Sam Mullins

Walker was led back upstairs from his holding cell.

With everyone in their places, Walker was ordered to rise.

With everyone in their places, Walker was ordered to rise.

And the clerk asks, how did you find the defendant, Albert Johnson Walker? Guilty or not guilty? Guilty.

And the clerk asks, how did you find the defendant, Albert Johnson Walker? Guilty or not guilty? Guilty.

Two years of diligent police work. Two hours of deliberation. It was the biggest victory some of these officers would ever be a part of.

Two years of diligent police work. Two hours of deliberation. It was the biggest victory some of these officers would ever be a part of.

At the end of everything, Judge Butterfield addressed Walker directly. You are convicted of murder. It was, in my judgment, a callous, premeditated killing designed to have eliminated a man you used for your own selfish means. He became an inconvenience and then a threat to your continued freedom. He was expendable and a danger to you, and he had to die.

At the end of everything, Judge Butterfield addressed Walker directly. You are convicted of murder. It was, in my judgment, a callous, premeditated killing designed to have eliminated a man you used for your own selfish means. He became an inconvenience and then a threat to your continued freedom. He was expendable and a danger to you, and he had to die.

The killing was carefully planned and cunningly executed with chilling efficiency. You covered your tracks so effectively that only the merest chance led to any suspicion falling upon you. You are plausible, intelligent, and ruthless, posing a considerable threat to anyone who stands in your way. You may go down.

The killing was carefully planned and cunningly executed with chilling efficiency. You covered your tracks so effectively that only the merest chance led to any suspicion falling upon you. You are plausible, intelligent, and ruthless, posing a considerable threat to anyone who stands in your way. You may go down.

Elaine strode out of the courthouse toward the cameras, a caricature of joy. Sheena left the trial and country the same way she had entered them, undetected. She was whisked away, and thus her public life had concluded.

Elaine strode out of the courthouse toward the cameras, a caricature of joy. Sheena left the trial and country the same way she had entered them, undetected. She was whisked away, and thus her public life had concluded.

There's no trace of Sheena Walker for those trying to find her, and her ability to remove herself and her children from the public eye so thoroughly is something I consider to be a success story. In her teenage years, she was untraceable, thoroughly erased and reinvented by her father. And when she came out the other side, it seems, she was able to fly under the radar just as effectively.

There's no trace of Sheena Walker for those trying to find her, and her ability to remove herself and her children from the public eye so thoroughly is something I consider to be a success story. In her teenage years, she was untraceable, thoroughly erased and reinvented by her father. And when she came out the other side, it seems, she was able to fly under the radar just as effectively.

But this time, perhaps, to protect her own children. And I have a great deal of respect for that. How poetic that in the end, it was the women in his life, the women he had targeted, bullied, manipulated, coerced, and taken advantage of in every way possible. It was them and the courage of their testimony that undid him.

But this time, perhaps, to protect her own children. And I have a great deal of respect for that. How poetic that in the end, it was the women in his life, the women he had targeted, bullied, manipulated, coerced, and taken advantage of in every way possible. It was them and the courage of their testimony that undid him.

For the police in Devon and Essex, who had lived and breathed this case, it was a career-defining win. And it was justice for Ronald Platt.

For the police in Devon and Essex, who had lived and breathed this case, it was a career-defining win. And it was justice for Ronald Platt.

I'm not someone who believes in things like luck or fate or the hand of God, but maybe I just needed to hear the right story.