A Welcome Intrusion

Forensic Files

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A man tells police he shot an intruder who had attacked and murdered his wife. The husband is dubbed a hero for his valiant attempt to save his wife. Four years later, new evidence leads police to re-examine the motives of this so-called hero.

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0:00.0	A young woman complained about a shuttle van driver who took her home from the airport.
0:06.3	A few days later, there was a violent confrontation that left both the passenger and the driver dead.
0:14.2	Police first thought the incident was revenge.
0:18.2	But the blood patterns, an old hammer and a hastily scrawled note told forensic scientists
0:25.2	something entirely different.
0:30.0	In August of 1995, 32-year-old Donna Winger and her infant daughter Bailey flew into the
0:45.0	St. Louis Airport after spending a week in Florida visiting her parents.
0:50.0	During the ride home, the shuttle van driver Roger Harrington drove erratically and exceeded
0:55.7	the speed limit.
0:57.2	She also said he heard voices telling him to kill people.
1:03.2	At home, Donna documented the details of the incident.
1:07.2	I felt as if my life and the life of my daughter were in the hands of a nut.
1:13.9	When she and her husband reported the incident to the shuttle van company, Harrington was suspended.
1:21.5	The Winger is hoped that would be the end of their involvement with Roger Harrington.
1:25.7	But they were wrong.
1:29.7	This is Springfield Police. What is your emergency?
1:32.7	Emergency. Emergency. I just found this man in my house.
1:35.7	He's inside your house and my house is killed. It'd be my wife.
1:39.7	He's waiting on the floor.
1:43.7	Is he dead? I don't know. He has to make your words out.
1:46.7	It's a man still in your house.
1:48.7	He's laying there on floor of the border in his head.
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