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reliving the crime at the trial. i am and see, i am eager. you want to go and testify? yeah. i want this to be over. i know we need to cope with whatever answer comes youre opening. yes, your honor. then here it was, february 25th, 2016. already ralph had managed a victory, had tied prosecutor ryan brackley s hands, in one way, anyway. well, we tried to tell the entire story about ralph candelario and ralph candelario s life. in other words, the very suspicious disappearance of dena, the first wife, whose body has never been found. but ultimately, the judge denied that motion, and we went to trial without that piece. you ve already heard about the prosecution s evidence. ralph s open letter to the huerfano world journal which, said prosecutor matt durkin, had been exposed as an elaborate lie. that letter was in itself a ....
in my mind, if you re not going to tell me what happened, and you re going to dance around the issue and tell me different stories, what are you hiding? investigators wondering the same thing, tried to find answers in the evidence. on a laptop they found hits for, match. com, just days before the murder. somebody had been visiting the site at least. that would have been our suspicion. it s going to be either pam or ralph. right. and then they found ralph s real life mistress. yes, he had one. and she said they carried on for most of the time he was married to pam. but now shannon thought back to the last time she saw her mother. because i asked her if she was happy. what did she say? she realized that she had given up her family, because she had destroyed this relationship with me and kelsey, and she s gotten into this new marriage, telling me that she ....
What did he write in his letter? i went out the back, and the rear door glass was broken. some pieces fell out when i opened the door. ralph even had answers to questions he wasn t asked, like, why was the fireplace poker exactly where it belonged by the fireplace? normally if you used a weapon, you re going to find it somewhere around where your victim is. and it looked like the poker had been put back in its original place. here s what ralph wrote. i picked up the poker to stir up the fire. i saw blood on the end of it and put it down. so investigators studied ralph s manifesto for clues. and thanks to the huerfano world journal, so did everybody else in town. neighbors, mike and dina it sounded like a novel to me. a bizarre one at that. shannon who had been angry at ralph for not protecting her ....
Very sensational story, but it was inconsistent with all of the physical evidence in the investigation that had occurred to that point. which the prosecution listed in detail for the jury to hear. but there s always more than one side to a story. defense attorney dariel weaver told the jury that when she read carefully through all the prosecution material, here s what jumped right out at her. when you take a good hard look at their evidence, when you see that they ve interpreted the evidence to fit the conclusion that they drew in the first 12 hours of this case, you see that all it is is assumptions and suppositions and cut corners. reporter: but, said the defense, if the jury looked at facts and not assumptions, they d see ralph s story about what happened to pam had to be true. remember those two men fingered as possible killers? they had records, drug offenses, ....
ralph s face was banged up. he had bruises in several places. he was confused. like a man coming out of a concussion. just exhausted. my head still just hurts. and then as soon as he was able, and still in his hospital clothes, ralph talked to agents of the cbi. sorry to hear about your loss. it s been a horrible day. the best he could remember, said ralph, he got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. then decided to go downstairs to make sure the wood-burning stove was still lit. but on his way to the bottom of the steps, he said, somebody hit him from behind. and then again from the side. and i put my arm up, and, boom, i mean, it just hit me like a ton of bricks. it hit me hard, you know. and so i went backwards. the ringing i couldn t see no more. ralph was knocked unconscious. ....