that s when we learned that he decided to go on vacation. reporter: ralph candelario was gone. coming up a manhunt for a suspected killer by cellphone. i initiated some phone calls with ralph so that we could try to track him down. any object. any surface.
again.er it was, said the prosecutors, one of the more disturbing motives for murder they d ever heard.alph so his religious beliefs were more important than somebody else s life?so ralph candelario s life was more important than anyone else s life.th reporter: so the jury got the case. and they worked till the end of the day and then through a w second and then a third. tick tock.th whether they convict him or r they don t is going to be a they don t is going to be a different set of emotions. reporter: and then in the mbr middle of the third day ree we the jury find the defendant, ralph leroy , candelario, guilty of count number one of first degree murder. reporter: guilty. but the end of ralph s story? oh, no.safe on the day set aside for his sentencing ralph decided the plot needed one more twist. the jail issued him a safety razor to clean up for court. ralph used it to slash his wrists and throat.ouua his own son was not sympatheticl
and i know that i need to cope with whatever answer comes. your opening.ut yes, your honor. then here it was, february 25th, 2016. victory, had tied prosecutor ndl ryan brackley s hands, in one way, anyway.er well, we tried to tell the entire story about ralph candelario and ralph as in other words, the very suspicious disappearance of dena, the first wife, whose bodt has never been found. but ec ultimately, the judge deniedt 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 very sensational story, but it was inconsistent with all of the physical evidence in the
front door marched ralph candelario with an open letter to the whole town. it was him explaining what he could remember after he had been treated up in pueblo for his injury and interviewed by the cbi. reporter: this is my story and this is what happened. this is my story. and this is what happened to me reporter: to whom it may concern he began. and we re including his typos exactly as they appeared in his letter. his memory was coming back. he wanted to explain and maybe shannon was right, he felt guilty. i am angry at myself for not finding a way to do more or just getting myself killed, too. now he wrote he had an image of who his attackers were. i got a glimpse of that person, a tall dark man with yellow glasses, short curly hair, wide nose, large lips and marks on the sides of his face. the tall guy was talking on the phone in spanish, he said. one of the two felons who tip the call? it s hard to know. but one of them knocked him out
painstaking police work before investigators finally had enough evidence to arrest ralph candelario for the murder of his wife pam, but they d have to find him first.y ralph was on vacation or maybe on the run. i initiated some phone callsm with ralph so that we could try to track him down. they tracked his cell phone and caught up with him. driver, get your hands in the air. in northern california. walk back to the sound of my voice.pam back to me.en you all right? yeah. charged him with first degrew charged him with first degrew murder. pam s daughters were relieved when they got the news. all i could think to myself was finally.is what was that like? it was like yea, then it was like this is reality all over again. it s starting. meaning, of course, reliving the crime at the trial.ea i m antsy. i m eager.o co you want to go and testify? you want to go and testify? yeah. i want this to be over.