But unlike Norman, he had no family or friends. As a middle-aged man he had studied for his MBA at Case Western.
He told us he had come to this country in the 1970s as a computer engineer, determined to start his own business. In the end, one of the most disturbing things for me, the day we interviewed Halder, was to discover that he, like Norman, had been chasing the American dream. “I can remember being hungry and thinking when I grow up I’m going to start my own business to help my family.” It was because of that desire that Norman was studying at Case Western Reserve University. I can remember being hungry and thinking….” Here, David had to pause to wipe away his tears. “If I wanted anything I had to work hard for it. "We often went without food, nice things," he read. A hush descended over the courtroom as David, voice breaking, read aloud from his brother’s diary. I vividly remember the day his elder brother David testified. We obviously never met Norman Wallace but I feel like we got to know him. Halder’s own toupees had been seized as evidence, including the one he had glued into the army helmet he wore during the shooting. It was made for him, by court order, after his defense argued that he would be uncomfortable without one at trial. He rifled through his box of documents as the crew put the finishing touches on their shot, fixing lighting, framing and - a first for me - Mr. Was he a ruthless killer as some people believed? A mentally-ill loner, as his defense attorneys claimed? Or something else entirely? Halder looked nervous. Seconds after she runs through the corridor, Halder arrives, gun raised.Īs the man who had committed such violence settled in a chair opposite Dateline correspondent Rob Stafford, I searched his face for clues. What would you do? It’s a split second decision and she makes it just in time. Problem is, she can’t see around the corner and she has to decide whether to make a dash for it or turn back. You can see her crane her head as far as she can, desperate to know if Halder is in there, but desperate not to be shot if he is. There’s one moment where a woman trying to escape pokes her head into an empty stairwell. So too was the reaction to his violence- the panic and the fear that Halder brought into people’s lives that afternoon. As he shuffled down the corridor in an over-sized jumpsuit, clutching at a box of legal documents he never lets out of his sight, it was hard to imagine him in that other corridor more than three years ago looking for people to kill.Ī large chunk of Halder’s shooting rampage at the management school of Case Western Reserve University was captured by various surveillance cameras scattered around the building. The man who had terrorized an Ohio college campus and shot dead a student at point-blank range didn’t even reach the shoulders of the jail guards escorting him to our interview. 'What I am guilty of is great moral failure'ĭenise Williams told Carroll of her work while in prison to start a women’s GED program and with prison ministry.CUYAHOGA COUNTY JAIL-The first thing that struck me about Biswanath Halder was how tiny he was. Winchester, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for the armed kidnapping of his then-estranged wife Denise Williams, led investigators to Mike Williams’ body buried in the mud on the shores of Carr Lake in Leon County, riddled with bird shot and still wearing his wedding ring. He was offered immunity from prosecution because he testified against Denise Williams, who for years had played the part of a grieving widow. When Williams escaped from his waders, Winchester shot him point blank with a shotgun. More than 17 years after William's disappearance, Winchester confessed to shooting Mike Williams while attempting to stage his death as an accidental drowning while they headed out for an early-morning duck hunt. Jennifer Portman kept Mike Williams case in the spotlight, gave Cheryl Williams a voice.Cheryl led the way to justice for Mike Williams the jury followed | Jennifer Portman.‘A nasty, wicked place’: How Mike Williams’ body was discovered ‘by the grace of God’.Double lives and a murder for marriage: Confession details plot to kill Mike Williams.'Oh, my gosh!': 17 years after Mike Williams disappearance, wife is charged in his murder.
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