what you re doing and tailors his story to match what he thinks you re finding. exactly. ralph kept explaining, kept offering not less, but more details. about, for example, the drawer pulls in his house, the ones investigators removed to test for fingerprints. in the event that one of the invasion persons touched them. now here s ralph with the police at his house just after pam was murdered. noticing the missing knobs. what happened to all the knobs? he was very upset that they were missing. i don t understand why the knobs are gone. and he would know you re looking for fingerprints of these home invaders. well, yes. but what if they didn t find any fingerprints besides his and pam s? 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
there to meet her along with aaron. how did she take it? about as well as you would expect anybody to get hit by a sledgehammer. first shock and denial. and suddenly i realized that last conversation i had with her was it. no fresh start now. her mother was dead. and then shannon saw ralph. and he lost it. he just turned into a sobbing, shaking maniac. ralph s face was banged up. he had bruises in several places. he was confused like a man coming out of a concussion. exhausted. my head still hurts. as soon as he was able and still in hospital clothes, ralph talked to agents of the cbi. it has been a horrible day.
the warm morning sun. there was blood on the floor. i touched her cheek. she was cold, cold, cold. and i ran out of the house. and that, said ralph, is when he saw his neighbor and yelled for help. who did it? robbers or someone else? normally said police captain vince suarez. you are always looking as people closest to the victim. in this case, ralph was a victim and clearly wanted to help find the killer or killers. cbi agent jody wright. he was cooperative. absolutely. investigators turned their attention to the spurned ex-husband. jerry palmer. actually the next day when the investigators called me. it was no secret jerry and pam did not get along after the
well, you know, the sucker would rather go out than actually face his destiny that way. suicide attempt, delaying tactic, whatever it was it didn t work. a day later the judge ordered ralph back to court. people versus ralph lee candelario sentencing. and ralph, bandaged up, got another day in the spotlight. your honor, i have maintained that i have been innocent through this whole process. and then a keen observer might almost have heard the jaws drop around the courtroom. pam will be resurrected. we will be able to see her again. we will be able to watch her laugh and sing and do all the things that made her such a special person. and in that regard, i put my hope in that future. but until then, i am going to file an appeal for this particular motion.
so no surprise said eric mullens of the world journal. invasion and killing at the candelario place was a big deal for the weekly paper and for the whole town. we didn t know who was out there. people like their neighbors, dina and mark. i was afraid. i didn t even want to go to my paint class that i do in the evening because i was afraid to be out. a lot of people got guns. a lot of neighbors told me. i went out and got a gun. you know? i want to protect myself. everybody knew the candelarios had a nice house, filled with vintage treasures. there s 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 television s 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?