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8-MONTHS-PREGNANT MOM OF ONE shot execution style while cowering in bedroom closet. We want justice for Belinda Temple! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, a gorgeous, young, pregnant mother
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Speaker 1: of one found dead, shot execution style in the head,
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant, after cowering and hiding in the bedroom
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Speaker 1: closet of her home in the last hours. A major
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Speaker 1: break in the case of Belinda Temple found dead. I'm
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being
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Speaker 1: with us. I remember it like it was yesterday when
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Speaker 1: Belinda was found dead in her home, eight months pregnant,
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Speaker 1: and the reality was it was a picture perfect home,
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Speaker 1: a mother of one little boy, vivacious, outgoing, beautiful home,
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant with her second child, the family, beloved
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Speaker 1: by the whole community, the dad, the popular high school
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Speaker 1: football coach. And then she's found dead Harris County and
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Speaker 1: I ambulance. Someone's broken into my heart and my wife
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Speaker 1: stawn my life. For the ambulance, Sir, we have a
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Speaker 1: shooting victim. Go ahead, sir, where I just wrapped in
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Speaker 1: my wife. I believe she's been shot. It's got blood everywhere, okay, sir.
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Speaker 1: If she breathing, her brain is on the floor. I
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Speaker 1: think she's already did. She's eight months breathing, Okay, Sweeting
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Speaker 1: just down the phone. Okay, sir, Is there anyway that
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Speaker 1: you can kneel down next to her and see if
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Speaker 1: she is breathing? Sir? Sir? Okay, let me get them
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Speaker 1: over there. Okay, haven't check her out. Women's the last
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Speaker 1: time you saw her or several hours? Yes, you say,
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Speaker 1: half of her brain is on the floor. She's got
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Speaker 1: blood over the port of second because she's done in
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Speaker 1: the corner. Okay, she's eight. Have you felt for her
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Speaker 1: to have a pull? She's done that. We got a
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Speaker 1: baby though, right right? Okay, Okay, how to do CPR? Yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: I want you to do CPR for that baby. Okay, okay, yes,
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Speaker 1: let's do Are you doing CPR for me? She's gone? Okay,
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Speaker 1: well let's see if we can eat her? Okay for
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Speaker 1: the baby. Is there any way that you can do this?
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Speaker 1: It's just no way. She's got her her brain and
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Speaker 1: just bloody, just covered on the floor. I got a
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Speaker 1: policeman that's pulled up. Now, I got an ambulance that
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Speaker 1: a paramedic that's get ready to come into Okay. You
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Speaker 1: are hearing the actual nine one one call when popular
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Speaker 1: football coach David Temple says he finds his wife dead
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Speaker 1: on the floor. Well, in the last hours, so many hopes,
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Speaker 1: so many dreams of justice have been fulfilled. David Temple,
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Speaker 1: the high school football coach, star of the entire region
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Speaker 1: they're in, Texas, has been found guilty and his wife's murder.
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Speaker 1: This is a saga that started back in the nineties
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Speaker 1: when Temple was first suspected of shooting his pregnant wife.
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Speaker 1: Joining me right now, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter
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Speaker 1: Dave mac dave, Let's just start at the beginning. Where
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Speaker 1: does the husband, the football coach, David Temple, say he
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Speaker 1: was when his pregnant wife, Belinda was murdered out running
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Speaker 1: errands with their three and a half year old son, Evan,
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Speaker 1: a childho Bible Bay was so sick at school earlier
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Speaker 1: that day he was sent home from daycare earlier, but
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Speaker 1: was out with his dad seen on camera during the
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Speaker 1: time that this murder took place. Where did they say
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Speaker 1: they went? They went to a place to get a drink.
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Speaker 1: They went to a home depot. Wait wait, wait, wait,
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Speaker 1: what do you mean a place to get a drink?
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Speaker 1: A bar? No? No, yesota, you know, just an icy
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Speaker 1: or something. First of all, David Temple, the football coach, husband,
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Speaker 1: tells deputies that he and his three year old son
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Speaker 1: went to a park. This is after he's been brought
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Speaker 1: home sick from school, a grocery store, and a home
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Speaker 1: depot before arriving back to his Katie area home to
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Speaker 1: find his wife shot dead in an apparent burglary. That
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Speaker 1: is what he first said, but now I'm understanding that
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Speaker 1: his alibi has differed in various police interviews. What do
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Speaker 1: we know about that, Dave Max, We know that the
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Speaker 1: timeline tends to shift around based on what David Temple
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Speaker 1: describes that took place. He again, you've got his wife,
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Speaker 1: Belinda is eight months pregnant. Well, his son, Evan, three
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Speaker 1: and a half years old, comes home from daycare six.
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Speaker 1: David Temple was a coach and high school teacher. His
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Speaker 1: wife was a special needs teacher at a junior high school.
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Speaker 1: And so the reason that's important, Evan, the child comes
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Speaker 1: home from daycare early. David the coach teacher has to
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Speaker 1: come home from school to take care of sick Evan. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant Belinda the wife, she too comes home
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Speaker 1: from school and she's not feeling well. So at four
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Speaker 1: o'clock that afternoon, she retires to bed to lay down
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant. Hold on, let me get that four
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the afternoon she lays down right now, how
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Speaker 1: do we know that we know that based on the
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Speaker 1: time that she left from school and her normal routine
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Speaker 1: in getting home, that it would be around four o'clock.
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Speaker 1: And then we actually have to believe David Temple and
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Speaker 1: some of this as well, but in particular, we can
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Speaker 1: track just her regular movements and the time that she
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Speaker 1: left school and the time that she wouldn't have gotten home.
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Speaker 1: That fits that she would actually be home by four
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Speaker 1: o'clock and in bed. Listen to this. Belinda's parents, Tom
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Speaker 1: and Carol Lucas suspected David after they learned he had
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Speaker 1: betrayed their daughter. Lucases did all they could to keep
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Speaker 1: the case alive. They paid for a billboard next to
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Speaker 1: a busy highway, and they took television crews to their
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Speaker 1: daughter's gray but nothing changed until November two thousand and four,
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Speaker 1: more than five years after the murder, when a case
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Speaker 1: in California taught the nation's attention. He is charged with
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Speaker 1: killing his wife, Lacy Guider Scott Peterson was convicted of
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Speaker 1: killing his pregnant wife. Lacy. Lucas saw parallels to their
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Speaker 1: case and contacted the prosecutors once again. This time, the
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Speaker 1: case landed on the desk of one of the toughest
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Speaker 1: days in the nation. I got it under control. I
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Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. I believe that David Temple is guilty.
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Speaker 1: With a record of high profile, two, high energy three
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Speaker 1: and highly dramatic prosecutions like you're you're hearing our friends
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Speaker 1: at CBS forty eight hours, I remembered distinctly when Belinda's
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Speaker 1: dad just heartbroken. Can you even imagine Tom Lucas was
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Speaker 1: begging for my help after David Temple was first released.
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. Listen, my daughter, Belinda Lucas Temple,
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Speaker 1: who was eight months pregnant, was murdered by her husband,
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Speaker 1: David Temple, in the Houston area of Texas, and nine
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Speaker 1: years went by before we finally got him put in prison.
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Speaker 1: Now then he's served some time, and he's been let
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Speaker 1: out of the bond to possibly get a new trial
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Speaker 1: or posibly just turn loose. This is wrong. There's somebody
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Speaker 1: apparently had been bought off or something. I hope that
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Speaker 1: Nancy and y'all can look into it and maybe do
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Speaker 1: something to help. I need lots of help for you know,
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Speaker 1: if possible. She's a wife, she's deceased now, so the
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Speaker 1: stress from that all of this was caused her. I
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Speaker 1: have a heart attack and by we were a guest
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Speaker 1: on Nancy's very first show. We talked about this murder
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Speaker 1: and his family was also on the part of the show.
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Speaker 1: I hope that y'all can help me, help me. It's
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Speaker 1: so terrible to a daughter who was she was eight
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Speaker 1: months pregnant. She was executed, shot the back of ahead
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Speaker 1: with a shotgun. Loaner brains all over the closet. Now
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Speaker 1: then that he is, he's been let out of prison
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Speaker 1: for possible new trial, and what is being done is injustice.
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Speaker 1: They they let him out on like say, they let
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Speaker 1: him out on bond. He's waiting for a new trial.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to decide where they'll have a new trial
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Speaker 1: or just turn him loose. This is not right. I
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Speaker 1: would like to have this story if you could update
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Speaker 1: it and put it on you know, it would be appreciated.
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Speaker 1: It has been very difficult time they were the last
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Speaker 1: eighteen years to Jason Oceans veteran defense attorney. We know
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Speaker 1: that the husband, David Temple, was tried, his first conviction
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Speaker 1: was overturned and he was granted a retrial. Why I
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Speaker 1: got a retrial and Nancy because of prosecutorial on misconduct
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Speaker 1: there were you know, that's a tough charge for a
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Speaker 1: judge to overturn defense motion on that and subsequent to conviction,
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Speaker 1: and the prosecutor themselves, the district attorney's offices being investigated
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Speaker 1: for improprieties in the original trial and the judge judge
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Speaker 1: granted a second trial. This is what I don't understand
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Speaker 1: to Dave mac when he says prosecutorial misconduct, What exactly
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Speaker 1: are we talking about thirty six instances of prosecutorial misconduct,
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Speaker 1: which actually it means they didn't turn over evidence of
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Speaker 1: what's called exculpatory evidence to the defense, either in a
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Speaker 1: timely manner or at all. Crime stories with Nancy Grace
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Speaker 1: in the last hours, David Temple, the high school football
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Speaker 1: coach star, has been found guilty and his wife's murder.
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Speaker 1: This is a saga that started back in the nineties
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Speaker 1: when Temple was first suspected I was shooting his pregnant wife.
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Speaker 1: She got home of our four o'car. We just said
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Speaker 1: I would take Heaven out and run around. We stopped
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Speaker 1: a grocer, but it's just to get a drink. We
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Speaker 1: stopped got two drinks and I picked up a bag
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Speaker 1: of calfood while we were in there getting the drinks.
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Speaker 1: And then we decided to go to home depot. We'd
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Speaker 1: got time to do that, make it home in time
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Speaker 1: to take one to eat dinner. And pulled into the garage.
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Speaker 1: You got my son out, started to walk towards the
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Speaker 1: back door, and I can see that the backdoors opened
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Speaker 1: and it's cracked with glass, and took my son across
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Speaker 1: the street and dangling my friend's house and handed I'm
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Speaker 1: having and asked they were calling on one one one.
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Speaker 1: Somebody had spoken into my neighbor's house and then ran
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Speaker 1: back across the street and then through the day and
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Speaker 1: into my house for me, and then naked an upstairs
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Speaker 1: to her one hunding important blood and their close their
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Speaker 1: knees up underneath their stomach and to protect her hanging
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Speaker 1: over across the bed, and you got the phone to
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Speaker 1: call them on one one. You're hearing our friends at
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Speaker 1: CBS forty eight hours and David Temple himself describing finding
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Speaker 1: his wife's body. Listened to this development. On November twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and four, nearly six years after his wife
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Speaker 1: was killed, David Temple was arrested and tried myself for
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Speaker 1: school think I did every day, and an officer pulled
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Speaker 1: me over, handcuffed me and put me immediately in the
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Speaker 1: back of a detective's car. And one of the detectives
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Speaker 1: in that car was Dean Holtkey. You know what this
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Speaker 1: is about, right, And he says, no, what I said, Blenda.
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Speaker 1: He's like, you gotta be kid me. Man. That was
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Speaker 1: like six years ago. I never thought that I would
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Speaker 1: be arrested. Ever, Temple says he's a devoted family man
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Speaker 1: despite marrying his mistress after his wife was murdered. I
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Speaker 1: have to ask it, did you kill her? Merry Christmas?
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Speaker 1: You cannot be a good father to one shop and
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Speaker 1: take a life of another one. To me, that is impossible.
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Speaker 1: Now take a listen to our friends at CBS forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours as they describe why David Temple is released
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Speaker 1: in twenty twelve. Temple's a Pellet attorney's Casey Gotro and
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Speaker 1: Stanley Schneider finally saw the complete police report, and they
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Speaker 1: say it contained critical evidence never seen before by the defense.
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Speaker 1: On my left is the complete investigative report was never seen.
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Speaker 1: This is what was suppressed self was hidden. In a
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Speaker 1: split decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found Temple
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Speaker 1: did not get a fair trial and he was released
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Speaker 1: in late December. Take listen to our friends at forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours and the former Harris County prosecutor, so, what
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Speaker 1: did you have against him? A story that he told
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Speaker 1: that never made any sense? What didn't make any sense
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Speaker 1: of though? The story was according to David Temple, at
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Speaker 1: the very time he was out with his sixth son
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Speaker 1: running errands that didn't need to be run, a random
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Speaker 1: burglar just happened to break into his house and shoots
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Speaker 1: Belinda Temple in the back of the head, which is
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Speaker 1: eight months pregnant, while David Temple is having an affair
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Speaker 1: with the woman he was madly in love with. She believes.
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Speaker 1: Belinda Temple was killed around four pm, about a half
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Speaker 1: hour before David was seen by those surveillance cameras at
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Speaker 1: the stores. Once Belinda was dead, Temple went right to
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Speaker 1: work and cockeding his alibi. David Temple made a slip
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Speaker 1: through the house and made an attempt to make the
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Speaker 1: house look like it had been viglarized. He broke the
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Speaker 1: glass in the back door, and then he took Evan
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Speaker 1: to try and get himself on videotape to alibi himself
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Speaker 1: as quickly as he could. Wow. Wow, you're hearing the
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Speaker 1: then Harris County prosecutor. Take a listen as I confront
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Speaker 1: the then defense attorney, Dick de Garon. Dick Degeron, buckle up.
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Speaker 1: Was their insurance money? Yeah, there was insurance, you know,
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Speaker 1: all went almost all went to Evan, the the young boy, really,
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Speaker 1: because I heard only sixty thousand of the two hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand went to a trust and that was after twisting
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Speaker 1: somebody's arm. No, that's not right. The Temple family and
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Speaker 1: David sought to have it put into trust and part
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Speaker 1: of it went to the original attorney in the case.
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Speaker 1: But that's because from the very beginning the police were
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Speaker 1: falsely accusing David. Well, he just got arrested a couple
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Speaker 1: of months ago, So why did he need a defense
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Speaker 1: lawyer there at the house the night before the funeral?
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Speaker 1: He lawyered up pretty fast. Dick, Well, sure, it did
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Speaker 1: because they were accusing him from the beginning, and they
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Speaker 1: were accusing him only because they say that when a
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Speaker 1: wife has murdered, the husband is always a suspect. They
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Speaker 1: didn't have any evidence then, But about the gunshot powder,
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Speaker 1: they don't have any evidence. Now. I don't believe that stuff,
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Speaker 1: Nancy in the first place. They won't give it to us.
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Speaker 1: It won't. I got the rest affidavit right here. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you've got the affidavit, but you don't have the test.
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Speaker 1: We've been asking for the test. We filed a motion
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Speaker 1: asking that they give us the test. Let us independently
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Speaker 1: test it. It came from their test, came from a
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Speaker 1: questionable source. Are you going to say cross contamination because
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Speaker 1: they haven't heard that since Cochrane said it in the
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Speaker 1: oj Simpson trial. Take a listen to what Blenda's parents
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Speaker 1: tell me on hel N When was the first time
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Speaker 1: you saw David Temple after you learn Belinda had been murdered.
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Speaker 1: I saw David Temple let the funeral home the night
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Speaker 1: before the funeral. Now that strikes me as very unusual
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Speaker 1: that you that he didn't come to you, or didn't
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Speaker 1: did he call you? Maybe? No? Nothing? How did he
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Speaker 1: act at the funeral, Missus Lucas just like any other
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Speaker 1: day of the week, I'd say, didn't seem to be
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Speaker 1: sad or anything. What was he like? No tears were shed,
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Speaker 1: Not a tear. I never saw a tears shed. David
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Speaker 1: Temple has never looked us in the eye since our
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Speaker 1: daughter was married, her murdered. Excuse me, never has looked
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Speaker 1: you in the eye. Do you think Belinda knew he
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Speaker 1: was having an affair during the marriage. I think she
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Speaker 1: had become aware of it. Do you think that is
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Speaker 1: what led to her death? I feel that that could
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Speaker 1: have been part of the reason. When you look at
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Speaker 1: all the facts, do you think David Temple murdered your
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Speaker 1: After looking into all the facts and reading what I've read,
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Speaker 1: I believe David temble Kilden. I remember, after all this
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Speaker 1: time has passed following Belinda's execution style murder an eight
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Speaker 1: month pregnant woman, I was giving a speech, I believe
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Speaker 1: it was in Port Huron, and I kept thinking that
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Speaker 1: a woman there looked familiar to me, and I didn't
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Speaker 1: know why. She came up to me after my speech.
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Speaker 1: It was Belinda's sister, and she broke down in tears.
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Speaker 1: This was about over a year ago, and I asked
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Speaker 1: her did she want to come on and talk about
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Speaker 1: what was happening and focus attention back on her sister's death,
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Speaker 1: and she said, I just don't want to hurt the trial,
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Speaker 1: so we agreed to stay silent. Now in the last hours,
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Speaker 1: a stunning break in the case Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: I Meancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us. What about the theory this was a
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Speaker 1: botched robbery, Dave Matt What if anything was taken? There
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Speaker 1: was absolutely nothing taken in it looked like a stage
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Speaker 1: crime scene. Nancy, why do you say that? Okay, there
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Speaker 1: was a First of all, the glass door, the door
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Speaker 1: from the garage into the end of the entryway. The
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Speaker 1: glass was broken out, but the glass wasn't broken like
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Speaker 1: straight in. But when they actually were doing a re enactment,
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Speaker 1: they had to open the door and then break the
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Speaker 1: glass for the glass to actually show up on the
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Speaker 1: floor where they found it. On top of that, a
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Speaker 1: TV was pulled off of a TV stand, but it
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Speaker 1: wasn't even unplugged, So if you're going to steal a TV,
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Speaker 1: you'd actually unhook the cable and unplug it from the wall.
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Speaker 1: There was jewelry, you know, he was a high school
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Speaker 1: football hero, and there's this big, gaudy gold ring and
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Speaker 1: a watch that was sitting right there in the open
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Speaker 1: and wasn't disturbed at all. So if it was a robbery,
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Speaker 1: those have been the first things, you know, they would
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Speaker 1: have stashed the gold open in somebody's pockets. The TV
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Speaker 1: would have not just been unplug but it would have
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Speaker 1: had the katilee the cutter undone, and the glass wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have shown up, you know, twenty feet around in the
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Speaker 1: living room. It would have been in the door in
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Speaker 1: the entryway. And nothing was taken. Nothing was taken. We
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Speaker 1: also know that Temple's defense team has long claimed one
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Speaker 1: of Belinda's teenage student, Riley Joe Sanders, was responsible. Dave
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Speaker 1: Matt what about that? You know, there is some suspicion
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Speaker 1: about Riley Joe Sanders. He was a sixteen year old
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Speaker 1: student who had lived near the temples of Blinda. Actually
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Speaker 1: had told his parents that he was missing a lot
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Speaker 1: of school he didn't particularly care for, and he lied
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Speaker 1: to police about his whereabouts on the day of the murder. Well,
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Speaker 1: what did he tell police? He told police that he
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Speaker 1: was at school all day and turned out that he
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Speaker 1: actually wasn't at school, He was actually at home smoking pot.
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Speaker 1: How could they confirm that that's what he actually told them?
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Speaker 1: So can they confirm it or no? While they can
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Speaker 1: only confirm the fact that the guy told them he
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Speaker 1: was at home smoking pot, but they actually hooked him
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Speaker 1: up to a polygraph and he failed three different polygraph tests,
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Speaker 1: I could understand why he lied about not being in school. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean to me, that makes sense. But what would
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Speaker 1: he didn't steal anything, what would a potential motive have been?
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Speaker 1: Dave mack Well, that was the whole point that he
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Speaker 1: was mad at Belinda because she told his parents that
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Speaker 1: he was missing a lot of school. That's the whole
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Speaker 1: grudge that they say led to him staging a robbery
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Speaker 1: and murdering her with a shotgun. Wow, Okay, that doesn't
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Speaker 1: make sense to me. Let me ask you another question
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Speaker 1: with that evidence, Dave Mike, regarding the student Riley Joe Sanders,
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Speaker 1: why did they elect to go fill it onto because
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Speaker 1: they actually didn't believe that Riley Joe Sanders was a viable,
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Speaker 1: you know, suspect. They just didn't believe that he did it.
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Speaker 1: The prosecutor hear Jess did not believe. She actually said
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Speaker 1: they believed his story of sitting home smoking pot. I
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Speaker 1: didn't believe it was a murderer. They didn't believe he
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Speaker 1: was out to get Belinda at all. They just did
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Speaker 1: not believe that he was the suspect. Wow, okay, what
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Speaker 1: about the bullets to Karen Smith, forensic expert, Beerbow's consulting
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Speaker 1: found er, what do we know about ballistics at this point?
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Speaker 1: It's a shotgun, Nancy, So they're talking about pellets and wadding.
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Speaker 1: There was no shotgun shell found. It was scene, which
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Speaker 1: means the gun was either unracked or somebody collected it
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Speaker 1: and left with it. So they're left with very scant evidence.
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Speaker 1: But it was double buckshot, which is so common. It's
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Speaker 1: just a small pellets inside of a shotgun shell that
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Speaker 1: dispersed once the gun is fired. That's what was used.
22:47
Speaker 1: At this point, I'm really curious about the gunshot residue
22:49
Speaker 1: you mentioned with Victor Gerren. What happened, what tests did
22:53
Speaker 1: they do, and where did it come from. There's also
22:56
Speaker 1: the issue of the dog. What about that day Mac
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Speaker 1: Temples had a dog who was just vicious to everyone
23:03
Speaker 1: except for the Temples. As a matter of fact, when
23:06
Speaker 1: David Temple went across the street and gave evan to
23:10
Speaker 1: the neighbors and said, hey, somebody broke into my house
23:12
Speaker 1: called nine one one. The man of the house, I
23:14
Speaker 1: think his name was Robert. He followed David Temple across
23:17
Speaker 1: the guard into the house. He was trailing about twenty
23:20
Speaker 1: yards behind David Temple goes in the house. The dog
23:23
Speaker 1: was so vicious that this neighbor, Robert, was not allowed
23:27
Speaker 1: entry into the home by that guard dog. On top
23:29
Speaker 1: of that, when police arrived not long after the nine
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Speaker 1: one one call, they too were prevented from going into
23:35
Speaker 1: the house by that guard dog, to the point where
23:37
Speaker 1: they had pulled their servers with revolvers and were prepared
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Speaker 1: to shoot the dog when David came out and called
23:42
Speaker 1: the dog down. So this dog wouldn't have allowed anybody
23:46
Speaker 1: in that house, the killer except the killer in this case,
23:50
Speaker 1: David Temple. Yes, he wouldn't allow anybody he didn't know
23:52
Speaker 1: in that house. He would only allowed somebody that he
23:54
Speaker 1: actually knew. We're talking David or Belinda. Those the only
23:57
Speaker 1: two people that would have got past that dog. Do
24:00
Speaker 1: you know anything about the gunshot? Residue issue. I know
24:03
Speaker 1: that you know, I actually heard this argument for the
24:06
Speaker 1: very first time, Nancy, when you interviewed Dick Nageron about
24:09
Speaker 1: it on TV made me look it up. It went
24:11
Speaker 1: to the FBI crime lab. They tested David Temple's jacket
24:16
Speaker 1: and on that they found gunshot residue on that jacket.
24:20
Speaker 1: And that's what you guys were actually arguing about. That
24:23
Speaker 1: was the evidence that the pusculer resived to take to
24:26
Speaker 1: the grand jury, that they actually had physical evidence putting
24:29
Speaker 1: David Temple in that closet with that shotgun at the
24:32
Speaker 1: time of the murder. And was that the jacket he
24:35
Speaker 1: was wearing the day she was murdered according to what
24:39
Speaker 1: I saw, Yes, wow, Wow, explain that. Break it down,
24:43
Speaker 1: Karen Smith. That's a big deal. Half a huge deal.
24:46
Speaker 1: You're talking about a jacket sleep with gunshot residue on it. Listen,
24:50
Speaker 1: when gunshots happened, there's primer, a primer that's what fires
24:54
Speaker 1: the projectile down the barrel. When those primer particles are heated,
24:58
Speaker 1: they formed small little spears of very and lead an antimony,
25:01
Speaker 1: and those small little spears are the gunshot residue that
25:04
Speaker 1: FBI analysts and ballistics analysts look at under a microscope
25:08
Speaker 1: that are telltale signs of gunshot residue. If that was
25:11
Speaker 1: on his sleeve, I would want a really good explanation
25:15
Speaker 1: of how it got there. There are transfers that can
25:17
Speaker 1: happen between different like secondary transfers from the body, secondary transfers,
25:22
Speaker 1: other things. But if it's on the sleeve of a
25:24
Speaker 1: jacket and it's there's a lot of it there, that's
25:28
Speaker 1: an explanation that needs to come to me. If there's
25:30
Speaker 1: any there, it's very significant because gunshot residue can be
25:33
Speaker 1: wiped off like baby powder. If he had gunshot residue
25:36
Speaker 1: on his sleeve of his jacket, which would be there
25:40
Speaker 1: if he shot a shotgun, that really places him within
25:44
Speaker 1: thirty six inches of a shotgun that day. I think
25:48
Speaker 1: it's damning. On another note, to all you moms and
25:52
Speaker 1: dad's out there listening. If you're like me, you pour
25:56
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25:59
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26:06
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26:09
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26:12
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26:18
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26:21
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26:27
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26:31
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26:34
Speaker 1: committed suicide. He's like, no way, she didn't do that.
26:38
Speaker 1: That couldn't happen. What happened to Sarah Stern? When you
26:44
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26:51
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26:57
Speaker 1: This Saturday at a special new time on Oxygen nine
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27:18
Speaker 1: Injustice with Nancy Grace. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous, young,
27:36
Speaker 1: pregnant mother of one found dead, shot execution style in
27:42
Speaker 1: the head, eight months pregnant in the last hours, a
27:47
Speaker 1: major break in the case. A Belinda Temple found dead.
27:54
Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
27:56
Speaker 1: being with us. A mother of one little boy, Viva,
28:00
Speaker 1: He's just outgoing, beautiful, home eight months pregnant with her
28:04
Speaker 1: second child. The family beloved by the whole community. The dad,
28:09
Speaker 1: the popular high school football coach, and then she's found
28:16
Speaker 1: dead well in the last hours. David Temple, the high
28:22
Speaker 1: school football coach, star of the entire region they're in, Texas,
28:29
Speaker 1: has been found guilty and his wife's murder. This is
28:35
Speaker 1: a saga that started back in the nineties when Temple
28:39
Speaker 1: was first suspected of shooting his pregnant wife. What could
28:44
Speaker 1: possibly be a motive? A hot coworker now today, Matt
28:49
Speaker 1: Crime online dot com investigative reporter tell me about Heather.
28:53
Speaker 1: David Temple was having an affair on Belinda. At the time,
28:57
Speaker 1: they told police it was a casual affair. Away wait
29:00
Speaker 1: stop stop stop stop stop. No, there is no such
29:04
Speaker 1: thing as a casual sex affair when you are married.
29:08
Speaker 1: That ain't casual. I mean, is it just me? I mean, well,
29:13
Speaker 1: Karen Start psychologist Karen Start dot com. Well, he says
29:16
Speaker 1: it was just casual. I ain't. No. No, sex affair
29:20
Speaker 1: is casual when you're married, not just married. His wife
29:23
Speaker 1: is pregnant, so he's expecting another child and he's taking
29:30
Speaker 1: the risk of having an affair with another teacher, so
29:34
Speaker 1: it's and it's somebody whom he wound up marrying. So
29:37
Speaker 1: there's nothing casual about this affair. And Nancy, Okay, let
29:41
Speaker 1: me back to you, Dave mac uh this so called
29:45
Speaker 1: casual affair. Isn't it true that David Temple married Heather
29:53
Speaker 1: and she became Heather Temple, which means anything they had
29:57
Speaker 1: communicated to each other could not be testified to at trial.
30:01
Speaker 1: Hold on, let me go to Jason oceans On that
30:03
Speaker 1: you're the defense lawyer. Jason, the marital privilege hosts of
30:06
Speaker 1: wife privilege. The wife, let's just say, in this circumstance,
30:11
Speaker 1: she's not the one that claims the privilege. The wife,
30:14
Speaker 1: the ex wife Heather or Temple can get up on
30:16
Speaker 1: the stand. Then David Temple invokes the privilege, says she
30:20
Speaker 1: can't testify to that we were married to bowsle immunity,
30:23
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the basic tenants of protecting the
30:27
Speaker 1: sanctity the contract of marriage, so that disaffection perhaps couldn't
30:34
Speaker 1: call her the ability to go after your spouse. So
30:38
Speaker 1: I think that was the original underlying basis in the law,
30:42
Speaker 1: and it's continued in most jurisdictions all these years. Take
30:48
Speaker 1: a listen to our friend Adam Bennett at KHOU. Heather Temple,
30:51
Speaker 1: David Temple's second wife, filed for divorce yesterday in a
30:54
Speaker 1: ford Been County court. The filing claims their marriage quote
30:58
Speaker 1: has become insupportable because of disc or conflict of personalities.
31:01
Speaker 1: Heather Temple's attorneys told KG are you they're aware of
31:04
Speaker 1: the divorce filing timing with the trial, but are asking
31:08
Speaker 1: for privacy. We're hopeful that with the filing for divorce,
31:11
Speaker 1: she'll be more candid, more forthcoming, and certainly more factual.
31:14
Speaker 1: That's what she truly does know. Victim's advocate Andy Kahan,
31:18
Speaker 1: has represented Belinda Lucas Temple's family since Belinda's murder. At
31:22
Speaker 1: that time, Heather was having an affair with David. Heather
31:26
Speaker 1: testified during the first trial, and she's on the list
31:29
Speaker 1: to testify at this trial. There is a marital privilege,
31:32
Speaker 1: so likes there's attorney client or priest penitent privilege. The
31:37
Speaker 1: privilege survives a divorce. What about the fact that she
31:40
Speaker 1: has now divorced him, That doesn't change anything. If there
31:44
Speaker 1: were communications during the marriage, I mean they got married
31:49
Speaker 1: before he was charged with murder. Is that right, Dave Mack, Yes, ma'am.
31:53
Speaker 1: They actually got married about two years after the murder
31:56
Speaker 1: of Belinda, and that would be five years before he
31:59
Speaker 1: acts actually went on trial for murder. But the time
32:03
Speaker 1: that we're talking about here where they were just in
32:06
Speaker 1: there what they called a casual romance, and again I
32:08
Speaker 1: agree with you, but that's not covered by spousal privilege.
32:12
Speaker 1: The time of the murder and the time after that
32:15
Speaker 1: does not include. It's not covered by spousal immunity because
32:18
Speaker 1: they were actually Joe's boyfriend girlfriend. Let me ask you
32:20
Speaker 1: a question. David Temple's mistress turned wife, Heather Temple, has
32:25
Speaker 1: recently filed for divorce in the middle of the trial.
32:29
Speaker 1: Do you think it's just coincidence or do you think
32:32
Speaker 1: it's because what she may or may not know out
32:36
Speaker 1: to you? Karen start, Well, it's really you would think
32:40
Speaker 1: if she believed his story that she wouldn't in the
32:46
Speaker 1: middle of this trial decide that this is the perfect
32:49
Speaker 1: time to divorce him. So there's something going on there, Nancy,
32:53
Speaker 1: we don't know what it is. Well, Karen start, that's
32:56
Speaker 1: certainly putting it mildly. Let's get back to reality. Take
33:01
Speaker 1: a listen to the verdict being read out loud. In
33:05
Speaker 1: a court of law, justice delayed was not justice denied.
33:12
Speaker 1: We the jury find the defendant, David Mark Temple, guilty
33:17
Speaker 1: of murder as charge in the indictment it signed at
33:20
Speaker 1: the foreman of the jury. What a moment in a
33:23
Speaker 1: court of law. Take a listen to Belinda's brother, Brian Lucas.
33:28
Speaker 1: Last time he had ninety nine years and ten thousand dollars. Fine,
33:31
Speaker 1: I can't see it being any different this time. Um,
33:35
Speaker 1: I mean, look what he did. You put a shot
33:37
Speaker 1: gun on the back of someonean's head. You got to
33:40
Speaker 1: realize that's that's pretty higinous. I mean, just imagine. I mean,
33:45
Speaker 1: that's about as sick as you get. No remorse, He's
33:48
Speaker 1: never had remorse. Today was more He's try to date
33:51
Speaker 1: more than and now he hasn't himself though that's for himself.
33:55
Speaker 1: That's nothing to do for himself. And also keep in
34:00
Speaker 1: mind a collateral damage that David Temple has caused obviously
34:04
Speaker 1: to Belinda's family, but to Riley Joe Sanders as well,
34:08
Speaker 1: who was forever tarnished with the stigmatize of what this
34:13
Speaker 1: family and their supporters have done to him and his family.
34:17
Speaker 1: For twenty years that he has to live with as well,
34:22
Speaker 1: and we appreciate him just again being forthcoming, always willing,
34:26
Speaker 1: and he's undergone a love it. The collateral damage by
34:29
Speaker 1: David Temple, anyone he's come into contact with, he is
34:33
Speaker 1: adversely affected. You know, I'm always leery of retrials many
34:37
Speaker 1: many years after the fact, and I've had to do
34:41
Speaker 1: them myself. I remember I had not been at the
34:44
Speaker 1: prosecutor's office very long when a case that went down,
34:48
Speaker 1: the murderer of and Atlanta police officers a brother. This
34:53
Speaker 1: is what before I was even a law school. I
34:55
Speaker 1: had to put that case back together again and retry it.
34:58
Speaker 1: That is hard to do. Evidence loss, witnesses, memories fade.
35:03
Speaker 1: It's really hard to do. But the prosecutors in this
35:05
Speaker 1: case hung in there. A dramatic retrial finds high school
35:11
Speaker 1: football coach, the superstar of the region, guilty in the
35:16
Speaker 1: murder of his pregnant wife all the way back in
35:19
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine so he could continue his affair with
35:23
Speaker 1: his so called hot coworker. David Temple, now convicted for
35:30
Speaker 1: shooting his eight month pregnant wife, Belinda, in the back
35:34
Speaker 1: of the head, killing her. You know, what you can't
35:40
Speaker 1: hide from Lady Justice. You may run, but you can't hide.
35:48
Speaker 1: I wondered sometimes if David Temple would ever be brought
35:52
Speaker 1: to justice. Right now, Belinda, rest in peace and prayer
36:00
Speaker 1: to your family. Nancy Gray Crime Story signing off, goodbye friend,