he grabbed me with the other hand on my hip right here. and he proceeded to assault me. so that was the whole awful story. but if ralph thought that sharing his new more detailed recollections would clear the air, he was wrong. what did you think when you saw it? i was pretty blown away by what was written. coming up, back at home with detectives, ralph gets his own surprise. he was very upset that they were missing. when dateline continues. i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ooh i m not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and!
crying. he said she is in the kitchen. i ll go get my neighbor. ralph, we re getting help for you ralph. the police arrive. went into the house with guns drawn. at the entrance to the kitchen, still in her nightgown lay pam. her head covered in blood. i knew she was dead when the ambulance showed up because they did not go into the house. they just stayed and were working on ralph. ralph wasn t shot, but he was hurt. he was air lifted to the nearest trauma hospital. the local reporter knew the town was not equipped to handle this investigation. you don t have murder cops on staff. you don t have forensic professionals on staff. by the time shannon arrived at the hospital looking for her mother, an agent of the colorado bureau of investigation was
but here s what pam s daughter, shannon, thought. it felt overly dramatic and really just glamorous that he was the victim of this. and that wasn t that made me sick. and angry obviously. yeah. her sister kelsey s interpretation? i thought it was very strange. i thought that he had some work to do on a story because it sounded really phony. entitled to their opinions, of course. but then so were the cops. recovered memory? no, said the cbi s jody wright. more like a cover-up. nothing in his statement matched anything that i knew to be at the crime scene. it just didn t make sense. none of it. it wasn t 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
but i looked down the hall, and i could see pam s legs in the kitchen. that s when he ran out of the house and found his neighbor who called 911. of course, the world journal printed all that though the police weren t too happy about it. and eric mullens? i remember taking it home and reading it and putting it down and thinking, no, it didn t say that. and picking it back up again. but remarkable as ralph s letter was, it still wasn t the whole story. a few weeks after the murder, he mustered up the courage and told the police while he was held captive, he had asked to go to the restroom and he was sexually assaulted in the bathroom. why didn t he say anything about that before? his explanation was, that he was embarrassed. it might be a little bit difficult to talk about, but the smallest details could be very important, so keep that in mind. ralph agreed to show the investigators exactly what happened, and where.
hillary clinton campaign. this comes three days ahead of the meeting with president trump and vladimir putin in helsinki. and demonstrators protested his visit in nearby london as president trump meets with the queen. now back to dateline. welcome back. i m craig melvin. when ralph candelario s account of the home invasion was published, it became the talk of the town. everyone wondered, could this story be true? ralph said yes. and police wondered if the truth was in there, somewhere. returning to tangled, here s 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.