The Killing of Cowboy Ray Green | Full Episode

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action shot? Cowboy action shooting is a shooting discipline based on the weapons of the Old West in the days of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday we dress for the most part in period accurate clothing Spurs and chaps it is a

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competition shooting at fixed targets leaded. the bullets sound like an explosion it's literally an explosion every time these are some of the best very competitive shooters in the world now they all have an alias correct a

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name my name is George Mann and my alias and the shooting of cowboy action is Angus McNasty, my alias is High Cotton Fake Kitty James Daring Hammer Ray was known as doc R

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and how about Danny, what was his name?

Well, Danny Oakland, she was Daniel like Annie Oakley, yes, like Annie Oakland. I taught them how to shoot with cowboy action. Danny was more competent. Ray, motivated and focused, he was there just for fun. Gray was fun. You looked at it and you see, cowboy, she's the American type cowgirl and she had long pigtails. They seemed like the perfect couple to me, but you know, you never know what it is. happening in a relationship, well, there were problems in the marriage, especially financial problems, they had money and then they lost it all. The Sheriff's Department had received a call to investigate a complaint and it was regarding residents Ray Green and Danielle Green, Danny said. that his dog killed Ray, he drove back through Barns and as I approached the trailer I observed several police cars from different agencies, there were probably 15 guys that were moving around the property and what were they doing, they were looking for Ray Green.

She was sitting in a lawn chair, she said that she had given her consent to look for Rey and that she didn't know where she was. She said you can search anywhere you want, except that foreign box. On May 28, 2014, police were called to this remote location. property in Dillsboro Indiana, the home of Danny and Ray Greene, the sheriff's department had received a call from Betty, Rey's 84-year-old mother, my Danny had also called other family and friends saying it was Jazzy, Rey's pet. the couple who had attacked Ray, the police went to check it out, but when they arrived neither Rey nor Jazzy could be seen and they say that Danny seemed to just be going about his day, she is interested in feeding her horses and they just struck up a conversation as if nothing else was happening.

Prosecutor Aaron Negan, the guard, says Danny then gave a completely different story that Rey, who sometimes worked as a truck driver, was on the road. The problem was that there was a large truck on the property. The officers suspected something was going on, so the officers pinged his phone and his phone went back to that. piece of property and there was a locked toolbox on the property. Danny refused to let anyone open it, so authorities set out to search for a search warrant. My grandmother had called me at work and she told me that Danielle had said the dog had killed him.

Tracy. Abbott is Rey's daughter with his first wife Maggie animals like him, how can a dog kill him? Tracy remembers her father's special way with all types of animals while he was growing up on their 200-acre ranch in San Antonio. My father was a real cowboy. Ray began his career riding bulls. and the Bareback Broncos served two tours in Vietnam, but it was in this simple rural life where he felt most at home. He always wore his cowboy hat and Boots never went anywhere without them. Rey was a renowned horse breeder and trainer if he had developed a successful business, yes.

We had like 70-something horses that friends like Dave used? He remembers Rey as a real shooter when he shook his hand. You knew you were shaking a man's hand. He was very powerful and very strong. Bob Stevens, another friend of Rey's, remembers a time when Rey. He caught a 12 foot alligator with his bare hands, we contacted Animal Control, they set traps and this Gator was so big he would break the traps. Ray caught it himself and put it in the barn. Tracy says her parents Rey and Maggie had a romantic relationship. relationship they were best friends they knew each other my mom was six years old and he was 11. we were a very close family, but everything ended in May 2002 when Maggie died in the collapse of a bridge in Oklahoma when she was on her way home from a race. barrels with their horses a guard crashed into a bridge along Interstate 40 knocking nearly a dozen vehicles 75 feet into the water among the dead, horse trainer Maggie Greene King, who had called Maggie her rose, She was devastated and kept saying: I miss my rose.

I miss my rose, its light went out, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the victims, as a result the Green family received a large sum of money, there was a fairly large settlement for which they had received a little over a million dollars , when did Danielle come in? your father's life abruptly she came into the picture maybe two months after my mother's death Danielle who called herself Danny was a long time Ray customer a woman horse expert Danny hired Ray in 1996 to train his horses shortly after Maggie's death, Tracy says that a new Danny, divorced, began hanging around the ranch every day.

Ray wasn't chasing her, she came to raise life and you know, she said the things that Ray wanted to hear, so it blossomed into a relationship. Danny, 22 years younger than Rey, seemed to provide him with the company he needed after losing his wife and helped him move abroad, they took a vacation and returned married. I was happy but Tracy wasn't happy with Danny. She came out with my mother's cowboy hats and hers pretty cowboy boots and some of my mother's jewelry after her. Danny solidified her place in Ray's life. She set her sights on his equestrian dreams.

Her goal in life was to get into the Olympics in dressage, so she did some research and Ground Zero for Olympic dressage was Palm Beach County. Duets decided to move to Florida. You are all in agreement for Maggie's death. This was the property of Ray and Danielle Green. They owned this five acre lot and the five acre lot east of us, the house was near the stables where Danny could train in the US trials for the Olympics. held at Deer Run and she wanted to be a part of it and she was talented, she was very talented, she rebuilt an exercise room in the house where she would get up at five o'clock and spend all day practicing horses.

She trained the horses from sunrise to sunset and when she was not in the saddle they discovered this funny and unusual Hobbit. After Danny and Ray got married and moved here to Florida, they became interested in the action shooting side of cowboys, partly in the shooting competition. fun costume they would travel to events like this Hello everyone have a good day yeah okay start with the pledge Don Owen runs the event I pledge allegiance to the flag we have competitors from all walks of life we ​​have lawyers we have surgeons we have electricians people are what make it Oakley and Doc are

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they were both loved here they were a big part of the family an amazing cowboy a big part of our family these big parties are like a reunion it's fun to see them all again and catch them Friends Karen and Jerry Eau Claire say Danny was a natural and quickly became the club's best shooter.

She really she could handle a gun. Oh yeah, and at the time I was the best shooter in the club and she just flew past me. wanted to make a living in Florida seemed like a winning proposition for both Danny and Ray but that was about to change thanks this is like a little piece of heaven it's quiet surrounded by woods Bob Stevens says Danny and Rey's neighborhood near West Palm Beach had become a perfect retreat when they arrived in 2004. All of these houses were designed so that you couldn't see a neighbor's house. It has 22 miles of horse trails that do not intersect any foreign roads.

They fell 18 last week and the S P 500, but the dream. he died in 2008 when the economy collapsed it was just devastating for Rey the horse market crashed the bouquet crashed they were using the second mortgage to pay off the first mortgage and it was just a disaster for a while Danny and Ray struggled to keep up their style of life He still attended his cowboy action shooting games, but now he tried to make a little money with the cattle they had on the ranch. The chickens laid eggs and she brought eggs for everyone. People bought the eggs.

Danny and Ray took a break. when they were hired by their own neighborhood to become landscapers, they had to hire me to take care of the rights of way, mow the grass, take care of the ditches, did you get the sense that Danny felt like that was a real step back in his business? She lives that she is cutting grass now, I don't believe it, I don't think she was like that, she wasn't materialistic, she wasn't driven by her status. Rey's daughter, Tracy, disagrees. I think the only reason she wanted to marry my father was for her money.

Tracy didn't know that her father had lost all of her money after moving to Florida. Tracy mysteriously couldn't communicate with him and taught him. She was asking me how come you never call me. I miss you. It turns out that Ray and Danny shared a single cell phone and Danny blocked Tracy's number. I received this message saying that this phone is no longer accepting calls from this number. She had blocked my emails and letters. I sent her a certified Christmas card with photos of her grandchildren and she returned a refusal. Why do that? cruel, very cruel, it really broke my heart to not have my father in my life anymore, but that was his way of keeping all the money, the money is gone now, the million dollar settlement that Ray received after having Tracy's mother die in the bridge collapse to Losing my mother like I did and now being separated from my father was very heartbreaking.

Heartbreak also spread to Danny's side of the family; although she had achieved some success in the local horse show scene, her Olympic dreams remained elusive at the time. 2012 Denny received devastating news from his family home in Indiana. His parents were terminally ill. They both had cancer at the same time. Yes, I think she felt that was her place to go and take care of them and besides there was no place for them. They couldn't let them here anymore, so Danny and Ray sold their property in Florida at a huge loss, since the landscaping contract was her only source of income.

Rey stayed mowing the lawn and living with a friend. Dave War remembers the day Dany headed north. Ray had asked a couple of his friends to come over and help them load some of the large items from his house into a moving van. He had lost the box that had his personal items. Dave says Rey asked Danny if he had seen the box and she left. He berates him, belittles him in front of everyone. I made the comment to my friend. This comment haunts me to this day. I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't kill him one day.

Dave says the raise checks were sent directly to Danny. In Indiana, I've seen him literally live on cold cereal. If necessary, he prepared his food with bread and water because he did not have money to live. There was one bright spot during this difficult time. Tracy was able to reestablish a relationship with her father, who finally got her own cell phone, we were finally able to talk almost every day, we were finally able to have a relationship again. Bob Stevens gave Ray a special gift: a plane ticket and the chance to reconnect with his family in Texas.

I gave him the trip on his birthday and he flew there and had a great time with his daughter and his granddaughters. I felt like I couldn't let go. I would just hug him forever and tears of happiness, tears of happiness. I was very happy to see him. In 2013, both of Danny's parents passed away and raised him. The landscaping contract expired. Danny was ready to receive an inheritance. The parents owned 300 acres on a mountain. There were three children. Each of them was to receive 100 acres. He had a farm. That needed to be renewed, so Ray moved to Indiana and joined Danny living in a trailer on the large property that she had control of whenever she was around my father, so coming back to be with her I felt like I never I would hear from him again.

Danny planned to run the property as a horse farm, and Ray also found work. Ray decided to get his truck driver's license so he would have a steady form of income by the end of 2013. Ray and Danny were together again, but were on the verge of separating at least in On paper he qualified for Social Security with his first wife who died in the bridge accident. Ray could collect Social Security as Maggie's widower, but he would have to divorce Danny to do so, so they divorced to get more income, but he didn't. He no longer wanted to be with his wife, but get Social Security.

Yes, in the spring of 2014, Ray and Danny had begun a new chapter together in Indiana, but it all ended with that shocking message to family and friends. Danny said his dog killed Ray in May2014, Ray Greene's mother Betty made that call to the Indiana Sheriff's Department near Dillsboro saying she had heard the strangest story from Danny. She called me with that story. Had it not happened when the police arrived, Ray and the chassis could not be found. It set off some red flags. State detectives were called after local police concluded something wasn't quite right with this remote Indiana property.

What began as a welfare check on a missing person soon turned into something much worse as an all-out search was launched, detectives say. Danny was

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y cooperative except for that one thing she said: you can search anywhere you want except that box, that box is one of those big tool boxes that you put in the back of a big truck made of metal that is located down the road. several meters from the entrance. to Ray and Danny's trailer she said it was Ray's Box and she couldn't give consent for anyone to see it. It had a lock but it wasn't fully closed on one end and there were flies and then there was a smell of hours of decomposition Baxter and Tressler got a search warrant for the box when it was opened Ray Green was found dead inside it the detectives returned to Danny telling her that they were done with their search and when you told her that we found him, how does she react? she didn't reactWell, that's when detectives say Danny's story about what happened to Rey changed once again, now she says she had been forced to shoot Rey to death two days earlier in self-defense and began to explain. that there were cases of abuse that this had started in Florida.

When she was done here, she quickly skipped over the actual shooting of Rey and got straight to why she had to do it. Detectives recorded an interview with Danny at the property. She told them that Ray had been physically abusive for years and had tried to force sex. she several times in the days before the shooting he walked around naked so naked AP walks around all the time he pulls me towards him he says let's go to bed he's trying to force himself on me I don't want this but I didn't know what to do she stated , Rey would retaliate every time she rejected him, he would come up behind me and put his arm around my neck and squeeze me incredibly tight.

I couldn't breathe. Danny told the detective that she was sleeping alone on the couch in the living room which led to another confrontation, he came in and laid on top of me, he had his forearm pressed against my neck pushing me and I said what are you doing ? I'm like out of breath and he says: I just wanted to hug you, you don't hug people like that with your arm on their throat. Danny said it all led to a fatal crash early Monday, May 26, Memorial Day. Three days later, he recorded the researchers giving a unique demonstration.

In a calm and matter-of-fact way, I'm just going to play the role of Ray, so you offered to put your body in various positions while she tells us what happened. Yes, she had come to the bathroom because it was around 6am. she just used the bathroom in the master bedroom and headed back to the couch so I leaned over and it was really quiet and Ray gets out of bed and says I'm going to kill you. I need to die Danny says Ray had a loaded .38 on the nightstand she says he started reaching for the gun she threw it on the bed so he fell more on his right side actually totally on his right side his legs were up and while I I fell on him like that my hand I don't know if you can see my hand was like that at that moment Danny shot Ray five times he took five bullets in the Torso and I don't remember pulling the trigger I don't remember aiming I remember hearing gunshots, but Danny says As the struggle continued, he started to slide down the bed and his legs were here on this side of the bed, facing the wall, sitting up, yeah, and then I got really scared because he said, I'm going to kill you, but he's whispering.

That's what Danny says, she ran to the back room of the trailer and grabbed five more bullets and I unloaded the gun and said what do I do. I'm scared to death. I fear for my life. She came back to Rey, who she says was somehow still sitting upright at the foot of the bed, he started to crouch down and leaned towards me, so I reached out my hand and he started to get up a little bit, but I don't remember pulling the trigger. and hear the gun, but I do remember that he fell Danny says that Ray collapsed on the bedroom floor dead with five bullets in his head she reenacted every step of that morning in the place where it happened to the detectives Del Mar Weldon is the Danny's lawyer, which is incredibly compelling evidence that she was telling the truth, the volcano that exploded in those early morning hours, that's what led Raymond to attack Danielle and that's what forced Danielle to use Lethal Force to protect themselves.

Danny's story enters the investigation into Ray Greene's death on 48hours.com like a cowboy. Action shooter Danny Green learned to quickly fire five rounds, reload and fire five more, a skill he put to use on that remote mountaintop in Indiana on May 26, 2014. Detectives confirmed his father's death to Tracy and was told that Rey's body had been found in that toolbox. heart and pieces and I just prayed that he wouldn't suffer eight days after the shooting, after the medical examiner ruled Ray Greene's death a homicide. Danny was arrested and charged with her murder and the autopsy found that all ten of the lowest velocity type bullets used in the cowboy action shooting competitions were still in his body, it was a shock, it stunned me because, in my mind They are two good people.

News of Rey's death spread quickly through the cowboy action shooter family, including Dave War. my friend it was quite devastating the state of mind she was in in that letter that led her to do that who knows this man Del Mar Weldon thinks he knows that Weldon is Danny's defense attorney Danielle was attacked she was in unfair danger to my life she had to act to save her own life downloaded later Reloaded Wilden says it's clear just by looking at the tape I remember seeing blood Danny cooperated with investigators did not appear to be breathing recreating what happened that morning proving he had nothing to hide his description What happened really never changed, it was very very consistent compelling evidence that she was telling the truth and what about Danny's changing stories of where Rey was saying the dog killed him saying he was at work when clearly Didn't you have it in a box? meters from his house these actions were so ridiculous that they were not evidence of an attempt to cover up the crime, they are evidence of trauma, but investigators disagreed, reviewed Danny's text messages and Skype conversations and concluded that she might have had another man in her sights a long time ago. heel cowboy action shot she and Rey knew pretty well my name is George Mann and my alias and cowboy action shot is Angus McNasty George Mann had known the greens for years, but when Danny moved to Indiana in 2012 to help care for her sick Her parents started a secret online relationship with George, who was married at the time, and one day, out of the blue, I got an email and I ended up calling and we just disconnected.

Investigators discovered that George and Danny communicated almost every day, sometimes multiple times. times a day it wasn't explicit x rated it was sexually suggestive curled up by the fire under a blanket with nothing under the blanket drinking hot chocolate can you top that? and you answered that nothing can beat that I wish I was there, well, you I have to understand attractive women. I tend to be a little more flirtatious than I should, although George had never traveled to Indiana to visit Danny, the investigation team wondered if the two had fallen in love online and if that relationship played any role in The Danny's decision to shoot her husband Do you think a part of you was in love with Danny?

No, I mean, Danny is a good person in love with Danny. No, I don't think so and I remember asking him specifically about her feelings for her and him. she admitted in her own words that he loved her that he loved Danielle yes George says Danny dreamed of leaving Rey and raising and selling horses in Ocala Florida in early 2014 Danny and Ray divorced Did you know he was coming? I knew it would come. Yes, she saw. that she, as a way to get away from Rey, she finally gained a new life without Rey, so the reason is that she needed to get rid of Ray because he was getting in the way of her dream.

She believed that George Mann was the person who would help her. fulfill his dreams I say he made it up well I'm just going to say it's a complete lie when investigators searched Danny's computer and think they found evidence that she was using Google to research how she would kill Rey what happens when you shoot a boy. in the head with a 38, which was pretty damning considering she shot a guy in the head with a 38. She's on a remote property, you're a mile from the nearest person, no one will hear you scream, so We were talking about yourself. -Defense she was investigating things we had discussed when Danny Green's murder trial was about to begin.

Her defense team finds a witness who could be a game-changer. Someone they believe will back up her claim that Rey had physically abused her. Have you ever witnessed anything out of the ordinary when you delivered the mail I mean other than her wearing a sling occasionally limping sometimes with black eyes yes we are now talking to a woman we will call Carol tell me about when did you find out Ray Green had died and Danny had shot him he got what he deserved this woman whose face and name 48 Hours agreed to hide claims she is sure Rey physically abused Danny in Florida how did you find out about Ray and Danny?

I delivered her mail Carol and Danny became friendly over the years, she was a kind person who loved her animals Carol says Danny never told her that Rey was abusing her, but Carol saw the wounds on Danny's face . I saw three or four different times when he had black eyes and you saw bruises. In other places you couldn't see the bruises because she was very covered. Carol found it unusual that despite the high heat and humidity of Florida, Danny covering every inch of her body, she was trying to tell me that she had fallen or that one of the horses had fallen.

You did it, what were you thinking? That she was being physically abused and that the green ray Carol met was not the kind cowboy described by others. I asked her to sign something and she said no. She said she should go see Danny and she called me that. At that time I avoided it. George Mann's online friend Danny says she once told him that Rey had attacked her. They had an argument in Florida and he grabbed her and threw her against the wall. I think she really feared Ray, but other friends who were close. I tell the couple that they never witnessed any signs of abuse.

I never saw any personality traits that showed me that Rey was an abusive husband, no black eyes or bruises or anything, but what about Danny covering every inch of his body with his clothes? Bob Stevens. who is working on a book about the case says she knows why she was very, very worried about sun damage and cancer. I know from the fact that she wore long sleeve shirts to protect herself from the sun in August 2015. Danny's murder trial began in the Ohio County Indiana Courthouse. No cameras were allowed in the courtroom. We have some of the key evidence.

You have the revolver, it is a 38, which was the weapon that was used. Prosecutor Aaron Negan, the guard, says some of the bullets fired pass through this blanket before impacting. Ray, there were three bullet holes and this one actually went in there and here it showed that he was sleeping at the time and that's significant because she claims it was self-defense, but Danny's attorney, Del Mar Weldon, says the blanket counts. a very different story. It wouldn't be unusual for someone to get out of bed and be covered with a blanket. I think that would be very unusual.

He is about to attack her. He was lunging toward her wrapped in a heavy blanket. Danielle told exactly what happened. I remember. going down to the ground with her head in this area what Danny didn't tell the police was that she cut a piece of carpet from the floor of the trailer, there is clear blood here and put it in the toolbox where Rey's body was found . Is it self-defense if you are cutting up the rug, putting a body in the Box, and trying to destroy or hide evidence? And if Danny killed in self-defense, why didn't he call 9-1-1 after shooting Ray 10 times?

Guess the things that happen in a moment like that, in this moment of life and death, it's very unfair to say why you wouldn't do this. She believed that he could come back and get her back even after he was obviously dead, like in a horror movie. from the dead and chased her she was living in a horror movie Carol, the postman, gave a statement that was read to the jury,but investigators said they found no evidence to support Danny's claims of abuse. Do you have any evidence beyond his belief that he actually put his fist in her face?

No, Danny never took the stand, but jurors saw his version of what happened that deadly morning. I fear for my life, after two weeks of testimony the jury accepted the case and deliberations went on for eight hours so they come on what the guilty verdict is Danny Green was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison. I think the jury was wrong. I believe Danielle Green is innocent and do you believe she got justice by being murdered? Yes, not with her being in prison, the kindest man who would do anything for anyone suffered executions Kyle she was a monster Jazzy the family dog ​​who Danny said once attacked and killed Rey has never been found Dave Wars the world Without his friend Ray he's just not the same I think you go through life with very few true friends there's a big void in that circle that will never be replaced Foreigner How do you want your father to be remembered? a wonderful, loving and affectionate man, a great-grandfather, he was a great husband to my mother Rey and his first wife.

Maggie died on May 26 exactly 12 years apart Bob Stevens believes it is more than just a coincidence a message from God I believe it was a sign from God that they are back together Danny's appeal has been denied she will be eligible for freedom conditional when he turns 71 our exclusive access to the presidential platform we will witness another moment in history CBS Evening News with Noah O'Donnell from Washington D.C.