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00:15I
00:16had received a phone call about a missing person.
00:22We checked the house for any evidence of a body.
00:27We found nothing.
00:31It's a cameraman. It's a colleague.
00:33You gotta find him.
00:39I have a message from Linda.
00:42She feels that you'd probably be best to stay out of here.
00:45It could be very dangerous.
00:47She said the zombies will get me
00:50if I leave the protection of this group.
00:55I thought, what is happening?
00:58He had become part of a cult.
01:02I found out she shot the neighbor's dog claiming that it was satanic.
01:12In the basement, there is a new strip of fresh concrete.
01:19Well, you'll be looking a long time for him.
01:23It's not pretty.
01:26History is full of people for whom the road to hell is paid with good intentions.
01:31He killed him and then he said he would kill me and my son if I opened my mouth.
01:50Cheyenne, Wyoming.
01:54It's near the Colorado border.
01:58The surrounding community is primarily ranches.
02:04Wide open country.
02:07Out in the middle of Prairie.
02:10Original Cheyenne.
02:12The houses date back to the 1800s.
02:18The majority of the residents in that part of town are all senior citizens.
02:24Their houses are well kept.
02:26People are friendly to each other.
02:29It is a good place to live.
02:32And so to receive the phone call about a homicide in that part of town is just out in left
02:41field.
02:46On July 17th of 2000, we received the call that there may be a body buried in the basement of
02:52a house in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
02:59The basement was concrete walls, concrete floor, several steps down.
03:07The detectives saw the crawl space.
03:11Once inside, Cheyenne found a section of dirt that appeared to be disturbed.
03:19Off to the right was some concrete.
03:24And then Chey saw tennis shoes sticking up out of the ground.
03:40That tennis shoe was attached to a body, which at that point had been essentially mummified.
03:52At that point in time, the detectives decided to call in the Wyoming State Crime Lab.
04:03They started very meticulously removing the cement that was over the body.
04:15Once the body was removed, we saw indications of bludgeoning, a gunshot.
04:21There was evidence of the castration.
04:23It was a pretty gruesome scene.
04:28When I look at that kind of damage that was done to the body, what comes to mind, that's a
04:33psychopathic action.
04:36Why did this happen?
04:39Why did this happen?
04:39What would motivate a person to do that?
04:42We need to figure out who is responsible.
04:48Abel's living.
05:03Samir is about 40 miles away from Chicago west.
05:09It was really a great place to grow up.
05:14My dad was an analytical chemist at Argonne National Laboratory.
05:21My mom was a social worker.
05:24They were great parents.
05:26Alan Ross was my twin brother.
05:30Al was always very studious, very introverted.
05:33I was more the extrovert.
05:35We had a great childhood.
05:38Dad was great with photography.
05:42Dad would do a slideshow or a movie show.
05:46I think that's where Al's love of film really started to blossom then.
05:51And then in high school, Al got into a film program and he started shooting with Super 8.
06:06In the early 80s, Chicago artistically was very exciting.
06:10I first met Alan Ross at Chicago Filmmakers, which he had started a few years earlier.
06:17Chicago Filmmakers had editing facilities and they offered film classes.
06:26Just the community that they formed, I wanted to be part of it.
06:32Alan was this tall, lanky guy and funny and sarcastic and witty.
06:42Alan was a city boy with his loft right on Maxwell Street and just hanging out at gritty Chicago locations.
06:55Bars, restaurants, White Sox games.
07:00There would be years where I might see Alan two or three times because he was always off filming documentaries.
07:08Filmmaking was everything for him.
07:10As a cinematographer, nothing else existed.
07:13He was married to his camera, but in 1986, his mother died of lung cancer.
07:20That spurred his spiritual interest.
07:25In 1993, Alan and a girlfriend had attended a workshop of the Samaritan Foundation at a local hotel.
07:34And he had become interested in the use of spiritual energy in the body.
07:38The Samaritan Foundation was founded originally as a charitable organization to do Samaritan things and to help people.
07:47At its height, there were about 350 members.
07:52They were located in a communal house in Guthrie, Oklahoma, which is on the outskirts of Oklahoma City.
08:01As the leader of the Samaritan Foundation, Linda Green was very charming, very affable.
08:10I think Alan Ross was enticed by the Samaritan Foundation because of his own vulnerability with his mother's death and
08:20his curiosity as a filmmaker.
08:24He called me, we talked, and he said he was leaving.
08:28And I said, where are you going?
08:29And he said, Oklahoma.
08:31And I said, Oklahoma?
08:33I said, what?
08:37Oklahoma City is not Chicago.
08:42Alan left and went to Guthrie.
08:45And after several months, he came back to Chicago to get his stuff.
08:54He was with another friend.
08:57The two of them sat me down at a little table and put out this chart in front of me.
09:03And they were, oh, we have to show you something.
09:07And they started swinging this pendulum over this chart.
09:10And I didn't get it.
09:12I was like, I didn't understand what they were so excited about.
09:15I didn't see anything happening there.
09:18As part of their ideas for the group, you could use this dousing pendulum to answer questions about your life.
09:26Alan was definitely immersed in the Samaritan Foundation.
09:30I thought, this is really strange.
09:34He had a very critical, sharp mind.
09:38When you open yourself up for a spiritual journey, you don't know if the spiritual forces you're dealing with are
09:44good ones or bad ones.
09:48History is full of people for whom the road to hell is paid with good intentions.
09:54Shortly after he went back to Oklahoma, I got this postcard from him that said,
10:01Dear Robert, don't know if I told you I got married, moved to Oklahoma.
10:06P.S.
10:06By the way, I've retired from life.
10:09I highly recommend it.
10:10We were all flummoxed.
10:14Alan suddenly, one day, told his friends that he was married.
10:19I think that Alan had become, in some sense, infatuated or involved with Linda Green.
10:26I think that Linda had specific qualities that have satisfied needs that Alan had.
10:33Deeper than emotional needs, but spiritual needs.
10:36Linda had initiated a divorce with Dennis Green, who is Linda Green's husband at the time that she met Alan.
10:44He said to me, he goes, I've never been happier.
10:47He had a lot of different women along the way.
10:49I've never heard him say something like that.
10:51It was a twin brother.
10:52What, am I going to argue with him about it?
10:53I said, man, all right, you know, let's see where it goes.
11:02At this time, Linda Green decided to abandon Guthrie and move the Samaritan Foundation to Cheyenne.
11:08And so, Alan went with them.
11:11The common denominator in many cults is social isolation.
11:16The group draws you in, and then they encourage you to cut your ties with family and friends,
11:24and you become isolated and embedded in the group.
11:34And then, in 1995, I was assuming Alan would come back to Chicago for the holliness.
11:43Thanksgiving, he always would call on the house phone.
11:46So we all thought he might have been doing something or couldn't get to a phone.
11:50It was definitely a bit odd.
11:52And so, then Christmas came about and nothing.
11:57Alan, when he would go off working on a project, we just kind of let him do his thing.
12:02It was before cell phones, so we weren't able to, like, text and do all that.
12:06But Alan always made a point to never miss a holiday or a birthday.
12:12No matter what Al was involved in, he never missed a date.
12:16Al was very consistent.
12:18The red flags did go off.
12:21You know, you get those gut feelings.
12:23This rush went through me like I've never felt before.
12:27And I knew right then, we all kind of look at each other like there is something wrong.
12:36We started to get some bizarre faxes from Linda Green,
12:41saying how NASA was after her and the CIA was after her and the Russians were after her.
12:50I thought, what is happening?
12:52He had become part of a cult.
13:11In early 1995, Brad Ross was getting very uneasy
13:15because he never heard from his brother before the holidays.
13:20Alan disappears off of communications.
13:24Nothing in the new year.
13:28We started checking with people and nobody had seen him.
13:32I was extremely worried about my brother.
13:36When he moved to Guthrie, it was like I already knew it was not Al,
13:40because Al was a city guy.
13:42I just had a sense, you know, there was something wrong.
13:47In March 1996, Brad Ross contacts the Cheyenne Police Department to do a welfare check
13:54at a communal house of the Samaritan Foundation.
13:57That's the last place he knew Alan was.
14:06When they arrived, residents let the Cheyenne Police Department know
14:10that Alan Ross had gone off to a film job
14:15and no one was really quite sure when he would be back.
14:19They corroborated that, yes, Mr. Ross is in and out all of the time for work.
14:27There's nothing illegal about leaving town and not telling people where you went.
14:32So there's nothing really suspicious about that.
14:40March 28, 1996, four months after Alan went missing,
14:47we had gotten some bizarre faxes from Julia and Samaritan Group leader Linda Green.
14:55Julia Williams is a member of the Samaritan Foundation.
14:58She is wealthy, and she does a lot of funding what Linda does.
15:04They were saying how NASA was after her, and the CIA was after her,
15:11and the Russians were after her.
15:14They made some pretty outlandish statements.
15:17There's obviously no credibility talking about things that are just crazy.
15:24At this time, there was something happening with the Samaritan Foundation
15:28that caused some members to leave.
15:31There was a growing disenchantment and a feeling
15:34that there was something not right about Linda Green.
15:41The day after, we had received a phone call from Linda's ex, Dennis Green.
15:49Dennis said that Ellen Ross had been shot, and he was buried in the basement.
15:57It knocked me back a couple of steps.
16:02New tenants had occupied the house.
16:06The Samaritan Foundation no longer lived there.
16:11We went to the house.
16:13We checked the living room for any evidence of a homicide.
16:18We got, like, a hole in a wall caused from a bullet, hole in a ceiling, blood splatter.
16:25We found nothing.
16:29We went to the basement.
16:32We walked down five or six steps,
16:35and then off to the right was a piece of pegboard that was screwed to the wall.
16:40We took the pegboard off, which gave us access to the crawlspace.
16:46You could smell dust.
16:49Based on my experience with dead bodies,
16:52there was always an unforgettable smell.
16:58That was not present.
17:01Once inside the crawlspace,
17:03we found a section of dirt,
17:06relatively small, like maybe two feet in diameter,
17:10that appeared to be disturbed.
17:13We didn't have any shovels,
17:15so we used our hands, some lumber.
17:18We used whatever we could,
17:20and I think we dug down maybe 12 to 18 inches
17:25and didn't find anything out of the ordinary.
17:31We checked the remainder of the crawlspace with our flashlight,
17:35and the only dead thing we saw down there
17:38was a dead cat.
17:43At that point, we returned to the office,
17:48and I started making phone calls.
17:52I spoke with Dennis Green,
17:54who was living somewhere in Colorado at the time,
17:57and he said that Linda had told him
18:00she committed the homicide
18:02and that Julia was an accomplice.
18:06Dennis Green told me that Linda had a brother
18:09that was a homicide detective
18:11with the Oklahoma City Police Department.
18:13I reached out to him.
18:19During my conversation with Linda's brother,
18:22he told me that Linda had mental issues.
18:26He said Linda had gone after one of her brothers with a knife,
18:31shot the neighbor's dog,
18:33claiming that it was satanic.
18:37So we didn't give Linda's, Dennis's, and Julia's stories
18:41really any credence at that time,
18:44and really all the folks in the Samaritan Foundation.
18:48At this point in time,
18:50I'm thinking that with Dennis pointing the finger at Linda,
18:53it isn't uncommon for ex-spouses
18:56to have a vendetta against their ex,
19:00because I know from firsthand knowledge
19:03that I didn't see a body in that crawl space.
19:25Alan had been missing since November 1995.
19:30I think that the police just thought
19:33that Alan had this crazy wife.
19:35She was nuts,
19:36but I felt like there was something really odd going on.
19:42The Chicago film community,
19:44or at least the members I knew, were concerned.
19:46There was a lot of speculation about what happened.
19:50This is not like Alan to disappear.
19:53This long, he must be dead,
19:55or he must be alive, but hiding.
19:57And if he's hiding, that he was hiding from them.
20:01His friend, Christian Bauer, who was a German filmmaker,
20:05it really bugged him.
20:07It really kept him awake.
20:11Christian decided to do a documentary
20:13to investigate and find Alan.
20:21I came on as a producer.
20:25Galen called me.
20:26She said,
20:27we're going to solve a missing persons case
20:29about a cameraman.
20:31And I was in.
20:33It's a cameraman.
20:33It's a colleague.
20:34Got to find him.
20:35I knew that Alan had lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma,
20:39so the investigation for the documentary
20:43started at square one.
20:47During the investigation,
20:49Christian and Galen found out
20:51that Linda had asked Alan
20:52to be part of a sex ritual back in 1995.
20:56Dennis Green was Linda Green's husband at the time.
21:00Linda told Dennis that she needed to divorce him
21:04because she was dying of a neurological disease.
21:10To cure her involved Alan being involved in a sex act
21:14with another woman on the back of Linda Green,
21:19a sex act that would result in Alan
21:22being officially married to Linda.
21:26I thought, what is happening?
21:28I can't wrap my head around
21:30how he had become part of what felt like a cult.
21:36I knew that if I was going to find Alan,
21:40I needed to dig some more
21:42and see what we could find about the Samaritans
21:48before they moved out to Cheyenne.
21:52The Samaritans' monastery was in Guthrie.
21:57I got in touch with the group that owned the building
22:01and we needed to find something
22:04that would at least have the police department
22:07reopen the case and move it forward.
22:19That building took on almost an Edgar Allan Poe type persona.
22:25Never been more excited to be in there
22:27and to get out of there at the same time.
22:30It didn't feel right.
22:36The second floor, there was a storeroom
22:41that had three big green metal cabinets
22:44that Alan had had in his loft, which I recognized.
22:49As a filmmaker, I knew I was looking at tons of production equipment.
22:53It's like five grand worth of lighting.
22:56He wouldn't have left this behind.
23:01In the basement, there was a new strip of fresh concrete,
23:05which made us suspicious
23:07that Alan could be buried in the basement.
23:11So Galen called Brad, his twin brother,
23:14and the next day, Brad showed up.
23:18We're examining the spots
23:20that are likely places where he might be.
23:23I dug about a four-foot hole that day.
23:28After six hours of digging,
23:30we were filthy jackhammers and digging all day.
23:36Unfortunately, there was no Alan.
23:38There's a need for closure.
23:40There's other places that we need to look now,
23:42but we wanted to just rule this one out.
23:49Although we didn't find him in Guthrie,
23:51the search continued.
23:54I was running down all these leads,
23:56and one of the Samaritan group members said to me,
23:59you need to stop digging
24:01because somebody's going to get hurt.
24:03It struck me that I must be getting close to something.
24:08I knew that Alan and the Samaritans
24:10had lived in the house in Cheyenne.
24:12So Christian and the crew and I drove there.
24:18And I sent Devin out to look for a house
24:22the Samaritans had lived at in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
24:28When I got there and looked through a window,
24:30I saw Alan's name on everything.
24:35So I broke in.
24:37I didn't care.
24:39And this neighbor comes up to me
24:41and says, what are you doing?
24:43And I just smiled at her and I said,
24:45do you know who Alan Ross is?
24:49She turned into a ghost.
24:53And I knew right then and there she knew something.
24:56She said, I have Alan's camera.
24:58Is he dead?
25:03Linda came to New Orleans.
25:06Her mission was to reestablish her control.
25:11She was absolutely unfazed by the news
25:15that his penis was missing
25:16and he's buried in her own crawl space
25:19covered in cement.
25:45In March of 2000,
25:48Alan Ross has been missing for almost five years.
25:51His filmmaker friends are determined
25:53to find out what happened to him.
25:56When they find Alan's prized camera
25:58with a neighbor,
26:00they fear he's dead.
26:03And I get the camera.
26:05Immediately called Christian and Galen.
26:08You know how I know it's Alan?
26:09There's a card inside that says Alan Ross.
26:12Seeing that camera just sent a chill through me.
26:17I knew how attached Alan was to that camera.
26:22The neighbor goes,
26:24this woman named Linda,
26:25she gave it to me and told me
26:27to do what I want with it,
26:29get rid of it.
26:35We took the camera to the Cheyenne,
26:37Wyoming Police Department
26:39and we showed it to the investigators
26:42and we told them that camera
26:45was the tool for Alan's livelihood
26:48and he would not have been separated from it
26:52unless something bad had happened.
26:56A person not having their belongings
26:59wouldn't probably be enough
27:01to open up an older case
27:02but it seemed particularly odd
27:05that it was worth taking a look at.
27:08We found out that Alan's passport
27:10had not been renewed in 1998.
27:14Okay, something's going on right now.
27:17Something's wrong.
27:18He's actually not working.
27:20We're going to go back to the last place
27:22Alan was seen in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
27:27We got a search warrant
27:29and on July 17th of 2000,
27:33detectives went back to the address
27:35on East 17th Street in Cheyenne
27:38where Alan Ross,
27:40who lived with the Samaritan Group,
27:42retraced everything that I had done
27:45four years prior.
27:49The detectives began searching the home
27:52which is now at this point abandoned.
27:56Upon entering the basement,
27:59it was dirty, there was trash.
28:02At that point,
28:04they went to what's called a boiler room
28:06which is nothing more than a 10 by 10 room
28:09with a boiler to get to the crawl space.
28:13Four years prior,
28:15when I did the other search,
28:17I didn't see anything in that crawl space.
28:20It was so short
28:22that you couldn't stand up straight in
28:24difficult to get in,
28:26difficult to work in.
28:35Investigators found a section of dirt.
28:37Off to the right was some concrete
28:39that appeared to be disturbed.
28:42There was a crack in the cement
28:44and that is when they saw something.
28:56A high-top tennis shoe
28:58peeked through a crack in the cement.
29:01That tennis shoe was attached to a body
29:06that had been essentially mummified.
29:12In the time the concrete
29:14that they had laid over the top of the body
29:16had settled,
29:18it caused the foot
29:20to come out of the ground.
29:23We immediately sealed the building off.
29:26The lieutenant at that point
29:28called in the Wyoming State Crime Lab
29:31and they started very meticulously
29:34removing the cement
29:37and the dirt that was over the body.
29:41Upon further search of the crawl space,
29:44they find a bullet casing
29:46from a 9mm handgun.
29:51It was pretty clear at this point
29:54that this was a homicide.
29:58The body was removed
30:00and sent to the crime lab
30:01for the autopsy.
30:08Law enforcement obtained DNA
30:10from Alan Ross' twin brother.
30:14They were able to match that DNA
30:16with the bones found in the crawl space
30:19and positively identify Alan Ross.
30:27Alan's death was just devastating
30:29for the Chicago filmmakers.
30:31He was robbed from us,
30:37from our lives.
30:39Alan met this tragic end.
30:47The autopsy report confirmed
30:49that Alan Ross was shot execution style
30:52to the back of his head
30:54and that was the ultimate cause of death.
30:57What they discovered next was
30:59he had been castrated.
31:05To do something that grotesque
31:07to a body that's just
31:09kind of the face of evil.
31:11Why was the damage so bad?
31:14Who did this?
31:40Four years after going missing,
31:46the body of Alan Ross
31:47was discovered buried
31:48in the basement of a house
31:49in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
32:01We started to look at motivation
32:03because why did this happen?
32:06During the investigation,
32:08speaking with the filmmakers,
32:10we found out that Alan
32:11had been planning on leaving
32:13the Seperygon Foundation.
32:17We told the police
32:19that back in 1995,
32:21within just a few months
32:23of Alan going missing,
32:25Christian Bauer contacted Alan
32:28to shoot a documentary
32:30about the Mississippi River.
32:35And they were going through
32:37the various towns
32:38along the Mississippi.
32:41When they got to Missouri,
32:44Linda and Julia showed up.
32:48Christian said he had no idea
32:50how they knew which hotel
32:53they were staying in
32:54because Alan said
32:55he hadn't told them.
32:57When the crew came
32:58into New Orleans,
32:59there was Linda and Julia
33:01waiting for them.
33:04Alan was very irritated.
33:07These two women were there
33:08to put their thumbs
33:09in the works.
33:16Bourbon Street is seen
33:18through Alan's eyes.
33:20The two women on the sidewalk
33:21are Linda and Julia.
33:23Linda steps in front
33:24of the camera.
33:26Alan is embarrassed.
33:27He pans away.
33:32There are some
33:33very evocative photos
33:35that Christian showed me
33:36of Alan staring off
33:37at the Mississippi.
33:39He seemed broken.
33:43We looked at motive.
33:45One impossibility was
33:46he was planning
33:47on leaving the foundation
33:48and then she couldn't
33:49let him go.
33:51I think when Alan Ross
33:52went back to what he loved,
33:55which was documentary making,
33:58he was completely
33:59outside of her control.
34:01So Linda came to New Orleans.
34:04Her mission was
34:05to reestablish her control
34:07over Alan Ross.
34:09Who had the passion
34:11to do this to Alan?
34:15When you look at
34:16the castration,
34:17it reinforces
34:19that this was personal.
34:20So at that point,
34:22Linda Green and Julia Williams
34:24became prime suspects.
34:30in July of 2000,
34:38investigators interviewed
34:40both Linda and Julia.
34:43The first day that they
34:46spoke with Linda and Julia
34:48was a seven-hour interview.
34:52Alan came to my room
34:55and he told me
34:56that the National Security
34:58Agency informed her
35:00that we were all
35:01to be killed.
35:03She was obviously
35:05badly unstable.
35:06There were a lot
35:07of different stories
35:08stories and just trying
35:09to make sense
35:10of the facts
35:11was extremely challenging.
35:15Linda Green
35:16was absolutely unfazed
35:17by the news
35:19that her spiritual husband
35:20was found
35:21murdered execution style.
35:23His penis was missing
35:24and he was buried
35:25in her own crawlspace
35:28covered in cement.
35:31But both Linda and Julia
35:34pointed the finger
35:34at Dennis Green,
35:36saying he was the one
35:37who actually committed
35:38the homicide.
35:39Dennis is an evil piece of
35:41he killed him
35:43and then he said
35:44he would kill me
35:45and my son
35:45if I opened my mouth.
35:47They told law enforcement
35:49that Alan Ross
35:51had molested
35:52Linda and Dennis Green's
35:54minor child.
35:56And then she said
35:58Dennis Green was so angry
35:59that he shot Alan Ross
36:01and just castrated him
36:03right there.
36:04And that of course
36:06could be motive.
36:09So the question was
36:11who killed Alan Ross?
36:33In July of 2000
36:36after detectives found
36:38Alan Ross' body
36:40Linda Green
36:42told law enforcement
36:43that Alan Ross
36:45had molested
36:46her and Dennis Green's
36:48minor child.
36:50and Dennis Green
36:51was so upset
36:53and so angry
36:54that he shot Alan Ross
36:56and just castrated him
36:57right there.
36:59Law enforcement
37:01interviewed Dennis Green
37:02and he adamantly
37:04denied that.
37:06After fact-checking
37:08Dennis Green's
37:09statements,
37:11investigators were able
37:12to confirm
37:13at that time
37:14Dennis Green
37:15was in fact
37:16in Colorado.
37:20So at this point
37:21in the investigation
37:22Linda and Julia
37:23are the prime suspects
37:24but we can't charge
37:26them at this point
37:27because we don't have
37:28any hard evidence
37:29pointing to them.
37:35The passage of time
37:37is the worst enemy
37:37of prosecutors
37:38and law enforcement.
37:43In 2002
37:45Linda Green
37:46died of liver failure
37:48before charges
37:49could be filed.
37:58After Linda Green
38:00died,
38:01Julia Williams
38:02admitted to law
38:03enforcement
38:03that in 1995
38:05around the end
38:07of November
38:08she heard a gunshot
38:11and she saw
38:12Ellen Ross
38:13lying on the floor.
38:14She was very evasive
38:16regarding the details.
38:18She would never
38:19reveal who pulled
38:20the trigger
38:21that killed
38:21Alan Ross.
38:23Because of the confession
38:24in March 2003
38:26we were able
38:27to charge Julia
38:28with accessory
38:28to murder
38:29after the fact.
38:38From the investigation
38:40we believe
38:41that around
38:42Thanksgiving of 1995
38:44it was clear
38:45Alan wanted
38:46to escape
38:46the wrath
38:47of Linda Green.
38:49he was planning
38:50on leaving
38:51the foundation
38:54and she couldn't
38:55put up with that.
38:59We believe
39:00the time
39:01that Julia
39:01told Alan
39:02they were going
39:03to get rid
39:04of all this
39:04filmed equipment.
39:07This was his life
39:09and Linda
39:09and Julia
39:10understood that.
39:14Alan Ross
39:15wanted to leave.
39:16he had lost
39:17his sense
39:18of loyalty
39:19to Linda Green
39:22and I think
39:23that led
39:23to the death
39:24of Alan Ross.
39:26Our theory
39:27is that
39:28once he arrived
39:29at the house
39:30in Cheyenne,
39:31Wyoming
39:32Linda Green
39:33and Julia Williams
39:34shot Alan Ross
39:36in the head.
39:41He was castrated.
39:45together
39:47they dragged
39:48him down
39:48the stairs
39:51buried him
39:53in the
39:54unfinished
39:54crawl space
39:56and then poured
39:57cement over him.
40:07during trial
40:08Julia Williams'
40:09defense
40:09was that
40:12Dennis Green
40:13had killed
40:14Alan Ross
40:15and that she
40:16was forced
40:16to go along
40:17and participate
40:18because she
40:19was scared
40:20of him.
40:24The biggest
40:25challenge
40:25was that
40:26the case
40:27was largely
40:28circumstantial.
40:31We looked
40:32intensively
40:33and we never
40:33found the gun.
40:35We didn't know
40:36if we could get
40:37a conviction
40:38with juries
40:38you just never know.
40:43The jury
40:44deliberated
40:45for only an hour.
40:47On November
40:4819, 2004
40:49they found
40:50that 51-year-old
40:52Julia Williams
40:53was guilty
40:54of accessory
40:55after the fact
40:56to the murder
40:56of Alan Ross.
40:59The court
41:00sentenced
41:01Julia Williams
41:02to 24
41:03to 34
41:03months in prison
41:04with 109 days
41:06for credit
41:06for time served.
41:11We were
41:12relieved
41:12that she
41:13was brought
41:14to justice
41:14but 34
41:15months
41:16for a homicide
41:17that seems
41:18low.
41:20It was a
41:21very small
41:21sentence
41:22which was
41:23another shock
41:24for me.
41:25I don't feel
41:26like justice
41:27was served.
41:33I want
41:34Alan to be
41:35remembered as
41:35this kind
41:36of fun-loving
41:37goofy guy
41:39who
41:40had a lot
41:41of curiosity
41:42about life.
41:46He was a
41:47great cameraman
41:48and he did
41:49great work.
41:51That's
41:52Alan
41:52to me.
41:54He saw
41:55life through
41:56his camera.
41:57What he saw
41:58in that camera
41:59was unlike
42:01what I saw
42:02with my two eyes.
42:04That was
42:05the beauty
42:06of what Al
42:06could do.
42:08His spirit
42:09was so
42:09inviting.
42:10He was
42:11always for
42:12me.
42:14You know,
42:15he was always
42:15for me.
42:17How could you
42:18not love that?
42:21If I could
42:22honor him a little
42:23bit now,
42:24it makes
42:25me feel
42:26better too.
42:53I don't
42:56come
42:56Can
42:56You
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