In the months and days leading up to being charged for the murder of his friend, Robert Ballard seemed to be falling apart, his mother testified at his trial on Monday.

Georgina Gray told the court that on March 29, 2021, the day before Michael Shawn Murray’s body was discovered, Ballard appeared unexpectedly at his father, George Ballard’s, Delhi home. Gray was there because she and George Ballard, her ex-husband, were to visit their granddaughter the following day.

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Gray said when her son arrived at the house at about 8:30 p.m., he was “confused, shaken, nervous, upset, and scared.”

“He started rambling off about the government and people trying to kill him. He talked about zombie blood and dead people down by the tracks.”

The parents of Michael Shawn Murray discov

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