Ron Nelson Murder Case Update: Death Cause and Case Update

Ron Nelson Obituary & Death Cause

He reportedly died from an undisclosed illness in the following years. However, his death cause is yet to reveal on the web at the current date.

 

 

On the other hand, he had survived his gunshot injuries in 1995. Ron and Shirley Nelson divorced in 1997, and he married Eileen Christensen. Shirley died in 2008 from colon cancer at the age of seventy-eight.

Ron was sixty-five when his wife attacked him in 1995. It is still the subject of suspense at what age he died. There have been non-authentic sources to verify his death cause and death of dead on the web.

Ron Nelson Murder Case Update

Shortly after getting married, Ron began working for Charles M. Schulz, a cartoonist and creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip.

The couple relocated to Santa Rosa in northern California, where Schulz was based. As Schulz’s business manager, Ron oversaw million-dollar marketing campaigns and licensing deals. Thanks to his handsome paycheck, the Nelsons enjoyed expensive vacations and lavish dinner parties, and lived at a country club and golf resort.

In May 1995, the Nelsons celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary. But less than two months later, on the morning of July 5, 1995, Santa Rosa police received a 911 call about a shooting at 1 Snoopy Place, the location of Schulz’s production offices.

Officers rushed to the scene and found 53-year-old Ronald Nelson lying face down on the sidewalk. He had been shot twice in the back. Inside the building, they found Shirley Nelson, 65, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, according to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

The .357 caliber revolver used in the shooting was found nearby. The Nelsons were taken to the hospital, where officers asked Shirley what happened.

“She replied, ‘I shot him. I shot my husband. Is the son of a bitch dead?’” Santa Rosa police officer Amanda Pehlke told “Snapped.” “She was very agitated, very angry, and kept repeating, ‘Did I kill him? I hope he’s dead.’”

Both Ron and Shirley Nelson would undergo surgery to address their substantial gunshot wounds. Doctors weren’t sure either would survive.

Ron’s co-workers told detectives that on the morning of the shooting, Shirley arrived in a new car dressed in black.

“[She] said to the receptionist, ‘Is he in there?’ and then she went into his office. He stood up and she shot him twice in the back and apparently fired at least two other rounds and missed him,” prosecutor David Dunn told “Snapped.”

Detectives spoke to Ron’s boss, famed cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, who said he knew the cause of the shooting.

“He said Ron had an affair with his secretary and it was something that he kept hidden for awhile,” private investigator Chris Reynolds told “Snapped.”

The secretary, Eileen Christensen, was in her early 40s, while Ron was 53. Fearing a sexual harassment lawsuit, Schulz threatened to fire the couple if they didn’t end the relationship. Shirley, meanwhile, had learned of the affair a month before the shooting. Having based her sense of self-worth on being the dynamic and glamorous wife and an entertainment industry executive, the fact that Ron was cheating on her with a younger woman was a blow to her ego.

 

 

She got bail at the bond of an unprecedented $2 million. She pleaded not guilty because of insanity in April 1996. However, she claimed guilty to attempted murder in 1977 and got sentenced to a year in prison with five years probation and 3,000 hours of community service.

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