Glove Is Key To Death Investigation

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Paul Levine0:26
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Thu, 29 Jan 2009|

St. Petersburg detectives say a black glove links accused killer Ralph Wright to the slaying of his girlfriend, Paula O'Connor, and sick child, Alijah O'Connor.

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So far no one is calling -- the trial of the century the Saint Petersburg detectives say. A black love links a man they described as a deadbeat dad to a double murder. Paula O'Connor and her fifteen month old ally Asia we're both strangled in 2007. This -- investigative reporter mark Douglas has more on the prosecution's case.

Accused killer Ralph then you'll -- did little to say when he faced Spanoulis judge Paul Levine before her lawyers are. Prosecutors say right strangled his girlfriend Paula O'Connor and suffocated their sick child Elijah O'Connor nearly two years ago. When Saint Petersburg detectives arrested ride last week they said they had evidence that was more than circumstantial. And left in the back. Now we know -- these court records the rest of the story. Investigators say -- who was an air force sergeant at the time came -- home and killed the mother and child with his. Bare hands according to court records detectives found a black military issue no -- glove containing DNA from right to and the two victims. Before her murder O'Connor created a website called military deadbeat dads dot com they've criticized right detectives say right killed because he did not want to pay medical bills for the chronically ill child I don't know if the facts of the case. -- Talk about that right says he's innocent and not -- father detectives say the black glove proves he's a liar and the worst kind of deadbeat dad one who would suffocate his own child. I'm mark Douglas news channel it.

Wright was married with children at the time of his affair with O'Connor according to court records unsealed today O'Connor thought he was single. Why would explain his long disappearances to her as secret missions for the military.

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