of blood. police thought that her boyfriend s behavior seemed odd. he doesn t going. people thought that there was something suspicious about that. but he had an alibi. did he tried to point the finger anybody else. he did, angela s ex-husband. the ex had an alibi to. he came off as very calm and collected. there is something else missing. we get a phone call until somebody found it. they asked if i would be willing to come up there and wear a wire. just one old friend talking to another about a secret that she was dying to share. i think that she was almost proud of the whole thing. a case where the biggest twist came after the verdict. wow, that was my response, wow. this is a different analysis perry confidential because they really missed parts. hello and welcome to dateline. working mom angela walker dream to becoming a nurse. she s working on both ends to make it come true. then, angela was murdered. investigators suspected that the
angela was nervous, he said. afraid to be left alone. why did he say she was anxious that night? the night before, she said, that she heard somebody messing around at the front door of the residents. she felt like she was being watched. so, said chris, he called and texted her repeatedly. but after 2 am, he said, she did not pick up when he called. and he figured that she had fallen asleep. but no, she was not sleeping. but who killed her? and why? when chris first arrived at the police station, they let him make a phone call. it was obvious, he had his own suspect in mind. richie is probably be piece of who did it. god, i hope they piece it to him. i hope so. richie? who was he. a pregnant young mom dead, her toddler nearby and an
she could. she could have up to two jobs at a time, still attend her classes, and take care of her kids. why did richie and angela s lifetime bond rupture? who really knows? but there is curdled into a corrosive, toxic, anger. richie was court marshaled, convicted of domestic abuse. drummed out of the military. the divorce followed. but then, like the prairie went, their affections shifted. richie remarried, a small town north dakota girl named cindy. who had moved to minot and become a kindergarten teacher. and soon cindy and richie had a baby of their own. and angela got engaged to chris, and she had another baby too. and these two new families, all settle down again. or they might have, except for richie and angela s toxic custody battle. she said he is just fighting me all the time. you know, it has been really hard with the kids. it was bad between those
s car. about dna linked to richie under angela s fingernails. about the changing, self serving, stories that ritchie told. she like leaned up, and scratch the mess out of my face. i grabbed her hands, and she was just like i love you. up to that point, i was thinking that he might be able to convince a jury. but then when he got to the point when he said that angela sat up and said, richie! i love you. it was done. it was done for me. it is just such an incredible thing to throw into that story. it was just an example of ritchie needing to be the hero. what did he gain from killing her? what did he think he would gain? control. he wouldn t have to deal with angela any more. richie wilder, is responsible for angela s murder. and only richie wilder. richie s defense attorney countered that the murder
she wanted someone to talk to. she wanted a companion. it seemed like she was dealing with the realization that her husband was not coming home. it wasn t necessarily romance that she was looking for, just a man to talk to, like the bartender that she once knew at the minot watering hole, cold, the original. his name was matt walters. him and cindy had met before she married richie in 2013. we would hang out on slow nights, two shots together. there was one night when we had a good, in-depth conversation. ever since then, she felt this connection. that is how she referred to it, this connection. the chief trust you? she seemed like it. they lost track of one another, after cindy married richie and had a little girl. but after the murder, cindy found matt on facebook. she said something like, i suppose you heard.