Page 5 - Finally Ralph News Today

>> everybody knew the candelarios had a nice house, filled with vintage treasures. >> theres a little jewelry that pam kept. this is her dresser. >> some of which were missing as ralph told the police during a videotaped tour. >> the televisions gone. >> okay. >> the candelarios had been about to leave on vacation. so maybe the intruders thought they were gone and were surprised to find them at home. but who? a citizens tip supplied a possible lead. >> she brought up individual names that he bel...

Had only one option left. >> if he became a widower, hed be free to marry again. it was, said the prosecutors, one of the more disturbing motives for murder he had ever heard. >> so his religious beliefs were more important than anyone elses life. so the jury got the case, and they worked till the end of the day and then through a second and then a third. tick tock. >> whether they convict him or they dont is going to be a different set of emotions? and then in the middle of the third day. >> we...

Then he pointed his gun at me and fired. it just clicked. i cant fully say what happened to me at that point. in fact, he was so scared, he said, he soiled his pajamas. he wrote that his ordeal began after he and pam went to bed on tuesday night, not wednesday, as he originally thought. and it lasted nearly two days. he woke up on thursday morning. i thought my nightmare was over. but i looked down the hall, and i could see pams legs in the kitchen. thats when he ran out of the house and found h...

When ralphs account of the home invasion was published, it was the talk of the town. but could the story be true? ralph said yes. the police wondered if the truth was in there somewhere. returning to "tangled" heres keith morrison. >> ralph candelario appeared to believe that his 3,300-word letter about the murder of his wife would be the accepted true account of that terrible event. but heres what pams daughter, shannon, thought. >> it felt overly dramatic and really just glamorous that he was ...

Candelario was 11 years old. his parents has recently separated were sharing custody. one day after a weekend at his dads house, aaron went home to find -- >> there was just a note on the coffee table that was in kind of sketchy handwriting, but nevertheless said, i love you, my boys, and im taking off. >> his mother, dina, was simply gone. aaron was devastated. what did your father suggest may have happened to her? >> that she possibly had moved to missouri. a guy that she had been talking to o...

But then so were the cops. recovered memory? no, said the cbis jody wright. more like a cover-up. >> nothing in his statement matched anything that i knew to be at the crime scene. it just didnt make sense. none of it. >> it wasnt really that ralph changed his story in his "world journal" manifesto, not exactly. more like he kept adding to it. so he watches very carefully what youre doing and tailors his story to match what he thinks youre finding. >> exactly. >> ralph kept explaining, kept offe...

Ralph used it to slash his wrists and throat. his own son was not sympathetic. >> well, you know, the summer would rather go out than face his destiny that way. >> suicide attempt, delay tactic? whatever it was, it didnt work. the court ordered him back to court. ralph, bandaged up, got another day in the spotlight. >> your honor, ive maintained ive been innocent through this parole process. and then a keen observer might have almost heard the jaws drop around the courtroom. >> pam will be resur...

>> i dont understand why the knobs are gone. >> and he would know youre looking for fingerprints of these home invaders. >> well, yes. >> but what if they didnt find any fingerprints besides his and pams? well, in his letter written a few days later, ralph provided a new detail that accounted for that possibility. >> all of a sudden, now his attackers, he remembered that they wore gloves with l.e.d. lights on them. which would explain why no one elses prints would be on the knobs of the drawers....

Well know that. >> okay. >> and thats going to come back to you. >> okay. >> but thats when ralph reported the invaders were in his house just a few hours. now in his letter, he remembered the ordeal lasting nearly two days. and do you remember we mentioned it a while back that broken glass in the back door? the thing was, the glass fell out the door, not in, as you would expect it would do if somebody was breaking into the house. the police, of course, brought that up with ralph. and what did h...

I had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now thats a privilege. were the bakers and were usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today. (boy) got it. (dad) its slippery. (boy) nooooooo... (grandma) nooooooo... (dad) nooooooo... (dog) yessssss.... (vo) quick, the quicker picker upper! b...