Prosecutor Says Green Is Narcissist, Selfish; Murder Sentence To Be Announced Oct. 30

By Mike Perleberg Danielle Green is escorted to a police cruiser to be transported back to the Switzerland County Jail following her sentencing hearing in Ohio Circuit Court on Tuesday morning, September 29. Photo by Mike Perleberg, Eagle Country 99.3. (Rising Sun, Ind.) – Depending on who was speaking at the time, a casual observer of Tuesday’s sentencing hearing of Danielle Green would have different opinions of the convicted murderer. “She is extremely dangerous,” said Dearborn-Ohio County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard. “She only looks at what is in it for her. She uses people. Truly one of the most selfish people I’ve ever come across.” Contrast that with the thoughts of Christina Kappes, a childhood friend of Green. “She’s kind. A hard worker. Very strong,” Kappes told the court during emotional testimony. Ohio Circuit Court Judge James D. Humphrey is taking Tuesday’s two hours worth of testimony and evidence under advisement before sentencing the 43-year-old Green to up to 65 years in prison. Humphrey will announce the sentence on Friday, October 30. Danielle "Dani" Green. Photo by Switzerland County Sheriff's Dept. Green was convicted by a jury on September 1 for the murder of her ex-husband Raymond Green. Negangard says that she shot her ex 10 times as he slept in the mobile home they shared on Hartford Pike in May of 2014. After more than two weeks of hearing evidence, Jurors believed that Green shot Raymond in cold blood, not in self-defense as her attorneys had tried to claim. Danielle then hid Raymond’s body in a metal box outside the mobile home. It lay there for days during a hot Indiana summer. The body had begun to decompose by the time police discovered it in the box after obtaining a search warrant. Aside from being a murderer, Negangard tried to paint Green as a generally horrible person who has shown or voiced zero remorse since killing Raymond. Before Raymond moved from Florida to be with her in Indiana in 2014, Danielle had begun romantic correspondence with another man prosecutors have referred to as “McNasty.” When the couple completely used up settlement money from a bridge accident that claimed the life of Raymond Green’s first wife, the Greens were reduced to living on a truck driver’s salary. They divorced so that Raymond’s Social Security income would increase, but remained together. The prosecutor said that is when Dani - who never held a regular job - turned her sights onto the next pot of money. “The sad thing is if she had been honest with Raymond about what her wishes were,” said Negangard, adding that Raymond may have then voluntarily left Green. Raymond’s brother, mother, and daughter each testified that once he became involved with Dani, they began to see or hear very little from him. Negangard said that Danielle had Raymond’s relatives’ phone numbers blocked by the phone company without his knowledge. Certified letters containing cards and pictures of grandchildren were rejected. Green’s first husband, who Indiana State Police detectives interviewed during the murder investigation, described similar controlling behavior before they separated. “He was my Christmas present,” said Raymond’s mother, 87-year-old Betty Green. He was the oldest of her six children. “I shut my eyes when I seen him in the box. That’s not the way any man should go,” she said, recalling seeing the images of her son's body stuffed in the metal box at the farm. Like her grandmother, Raymond’s daughter, Traci Abbott, says she has trouble sleeping since he was killed. “My daughters will never know him. They’ll never see him or hear his voice. I will never see my parents again. There is so much they could have learned from him. All because someone didn’t want us to be together. To be a family,” Abbott said in her tearful testimony. Defense attorney Del Weldon marched several people to the witness box during the hearing in an effort to persuade Humphrey to consider a lighter sentence. They ranged from Green’s friends, to people who knew her parents, even jailers at the Switzerland County Jail who described her as a model inmate. “She’s always been respectful to me and the entire staff,” said jail commander Luann Schaeffer. Bonnie Schreiner meets with inmates at the jail each week to lead a Bible study. She said Green comes to the study every week for two to three hours. Green has also helped other inmates learn how to read, Schreiner said. But Negangard claimed that Green is narcissistic and selfish. In wrapping up his arguments, Negangard pointed out that Green only cried during Tuesday's hearing when people were testifying on her behalf. “She has not been described accurately by her friends. She is calculating and intelligent. She is capable of obeying the rules when it is in her best interest,” he said. RELATED STORIES: Danielle Green Could Learn Sentence Later This Month Jury Finds Danielle Green Guilty In Murder Of Ex Ohio Co. Murder Trial: Was Deadly Shooting Self Defense?