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Indianapolis in Central Indiana for this week's case they have been there since the
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beginning December 12th 2012 re Walker Bingham was shot and killed near her home the murder has gone
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unsolved not because of a lack of effort or knowhow but from a lack of evidence Sharice was close with her
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family and every year near the first days of Winter the Walker family unfortunately
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has to experience the anniversary of her death but it's also a very important marker for where where the case stands
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today it's one more chance to remind the public that someone very special was taken away far too
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early an injustice has been done and someone still needs to be held responsible WTHR reported on December
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12th 2016 that on this date exactly 4 years ago someone got away with murder on the anniversary of the crime
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police and the family of Sharice Bingham begged for help and Justice they returned to the scene of
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the crime a popular walkway along the White River near New York Street on the edge of the IUPUI
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Campus bingham's brother Keith Walker organized the vigil each year he said we want to keep praying
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about it and justice will prevail it really will we just can't give up Sharice Walker Bingham was walking her
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dogs it was early evening she was murdered with her own gun her family and friends are pleading
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and praying someone steps forward and points the police in the direction of her killer at the vigil one woman prayed out
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loud saying we know things are done in secret things are done in the dark will come to
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light 2018 marked 6 years since the murder of shice Bingham on this day Keith Walker was
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quoted on channel 13 saying when this day rolls around that's the day she got murdered for my family we just go back
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to how loving and caring she was we just knew it wasn't time for her to leave us every December 12th her brother Keith
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and other friends and family Mark her murder at that location yeah the pain is still there
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said Walker it will never go away but the evil thoughts that I had they're gone they have been replaced by the
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strong drive to find the killer he pleads with anybody on the trail that night you had to see somebody walk up to
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her and say something to her bring this to a close let's find out why this happened said Walker get some justice
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over it so both families can move on the family ask anybody with information to please call the Indiana State Police at
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1 1800 453 4756 this week we will explore the known facts of the case and some previously
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not released to the public and we will look into the possibilities was this a random crime
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was there something or someone closer to home that could be responsible this is true crime garage
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and this is the case of Sharice Walker [Music] Bingham Sharice Walker Bingham was 51 years old
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she died just days before her 502 birthday Sharice was born on December 23rd 1960 she was a native of Indianapolis
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Indiana growing up in the area in a large family surrounded by two brothers and a larger extended family shara's
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mother was ill and unfortunately passed away in her early 50s sh thees was called reesei by her family she was
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popular and athletic in high school and she had an affinity for dogs particularly German
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Shepherds at the age of 9 or 10 shara's family said she was so attached to her Shepherd Cruiser that the dog did
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everything with her she continued to own and train German Shepherds for the rest
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of her life shice did go to veterinarian school although it's not clear whether she completed her degree
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in her early 20s Sharice met and married a man named Eugene Bingham Jr who is known as Bo Peep according to sh's
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family they were married for 28 years Eugene was born on March 14th 1961 so he was just a little younger than his wife
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so we have reesi and Bo Peep that's right now Eugene is 6 foot tall and about 200 lb before shar's death he had
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worked part-time at up and also had a job at the Indianapolis water company he had since retired from UPS and then he
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lost his job at the water company this is because the company had been sold and the new corporate owners required drug
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testing of their employees we have been told that Eugene could not pass the drug test shar's
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family tells us that Eugene was a pot smoker Sharice did not share this hobby with her husband in fact she was
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extremely healthc conscious she watched what she ate she exercised and she worked out
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regularly now Sharice and her husband Eugene they had no children so Sharice was crazy about her two dogs treating
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them like they were her kids she worked full-time at a couple of different long-term positions throughout her adult
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life now just months before she took a position at the Gatorade bottling plant this is in Indianapolis
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she was a member of the New Haven Missionary Baptist Church where she was very active in the community there you
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now Sharice would be described as tall attractive with short hair according to shar's Aunt Deborah McMurray she had a
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way about her that when she walked into a room she made people turn their heads the general known facts of December 12th
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2012 the day in question is that shice Bingham was walking her dogs presumably alone now even though it was after dark
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it was still just evening time fairly early and this is in a big city on a well-traveled path and her two German
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Shepherds are with her and are train to protect this is like a walking path or biking path right correct so this is
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around 6:30 p.m. when a passing cyclist found her body bloodied and prone with her two dogs circling her in
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distress what happened and why would someone kill this warm beloved Church growing hardworking woman let's get into
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the details of that day to try to figure it out right so the 12th of December 2012 it was a cold Wednesday evening
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Sharice was scheduled to work the overnight shift at the Gatorade bottling plant she was going about her typical
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routine that evening which involved walking her two dogs this is MayDay and tsunami she set out with them for a
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walking trail along the White River this is right near the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus
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iupi about 3 miles from shar's home Sharice drove to this location in her truck and parked it in a small lot along
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the north White River Parkway West she then proceeded to cross the White River on the West New York Street bridge and
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then turned onto the White River Trail this as the captain points out is a trail that is popular for biking
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walking and running during the daytime because it connects the IUPUI Campus to some of the
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dormitories but it would have been dark or nearly dark by this time when Sharice
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started out on her walk the trail at this this time of day would be much less populated after Sunset right but she's
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in shape she has her two dogs with her now she's taking the dogs on the walk but the dogs are also a form of
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protection for her and she also carries a gun with her when she walks most of the time keep in mind she works at night
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this is part of her daily routine this is morning for her but it's evening for the rest of us in
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Indiana on December 12th Sunset is right around 5:00 p.m. or so right so it would
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be dark or nearly dark by this time now we are not certain how far along on her walk Sharice got to whether she was just
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heading out or actually on her way back right and that's because they don't have
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a definitive time of when she started or how long she was walking for detective Les norell of the Indiana State Police
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who worked the case told us that based on the timeline it seems that Sharice was just starting out on her walk but
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the timing is not known for certain a psychist later told authorities that he had passed her along his ride and that
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she had to Corral the two dogs who were off of a leash in order to let him pass the psychist noted that Sharice was
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walking with the leash slung around her neck you know so she had a leash with her in case she should needed but was
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not using it at the time that the cyclist passed sometime later the cyclist was on his way back when he came
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across shar's body with the dogs circling her Sharice was lying on the paved trail fa down this was near the
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intersection of West New York Street and Limestone Street close to where she had
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parked there was blood on the concrete beneath her Indiana State police officers were dispatched to the scene at
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approximately 6:30 p.m. this according to the Press statement this was Indiana state police
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jurisdiction not Indianapolis PD because the trail was technically State Parkland
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right students from IUPUI nearby who saw the police cars and heard the sirens they were shocked this was normally
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quite a safe very public space right one of the students who was interviewed by the local Fox station after biking by
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the crime scene said he could see two German Shepherds standing over a body before he was ordered Away by the police
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yeah her her dogs were protecting her when detective norell arrived on the scene he was told that when medical
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personnel arrived shar's two dogs were guarding her and would not permit the EMTs to get anywhere near her yeah they
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could not even approach her to check for Vital Signs the dogs were this is their
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words people were very sensitive about how you describe dogs and their actions cuz we love them so much right but the
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words that we've been told was the dogs were too threatening for EMTs to approach Sharice yeah which is
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interesting to me because she's walking the dogs without a leash so we we could just assume that they're they're trained
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dogs they're well- behaved dogs she babied them but they're probably most people don't take their dog for a walk
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and take it off the chain if they don't think uh the dog is going to be able to control themselves so obviously she's
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walking with the dogs without the leash leash being around her neck and then this attack happens and now they're
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trying to guard her or protect her and a once that gets near they're almost act in a in a in a vicious manner well the
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dogs are on edge obviously because something went down and that's what we're trying to figure out and then on
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top of that they're the probably the person that they love by far the most right is obviously hurting um and they
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they are aware of that the Indiana State Police press statement indicated that the canines
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appear to be protecting to be protective of the deed and would not let investigative Personnel approach another
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officer at the scene said that the dogs were circling the body and being aggressive toward anyone the
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Indianapolis Animal Control was called in and did tranquilize the dogs and remove them now detective norell said
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that he found the victim lying on her back she had been turned over by EMTs who were checking on her injuries there
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was blood and foam on her face and blood beneath her body she was later identified as 51-year-old Sharice Walker
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Bingham strewing about shara's body police found some very important things okay so they found her flip style cell
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phone which was beeping at the time this according to the detective indicating it
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needed to be charged an Indiana firearm carry permit was found a pair of black winter gloves
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a small caliber semi-automatic handgun it was determined that Sharice Bingham had been shot detective Norvell
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told us that one thing that was strange was that shar's personal items were scattered around the ground near her
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body as if she or someone else had pulled them out in an attempt to get at her phone or something else in her
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pocket now I know that everyone is thinking what are we going on what's going on here right we have a woman
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found dead in the park her firearm is found near her she was determined to be shot was this an accident a suicide a
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homicide I think we should go through each of these scenarios well I think investigators originally thought because
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it it was her own gun that that it was a suicide one thing the police spent a significant amount of time looking into
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early on was if this could have been an accident Sharice owned a gun and one had
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been found at the scene shar's husband Eugene suggested that perhaps the dogs had jumped up on her causing the gun to
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go off and Sharice he said had been considering carrying her gun with the round chambered Eugene told her that this was
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a bad idea right but if this is how this went down she may not have listened to him so
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you're going to carry a gun for protection but you're not going to have any rounds loaded in it is what he's
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saying well for safety purposes most people do not round a do not put a round in the chamber not in the chamber but
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there's still bullets in the gun correct okay on the night that she died she would have carried her gun in the right
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breast pocket of her coveralls as we know she did not have have her gun pouch with her this all of
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this stuff is going to become very important to how a lot of stuff fig we're able to
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figure out a lot of this stuff here okay so pay attention she you pay attention she would have carried the gun in her
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right breast pocket of her coveralls we know this because she did not have her gun pouch with her and the
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coveralls had holes in the hip Pockets so it would have been impossible to carry the gun in there so the gun had to
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be placed in the chest area Pocket police conducted test on the gun and determined that it required 10 lbs of
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pressure to pull the trigger keep that in mind when we're considering that one of the dogs managed to jump up and
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somehow wedge down the trigger shooting Sharice in the chest right but we also need to account for how the gun got out
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of her pocket and into onto the ground perhaps perhaps she had been holding it and somehow fired it at herself
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accidentally this seems incredibly unlikely police didn't actually spend too much time on this accident theory in
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light of other information which surfaced during the investigation now I wouldn't rule out
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the the possibility that the dog would be able to create 10 lbs of pressure just the likelihood that
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PA or something would be able to fit you know to pull the trigger that to me that
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seems more unlikely well there's a there's several problems with that and I agree with you 100% I I actually think
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10 pounds of pressure might be a little light considering how large I'm assuming
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these dogs are right German Shepherds are not small dogs well and if a dog jumps up on you when they're excited you
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know sometimes they can knock you back a little bit even if they're not that big
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of a dog the problem then becomes comes two different issues here one if the gun is secure in her pocket
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how is the the math of of in the angles of getting a dog to accidentally clip that trigger seems
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incredibly almost impossible yeah it's seeming like the Magic Bullet right so then then you wonder like well would her
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gun have been out for some reason and then and then the accident occurs because if the gun's not out it seems
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very unlikely that a paw or a claw or you know the dog's nail or whatever would would cause the trigger to be
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pulled right and if that is the scenario then how did the gun end up on the ground next to her but it should have
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still been in her pocket when she was found dead which I look I I don't mind the idea of carrying a weapon with you
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to protect yourself but tell me in What scenario is she walking down this path with her dogs and just she just decides
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to pull out the gun to look at it like cuz you're not going to fire it in this area even if you're going to practice
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shooting you don't fire it in this area it's downtown on this this bike running walking path right so it just seems odd
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to me unless got startled by something and then she pulled it out right one would have to believe that that
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something would have to have gone down for her to pull that gun out of her pocket and then now we this is where it
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gets too weird because now you get into just this long trail of consecutive events that all seem unlikely by
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themselves let alone in sequence let's get into the the suicide thought because like we said
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police didn't spend a ton of time on the accident Theory and it's a lot of that is just because the math of it doesn't
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seem to work out and we'll go through that a little more in just a bit now according to the early reports the
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coroner's office initially was not certain whether shar's death was a homicide or suicide on December 14th 2
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days after her body was found the coroner issued a report stating that shice B died after being shot in the
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chest but the manner of death was still to be determined detective Norvell stated that the initial thought at the
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onset of the investigation was that the victim might have killed herself right the Walker family however was adamant
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that Sharice would not have killed herself and soon it became clear detective Norvell said that the
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evaluation of the entire scene and the Circ circumstances of such LED them to the conclusion that Sharice did not kill
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herself wouldn't they be able to prove whether or not she shot the gun we had that conversation and you and I will get
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into that in just a bit but what they how they arrived at this conclusion is actually not from gunpowder residue test
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on her person they base this on the fact that Sharice most likely did not shoot herself and leave the dogs unattended
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roaming free this would be very out of character she cared about these dogs like she would have her own children you
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wouldn't go to an area with the purpose of killing oneself and leave your your most beloved of anything on this planet
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out there unsafe after aftere cuz if you if you're planning to end your life then
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what does it doesn't matter what happens to the dogs you didn't love them enough
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to stick around but but but I see that as being a point that somebody would make I I think the other point too is
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she's heavily involved in her church and that would probably go against her religious beliefs to to take her own
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life well what you're going to have is you're going to have a mountain of these these little different items and
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thoughts and theories that make it unlikely that she killed herself and regardless of how you feel or if you
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agree or disagree it would be generally considered strange for somebody that cared about those dogs so much to take
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them with them to and kill themselves and leave these dogs out running around who knows what could have happened to
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them after it would be very strange to go and commit suicide in a park you know especially a heavy heavily traveled area
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and you decide oh I'm going to shoot myself in the chest so chances are I'm going to bleed to death and by by doing
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it in a park you're going to have more people that possibly would see you and and call for
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help so a lot of things don't line up here she also brought along with her fruit she brought a snack with her for
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her walk you wouldn't likely do that if your intent was to kill yourself yeah suicide snack she also locked her
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vehicle and secured the steering wheel with an anti- theft wheel device right and in investigators found shar's flip
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phone open this leading them to believe that she had attempted to make a call for help after she was
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shot as the investigation progressed physical evidence proved that this was no suicide according to the family there
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was only one shot to to sher's body and it was at Close Range labex found a bullet hole in the right sleeves of her
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two outer layer gar garments Sharice was wearing then an additional Bullet Hole was found in the clothes covering shar's
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chest this is where the bullet was lodged this means that Sharice was standing with her arms or at least her
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right arm out in front of her in a defensive posture when the gun fired the bullet shot through the sleeves of her
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extended right arm and went into the sternum area killing her her so once investigators examined the trajectory of
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the bullet detective Norvell to told us that they ruled out suicide it's when you follow the path that that bullet
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took given the evidence that you find on her person the bullet holes in the sleeve and then the bullet hole in her
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chest it would be impossible for her to have killed herself so Captain this is a
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ballistics her gun yes ballistics matched the bullet found in shara's body to the gun found next to her as the
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captain said it was shara's own gun she was shot with her own weapon Sharice and
00:32:13
her husband Eugene each owned a gun they had the same model of handgun this was a
00:32:19
25 caliber Sterling semi-automatic she often brought the gun with her to walk her two dogs but
00:32:28
Sharice seemed to be a little more concerned about her safety than usual just shortly before her death this is
00:32:37
according to her relatives her Aunt Deborah McMurray told interviewers that Sharice seemed to believe that someone
00:32:45
was following her she specifically said that it was a dark blue blazer that was following her so we have ban the van
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captain now we have ban the Blazer yeah I'll work on those t-shirts yeah and and
00:33:01
don't forget the tan VW Bug yeah B well don't ban the the cute ones just the tan
00:33:08
ones only motorcycles are safe the strange thing about the gun look Sharice was known to keep the
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gun in a special carrying pouch that was designed to hold it right reporter Russ
00:33:22
McQuade who works for Fox 59 and who wrote extensively about this case told crime watch Daily that Sharice always
00:33:33
kept this gun in that pouch the pouch was discovered at home and the gun was discovered by her side shar's family
00:33:45
backs this statement up they say Sharice kept the gun in the carrying pouch when
00:33:51
it was at home when it was on her person the gun in that P pouch should have been
00:33:58
together that day by just about everybody's accounts but that night the gun pouch
00:34:04
was not only not found with Sharice but it was later found at the home that she shared with her husband of 28 years
00:34:13
Eugene this as said was highly unusual the gun should have been in its pouch if she brought it along with her
00:34:22
that evening not only that Eugene Bingham was the one to call detective norell this about 2 weeks after shar's
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death to tell him that he found the gun pouch at their home according to True Crime daily when
00:34:40
detectives processed the gun they found no usable prints on it it could have been wiped down it certainly seems that
00:34:49
shar's prints at least should have been on the gun right let's talk about that for just a second here if in fact she
00:34:58
accidentally shot herself or suicide or even if she took it with her just for protection and somebody approached her
00:35:06
and something went down why would her fingerprints not be on the gun if she in fact brought it
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with her that night right she would have had to pick up the gun place it in her pocket and then if she did pull the gun
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out now she's using her hands again we did say that gloves were found at the scene but were not found on her at the
00:35:29
time right so yeah that's that's pretty alarming right there correct how could someone take the gun from her shoot her
00:35:38
in the presence of these two protective dogs too that's the other question that you have to ask here yeah I mean the
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fact that EMT can't even get to the body because of the the dogs you would think
00:35:51
that somebody any kind of Confrontation between her and another individual these
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dogs are going to become very protective very vicious very quickly something that
00:36:02
was found on the gun was DNA DNA belonging to Eugene Bingham Eugene told police that of course his DNA would be
00:36:13
on the gun as he regularly cleaned the gun for his wife but again it's still interesting that why would you have
00:36:22
Eugene's DNA on the gun and not the killers right unless they're the same or why would you have Eugene's DNA on the
00:36:31
gun but not have shar's fingerprints or somebody else's fingerprints it's all very strange the
00:36:38
thing too with with the dogs now with both of their owners with Eugene and shice being gun owners themselves and I
00:36:47
can't say this specifically to these two dogs Mayday and tsunami but one thing I have experienced
00:36:56
in my life life is that dogs that are familiar with guns that have been around guns sometimes they they will flee at
00:37:06
the sight of one and that's because typically dogs don't like loud noises right guns can be very loud usually are
00:37:17
very loud there are many situations that I've witnessed where even just target shooting or just seeing the gun they
00:37:27
identify that object with a loud noise that they do not like and sometimes they will in fact flee the area so that could
00:37:37
explain how someone was able to approach Sharice and not be attacked by the dogs
00:37:46
yes we know the dogs were with her body when she was later found but this meaning they return to her right but I
00:37:53
also going back to the DNA being found uh the husband's DNA Eugene's DNA being found the tricky thing for me there is
00:38:03
let's say there was a attacker right the attacker takes the gun out shoots her then knows he's going to wipe it down
00:38:12
wipes it down throws the gun down okay so now we don't have any fingerprints maybe we don't have her DNA
00:38:21
on it but if he is cleaning the gun his DNA could be inside the cracks and cre you know
00:38:29
crevices of the gun correct and so that's so it's not clear in the investigation of did they just pull it
00:38:37
out and just wipe the handle or wipe the uh you know wherever you know what I mean like did they wipe the trigger or
00:38:45
did they have some kind of solution on um like a Q-tip and and went inside the cracks and crevices and that's where
00:38:55
they found the DNA I wish it was a little more clear and it's not clear to me in this investigation well I think
00:39:02
you're probably spoton with your assessment of their words and often we have to do that we have to read between
00:39:08
the lines to come up with what is actually going on in the investigation we were very fortunate that detective
00:39:15
norell and very fortunate that the Indiana State Police spoke with us regarding this case and they did tell us
00:39:23
some things that were have not been released to the public yet when this comes out now they're released there
00:39:29
were questions they did not answer which is totally fine and more than acceptable
00:39:36
the the thing here is they were involved with us because they want this case solved they have poured a lot of effort
00:39:45
and a lot of heart into this investigation and so it was it was great it's good for True Crime garage that we
00:39:54
get some Insider information but it's also good for their investigation the the thing that we have to worry about
00:40:00
here Captain is the threat of this case going cold that's what everybody is in fear of yeah and so I think you're
00:40:07
spoton with your analysis of their words and their actions I believe that you're
00:40:14
correct that that they probably were going to those cracks and crevices and to the the small little parts of that
00:40:22
gun to recover anyone's DNA and the DNA that they came up with was Eugene's because what it looks like to me is that
00:40:31
whoever used that gun to shoot Sharice they wiped it down and they were probably wearing gloves at the time of
00:40:40
her murder right so all I'm saying is that I don't think that makes Eugene my number one suspect because of his DNA
00:40:50
being his DNA was probably right where it should have been if it's from her him cleaning the gun right but I'm not going
00:40:56
to rule him out because we don't find anything on the gun really right that's the that's the biggest problem there
00:41:03
should be something else and there's not and that's why I think the Assumption of
00:41:08
Sharice bringing the gun with her that night is a dangerous one to assume I think that the evidence points that to
00:41:17
that she did not bring the gun with her that night right and then that makes it even more diabolical right then you
00:41:23
start going okay is Eugene responsible or somebody else that's close to her or is it uh a hit and and Eugene is is
00:41:35
giving the the perpetrator her weapon to make it look like possibly a suicide or
00:41:42
accident well let's go back to the question about shara's dogs because regardless of what I said about seeing a
00:41:49
weapon seeing a firearm and then they might they might flee or they might cower according to Sharice family they
00:41:57
firmly believe that these two dogs would attack any stranger who was attempting to harm Sharice her family says the dogs
00:42:05
were not friendly with people that they did not know and we know that they weren't on a leash that night so they
00:42:13
would have been able to Chase and or bite somebody yeah right again this a I don't want to say that her family is
00:42:22
lying I'm just saying that I kind of contradict the two uh their dogs weren't friendly with people that they didn't
00:42:30
know but they had to be at least friendly enough or obedient enough to be off their leash because you know sh
00:42:40
didn't seem like a a irresponsible dog owner so the general rule that I apply with my dogs is I leash them in
00:42:51
situations where I believe they will not uh respond to my commands Okay and so there are times
00:43:01
that I do not leash them because I am of the belief that they will respond to my
00:43:07
commands meaning I still have control over my dogs even though they are not leashed what I'm getting at here and
00:43:16
where I think the the family's heads are at with this situation is they're not leashed because they're out walking this
00:43:25
is supposed to be something good for them and if it's just a passer by if it's just somebody walking or cycling
00:43:32
and she needs to throw a command to the dogs she believes that they will respond
00:43:37
to that command they are still under her control right in some type of situation
00:43:41
where we have an aggressor where we have an attacker what they're saying is you wouldn't command your dogs in that
00:43:49
situation you wouldn't attempt to control your dogs in that situation you would attempt to defend yourself and
00:43:56
therefore they are saying that these dogs had they seen her in any kind of distress would have attacked or chased
00:44:04
whoever did that right where they had the biggest problem is they say that the only person that the dogs were
00:44:11
comfortable with to the level that they were comfortable with Sharice was Eugene
00:44:17
as Eugene lived with the dogs he was an owner of the dogs he was a caretaker at times for the dogs helping with walks
00:44:26
and feeding them and such so I I I think we need to be clear here and clear up one thing saying we
00:44:36
actually don't know for sure that the dogs did not attack the shooter right it's possible that they chased away or
00:44:44
even bit shara's attacker and then came back to her body detective norell told us that there was an indication that the
00:44:55
dogs were quote having a reaction to ingesting blood from the scene end quote it's not clear what this means whether
00:45:04
they licked Sharice trying to heal her right or perhaps they got a piece of someone detectives checked area
00:45:13
hospitals but found that no one came in the days after the shooting to be treated for a dog bite but the fact that
00:45:22
it was her gun that was used to kill her indicates that either the shooter got very close to her risking a dog attack
00:45:30
or the gun was in the possession of someone else one of the questions I want to know is remember how you said that
00:45:37
that biker saw shice walking the dogs and she had to like um Corral them was their word right so they could pass by
00:45:48
what I wonder is how far the dogs were away because I think if this is is a a planned attack by somebody um let's
00:46:00
let's say somebody's following her this blue blazer or this is a planned attack from her
00:46:06
husband you could if you knew I mean you you don't know that the dogs are going to be off the leash but you might know
00:46:14
her behaviors her habits of walking and you go okay the dogs are going to be on off their leash there's going to be a a
00:46:22
a distance between them and that gives you a WI uh in in order to to attack the person
00:46:30
because the other thing that people aren't putting I think into play is it's great to say well see Eugene Eugene can
00:46:39
be uh he could get close enough but you also have to have a situation where you get close enough
00:46:49
you're not seen by anybody else and then you have to leave the scene by by not being seen by anybody else am I making
00:47:00
any sense there well yeah that so that puts a lot of different scenarios into play but it also takes some of them out
00:47:08
of play when you really try to analyze it not just for the fact of the dogs but from the fact that any attack that would
00:47:16
take a a decent length of time you risk detection from possible eyewitnesses so under those scenarios or are playing to
00:47:27
those thoughts you have a couple of couple of ideas here a person ATT tax shes wrestled the gun from her shot her
00:47:36
and the dogs ignored it and this was not seen by any eyewitnesses all of this seems unlikely because as said the dogs
00:47:45
had to be tranquilized later right the other idea is a person attacked shice wrestled the gun away from her and shot
00:47:53
her and then the dogs did attack but the shooter was able to run away and then the other scenario would
00:48:00
be someone shot Sharice from a little bit of a distance already having the gun in their possession when they arrived at
00:48:07
the park that scenario to me seems to be the most likely because it it one as you
00:48:16
said if there is a bit of distance between you and the dogs or if giving the scenario the lay of the land and
00:48:21
where everybody is at that time giving the opportunity for someone to approach her not having to russle the
00:48:29
gun from her this also would take the least amount of time which would which would
00:48:36
prevent or really at least just make it less likely that somebody would see you in the act of shooting her right shara's
00:48:46
family tells us that that things were not right between Sharice and Eugene for some time we need to take a look at
00:48:55
their marriage they were married for quite a long time 28 years yeah no kids Sharice I according to her family
00:49:04
they didn't tell she didn't tell them about any specific problems but they say they were aware that Sherice was
00:49:12
hardworking churchgoing she was not down with Eugene smoking pot and drinking all
00:49:18
the time according to her aunt this is Deborah McMurray who we've referenced earlier she said years into the
00:49:28
marriage Eugene moved into the basement living on the downstairs level while Sharice lived
00:49:36
upstairs he's like right she's saying basically that this marriage ain't working I'm going to move down to the
00:49:42
basement I'm taking my act and I'm going downstairs I live in the basement um she
00:49:47
says that basically she believed that the two cohabitated together rather than living
00:49:54
as husband and wife right let's get into what the police were able to learn from
00:50:01
Eugene himself so while the Indiana State Police what was his um nickname again Bo
00:50:09
Peep according to her family Bo Peep is going to live in the basement unfortunately you know you
00:50:15
never know when somebody gets when they acquire their nickname yeah unfortunately some people
00:50:21
get a nickname when they're like two or three years old and it's and it just sticks with them for the rest of their
00:50:27
life uh the Indiana State Police when they were processing the scene the murder scene and shar's truck which was
00:50:37
still parked by the River Eugene Bingham arrived on the scene a detective recorded his arrival time as 11:23 p.m.
00:50:47
detectiv spoke with him and he told them that he was asleep on the couch at home
00:50:52
and he woke up around 9:30 p.m. and noticed that that Sharice wasn't home this he says was unusual for several
00:51:00
reasons but mainly because she was a routine person and she did in fact have to be at work at 10:30 that night he
00:51:08
tried to call her phone and had no success so he left the house to go look for her he says he needed to go to three
00:51:18
different locations these were all locations where he knew she would typically walk the dogs the white River
00:51:25
Park was the last place that he checked when he arrived he said he saw I don't know it seems a little fishy but go
00:51:34
ahead sorry when he arrived he said that he saw crime scene tape around his wife's vehicle that alerted him that
00:51:41
made him approach the detectives on December 13th this is the day after the murder the Indiana state
00:51:49
police detectives uh this is Les norell and Matthew Lawrence they conducted a thorough interview with Eugene some
00:51:57
things that he told them the previous night at the scene of the crime seemed off in the interview Eugene stated that
00:52:06
Sharice was a creature of habit on the days when she was working the night shift she would get up late do some
00:52:12
stuff around the house exercise shower take the dogs for a walk and then go to work on the 12th the detectives said
00:52:21
that Eugene and Sharice did have a conversation that day then Sharice left to walk the dogs Eugene says that he
00:52:29
stayed home to watch the Miami Heat warriors NBA basketball game uhhuh he reportedly told investigators that
00:52:42
Sharice did not leave the house until after the game started which was around 7:30 p.m. which her body was found at
00:52:51
6:30 yeah this is beyond strange it's what you would call impossible yes but again it's
00:53:00
like he lives in the basement you know there might be some fumes so he might might not be good at telling
00:53:07
time yeah he doesn't need to tell time he it's a fact of when the game started if his if he's basing this time off of
00:53:17
she left before the basketball game started we can all figure that out and as you said Captain the police not just
00:53:25
with she found her body found before this time the police they were dispatched to the scene at 6:30 a full
00:53:32
hour before Eugene says his wife left the house Not only was she dead she was found police confirmed that the game the
00:53:40
basketball game coverage TV coverage began at 7:38 p.m. and the tip off was 7:41 p.m. well it's almost like he's
00:53:49
trying to establish an alibi for himself yeah you know what I mean like oh I was
00:53:54
watching the game and and I can prove that because uh this is when the game started yeah but as as this timeline
00:54:02
points out one would have time to to attack her flee the scene and make it home in
00:54:12
time to watch the basketball game now he says she left as the game was starting so back to his Alibi let's continue with
00:54:20
what he says he was doing right Eugene said that he fell asleep on the couch and he didn't wake up until 9:30 or
00:54:28
so because Sharice and the dogs should have been home and she needed to leave for work according to him at 10:00 he
00:54:36
became concerned then he tried calling her from the home phone and got no response of course he's concerned he
00:54:43
doesn't have a job if she doesn't go to work her bills don't get paid he says he
00:54:48
got dressed and then after getting dressed tried calling her from his cell phone as he was leaving to check these
00:54:56
walking locations again he got nothing with this phone call he wasn't as concerned about her not answering the
00:55:04
phone is what he tells police Eugene specified that Sharice usually carried her phone with her but she almost had it
00:55:13
off she you know some some people turn the phone off she was one of those types she would power it on only if she wanted
00:55:20
to make a call so they pulled Eugene's phone records and what they found did not mesh
00:55:29
with what Eugene was telling them the home phone called shara's cell at 11:02 p.m. the call from Eugene's cell to his
00:55:41
wife's phone was made at 11:09 p.m. these calls were made an hour and a half after Eugene said he woke up and noticed
00:55:50
his wife was missing and well after he said he made the calls right so we have multiple lies from him and then that
00:55:59
makes you want to question about the gun when he says well I cleaned her gun for her well is that a
00:56:07
lie as well I mean that this is evidence that he's a lying crotch sniffer you know yeah one thing that I would
00:56:14
question this is not going to be any proof of anything but there are some gun owners that don't shoot their
00:56:21
guns they just don't shoot them you know some people regularly shoot guns and people that regularly do need to clean
00:56:29
them people that don't shoot them usually don't clean them so I would be curious as to what their family thought
00:56:36
her activities were with that firearm immediately when you said there's gun owners that don't shoot their guns I was
00:56:42
like that seems so stupid but I know a lot of people that own guitars that never that never play them so yeah I
00:56:50
have a guitar that I need to rering you have a nice guitar collection for somebody that doesn't play right and I
00:56:57
in fact I have one that I need restrung and it's been in that state for like 2 years now one day get it together
00:57:04
Colonel one day I'll have strings on that guitar does it still and she will play like never before used to have a
00:57:11
guitar that smelled like onions that's the same one oh great yeah um so the other thing with his
00:57:18
phone calls Eugene's cell received a call at 7:41 p.m. this is from a friend this call went to his voicemail this
00:57:27
friend was a chiropractor who later told police that he called Eugene because he
00:57:32
had heard about a woman's death on the news and wanted to be sure it was not Sharice it's not clear if this
00:57:41
chiropractor is female or male M but we do know that not only is Sharice a friend but a client and and this person
00:57:51
knew uh Eugene and Sharice equally as well correct yeah the the cell tower information showed that when this call
00:58:02
came into Eugene's cell phone the pingy Ping the ping yeah the phone pinged off a tower that was near the murder site
00:58:10
specifically the tower Eugene's phone pinged with this 741 call was east of a different tower that was closer to his
00:58:20
home which Eugene's phone would most likely have pinged off had he been at home of at the time of this call the
00:58:30
call hit the sector of this further tower that correlated with where Sharice was killed the southern sector of the
00:58:39
tower whereas if Eugene had been at home and for some reason the call pinged the
00:58:45
further away Tower okay that's just so there's all right I I wasn't clear with that what I'm trying to say is there's a
00:58:54
Southern sector Tower and there's a western sector Tower right tower Tower a and Tower B correct it hit off of the
00:59:02
opposite one it hit the off of the one closest to where her body was found not the tower that was closest to his home
00:59:09
as what detectives were originally told would be the situation had he been at home so this as you pointed out he's
00:59:17
lying already about some things and we know this from the phone records now police believe he's lying even more
00:59:25
because we have the phone records that don't match with this story and we have this cell phone tower ping information
00:59:32
that do not match with his story all right so Eugene B peep we know he's a lying [ __ ] princess but but what does
00:59:41
this mean is he just lying or or is he misremembering or well it's a little more damning than that because that was
00:59:50
a really long way of saying this okay according to the cell tower data Eugene's phone was not at his home
00:59:59
at 7:41 at the time that that call came in from the chiropractor friend right about
01:00:05
an hour and hour and 10 minutes after s was found but even more damning than that according to this the cell tower
01:00:13
data the phone was down near the White River in the West New York Street bridge this is near where she parked her car
01:00:22
near where her body was found right and Eugene did tell police of course they're
01:00:28
going to ask him this question once they have this other information he tells police that no one else would have had
01:00:36
access to his phone meaning by his own admission that if in fact his phone was there in the area that she was killed at
01:00:45
741 the phone was with him right so Eugene told detectives that the cell phone records could not be accurate when
01:00:54
they confronted him with this information this is in regard to the 1109 call he says that that can't be
01:01:03
accurate because he was already at the scene at that time learning about his wife's death from a detective at 11:09
01:01:12
right again that doesn't gel with the information that we have on record the record shows that he actually didn't
01:01:19
arrive on the scene until 11:23 p.m. he you jeene reiterated that he had tried to call his wife beginning around 9:30
01:01:29
when he realized she wasn't home yet he also said that at least one of the deleted calls was from his wife so they
01:01:37
found three deleted calls he States one of the deleted calls was from his wife all of these
01:01:45
statements they're they're contradicted by the actual phone Records Eugene continued to talk to
01:01:53
investigate ators and in summary he told police that his wife would not have killed herself the two had just joined a
01:02:03
new church and they were baptized again also Sharice was a happy person and they
01:02:10
enjoyed each other although their marriage wasn't perfect he said that there was no way that Mayday and tsunami
01:02:18
would let anyone near Sharice he said there was no way a stranger could harm her and those dogs still be around he
01:02:27
said he didn't believe that there was anyone who would want to harm his wife and it seems to me he inadvertently is
01:02:35
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