CBS News Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti and 48 Hours Producer Mead Stone discuss the case of Angela Prichard, who was gunned down at her workplace by her estranged husband, Christopher, in Bellevue, Iowa. They discuss the 9-1-1 call Angela made in the final moments of her life where she named her killer, the two no-contact orders she had against her husband, and why her family believes the police didn’t do enough to protect her. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What happened to Angela Prichard?
Welcome back to another episode of Postmortem. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Green, and today we are discussing the case of Angela Pritchard, who was shot dead by her estranged husband in 2022 following weeks of stalking and harassment, all of which she reported to the local police in Bellevue, Iowa.
After the murder trial, Angela's family filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Bellevue, as well as three police officers for what they say was inaction and indifference by not arresting Christopher Pritchard sooner. So joining me today to talk about this, to dig in a little bit more, is CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti and 48 Hours producer Meade Stone. Welcome, guys.
Thanks for having us. Good to be here. Thank you.
So a reminder to everyone, as usual, if you haven't already listened to the 48 Hours episode, the audio version of it, you can find it in your podcast feed right above this one. So go listen and then come on back so we can talk about it. All right. So I think what is particularly tragic about this case, guys, is that it really, really seemed preventable.
It seemed like Angela really did all the things that you're supposed to do. She endured months of domestic violence. And then Angela Pritchard obtained a no contact order against Chris Pritchard, meaning that if there was any contact that he made with her, It could result in a mandatory arrest. Here's the question. If Angela's no contact order had been enforced in a better way,
What should have happened with this case?
Great question, Anne-Marie. I've covered a number of 48 Hours cases. Usually the whodunit of these cases is the mystery. As it pertains to this story, the mystery was, why was it more done in time? Everyone we spoke with, from prosecutors to David O'Brien, he's the civil rights attorney representing Angela's family in that lawsuit against Bellevue Police, investigators
They all said more could have been done. There were two no-contact orders that were issued. The first one, Angela actually lifted herself because she wanted to give her marriage a second chance. But then it became very clear that the violence was only escalating. And so she successfully requested a second no-contact order.
As you mentioned, a no-contact order means exactly that, no contact of any kind.
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