$50,000 found in safe of slaying victim
Published September 2, 2010
BACLIFF — A government informant turned penniless crack addict found
himself in the throws of relapse. He planned a robbery but denied
participating in a 74-year-old’s fatal beating, according to court
testimony Wednesday.
The murder trial of Robert Villanueva, 39,
who is one of two men charged in the Oct. 5, 2007, bat-and-hammer
slaying of Albert Walter Lacy, 74, continued Wednesday with testimony
from Denise Marie Ulrich.
Ulrich, 37, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident,
moved to Seabrook in 1997 and lived in Texas for 10 years. She met
Villanueva and had two of his children, but their six-year relationship
ended in 2007, she testified.
In October 2008, Villanueva called
Ulrich from the Galveston County Jail.
“All he said was, ‘All I
want you to know was I didn’t do it,’” Ulrich said. “He told me he was
in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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