i m craig melvin. i m natalie morales. this is dateline. the night before angelo thought that she hurt somebody messing with the front door of the president, she felt like she was being washed. all the wounds that she had to her body, it was a very angry attacked. a nursing student with three children, nobody was busier than angela. as soon as class was over she was gone. back home? yes. that s where they found her. my girl is not answering the phone. the officers could see a lot of blood. police thought her boyfriend s behavior seemed odd. he gets to the door and sees it kicked in, he doesn t go in. people felt that there was something suspicious about that. but, he had an alibi. did he try to point the finger at anybody else? he did. angela s ex husband. the ex had an alibi to. he came off as very calm and collected. and there was something else missing. we got a phone call until someone found it. they asked me if i woul
anyway, afterwards which he said he drove chris back to work and drop them off at walmart. and where the chris ride? in the passenger seat. the same side of the car where the spot of blood was found. angela s blood. when we first interviewed you, richie, why did you not tell us this? well, one because he kept threatening my family. he said if you tell anybody, i will kill your wife, killed your little one. it was quite a story. the only problem? walmart where chris worked has cameras everywhere. and it just so happened that detective goodman had spent most of the night before the interview with richie watching videos. videos that kept witness of every movement, every minute. if chris left the store to kill his wife, then goodman would didn t find him on any video shot between 2:15 am and 3 am. every 5 to 10 minutes, we
richie needed to be the hero. what did he gain from killing her? what did he think he would gain from killing her? control. he wouldn t have to deal with angela anymore. richie wilder is responsible for angela s murder. and only rishi wilder. richie s defense attorney, countered that the murder weapon was never found and suggested ritchie was somehow set up. we there is reasonable doubt here, and i asked that you find richie wilder not guilty. and the jury went out. and returned in less than an hour. i ve had simple theft cases that have taken longer to decide than this case did. we the jury found the defendant rishi wilder junior guilty of the crime of murder. guilty. richie s wife cindy dissolved in tears in the courtroom. and then again later in the hallway. he s a good man.
and now it was the judges turn, would she believe cindy s explanation? you were the one person who could have stopped this nightmare, you were the one person who could ve intervened, who could have called law enforcement when rishi wilder left your home, you were the one person who could have spared angela wilder s life. you chose not to do so. i am here by remanding you to the north dakota department of corrections and rehabilitation as to count one conspiracy to commit murder, to a sentence of life in president without the possibility of parole. life without parole! that was kind of a shocker in the courtroom that day in fact wasn t it? it was a surprise. but i mean it s certainly in my mind well deserved. were you surprised? this judge is known for hard sentencing in particular when children are implicated.
that s “treat t-e-d dot com. the wind on the prairie is a fickle thing. like people sometimes are. is that why angela wilder s fiancée chris was so angry? richie is probably the [bleep] piece of [bleep] who did it. there was a history to this, long before the november morning in 2015 and far away from minot, north dakota, in alabama, angela met richie at church. they were the best of friends as kids, after angela had a baby as a teenager, it was richie who scooped her up, married her, adopted her little girl and before long they had a boy of their own. all witnessed by angela s sister, krystal.