Ep 128: A Fatal Obsession: The Emma Walker Story

Court Junkie

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True Crime, News, Talk Radio, Government

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In November 2016, 16-year-old Emma Walker was found deceased in her bed. At trial, the defendant claimed he had only wanted to scare her, while prosecutors believe it was a cold-blooded killing. Sponsors in this episode: - Aurate - For 15% off your first Aurate purchase, go to AurateNewYork.com/courtjunkie and use promo code courtjunkie. - Madison Reed - Get 10% off plus free shipping on your first Color Kit when you go to Madison-Reed.com and use code COURT. - Policygenius - Policygenius makes finding the right home insurance a breeze. In minutes you can compare quotes from the top insurers to find your best price. Visit policygenius.com. - NetSuite - Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at NetSuite.com/COURT. This episode was researched and written by Jordan Hensley. Please consider supporting Court Junkie with as little as $3 a month via Patreon.com/CourtJunkie to receive ad-free episodes. Help support Court Junkie with $6 a month and get access to bonus monthly episodes. Follow me on Twitter @CourtJunkiePod or Instagram at CourtJunkie.

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0:00.0	When 18-year-old William Riley Gull, known to most as Riley, learned his ex-girlfriend Emma
0:07.9	Walker had died, he took to Twitter to express his grief.
0:12.9	After changing his profile photo to a picture of Emma, he also changed his Twitter bio to
0:18.6	read, Living Every Day Through Emma Walker, I love you, beautiful, and I know you're in
0:24.6	a better place now.
0:27.4	In a tweet written on November 21, 2016, the day 16-year-old Emma died, Riley wrote,
0:35.2	That's my beautiful Emma.
0:38.0	Rest easy now, sweetheart.
0:40.4	First Corinthians Chapter 13, Be sure to remind God about our verse.
0:46.2	I love you forever and always.
0:50.0	The Bible verse, First Corinthians Chapter 13, reads,
0:54.2	Love never fails, but where there are prophecies they will cease, where there are tongues they
1:00.3	will be stilled, where there is knowledge it will pass away.
1:05.9	Attached to that tweet were screenshots of a typed message too long to fit within Twitter's
1:10.8	character requirements.
1:13.4	To think that every memory we have, every happy, special moment we shared, can't ever
1:19.2	be relived, an excerpt of the message reads,
1:22.9	I love you Emma Jane Walker.
1:25.5	The amount of pain your family, me, and the community are in because of this is insurmountable.
1:32.4	Every time we held hands, kissed, hugged, to imagine that I'll never have that ever
1:37.7	again hasn't quite hit me yet.
1:42.0	The next day, Riley tweeted again, I love you Emma, I can't be around any of that yet,
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