If you’ve ever been alone and felt like you might be in trouble, maybe you called someone… made it known you were on the phone… made it clear someone else was listening. But chatting on her cell while walking up to her apartment in sunny South Florida during broad daylight, Gwen couldn’t have sensed her life was in danger. And even the friend on the other end of the line had no way of stopping the evil that was lurking just behind Gwen’s front door…If you know anything about the murder of Gwendel “Gwen” Greenblatt in West Palm Beach, Florida, at the Royal St. George apartments on February 5th, 2003, please come forward. You can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at 1-800-458-8477.Additional ways to contact West Palm Police directly: Phone Number: 561-822-1900 (Ask for Detective Aaron Sam)Detective Aaron Sam’s Email Address: [email protected] source material and photos for this episode at: thedeckpodcast.com/gwendel-greenblatt Let us deal you in… follow The Deck on social media.Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuckFacebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllcTo support Season of Justice and learn more, please visit seasonofjustice.org.The Deck is hosted by Ashley Flowers. Instagram: @ashleyflowersTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieTwitter: @Ash_FlowersFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AFText Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!
Chapter 1: Who was Gwendel Greenblatt, and what happened to her?
Our card this week is Gwendolyn Greenblatt, the Six of Diamonds from Florida. If you've ever been alone and felt like you may be in trouble, maybe you called someone, made it known that you were on the phone, made it clear that someone else was listening.
But chatting on her cell while walking up to her apartment in sunny South Florida during broad daylight, Gwen couldn't have sensed that her life was in danger. And even the friend on the other end of the line had no way of stopping the evil that was lurking just behind Gwen's front door. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck.
It was close to 3.30 in the afternoon on Wednesday, February 5th, 2003, when a woman named Christina was talking on the phone with her friend, 35-year-old Gwendolyn Greenblatt. The two were catching up as Gwen was in the car making the about 20-minute drive home to West Palm Beach from her job as a massage therapist at the luxurious Breakers Resort in Palm Beach.
Christina and Gwen had met through their jobs at the spa, but had become increasingly close as both women's marriages unraveled. Here's Christina.
She said, I'm going to be in the same boat as you. I'm going to be going through a divorce and we'll just, we'll make it together. We'll make it on our own together and we'll be here for each other.
Impending divorce was actually the topic of conversation that very day as Gwen arrived at the Royal St. George apartment complex and approached unit 8312 where she lived alone, talking to Christina along the way.
She knew that I had had a therapist appointment that day, so she was checking in on me, knowing that I was going through my possible divorce separation. And I was very emotional. And so being supportive, she was calling and checking in on me to see how my appointment was.
And I was just going on and on, telling her about what I had discussed with the therapist and what the therapist was telling me.
And then their conversation came to a sudden and chilling halt.
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Chapter 2: How did Christina and Sarah react to Gwen's sudden incident?
He always smoked them in the back and flicked them off the railing into the yard. And guess what we found down there when we looked? All the Marlboro menthol cigarette butts that he had flipped off into the ground.
They confronted Richard, but he continued to deny it all.
You don't believe me? Absolutely not. You're lying like a dog. You're lying. You're lying. I'm not a murderer. Dude, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not a murderer. Okay, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, now what you've done now is now you have created a scenario. Now you've created the heart. And you know who I am? I'm the lion. And you know who you are? You're the bunny rabbit.
The investigators left Richard in prison that day, convinced he wasn't telling them the truth. So then a new effort began, trying to find a connection between Richard and Matt to bolster their theory that they were accomplices. But spoiler alert, we're over a decade out now from that confrontation in that South Carolina prison, and that has proved to be difficult.
No phone records revealed any communication between the two, and financial accounts disclosed no payments from Matt to Richard. Detectives couldn't find any witnesses who could say that the two had ever had any contact with each other either.
It sounds like the prevailing assumption was that the two would have just been casual acquaintances, like maybe they met somehow, somewhere, and then Matt hired Richard to help him commit the murder. Outside of the fact that Richard lived nearby at the time, investigators tried to pinpoint other commonalities between them. And they had some loose ideas as to where they could have crossed paths.
We know that Mr. Greenblatt is a strip club aficionado. He likes strip clubs. He did at the time. He patronized them. Did Ingle patronize strip clubs? I don't know. I don't know.
They also looked into the idea that Richard really could have just been at the scene because he was delivering a pizza. Although, at the end of the day, he'd still been steadfast that he'd never been to Gwen's apartment. But employment history showed that the last time he worked for a pizza place was fall of 2002, at least a couple of months before the murder.
And if you can recall, Gwen's neighbors really hadn't been around at the time of the murder. I mean, no one investigators ever interviewed thought that they even ordered a pizza that day. So, so far, investigators haven't been able to find any evidence from inside Gwen's apartment that is also a match for Richard's DNA.
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