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Woman recalls aidinghusband with murderDECATUR (AP) - Sharon Green dabbed away tears as an investigator read her accounts of the hammer-slaying of an Amarillo stripper — a killing Mrs. Green said she participated in because she was afraid of her husband.Tarrant County sheriff’s investigator Wayne Boggus testified in Mrs. Green’s murder trial Tuesday that Mrs. Green gave conflicting accounts of the deaths of four people — two women in Wise County and two men in Tarrant County.At first, Boggus testified, “she said the only thing she participated in was moving the body.”Later, she admitted hitting one victim with a hammer and stabbing her because she was afraid of her husband, Ricky Lee Green, according to statements read in court Tuesday by Boggus and Wise County District Attorney Pat Morris.Ms. Green is being tried on murder charges in the slaying of Betty Jo Monroe, 28, a topless dancer from Amarillo.In the statements, Mrs. Green told investigators her husband had Ms. Monroe in the back seat of a car and that Ms. Monroe was crying when Green picked Mrs. Green up at work in Fort Worth on Oct. 12,1985.She said she asked her husband about the woman and he replied, “Just don’t worry about it. I’m going to kill her,” according to one of the statements.She said she got in the car and they went to the couple’s mobile home in Boyd. Sharon Green put her daughter to bed, the statement continues, and after telling Sharon to shut up, Ricky took Ms. Monroe into the bathroom where Monroe was gagged and bound.Sharon said she went out of the bathroom, heard her husband use a claw hammer to hit Monroe, then heard Monroe say: “You hate me, don’t you?”She said she also heard sounds she described as stabbing noises.She told investigators her husband forced her to stab Ms. Monroe and hit her with a hammer.Texas Ranger Gary De Los Santos testified Tuesday that Mrs. Green repeatedly said she obeyed her husband because he repeatedly threatened to harm or kill her.
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Wed, Feb 14, 1990
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