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Last updated: 08/21/09 at 05:14 PM
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...a hammer. Michael Ratley was known as a hero. 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. Days after the fire, a teary-eyed Ratley told local...
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Anderson Cooper 360 Blog
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_ac360blog/~3/ugkoBiDFwNY/
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...came into their house and killed her. Ratley fist gained the attention of the First Coast in 2006 when his house burned. Ratley was hailed as a hero for pulling his wife and child from the burning home. Weeks later, his wife, Effie, was found unconscious and...
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WJXX
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=143534&provider=rss
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...has been a tearful day, the day after a jury found her son- in-law, Michael Ratley, guilty of killing her daughter, Effie Ratley. She is the victim's mother, but all along Bittner believed Ratley was innocent. That has made life even harder, her son stopped...
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WJXX
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=141837&provider=rss
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...the 25-year-old Bryceville man told jurors on the third day of his first-degree murder trial. “I loved Effie very much.” Effie Ratley, 29, was bludgeoned seven times with a hammer in January 2007 as she slept in her husband’s parents’ home in the rural Nassau...
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Jacksonville.com
http://feeds.jacksonville.com/~r/JacksonvillecomNews/~3/AHymx_z7O20/husband_in_nassau_trial_testifies_he_found_wife_covered_in_
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...in the morning," said Seagraves. "He was sleeping in another room as well as his parents were all sleeping in the house." Effie Ratley's body was taken from Shands to the Duval County Medical Examiner's Office Wednesday morning, where an autopsy was performed...
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WJXX
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/crimestoppers/news-article.aspx?ref=rss&storyid=74889
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...even really remember a lot of it. I don't even remember even hearing him or even walking up to the window. So -- it's crazy," Effie Ratley said. "I realize how lucky I am to have a husband that loves me that much." Her husband says that love drove him to make...
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WJXX
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?ref=rss&storyid=72368
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