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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Small Town Murder Express.

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I'm Jimmy Wisman.

Thank you, folks, so much for joining us all aboard the murder train pulling away from the station for some weird stuff today in Iowa.

We got some.

It's just weird.

Some people just can't be talked to.

Just put it that way.

Some people.

Some people.

That's the name of this episode.

Some people.

And we got one of them today for sure.

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murder.

Let's do this, everybody.

Here we go.

Let's go on a trip, shall we?

Yeah.

We are going to Iowa this week.

Yeah.

Oh, exciting Iowa here.

We're going to Bellevue,

Iowa.

I always say Idaho when I want to say Idaho.

When I want to say Iowa and back and forth.

I don't know why.

Very similar states.

I don't get it.

Yeah, but I I don't mix up New Jersey and New Mexico, and they start with new.

I don't get why.

It's just they start with an I.

Who cares?

New Jersey, New York.

They all make their own thing.

I don't mix Indiana and Iowa up.

Why?

Idaho and Iowa.

I don't know why.

So this is Bellevue, B-E-L-L-E-V-U-E, Iowa.

It's in far, far eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River.

Oh, all the way over there.

It's about 30 minutes to Dubuque, in case you want to get your party on over in Dubuque.

And about

an hour, it's about three hours to Keokuk, Iowa, which is our last Iowa episode, episode 559.

Be my baby, which was a real weird one.

Why don't you?

Iowa brings the weird.

It's real mild there.

It's all, you know, corn and,

you know,

and like,

and quiet, muted greetings and things like that, except when they kill each other.

Then they go buck wild in Iowa.

I almost said Idaho again.

This is in Jackson County, like half the counties in the damn country seem to be Jackson County.

Area code 563, population in this town, 2,345.

So small town, real small town to be right on the river there.

Median household income here, slightly above the national average, $71,786.

So it's not poor.

It's not rich.

It's a middle-class kind of joint.

Median home cost here, $252,500 below the national average.

So not bad.

They have a couple of slogans and mottos and stuff here.

The official motto is a true riverfront experience.

It is, yeah.

We are on the river, basically.

That's what we've heard.

And the local slogan is, quote, where the eagles soar.

They do.

I don't know if that's just like the high school.

They're the Bellevue Eagles, and that's, I'm not sure.

Now, history, I'm only going to tell you about one event because it's crazy.

Oh.

It's amazing.

Okay, this is wild.

On July 5th, 2010, they had a, during their, one of their Heritage Day parade, which is our thing to do that we'll talk about as well.

Yeah.

Okay.

A 60-year-old woman named Janet Steins died from injuries of being trampled by a shitload of horses.

What?

In 2010, not in 1810, 2010.

23 others were injured after

horses broke loose at the 4th of July Heritage Day parade.

This is during the parade, so it's just

streets are lined with people, and horses break through and charge down the street

for six blocks, just tearing apart shit in its path.

And they were connected to each other.

So they're like clotheslining people too.

Like if you got in between them, you were going out.

It's bad stuff.

23 people injured, including two children who are in critical condition

and the woman who died.

The horses took off after one rubbed its head against the other, removing that horse's bridle.

Wow.

Wow, they had a plan.

That was diabolical.

They had a plan, man.

The horses, with a wagon in tow, galloped for several blocks, running over children and adults who sat and stood along the streets watching the parade in Bellevue.

This is horrifying.

At one point, the wagon flipped, ejecting the two people in it, hurting them as well.

Imagine if you're those people.

Stop.

One woman said she was collecting Tootsie rolls from the street with her eight-year-old son, 12-year-old niece, and two-year-old granddaughter when the horses ran toward toward them and someone yelled to get out of the way.

She said, I could see it was two horses.

I could see they were running at full speed and they were harnessed together and I knew they were going to most certainly get hit.

And as soon as it happened, everyone was crying and screaming.

Yeah, they're out of control at that point because one's steering the other.

Whichever one reacts, they're going to just go

fast as they can.

Enter Jeff Junk.

J-U-N-K, Junk.

And he'll come back in the store.

He plays a major role in our murder somehow.

So that's how small this town is.

Jeff Junk here.

Jeff Junk said he watched it happen.

He said

they were mowing people over.

Little kids were getting mowed over.

They were probably going 40 miles an hour.

I've never seen nothing like it, and I never want to see it again.

That's what Jeff Junk

ruined me.

Reviews of this town quickly.

Five stars here.

Bellevue is a beautiful river town located on the Mississippi.

It has many activities for both singles and families.

I feel like being single wouldn't be too swinging around here.

Not for the best.

I would advise anyone to move to this area.

Oh, anyone.

Anyone.

And then finally, one star, the only way you get anywhere living in Bellevue is dependent on who you sleep with.

No.

This is completely out of left field.

If you've slept with a big enough name in town, who's a big name in this town?

An alderman?

What are we talking about here?

Big enough name.

Big swinging dicks in town if you sleep with the right one.

If you've slept with a big enough name in town, then you can get away with almost anything.

Oh, you're above the law at that point.

If you don't, you can expect to get picked on for everything, no matter how small, including traffic tickets.

This person got a ticket and said, I'm not fucking the right people, so I can't turn right on red at this intersection now.

Fuck you.

I haven't sucked enough dicks, or at least the right one.

The right dick.

You can suck all the dicks you want, but it's got to be a calculated, directed,

specific dick sucking effort yeah things to do real quickly heritage days we know all about that horses break freeze trample people uh take your life in your own hands yeah yeah come at your own risk um it's really weird they have a prince and princess contest Okay.

With open voting on Facebook.

It is creepy as fuck with the kids' pictures.

And you click, oh, that one's hot.

Gross.

Fucking gross.

The kids are like, eight.

I don't want it.

It's bad.

That's awful.

Yeah.

No, bad, no good.

I'm looking at band.

They have bands.

They have the one-of-a-kind band at the American Legion Hall.

There's a parade.

Don't know about horses.

And that's it, pretty much.

It's a bunch of otherwise a pedal tractor pull, shit like that,

youth dance performances.

Hell yeah.

Everyone's there for the prince and princess, of course.

All the pedophiles line up for that one.

So there you go.

That said, let's talk about some murder.

What do you say?

Let's do it.

All right, let's start out very recently, October 8th, 2022.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, nothing different than now.

Exactly.

Everything's the same.

It's a little bit yesterday.

Well, yeah, same phone in your hand, same TV on your wall, same whatever the fuck.

So

culturally, pretty similar.

October 8th, 2022, 7.34 a.m.

Yeah.

Okay.

Mississippi Ridge Kennels is the location we are going to be at.

That is not in Mississippi, but it's on the Mississippi River because it's a

a kennel, you know, where you board your dogs and stuff like that.

Now, Angela Marie, at this point, Pritchard, she's born O'Deffe, O-D-E-F-E-Y,

O'Deffe, I guess.

That's what she was, but now she's Pritchard.

That's her married name.

She's born April 14th, 1967.

She is the owner and operator of the Mississippi Ridge Kennels.

So she shows up for work at 7.34 a.m.

Angie, she goes by.

She arrives in here.

A little bit of background on Angie.

She's born in Dubuque,

as we all are.

Really?

The best are.

If we think about it, I mean, I'm from Dubuque, you're from Dubuque.

It's all from Dubuque.

Who's not?

Who's not?

Daughter of William and Barbara.

She has three sisters and a brother.

She graduated from Dubuque Hempstead High School.

Now, at this very moment, when she's going into the kennel, she is married, but not living with her husband.

She's having problems, and they've separated, not legally separated, but separated here.

She has two sons from previous relationships, two different relationships, Josh and Colton, who goes by CJ.

And Josh was born in 87, and Colton was born, I believe, in 90.

So her main things are her two sons and her five huskies.

Yeah.

You'd imagine a kennel lady would be real into dogs, and she is.

She's got five huskies, Mishka, Indy, Zakari, Timber, and Charlie.

And she's known as being very nurturing and kind-hearted.

As people who could, I don't know if you've ever been around a husky, but they are a really difficult dog to deal with.

It's a lot of dogs.

It's a lot of dog.

They have a lot of energy.

They're not, they don't want to listen.

There's a lot of hair.

Yeah, they want to be like, you know, mushing and pulling things instead of just sitting in your living room.

So

it's a tough it's a tough breed and if you have five of them wow that's that's a lot so um that's what she's into so she'd have to be very nurturing and all that kind of thing here um her sons say she's really strong and has had a lot of problems but she's always prioritized her kids well-being she works long hours to support support them so they don't they always can you know have financial stability and everything like that She does whatever she has to so her kids don't have to deal with whatever's going on, which is a good mom.

So, or good parent, generally.

So, uh, now surveillance footage captures her pulling into the gravel parking lot of the kennel and exiting her car and entering the building.

That's 7.34.

Okay.

Okay, so we know that.

By 7.39 a.m., she is on the phone with 911.

Oh, five minutes later.

Five minutes later.

And

we have a transcript and it says, what's your emergency?

And you hear her yell, please get out of here.

I have customers coming in.

That's what you hear.

So the 911 operator says, 911.

Like, what's your emergency?

Wasn't a.

Yeah.

You know, I know I called 911.

And you hear Angela again say, please get out of here.

So then 911 operator switches and just says, okay, where are you at?

At that point.

Yeah.

Okay.

Place where customers will be.

Place where customers will be.

Where are you?

Now, let's enter another character in the middle of this 911 call.

Let's talk about her estranged husband.

Oh.

Chris Eugene Pritchard, P-R-I-C-H-A-R-D.

No T in that.

He's an electrician.

They met in 2017, Angela and Chris.

Now, Angela's sister said, I would have trusted him with our children.

He was nice, friendly, sincere, a hard worker, and fun to be around.

Those are all positive things.

Those are all positive things.

And the sister's all going to be looking for negatives,

as any sibling is.

I I don't know about this one.

I don't trust that one.

So, you know, he's lived in Bellevue a long time.

He's an established electrician in town and, you know, all that kind of thing.

So, as they hook up, that's when Angela decided to open her own kennel too

and start that.

So, Wendy, her sister, said to be a kennel owner, to do something with animals, I was thrilled for her.

It really seemed like everything was falling into place.

And it continues into 2019 when Chris and Angie get married.

So, yeah, everything's progressing nicely.

Everything looked to be, you know, going real nice, stable, you know, kind of in their 40s, finding their 50s, actually finding a nice relationship.

But instead, here,

things start to fall apart in about 2021 or early 22 here.

Now, the sister, Wendy, said, I truly think that things started to change when he lost his job.

He got fired.

You know, getting fired is bad enough, but he didn't only get fired.

Oh.

It'd be bad enough to get fired, but he was fired and charged with first-degree theft, which is a felony.

Oh, yeah.

First degree.

First degree.

He allegedly stole $36,000 worth of supplies from the electric company where he worked.

Oh.

How much?

$36,000 worth.

That's like a whole spool of wire.

That's a lot.

Yeah.

That's a transformer.

That's a lot of shit.

It's a lot of shit.

That's what I mean.

So that's first-degree theft.

That's what

trouble.

It's more than a used car, you know, like that's a lot.

So

Wendy, the sister, said that Angie was just beside herself.

It's like, what are we going to do now?

We need that income.

He's an electrician, probably makes decent coin.

You know what I mean?

If those guys do well, electricians,

it's dangerous.

Minimum wages.

That's good money.

It's dangerous.

That's why they're doing it.

So I guess he was arrested, but he was out on bail and out of work.

And Wendy said he wasn't even looking for work.

He was definitely drinking more.

And the sister Wendy went on to say, and as the months went on, it was just like, wow, he was really kind of changing.

They said he finally took some odd job and helped Angela at the kennels.

But in the summer of 2021, Angie discovered that, Jesus Christ, Angie discovered that he was using meth at that point.

May as well, whatever.

I think then you just kind of wash your hands of it, right?

It's like, okay, you progress to meth now.

I'm not dealing with this.

I don't think he started that right now.

I think he's not doing it a minute.

Yeah, that's

he was probably doing it and had a construct.

It's probably one of those functional meth heads like in that one documentary where the guys are all roofers and construction guys and they don't do anything during the day.

But at 5.15, boy, holy shit, it's meth time.

But they stop at 9 because they got to get some sleep that night.

They got to work in the morning.

I feel like that's what he was probably doing before.

And he probably decided that he could sell something that he was stealing for meth money.

And then the wife will find out.

Nobody will find out.

Maybe.

I guess then Wendy said things started to get really bad.

And this comes to a head on April 18th, 2022, just a few months before the morning at the kennel.

Yeah.

When she came to Wendy and said that Chris hit me.

Angie does.

Angie said she hit him.

CJ, her son, said, quote, she said he's drunk.

He's on drugs.

So I told her we're going to call the cops.

Yeah.

So Bellevue Police responded and

it was on body cam because this is 2022.

So everything's on body cam.

And this is from the footage here.

Shows Angela, and there's a still picture from it that they still have out there.

Shows Angela in her kitchen talking with an officer, with her sister there, and everything like that.

She said she'd been hit by Christopher.

She said, quote, you have no idea what I go through every single day with him.

No idea.

She said, he hit me, and then I just, I came in the house.

And Wendy said she was crying.

She was visibly shaking.

She had a mark on her face.

And she said, I'm so scared.

Now, Chris, you wonder, he must have fled the house or something.

He starts hitting people.

No, no, he was in the garage.

Don't worry.

He just hung back.

I picture him just like with a rag, like wiping down a tool in there.

Just like, what's that?

What's happening now, fellas?

Yeah, I get her.

Like a socket wrench, you know.

So,

yeah.

And the cop told him on body cam, state of Iowa law requires that somebody goes to jail.

Yeah.

and Chris said I can't believe I'm going to jail

I mean I only hit her in the face you know what's that's unbelievable man I believe that's assault sir that's you can't do that you're going to jail uh the officer said well she's got a mark on her face so he was arrested and charged with domestic violence yeah now Wendy in the body cam footage the sister in the kitchen you can hear her saying he's very very very messed up on drugs yeah very very very that means meth two varies is

Two Verys is something lighter.

Takes a couple of pills and drinks a little on the weekends, but very, very, very, that's meth.

Now, Wendy said, we've seen him change right in front of our eyes.

And so they describe that, you know, Chris spends the night in jail and was released awaiting trial and staying with his family.

Angela got a temporary no contact order that night, and she asked the cop, so he can't come back here.

And the cop says, no.

and another cop said the no contact order now exists protecting your sister she says saying to wendy but then a few weeks later angela lifts it oh she has it lifted and this is a this is happens a lot in these these couples will fight somebody will be violent they'll put a restraining order and then this person will put on whatever sociopathic charm they need to put on to try to get in the good graces again and then it'll be lifted and then you know rinse and repeat it just happens all the time.

So Wendy said, even after it happened, she said, I don't want this.

I want our marriage to work.

There we go.

So she thought maybe this would be a wake-up call that he got taken to jail.

Yeah.

And so they thought both of them, they've each had divorces, marriages, divorces before, and they were hoping that this would be it.

You know what I mean?

They were hoping to settle down here.

So Wendy said, I believe he said everything that he needed to be, that needed to be said for her to drop that order.

The drinking will stop.

He'll be home more.

But she said, I'm scared of him, especially if he's been drinking.

Then, out of nowhere, Angela finds a tracking device in her car and two hidden cameras in her house.

Okay, that's definitely over the edge.

Yeah,

that's crazy.

That's crazy.

Hidden cameras?

Come on.

Hidden cameras and a tracking device.

Gross.

So the sister said, I told her, you need to get a divorce.

You need to be done with this, Angie.

This is ridiculous.

So August 23rd, when this is all happening, Chris sends a bunch of text messages to Angie, including one that states, quote, it's going to get real fucking ugly.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

Now, August 28th, Chris tells Angie that he will, quote, destroy her business.

And she notifies the court and the police that he is harassing her.

And they did nothing to

enforce anything on on this by the way

so august 29th um in a few in a i want to say like a year's time she called the cops 13 times on him wow and he's just you know walking around makers dozen in a year in a year so on august 29th 2022 angela moves to her sister wendy's house

because she said that she started to be more scared of chris wendy said her words to me were i'm done this is it we're not living in the same house.

So she said, sure, move on in.

Wendy said, I was like, you have a shadow now because I'm not leaving.

You're stuck with me.

I'm just going to protect her or something.

On August 29th, that same, the next, yeah, that same day, Chris calls the police.

She left him to live with her sister.

So he got mad, has no recourse but to call the police and falsely report that Angela threw a bottle at him and hit him in the face.

She's not even there.

When they got there, he has no mark on his face and there's no bottle.

So, but he called the cops to say that, just to try to get so they'd have to go there and fuck with her, basically.

Yeah.

So then the next day, Angela requested

a second temporary no-contact order, which was granted.

And that means no contact, not no tech, one text, and you're arrested, basically.

That's what that's supposed to be.

So they grant her that.

Now, in September of 2022, while he's not supposed to be talking to her as a no-contact order, he somehow gets himself a shop on like Main Street there in Bellevue.

Right in the middle of town.

Electrician, I don't know what he's doing, but he's got himself a storefront.

And he uses the storefront not to advertise his wares or to, you know, put a sale price on the window.

He does it to prominently display signs making negative comments about Angela.

About Angela.

Just in his window.

She's a real bitch.

Just like right there and then underneath it.

You know that, Angela?

Yeah, just doesn't give a fuck.

It's wild.

This is ridiculous.

And this is, I assume, a violation of the court's restraining order.

That seems like harassment.

It's not direct contact, but no, but it's direct contact.

Public harassment.

It's public harassment.

So anyway, it didn't matter, though.

CJ, the son, said once the second no contact order got put in place, I would say that's when things went really downhill.

Yeah.

Angela went back to the home.

She shared with Chris to pick up a few things when he's not supposed to be there.

And Wendy was with her, and so was a police officer.

So this was an escorted mission here.

When they get there, this is wild.

The court had ordered him to move out temporarily so she could get her shit and then he could move back in.

Wendy says, when we walked in the front door, the house was destroyed.

There was ink and paint thrown everywhere.

What?

All the furniture was destroyed.

This is crazy.

He had actually taken the mattresses off her bed and rubbed it in dog feces.

This guy, meth makes you a creative asshole.

I'll say that for it.

You're putting

signs in your shop window about her and rubbing her mattress in feces.

This is a pathetic child person who has no other recourse, but I'll rub poop on it.

Yeah, you got to go to like the dog park and grab

that kid full of dog shit.

Well, she has a kennel and there's five dogs.

They're probably fine.

There's a lot of shit out there.

I'm sure there's shit everywhere around here, but that is like, can you think of anything lower than that?

Like, as far as out of ideas, I'll rub poop on it.

That's the lowest you can go with anything, right?

Pretty scummy, yeah.

What can I do to it?

No, that don't work.

No, shit.

I'm not supposed to be doing that.

I'll rub poop on it.

That'll show her.

You're out of ideas, is what that says to me.

So, in addition to the ink and paint and furniture all being destroyed and shitty mattresses,

there was also guns placed all around to intimidate her as well, to show how many guns he had.

So Wendy said, we both just started crying.

And

the problem is the police didn't do anything.

Wendy said the police said there's nothing we can do.

This is his house.

If he wants to rub poop on his bed, that is his right to do.

Like it's anything within his walls, he can rub shit on, he can break, he can throw around, he can throw paint and ink on.

It's up to him.

Yeah, do whatever you want with your fucking house if you feel like it.

You know, shit in the living room if you want.

It's not,

rub your own poop on things.

It's your house.

So they couldn't do anything.

Even though this was, it's like he found the slight, just the gray area.

Gray area just outside of a loophole.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

The way to harass her without it really being officially harassment.

It's fucking horrifying.

Man, meth makes you creative.

It's his stuff.

It's messed up.

So September 17th, 2022, Chris was spotted spying on Angela by hiding in a lumber yard near Angela's sister's house.

Why am I something else to do?

Why do people do this?

Well, this is also meth behavior, too.

Yeah, yeah.

This is, you know, I feel like that's a straight person wouldn't do that probably, unless they were really fucked up in the head.

So this is too far.

The harassment here was reported to the police at least two times, but they did nothing to enforce anything.

They said, well, he's not technically within the property.

You know, he has to stay this far away, and he's that far away.

Yeah.

He's finding every, he's right on the edge of this, of this restraining order.

Yeah, yeah.

He's telling the line.

On September 19th, 2022, Angela took pictures of the signs.

By the way, he made sure to to prominently display the signs in the window and light them properly, too.

There's lights on, so that way at night you don't miss them.

That's the thing.

Ring lights on these.

That is crazy.

So she took pictures of the shop and of the signs and provided copies to the police.

And again, the police did nothing to nothing about this.

September 23rd, 2022.

Jesus Christ.

This was a rescheduled hearing on the restraining order was supposed to be held, but Chris no shows it.

He doesn't show up for the hearing, even though they went to his shop the day before to remind him about the court hearing.

The cops literally went to his shop and said, hey, Chris, remember, tomorrow, court, see you there.

And he still didn't show up.

Wow.

Same day, September 23rd, Christopher again, repeatedly violates this restraining order and continues to harass her.

He showed up where she was staying and told a number of people present that he, quote, did not give a fuck if he went to jail.

I don't give a fuck if I go to jail.

Now he's doing that.

So they call the police again,

which he showed up where she is.

It's not at her sister's house or at a place of residence.

So he could technically say, I didn't know she was there type of thing.

Accidents.

Yeah.

We know he stalks her.

He showed up where she was and said, I don't give a fuck about going to jail.

And the cops were like, yeah, can't do anything about that.

Right.

Now back to October 8th, 2022.

Just to give you some background now.

Back to 7.39 a.m.

on the 911 call.

What's your emergency?

Please get out of here.

I have customers coming in.

911, please get out of here.

911 says, okay, where are you at?

The next thing you hear is Angela scream, Chris.

Oh,

that's bad of you, Chris.

And then you hear a gunshot.

Oh, shit.

You hear Chris scream, gunshot, and then silence, but the phone does not disconnect.

Okay.

Okay.

So she says that.

Now the 911 operator says, ma'am, where are you at?

I would assume that she's not answering you with this.

Why would you even, why would you say anything?

And then continues to ask, what's your emergency?

Where are you at?

And then on the tape, you can hear a male voice, not into the phone, but in the background,

like not knowing the phone is still connected, say, fuck you.

Oh my God.

You can hear a male voice say that on the call.

Not good.

So, obviously, the police can track it's 2022.

They know where it is.

They go rush to this shop here.

And one of the detectives said it was a very violent scene.

They find Angie laying face down.

She's lying face down in the kennel's washroom.

Yeah.

And one of them said, passing by the kennel door on the right.

And this is the area where we initially get a first-hand glimpse of Angela's deceased body here on the floor.

So there's blood all over the place.

Yeah.

It's the washroom where they bathed the dogs in there.

And they said she had a very large, significant gunshot wound to the chest.

Chest.

Shotgun wound to the chest.

Oh, my God.

Not a handgun.

Shotgun close range to the chest.

That's rough.

That's a really rough way to go.

That's a, I mean, probably quick, but not not pleasant.

I don't know how that quick.

I mean, unless it stops the heart.

Yeah,

it's brutal, so it's bad.

They said at that point, they noticed a barely visible blood trail

leaving the place.

They said we spotted a barely visible blood trail leading out of this room and then into the dog kennel area through this door.

They said we believe our assailant traveled from that area, left some blood evidence, then likely went out this door directly in front of us.

So they're in there showing people that.

So, yeah, Angela is horribly killed.

I mean, they said

medical examiner said she was dead within seconds.

Okay.

I mean, it was just gunshot,

shotgun directly.

That's not within seconds.

It didn't bleed out, but still, horrifying.

I mean, that is a brutal way to go.

From the obituary here, I have to read a line from it because

we've got this a few times in obituary.

Oh, no.

Maybe Midwest poignant.

No.

Her grandkids, sons, and daughters-in-law meant everything to her.

We will always smile when we remember her 20-year-old hairstyle, her choker necklaces, and her Yeti with ice-cold bush light in it.

Yeah, she sounds cool, but

I don't know if I want my family roasting me in my obituary.

Look at her with her fucking farty old hairstyle and her chokers from the 90s and her fucking Yeti with ice-cold bush light in it.

She sounds fine.

She chooses To change this drunk, yeah.

But I don't know if I want my family, I don't know if that's what I know.

They love her too.

I mean, they fight for her, as we'll find out, and everything else.

That's a crazy thing to say.

Seems like something you just say at home amongst each other.

Remember, I don't know, say it out loud at the funeral.

Don't put it in print.

Jesus, it's odd to put in print, but they mean well.

I'm not trying to stash on them, but it's just funny as shit.

When I read ice cold bush light, I'm like, what's going on here?

So, the family reactions here, they said

CJ, her son, said she was beautiful inside and out.

She liked to make everybody happy, especially her family.

She loved to spoil the grandkids rotten, and they could do no wrong in her eyes.

Her other son said she loved doing arts and crafts, still decorated her tree with ones we made when we were kids.

And they said basically her dogs were like her kids, too.

So

it's very sad.

Anyway,

in the investigation, they asked one of the detectives, when you listen to this 911 call, how do you process what you're hearing?

Right.

And he said, on a personal level, it's very difficult.

It's a very difficult thing to listen to someone's end-of-life moments.

Not good.

That's it's horrifying.

I don't like those videos where people get killed.

I don't like that stuff.

It just makes me uncomfortable.

Yeah.

People are always like, oh, look at this plane crash.

No, absolutely not.

I don't want to see that.

I don't need that shit in my life.

Even on news websites where it's like,

click here to see video of the plane's last moment.

Nope.

I don't want to.

I don't want to see it.

Don't need it.

Makes my stomach feel bad.

And I have enough bad, dark shit I need to push down in my brain.

I don't need to add more stuff that's awful, that's real, that, you know, that's horrifying.

No.

So he said on an investigative level, this was a pivotal piece of evidence in the opening stages of the investigation.

Yeah.

She said, Chris.

So they said, we're certainly trying to keep an open mind and determine that, okay, if Chris didn't do this, well, then who did?

Right.

Yeah, who else is being called Chris?

Now when they investigate, they find the sister shows them that Angie detailed her fear of Chris on sticky notes she kept in a notebook.

She had post-it notes stuck in her, like a journal.

One says, I think Chris is capable of anything.

He told me, he told my sister he didn't care if he went to jail.

He put guns all over upstairs in three different rooms.

Another one says, I don't feel safe anywhere anymore.

My sister's house, my house, my son's, stores in town.

Went to my sister's this morning around 10, said he didn't give a fuck if he goes to jail.

That seems a common theme for him

recurring.

One says, scared of him.

He says nasty and mean and cruel things to me.

He has harassed and threatened me.

Another one says, always looking over my shoulder, see if he's around.

Scared of him and what he's capable of.

Wow.

Yeah, that's terrible.

That's awful.

it's page after page of post-it notes of her fears from different days she's got to write it down otherwise it's driving her nuts it really sucks uh and they found so they look into it and they said that you know they found all sorts of incidents of her calling the police after this yeah for sitting outside of her house for following her these are all things he didn't get arrested for right stalking her going and cutting the grass at the kennels when she wasn't there.

He'd show up and do fucking yard work.

Just to fuck with her.

He'd show up and do landscaping just to show like, ha, take that.

What are you going to do?

Glue the grass back together?

It's cut now.

Wow.

He was only arrested once on September 15th for sending Angela a text message, which is a definite violation.

He spent the night behind bars, posted bail, and the next day started doing all sorts of shit again.

Wendy said he had been driving by our house multiple times.

One night she said he drove drove by six times in an hour.

What?

Just back and forth.

Just on a loop.

Get a life.

Yeah.

Find some chick who likes meth, and you guys go have a gross, disgusting,

have a disgusting, like, Motel 6 meth sex party, man.

Do some shit like that.

This is a dead end for you.

So Wendy said, I, you know, talked about all the post-it notes, too, and said, I can't believe that nobody paid any attention.

So the Bellevue Police, they all say were making excuses and not making any arrests.

CJ said, they said they'd tell him to knock it off or have a talk with him.

Knock it off.

Like they're a couple of eight-year-olds who are, you know, hiding each other's fucking toys.

This is ridiculous.

He said, nothing, nothing was done.

She was terrified.

Okay,

so.

They start to work out the investigation.

They start to put a timeline together.

And they find out, they start reviewing the kennel footage, the outdoor footage at midnight that night to see what happened.

For four hours, nothing happens at all.

Then just after 4 a.m., nothing, they don't see anything, but all the dogs start barking and continue barking for a long time, all of them at once.

Something's wrong.

Something's going on.

And the detective said, you can hear dogs start to bark.

We had determined that was most likely the point he arrived at the kennels.

Four in the morning.

Four in the morning.

So they believed he entered the kennels and just sat there for almost four hours, basically, waiting.

They said the first video that they really got was Angela coming down to work in the morning.

And then right up here, he's showing the video, he said, you're going to see Angela start to pull down to the entrance at the kennels.

And pulling up to the kennel at 7.34,

you can see her get out of her vehicle.

She's gathering her belongings, walking into the kennel itself.

And he said, and she's dead six minutes later.

Wow.

They said 7.39 and 43 seconds is when they hear the gunshot go off.

Yeah.

So that's in the video, too.

Yeah.

And on 911.

And they said,

is Chris visible in any of these cameras?

At all.

At all.

And they said, actually, looking through tons of them, we believe we see him leaving.

About two minutes after the gunshot, 7.41 a.m., they say they think it's Chris on the video leaving.

They see that.

They also get security video from a neighbor's house showing a man believed to be Chris Pritchard leaving the kennels two minutes after.

So they got, or surrounding footage.

This is a thing in 2022.

It is so hard to get away with stuff unless you're in the middle of fucking nowhere.

If you're anywhere around houses, it's on camera.

So many cameras.

You're on camera.

So they said that

actually walking from the kennel area down to the fence area, that makes us believe this is the first area we need need to check because they say that's the direction he's walking toward.

Outside the kennels, there is miles of thick woods.

They said basically just as far as you can see, it's just thick woods behind them.

It's an area called the wilderness.

You know, the woods.

The woods, but it's especially like out there.

Extra wild.

They said it's a lot of rugged terrain, and they said Chris knows it really well, and that's where he's headed.

So they're like, fuck, are we going to have to hunt this guy?

The sister, Wendy, said he knows the outdoors.

I knew that he could probably survive out there for quite a while while in hiding.

So we've seen this play out before.

I think this is going on right now, isn't it?

That guy that killed his kids and took off.

He's on his wife in Arizona?

Yeah.

No, no, not that guy.

It just happened like two weeks ago.

Oh, I mean, it has probably just happened.

It happens all the time.

It's a couple of years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You get some guy with a...

with a fucking punisher sticker on his car, and he's going to go out in the fucking woods and

he's going to survive in there you know a guy that can build a bamboo fishing hook or a fishing pole yeah that guy in arizona that disappeared in like fucking 2000 they still gone

still gone 25 years later yeah so man uh they said that you know this is that's what they expected so the the detective said we have every resource at our disposal to try and do this manhunt we have canines we have airplanes we have drones yeah we're doing this so okay they they put it all together a little bit they find that on October 7th, the night before this happened, the murder, Chris parked his truck in a pole barn at Michael and Lori Blazer's farm, which are friends of his.

He'd previously done some electrical work for them, but they did not plan on him coming over that day.

He left a note on his truck, Chris does, stating, quote, hey, Mike, came out to take these lights down.

I just had seven coyotes cross the road in front of me about a mile up the road.

I'm going to go try and kill a couple of them.

God dang.

Okay.

Keys are in the truck if you need to move it.

I'll be back, Chris.

Okay.

All right.

But his truck was still in the barn the next morning,

and they noticed that the bed and toilet in their horse trailer that they stored in the barn had been used.

So he was camping out.

This was a jump-off point here.

Yeah, yeah.

So Lori said, the woman here that owns the trailer said, the minute we came in the door, I knew that Chris Pritchard had spent some time in here.

He certainly made himself at home.

He shit in the toilet.

There's shit.

We know when there's shit in here.

It's not connected to a pike.

It's a camper, man.

It stays in a tank down there.

We know.

There's a turd in there.

I can sense it.

There's a reason you don't get to shit on the tour bus.

That's right.

Exactly.

So she also said, we knew the minute that there was a shooting at the kennel that something had happened with Chris.

They put that together pretty quick.

They said, we were concerned that this was a getaway vehicle for him in here because it was just so odd.

It had no reason to be here.

So I called 911 immediately.

They didn't want to deal with him coming back.

So she called 911 and said, quote, I see that you guys are looking for Chris Pritchard.

And the 911 operator said, yes.

And they said, his truck is in our garage.

And it turns in our toilet.

If you want to see what he had for dinner tonight, I believe you can collect it and see exactly.

see what what strain of corn he was eating last night i believe you can get that information

so lori said it was a very it was very intense because at that point he's still missing and we were scared to death we knew chris he would he would tell us how much he loved angela how devastated he was after there was a restraining order

So they later review or view the home surveillance footage from a camera on their property, the Blazers, showing Chris entering the barn where they kept the horse trailer.

So, mystery solved.

Mystery of

the mysteriously appearing turd solved.

So,

I was just going to say, I think it's a Nancy Drew mystery.

I'm not positive.

I think the Hardy Boys solved that one back in 72, if I'm not mistaken.

Something like that on top of a spaghetti.

What was that?

Meatball spaghetti.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That shit that we read to our kids

that we don't remember.

Jay Leno book.

Oh, God.

So here's how they think he did it here, basically.

He'd been hiding inside since 4 a.m., obviously.

He went all the way through the woods after borrowing, after parking his truck.

He didn't even use his car, by the way.

No.

He parked his other truck.

He's got a Jeep with personalized plates that say Zero Dark 30 on them.

They say Zero Dark 30?

Yes, on them.

Oh, my God.

It's a pretty recognizable vehicle.

So he borrowed a truck from somebody else, drove that there, left it there, then trekked through the woods through the middle of the night.

In the middle of, you know, how dark it is in the woods in the middle of the fucking night.

He thinks he's SEAL Team 6, Jim.

That's what he thinks.

Exactly.

That's what I'm saying.

I'm putting this all together.

And then to do a raid mission on a dog kennel where a 55-year-old lady fucking works.

Give me a break.

This is ridiculous.

Ex-wife, whatever.

Yeah.

What a dick.

What a dick.

So he did that.

So at this point, they figured out, okay, that's what he did.

Now where the fuck is he?

Where?

Yeah.

So there's a manhunt.

So they say there's hundreds of acres here of farmland and woods, and we have the Mississippi River not far away.

So knowing that he could have went in any direction really makes the search difficult.

Sure.

Like any search.

You can go in any direction, anywhere.

He's got feet.

Ah, fuck.

Ah, shit.

God damn it.

He could have gone anywhere.

Can he move him?

Oh, he can move them.

All right.

You guys, he's got legs and they're.

He could be in Florida.

He could be in Alaska.

We have no idea.

It's really.

Able-bodied man.

He could be in fucking Russia by now.

Oh, man.

So they fanned out from the kennels, heavily armed, because they know he's a nutcase and he's got a shotgun.

So they go basically through the neighborhoods, house to house, barn to barn.

Yeah.

He seemed to have vanished into thin air.

The dogs lost his scent.

Oh, boy.

They don't know what to do anymore.

They fucking predatored.

That's it.

Yeah, that's what they're doing.

He's covered himself in mud and got down in there.

So they said they didn't know what to do.

And so they have everybody, farmers, hunters, cops, everybody's looking for this guy.

One of the detectives said, if we thought that Chris was going to make his way, say, back to Bellevue, what's the most likely path?

Where are his friends at?

You know, they're trying to figure everything out here.

So when he's on the run for about four hours,

remember Jeff Junk?

It's kind of hard to forget him.

Jeff and my junk, old Jeff Junk.

Now, Jeff Junk says, quote, it's a small town.

Everybody talks.

Yeah.

Okay.

He's 60 years old, Jeff Junk.

He's a cattle farmer who also has a master's degree from Clark University.

So who knows?

Jeff Junk is a fucking enigma wrapped in a riddle, man.

He is a.

Whole other thing of junk science.

So he's a cattle farmer.

Him and his girlfriend, Kim Klein, Jeff Junk and Kim Klein.

Are you kidding me?

Fantastic.

He said, I need someone with an alliterative name or I won't be together with them.

They have him have.

Yeah, give me like a Jill Jones.

Give me a,

I need something like that, man.

Give me a Barbie, you know, Barberini television.

It doesn't matter.

So, yeah, Chris said that they were once close, or Jeff and Kim said they were once close friends with Chris.

Now, neighbors called them about this big rumor racing through town.

Have you heard?

Chris shot his wife Angela.

Have you heard?

Hell of a small town.

Kim said, get it, said she was saying to everybody, get out of here.

I didn't believe it.

She said, I never could believe that.

So a Jackson County chief deputy then stopped by the junk's house to warn them that Pritchard's on the run and he might be looking for help from his friends.

They basically got a list of his friends and went to all their houses.

So when he's on the run for about

eight hours, there's a knock at the door at the junk house.

Okay.

They said, oh, it was 12 hours.

I'm sorry.

About 8.15 that night.

Okay.

Knock on the door.

And they said they answered the door.

They weren't expecting any company or anything.

Kim Klein said, when the second knock happened, I says, I believe it's Chris and you need to answer the door.

I said, she already knew.

She knew.

Jeff said, I see Chris out there.

Yeah.

So he's their old old friend and now a hunted fugitive here.

So that's interesting.

By the way, he's on the porch holding a shotgun,

which doesn't, just not a real friendly visit when you come over.

No.

You've come to my house a lot.

You've never been like holding a weapon usually on my front porch.

That's never been.

And post in your hand.

1932?

You don't necessarily just wander around with a with a shotgun in your hand.

Not usually.

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So they do, though.

He's carrying a shotgun, and Kim said, quote, Jeff goes, you need to hand that gun to me.

And he did, no problem.

He's like, yeah, you can come in, but not with a shotgun in your hand.

They said that he was all wet and cut up from trying to lose the dogs that were chasing him.

That's the way he put it, trying to lose those dogs.

He asked for a beer, a cigarette, and some food.

Wise choices.

And then call the cops.

Those are all good things to happen.

Those are all good.

Yeah, they're not bad.

So he said that he shot Angela in the arm.

That's what he told them.

He said, yeah, I shot her, but in the arm.

He said that if she was dead, then he's fucked and he's going to be going to jail for a long time.

He said.

So Junk and Klein knew they had to call the cops, but they were like, how do we call the cops with him right here?

What do we do?

So they just hung out with him for a while.

They just chit-chatted in the living room.

So Chris told them he'd been running all day from the cops and their dogs.

So Jeff said, hey, dude, you know you shot your wife.

Yeah.

And Chris said, oh, yeah, how's she doing?

He hadn't brought it up till that point.

Wow.

Didn't ask about her.

So the couple said, well, not so good.

She's dead.

Yeah.

And they said that he did not express surprise or remorse or anything like that.

Nothing.

Kim Klein said, quote, nothing.

He was sitting here laughing and drinking, and and they were talking about old times him and jeff junk there remember when them horses ran that old lady over that was amazing almost

almost killed those kids

stay hit that one that one kid he flew off i thought he was dead for sure but somehow i the kids are like rubber you know what i mean they bounce and shit

you tether two horses together and they will work together they will work together for you so pritchard drank and talked for a few hours yeah and then fell asleep in the recliner uh-huh and it's fucking hilarious because

they took a picture of him asleep in the recliner,

which is, I'll show it to you in a second, too, which is very fucking funny.

I don't know if you got that one.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I got it right here.

Check him out.

Let's see.

There he is asleep in the recliner.

It's cozy, yeah.

And there's Chris and Jeff reminiscing about the horse tramplings of old.

Wow.

Right there.

We'll post that on our social media by the way.

Is he wearing a bulletproof vest?

No, it looks like he's wearing just like an outdoorsy type of thing.

Yeah, it's not bulletproof.

It's a bulletproof vest, but not a bullet No, no, no.

So they said at that point, they're like, shit, what are we going to do?

They're like, all right, let's just call the police.

He passed out.

So Kim said, just to show that, no, he wasn't having any remorse, he never talked about her the rest of the night.

And then

I took the one when he was passed out, the picture.

So he never brought it up again for the rest of the night.

They just bullshitted.

So finally,

he falls asleep.

And they could have done this any time because apparently

Jeff Junk knows the chief of police or the chief deputy.

Yeah.

So he didn't have to call anybody.

He just texted him.

Wow.

He texted him.

He said, Jeff Junk said, I said he's up here and he's passed out.

Come and get him.

Come on.

I'll put him on the front lawn for you now.

So Junk calls the fuzz in.

Here we go.

They come in.

When they arrive around midnight, they come in the door.

He's still passed out, cold, and the lazy boy.

Wow.

It's been a long day.

He's real pooped right now.

Yeah.

So the detective said he didn't know what was coming.

So on the body cam, when they wake him up and they're cuffing him, Chris says, What the fuck is wrong with you guys?

Jesus Christ, I was sleeping.

Oh, is nothing sacred?

Who can't say it when I'm sleeping?

You guys are rude as fuck, man.

I'm trying to get some fucking Z's here, buddy.

That's amazing.

Would they fucking put his hand in cold water in warm water or something?

Yeah, he pissed all over himself.

Yeah.

So they say they just put shaving cream on his hand and then tickled his nose.

Oh, hell, that was a sweet boys.

Christ's sake, got shaving cream all on me now.

So the one cop said he was verbally belligerent to officers that have arrested him.

So he was, too, because, oh, by the way, he's also, they collect the evidence, a 20-gauge shotgun and torn clothes.

Wow.

And also what he has is Angela's purse, money, and cell phone with him.

Wow.

Which is pretty good proof there.

That's damning.

That's pretty damning.

By the way, 50 bucks.

That's a challenge.

That also is very bad for the case because that's robbery.

That's also robbery in commission of a robbery.

You murdered somebody.

Not good.

So when they get out to the car on the body cam, they say, do you want your seatbelt, Chris?

Which I don't think is their choice.

Is that their choice?

I don't know.

I guess it's the back seat.

It's not the law, so whatever.

He responded with, quote, I want a bullet in the head.

I want a what?

A bullet in the head.

That's what I'd like, not a seatbelt.

I get that.

Yeah.

So, no seatbelt.

Try to shoot me through the windshield if you could, actually.

And on the way to jail, he again asked the police to stop the vehicle and take him out and execute him.

We've heard this a few times from people, by the way.

This happens a lot.

Yeah, they take him in for interrogation.

He tells the police that, yes, he did go to the kennels to talk to Angela.

He said, to, quote, make things better.

He said that she shoved him and the gun went off.

Usually when you talk to someone to make things better, you don't do it at the point of a gun.

It's hard to get back to a base level of understanding if one of you is holding a weapon on the other one.

So she said that, yes, she shoved him and the gun went off.

And then after it went off and hit her,

she wasn't hurt that bad because she was yelling at him to leave and cursing at him.

Told me that there was customers coming.

Customers getting in here.

So Chris said, quote, she said, you got to leave.

You got to leave now or I'm going to call the police.

I said, I just want to talk.

And she shoved me and I hit the cabinet.

The gun, I don't know what the gun hit, but it went off.

Okay.

He said that it looked like I hit her in the arm.

You know, how would you die from that?

Right.

Yeah.

So he said, I would have loved to have stuck around, but Angie had her temper.

I thought maybe it didn't even really hurt her that bad because she was yelling at me like she wasn't even hurt.

Which 9-1-1, I don't think he thinks that he knows that that 9-1-1 call went through and was going the whole time.

He's certainly not aware that it's happening.

Yeah.

I don't think he knows about that because then he would know that she didn't say shit.

It was dead silent except for him saying fuck you after he shot her.

Right.

He certainly doesn't know they know he said fuck you.

No, absolutely not.

So the special

agent Kedley in the interview said, you show up at a place where you know she's going to be.

You've got a gun.

You know that you've got a no-contact daughter.

Yeah.

An argument breaks out.

She calls 911.

She winds up dead.

This is not an accident, Chris.

This is a problem.

Come on.

The other cop said, if this was an accident, why are you taking her cell phone, which is her only means of survival?

Why aren't you calling for help yourself?

Why aren't you rendering any kind of aid to your wife?

So they said he kept adding details to the accidental shooting, too.

At one point,

they said that he said, quote, the gun was leaning up against the cupboards.

He went to retrieve a backpack and it fell and that's when it went off and shot her.

You know how it goes all the time.

He said that Angela threatened to take all of his money.

That's why he took her purse.

Like, I'll take your money.

How's that?

Threatened me.

Not childish at all.

In another interview later on in the day, he said he went to the kennels to steal money from Angela because Angela, quote, wanted to drag him through the mud and make him a monster.

So I'll go there and prove I'm a monster, I guess.

Then in a third interview, he said that he took the shotgun and shells from a hunting cabin at a nearby campground, and he was just walking through the woods, and that's why he had them.

And it was totally an accident.

He didn't even mean to bring the gun for those purposes.

It was just to have.

So they do state, though, that none of these stories are possible because the gunshot had a downward trajectory,

meaning he had the weapon in his hands when he was standing and fired at night.

He was standing over her.

Yeah, it didn't shoot her from the floor.

Yeah.

Didn't fall and hit her um so they charge him with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery he in 2022 he doesn't know that they can figure out how that gun went off wow for an electrician he's not that bright i don't i think meth also mushes your brain up a little bit doesn't help that's it really does not help you make a plan that's a problem or figure anything out no it's terrible except how to take some shit apart and not put it back together again that's the only plan you can put together fired from the power company yeah

I'll just take all these parts home with me, figure it out later.

Then, while he's in jail, he writes a 26-page document entitled Jackson County Blues.

What?

At one point,

it's just all of his bullshit.

At some point in there, he reiterates that he was planning to steal from Angela when he went to the kennels that morning.

That was the point.

Again, not good.

If you were planning to steal and you ended up murdering, that's a very bad one-two punch there, legally.

So there's a pretrial motion to exclude his prior bad acts.

I think basically what they figure out is that none of his prior bad acts except for the ones toward Angela will be allowed.

Only his Angela-related prior bad acts.

Because even if he had another domestic thing with other people, he didn't murder them.

So it doesn't track or whatever.

Anyway, trial comes up.

The prosecutor said,

or

they were saying that the fact that he's saying that the gun went off and struck struck her, that she's yelling profanities back at him.

And we have a 911 recording of that conversation.

That didn't take place.

We know he's a liar.

We know he's lying.

So they said his last words on the 911 call prove that his actions were premeditated.

Yes.

Also, he meant to do that.

They said, when you hear his statement, standing over her dying body on that 911 call, using profanity.

Oh, not profanity.

He just murdered her.

But don't use profanity.

That's crazy.

God, the Midwest is funny like that.

You didn't have to throw an F-bomb in there.

Jesus, man.

Come on, buddy.

Jeepers.

Come on, buddy.

So

the son,

or yeah, the son said later on, her son said that you definitely don't say what he said at the end of a phone call after you accidentally shoot someone.

You go, holy shit.

Oh, my God.

Are you okay?

That's what you'd say.

The defense, their whole defense is, shit was an accident, man.

Really?

Only had the shotgun because I was in the woods, didn't take it with me to do anything.

But they have all of his stalking, all of the witnesses to that, body cam, camera footage of him fucking leaving there.

Right.

All of his stuff where he left it.

Then he went to the friend's house and told them he shot her.

Man, fuck you.

It's a pretty cut and dry trial here.

Let's just say that.

Not a lot to talk about here.

So the prosecution in their closing said that he arrived with a stolen shotgun at 4 a.m.

He said, there's a few hours waiting, thinking about what he was going to do.

He could have thrown that shotgun away.

He could have gone back to where he came from.

They said, no.

Then they talk about the downward trajectory, that it's definitely not an accident.

They said that she had a virtually instantaneous death, is what they said.

A retired criminologist testified that it took five steps to fire the bullet that killed her.

And they said that gun doesn't get loaded and fired accidentally.

That's the truth.

The defense closing was much different.

They said, quote, we see the evidence very differently than the state.

We're really drunk.

That's the only way that would be.

We've had a lot of tequila today.

It's a little weird.

They turned it upside down, and now it's a smiley face.

Now it's different.

How you like that?

So I hope you keep an open mind, which is a tough, when you're telling the jury, I just hope you keep an open mind, you know you're fucked.

they said what do you have or what you do have evidence of is that he exercised frankly horrible gun safety that's really what he's guilty of was not safetying it up and having trigger discipline that's his real problem here

wow

they said he's just reckless that's all yeah they said he was out hunting for coyote do you not load your weapon when you're out hunting like of course he had a loaded weapon what good is having the weapon with you if a bunch of coyotes come up to you you got to load it it's they're going to eat you, you know.

So on multiple points, they questioned whether the evidence lined up with the prosecution's version.

They said, quote, you know, he likes to write.

Not a single word in any of those documents includes a plan.

So,

you know, they said that he had a previous longer-term marriage before marrying Angela.

And he said, quote, if he was such an angry man, why not the first wife?

He hasn't killed every other woman he's ever been with.

So, I mean, come on now.

That could turn women in this man's life, and they're fine.

Imagine if you went on trial for robbing a gas station and shooting the clerk, and they were like, he's been in 500 gas stations in his life, never shot a clerk before.

Now, why the hell would he start now?

Is that a defense?

Yeah.

No, that's a bad one.

So they said, why not destroy the evidence?

They said, why all these theatrics of trying to make the relationship work?

Yeah.

By putting derogatory signs in your storefront about your ex-wife.

I don't think that's trying to make anything work.

They also questioned what was going on during the 911 call.

They said if he was pointing a gun at her, why wouldn't it be referenced or a scream?

They said, you know, she didn't scream.

She didn't say, why do you have a gun?

They said it indicates that the discharge was sudden and unintended.

They said that after that, his

flight or fight, you know, kicked in and he took off.

And his lawyer said, that's a reasonable response to an unfavorable situation.

Is it?

Or would you call 911 if you didn't want to kill somebody?

They said also the inconsistencies in his story reflect shifting motives.

They said it's not to conclude that it's inconsistent.

They said it may have simply been a change in intention.

There's a significant difference between what we think we saw and a lie.

And what we saw.

Okay.

The jury, they know what they saw.

They deliberate.

They know what they heard.

They deliberate for less than an hour.

Yeah, and they said, fuck you.

They said guilty of first-degree murder.

They Lori valoed her his ass.

That second trial that she just got done, 20 minutes was the verdict that came out on that one.

Damn.

Lori's such a bad lawyer.

They don't even, not even a half-hour lunch break.

It's 20 minutes.

So fast.

So anyway, guilty.

Now, during sentencing,

the sister, Wendy, Angie's sister, said, I also gave a victim impact statement and I said to him, I hope while you're behind bars, you always have to look over your shoulder and be scared for everything you do, how she felt.

I hope you feel just a tiny bit of that, the way you tortured her.

The judge says, you, sir,

may fuck off life without parole.

Yeah.

Peace out, Chris.

Yeah.

You also deliberate robbery.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

First degree.

It's first

degree murder.

That's bad shit.

So the family, very quickly,

her family, Wendy, the kids, they file a lawsuit against the police department for not doing shit with Chris, even though she kept repeatedly calling for help.

They said that

their lawyer said they didn't do their job.

It's that simple.

The lawsuit lists multiple failures to arrest Chris.

They said this led to what's called a state-created danger, meaning the officers' alleged inaction and indifference actually increased the threat to Angela.

It emboldened Chris.

Not only did they not protect her, they made the guy think he could get away with anything.

Yeah,

by not doing anything, he said they aren't going to do anything.

Yeah.

They said after the September 1st

order took place, the lawyer said a dozen times during this relevant time period, Angela Pritchard called the Bellevue Police Department and they failed to follow that law, that judge's order.

They said the Bellevue police officers showed Chris favoritism.

They said we have reason to believe that he was friendly with law enforcement officers.

Okay.

If you live in a town of less than, say, half a million people, cops are not allowed to have friends anymore.

Because this,

we see this constantly.

You're not allowed to be friends with people because you can't help being corrupt.

It just happens.

Somebody, inevitably, one of those friends is going to get in trouble.

We all get in trouble.

Next thing you know, you're going to be cleaning up fucking

crime scene blood with a red solo cup.

And we got a major problem.

And I got to hear fucking five trials of heavy Boston accents.

And I got to deal with that.

And I don't want to.

This is what happens.

So anyway, they said that

they

repeated lies and obfuscations by the city police and said that the officers made a number of false statements about their relationship with Chris Pritchard.

Two officers denied using the services of the Mississippi Ridge Kennel owned by the Pritchards and denied receiving those services on a reduced fee basis.

Oh.

They acknowledged that then at that point, their lawyers say they uncovered receipts from the kennel showing both officers received favorable pricing.

In fact, one officers

picked up their dog at the kennel the night before Angela was murdered there.

Oh.

Yeah.

They said it's hard to believe that anyone would forget being at the scene of a murder the night before the murder occurred because they never said anything.

That cop didn't come forward.

He was like, whoops, okay.

Another allegedly indicated in pretrial filings that he was not concerned that Chris Pritchard was going to hurt his wife.

They said, even though she had constantly said, that's my biggest fear, that's my biggest fear, all that kind of shit.

At At one point, he said to her on video, this same cop, quote, that's my biggest fear, that's my department's biggest fear, is he's going to try to hurt you and then hurt himself.

One officer told Chris before taking him to jail on a mandatory arrest warrant, so you know this is out of my control.

I'm just telling you my hands are crossed on this.

When Pritchard protested, the officer replied, I don't make the stipulations, dude.

And the officer also said that,

well, I kind of would would agree with you almost that, like, like I said, my hands are crossed.

And then also let him ride up front and didn't handcuff him when he arrested him.

He said, I normally don't do that.

Oh, my God.

He didn't show up for jail.

They issued a warrant, and they never went out and found him.

Eight days, there's a warrant for him issued eight days before the murder, and they never went out and found him.

They said we couldn't find him.

And they're like, it's a town of 2,300 people.

He's driving a black Jeep with zero dark 30 license plates.

What the fuck are you talking about?

You can't find him.

He's got a shop on Main Street, you fucking idiot.

He's over there making signs, man.

Yeah.

I saw him.

That's wild.

Bellevue, their response is that they do not have a duty to protect anybody.

What the fuck is you doing?

Clean the sides of them cars off, boys, because

I think it says

protect.

To protect and serve.

Protect comes first.

They said that

they do not owe a particularized duty to protect individuals from harm and instead owe a general duty to the public.

Think about that next time you're paying your taxes, everybody.

Think about that.

Think about that next time you put one of those stickers on your car with the fucking line and all that.

Oh, no duty to protect me.

Thanks.

No duty to generally protect.

Generally, the area.

That is dismissed the case.

Wow.

Dismissed.

Wow.

Yep.

And then it's refiled refiled again.

There's a hearing on all that.

And it's again,

even though they did find that Bellevue officers withheld evidence, made false statements, and concealed their friendships with Chris Pritchard.

Wow.

But they deny those accusations.

And that's that.

So they're obviously a little bit upset.

Basically, they say if the warren had been executed, he'd be sitting in jail and she wouldn't be here today.

Wow.

The legal whatever is basically, well, I mean, he might have killed her then two weeks from then.

What are we going to?

A judge actually said, Would it, we could have extended her life a few days?

Yeah, yes,

yes, maybe that would have given her a chance to run, man.

You know,

I'll give Wendy last word here.

Wendy said, I still, to this day, I still have a lot of, um, I guess it's guilt because I think in my mind, what if I would have went with her that day?

Maybe I could have saved her.

Like, you both get shot.

Yeah.

But part of me was so proud of her for like being as strong as she was at that time.

She, she named her killer, and so she helped them bring him to justice.

So that's true.

So good for you, but terrible for Angie, obviously.

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