This episode of the Iodine Crime explores the dark trajectory of Ralph Donnell Coleman, a former professional football player drafted by the Dallas Cowboys who later became a prison guard. The narrative details how Coleman collapsed into a life of crime, culminating in the July 1987 bludgeoning death of his friend, Ron Taylor Jr., outside a local bar in Greenville, South Carolina. Authorities arrested Coleman within 48 hours of the murder, subsequently linking him to a violent multi-county crime spree and multiple other unsolved deaths in the region.