From Death Row to Death : Paula Cooper

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Season 18 : Killer Kids

When Paula Cooper was put on death row at the age of 15, people all over the world were outraged, but surprisingly, her biggest supporter was her victim's own grandson.

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0:00.0	Amazing! of the most popular brands of prescription glasses and sunglasses
0:14.6	there's even up to 50% off hearing aids up to 50% off in the optical center sale
0:19.7	don't wait bring the whole family and make the most of it.
0:24.0	On ticket, sale offers can't be combined with other current offers.
0:28.0	See in store for T's and C's.
0:30.0	On May 15, 1985, Bob Pelke had called his stepmother Ruth, but she didn't answer the phone.
0:37.8	His father, her husband, Oscar, had passed away two years prior, and Ruth was living all by herself. He had dinner with her when he could and checked in on her regularly.
0:48.0	It was unusual for her to not answer the phone and she had been feeling down since Oscar's passing. So that day he and his wife got in the
0:56.1	car and headed over to check on her at her small house in Gary, Indiana. What they would find
1:01.6	would change the lives of the entire Pelky family.
1:05.0	This is monsters. Oh, 19. Paula Cooper was born on August 25th, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois to Herman and Gloria Cooper.
1:39.0	She was Gloria's second daughter, but the first with Herman.
1:43.5	Gloria had met a man named Ron Williams,
1:45.8	right after high school and when she got pregnant,
1:48.4	they decided to get married.
1:50.6	As they began planning the wedding, Gloria got into arguments with Ron, and that wasn't what ended up being the problem.
1:57.5	The problem was that she would become belligerent and not make much sense.
2:02.0	That was when Ron started to suspect that his... and not
2:03.0	to suspect that his bride to be might not be entirely stable.
2:08.0	He pushed back the wedding, but all that did was give him more time to realize
2:12.0	that Gloria was not the woman he wanted to marry or to raise his daughter.
2:17.0	Gloria gave birth to their daughter Rhonda and her behavior became more volatile.
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