Woman charged in filmmaker's death

Chicago Sun Times/February 28, 2003

More than seven years after the disappearance of Chicago filmmaker Allen Ross, police in Cheyenne, Wyo., have charged a woman who said she helped bury him.

Julia Williams, 49, was not able to finger the actual killer, said Cheyenne police Lt. Jeff Schulz. But she told police she was in an upstairs room of the house in which Ross was killed in November 1995, when she heard two gunshots and then found her best friend--Linda Greene--a cult leader and Ross' late wife--and Greene's ex-husband, Dennis Greene, with Ross' body downstairs.

Police charged Williams, who said she helped bury Ross in a crawl space under the house, with being an accessory after the fact. Williams told police she buried the murder weapon--probably a 9mm Glock--in Kansas City, Mo.

Investigators are trying to determine who pulled the trigger. They say a property rights dispute may have provided a motive.