Sunday, January 10, 2010

From hero to killer

In December 2006, Ratley carried his 2-week-old son, Aiden, and his wife, Effie Ratley, 29, from the flames as fire engulfed their Bryceville, Florida, trailer.

A month later, Effie Ratley was dead, bludgeoned with a hammer. The man who was hailed as a hero for saving his wife was convicted in July of murdering her.

I went to Florida for his sentencing to try and answer the question: How does a man go from a heroic husband to a convicted murder?

Read more at CNN.com -- 8/20/09


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