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Forensic Files

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Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When their trailer catches fire, the young husband heroically rescues his wife and infant son.  A month later, his wife is beaten to death in a bedroom of his parents’ home.  The cut window screen points to an intruder, but the lack of supporting evidence compels investigators to look beyond the obvious. 

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Up next, a suspicious house firing nearly kills an entire family.

0:05.0

Had she been in there much longer, she certainly wouldn't have survived.

0:08.5

A month later, the husband is assaulted, and the wife is dead.

0:13.0

Who did this? Who would have possibly wanted to hurt her?

0:17.0

Everyone was in lockdown. New lights, new sensors had been purchased.

0:22.0

Everyone was on edge.

0:24.0

Police have no witnesses, no motive, and no suspects.

0:28.0

This was a savage brutal attack.

0:31.0

Until science uncovers an elaborate plan.

0:35.0

Everybody was scratching their heads.

0:46.0

Michael and Effie Ratley didn't meet in the typical way,

0:50.0

through friends, or at work, or school.

0:55.0

They met when Effie's car had a flat tire,

0:58.0

and Michael stopped and offered to help.

1:01.0

I was glad that Effie found someone that she wanted to date,

1:06.0

because she had not previously dated a whole lot.

1:09.0

18 months after their chance in counter, the couple married,

1:13.0

but the union lasted only three months.

1:16.0

They were married for a short time. Originally, they broke up.

1:20.0

Never really lost contact with one another.

1:23.0

But less than a year later, the couple married again,

1:26.0

and soon had a child together, a son, aeaton.

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