tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646417.post8732142675717625578..comments2024-03-26T16:11:40.327-07:00Comments on Behind The Blue Wall: [TX] Cop-on-cop armed domestic violence abduction ended with Officer Hillsman freed & Officer Reyes deadBehind The Blue Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429113203939514642noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11646417.post-44701150115772731682011-12-21T19:24:52.456-08:002011-12-21T19:24:52.456-08:00CLAY WALLER'S FATHER DIES AT NURSING HOME BEFO...<b>CLAY WALLER'S FATHER DIES AT NURSING HOME BEFORE PROSECUTORS COULD RECORD TESTIMONY</b><br />Southeast Missourian<br />By Patrick T. Sullivan <br />Wednesday, December 21, 2011 <br />[Excerpts] Officials involved in the Jacque Waller disappearance investigation no longer will have access to testimony that claims Clay Waller confessed to killing his wife. James Clay Waller Sr., the only person Clay Waller allegedly recounted murdering Jacque Waller to, died Tuesday morning... James Waller's death comes a month after Cape Girardeau Judge William Syler denied the preservation of his testimony... Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle submitted a motion Sept. 22 to preserve testimony from the elder Waller that alleged Clay Waller confessed to him shortly after Jacque Waller's disappearance. In a federal affidavit, an FBI agent writes that James Clay Waller Sr. told him Clay Waller confessed to breaking Jacque's neck and burying her body... The alleged confession was laid out in an affidavit of FBI agent Brian Ritter, who talked to James Waller in the course of investigating Clay Waller for making an Internet threat. Clay Waller later pleaded guilty to that charge... Stan and Ruby Rawson, Jacque Waller's parents, have declined to comment on the investigation, but Stan Rawson posted on the Find Jacque Waller Facebook page -- a page with almost 15,000 followers -- that finding his daughter's body is more crucial now than ever. "We cannot let this interfere with going forward with the case against him," Rawson wrote Tuesday afternoon. "The best evidence is still that we locate Jacque's body, and there are people that will not rest until that happens"... Clay Waller will be sentenced for federal Internet threatening charges Jan. 3. Federal prosecutor Larry Ferrell, who preserved the elder Waller's testimony in a federal affidavit, said James Waller Sr.'s death will not affect the sentencing and that he will use the preserved testimony during the hearing. Clay Waller pleaded guilty Oct. 3 to threatening Cheryl Brennecke, his wife's sister and the guardian of his three children. He faces up to five years in prison, although a presentence investigation report suggests he serve up to 10 months in a federal penitentiary. Ferrell plans to use evidence and testimony Jan. 3 to argue for a longer sentence. [Full article <a href="http://www.semissourian.com/story/1796576.html?response=no" rel="nofollow">here</a>]Behind The Blue Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429113203939514642noreply@blogger.com