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investigators determined that Sharice bingham's death was in fact a homicide and they were investigating it as such
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and in talking with her husband Eugene Bingham they quickly learned that his story was just not adding up and then
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there is this police found out about a possible Affair from an anonymous call that came in early in the
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investigation the caller referenced a 14-year relationship Eugene was having with another woman Keith Walker sher's
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older brother who has worked very hard to keep his sister's unsolved murder in the public eye tells us that about a
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year before she died Sharice discovered that Eugene had purchased a duplex in town and was renting it out the property
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manager was listed as a woman whom Eugene met when both of them worked at UPS her job there was in the HR
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department but she moved on to the real estate business all right hold on so he's their relationship is kind of
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strange but they're going to stay married Eugene lives in the basement B peep lives in the basement
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so their marriage isn't great and then she finds out a year before she's murdered he purchased a property a
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duplex so he purchased this and she didn't even know about it that's that's right according to her brother that's
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the information we have right this guy is he's he's not just lying to the cops he's lying about everything this woman
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and Eugene are having an affair now after shar's death her family found out that this woman and Eugene owned another
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house together this is where this woman lived Keith Walker believes that Sharice
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never knew about this other house but she did know about the girlfriend we aren't going to name Eugene's girlfriend
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here but it's now his wife and you can find that information online in in some of the
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papers we will simply refer to her as the girlfriend now in any event the side piece Sharice found out about this
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affair and was upset enough to pawn her wedding ring according to her family why
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she didn't leave Eugene we don't we don't know perhaps she was making plans to do just that right but according to
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Eugene he says things were still good with him in his wife initially Eugene in talking to investigators denied the
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affair but then he told detective norell that he had a fling that had ended four
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years earlier after shares found out about it but police continued to press Eugene
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about who this other woman was and eventually Eugene admitted that it wasn't just a fling that he continued to
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see this woman and the relationship never ended he did give police her name and her phone number now back to the phone
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records that we discussed yesterday yeah the phone number is 1 1800 [ __ ] pag from
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December 3rd to December 11th this is only 8 Days the 8 Days leading up to the murder Eugene called his girlfriend 38
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times that's with a three followed by an eight 38 times what did he call her she
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called Eugene 72 times Jesus on the day after the shooting the girlfriend called
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Eugene nine times then communication abruptly stopped with only one call between the two from December 14th 2012
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to January 27th 2013 that seems incredibly strange to have both of those behaviors going on in
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such a short time period yeah yeah why didn't you Jean just divorced Sharice if he's already having this other
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relationship the number one possible answer here Captain money right right he's but he's
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also acquiring wealth or properties without her knowing so the state police the Indiana State Police they discovered
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that shares had multiple life insurance policies and that Eugene was the beneficiary according to court documents
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Eugene had two life insurance policies on his wife it's not clear whether he was the one that purchased these
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policies or if in fact Sharice was the one that purchased the policies but one of the policies was for 200 thou
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$200,000 and the other was for $250,000 and Sharice had a policy at work through her work for a total of
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$410,000 so I'm going to do my public public school math for everybody on display for all to hear and see and
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witness the Brilliance that's $860,000 in total that's a ton of money for someone
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who is really just sitting around drinking and smoking that is as the colonel says a
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whole lot of Rolling Papers that's a lot lot of whole whole lot of zigzags Eugene when Sharice died was
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unemployed well I want to I want to be clear about this so she had a policy through her work correct I'm going to
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assume that that's pretty standard stuff right but I'm going to assume that she set that up she seemed like a very
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go-getter responsible person and so I'm going to say that she set that those up there was two pieces of property
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purchased without her knowledge correct I'm going to go ahead and say that the other two policies the one for 200,000
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the one and then there was another for 250,000 right correct I'm going to say that those my gut is telling me Eugene
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bought those and that possibly she didn't know anything about it because you'd think that the policy through uh
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her work would suffice enough I think you're spot on for a couple reasons not only do we see another uh a of behavior
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where he's doing things behind her back but also purchasing things purchasing property
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look most people do not over insure themselves as as good as the insurance sales man or woman
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is most people do not over insure themselves we're talking Sharice does not have any children yes her and her
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husband have a home together but it you're not going to set up a situation where you're paying money out
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of pocket to hold these policies that's going to allow this man to quote unquote
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hit the lottery when something happens to you so you would ensure yourself just enough to take care of that person take
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care of the properties any outstanding bills things like that but with no kids this seems like a huge amount this this
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is over insured so I agree with you Captain I think it looks like to me that Eugene may have been secretly holding
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these additional policies because the one from her work is the largest that's $410,000 that's that's a significant
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amount that takes care of everything and ties up all Loose Ends should something
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happen to right and takes care of you and your basement and and the house that's attached to it but now when you
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have two other properties with you know your side piece I think they call them side pieces
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cuz they're side pieces of [ __ ] but uh but now you have two properties with your side piece now we
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have two more policies that cover those it's and I I would like to know when the
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other two policies were were bought when confronted with this information obviously police and
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detectives are going to inform Eugene if he can't figure it out for himself that
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motive motive for murder here could in fact be these three insurance policies it's money man they're going to
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point out to him look you are unemployed at the time that she died MH now for his
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part Eugene said that he had bought into a few businesses that didn't take off they hadn't taken off yet for whatever
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reason that he did own that rental property that did generate some income so he they're they're making different
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arguments the investigator is making the argument that money was a motivating factor and he's trying to negate all
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that by saying look I I had some income with this rental property and I had some
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businesses that just hadn't taken off yet Eugene did agree to take a polygraph test and did so on January 9th
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2013 before the test was initiated detectives asked Eugene what he believed happened to his wife he said he was
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muling this over for quite some times and actually thinking of several different
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scenarios he says one possibility sh had the gun in her pocket the safety was off
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and one of the dogs jumped up and discharging the weapon but as we know this just does not work due to the
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bullet holes in her clothing that we have already discussed right Eugene also suggested that shares could have slipped
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and fallen and accidentally shot herself then again the evidence says not when pressed Eugene said that all he
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knew for sure was that Sharice did not harm herself on purpose and that he had nothing to do with it he just wanted the
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whole thing to be over is what he told the investigators this was a nightmare for him as well as he states he really
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missed Sharice but then Eugene may have slipped up in his statement to investigators MH he said that he learned
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from the corer that the projectile and this is a quote this is a direct quote quote projectile that had killed his
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wife had been recovered end quote he said he assumed that law enforcement had matched it to the gun found at the scene
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but on January 9th when Eugene made this statement police had not yet gathered the proof showing that the ballistics
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were in fact a match in other words Eugene knew that the bullet came from shar's gun before investigators
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did Eugene also made another interesting statement got him when asked quote what
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should happen to a person that kills his wife end quote Eugene responded they should go to jail just
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like the person that did it end quote he went on to say that if you plotted with
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someone then you should go to jail along with the person who did it so it looks like you Eugene thought that police were
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asking him about a conspiracy about a conspiracy to commit murder the murder of his wife right could that in fact be
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a clue as to what actually happened and what actually went down Eugene continued
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to ramble wondering what would have happened if he had accompanied his wife on her walk he said I'd probably be in
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jail according to what he says he's seen on TV the husband is always the first suspect in response to
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questioning he said that there are three reasons he could think of that might cause someone to kill their spouse money
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they fall out of love or they find out their spouse has done something bad yeah but In fairness okay you ask a question
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whatever he gives you as an answer that makes him look guilty right right so I mean in all fairness to to him because
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if you ask me right now that same question my answers are going to be similar that doesn't mean I
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had anything to do with the death of sh so right and not only that one one technique that detectives very often use
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now keep in mind I'm summarizing a lot of this information hold on I I do want to applaud you because you
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did the colonel pulled a Keith Morris yeah where where you set it up you know and then he then he answered it could be
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money well I I spend every night watching on the TV learning watching and learning growing growing trying to
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become a better person yeah so um but one technique that detectives will very often use is they'll throw out a
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question there for you they'll let you answer it and then they just kind of sit there in hopes that you'll continue to
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talk and some people will do this in a nervous fashion and others will just do it because there's an awkward silence
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and it sounds to me like that's what's going on here that they just throw out a couple of questions that may have even
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started with some softball questions and he gives them an answer and then continues to Ramble On Ramble On and in
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a way you know the old the old saying if you if you find yourself in a grave stop
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digging you know so now the polygraph test itself and there are are some people out there right now that are
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booing boo boo here they go talking about polygraph again we understand they're not on your boo they're of no
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use in the court of law but obviously the investigators are still using them we are still going to talk about them so
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the polygraph itself only presented Eugene with three questions one two three questions the first being did you
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shoot Sharice the second are you the one who shot Sharice and the third do you know for sure who
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shot Sharice Eugene answered no to all three questions The Examiner scored the exam he determined that it was
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inconclusive but further indicated that it was very close to a failure a second examin examiner scored the exam and also
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determined that it was quote at or near failure furthermore Accord according to an affidavit an additional check was
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done with an electronic scoring system that is used only as a reference and that scoring system scored these tests
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as a failure so the official results of the poly was inconclusive but detective norell
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considers Eugene to have failed the polygraph okay I I'm trying to follow you here it's tough this this part of
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this story is is very confusing so they give one test but they have two different individuals score that test
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and then they then they have a computer basically score the test as well MH very well see all I'm thinking about is
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Keith Morrison that is why in fact that these polygraph test are not of any use in the court of law because they you
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know look the the slang term for them are lie detector test the test does not detect
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lying at all right it detects your reaction to the question and your behavior uh at the time that you are
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providing an answer so what that means is it's not a situation where it was did you have McDonald's for breakfast today
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and I say yes and then the thing goes which means I'm lying no it just records my my reaction to the question and to
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the answer that I'm providing and then somebody has to come in and view it with their own eyes and ex you know review
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the exam and score it so it's open to interpretation right so so the detectives come into the room and they
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ask the colonel did you have McDonald's breakfast this morning was he telling the truth we will
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never know we may never know I I please lead the fifth uh I need to work on my Keith
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Morrison so Eugene agreed to a second polygraph examination this was going to take place on January 22nd before the
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exam he answered some questions about his affair he said that he the woman started off as his business
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partner but one thing led to another and then it turned into something else he did say that Sharice did in fact find
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out about the affair but he was never fully honest with Sharice Eugene felt sure that Sharice died not knowing that
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he was continuing to see this woman that's probably maybe the most truthful thing that he's ever said is when he was
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like I wasn't honest with her like that's probably the most honest thing that this guy could say I'm a lying [ __ ]
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princess but it also in a sense that's him trying to to look when when they say money was a
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motivating factor in her murder he's saying well I had income it's not just so so clean and simple that I was
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unemployed I had income coming in and then when suggesting that the affair would be motive for her murder he's
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saying she found out about it I told I admitted to it but I wasn't fully honest with her and at the time of her death
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she died not knowing that I was continuing to see this woman so if she doesn't know at the time of
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her then it may not be a motivating factor for the murder is what he's trying to say right let's start with the
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idea again we don't know who bought the policies but I think the policies is motive for murder I don't care if he
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even had a job it's motive for murder the fact that you're having Affair or had an affair had one or is having one
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that is motive that means that you didn't like your current situation and so you you decided to run out on your
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wife right so also sounds like he doesn't have enough things enough hobbies to fill his day with because
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he's not busy working so right but then so so we have that but then we also have
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I think just the fact that he is buying properties and having almost a double life is is motive for murder because
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when she finds out about the one piece of property she didn't find out about the other piece of property so is he
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trying to hide that from her and then again it with let's go back to the stepping out on your wife okay she knows
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that you had an affair but she doesn't know it's continuing maybe she knew it was continuing but she didn't give a
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rat's ass because you're lazy piece of [ __ ] ass lives in the basement right and
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she's planning on leaving you anyways she's just not telling you that because why the hell would she have to tell you
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that when you've been stepping out on her right so I think there's a lot of motives here
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uh but the issue that I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is I think these
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motives as as daming as they are pointing the finger to Eugene really makes me start questioning
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the side piece because all those benefits would benefit her as well yeah so the when we when we talk about motive
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though as well let's for for anything one thing that I see here the the ownership of two properties with
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this woman that shows a motive that he was not intending at any time to to leave that other relationship
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ship this shows a motive that he intends to further that relationship and to build that relationship and again well
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he has more to lose he has more property to lose and and and possible income to lose if he if he loses that relationship
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and one and one thing that's not discussed as a possible motive is maybe she was maybe Sharice was in fact
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planning on leaving him and maybe she expressed that to him at some point right so we we were going down the path
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of the polygraphs the not lie detectors but the second polygraph test that he agrees to now this took place on January
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22nd again in the second poly there were only three questions asked of Eugene one
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did you shoot Sharice two are you the one who shot Sharice and three did you participate in the shooting of Sharice
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again the results of this exam were inconclusive and close to failure detective norell tells us that he
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initially asked Eugene to submit to a polygraph exam so he could rule the husband out as a suspect I think that's
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pretty interesting to hear that from one of the detectives on the case he's not saying that we gave him this polygraph
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test because we believed he was the number one guy because he was the Prime sub ECT we simply asked him to to submit
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to the polygraph because we wanted to clear him and move on from the husband being a suspect and to look into
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different areas so for anyone out there that's going well they got tunnel vision and they set their
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sights on Eugene and never never let go left it in the lock position I think this statement here to me is is quite
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telling that that in fact was not the situation they didn't have tunnel vision they weren't locked and loaded on Eugene
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and in fact when the results of the polygraph come back and it's found to be inconclusive close to
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2023 welcome back my lovely lovely friends welcome to the garage smells good oh God
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gross smells good in the garage I lit some candles clean out your face hey the weather keeps changing so
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it goes from super cold to not so bad I'm a little clogged up and we're in a garage so um Eugene's girlfriend took
00:30:01
that polygraph test that we were talking about she took this on February 8th 2013 and the questions again here are
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just three questions first being did you shoot that woman the second are you the one who
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shot that woman and third did you participate in the shooting of that woman interesting to see the contrast
00:30:26
between the two polygraphs even though they are just three questions long right when you're questioning the husband you
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state the victim's name and when testing the girlfriend you refer to Sharice as that woman find that to be interesting I
00:30:45
don't know what the Yeah strategy is there now the girlfriend did answer no to all three questions she was scored as
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a failure she left the exam and retained an attorney oh really oh man we both like lie detector
00:31:09
tests but we also tell people if I was charged with a crime and then it doesn't matter if I was innocent or not if they
00:31:18
said well let let's give you a lie detector there's there's no it's like throwing the football and
00:31:27
and uh two bad things can happen or something like that what's well that's what Woody Hayes used to say that when
00:31:35
you throw the football only two only three things can happen and two of them are bad meaning it would
00:31:41
be intercepted or an incomplete pass and then the one good being that you complete the pass and it and it you know
00:31:49
further the ball down the field but that's same with a polygraph the good thing is is that you
00:31:54
pass it the bad thing is you fail but the other bad thing is it's inconclusive yeah and I mean we've said
00:32:02
this before you really have nothing to gain by by passing it right right like there's there's really nothing for you
00:32:11
to gain because if you do pass the polygraph and and the investigators still have evidence and still believe
00:32:18
you to be guilty they're just going to say well that doesn't matter we can't use it in court anyway right it it's
00:32:24
really just a tool and I think it's it's a tool to apply pressure to the person that you need that you want to crack to
00:32:33
crack and give a confession or to crack and give an incriminating statement I think that the only way that
00:32:41
you would let's say you are innocent and you know yourself to be innocent the only way that you would agree to a
00:32:47
polygraph I have seen scenarios where someone says I will do a polygraph exam but my attorney is going to hire the the
00:32:57
person giving the exam and we're going to do the test conduct the test at my attorney's office you know they really
00:33:04
play it like homec court advantage type situation so it's it's really really a tricky thing and it's really a tricky
00:33:12
thing in this particular case because we stated this at the beginning of yesterday's show this case seems to me
00:33:20
to not be solved due to a lack of effort or knowhow it seems that this case is just solved because of a lack of
00:33:29
evidence and police by this point in our story they believe that Eugene Bingham was in some way responsible for his
00:33:37
wife's death however the Walker family began to suspect Eugene's involvement in shara's Death from the beginning
00:33:46
according to Deborah McMurray that's what she told True Crime daily and to this day they still do they still
00:33:53
believe that he is involved in some way in shar's death and here's why this is the circumstantial evidence the gun and
00:34:03
its pouch were in two different locations contrary to shar's Habit leading the family to believe that the
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gun was used to kill Sharice that it had not gone with her on her walk only Eugene's DNA was on the gun although
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there were no usable prins mhm another thing that they point to Eugene didn't have much of an alibi for that night
00:34:28
Eugene was having a long-term Affair the dogs they say her family says likely knew the
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attacker cell phone evidence put Eugene Bingham in the area at the time of the murder Eugene and his girlfriend both
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failed or close to failed polygraph examinations and finally they point to the fact that shares had three life
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insurance polic policies totaling $860,000 and rotten Bo Peep Eugene was the beneficiary of those policies yeah [ __ ]
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princess mhm so could all of this circumstantial evidence lead to an arrest well after detectives worked the
00:35:16
case for 16 months prosecutors felt that there was in fact enough evidence to proceed against Eugene a Maran County
00:35:24
grand jury was convened in March of 2014 the girlfriend testified before the panel but did not shed any more light on
00:35:34
what actually happened right because she can't incriminate herself on July 16th 2014 this is nearly
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two years after Sharice was killed and affidavit for probable cause was filed in Maran County Indiana seeking the
00:35:52
arrest of Eugene Bingham he was arrested on July 28th and charged with murder the
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trial was set for September 2015 and Keith Walker representing his sister's estate filed a wrongful death
00:36:09
action against Eugene Bingham about 6 weeks before the trial the Walker family was hit with some
00:36:17
devastating news Marian County Prosecutors decided to drop the charges against Eugene Indiana state police
00:36:25
detective Rich Meer who worked the Bingham case said quote we know we charged the right person but
00:36:32
we just need that little bit more of information end quote right Eugene was free to go so what happened to plunge
00:36:44
the DA's case the short answer is the cell phone tower evidence fell apart ping ping ping ping much like when I
00:36:53
tried to read it for you on the show so according to her brother to sher's brother Keith Walker the prosecuting
00:37:01
attorney and the detectives decided that there was not enough evidence to convict
00:37:05
Eugene given that they could not get Sprint the cell service provider to testify in court that Eugene's phone was
00:37:16
at the murder scene all right and but in layman's terms what happened right they
00:37:22
they they they do the they get the information from spr at some point and that puts him in the area mhm and they
00:37:30
start going okay well now his Alibi is not making any sense now his story is falling apart but his story is falling
00:37:37
apart because they have that information and then when they charge him and they're about to go to
00:37:43
trial it's not even that Sprint is telling them that hey look um that information we gave
00:37:51
you we're not saying it's right or wrong but we don't think it's accurate correct what what was reported
00:38:01
on Investigation Discovery they reported that the cell phone company said their data was flawed and that they were no
00:38:09
longer confident their records could be relied upon to place Eugene at the scene
00:38:15
now detective norell explained that the cell phone company could not confirm the
00:38:21
location accuracy of the call from the chiropractor remember that's the call that went to Eugene's voicemail around
00:38:29
7:30 7:40 yeah as as they could for an answered call okay so what he's saying he that they were told by the cell phone
00:38:40
provider was because that phone call went to voicemail the provider is saying that
00:38:47
information is less accurate than had Eugene answered the call that that ping would be more accurate and because
00:38:55
they're not willing to testify in court at his trial the judge isn't going to let that
00:39:03
evidence stand if you don't have an expert there to back it up right keep going so this again is in relation to
00:39:16
the 7:41 p.m. call uh regarding where where the pings were coming in from the cell phone towers this would have put
00:39:25
Eugene's own by the river at that time rather than at home like he said he was but the provider saying we can't 100%
00:39:33
back that up the other thing too Captain is you and I know from other cases that
00:39:38
this cell phone tower pinging evidence really isn't or doesn't seem to be super reliable in in most cases right
00:39:49
I wish they checked and I don't know if they did but uh the girlfriend the side pieces cell phone to check that
00:39:59
locations and see uh where where her whereabouts were because to me one of the things that Eugene when he says you
00:40:10
know when they ask him you know what should happen to a husband that that kills his wife and he starts going well
00:40:18
they should go to jail just like the person that did it like again it's almost like he's making up this
00:40:24
Narrative of yeah okay I if if my girlfriend gets caught for the murder I should go to jail too
00:40:33
and so I'd really like to know where her whereabouts whoever he hired to kill her
00:40:38
right but I'd like to know where her whereabouts are because to me it seems like again she has just as many motives
00:40:49
as him and and now they're married so now they're lifelong team and it's like I'd like to know where she was
00:40:59
at yeah I mean and the other thing too is you really wonder if that 741 call that goes to his
00:41:11
voicemail is that really the slip up because in every situation a criminal or a a team of
00:41:18
criminals makes a mistake they just do there are no such thing as perfect crimes it's just Detective do not detect
00:41:27
what the mistake is and can't can't really exploit that mistake to their advantage so you wonder if that
00:41:36
7:41 p.m. call if that was the slip up because remember he Eugene tells law enforcement that his wife was there at
00:41:48
their home at the start of the basketball game which is starting around that same 7:41 time frame yeah within
00:41:56
minutes of that and you wonder if if she look if he was in a different place and
00:42:03
trying to make up an alibi and somebody else is out doing the dirty deed but does not reach out to him until
00:42:12
741 in his PE brain he's saying I only need to I need to account for my alibi around this time of 7:41 which according
00:42:22
to the investigator's timeline means nothing she had been killed and been found and police responded an hour and
00:42:30
11 minutes earlier than that right so it it's it's all very tricky here unfortunately what takes place is the
00:42:39
authorities have to explain to shar's family that because of Double Jeopardy it is best for them to drop the charges
00:42:47
for now and to strive to obtain more evidence to build an ironclad case against Eugene
00:42:56
Bingham 9 years later the family is still waiting the wrongful death suit was essentially
00:43:07
settled the life insurance company was forced to pay on the policies on shar's once once the charges were
00:43:16
dismissed against Eugene they had to pay him for those policies well now he can take that money and hire a better lawyer
00:43:24
well since Keith was Pur suing on his sister's behalf to collect the funds instead the insurance company paid the
00:43:31
proceeds into the court and then the Court held them until the dispute between Keith and Eugene could be
00:43:39
resolved via mandated arbitration Keith on behalf of shar's estate felt that he had no choice but to
00:43:49
settle for $75,000 Eugene Bingham collected the rest and and he then married his
00:43:57
longtime girlfriend they still own the house where Sharice and Eugene lived as husband and
00:44:06
wife police still consider Eugene the or the suspect in this open and unsolved murder as we've seen from all the things
00:44:19
we've discussed it certainly would have been possible for Eugene to be the shooter and to have acted alone but
00:44:28
there are also some other possibilities Eugene seemed to be addressing the detectives questions from the
00:44:35
perspective of a conspirator right when asked what should happen to the murderer
00:44:41
he responds that if someone plotted with someone to kill someone else they should
00:44:45
be prosecuted equally he volunteered the conspiracy angle Eugene could have hired someone to
00:44:53
kill his wife this would likely have had to involve possibly burner phones and Eugene giving shar's gun to the shooter
00:45:03
in advance the shooter would have followed Sharice to the trail right remember we said her family says she
00:45:12
thought she was being followed ban the blue blazer right and could have pretended to be a pedestrian or even a
00:45:19
cyclist and shot Sharice from a close range before the dogs would have alerted to danger if it happened this way though
00:45:28
one would think that Eugene would come up with come up with a better Alibi than I
00:45:35
fell asleep on the couch yeah one thing that is strange regardless of how this went down or who
00:45:42
was responsible according to detective Norvell no Witnesses ever have come forward to say that they heard a gunshot
00:45:52
this is in the middle of a city not in a remote area area mhm and it's surprising
00:45:58
since when detectives arrived on the scene there were more than a couple of bystandard in the area was the shooter
00:46:06
lucky you know we we've talked about that and I hate to say it that way but we've talked about it in so many other
00:46:12
cases well say it in your Keith Morrison voice and everybody will like it better
00:46:16
sometimes these scumbags just get lucky and whatever went down that night might that might just be part of it or did the
00:46:25
shooter did he or she follow Sharice and make sure that no one else was around before making their move that's a
00:46:32
possibility as well yeah okay so weirdly though I think um Eugene got lucky because I actually think he was at home
00:46:42
I think that was the plan and he was at home and then the cell phone ping technology was actually wrong because I
00:46:49
don't know necessarily if he would have been the one to try to pull this off unless his
00:47:00
girlfriend was at his house I I just think it's you know you take her polygraph test look we know he's a known liar but
00:47:12
when you look at her polygraph test to me she failed the test and and that that that puts her involved
00:47:22
somehow now again we we're not state in her name she doesn't have to be guilty of anything other than knowledge though
00:47:31
to fail that test right right meaning meaning she didn't have to kill Sharice or participate in the actual crime
00:47:39
itself other than Eugene or whoever is responsible may have told her what happened prior to
00:47:47
that test because one of one of those questions is simply do you know what happened to that woman do you know who
00:47:53
shot that woman and she could be lying about that right but if you shot her you're a piece of [ __ ] if you knew
00:48:02
Eugene shot her you're a piece of [ __ ] you know what I mean if you know somebody else did it oh yeah nobody's
00:48:08
arguing nobody's arguing that I'm just clearing up that because she didn't pass the polygraph doesn't mean that she was
00:48:14
the the trigger man she was the shooter but she has knowledge and that's pathetic you're living with this man and
00:48:22
you have knowledge that he either and again to me if you have knowledge of it and you're not going to the police and
00:48:29
then on top of that you're going to marry this guy it's like you're even a bigger piece of [ __ ] than I thought you
00:48:35
were well you're a freaking [ __ ] too because look you're a piece of [ __ ] for
00:48:39
knowing and not going to the police you're a [ __ ] for marrying a guy that you know did something terrible or was
00:48:45
involved in something as heinous as a murder yeah and a lot of times they'll say don't get involved that doesn't seem
00:48:51
like a good person to shack up with right because you're you you would be the next in line for what happened to
00:48:58
Sharice right that's like when two married couples are having an affair and then the people that are having an
00:49:03
affair get married and then they're jealous all the time because they know that what the person's capable of well
00:49:10
so now that you know he's capable of you know one not having a job and sponging off his significant other uh living in
00:49:18
the basement smoking his zigzags uh you know he's capable of that you know he's also so capable of lying
00:49:28
for 14 years and having this affair you know he's capable of buying property behind your back and now you know that
00:49:35
he's capable of murder or hiring somebody for murder conspiracy for murder so what where's your
00:49:43
selfworth you idiot you know so it's ridiculous and and and I hope she hears this and goes
00:49:51
you know what maybe maybe I could be in danger one day and I should go to the police and say hey this is what I know
00:49:59
because with the evidence they have and and take away the Pingping ping evidence with the evidence they have and
00:50:08
her confession yeah maybe you go to jail for a little bit but they're going to they'll make a deal with you and then
00:50:16
he'll go to away he'll go away for a really long time which will protect you I don't think this woman who would be in
00:50:23
her late 50s I'm guessing based off of what we have in front of us I I don't believe that that now she would grow a
00:50:33
brain after all of these years of walking around on this planet bumping into walls and such but I think here in
00:50:41
this is this is something that is not going to help the case at all but this is where my questions
00:50:47
lie is with the pouch the gun pouch the the the one that was made specifically to house the gun that killed Sharice
00:50:56
shar's gun yeah I feel that it's very interesting for two reasons that those two things were separated I see no
00:51:06
reason why they should have been separated other than somebody was conspiring against Sharice for the sake of murder
00:51:15
or plotting by themselves her murder right and I think what's inter agree interesting thing here is that you
00:51:25
Eugene is the one who reported it now I know we've said a lot of bad things about Eugene and I've called him a lot
00:51:33
of different names but at least in this situation he was smart enough to identify and to
00:51:42
recognize if they find these two items separately and away from one another I now have to if I don't want to have to
00:51:52
be the one to explain that away I might as well be the one to report it to detectives that I found it at our home
00:51:59
yeah I agree and where I'm going with this is is two situations okay if Eugene was plotting was was conspiring with
00:52:09
somebody else to shoot and kill Sharice on the trail or or at some location if she was being followed maybe this
00:52:17
location that night was not planned it was just whenever you can pull it off do it but the reason for that pouch and
00:52:26
that gun to be in separate locations I I'm a gun owner I keep my guns in cases and and things of that
00:52:33
nature I have areas where I keep them if I see that case my assumption is because
00:52:41
my gun is always in there unless I'm using it the gun is in there meaning Sharice could could see potentially see
00:52:51
that pouch at her home and believe that her gun was in that pouch without checking it right meaning he could have
00:52:58
had to give that gun to the other person so then when opportunity comes a knocking his cons his conspirator has
00:53:06
the weapon on their person and can pull the trigger then and there right and leave the gun with shares right but he
00:53:13
also had a matching gun so he could have just taken her little gun Pur and then put his gun in there you know as a decoy
00:53:21
correct correct and then to further that thought then the other thing is if in fact Eugene was the trigger
00:53:30
man maybe when he dumped the gun next to Sharice and he took off those winter gloves that were found next to her body
00:53:38
so his Prince or somebody else's Prince wouldn't be on the gun and dropped them next to her body as well maybe he forgot
00:53:46
to dump the pouch there as well and or maybe he forgot to bring it with him that night and then later decided well I
00:53:55
got to account for this and rather than be the one that has to explain it away maybe if I just report it they will not
00:54:04
consider this to be part of of of the large amount of circumstantial evidence that points to Eugene in closing the
00:54:14
Sharice Walker Bingham murder is now a Cold Case The Walker family continues to hold vigils and conduct Facebook
00:54:24
campaigns to help bring attention to the case everyone remains hopeful that someone will come forward and do the
00:54:32
right thing we would like to thank detective norell and the Indiana State Police for all of their hard work on
00:54:40
this case and thank them again for taking time out of their very busy schedules to answer our questions we
00:54:48
wish the Walker family nothing but the best and would like to remind everyone that if you have any information at all
00:54:56
to please call the Indiana State Police at 1 1800 453 4756 this week we have a little
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