"He decided his money was more important"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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An Oregon man was recently sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 murders of a Salem mother and her 3-year-old son. KGW Reporter Alma McCarty tells us about the murders and the investigation that led to Michael Wolfe's guilty pleas earlier this year. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:03.2	It was really good detective work.
0:05.2	It was good to detect putting pieces together going through to begin to narrow the area
0:08.8	that they needed to look.
0:10.9	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.
0:12.8	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:14.2	25-year-old Chris of Rhettwell and her three-year-old son William of Salem, Oregon, were last seen alive on May 13, 2019.
0:30.1	On May 17th, a family member called police, saying they checked her apartment and found the front door unlocked the TV on,
0:38.8	and items Carissa wouldn't normally leave behind like her bank card and her glasses. And even before their bodies were discovered,
0:44.5	police confirmed the worst. Just minutes ago, the Yamhill County District Attorney confirmed
0:50.0	police believe this missing Salem mom and her three-year-old son are dead.
0:56.5	Yeah, Brenda, as we were driving down here, I gave the Yamhill County District Attorney a phone call,
1:00.4	and he did confirm that Carissa and William, also known as Billy Fretwell, are dead.
1:05.9	Carissa Fretwell, just 25 years old, and her son, Billy, just three years old.
1:11.6	And then also before their bodies were discovered, the boy's father, a man named Michael Wolf,
1:16.5	was arrested in charge with two counts of aggravated murder and kidnapping.
1:20.4	Wolf had recently been ordered to pay more than $900 a month in child support for Billy.
1:25.3	Although Wolf denied any contact with Carissa, cell phone data
1:28.3	showed the two were in the same places in the time frame that she disappeared.
1:35.3	I'm joined now by Alma McCarty, a reporter KGW in Portland, Oregon.
1:38.3	Alma, thanks for being here with us. We appreciate it.
1:40.3	Of course. Thank you for having me.
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