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investigators determined that Sharice bingham's death was in fact a homicide and they were investigating it as such
and in talking with her husband Eugene Bingham they quickly learned that his story was just not adding up and then
there is this police found out about a possible Affair from an anonymous call that came in early in the
investigation the caller referenced a 14-year relationship Eugene was having with another woman Keith Walker sher's
older brother who has worked very hard to keep his sister's unsolved murder in the public eye tells us that about a
year before she died Sharice discovered that Eugene had purchased a duplex in town and was renting it out the property
manager was listed as a woman whom Eugene met when both of them worked at UPS her job there was in the HR
department but she moved on to the real estate business all right hold on so he's their relationship is kind of
strange but they're going to stay married Eugene lives in the basement B peep lives in the basement
so their marriage isn't great and then she finds out a year before she's murdered he purchased a property a
duplex so he purchased this and she didn't even know about it that's that's right according to her brother that's
the information we have right this guy is he's he's not just lying to the cops he's lying about everything this woman
and Eugene are having an affair now after shar's death her family found out that this woman and Eugene owned another
house together this is where this woman lived Keith Walker believes that Sharice
never knew about this other house but she did know about the girlfriend we aren't going to name Eugene's girlfriend
here but it's now his wife and you can find that information online in in some of the
papers we will simply refer to her as the girlfriend now in any event the side piece Sharice found out about this
affair and was upset enough to pawn her wedding ring according to her family why
she didn't leave Eugene we don't we don't know perhaps she was making plans to do just that right but according to
Eugene he says things were still good with him in his wife initially Eugene in talking to investigators denied the
affair but then he told detective norell that he had a fling that had ended four
years earlier after shares found out about it but police continued to press Eugene
about who this other woman was and eventually Eugene admitted that it wasn't just a fling that he continued to
see this woman and the relationship never ended he did give police her name and her phone number now back to the phone
records that we discussed yesterday yeah the phone number is 1 1800 [ __ ] pag from
December 3rd to December 11th this is only 8 Days the 8 Days leading up to the murder Eugene called his girlfriend 38
times that's with a three followed by an eight 38 times what did he call her she
called Eugene 72 times Jesus on the day after the shooting the girlfriend called
Eugene nine times then communication abruptly stopped with only one call between the two from December 14th 2012
to January 27th 2013 that seems incredibly strange to have both of those behaviors going on in
such a short time period yeah yeah why didn't you Jean just divorced Sharice if he's already having this other
relationship the number one possible answer here Captain money right right he's but he's
also acquiring wealth or properties without her knowing so the state police the Indiana State Police they discovered
that shares had multiple life insurance policies and that Eugene was the beneficiary according to court documents
Eugene had two life insurance policies on his wife it's not clear whether he was the one that purchased these
policies or if in fact Sharice was the one that purchased the policies but one of the policies was for 200 thou
$200,000 and the other was for $250,000 and Sharice had a policy at work through her work for a total of
$410,000 so I'm going to do my public public school math for everybody on display for all to hear and see and
witness the Brilliance that's $860,000 in total that's a ton of money for someone
who is really just sitting around drinking and smoking that is as the colonel says a
whole lot of Rolling Papers that's a lot lot of whole whole lot of zigzags Eugene when Sharice died was
unemployed well I want to I want to be clear about this so she had a policy through her work correct I'm going to
assume that that's pretty standard stuff right but I'm going to assume that she set that up she seemed like a very
go-getter responsible person and so I'm going to say that she set that those up there was two pieces of property
purchased without her knowledge correct I'm going to go ahead and say that the other two policies the one for 200,000
the one and then there was another for 250,000 right correct I'm going to say that those my gut is telling me Eugene
bought those and that possibly she didn't know anything about it because you'd think that the policy through uh
her work would suffice enough I think you're spot on for a couple reasons not only do we see another uh a of behavior
where he's doing things behind her back but also purchasing things purchasing property
look most people do not over insure themselves as as good as the insurance sales man or woman
is most people do not over insure themselves we're talking Sharice does not have any children yes her and her
husband have a home together but it you're not going to set up a situation where you're paying money out
of pocket to hold these policies that's going to allow this man to quote unquote
hit the lottery when something happens to you so you would ensure yourself just enough to take care of that person take
care of the properties any outstanding bills things like that but with no kids this seems like a huge amount this this
is over insured so I agree with you Captain I think it looks like to me that Eugene may have been secretly holding
these additional policies because the one from her work is the largest that's $410,000 that's that's a significant
amount that takes care of everything and ties up all Loose Ends should something
happen to right and takes care of you and your basement and and the house that's attached to it but now when you
have two other properties with you know your side piece I think they call them side pieces
cuz they're side pieces of [ __ ] but uh but now you have two properties with your side piece now we
have two more policies that cover those it's and I I would like to know when the
other two policies were were bought when confronted with this information obviously police and
detectives are going to inform Eugene if he can't figure it out for himself that
motive motive for murder here could in fact be these three insurance policies it's money man they're going to
point out to him look you are unemployed at the time that she died MH now for his
part Eugene said that he had bought into a few businesses that didn't take off they hadn't taken off yet for whatever
reason that he did own that rental property that did generate some income so he they're they're making different
arguments the investigator is making the argument that money was a motivating factor and he's trying to negate all
that by saying look I I had some income with this rental property and I had some
businesses that just hadn't taken off yet Eugene did agree to take a polygraph test and did so on January 9th
2013 before the test was initiated detectives asked Eugene what he believed happened to his wife he said he was
muling this over for quite some times and actually thinking of several different
scenarios he says one possibility sh had the gun in her pocket the safety was off
and one of the dogs jumped up and discharging the weapon but as we know this just does not work due to the
bullet holes in her clothing that we have already discussed right Eugene also suggested that shares could have slipped
and fallen and accidentally shot herself then again the evidence says not when pressed Eugene said that all he
knew for sure was that Sharice did not harm herself on purpose and that he had nothing to do with it he just wanted the
whole thing to be over is what he told the investigators this was a nightmare for him as well as he states he really
missed Sharice but then Eugene may have slipped up in his statement to investigators MH he said that he learned
from the corer that the projectile and this is a quote this is a direct quote quote projectile that had killed his
wife had been recovered end quote he said he assumed that law enforcement had matched it to the gun found at the scene
but on January 9th when Eugene made this statement police had not yet gathered the proof showing that the ballistics
were in fact a match in other words Eugene knew that the bullet came from shar's gun before investigators
did Eugene also made another interesting statement got him when asked quote what
should happen to a person that kills his wife end quote Eugene responded they should go to jail just
like the person that did it end quote he went on to say that if you plotted with
someone then you should go to jail along with the person who did it so it looks like you Eugene thought that police were
asking him about a conspiracy about a conspiracy to commit murder the murder of his wife right could that in fact be
a clue as to what actually happened and what actually went down Eugene continued
to ramble wondering what would have happened if he had accompanied his wife on her walk he said I'd probably be in
jail according to what he says he's seen on TV the husband is always the first suspect in response to
questioning he said that there are three reasons he could think of that might cause someone to kill their spouse money
they fall out of love or they find out their spouse has done something bad yeah but In fairness okay you ask a question
whatever he gives you as an answer that makes him look guilty right right so I mean in all fairness to to him because
if you ask me right now that same question my answers are going to be similar that doesn't mean I
had anything to do with the death of sh so right and not only that one one technique that detectives very often use
now keep in mind I'm summarizing a lot of this information hold on I I do want to applaud you because you
did the colonel pulled a Keith Morris yeah where where you set it up you know and then he then he answered it could be
money well I I spend every night watching on the TV learning watching and learning growing growing trying to
become a better person yeah so um but one technique that detectives will very often use is they'll throw out a
question there for you they'll let you answer it and then they just kind of sit there in hopes that you'll continue to
talk and some people will do this in a nervous fashion and others will just do it because there's an awkward silence
and it sounds to me like that's what's going on here that they just throw out a couple of questions that may have even
started with some softball questions and he gives them an answer and then continues to Ramble On Ramble On and in
a way you know the old the old saying if you if you find yourself in a grave stop
digging you know so now the polygraph test itself and there are are some people out there right now that are
booing boo boo here they go talking about polygraph again we understand they're not on your boo they're of no
use in the court of law but obviously the investigators are still using them we are still going to talk about them so
the polygraph itself only presented Eugene with three questions one two three questions the first being did you
shoot Sharice the second are you the one who shot Sharice and the third do you know for sure who
shot Sharice Eugene answered no to all three questions The Examiner scored the exam he determined that it was
inconclusive but further indicated that it was very close to a failure a second examin examiner scored the exam and also
determined that it was quote at or near failure furthermore Accord according to an affidavit an additional check was
done with an electronic scoring system that is used only as a reference and that scoring system scored these tests
as a failure so the official results of the poly was inconclusive but detective norell
considers Eugene to have failed the polygraph okay I I'm trying to follow you here it's tough this this part of
this story is is very confusing so they give one test but they have two different individuals score that test
and then they then they have a computer basically score the test as well MH very well see all I'm thinking about is
Keith Morrison that is why in fact that these polygraph test are not of any use in the court of law because they you
know look the the slang term for them are lie detector test the test does not detect
lying at all right it detects your reaction to the question and your behavior uh at the time that you are
providing an answer so what that means is it's not a situation where it was did you have McDonald's for breakfast today
and I say yes and then the thing goes which means I'm lying no it just records my my reaction to the question and to
the answer that I'm providing and then somebody has to come in and view it with their own eyes and ex you know review
the exam and score it so it's open to interpretation right so so the detectives come into the room and they
ask the colonel did you have McDonald's breakfast this morning was he telling the truth we will
never know we may never know I I please lead the fifth uh I need to work on my Keith
Morrison so Eugene agreed to a second polygraph examination this was going to take place on January 22nd before the
exam he answered some questions about his affair he said that he the woman started off as his business
partner but one thing led to another and then it turned into something else he did say that Sharice did in fact find
out about the affair but he was never fully honest with Sharice Eugene felt sure that Sharice died not knowing that
he was continuing to see this woman that's probably maybe the most truthful thing that he's ever said is when he was
like I wasn't honest with her like that's probably the most honest thing that this guy could say I'm a lying [ __ ]
princess but it also in a sense that's him trying to to look when when they say money was a
motivating factor in her murder he's saying well I had income it's not just so so clean and simple that I was
unemployed I had income coming in and then when suggesting that the affair would be motive for her murder he's
saying she found out about it I told I admitted to it but I wasn't fully honest with her and at the time of her death
she died not knowing that I was continuing to see this woman so if she doesn't know at the time of
her then it may not be a motivating factor for the murder is what he's trying to say right let's start with the
idea again we don't know who bought the policies but I think the policies is motive for murder I don't care if he
even had a job it's motive for murder the fact that you're having Affair or had an affair had one or is having one
that is motive that means that you didn't like your current situation and so you you decided to run out on your
wife right so also sounds like he doesn't have enough things enough hobbies to fill his day with because
he's not busy working so right but then so so we have that but then we also have
I think just the fact that he is buying properties and having almost a double life is is motive for murder because
when she finds out about the one piece of property she didn't find out about the other piece of property so is he
trying to hide that from her and then again it with let's go back to the stepping out on your wife okay she knows
that you had an affair but she doesn't know it's continuing maybe she knew it was continuing but she didn't give a
rat's ass because you're lazy piece of [ __ ] ass lives in the basement right and
she's planning on leaving you anyways she's just not telling you that because why the hell would she have to tell you
that when you've been stepping out on her right so I think there's a lot of motives here
uh but the issue that I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is I think these
motives as as daming as they are pointing the finger to Eugene really makes me start questioning
the side piece because all those benefits would benefit her as well yeah so the when we when we talk about motive
though as well let's for for anything one thing that I see here the the ownership of two properties with
this woman that shows a motive that he was not intending at any time to to leave that other relationship
ship this shows a motive that he intends to further that relationship and to build that relationship and again well
he has more to lose he has more property to lose and and and possible income to lose if he if he loses that relationship
and one and one thing that's not discussed as a possible motive is maybe she was maybe Sharice was in fact
planning on leaving him and maybe she expressed that to him at some point right so we we were going down the path
of the polygraphs the not lie detectors but the second polygraph test that he agrees to now this took place on January
22nd again in the second poly there were only three questions asked of Eugene one
did you shoot Sharice two are you the one who shot Sharice and three did you participate in the shooting of Sharice
again the results of this exam were inconclusive and close to failure detective norell tells us that he
initially asked Eugene to submit to a polygraph exam so he could rule the husband out as a suspect I think that's
pretty interesting to hear that from one of the detectives on the case he's not saying that we gave him this polygraph
test because we believed he was the number one guy because he was the Prime sub ECT we simply asked him to to submit
to the polygraph because we wanted to clear him and move on from the husband being a suspect and to look into
different areas so for anyone out there that's going well they got tunnel vision and they set their
sights on Eugene and never never let go left it in the lock position I think this statement here to me is is quite
telling that that in fact was not the situation they didn't have tunnel vision they weren't locked and loaded on Eugene
and in fact when the results of the polygraph come back and it's found to be inconclusive close to
failure this actually changing the mindset and drastically changing and Shifting the focus of the detectives
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that polygraph test that we were talking about she took this on February 8th 2013 and the questions again here are
just three questions first being did you shoot that woman the second are you the one who
shot that woman and third did you participate in the shooting of that woman interesting to see the contrast
between the two polygraphs even though they are just three questions long right when you're questioning the husband you
state the victim's name and when testing the girlfriend you refer to Sharice as that woman find that to be interesting I
don't know what the Yeah strategy is there now the girlfriend did answer no to all three questions she was scored as
a failure she left the exam and retained an attorney oh really oh man we both like lie detector
tests but we also tell people if I was charged with a crime and then it doesn't matter if I was innocent or not if they
said well let let's give you a lie detector there's there's no it's like throwing the football and
and uh two bad things can happen or something like that what's well that's what Woody Hayes used to say that when
you throw the football only two only three things can happen and two of them are bad meaning it would
be intercepted or an incomplete pass and then the one good being that you complete the pass and it and it you know
further the ball down the field but that's same with a polygraph the good thing is is that you
pass it the bad thing is you fail but the other bad thing is it's inconclusive yeah and I mean we've said
this before you really have nothing to gain by by passing it right right like there's there's really nothing for you
to gain because if you do pass the polygraph and and the investigators still have evidence and still believe
you to be guilty they're just going to say well that doesn't matter we can't use it in court anyway right it it's
really just a tool and I think it's it's a tool to apply pressure to the person that you need that you want to crack to
crack and give a confession or to crack and give an incriminating statement I think that the only way that
you would let's say you are innocent and you know yourself to be innocent the only way that you would agree to a
polygraph I have seen scenarios where someone says I will do a polygraph exam but my attorney is going to hire the the
person giving the exam and we're going to do the test conduct the test at my attorney's office you know they really
play it like homec court advantage type situation so it's it's really really a tricky thing and it's really a tricky
thing in this particular case because we stated this at the beginning of yesterday's show this case seems to me
to not be solved due to a lack of effort or knowhow it seems that this case is just solved because of a lack of
evidence and police by this point in our story they believe that Eugene Bingham was in some way responsible for his
wife's death however the Walker family began to suspect Eugene's involvement in shara's Death from the beginning
according to Deborah McMurray that's what she told True Crime daily and to this day they still do they still
believe that he is involved in some way in shar's death and here's why this is the circumstantial evidence the gun and
its pouch were in two different locations contrary to shar's Habit leading the family to believe that the
gun was used to kill Sharice that it had not gone with her on her walk only Eugene's DNA was on the gun although
there were no usable prins mhm another thing that they point to Eugene didn't have much of an alibi for that night
Eugene was having a long-term Affair the dogs they say her family says likely knew the
attacker cell phone evidence put Eugene Bingham in the area at the time of the murder Eugene and his girlfriend both
failed or close to failed polygraph examinations and finally they point to the fact that shares had three life
insurance polic policies totaling $860,000 and rotten Bo Peep Eugene was the beneficiary of those policies yeah [ __ ]
princess mhm so could all of this circumstantial evidence lead to an arrest well after detectives worked the
case for 16 months prosecutors felt that there was in fact enough evidence to proceed against Eugene a Maran County
grand jury was convened in March of 2014 the girlfriend testified before the panel but did not shed any more light on
what actually happened right because she can't incriminate herself on July 16th 2014 this is nearly
two years after Sharice was killed and affidavit for probable cause was filed in Maran County Indiana seeking the
arrest of Eugene Bingham he was arrested on July 28th and charged with murder the
trial was set for September 2015 and Keith Walker representing his sister's estate filed a wrongful death
action against Eugene Bingham about 6 weeks before the trial the Walker family was hit with some
devastating news Marian County Prosecutors decided to drop the charges against Eugene Indiana state police
detective Rich Meer who worked the Bingham case said quote we know we charged the right person but
we just need that little bit more of information end quote right Eugene was free to go so what happened to plunge
the DA's case the short answer is the cell phone tower evidence fell apart ping ping ping ping much like when I
tried to read it for you on the show so according to her brother to sher's brother Keith Walker the prosecuting
attorney and the detectives decided that there was not enough evidence to convict
Eugene given that they could not get Sprint the cell service provider to testify in court that Eugene's phone was
at the murder scene all right and but in layman's terms what happened right they
they they they do the they get the information from spr at some point and that puts him in the area mhm and they
start going okay well now his Alibi is not making any sense now his story is falling apart but his story is falling
apart because they have that information and then when they charge him and they're about to go to
trial it's not even that Sprint is telling them that hey look um that information we gave
you we're not saying it's right or wrong but we don't think it's accurate correct what what was reported
on Investigation Discovery they reported that the cell phone company said their data was flawed and that they were no
longer confident their records could be relied upon to place Eugene at the scene
now detective norell explained that the cell phone company could not confirm the
location accuracy of the call from the chiropractor remember that's the call that went to Eugene's voicemail around
7:30 7:40 yeah as as they could for an answered call okay so what he's saying he that they were told by the cell phone
provider was because that phone call went to voicemail the provider is saying that
information is less accurate than had Eugene answered the call that that ping would be more accurate and because
they're not willing to testify in court at his trial the judge isn't going to let that
evidence stand if you don't have an expert there to back it up right keep going so this again is in relation to
the 7:41 p.m. call uh regarding where where the pings were coming in from the cell phone towers this would have put
Eugene's own by the river at that time rather than at home like he said he was but the provider saying we can't 100%
back that up the other thing too Captain is you and I know from other cases that
this cell phone tower pinging evidence really isn't or doesn't seem to be super reliable in in most cases right
I wish they checked and I don't know if they did but uh the girlfriend the side pieces cell phone to check that
locations and see uh where where her whereabouts were because to me one of the things that Eugene when he says you
know when they ask him you know what should happen to a husband that that kills his wife and he starts going well
they should go to jail just like the person that did it like again it's almost like he's making up this
Narrative of yeah okay I if if my girlfriend gets caught for the murder I should go to jail too
and so I'd really like to know where her whereabouts whoever he hired to kill her
right but I'd like to know where her whereabouts are because to me it seems like again she has just as many motives
as him and and now they're married so now they're lifelong team and it's like I'd like to know where she was
at yeah I mean and the other thing too is you really wonder if that 741 call that goes to his
voicemail is that really the slip up because in every situation a criminal or a a team of
criminals makes a mistake they just do there are no such thing as perfect crimes it's just Detective do not detect
what the mistake is and can't can't really exploit that mistake to their advantage so you wonder if that
7:41 p.m. call if that was the slip up because remember he Eugene tells law enforcement that his wife was there at
their home at the start of the basketball game which is starting around that same 7:41 time frame yeah within
minutes of that and you wonder if if she look if he was in a different place and
trying to make up an alibi and somebody else is out doing the dirty deed but does not reach out to him until
741 in his PE brain he's saying I only need to I need to account for my alibi around this time of 7:41 which according
to the investigator's timeline means nothing she had been killed and been found and police responded an hour and
11 minutes earlier than that right so it it's it's all very tricky here unfortunately what takes place is the
authorities have to explain to shar's family that because of Double Jeopardy it is best for them to drop the charges
for now and to strive to obtain more evidence to build an ironclad case against Eugene
Bingham 9 years later the family is still waiting the wrongful death suit was essentially
settled the life insurance company was forced to pay on the policies on shar's once once the charges were
dismissed against Eugene they had to pay him for those policies well now he can take that money and hire a better lawyer
well since Keith was Pur suing on his sister's behalf to collect the funds instead the insurance company paid the
proceeds into the court and then the Court held them until the dispute between Keith and Eugene could be
resolved via mandated arbitration Keith on behalf of shar's estate felt that he had no choice but to
settle for $75,000 Eugene Bingham collected the rest and and he then married his
longtime girlfriend they still own the house where Sharice and Eugene lived as husband and
wife police still consider Eugene the or the suspect in this open and unsolved murder as we've seen from all the things
we've discussed it certainly would have been possible for Eugene to be the shooter and to have acted alone but
there are also some other possibilities Eugene seemed to be addressing the detectives questions from the
perspective of a conspirator right when asked what should happen to the murderer
he responds that if someone plotted with someone to kill someone else they should
be prosecuted equally he volunteered the conspiracy angle Eugene could have hired someone to
kill his wife this would likely have had to involve possibly burner phones and Eugene giving shar's gun to the shooter
in advance the shooter would have followed Sharice to the trail right remember we said her family says she
thought she was being followed ban the blue blazer right and could have pretended to be a pedestrian or even a
cyclist and shot Sharice from a close range before the dogs would have alerted to danger if it happened this way though
one would think that Eugene would come up with come up with a better Alibi than I
fell asleep on the couch yeah one thing that is strange regardless of how this went down or who
was responsible according to detective Norvell no Witnesses ever have come forward to say that they heard a gunshot
this is in the middle of a city not in a remote area area mhm and it's surprising
since when detectives arrived on the scene there were more than a couple of bystandard in the area was the shooter
lucky you know we we've talked about that and I hate to say it that way but we've talked about it in so many other
cases well say it in your Keith Morrison voice and everybody will like it better
sometimes these scumbags just get lucky and whatever went down that night might that might just be part of it or did the
shooter did he or she follow Sharice and make sure that no one else was around before making their move that's a
possibility as well yeah okay so weirdly though I think um Eugene got lucky because I actually think he was at home
I think that was the plan and he was at home and then the cell phone ping technology was actually wrong because I
don't know necessarily if he would have been the one to try to pull this off unless his
girlfriend was at his house I I just think it's you know you take her polygraph test look we know he's a known liar but
when you look at her polygraph test to me she failed the test and and that that that puts her involved
somehow now again we we're not state in her name she doesn't have to be guilty of anything other than knowledge though
to fail that test right right meaning meaning she didn't have to kill Sharice or participate in the actual crime
itself other than Eugene or whoever is responsible may have told her what happened prior to
that test because one of one of those questions is simply do you know what happened to that woman do you know who
shot that woman and she could be lying about that right but if you shot her you're a piece of [ __ ] if you knew
Eugene shot her you're a piece of [ __ ] you know what I mean if you know somebody else did it oh yeah nobody's
arguing nobody's arguing that I'm just clearing up that because she didn't pass the polygraph doesn't mean that she was
the the trigger man she was the shooter but she has knowledge and that's pathetic you're living with this man and
you have knowledge that he either and again to me if you have knowledge of it and you're not going to the police and
then on top of that you're going to marry this guy it's like you're even a bigger piece of [ __ ] than I thought you
were well you're a freaking [ __ ] too because look you're a piece of [ __ ] for
knowing and not going to the police you're a [ __ ] for marrying a guy that you know did something terrible or was
involved in something as heinous as a murder yeah and a lot of times they'll say don't get involved that doesn't seem
like a good person to shack up with right because you're you you would be the next in line for what happened to
Sharice right that's like when two married couples are having an affair and then the people that are having an
affair get married and then they're jealous all the time because they know that what the person's capable of well
so now that you know he's capable of you know one not having a job and sponging off his significant other uh living in
the basement smoking his zigzags uh you know he's capable of that you know he's also so capable of lying
for 14 years and having this affair you know he's capable of buying property behind your back and now you know that
he's capable of murder or hiring somebody for murder conspiracy for murder so what where's your
selfworth you idiot you know so it's ridiculous and and and I hope she hears this and goes
you know what maybe maybe I could be in danger one day and I should go to the police and say hey this is what I know
because with the evidence they have and and take away the Pingping ping evidence with the evidence they have and
her confession yeah maybe you go to jail for a little bit but they're going to they'll make a deal with you and then
he'll go to away he'll go away for a really long time which will protect you I don't think this woman who would be in
her late 50s I'm guessing based off of what we have in front of us I I don't believe that that now she would grow a
brain after all of these years of walking around on this planet bumping into walls and such but I think here in
this is this is something that is not going to help the case at all but this is where my questions
lie is with the pouch the gun pouch the the the one that was made specifically to house the gun that killed Sharice
shar's gun yeah I feel that it's very interesting for two reasons that those two things were separated I see no
reason why they should have been separated other than somebody was conspiring against Sharice for the sake of murder
or plotting by themselves her murder right and I think what's inter agree interesting thing here is that you
Eugene is the one who reported it now I know we've said a lot of bad things about Eugene and I've called him a lot
of different names but at least in this situation he was smart enough to identify and to
recognize if they find these two items separately and away from one another I now have to if I don't want to have to
be the one to explain that away I might as well be the one to report it to detectives that I found it at our home
yeah I agree and where I'm going with this is is two situations okay if Eugene was plotting was was conspiring with
somebody else to shoot and kill Sharice on the trail or or at some location if she was being followed maybe this
location that night was not planned it was just whenever you can pull it off do it but the reason for that pouch and
that gun to be in separate locations I I'm a gun owner I keep my guns in cases and and things of that
nature I have areas where I keep them if I see that case my assumption is because
my gun is always in there unless I'm using it the gun is in there meaning Sharice could could see potentially see
that pouch at her home and believe that her gun was in that pouch without checking it right meaning he could have
had to give that gun to the other person so then when opportunity comes a knocking his cons his conspirator has
the weapon on their person and can pull the trigger then and there right and leave the gun with shares right but he
also had a matching gun so he could have just taken her little gun Pur and then put his gun in there you know as a decoy
correct correct and then to further that thought then the other thing is if in fact Eugene was the trigger
man maybe when he dumped the gun next to Sharice and he took off those winter gloves that were found next to her body
so his Prince or somebody else's Prince wouldn't be on the gun and dropped them next to her body as well maybe he forgot
to dump the pouch there as well and or maybe he forgot to bring it with him that night and then later decided well I
got to account for this and rather than be the one that has to explain it away maybe if I just report it they will not
consider this to be part of of of the large amount of circumstantial evidence that points to Eugene in closing the
Sharice Walker Bingham murder is now a Cold Case The Walker family continues to hold vigils and conduct Facebook
campaigns to help bring attention to the case everyone remains hopeful that someone will come forward and do the
right thing we would like to thank detective norell and the Indiana State Police for all of their hard work on
this case and thank them again for taking time out of their very busy schedules to answer our questions we
wish the Walker family nothing but the best and would like to remind everyone that if you have any information at all
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Brief Summary

Eugene Bingham's suspicious behavior and evidence surrounding his wife's murder remain unresolved nine years later.

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Investigation into Sharice Bingham's Death. Eugene's story about his wife's death raises suspicions.
Life Insurance Policies as Motive. Discussion on the suspicious life insurance policies held by Eugene.
Eugene's Incriminating Knowledge. Eugene revealed knowledge about the bullet before police had evidence.
Eugene's Conflicting Statements. Eugene's answers to police raise questions about his involvement in the murder.
Polygraph Tests Yield Inconclusive Results. Both Eugene and his girlfriend failed or nearly failed their polygraph tests, raising suspicions.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Eugene's story just doesn't add up.

Investigation into Sharice Bingham's death

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Tension

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