In exclusive jailhouse interview, murder suspect accused of selling Dallas man’s home proclaims innocence Naheed Rajwani
Ronald Shumway was found buried behind the duplex he owned in Oak Cliff’s Kings Highway neighborhood. (Rose Baca/ Staff Photographer)
Christopher Colbert’s booking mug shot shows neck tattoos devoted to his dearly departed dog Bella and cat Shadow.
Editor’s note: Staff writer Christopher Wynn was a salon client of Christopher Colbert’s in the mid-1990s.
By CHRISTOPHER WYNN
and NAHEED RAJWANI
Staff Writers
The man accused of strangling an Oak Cliff homeowner and selling his house proclaimed his innocence Thursday, despite confessing to police three months ago.
In an exclusive interview at the Dallas County Jail, Christopher Colbert talked at length about his beloved dachshunds, but he refused to answer questions related to the murder charge that landed him in jail in March.
“To be stripped of your dignity, your responsibilities, your rights; you are left with the core of who you really are,” the 43-year-old said, wearing a gray jail uniform and clutching a worn paperback on Christian Science.
During an argument in April 2015, police say, Colbert strangled Ronald Shumway — who had allowed Colbert to live in his spare duplex unit for free — and entombed the body in a concrete slab in Shumway’s backyard.
Ronald Shumway, the victim, was a man few people knew well.
He then posed as the older man, court records say, to sell the house for about $110,000, which he withdrew from Shumway’s bank account before fleeing Dallas.
U.S. marshals arrested Colbert in Los Angeles three months ago, and he has been in custody since. He was transferred to Dallas on Sunday.
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