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🗓️ 20 April 2024
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird... |
0:13.0 | A cup of murder. |
0:14.9 | Domestic violence can, in some awful cases, lead to someone's death. |
0:21.1 | But it's not always the victim of such abuse that ends up losing their lives. |
0:26.7 | On April 20, 2009, a woman who claimed she was a battered woman acting in self-defense |
0:32.4 | was sentenced for the murder of her husband. |
0:36.2 | A case in which her abuse was detailed, but her real |
0:40.2 | motive dubbed something selfish. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back |
0:47.2 | and start your day with a morning cup of murder. On August 7, 2007, a mother in Flagstaff, Arizona, called the local police and asked a check on her son. |
0:59.7 | Arriving at a home in Boulder Point that he was house-sitting at the time, they found the body of Rusty Riggins, lying there with a shot from a 22-caliber handgun to the side of his back at close range. |
1:14.2 | The bullet managed to pierce both his lungs and his heart. |
1:19.6 | The weapon, according to the records, had been purchased by his wife, Jessica, just two days before. |
1:26.9 | A woman who was, along with Rusty, scheduled to attend a divorce proceeding the same week the |
1:32.9 | body was discovered. |
1:35.2 | Determining that the man had likely been shot and killed on August 5th, the car Rusty's mother |
1:40.4 | loaned him was missing from the scene. |
1:44.0 | Seven days after the murder, Jessica Riggins was found and arrested in California. |
1:50.0 | She had allegedly taken the car, drove to California to spend time with her ex-husband, son, and ex-husband's sister, crossed the border into Mexico, and was captured trying to make her way back into the |
2:02.8 | country with a stolen vehicle. Meanwhile, her car, a Jeep wagoneer, was found abandoned in a motel |
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