker 1: years of the marriage had not been all bear hugs
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Speaker 1: and waffle house visits for the reconciled couple. The years
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Speaker 1: had been replete with further troubles. Jonah's son recounted that
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Speaker 1: both she and Ralph drank excessively. Almost a year before
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Speaker 1: her death, Johna was arrested at their home after she
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Speaker 1: threw a metal picture frame at her husband during an argument,
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Speaker 1: cutting his shin. She was initially charged with battery with
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Speaker 1: a weapon, but prosecutors dropped the charges the following month.
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Speaker 1: Johna also told relatives that she was beginning to fear Ralph,
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Speaker 1: sharing the concern that perhaps her husband wanted to kill her.
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Speaker 1: He would sneak into her room in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the night, she said, checking in on her while she slept.
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Speaker 1: It seems these fears were well founded. Nonetheless, Johna did
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Speaker 1: not leave her husband.
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Speaker 4: We're going to work through it. We're going to work
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Speaker 4: through it. I wouldn't give that man up for the world.
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Speaker 1: Ralph was released on a fifteen thousand dollars bond while
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Speaker 1: he awaited a trial for manslaughter. As the date for
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Speaker 1: jury selection was set for the autumn, the court began
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Speaker 1: facing delays due to Ralph's ill health. There were questions
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Speaker 1: as to whether the elderly man was physically up to
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Speaker 1: the task of completing a full psychological evaluation, with his
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Speaker 1: attorney noting of dementia, they could not proceed at all
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Speaker 1: without a proper assessment. Then the COVID nineteen pandemic caused
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Speaker 1: further delays. It would be years before the case returned
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Speaker 1: to the court schedule. The retired colonel would not live
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Speaker 1: long enough to stand trial for murder a second time.
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Speaker 1: On January nineteen, twenty twenty three, while still awaiting a
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Speaker 1: start date, Ralph Wald passed away. He was eighty years old.
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Speaker 1: His death left open the question of whether he could
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Speaker 1: have been acquitted by a jury a second time. The
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Speaker 1: exact cause of Ralph's death was not released, though his
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Speaker 1: new lawyer, John Hackworth, noted that the veteran had a
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Speaker 1: long list of ailments and was extremely ill towards the end.
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Speaker 1: He said that mister Walt's life was unfortunately marred by
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Speaker 1: his involvement with the criminal justice system, but that his
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Speaker 1: life was about much more than this. John of Flores
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Speaker 1: is remembered as a strong, willed person who faced many
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Speaker 1: challenges in life. Her obituary states that she was survived
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Speaker 1: only by her cat, Lily and her dog Baby. She
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Speaker 1: was forty eight years old. That was the tragic case
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Speaker 1: of Ralph Wald. John of Flores and Walter Conley, thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining me here today and a special thank you
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Speaker 1: to Amy Nicole, Peter Trena, and Kevin Brogan for joining
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Speaker 1: the members lounge. I'm Kevin. This is just thought Lounge
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Speaker 1: and I'll see you in the next one.
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Speaker 3: Please tell me I can hear the crimes repeat.
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Speaker 5: Gotta take my time because these crimes get.
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Speaker 3: Deep, but these stories can't hid.
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Speaker 1: Let me find my seat, Kevin, go ahead and settle in.
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Speaker 8: Gott it be selective, doing all the research, keeping it objective,
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Speaker 8: always being effective.
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Speaker 3: Can say he got a neck, pick it a little.
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Speaker 1: You see how Newton got his back.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, the content that you need is cook be a
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Speaker 8: new sign, talking in the comments.
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Speaker 3: That you're in the few lines.
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Speaker 8: Tune in and had like love that it's true con It
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Speaker 8: was like the whole world's online for true crime.
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Speaker 6: Watch him on the run, but it's.
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Speaker 8: Not a race really. At the discipline