Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / 8-MONTHS-PREGNANT MOM OF ONE shot execution style while cowering in bedroom closet. JUSTICE for Belinda Temple
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace Friday Night Lights. It usually
- 0:18Speaker 1: refers to high school football games that happen on Friday
- 0:22Speaker 1: nights and all the excitements surrounding that, But in this
- 0:26Speaker 1: case it means murder. Murder committed by the local football
- 0:33Speaker 1: coach the star after twenty plus long years, no justice
- 0:43Speaker 1: for a pregnant mom, Belinda Temple, who ran through her
- 0:47Speaker 1: home seeking cover. The pregnant mom hides in a closet.
- 0:54Speaker 1: But what burglar would stalk the house, find the pregnant
- 0:59Speaker 1: mom and gun her down in the closet. Most burglars
- 1:03Speaker 1: would just leave. I mean, see, Grace, this is Crime Stories.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation.
- 1:10Speaker 1: In series Sex sem one eleven in the Last Days,
- 1:14Speaker 1: the beloved and highly popular high school football coach David
- 1:18Speaker 1: Temple is found guilty again. A Texas man now twice
- 1:26Speaker 1: convicted of murdering his pregnant high school sweetheart, was dangerously
- 1:32Speaker 1: close to walking free and a bizarre trial loaded with deceit, sex, adultery,
- 1:43Speaker 1: and believe it or not, one of my favorite stars,
- 1:46Speaker 1: Renee Zelwiger. It's all about a beautiful young mom, Belinda Temple,
- 1:53Speaker 1: who marries her high school football star boyfriend David Temple,
- 1:58Speaker 1: local high school football star marriage your leader girlfriend Belinda.
- 2:02Speaker 1: The two seem to have a perfect relationship until Temple
- 2:06Speaker 1: comes home and reports his wife was shot dead, her
- 2:11Speaker 1: body found in the closet.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Well.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Shortly after that, rumors flew and it turns out that
- 2:19Speaker 1: he was definitely having at least one affair with a mistress, Heather.
- 2:26Speaker 1: How predictable. It was such a close call that David
- 2:32Speaker 1: Temple nearly walked. What happened.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Parris County for our ambulance.
- 2:42Speaker 4: Somebody's broken into my mind and my wife's.
- 2:45Speaker 3: Shot down the life of the ambulance. Sir, we have
- 2:48Speaker 3: a shooting victim. Go ahead there.
- 2:49Speaker 4: Well, I just walked in my wife. I've been shot.
- 2:52Speaker 4: It's got blood everywhere.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Okay, sir.
- 2:54Speaker 5: Is she breathing?
- 2:55Speaker 4: Her brain is on the floor. I think she's already
- 2:57Speaker 4: did she's eight much brains?
- 3:00Speaker 3: Okay, sweet, just stay on the phone with me. Okay, sir,
- 3:04Speaker 3: is there any way that you can kneel down next
- 3:05Speaker 3: to her and see if she is breathing?
- 3:08Speaker 6: Sure?
- 3:10Speaker 4: Sure she's dead.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Okay. Let me get them over there. Okay, have him
- 3:16Speaker 3: check her out. When was the last time you saw her.
- 3:19Speaker 4: Oh, it's been shovel several hours.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Yes, you say, half of her brain is on the floor.
- 3:25Speaker 4: She's got part over the port of second until she's
- 3:27Speaker 4: done in the corner.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Okay, so she's eight months.
- 3:31Speaker 4: Yes.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Have you felt for her.
- 3:33Speaker 4: To have a pulse, Yes, she doesn't have one.
- 3:35Speaker 3: We got a baby though, right right? Okay, okay, but
- 3:38Speaker 3: I don't have to do CPR, yes, okay, I want
- 3:42Speaker 3: you to do CPR for that baby.
- 3:43Speaker 4: Okay, okay, yes.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Let's do. Are you doing CPR for me? She's gone, Okay, well,
- 3:49Speaker 3: let's see if we teach her okay for the baby.
- 3:54Speaker 3: Is there any way that.
- 3:55Speaker 4: You can do this? This is just no way. She's
- 3:58Speaker 4: got her brain and bloody is covered on the floor.
- 4:02Speaker 4: I got a policeman that's pulled up.
- 4:04Speaker 7: I got an ambulance that a paramedic to get ready
- 4:06Speaker 7: to come into You are hearing the actual nine to
- 4:10Speaker 7: one one call when popular football coach David Temple says
- 4:15Speaker 7: he finds his.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Wife dead on the floor. This is a saga that
- 4:20Speaker 1: started back in the nineties when Temple was first suspected
- 4:24Speaker 1: of shooting his pregnant wife. Joining me Right Now, Crime
- 4:27Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter Dave mac Dave. Let's just
- 4:32Speaker 1: start at the beginning. Where does the husband, the football coach,
- 4:36Speaker 1: David Temple, say he was when his pregnant wife, Belinda
- 4:41Speaker 1: was murdered.
- 4:42Speaker 8: Out running errands with their three and a half year
- 4:44Speaker 8: old son, Evan, a child who Bible Bay was so
- 4:47Speaker 8: sick at school earlier that day he was sent home
- 4:50Speaker 8: from daycare earlier, but was out with his dad seen
- 4:54Speaker 8: on camera during the time that this murder took place.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Where did they say they went?
- 4:59Speaker 8: They went to a place to get a drink. They
- 5:02Speaker 8: went to a home depot.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, what do you mean a place
- 5:05Speaker 1: to get a drink? A bar?
- 5:06Speaker 2: No, No like ya soda, you know, just an icy
- 5:09Speaker 2: or something.
- 5:10Speaker 1: First of all, David Temple, the football coach, husband, tells
- 5:14Speaker 1: deputies that he and his three year old son went
- 5:16Speaker 1: to a park. This is after he's been brought home
- 5:19Speaker 1: sick from school, a grocery store, and a home depot
- 5:25Speaker 1: before arriving back to his Katie area home to find
- 5:31Speaker 1: his wife shot dead in an apparent burglary. That is
- 5:37Speaker 1: what he first said, But now I'm understanding that his
- 5:41Speaker 1: alibi has differed in various police interviews. What do we
- 5:47Speaker 1: know about that, Dave.
- 5:48Speaker 8: Mac We know that the timeline tends to shift around
- 5:52Speaker 8: based on what David Temple describes that took place. He again,
- 5:57Speaker 8: you've got his wife, Melinda is eight months pregnant. Well,
- 6:01Speaker 8: his son, Evan, three and a half years old, comes
- 6:03Speaker 8: home from daycare sick. David Temple was a coach and
- 6:07Speaker 8: high school teacher. His wife was a special needs teacher
- 6:10Speaker 8: at a junior high school. And so the reason that's important,
- 6:13Speaker 8: Evan the child comes home from daycare early. David, the
- 6:16Speaker 8: coach teacher, has to come home from school to take
- 6:19Speaker 8: care of sick Evan. Meanwhile, eight months pregnant Melinda, of
- 6:23Speaker 8: the wife, she too comes home from school and she's
- 6:26Speaker 8: not feeling well. So at four o'clock that afternoon, she
- 6:29Speaker 8: retires to bed to lay down.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Eight months pregnant.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Hold on, let me get that four o'clock in the
- 6:35Speaker 1: afternoon she lays down, right now, how do we know that.
- 6:38Speaker 8: We know that based on the time that she left
- 6:41Speaker 8: from school and her normal routine in getting.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Home, that it would be around four o'clock.
- 6:47Speaker 8: And then we actually have to believe David Temple and
- 6:49Speaker 8: some of this as well, But in particular, we contract
- 6:53Speaker 8: just her regular movements and the time that she left
- 6:55Speaker 8: school and the time that she would have gotten home.
- 6:57Speaker 8: Got it that that fits that she would actually be
- 6:59Speaker 8: home by four o'clock and in bed listen to this.
- 7:03Speaker 9: Belinda's parents, Tom and Carol Lucas suspected David after they
- 7:06Speaker 9: learned he had betrayed their daughter. Lucases did all they
- 7:10Speaker 9: could to keep the case alive. They paid for a
- 7:12Speaker 9: billboard next to a busy highway, and they took television
- 7:16Speaker 9: crews to their daughter's gray But nothing changed until November
- 7:22Speaker 9: two thousand and four, more than five years after the murder,
- 7:25Speaker 9: when a case in California fought the nation's attention.
- 7:30Speaker 10: He is charged with killing his wife Lacy.
- 7:32Speaker 11: Guilty of the crime of murder.
- 7:34Speaker 12: Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife Lacey.
- 7:37Speaker 12: Lucases saw parallels to their case and contacted the prosecutors
- 7:41Speaker 12: once again. This time, the case landed on the desk
- 7:44Speaker 12: of one of the toughest DA's in the nation.
- 7:46Speaker 13: I got it under control. I know what I'm doing.
- 7:48Speaker 13: I believe that David Temple was guilty.
- 7:50Speaker 12: With the record of high profile one two.
- 7:53Speaker 9: High energy three four and highly dramatic prosecutions.
- 7:58Speaker 1: You're hearing our friends at CBS forty eight hours. I
- 8:03Speaker 1: remember distinctly when Belinda's died, just heartbroken. Can you even
- 8:10Speaker 1: imagine Tom Lucas was begging for my help after David
- 8:17Speaker 1: Temple was first released. I'll never forget it.
- 8:22Speaker 14: Listen, my daughter, Belinda Lucas Temple, who was eight months pregnant,
- 8:29Speaker 14: was murdered by her husband, David Temple, in the Houston
- 8:35Speaker 14: area of Texas, and nine years went by before we
- 8:41Speaker 14: finally got him put in prison. Now, then he's served
- 8:46Speaker 14: some time and he's been let out on a bond
- 8:48Speaker 14: to possibly get a new trial or possibly just turn loose.
- 8:56Speaker 14: This is wrong. There's somebody apparently been bought off or something.
- 9:03Speaker 14: I hope that Nancy and y' all can look into
- 9:07Speaker 14: it and maybe do something to help. I need lots
- 9:13Speaker 14: of help for you know, if possible. She's the wife.
- 9:20Speaker 14: She's deceased now. It is the stress from that all
- 9:24Speaker 14: of this has caused her. I have a heart attack
- 9:28Speaker 14: and by we were guests on Nancy's very first show.
- 9:35Speaker 14: We talked about this murdered and his family was also
- 9:40Speaker 14: on the part of the show. I hope that you'all
- 9:44Speaker 14: can help me. Help me. It's so terrible to my
- 9:50Speaker 14: daughter who was she was eight months pregnant. She was
- 9:54Speaker 14: executed shut the back of the head with a shotgun,
- 10:00Speaker 14: loan of brains all over the closet. Now then he's
- 10:06Speaker 14: been let out of prison to for possible new trial,
- 10:12Speaker 14: and what is being done is injustice. They'd let him
- 10:19Speaker 14: out and let's say they let him out on bond.
- 10:22Speaker 14: He's waiting for a new trial. They're trying to decide
- 10:26Speaker 14: whether they'll have a new trial or just turn him loose.
- 10:30Speaker 14: This is not right. I would like to have this
- 10:34Speaker 14: story if you could update it and put it on
- 10:38Speaker 14: you know, it would be appreciated. It has been very
- 10:43Speaker 14: difficult time over the last eighteen years.
- 10:48Speaker 1: To Jason Ocean's veteran defense attorney. We know that the husband,
- 10:53Speaker 1: David Temple, was tried, his first conviction was overturned and
- 11:00Speaker 1: he was granted a retrial.
- 11:03Speaker 15: Why I got a retrial a nancy because of prosecutorial
- 11:06Speaker 15: and misconduct.
- 11:07Speaker 14: There were you know, that's a tough.
- 11:10Speaker 15: Charge for a judge to overturn defense motion on that
- 11:13Speaker 15: and subsequent to conviction, and the prosecutor themselves the District
- 11:18Speaker 15: attorney's office is being investigated for improprieties in the original trial,
- 11:22Speaker 15: and the judge judge granted a second trial.
- 11:26Speaker 1: This is what I don't understand to Dave Mack when
- 11:29Speaker 1: he says prosecutorial misconduct, What exactly are we talking about?
- 11:34Speaker 8: Thirty six instances of prosecutorial misconduct, which actually it means
- 11:37Speaker 8: they didn't turn over evidence of what's called exculpatory evidence
- 11:41Speaker 8: to the defense, either in a timely manner or at all.
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- 13:32Speaker 1: If you'll recall, no arrests were made following the execution
- 13:37Speaker 1: style murder of Belinda, but David Temple went on to
- 13:43Speaker 1: marry his mistress and start a new life. That is
- 13:47Speaker 1: until advancements in DNA testing allowed investigators to take a
- 13:53Speaker 1: second look at the murder trial. Now, get this, The
- 13:57Speaker 1: jury that convicted David Temple, the football coach, for the
- 14:01Speaker 1: second time after his first trial, could not agree on
- 14:05Speaker 1: a sentence after all that, as a result, a mistrial
- 14:10Speaker 1: was declared. Now when that happens, the conviction, the guilty
- 14:14Speaker 1: verdict still stands, but a different jury had to be
- 14:18Speaker 1: seated to determine the sentence. Gosh prosecutors decided to seek
- 14:25Speaker 1: a life prison term now After his first jury trial
- 14:30Speaker 1: back in two thousand and seven, his conviction was suddenly
- 14:34Speaker 1: reversed five years later. That was the result of Temple's
- 14:40Speaker 1: defense lawyer getting a tip from a man who claimed
- 14:43Speaker 1: a sixteen year old neighbor may have been part of
- 14:48Speaker 1: Belinda's murder. There were claims the state withheld evidence regarding
- 14:53Speaker 1: that neighbor from the defense. A Texas Court of Criminal
- 14:57Speaker 1: appeals throughout the first conviction, and he was awarded a
- 15:01Speaker 1: second trial. At the beginning of that second trial, the
- 15:05Speaker 1: former mistress turned wife, Heather, filed for divorce, and during
- 15:10Speaker 1: that second trial, is so called neighbor swore he had
- 15:15Speaker 1: nothing to do with killing Belinda. Once again, Temple found
- 15:19Speaker 1: guilty for a second time. The facts and the details
- 15:24Speaker 1: of the case are heartbreaking.
- 15:27Speaker 11: She got home about four o'clock. We just said I
- 15:31Speaker 11: would take Heaven out and run around.
- 15:34Speaker 9: We stopped at Bircher brothers used to get a drink.
- 15:37Speaker 11: We stopped, got two drinks, and I picked up a
- 15:40Speaker 11: bag of cat food. While we were in there getting
- 15:41Speaker 11: the drinks, and then we decided to go to home depot.
- 15:44Speaker 11: We'd have time to do that and make it home
- 15:46Speaker 11: and time to take blend a deep dinner.
- 15:48Speaker 4: He fooled into the garage.
- 15:50Speaker 11: You got my son out and started to walk towards
- 15:52Speaker 11: the back door, and I could see that the back
- 15:55Speaker 11: door is open and it's cracked with class.
- 15:59Speaker 4: And he took my son across the.
- 16:00Speaker 11: Street and bang on my friend's house and handing them
- 16:05Speaker 11: having and asked if they were.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Calling nine one one on somebody has broken into my
- 16:09Speaker 1: neighbor town and then ran back across the street now
- 16:14Speaker 1: and then through.
- 16:14Speaker 4: The gate and into my house.
- 16:18Speaker 3: From taking him upstairs.
- 16:24Speaker 4: So heard in our cause.
- 16:30Speaker 11: Their knees up underneath their stomach.
- 16:31Speaker 1: And you protect her.
- 16:32Speaker 16: Hey, me.
- 16:34Speaker 11: Gove across the bed, and you got the phone to
- 16:36Speaker 11: call nine one one.
- 16:38Speaker 1: You're hearing our friends at CBS forty eight hours and
- 16:41Speaker 1: David Temple himself describing finding his wife's body. Listen to
- 16:47Speaker 1: this development.
- 16:48Speaker 9: On November twenty ninth, two thousand and four, nearly six
- 16:51Speaker 9: years after his wife was killed, David Temple was arrested and.
- 16:55Speaker 4: Tried myself home for school.
- 16:57Speaker 11: Think I did every day and off, pull me over,
- 17:01Speaker 11: handcuff me and put me immediately in the back of
- 17:03Speaker 11: a detective car.
- 17:05Speaker 9: And one of the detectives in that car was Dean Holtke.
- 17:08Speaker 17: You know what this is about, right, And he says, no,
- 17:11Speaker 17: what I said, Belinda, He's like, you gotta be kidney man.
- 17:14Speaker 9: That was like six years ago. I never thought that
- 17:18Speaker 9: would be arrested.
- 17:20Speaker 14: Ever.
- 17:22Speaker 12: Temple says he's a devoted family man, despite marrying his
- 17:26Speaker 12: mistress after his wife was murdered.
- 17:28Speaker 9: I have to ask you, did you did you kill her?
- 17:31Speaker 3: Of course marry Christmas.
- 17:33Speaker 11: You cannot be a good father to one shop and
- 17:36Speaker 11: take a life of another one.
- 17:38Speaker 1: To me, that is impossible. Now take a listen to
- 17:41Speaker 1: our friends at CBS forty eight hours as they describe
- 17:44Speaker 1: why David Temple is released.
- 17:47Speaker 12: In twenty twelve, Temple's appellet attorneys Casey Gotrou and Stanley
- 17:51Speaker 12: Schneider finally saw the complete police report, and they say
- 17:56Speaker 12: it contained critical evidence never seen before by the defense.
- 18:02Speaker 1: On my left is the complete investigative report.
- 18:04Speaker 4: This was never seen. This is what was suppressed.
- 18:09Speaker 3: Self was hiding.
- 18:11Speaker 12: In a split decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- 18:14Speaker 12: found Temple did not get a fair trial, and he
- 18:17Speaker 12: was released in late December.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at forty eight hours
- 18:22Speaker 1: and the former Harris County prosecutor, So, what did you.
- 18:25Speaker 18: Have against him?
- 18:26Speaker 13: A story that he told that never made any sense?
- 18:30Speaker 4: What didn't make any sense about it?
- 18:31Speaker 13: The story was, according to David Temple, at the very
- 18:34Speaker 13: time he was out with his six son running errands
- 18:37Speaker 13: that didn't need to be run, a random burglar just
- 18:41Speaker 13: happened to break into his house and shoots Belinda Temple
- 18:44Speaker 13: in the back of the head when she's eight months pregnant,
- 18:47Speaker 13: while David Temple is having an affair with the woman
- 18:49Speaker 13: he was madly in love with.
- 18:51Speaker 4: She believes.
- 18:51Speaker 9: Belinda Temple was killed around four pm, about a half
- 18:55Speaker 9: hour before David was seen by those surveillance cameras at
- 18:58Speaker 9: the stores. Once Belinda was dead, Temple went right to
- 19:01Speaker 9: work and cockeding his alibi.
- 19:03Speaker 13: David Temple made a sweep through the house and made
- 19:06Speaker 13: an attempt to make the house look like it had
- 19:08Speaker 13: been burglarized. He broke the glass in the back door,
- 19:11Speaker 13: and then he took Evan to try and get himself
- 19:14Speaker 13: on videotape to alibey himself as quickly as he could.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, you're hearing the then Harris County prosecutor. Take
- 19:21Speaker 1: a listen as I confront the then defense attorney, Dick Degaron,
- 19:26Speaker 1: Dick de Garon buckle up. Was their insurance money?
- 19:31Speaker 19: Yeah, there was insurance. It all went Almost all went
- 19:35Speaker 19: to Evan, the.
- 19:38Speaker 2: Young boy.
- 19:39Speaker 20: Really, because I heard only sixty thousand of the two
- 19:42Speaker 20: hundred thousand went to a trust and that was after
- 19:45Speaker 20: twisting somebody's arm.
- 19:47Speaker 19: No, that's not right. The Temple family and David sought
- 19:52Speaker 19: to have it put into trust, and part of it
- 19:54Speaker 19: went to the original attorney in the case. But that's
- 19:57Speaker 19: because from the very beginning the police were falsely accusing David.
- 20:01Speaker 20: Well, he just got arrested a couple of months ago,
- 20:05Speaker 20: so why did he need a defense lawyer there at
- 20:08Speaker 20: the house the night.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Before the funeral?
- 20:10Speaker 20: He lawyered up pretty fastic.
- 20:12Speaker 19: Well, sure it did, because they were accusing him from
- 20:14Speaker 19: the beginning, and they were accusing him only because they
- 20:16Speaker 19: say that when a wife has murdered, the husband is
- 20:19Speaker 19: always a suspect. They didn't have any evidence.
- 20:21Speaker 20: Then what about the gunshot powder?
- 20:23Speaker 19: They don't have any evidence now? I don't believe that stuff,
- 20:25Speaker 19: Nancy in the first place. They won't give it to us.
- 20:28Speaker 4: It won't.
- 20:29Speaker 1: I got the arrest affidavit right here.
- 20:31Speaker 19: Yeah, you've got the affidavit, but you don't have the test. Well,
- 20:34Speaker 19: we've been asking for the test. We filed emotion asking
- 20:37Speaker 19: that they give us the test. Let us independently test it.
- 20:40Speaker 19: It came from their test, came from a questionable source,
- 20:44Speaker 19: the FBIO.
- 20:45Speaker 20: You're going to say cross contamination because they haven't heard
- 20:47Speaker 20: that since Cochrane.
- 20:48Speaker 1: Said it in the AJ Simpson. Try take a listen
- 20:50Speaker 1: to what Belinda's parents tell me on hl N.
- 20:53Speaker 20: When was the first time you saw David Temple after
- 20:57Speaker 20: you learn Belinda had been murdered.
- 21:00Speaker 17: I saw David Temple at the funeral home the night
- 21:04Speaker 17: before the funeral.
- 21:07Speaker 18: Now that strikes me as very unusual that you that
- 21:10Speaker 18: he didn't come to you, or didn't did he call you? Maybe?
- 21:13Speaker 21: No?
- 21:14Speaker 1: Nothing?
- 21:14Speaker 18: How did he.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Act at the funeral?
- 21:16Speaker 21: Missus Lucas, just like any other day of the week,
- 21:21Speaker 21: I'd say, didn't seem to be sad or anything?
- 21:27Speaker 5: What was he like it?
- 21:28Speaker 4: No?
- 21:28Speaker 14: Sheare?
- 21:28Speaker 17: No tears were shed, not a tear. I never saw
- 21:31Speaker 17: tears shed David Temple has never looked us in the
- 21:35Speaker 17: eye since our daughter was married.
- 21:38Speaker 18: Excuse me, never has looked to you in the eye.
- 21:41Speaker 20: No, do you think Belinda knew he was having an
- 21:45Speaker 20: affair during the marriage.
- 21:46Speaker 17: I think she had become aware of it.
- 21:49Speaker 18: Do you think that is what led to her death?
- 21:52Speaker 17: I feel that that could have been part of the reason.
- 21:57Speaker 18: When you look at all the facts, do you think
- 22:02Speaker 18: David Temple murdered your daughter?
- 22:06Speaker 17: After looking into all the facts and reading what I've read,
- 22:10Speaker 17: I believe David Temple killed him.
- 22:12Speaker 1: I remember, after all this time has passed following Belinda's
- 22:16Speaker 1: execution style murder, an eight month pregnant woman, I was
- 22:21Speaker 1: giving a speech, I believe it was in Port Huron,
- 22:25Speaker 1: and I kept thinking that a woman there looked familiar
- 22:29Speaker 1: to me, and I didn't know why. She came up
- 22:31Speaker 1: to me after my speech. It was Belinda's sister, and
- 22:36Speaker 1: she broke down in tears. This was about over a
- 22:41Speaker 1: year ago, and I asked her did she want to
- 22:45Speaker 1: come on and talk about what was happening and focus
- 22:49Speaker 1: attention back on her sister's death, And she said, I
- 22:53Speaker 1: just don't want to hurt the trial. So we agreed
- 22:57Speaker 1: to stay silent. Now in the last hours, a stunning
- 23:02Speaker 1: break in the case Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. It
- 23:17Speaker 1: took twenty plus years, but finally there is a conviction
- 23:23Speaker 1: and a sentence for the highly popular high school football
- 23:28Speaker 1: coach David Temple, now convicted of murdering his pregnant wife.
- 23:33Speaker 1: What about the theory this was a botched robbery, Dave
- 23:36Speaker 1: Matt What if anything was taken?
- 23:38Speaker 8: There was absolutely nothing taken in it looked like a
- 23:40Speaker 8: stage crime scene.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Nancy, why do you say that?
- 23:43Speaker 2: Okay, there was a tea well.
- 23:45Speaker 8: First of all, the glass door, the door from the
- 23:47Speaker 8: garage end of the entryway. The glass was broken out,
- 23:52Speaker 8: but the glass wasn't broken like straight in.
- 23:55Speaker 2: But when they actually were doing the reenactment, they had
- 23:57Speaker 2: to open the door and then.
- 23:59Speaker 8: Break the glass for the glass to actually show up
- 24:02Speaker 8: on the floor where they found it. On top of that,
- 24:03Speaker 8: a TV was pulled off of a TV stand, but
- 24:06Speaker 8: it wasn't even unplugged, So if you're going to steal
- 24:08Speaker 8: a TV, you'd actually unhooked the cable and unplug it
- 24:11Speaker 8: from the wall. There was jewelry his you know, he
- 24:14Speaker 8: was a high school football hero and there's this big,
- 24:16Speaker 8: gaudy gold ring and a watch that was sitting right
- 24:19Speaker 8: there in the open and wasn't disturbed at all. So
- 24:22Speaker 8: if it was a robbery, those have been the first things,
- 24:24Speaker 8: you know, they would have stashed the gold lubit in
- 24:26Speaker 8: somebody's pockets. The TV would have not just been unplugged,
- 24:29Speaker 8: but it would have had the cable lee to cut
- 24:30Speaker 8: it undone, and the glass wouldn't have shown up, you know, twenty.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Feet away in the living room. It would have been
- 24:34Speaker 2: in the door in.
- 24:35Speaker 1: The entryway, and nothing was taken.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Nothing was taken.
- 24:40Speaker 1: We also know that Temple's defense team has long claimed
- 24:46Speaker 1: one ubble end as teenage student Riley j Sanders was responsible.
- 24:53Speaker 1: Dave Matt what about that?
- 24:55Speaker 8: You know, there is some suspicion about Riley Joe Sanders.
- 24:57Speaker 8: He was a sixteen year old student who had lived
- 25:01Speaker 8: near the Temples Blinda. Actually had told his parents that
- 25:05Speaker 8: he was missing a lot of school he didn't particularly
- 25:08Speaker 8: care for, and he lied to police about his whereaboats
- 25:11Speaker 8: on the day.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Of the murder.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Well, what did he tell police?
- 25:13Speaker 8: He told police that he was at school all day,
- 25:15Speaker 8: and it turned out that he actually wasn't at school.
- 25:17Speaker 2: He was actually at home smoking pot.
- 25:19Speaker 1: How could they confirm.
- 25:20Speaker 8: That that's what he actually told them?
- 25:22Speaker 1: So can they confirm it or no?
- 25:25Speaker 8: While they can only confirm the fact that the guy
- 25:27Speaker 8: told them he was at home smoking pot, but they
- 25:30Speaker 8: actually hooked him up to a polygraph and he failed
- 25:32Speaker 8: three different polygraph tests.
- 25:33Speaker 1: I could understand why he lied about not being in school. Yeah,
- 25:37Speaker 1: I mean to me, that makes sense. But what would
- 25:41Speaker 1: the he didn't steal anything, what would a potential motive
- 25:43Speaker 1: have been?
- 25:44Speaker 8: Dave Mack, Well, that was the whole point that he
- 25:47Speaker 8: was mad at Belinda because she told his parents that
- 25:50Speaker 8: he was missing a lot of school. That's the whole
- 25:52Speaker 8: grudge that they say led to him staging a robbery
- 25:56Speaker 8: and murdering her with a shotgun.
- 25:57Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, that doesn't make sense to me. Ask you
- 26:00Speaker 1: another question with that evidence, Dave Mack, regarding the student
- 26:06Speaker 1: Riley Joe Sanders, why did they elect to go out
- 26:09Speaker 1: on tim.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Because they actually didn't believe.
- 26:11Speaker 8: That Riley Joe Sanders was a viable, you know, suspect.
- 26:17Speaker 8: They just didn't believe that he did it. The prosecutor
- 26:20Speaker 8: here just did not believe she actually said. They believed
- 26:23Speaker 8: his story of sitting home smoking pot. I didn't believe
- 26:25Speaker 8: he was a murderer. They didn't believe he was out
- 26:27Speaker 8: to get Belinda at all. They just did not believe
- 26:30Speaker 8: that he was the suspect.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Wow, okay, what about the bullets to Karen Smith, forensic expert,
- 26:36Speaker 1: Beer Bud's consulting founder, what do we know about ballistics.
- 26:39Speaker 5: At this point? It's the shotgun, Nancy, So they're talking
- 26:42Speaker 5: about pellets and wadding. There was no shotgun shell found
- 26:45Speaker 5: at the scene, which means the gun was either unracked
- 26:48Speaker 5: or somebody collected it and left with it. So they're
- 26:51Speaker 5: left with very scant evidence. But it was double lot buckshot,
- 26:54Speaker 5: which is so common. It's just small pellets inside of
- 26:57Speaker 5: a shotgun shell that dispersed once the gun is fired.
- 27:01Speaker 5: That's what was used. At this point, I'm really curious
- 27:04Speaker 5: about the gunshot residue you mentioned with Vic de Garret.
- 27:07Speaker 5: What happened, what tests did they do, and where did
- 27:11Speaker 5: it come from.
- 27:11Speaker 1: There's also the issue of the dog. What about that
- 27:15Speaker 1: Dave mac oh.
- 27:15Speaker 8: The Temples had that dog who was just vicious to
- 27:19Speaker 8: everyone except for the Temples. As a matter of fact,
- 27:22Speaker 8: when David Temple went across the street and gave evan
- 27:26Speaker 8: to the neighbors and said, hey, somebody broke into my
- 27:28Speaker 8: house called nine one one.
- 27:29Speaker 2: The man of the house, I think his name was Robert.
- 27:31Speaker 8: He followed David Temple across the yard into the house.
- 27:35Speaker 8: He was trailing about twenty yards behind David Temple goes
- 27:37Speaker 8: in the house. The dog was so vicious that this neighbor, Robert,
- 27:42Speaker 8: was not allowed entry into the home by that guard dog.
- 27:45Speaker 8: On top of that, when police arrived not long after
- 27:47Speaker 8: the nine to one one call, they too were prevented
- 27:50Speaker 8: from going into the house by that guard dog, to
- 27:53Speaker 8: the point where they had pulled their service revolvers and
- 27:55Speaker 8: were prepared to shoot the dog when David came out
- 27:58Speaker 8: and called the dog down. This dog wouldn't have allowed
- 28:01Speaker 8: anybody in that.
- 28:02Speaker 1: House except the killer.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Except the killer in this case, David Temple.
- 28:06Speaker 8: Yes, he wouldn't allow anybody who didn't know in that house.
- 28:09Speaker 8: He would only allow somebody that he actually knew. We're
- 28:12Speaker 8: talking David or Belinda. Those the only two people that
- 28:14Speaker 8: would have got past that dog day.
- 28:15Speaker 1: Freg do you know anything about the gunshot residue issue?
- 28:18Speaker 2: I know that you know.
- 28:20Speaker 8: I actually heard this argument for the very first time, Nancy,
- 28:24Speaker 8: when you interviewed Dick Degarrian about it on TV, it
- 28:27Speaker 8: made me.
- 28:27Speaker 2: Look it up. It went to the FBI crime lab.
- 28:29Speaker 8: They tested David Temple's jacket and on that they found
- 28:34Speaker 8: gunshot residue on that jacket.
- 28:36Speaker 2: And that's what you guys were actually arguing about.
- 28:39Speaker 8: That was the evidence that Dupuscu desived to take to
- 28:42Speaker 8: the grand jury that they actually had physical evidence putting
- 28:45Speaker 8: David Temple in that closet with that shotgun at the
- 28:48Speaker 8: time of the murder.
- 28:49Speaker 1: And was that the jacket he was wearing the day
- 28:53Speaker 1: she was.
- 28:53Speaker 2: Murdered, according to what I saw.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Yes, wow, Wow, explain that. Break it down, Karen's that's
- 29:00Speaker 1: a big deal.
- 29:01Speaker 5: That's a huge deal. You're talking about a jacket sleeve
- 29:04Speaker 5: with gunshot residue on it. Listen, when gunshots happen, there's primer,
- 29:08Speaker 5: a primer that's what fires the projectile down the barrel.
- 29:12Speaker 5: When those primer particles are heated, they form small little
- 29:15Speaker 5: spheres of barian, lead and antimony. And those small little
- 29:18Speaker 5: spheres are the gunshot residue that FBI analysts and ballistics
- 29:22Speaker 5: analysts look at under a microscope. That are telltale signs
- 29:25Speaker 5: of gunshot residue. If that was on his sleeve, I
- 29:29Speaker 5: would want a really good explanation of how it got there.
- 29:32Speaker 5: There are transfers that can happen between different secondary transfers
- 29:37Speaker 5: from the body, secondary transfer to other things. But if
- 29:39Speaker 5: it's on the sleeve of a jacket and there's a
- 29:42Speaker 5: lot of it there, that's an explanation that needs to
- 29:45Speaker 5: happen well.
- 29:45Speaker 1: To me, if there's any there, it's very significant because
- 29:48Speaker 1: gunshot residue can be wiped off like baby powder. If
- 29:51Speaker 1: he had gunshot residue on his sleeve of his jacket,
- 29:55Speaker 1: which would be there if you shot a shotgun, that
- 29:58Speaker 1: really places him within thirty six inches of a shotgun
- 30:02Speaker 1: that day. I think it's damning. In the last days,
- 30:06Speaker 1: the popular football coach David Temple has been sentenced to
- 30:10Speaker 1: life behind bars in the murder of his pregnant wife, Belinda,
- 30:15Speaker 1: a former Stephen F. Austin State University football star twice
- 30:20Speaker 1: convicted in the deadly shooting of Belinda Lucas Temple during
- 30:25Speaker 1: what cop say was a staged burglary over twenty four
- 30:32Speaker 1: years ago. Temple gets a life sentence after a two
- 30:36Speaker 1: week sentencing trial in Houston. When he was sentenced, he
- 30:39Speaker 1: stood there emotionless while the verdict was read. His face
- 30:43Speaker 1: appeared completely devoid of any feelings or emotion. Belinda Temple's father,
- 30:49Speaker 1: Tom Lucas, was overcome with emotion after hearing the sentencing
- 30:55Speaker 1: verdict had finally been reached. It's been twenty four years,
- 31:00Speaker 1: but I will never forget the facts of this case.
- 31:03Speaker 1: A mother of one little boy, vivacious, outgoing, beautiful home,
- 31:09Speaker 1: eight months pregnant with her second child, the family, beloved
- 31:12Speaker 1: by the whole community, the dad, the popular high school
- 31:17Speaker 1: football coach. And then she's found dead. This is a
- 31:24Speaker 1: saga that started back in the nineties when Temple was
- 31:27Speaker 1: first suspected of shooting his pregnant wife. What could possibly
- 31:33Speaker 1: be a motive? A hot coworker now Todave Mattcrime online
- 31:38Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter tell me about Heather.
- 31:42Speaker 8: David Temple was having an affair on Belinda. At the time,
- 31:45Speaker 8: they told police it was a casual affairs.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Way way wait wait wait stop stop stop stop stop. No,
- 31:52Speaker 1: there is no such thing as a casual sex affair.
- 31:55Speaker 1: When you are married, that ain't casual. I mean, is
- 31:58Speaker 1: it just me, I mean Karen Start psychologist Karenstart dot com.
- 32:04Speaker 1: He says it was just casual.
- 32:06Speaker 2: I ain't.
- 32:06Speaker 1: No sex. Affair is casual when you're married.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Not just married.
- 32:11Speaker 16: His wife is pregnant, so he's expecting another child, and
- 32:18Speaker 16: he's taking the risk of having an affair with another teacher.
- 32:22Speaker 16: So it and it's somebody whom he wound up marrying.
- 32:25Speaker 16: So there's nothing casual about this as fair Nancy.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Okay, let me back to you, Dave mac this so
- 32:33Speaker 1: called casual affair. Isn't it true that David Temple married
- 32:40Speaker 1: Heather and she became Heather Temple, which means anything they
- 32:45Speaker 1: had communicated to each other could not be testified to
- 32:49Speaker 1: at trial. Hold on, let me go to Jason Ocean's
- 32:51Speaker 1: on that. You're the defense lawyer, Jason the marital privileged
- 32:54Speaker 1: host and wife privilege the wife. Let's just say, in
- 32:58Speaker 1: this circumstance, she's not the one that claims the privilege
- 33:01Speaker 1: the wife, the ex wife. Heather Temple can get up
- 33:05Speaker 1: on the stand. Then David Temple invokes the privileges, says
- 33:08Speaker 1: she can't testify to that we were married.
- 33:10Speaker 15: To bowsl immunity, I mean one of the basic tenants
- 33:13Speaker 15: of protecting the sanctity the contract of marriage, so that
- 33:20Speaker 15: disaffection perhaps couldn't collar the ability to go after your spouse.
- 33:26Speaker 15: So I think that was the original underlying basis in
- 33:30Speaker 15: the law, and it's continued in most jurisdictions all these years.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend Adam Bennett at KHO.
- 33:39Speaker 10: Heather Temple, David Temple's second wife, filed for divorce yesterday
- 33:43Speaker 10: in a Fort ben County court. The filing claims their
- 33:45Speaker 10: marriage quote has become insupportable because of discord or conflict
- 33:49Speaker 10: of personalities. Heather Temple's attorneys told Cage are you They're
- 33:52Speaker 10: aware of the divorce filing timing with the trial, but
- 33:56Speaker 10: are asking for privacy.
- 33:57Speaker 22: We're hopeful with the filing for divorceal be more candid,
- 34:00Speaker 22: more forthcoming, and certainly more factual. That's what she truly
- 34:04Speaker 22: does now.
- 34:04Speaker 10: Victim's advocate Andy Kahn, has represented Belinda Lucas Temple's family
- 34:09Speaker 10: since Belinda's murder. At that time, Heather was having an
- 34:13Speaker 10: affair with David. Heather testified during the first trial, and
- 34:17Speaker 10: she's on the list to testify at this trial.
- 34:19Speaker 1: There is a marital privilege likes.
- 34:21Speaker 19: There's attorney clin or priest penitent privilege, the privilege survives a.
- 34:27Speaker 1: Divorced What about the fact that she has now divorced him.
- 34:31Speaker 1: That doesn't change anything if there were communications during the marriage.
- 34:34Speaker 1: I mean, they got married before he was charged with murder.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Is that right, Dave Mack.
- 34:40Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
- 34:41Speaker 8: They actually got married about two years after the murder
- 34:45Speaker 8: of Belinda, and that would be five years before he
- 34:48Speaker 8: actually went on trial for murder. But the time that
- 34:52Speaker 8: we're talking about here where they were just in there
- 34:55Speaker 8: what they called a casual romance. And again I agree
- 34:57Speaker 8: with you, but that's not covered by spot privilege. The
- 35:00Speaker 8: time of the murder and the time after that does
- 35:04Speaker 8: not include. It's not covered by spousal immunity because they
- 35:07Speaker 8: were actually just boyfriend girlfriend.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. David Temple's mistress turned wife,
- 35:12Speaker 1: Heather Temple, has recently filed for divorce in the middle
- 35:16Speaker 1: of the trial. Do you think it's just coincidence or
- 35:20Speaker 1: do you think it's because what she may or may
- 35:22Speaker 1: not know out to you? Karen Stark, Well.
- 35:26Speaker 16: It's really you would think if she believed his story
- 35:32Speaker 16: that she wouldn't in the middle of this trial decide
- 35:36Speaker 16: that this is the perfect time to divorce him. So
- 35:39Speaker 16: there's something going on there, Nancy, we don't.
- 35:42Speaker 14: Know what it is.
- 35:43Speaker 1: Well, Karen start, that's certainly putting it mildly. Let's get
- 35:48Speaker 1: back to reality. Take a listen to the verdict being
- 35:52Speaker 1: read out loud in a court of law. Justice delayed
- 35:58Speaker 1: was not just is denied.
- 36:01Speaker 7: Will the jury find the defendant, David Mark Temple guilty
- 36:05Speaker 7: of murder as charged in the indictment it's signed at
- 36:09Speaker 7: the foreman of the jury.
- 36:11Speaker 1: What a moment in a court of law. Take a
- 36:13Speaker 1: listen to Belinda's brother, Brian Lucas.
- 36:16Speaker 20: Last time he.
- 36:17Speaker 6: Had ninety nine years and ten thousand dollars. Fine, I
- 36:20Speaker 6: can't see it being any different this time. I mean,
- 36:24Speaker 6: look what he did. You put a shotgun in the
- 36:26Speaker 6: back of someone would say, you got to realize that's
- 36:30Speaker 6: it's pretty heinous. I mean, just imagine. I mean, that's
- 36:34Speaker 6: not as sick as you get.
- 36:36Speaker 13: Now.
- 36:36Speaker 6: Remorse he's never had remorse. Today was more. He's tried
- 36:39Speaker 6: to day more and he hasn't it just for himself,
- 36:43Speaker 6: that's for himself, that's not for himself.
- 36:47Speaker 22: And also keep in mind the collateral damage that David
- 36:51Speaker 22: Temple has caused obviously to Belinda's family, but through Riley
- 36:54Speaker 22: Joe Sanders as well, who's forever tarnished with the stigmatized
- 37:01Speaker 22: of what this family and their supporters have done to
- 37:04Speaker 22: him and his family for twenty years that he has
- 37:08Speaker 22: to live with as well. And we appreciate him just
- 37:12Speaker 22: again being forthcoming, always willing, and he's undergone a lot
- 37:16Speaker 22: of the collateral damage by David Temple. Anyone he's come
- 37:20Speaker 22: into contact with, he is adversely affected.
- 37:23Speaker 1: You know, I'm always leery of retrials many many years
- 37:27Speaker 1: after the fact, and I've had to do them myself.
- 37:30Speaker 1: I remember I had not been at the prosecutor's office
- 37:34Speaker 1: very long when a case that went down, the murderer
- 37:38Speaker 1: of an Atlanta police officer's brother. This is before I
- 37:42Speaker 1: was even in law school. Had to put that case
- 37:44Speaker 1: back together again and retry it.
- 37:47Speaker 20: That.
- 37:47Speaker 1: It's hard to do. Evidence loss, witnesses, memories fade, It's
- 37:51Speaker 1: really hard to do. But the prosecutors in this case
- 37:55Speaker 1: hung in there. A dramatic retrial finds high school ball coach,
- 38:00Speaker 1: the superstar of the region, guilty in the murder of
- 38:05Speaker 1: his pregnant wife, all the way back in nineteen ninety
- 38:09Speaker 1: nine so he could continue his affair with his so
- 38:12Speaker 1: called hot coworker, David Temple, now convicted for shooting his
- 38:19Speaker 1: eight month pregnant wife, Belinda, in the back of the head,
- 38:24Speaker 1: killing her. You know what you can't hide from, Lady Justice.
- 38:32Speaker 1: You may run, but you can't hide. Finally, justice for
- 38:39Speaker 1: Belinda Lucas Temple and her family. Nancy Grace signing off
- 38:46Speaker 1: good night.