The Ambush: Who Killed Officer Daniel Green? | My Life of Crime
On the morning of February 5th, 2015, Tulare County police officer Daniel Green took his son to school and then returned home. While on the toilet, he is shot dead. Police have no gun, eyewitnesses, or DNA evidence. During routine questioning the following day, Daniel’s ex-wife, Erika Sandoval, tells police she hasn’t visited Daniel’s house in weeks, but her story appears to contradict a neighbor’s surveillance footage. 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty presents her investigation into the killing of officer Daniel Green on her podcast, My Life of Crime. Based on the 48 Hours episode "The Killing of Daniel Green”.
- Duration
- 28m
- Broadcast on
- 07 Dec 2022
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- other
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It's Erin Moriarty, and we have a special episode for you today from my original podcast, "My Life of Crime." I'm taking you inside true crime investigations like no one else, taking on killers and those accused of crimes. Here's an all-new episode of "My Life of Crime" that takes you deeper into the killing of Daniel Greene. So long as I go beyond the scene of each crime, beyond prison walls, and into the killers inner thoughts, it's all on this season of "My Life of Crime." Erica Sandoval is the person that you could meet on the street and say, "Wow, she seems like a really nice person." She had the type of upbringing that millions of people have had before. She dated. She fell in love. There's nothing quite like that first thrill of love. She was so into Daniel. The first time she spoke about him, she was just like, "Oh, the color of his eyes." And he was so nice to her. She was just in heaven, Erica always wanted to just have a stable relationship, have children. It is unquestionably one of the most intense, profound emotions a person can feel. When everything was going the way they should be in her eyes, she was pleasant to be around. It's only when things didn't go her way that she became nasty and things got ugly between the two of them. But when intense love flips into hate, it can lead to violence. And from what I saw, the bad was really bad. She had cut up the couch and she had cut up the bedsprings and stabbed holes in the wall and taken a bottle of pancake syrup and just spread it all over the carpet. Just a ridiculous amount of vandalism or even murder. On February 6, 2015, in the mid-afternoon, time stood still until area county. When we in the law enforcement community came to find out that Daniel Green was executed that afternoon in the sanctity and privacy of his own home. I'm Erin Moriarty, 48 Hours, and this is my life of crime. There's a reason why cops investigating murders look first at the person closest to the victim. I mean, who else feels so intensely that they would risk everything to hurt another person? The Daniel Green case may change the way you look at domestic abuse, what you think it is, who you think commits abuse, and whether the legal system treats all abusers the same. We begin on that awful afternoon in February 2015. The day when 31-year-old Daniel Green was found shot to death in his own bathroom in the town of Goshen, California. He was executed. Here's a man who was literally on the toilet when he was shot. That's the district attorney for Tulare County, Tim Ward. He was still angry when I spoke to him about the case because Daniel Green wasn't just a young man senselessly murdered. He was also a cop, an 11-year veteran, of the Exeter Police Department. This crime, when this happened, really ripped apart, not only this small town that he was from and was a police officer in, but kind of the law enforcement community as well. And because Daniel was a cop who had dealings with local gangs, investigators at first feared his death might be connected to his job.
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On the morning of February 5th, 2015, Tulare County police officer Daniel Green took his son to school and then returned home. While on the toilet, he is shot dead. Police have no gun, eyewitnesses, or DNA evidence. During routine questioning the following day, Daniel’s ex-wife, Erika Sandoval, tells police she hasn’t visited Daniel’s house in weeks, but her story appears to contradict a neighbor’s surveillance footage. 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty presents her investigation into the killing of officer Daniel Green on her podcast, My Life of Crime. Based on the 48 Hours episode "The Killing of Daniel Green”.