Anne-Marie Green

48 Hours spoke to Russ Hicks.

He's an expert hired by the prosecution who worked as an instructor at the police academy and taught the three Lakewood officers that were involved in this case.

I absolutely thought he was going to defend them.

And then he did not.

He was surprised to learn that the officers did not seem to follow the training, the very training and guidelines that he gave them.

I want to play a clip from that interview.

So then I'm wondering what Hicks recommends that the officers should have done differently.

Welcome back.

So on January 2nd, 2022, the evening of Gloria's murder, she calls 911 again after she is forced off the road by a pickup truck while driving home.

You played that 911 call in the hour, some of it.

And I have to say, from what we heard, it was painful to listen to.

She is clearly terrified.

And it sort of reinforces the connection that we learned that she has with her family, how important family was, that it is her mother that she cries out for.

It's her son that she's going home to see.

And these are people that Rickman would have known.

He would have lived with her and her son.

So after Billy Rickman, though, kills Gloria, he seems to just sort of disappear into the night.

How was he able to evade police for several days?

Oh, that's an incredible story.

That is really incredible.