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this week's 48 Hours investigates the murder of an Iowa mother in 2022 Angela Pritchard was shot and killed by her
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husband Chris before her death Angela repeatedly called police claiming he stalked harassed and threatened her her
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family says her death could have been prevented Jonathan votti gives us an early look at his 48 Hours
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report this woman was the key witness to a murder 911 where's your emergency her
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own murder on the morning of October 8 2022 Angela Pritchard was shot and killed where she worked at a dog kennel
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in bellw Iowa in the final moments of her life she called 911 911 can you please get out of here and
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named her killer Chris Pritchard her estrange husband fled the scene he was captured
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about 16 hours later Angela had lived in fear of Chris Richard for months says her sister Wendy buddy I remember saying
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something like I knew something like this was going to happen I knew it was I knew it was you have no idea what I go
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through every single day with him no idea Wendy says Angela documented her husband's escalating rage on brightly
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colored sticky notes her diary of domestic abuse he's been stalking me and watching me very scared of him I think
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Chris is capable of anything this is your worst nightmare yeah yeah everything you've been trying to prevent
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come true everything I've been trying so hard to protect her and to keep her safe
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again and again Chris Pritchard violated a no contact order say Angela's Sons CJ
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Hancock and Josh close sitting outside of her house following her texting her stalking her and again and again they
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say the local Belleview police failed to arrest him they said that they tell him
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to knock it off or have a talk with him nothing nothing was done and she was terrified he got her he got to
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her what do you do when nobody's willing to help you wow well Jonathan VC leotti joins us
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now uh Jonathan good morning so let me ask you what happened to Chris Pritchard in the
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end yeah Vlad there was a trial the jury deliberated for just about an hour ultimately they found Chris Pritcher
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guilty of murder he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Angela's family says justice
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was served but they argue that if the Belleview Police Department took action sooner Angela would still be alive today
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I was struck by what the sister were you going to say what the sister said what do you do when nobody is willing to help
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you why wasn't he arrested after violating those orders and Gail's a great question and that question is
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really at the heart of this story Chris Pritchard allegedly violated that no contact order at least 12 times without
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a single arrest Angela's family maintains that Chris Pritchard had friendships with those three responding
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police officers and those officers showed favoritism when responding to those many 911 calls all right Jonathan
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Vic leotti for us this morning thank you Jonathan you can watch Jonathan's report
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could Angela Pritchard have been saved on 48 hours tomorrow night at 109 Central here on CBS and streaming on
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