Justin Balding
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And I believe the prosecution felt this was going to be a game-changing move before the trial to kind of corner the defense and not allow the defense to be able to present this alternate suspect, whose name is Jeff Thiel, at trial.
And the police and the prosecution, the prosecutors were so kind of angered by Glendon Galkert that they actually wanted to reinstate the death penalty on him.
They were hoping that they could clear up the...
the murders in Waiowega, the Tim and Tanner murders, and they hoped once that was all bundled and sorted, that they would then be able to go back to Oklahoma and say, you know, this guy was selling us a
a story made of whole cloth, and we want those charges to be reinstituted.
And speaking to the intensity of what you were saying, Andrea, the small community, now that the
Everyone is back living in the same area.
They live just a few miles from each other.
And it's just hard to imagine that they're all living so close.
And there is still a lot of tension in the air.
Most of these families have lived there for decades.
They've grown up in these farms.
And I think his family was really blindsided as much as anyone else.