Nobody is happy about this story. But unfortunately there is no any visible reason to think this was not true. His son-in-law mentioned that Ralph as a young man escaped Holocaust in East Europe being brought to Sweden. I don't think anybody would invent such a story. I knew some Jewish people who were being as kids evacuated to Sweden from Germany and thus saved from Holocaust. Those kinds of stories are not very well known and remembered so I don't even think someone like John Legend would come up with this kind of story to tell just for fun.
I hope it's true that the murder of Ralph was just a ploy. Even though it's a dastardly thing to do!
At best it would mean that Ralph wasn't who he said he was and so he couldn't be murdered after all.
But what kind of person does this kind of thing to fellow posters.
I have too much invested in this forum to have to endure being jerked around like that.