The mother should consider compiling whatever evidence and facts of the case she has, police testimony, inquest verdict, as well as a petition to have the case tried, and submit her plea to the Governor of the State of Washington. Unless of course he is a corrupt lazy bum, like the police department and District Attorney involved with the case.
Dispite evidence being lost or destroyed, there are many witnesses (including several police officers) that can testify to what was observed at the crime scene, as well as tracking Ronda's movements and perceived frame of mind in days prior to her death. This case is solved...it's just a matter of gathering all the pieces and submitting them to a jury.
i think she has to hire a real private imvstigtr, like the ones arturo gatis family did hire they are good and also seagreed from texas need to handle that case , then will see if does weirdos dad n son ended up, they kill that girl
I have read the book, watched 48 hours and come to the same conclusion each time.....either the son killed her and Dad covered it up or Dad killed her and son is covering for him. She didn't shot herself in the head and then cover herself with an electric blanket and pillow.....she may have had some issues with her career and her marriages but there was no indication she was depressed, let alone suicidal....the only one who EVER heard her say that, was Ron, the husband who supposedly slept through the gunshot and went looking for her elsewhere in the house, instead of in the closet to begin with....then calls 911 and says my wife committed suicide. Talk about planting the seed. He should not be a school principle in spite of not being prosecuted. I understand why there is no prosecution due to lack of evidence and a botched crime scene. One Detective wound up ending his career over this case because he knew it was murder and the powers that be could not admit they failed to investigate. Although here on earth Ron or Jonathon will not pay for their crime, someday they will face their maker and he will see to it they pay. Rest in peace Ronda and you were a lucky lady to have such a strong willed Mother who would not give up until she cleared your name. Blessings to Barb Thompson and kudos to Ann Rule for her assistance.
How are women attracted to men like this? This woman who died seemed like she had a lot of daddy issues! She gets married to a marine, then quickly after divorces him and marries someone else! Then, she commits fraud. Something else that was weird is that she had sex the night she died! Weird! She really needed a therapist. That being said, that doesn't mean that she deserved to die. The son knows more then he is saying.
I would say that this father and son are guilty....based on the evidence and findings. The so called husband is....to be blunt, a redneck, to treat the woman he was married to with such disrespect in life and in death, is disgusting and and this case in particular, shows what a problem there is with the American justice system, at so many different levels.
At least her mother never gave up and gave her daugther a voice beyond the grave ...
No one comes out unscathed here. Certainly the investigation was bungled from the beginning. A crime investigator who posits murder is hardly original: that's what crime investigators are supposed to do. Consider the Gati case. Conspiracy theorists conclude conspiracy: that's what conspiracy theorists do. Prosecutors posit guilt (recent murder of a Brit in Italy for one example); that's what prosecutors "do." An accused rapist has five scratches on his face, a ripped shirt, and there's his ***** on his accuser's body; the defense asks, "How do you wish to plead"? "Not guilty. It was consensual sex." Then the lawyer cries to high heaven, "We'll have our day in court!" Because that's what defense lawyers DO. Tigers maul people when let out of the zoo: that's what tigers DO. So I can't be impressed by a professional crime writer's conclusion of murder in a case that is 13 years old and with no proper criminal investigation to begin with. Ann Rule may be proved to be right; my point is how can we know. As for the parties involved: there too, no one comes out unscathed? Did the son really peep at the victim taking a shower? His denial doesn't look credible to me. The father doesn't look credible either. First of course is his violation of the pastoral code. (I'm not sure how the victim's alleged monetary fraud impacts on the case; I would say it has minimal impact on the reputed murder/suicide issue. The government claim is more substantive; the husband's claim that she fraudulently opened up credit cards in his name is more contentious since we only have his claim.) Then there's the presence of the ex-wife (?) in the house and the conflicting stories of the two (she claims sexual activity; he denies at least sexual activity and possibly even being in the same bed. His mother claims the victim said she could not go on living without the husband. But that's what mothers DO, in the same way as I declaimed above. What else is a mother supposed to say? So there's no way we can arrive at the truth at any level we pursue. One comment puzzles me that the husband or ex-husband made: "I pulled the covers and saw she had shot herself in the head" (paraphrase). Now that just SOUNDS strange. The more normal comment would be something like, "I pulled the covers and saw blood," perhaps adding, "I looked more closely and saw she was dead." How many people would say "I noticed she had killed herself" apart from a professional coroner? That to me is the single most suspicious line of dialogue in the entire broadcast. The bottom line is the case was bungled from the beginning. It's hard to imagine that a writ of suicide could be made so quickly, esp. under the circumstances related in the broadcast: another woman present, for example. In cases like this one always looks for evidence of spousal conflict first. But with due respect for juridical standards, I think the prosecutor made the right decision: a trial under the circumstances would be hopeless. For those who believe in God or some kind of eternal justice, the case will never end and may, as in the Greek house tragedies, continue into future generations, or hereafter.
Hey! Why did no one look at the X wife? Overlooked the whole investigation, some weird message on the mirror, "########## I love you please call me?" her coming and goings a mystery and inconsistant by at least 3 parties. Hmmm. Sloppy and stupid police work. She killed the woman that displaced her , took away her husbands love, her family etc.... Tons of motive..... She could have killed Rhonda as a gift to her X. Reminding him with a bizzare note on the mirror. All too weird but highly probable.
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Dispite evidence being lost or destroyed, there are many witnesses (including several police officers) that can testify to what was observed at the crime scene, as well as tracking Ronda's movements and perceived frame of mind in days prior to her death. This case is solved...it's just a matter of gathering all the pieces and submitting them to a jury.
At least her mother never gave up and gave her daugther a voice beyond the grave ...