![]() What changed a heroic husband into a hammer-wielding wife killer? Hero gets life for murder » ![]() Circuit Judge Robert Foster sentenced the 25-year-old to life without possibility of parole. On Tuesday, a Nassau County Court jury in Yulee, Florida, said he should spend the rest of his life in prison for the crime. The man who was hailed as a hero for saving his wife was convicted in July of murdering her. "I might have lost everything physical, but I've still got my two most precious things," Michael Ratley told CNN affiliate WJXT-TV at the time.Ī month later, Effie Ratley was dead, bludgeoned with a hammer in a bedroom of her in-laws' home, not far from the trailer's ashes on a dirt road marked only with a black arrow on a wooden sign. ![]() In December 2006, Ratley carried his 2-week-old son, Aiden, and his wife, Effie Ratley, 29, from the flames as fire engulfed their Bryceville, Florida, trailer.ĭays after the fire, a teary-eyed Ratley told local media that love drove him to save their lives. ![]()
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