An interview with mass murderer Donald Ray Wallace who killed four members of an Evansville family (George, Theresa, and their two children Lisa and Gregory Gilligan) and was placed on Death Row for twenty-three years. After seven years of correspondence with Wallace, Anne Ryder speaks to him a week before his scheduled death penalty by lethal injection and discusses his violent past and his message to troubled youths. Meanwhile, the family of the victims discuss their own views on the man that took the lives of their loved ones.
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This Channel 13 Eyewitness News broadcast details the upcoming execution of Donald Ray Wallace Jr., a death row inmate convicted of the brutal 1980 murders of the Gilligan family in Evansville, Indiana. After 23 years on death row, Wallace—described as a near-genius with a violent, drug-addicted past—granted an exclusive final interview to reporter Anne Ryder, claiming he has transformed into a remorseful scholar who takes full responsibility for the "moment of utter madness" that led to the deaths of two adults and two young children. However, the victims' surviving relatives, Dianna and Ted Harrington, remain deeply cynical of his "changed" persona, viewing him as a manipulative con man whose apology is "too little too late". While Wallace expresses readiness for his lethal injection and a desire to warn at-risk youth, the family plans to hold a prayer service to honor the victims as Indiana prepares to carry out the sentence on March 10.
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