Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., the former sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base who stands accused in the murders of his ex-girlfriend and their 15-month-old son, accidentally left a glove behind at the murder scene, according to court documents unsealed this morning. ...more

January 6, 2009

ST. PETERSBURG -- A former Air Force sergeant was arrested this morning in Putnam County on charges he killed his girlfriend and their baby in St. Petersburg in 2007 while he was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base. Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., 40, of 1701 Wetherbee Road, was indicted this month and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Paula O'Conner, 37, and their 15-month-old infant son, Alijah O'Conner. ...more

December 31, 2008

Three months after a woman was found dead alongside her 15-month-old son, St. Petersburg police announced Tuesday that a former technical sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base is the child's father. ...more

October 24, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - Three months after a woman was found dead alongside her 15-month-old son, St. Petersburg police announced Tuesday that a former technical sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base is the child's father. ...more

October 23, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG - The teenage daughter of Paula M. O'Conner, who was found strangled in July, has filed a lawsuit against a sergeant at MacDill Air Force Base to determine whether he is the father of O'Conner's infant son, who was found asphyxiated alongside her. The daughter, Victoria Goodin, 18, wants Ralph Wright Jr. to pay retroactive child support for Alijah Jordon O'Conner from July 2005, when the boy was conceived, to July 6, when he was found dead with his mother at their home in St. Petersburg, according to a copy of the suit. ...more

October 2, 2007