Welcome back to another episode of postmortem.

I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green, and today we are discussing the case of Angela Pritchard,

who was shot dead by her strange husband in 2022, following weeks of stalking and

harassment, all of which she reported to the local police in Bellevue, Iowa.

After the murder trial, Angela's family filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Bellevue, as well as three police officers

for what they say was inaction and indifference by not arresting Christopher Pritchard sooner.

So joining me today to talk about this, to dig in a little bit more, is CBS News correspondent

Jonathan Vigliotti and 48-Hours producer Meadstone. Welcome, guys.

Thanks for having us. Good to be here. Thank you. So a reminder to everyone, as usual,

if you haven't already listened to the 48-hour episode, the audio version of it, you can find it in

your podcast feet right above this one. So go listen and then come on back so we can

talk about it. All right. So I think what is particularly tragic about this case, guys, is that

it really, really seemed preventable. It seemed like Angela really did all the things that you're supposed to do.

She endured months of domestic violence, and then Angela Pritchard obtained a no-contact order

against Chris Pritchard, meaning that if there was any contact that he made with her, it could result

in a mandatory arrest.

Here's the question.

If Angela's no contact order had been enforced in a better way, what should have happened

with this case?

Great question, Anne-Marie.

I've covered a number of 48-hour cases.

Usually the whodunit of these cases is the mystery. As it pertains to this story, the mystery was, why was it more done in time? Everyone we spoke with from prosecutors to David O'Brien, he's the civil rights attorney representing Angela's family in that lawsuit against Bellevue police investigators, they all said more could have been done. There were two

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