Jury Finds Danielle Green Guilty In Murder Of Ex

By Mike Perleberg Danielle Green was convicted Tuesday in the 2014 murder of her ex-husband, Raymond Green, in Ohio County. Photo by Mike Perleberg, Eagle 99.3. (Rising Sun, Ind.) - Guilty. That’s what the jury determined in the murder trial of Danielle Green in Ohio County. Jurors returned the verdict around 9:00 p.m. Tuesday following several hours of closed-door deliberations over two weeks worth of court testimony and evidence. Prosecutors said the 43-year-old Green shot her ex-husband, 62-year-old Raymond Green, 10 times – five times in the head and five more times in his torso – and stuffed his body in a metal box on their farm on Hartford Pike in May of 2014. "Justice was served," said Dearborn-Ohio County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard. "Raymond Green was a loving son, father, grandfather and a soldier who served his country during the Vietnam War. Raymond Green and his family received justice today." Danielle Green faces 45 to 65 years in prison when she is sentenced by Judge James D. Humphrey on a date still to be determined. The advisory sentence is 55 years. Green would likely receive credit for the 14 months she has already served behind bars leading up to her trial. The motive, Negangard said in opening arguments, was that Danielle Green wanted to leave her ex to start a new life with another man in Florida. Leading up to the murder, she had conducted Google searches for articles on the effects of a person taking a bullet to the head, according to the prosecutor. “This is a case of cold blooded murder,” Negangard had said at opening arguments. Her defense attorneys, Del Weldon and David Zerbe, tried to argue that the shooting was in self-defense as she suffered years of abuse at the murder victim’s hand. Raymond had also attempted to take out a secret life insurance policy on Danielle, which caused her fear after finding out about it. Danielle had told Raymond the previous night that he needed to leave the farm. The next morning, Weldon said, he tried to attack her. “The law says she was in reasonable fear for her life when Ray attacked her. It was reasonable to use deadly force,” Weldon said, stating Danielle had picked up a .38 caliber handgun that was on Raymond’s night stand. Following the shooting, Danielle Green placed her ex’s bullet-riddled body in a metal box near their mobile home. Police discovered Raymond Green’s partially decomposed body inside the box days later after obtaining a search warrant as Danielle would not give permission to open it. The Greens lived together in Florida after meeting in Texas, pursuing Danielle’s dream of riding horses in the Olympics. Things began to turn sour when they lost their home in the 2008 economic recession. Danielle Green’s parents, who lived at the farm in Ohio County, fell ill with cancer in 2012 and she moved back home to be with them. Around then, Negangard said, she began regular correspondence with a man identified as “Angus McNasty”, his stage name from a cowboy shooting club in Florida of which the Greens had previously been members. Danielle Green’s cowgirl name was “Dani Oakley”. Raymond Green remained in Florida until he decided to join her in Indiana in 2013. Her parents each died in early 2014. They divorced in 2014, but only for purposes of Raymond receiving more in social security benefits from his first wife’s death in a bridge accident in Oklahoma in 2002. Negangard said Green planned the murder in order to be with “McNasty”. RELATED STORIES: Ohio Co. Murder Trial Enters Third Week Ohio Co. Murder Trial: Was Deadly Shooting Self Defense?