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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

S6 Ep1: Inconsolable

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.57.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jaime Estuardo Melgar was born in Guatemala.  He and his family emigrated to the US in 1963.  In 1980, he married his high school sweetheart, Sandy McCullouch.  Jim and Sandy lived a happy married life for 32 years.

This is the story about Jim and Sandy's Anniversary celebration on 12/22/12 . . . that ended in tragedy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Pakistan

0:10.5

United Kuwait

0:19.3

Kingston

0:23.5

thank you

0:24.6

Do not

0:26.6

Do not

0:28.6

Do not

0:44.6

The tale that I'm about to tell you is that of a beautiful love story that ended in tragedy

0:54.6

I

0:59.4

Hi May a stuardo melgar was born on august 10th 1960 in Guatemala to his parents Ernesto and inaz

1:08.2

Hi May known to most later in life as Jim was the baby of the family the youngest of three boys

1:17.6

When he was just three years old he his parents and his two brothers Irwin and Herman immigrated to the United States

1:24.8

The melgar settled in Houston, Texas where hi May would spend the rest of his life

1:35.0

Hi May was known to be very intelligent and quick with a joke

1:38.6

Although as an adult most of his family didn't quite share his sense of humor

1:43.1

coining his corn equips as Jim jokes

1:48.5

By all accounts Jim was a very likable guy

1:51.6

Everyone loved him even his Jim jokes

1:56.0

And his charms weren't lost on young sandy mccollard

2:02.6

During her senior year of high school sandies home room teacher assigned the class seats alphabetically

2:08.1

17-year-old Jim melgar was assigned to sit behind her

2:15.2

Jim was smitten with sandy

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