Finally, the officer in charge of the case of Ronda’s murder decided to arrest Walter, using physical and verbal brutality and military tactics, because of false accusations that he sexually assaulted Meyers, a time when sodomy was illegal. This incident followed the hate murder of a young black man, Michael Donald, who was killed by white supremacists after a mistrial of a black man accused of shooting a white police officer. Myers told police that Walter had abducted him at gunpoint, forced him to drive to a convenience store in a different town, where he shot and killed the clerk, in the middle of the day. A jailhouse informant even identified seeing Walter’s truck at the store during this time, in exchange for release. However, Walter and
