Answers to cowboy's mysterious death lay inside toolbox found on ex-wife's property
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[This story previously aired on April 24, 2021.] BETTY GREEN [call to sheriff's office]: I need to … get some information on my son. 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. 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? DANI GREEN: He walked around naked, slept naked, walked around naked all the time. … He's pulling me to him. … He's like "let's go lay down." He's … trying to force himself on me. …I don't want this, but I don't know what to do. DANI GREEN: He'd come up behind me and put his arm around my neck … And he was squeezing me incredibly hard. I couldn't breathe. DANI GREEN: He came in and he laid right on top of me. He had … his forearm pressed against my neck pushing on me, and I was, like, "what are you doing?" … I'm kind of gasping for air … and he's, like, "I just wanted to hug you." … You don't hug people with your arm in their throat like that. DET. TOM BAXTER: I'm just going to kind of play the role of Ray. DANI GREEN [video demonstration]: So, I'm tiptoeing. I'm being really quiet. And Ray gets up from the bed and he says, "I'm going to kill you. You need to die." DANI GREEN: I grabbed the gun and I took his shoulder like this. And I grabbed him like this and tried to get him off balance. … Threw him on the bed like this. Well, he fell more on his right side, actually, totally on his right side. DANI GREEN: And I don't remember pulling the trigger. I don't remember pointing. I don't remember hearing gunshots. DANI GREEN: He started sliding down the bed. And his legs were here on this side of the bed facing the wall. DANI GREEN: And I loaded the gun and I said, what do I do? … I'm scared to death. I'm in fear for my life. DANI GREEN: He started to kind of crouch over and lean towards me. So, I put my hand out. And he started to get up a little bit. But I don't remember pulling the trigger or hearing the gun, but I remember him going down. DANI GREEN [video demonstration]: I remember him going down ... DANI GREEN [video demonstration]: I'm in fear for my life.
On May 28, 2014, police were called to a remote piece of property in Dillsboro, Indiana – the home of Dani and Ray Green. The sheriff's office had received a call from Ray's 84-year-old mother, Betty. BETTY GREEN: My daughter-in-law called this morning and said he was killed yesterday by a German Shepherd dog, the dog jumped up and grabbed his throat. DANI GREEN: His legs were up. … and as I fell on him like this, my hand — I don't know if you can see. My hand was like this [motioning with her hand as if it were the gun]. DET. TOM BAXTER: Sitting? DET. TOM BAXTER: Onto the floor?
DANI GREEN: Yes. … And then I got really scared because he said, "I'm going to kill you." He's whispering. DANI GREEN: ... Onto the floor with his head in this area [points to the floor at the foot of the bed].
