Dani Green, a competitive sharpshooter, offered several stories about the death of her ex-husband Ray – who was shot 10 times.
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MAUREEN MAHER | CBS NEWS REPORT: a barge slammed into a bridge along interstate 40, plunging nearly a dozen vehicles 75 feet into the water … Among the dead, horse trainer Maggie Green.: He kept saying,"I miss my rose. I miss my rose." … His light went out. : Her goal in life was to get into the Olympics in dressage. … So … she did some research. And ground zero for dressage in the Olympics was … in Palm Beach County. Bob Stevens
For a while, Dani and Ray struggled to keep up their lifestyle — still attending their Cowboy Action Shooting matches — but now trying to make a bit of money on the side off the livestock they kept at the ranch.The chickens would lay eggs and she would bring eggs for everybody. People would buy the eggs.
Heartbreak spilled over to Dani's side of the family as well. While she'd achieved some success on the local horse show scene, her Olympic dreams remained elusive. Then in 2012, Dani received devastating news from her Indiana family home.: They both had cancer at the same time.: I think she felt that that was her place to go up and take care of them. And besides, there was no place for them down here anymore.
In 2013, both of Dani's parents passed away and Ray's landscaping contract expired. Dani was poised to come into an inheritance.: The parents owned 300 acres up in a mountain. … There was three children. They were each going to get 100 acres. It had a farmhouse on it that needed to be renovated. BETTY GREEN [call to sheriff's office]: …said the dog killed my son yesterday. A German Shepherd dog … Why would she call me with such a story? If it didn't happen?State detectives were called in after local police concluded that there was something not quite right with this remote Indiana property. What started out as a missing person wellness check would soon become something far worse. Det.
Dani told the detectives she slept on the living room couch — alone. That led to another confrontation. Dani Green reenacted her version of what happened leading up to Ray's death in a recording for investigators. She claimed Ray threatened to kill her, saying"I'm going to kill you. You need to die," and that the shots were fired in self-defense. Detective Tom Baxter played the role of Ray while Dani directed him through the reenactment.Dani says Ray kept a loaded .38 on the nightstand. She says he started to reach for the gun.