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Killers Amongst Us: David Temple beloved coach, murderer? (part 6) · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, welcome back to Killers amongst Us,
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Speaker 1: the production of iHeartMedia and crime online. Hot shot football
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Speaker 1: star David Temple now the prime suspect and his wife's
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Speaker 1: gruesome murderer. There's a trial, but the case is not
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Speaker 1: a slam duck for prosecutors. But why the story was
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Speaker 1: According to David Temple at the very time he was
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Speaker 1: out with his sixth son running errands that didn't need
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Speaker 1: to be run, a random burglar just happened to break
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Speaker 1: into his house and shoots Helinda Temple in the back
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Speaker 1: of the head, which is eight months pregnant, while David
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Speaker 1: Temple is having an affair with the woman he was
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Speaker 1: madly in love with. Police never found a murder weapon
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Speaker 1: a twelve gage shotgun. I Nancy Grace and this is
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Speaker 1: Killers amongst Us held His parents, Tom and Carol Lucas
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Speaker 1: suspected David after they learned he had betrayed their daughter.
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Speaker 1: Lucases did all they could to keep the case alive.
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Speaker 1: They paid for a billboard next to a busy highway,
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Speaker 1: and they took television crews to their daughter's gray but
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Speaker 1: nothing changed until November two thousand and four. More than
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Speaker 1: five years after the murder, when a case in California
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Speaker 1: taught the nation's attention. He is charged with killing his
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Speaker 1: wife Lacy. Guilty of the crime of murder. Scott Peterson
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Speaker 1: was convicted of killing his pregnant wife Lacy. Lucas saw
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Speaker 1: parallels to their case and contacted the prosecutors once again.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, I Nancy Grace. This is killers amongst us.
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Speaker 1: The mystery surrounding the murder of a beautiful, young, pregnant
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Speaker 1: mom of one, Belinda Temple seemingly subsides. Years past, the
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Speaker 1: case grows cold. Not only does Scott Peterson and Lacy
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Speaker 1: Peterson come to the forefront, but during those years something
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Speaker 1: else happens. And in the spring of two thousand and one,
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Speaker 1: two years after Belinda's murder, David Temple wed's his girlfriend, Heather.
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Speaker 1: Heather and David married in a ceremony a country club
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Speaker 1: wedding that her parents threw. Only two of his fellow
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Speaker 1: coaches showed up. A lot of them declined the reason
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Speaker 1: was that there was this cloud hanging over them from
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Speaker 1: Belinda's murder. People were still wondering had David been involved.
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Speaker 1: Over the next three years, David and Heather move on
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Speaker 1: from the violent crime and happily settle in to their
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Speaker 1: new life together. Then, in November two thousand and four,
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Speaker 1: an event takes place in California that radically changes prosecutors
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Speaker 1: understanding of Belinda's case. A jury convicts Scott Peterson of
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Speaker 1: murdering his wife, Lacy, who was eight months pregnan. The
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Speaker 1: similarities to Belinda Temple's case are striking. Scott Peterson is
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Speaker 1: convicted of doing precisely the same thing that they believe
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Speaker 1: David is done. You had women who were both pregnant
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Speaker 1: about ready to deliver children. Both Scott Peterson and David
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Speaker 1: Temple were having affairs at the time that their wives
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Speaker 1: were murdered. And suddenly it appears feasible that a jury
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Speaker 1: will believe this, that they will understand that David Temple
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Speaker 1: may have murdered his wife. Well, that's just a theory.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing so far to support a claim that David
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Speaker 1: Temple murdered his wife. David Temple going oh with his life,
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Speaker 1: marrying his lover, the mistress he had during his marriage
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Speaker 1: with Belinda Temple, but still no prosecution. This time. She
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Speaker 1: had no murder weapon to work with. You didn't have
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Speaker 1: the gun, No no incriminating fingerprints, There is no DNA
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Speaker 1: evidence and no eyewitnesses. So what did you have against him?
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Speaker 1: A story that he told that never made any sense.
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Speaker 1: What didn't make any sense about it? The story was,
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Speaker 1: according to David Temple, at the very time he was
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Speaker 1: out with his six son running errands that didn't need
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Speaker 1: to be run, a random burglar just happened to break
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Speaker 1: into his house and shoots Felinda Temple in the back
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Speaker 1: of the head when she's eight months pregnant, while David
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Speaker 1: Temple is having an affair with the woman he was
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Speaker 1: madly in love with. To Catherine Casey, joining us, author
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Speaker 1: offs shattered that dissects this case. Well, she's right, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. But that's not enough for a felony
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Speaker 1: murder prosecution. No, but there was that evidence of the
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Speaker 1: glass and the question about why the door was open,
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Speaker 1: why a burglar would break an open door, and the
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Speaker 1: timeline here was really interesting. On Friday January eighth, just
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Speaker 1: three days before Belinda's murder, Heather Scott told police that
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Speaker 1: David had said that he had totally fallen in love
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Speaker 1: with her, and that she said she felt the same way.
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Speaker 1: So it was only three days after he pledged his
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Speaker 1: loved for another woman that this happened. The likelihood that
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Speaker 1: a burglar would pick that day to break into the
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Speaker 1: house until Belinda's seemed a little off strange to be blunged. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's even more. Did gern buckle up? Was there insurance money? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: There was insurance you know, all went almost all went
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Speaker 1: to Evan, the the young boy, really because I heard
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Speaker 1: only sixty thousand of the two hundred thousand went to
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Speaker 1: a trust and that was after twisting somebody's arm. No,
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Speaker 1: that's not right. The Temple family and David sought to
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Speaker 1: have it put into trust, and part of it went
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Speaker 1: to the original attorney in the case. But that's because
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Speaker 1: from the very beginning the police were falsely accusing David.
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Speaker 1: Why did he need a defense lawyer there at the
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Speaker 1: house the night before the funeral? He lawyered up pretty fast, Dick. Well,
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Speaker 1: sure it did, because they were accusing him from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: and they were accusing him only because they say that
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Speaker 1: when a wife has murdered, the husband is always a suspect.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have any evidence. Then what about the gunshot powder?
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Speaker 1: They don't have any evidence. Now, I don't believe that
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Speaker 1: stuff Nancy in the first place. They won't give it
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Speaker 1: to us. It won't. I got arrest 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, the FBI. Are you going to say cross
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Speaker 1: contamination because they haven't bought that since they didn't have
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Speaker 1: any evidence. Then what about the gunshot powder? They don't
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Speaker 1: have any evidence. Now I don't believe that stuff Nancy
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Speaker 1: in the first place. They won't give it to us.
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Speaker 1: It won't. I got arrest affidavit right here. Yeah, you've
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Speaker 1: got the affidavit, but you don't have the test. We've
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Speaker 1: been asking for the test. We filed a motion asking
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Speaker 1: that they give us the test. Let us independently tested.
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Speaker 1: It came from their test, came from a questionable source,
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Speaker 1: the FBI. Are you going to say cross contamination because
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Speaker 1: I haven't found that since Cochrane set it in the
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Speaker 1: j census there. I'm going round and round with a
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Speaker 1: defense attorney Dick da gear In, a famous defense attorney.
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Speaker 1: To Joseph Scott Morgan forress expert, tell me about the
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Speaker 1: gunshot residue. Yeah, the gunshot residue is significant in this case, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: just as I'd mentioned that it was deposited on the clothing,
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Speaker 1: and the big question is can we trust what the
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Speaker 1: findings are relative to the suspect? To Catherine Casey, author,
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Speaker 1: I've shattered what's the problem with the findings on gunshot residue? Well,
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Speaker 1: there is this theory cross contamination, and the FBI lab
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Speaker 1: at that point was having problems with that. The clothing
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Speaker 1: was sent off to the FBI lab and they did
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Speaker 1: come back and say that they found it on the
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Speaker 1: warm up suit or winch that David wore that day
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Speaker 1: to school. I don't know, Brandy Key on seeing the
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Speaker 1: owner of the Katie Times. Ultimately, was it determined that
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Speaker 1: the gunshot residue test showing a residue on David Temple's
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Speaker 1: warm up suit was believable or not? Did was it usable? Well?
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Speaker 1: The prosecutor certainly believed that it was viable, but they
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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily believe that it was usable. Well, actually that
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Speaker 1: makes sense to Steve Lampley, detective and author. Sometimes you
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Speaker 1: have evidence that you think is very powerful, but you know,
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Speaker 1: putting it up in front of a jury is opening
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Speaker 1: a can of worms you don't want to open. And
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Speaker 1: I really believe that that gunshot residue was very powerful,
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Speaker 1: but with all the issues of cross contamination at that
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Speaker 1: particular lab, it could have caused more problems for police.
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Speaker 1: Then help them as you could have you and you're
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Speaker 1: looking at potentially bringing in the FBI experts from the
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Speaker 1: lab to explain how they processed it him. And given
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Speaker 1: the fact that they were having issues with cross contamination
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Speaker 1: during that period of time, you're opening up a lot
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Speaker 1: of the figure, opening up a lot of gray areas.
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Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes you've got powerful evidence, but it's not
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Speaker 1: worth the damage it can do to a case to
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Speaker 1: bring it in. So Brandy Keyon seen the owner of
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Speaker 1: the Katie Times. Is it true that David Temple the
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Speaker 1: night before Belinda's funeral gets a defense lawyer? He does
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Speaker 1: a defense lawyer. He actually got a defense lawyer as
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Speaker 1: soon as he left the police station. He immediately went
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Speaker 1: out and got one Wow, what can you tell me
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Speaker 1: about that? Catherine Casey, Well, you know it was an
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Speaker 1: odd interview seen that night. They did it at one
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Speaker 1: of the substations, and the family half the family show
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Speaker 1: it up there and everybody rallied around David. And yes,
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Speaker 1: by the time David walked out of the substation, they
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Speaker 1: had already put in a call Towood defense attorney. Wow,
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Speaker 1: you know, because to Joseph Scott Morgan, I would think
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Speaker 1: that a loving husband would do anything to help find
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Speaker 1: his wife's killer, not run out and get a defense lawyer. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you would think that, Nancy. But sometimes when you're staring
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Speaker 1: down the staring down a detective on the other side
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Speaker 1: of the table, it gives you pause, just for a second.
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Speaker 1: Are they looking at me? Is this guy bright enough
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Speaker 1: to assess that at that moment time or was he
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Speaker 1: attempting to hide something that would you know? Otherwise you know,
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Speaker 1: thwart what the police are trying to do. It's real
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Speaker 1: hard to ascertain that questions swirling. Police doing everything they can,
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Speaker 1: building a timeline, canvassing the neighborhood, going door to door,
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Speaker 1: bringing in crime scene tech experts, pulling surveillance video. To
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Speaker 1: Catherine Casey, another issue is the insurance money. You just
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Speaker 1: heard me going around and round with Dick Degeron, And
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Speaker 1: that's no easy feat about insurance money. Insurance money on
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Speaker 1: Belinda Temple's life. Now, ultimately some of that may have
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Speaker 1: been put into trust, but the reality is Temple knew
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Speaker 1: about it, and he would have control of the money. Well,
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Speaker 1: he did know, and he would have control. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that money would have been a primary motive, but
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Speaker 1: certainly it could have been a factor. He did go
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Speaker 1: out after Belinda was murdered, and he bought himself a
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Speaker 1: new truck, and people noticed that went out and bought
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Speaker 1: a new truck. That doesn't look good. Catherine Casey, I mean,
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Speaker 1: maybe I'm just projecting, but after the murder of my fiance,
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Speaker 1: just before our wedding, I couldn't even eat. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: even think much. Let's go out and buy a new car.
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Speaker 1: There was a lot of odd behavior. Neighbors saw David
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Speaker 1: and his brothers throwing a football around, kind of tossing
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Speaker 1: it back and forth on the front lawn of the
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Speaker 1: house where Belinda died two days after the killing, and
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Speaker 1: people at school saw Heather and David kind of having
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Speaker 1: little Tata tag and talking in the hallways at school.
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Speaker 1: Very quickly after David sent Heather flowers for Valentine's Day,
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Speaker 1: a month after his wife had been murdered. Okay, just
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Speaker 1: stop everything right there, Jesse Scott Morgan, did you hear that? Yes?
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Speaker 1: I do, Nancy, Yes I do. It doesn't exactly sound
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Speaker 1: like a grieving husband, does it, that you would go
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Speaker 1: have your way. Your wife is not even cold in
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Speaker 1: the ground at this point metaphorically speaking of course, and
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Speaker 1: you go out and you buy somebody flowers. Give me
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Speaker 1: a break. And it hasn't even been a month. To
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Speaker 1: Catherine Casey, who was taking care of the baby at
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Speaker 1: this time, Evan. David and Evan had moved into his parents'
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Speaker 1: house and they were helping out with Evan, and Evan
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Speaker 1: was back at daycare. He was back at Typerland Daycare,
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Speaker 1: where he'd been the day of the murder. I guess
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Speaker 1: that gives David Temple plenty of time to woo his girlfriend.
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Speaker 1: There was a big dichonomy about Heather Scott Listen. Temple's
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Speaker 1: defense team says Temple did not kill his wife, and
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Speaker 1: his affair with Scott wouldn't have been reason to kill
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Speaker 1: anyway because their relationship wasn't serious. Well, Temple is claiming
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Speaker 1: he and Heather Scott were not quote serious. Well, he's
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Speaker 1: sleeping with her every chance he can get. He gives
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Speaker 1: her flowers and jewelry. She says she doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: live this way anymore. He says, you don't have to.
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Speaker 1: And then just two years after his wife is murdered,
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Speaker 1: they get married. That sounds pretty serious to me. Catherine, Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, it sounded pretty serious, I think to everybody.
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Speaker 1: It's really hard in the court. Well that the idea
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Speaker 1: that they weren't serious just didn't play out. They married,
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Speaker 1: she became Evan's mother. They had a life together, and
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Speaker 1: that Christmas before Belinda's death, he bought head a gold
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Speaker 1: necklace for Christmas, and Belinda mentioned to a couple of
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Speaker 1: people that he bought her nothing, that she had no gift. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, their contention that this wasn't serious relationship just
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Speaker 1: didn't play well for investigators. What is the state's theory
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Speaker 1: a story that he told that never made any sense?
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Speaker 1: What didn't make any sense of that? The story was,
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Speaker 1: according to David Temple, at the very time he was
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Speaker 1: out with his six son running errands that didn't need
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Speaker 1: to be run, a random burglar just happened to break
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Speaker 1: into his house and shoots Belinda Temple in the back
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Speaker 1: of the head, which is eight months pregnant, while David
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Speaker 1: Temple is having an affair with the woman he was
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Speaker 1: madly in love with. She believes Belinda Temple was killed
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Speaker 1: around four pm, about a half hour before David was
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Speaker 1: seen by those surveillance came at the stores one Splinda
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Speaker 1: was dead, Siegler says, Temple went right to work and
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Speaker 1: cocting his alibi, David Temple made a sweep for the
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Speaker 1: house and made an attempt to make the house look
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Speaker 1: I could have been viglarized. He broke the glass in
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Speaker 1: the back door, and then he took evan to try
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Speaker 1: and get himself on videotape to alibi himself as quickly
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Speaker 1: as he could. To Catherine Casey, author of Shattered, how
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Speaker 1: does the investigation affect the marriage between David Temple and
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend turned wife. Well, there's got to be a
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Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the marriage at that point. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're they're looking at a trial looming ahead there. You know,
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Speaker 1: people are looking at them wondering what David did here.
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Speaker 1: They've started this life there, They've joined the church in
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Speaker 1: the area. They're projecting his image of his perfect young
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Speaker 1: couple with their son. But you know, those rumors and
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Speaker 1: the gossip about David's previous wife about the lane never
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Speaker 1: really left him. Take a listen to what Belinda's parents
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Speaker 1: tell me. When was the first time you saw David
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Speaker 1: Temple after you learned Belinda had been murdered. I saw
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Speaker 1: David Temple at the funeral home the night before the funeral.
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Speaker 1: Now that strikes me as very unusual. That you that
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Speaker 1: he didn't come to you, or didn't did he call you? Maybe? No? Nothing?
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Speaker 1: How did he act at the funeral? Missus Lucas, just
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Speaker 1: like any other day of the week, I'd say, didn't
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Speaker 1: seem to be sad or anything. What was he like?
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Speaker 1: No tears were shed? Not a tear. I never saw
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Speaker 1: a tears shed. David Temple has never looked us in
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Speaker 1: the eye since our daughter was married, her murdered. Excuse me,
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Speaker 1: never has looked you in the eye. No. Do you
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Speaker 1: think Belinda knew he was having an affair during the marriage.
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Speaker 1: I think she had become aware of it. Do you
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Speaker 1: think that is what led to her death? I feel
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Speaker 1: that that could have been part of the reason. When
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Speaker 1: you look at all the facts. Do you think David
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Speaker 1: Temple murdered your daughter? After looking into all the facts
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Speaker 1: and reading what I've read, I believe David Temple killed
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Speaker 1: You can hear the parents voices just heavy with pain.
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Speaker 1: And maybe I'm projecting, but I remember at the murder
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Speaker 1: trial when my fiancee Keith had been murdered. When I
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Speaker 1: got down off the witness stand and was walking out,
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Speaker 1: I looked right at the defendant because I had never
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Speaker 1: seen him before, and he could not look me in
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Speaker 1: the eye. He looked down at his lap. Then I
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Speaker 1: looked at Alla's defense lawyers sitting all around him. They
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Speaker 1: do the same thing. They all looked down like they
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Speaker 1: were suddenly reading something. And I'm listening to what Blenda's parents.
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Speaker 1: Parents are telling me that even at the funeral, Temple
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Speaker 1: did not speak to them and would not look them
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Speaker 1: in the eye. Now, that's before he was ever under suspicion.
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Speaker 1: That was before he was arrested. This was just days
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Speaker 1: after the death. I mean, Brandy key on Sen, the
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Speaker 1: owner of the Katie Times. What does that tell you, Well,
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Speaker 1: it tells me that he might have very well had
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Speaker 1: something to hide. What about it, Catherine? I think I
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Speaker 1: think it's an indication of feeling guilty, of feeling that
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Speaker 1: to look him in the eye might have revealed too much.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's been said Katherine Casey, author, I've shattered
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Speaker 1: that no one ever said no to David Temple. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, he was a football star. He was a
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Speaker 1: big shot in Katie, Texas where where football has got,
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Speaker 1: where football is king, and he was indulged as a child.
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Speaker 1: So I think that's a fair statement. What about it,
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Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan, do you think that in this context
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Speaker 1: this guy was, you know, the king of the county
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Speaker 1: in this area. He had always been given everything and
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Speaker 1: anything that he wanted. Big football star, college football star,
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Speaker 1: and he just felt like he could do anything that
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Speaker 1: he wanted. I think Kelly Signer, you know, she sniffed
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Speaker 1: this out. She understood that this guy was narcissistic enough
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Speaker 1: to believe that he could actually get away with murder.
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Speaker 1: Police never found the murder weapon, a twelve gage shotgun,
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Speaker 1: but during trial, prosecutors finally find a witness who could
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Speaker 1: corroborate that David Temple had access to such a gun.
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Speaker 1: A friend of the family who used to hunt with
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Speaker 1: the Temple boys came forward and he said that he
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Speaker 1: remembered the shotguns that they had used to hunt with,
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Speaker 1: the ones that the three brothers had, and that they
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Speaker 1: were all twelve gage shotguns. This testimony was incredibly important
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Speaker 1: because it was the first time that the prosecutors had
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Speaker 1: been able to put at twelve gage shotgun in David
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Speaker 1: Temple's hands. To this day, the murder weapon has never
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Speaker 1: been found, but in court, prosecutors theorized that David Temple
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Speaker 1: disposed of it the afternoon of the murder while he
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Speaker 1: was out running errands. David was seen by a high
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Speaker 1: school friend that afternoon at about five o'clock in his
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Speaker 1: pickup truck. But the really interesting thing was that it
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Speaker 1: was north, farther north than he was supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: David was seen in an area that surrounded by rice fields.
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Speaker 1: Why is he going to where all the ross fields
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Speaker 1: and canals are you? Now, we always believe that he
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Speaker 1: went there to get rid of the shotgun. Our friends
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Speaker 1: from Scorn, that's Nicole Blackman, Catherine Casey, What can you
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Speaker 1: tell me about this rice field or rice fields all
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Speaker 1: around David Temple's childhood home and he was seen in
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Speaker 1: that area when he wasn't supposed to be there the
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Speaker 1: day of the murder, So there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: the police officers and those investigating the case. At the time,
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Speaker 1: the shotgun was integral, The murder weapon was a big deal.
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Speaker 1: The prosecutors were demanding it to go forward at that time,
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Speaker 1: and so they spent many, many days searching those righteous
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Speaker 1: fields trying to find that shotgun. They looked down well,
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Speaker 1: they looked at ditches, they did everything they could, but
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Speaker 1: they were never able to find it. Just got Morgan.
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Speaker 1: Is it fatal to a prosecution not to have the
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Speaker 1: murder weapon. I don't know that it's necessarily fatal, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: but you gotta admit you've spent enough time and from
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Speaker 1: juries juries want to see the weapon. I think that
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Speaker 1: it can be very damaging to a case to be
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Speaker 1: absent that. So it's a real tough, uphill battle for
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Speaker 1: the prosecution. The case goes to trial with or without
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Speaker 1: a murder weapon. Listen to this. David Temple did not
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Speaker 1: kill his wife, Belinda Temple, and the evidence will show
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Speaker 1: you that he did not. It's true that David had
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Speaker 1: an affair, that doesn't make him a murderer. Not only
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Speaker 1: did Temple cheat on his wife, but a year and
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Speaker 1: a half after Belinda was killed, he married Heather Scott,
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Speaker 1: his one time mistress. She was the reason why David
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Speaker 1: Temple finally made up his mind to end his marriage
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Speaker 1: with Belinda by executing her. It doesn't look good, and
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Speaker 1: that's what the prosecutor harped on all during the trial.
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Speaker 1: Siegler actually called Heather to the stand. We weren't allowed
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Speaker 1: to record the witnesses audio, but the former mistress downplayed
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Speaker 1: the affair. That was just so come on, so contrived.
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Speaker 1: Nobody in the courtroom bought that. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: David Temple and Heather Scott, his new wife, we're having
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Speaker 1: troubles of their own. The spokesperson for the victim's family
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Speaker 1: called this latest twist studying, But our legal analysts suggests
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Speaker 1: that how important this new information ends up being really
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Speaker 1: depends on what ends up getting said on the witness stand.
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Speaker 1: There is only one person, as in a criminal case
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Speaker 1: that's already seen plenty of twists. The second betrayal is
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Speaker 1: law enforcements betrayal of us. Now another one, and certainly
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Speaker 1: yesterday was quite a stunning surprise to everybody. Heather Temple,
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Speaker 1: David Temple's second wife filed for divorce yesterday in a
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Speaker 1: Fort Been County court. The filing claims their marriage quote
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Speaker 1: has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.
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Speaker 1: Heather Temple's attorneys told kh are you they're aware of
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Speaker 1: the divorce filing timing with the trial, but are asking
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Speaker 1: for privacy. We're hopeful that with the filing for divorce
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Speaker 1: shall be more candid, more forthcoming, and certainly more factual.
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Speaker 1: That's what she truly does now. Victim's advocate Andy Kahan,
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Speaker 1: has represented Belinda Lucas Temple's family since Belinda's murder. At
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Speaker 1: that time, Heather was having an affair with David Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's who he hou reporter Adam Bennett. So in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the trial, Katherine Casey, the second wife, after
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Speaker 1: all that, files for divorce. She did, and it was stunning.
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Speaker 1: The gossip mills were going crazy that day. People were
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Speaker 1: wondering if this would affect what she'd say once she
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Speaker 1: got under the stand. But the reality is it's not
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Speaker 1: her privilege to advance. In other words, if she tried
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Speaker 1: to testify about knowledge regarding Belinda's murder, it's David Temple
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Speaker 1: who invokes the privilege to stop her from testifying to
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Speaker 1: anything that occurred or was said during their marriage. Did
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Speaker 1: it change her testimony, Catherine, No, it didn't at all.
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Speaker 1: What had happened between the two of them during Belinda's
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Speaker 1: death was actually prior to their marriage, so it wasn't
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Speaker 1: covered under that protection. And she testified just as she
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Speaker 1: was expected to at the trial, which was what that
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Speaker 1: they had this affair and that she was in love
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Speaker 1: with it. She told David she was in love with him,
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Speaker 1: and he said he was in love with her. She
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Speaker 1: claimed that he had never told her that he had murdered,
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Speaker 1: you know, his wife that you know, she saw that
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Speaker 1: she didn't see the affair at the time as you know,
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Speaker 1: a motive for anything. She didn't suspect that he had
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Speaker 1: murdered Belinda. Take a listen to KPRC two Brandon Walker.
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Speaker 1: In a case that's all about competing timelines. Heather Scott
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Speaker 1: Temple's testimony is key for the prosecution because it confirms
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Speaker 1: that David Temple was unfaithful to a pregnant Melenda Temple
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Speaker 1: in the months leading to her death. So, thus, for George,
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Speaker 1: their establishing cause, maybe Temple killed his pregnant wife because
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Speaker 1: he no longer wanted to be married. Maybe he didn't
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Speaker 1: want a second child. David Temple sat and listened as
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Speaker 1: the woman who no longer wants to be his missus
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Speaker 1: testified for the prosecution. In the fall of nineteen ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: Then Heather Scott and David Temple began an extramarital affair.
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Speaker 1: Scott was a teacher, where Temple coached football and emailed
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Speaker 1: exchanges admitted into evidence. Pieced together a courtship starting with
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Speaker 1: happy hours, although the two would soon become intimate. Did
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Speaker 1: you notice that he kind of came and went as
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Speaker 1: he wanted, asked the prosecution. I mean, I guess Scott.
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Speaker 1: Temple said, I can't really speak to that relationship, referring
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Speaker 1: to Temple's marriage. David Temple made a sweep through the
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Speaker 1: house and made an attempt to make the house look
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Speaker 1: like it had been burglarized. He broke the glass in
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Speaker 1: the back door, and then he took Evan and went
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Speaker 1: to some places there in Katie to try and get
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Speaker 1: himself on videotape to alibi himself as quickly as he could.
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Speaker 1: That plan failed, she says, when a witness who went
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Speaker 1: to the same high school as Temple said he saw
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Speaker 1: him driving about a mile off the route. Temple said
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Speaker 1: he drove that day but close to these rice fields. Well,
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Speaker 1: what do you think he was doing out there? I
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Speaker 1: think that's where I went to get rid of the shotgun.
27:05
Speaker 1: But you never found the shotgun? Do you know? Me?
27:07
Speaker 1: Rospills or are in Katie, Texas and creeks and ponds.
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Speaker 1: That lack of a murder weapon hurts at trial and
27:15
Speaker 1: then comes evidence. Regarding an interview, dejectives also talked to
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Speaker 1: Daniel Glasscock, the man who gave to Garren that videotaped statement.
27:25
Speaker 1: The good goal was talking to mister Glasscock. Bring mister
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Speaker 1: Glasscott down. After five hours of talking, Glasscock wavered on
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Speaker 1: a lot of the details. Gard tell me, do not
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Speaker 1: see this? Do I say that? But I just feel
27:49
Speaker 1: like when I heard that that witness is not only recanted,
27:54
Speaker 1: but that witness admitted that Digny Garron was the person
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Speaker 1: who fed him the d tales of the murder case.
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Speaker 1: I was pretty disgusted. To Catherine Casey, author of Shattered,
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Speaker 1: who was in the courtroom. What was David Temple's demeanor
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Speaker 1: in court? And did he take the stand He did
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Speaker 1: take the stand, and Kelly Siegler was able to cross
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Speaker 1: examine him, and he actually did very well during his testimony.
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Speaker 1: He held up pretty well. She went after him, especially
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Speaker 1: about the timeline. In his original statement he said that
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Speaker 1: Belinda got home at three forty five. That statement was
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Speaker 1: given the night of the murder. On the stand, he
28:33
Speaker 1: pushed it back and he said she got home closer
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Speaker 1: to four o'clock, which would have, of course tightened the
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Speaker 1: timeline and made it less likely that he could have
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Speaker 1: murdered Belinda. At any time did you see David Temple
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Speaker 1: break down in tears, show any emotion when the photos,
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Speaker 1: the death photos of his wife were shown, or even
28:54
Speaker 1: when the medical examiner took the stand. You know, the
28:56
Speaker 1: only time I saw David Temple cry was the playing
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Speaker 1: of the nine one one call, when his own voice
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Speaker 1: was ringing through the courtroom and founding off those walls.
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Speaker 1: Then he was practically sobbing. But the rest of the
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Speaker 1: time he would look around the courtroom, stare at the
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Speaker 1: person on the stand, or a look down at the
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Speaker 1: legal pad where he would write suggestions for Dick to garn.
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Speaker 1: So let me understand this, Steve Lampley, detective and author
29:26
Speaker 1: outside your door. He only breaks down when he hears
29:30
Speaker 1: his own voice. He cries about himself, Nancy. He obviously
29:35
Speaker 1: had no remorse, and that's my concinition all along. And
29:38
Speaker 1: he had no remorse. He had a purpose. He wanted
29:41
Speaker 1: her dead so he could have this relationship with his
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Speaker 1: other woman. And yeah, I mean he for whatever reason
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Speaker 1: he cried on his own voice, but certainly not for Listen,
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Speaker 1: somebody's broken into my my wife. I just wrapped in
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Speaker 1: my wife. I've been shot. It's got blood everywhere. Okay, sir,
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Speaker 1: is she breathing? Her brain is on the floor. I
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Speaker 1: think she's already did. She's eight much brains did Okay?
30:11
Speaker 1: We got a baby though, right, okay, okay, but I
30:15
Speaker 1: don't know how to do CPR. Yeah, okay, I want
30:18
Speaker 1: you to do CPR for that baby. Okay, okay, Yeah,
30:22
Speaker 1: let's do Are you doing CPR for me? She's gone? Okay, Well,
30:25
Speaker 1: let's see if we can use her okay for the baby.
30:31
Speaker 1: Is there any way that you can do this? This
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Speaker 1: is no way. She's got a brain and his bloody
30:37
Speaker 1: is covered on the floor. Well, the jury find the defendant,
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Speaker 1: David Mark Temple, guilty, of murder as charged in the indictment.
30:44
Speaker 1: At the end of the jury trial, David Temple found guilty,
30:50
Speaker 1: but doubts persist. The reality is Catherine Casey as overjoyed
30:57
Speaker 1: as Belinda's parents were at the origin guilty verdict that
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Speaker 1: case was reversed. Why well, you know, there there were
31:07
Speaker 1: allegations made by the defense team that evidence wasn't given
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Speaker 1: over as it should have been during discovery before the
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Speaker 1: trial started, and that dictor Geron was kind of you know,
31:19
Speaker 1: taken off balance because of it. It was because of
31:23
Speaker 1: the rule in the Harris County DA's office at the
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Speaker 1: time that the defense attorneys weren't entitled two like witness
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Speaker 1: statements until the witness testified. I think it was a
31:35
Speaker 1: bad policy. And the appeals court decided that the defense
31:41
Speaker 1: claims were right and they ruled in favor and they
31:44
Speaker 1: set aside the verdict, and that meant that it went
31:48
Speaker 1: back to the prosecutor's office here in Harris County and
31:51
Speaker 1: they had to decide whether or not to follow through
31:54
Speaker 1: with a second trial. You know, Brandy Keion seen the
31:56
Speaker 1: owner of the Katie Times. It's so easy for prosecutor
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Speaker 1: to just try to take a cheap plea or to quote,
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Speaker 1: lose a case when there has been a reversal. But
32:08
Speaker 1: that is not what local prosecutors did. Did they take
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Speaker 1: the case back to trial, They absolutely did. They did
32:16
Speaker 1: that and it lasted several weeks, and they just they
32:21
Speaker 1: were determined to make sure that they got a conviction
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Speaker 1: a second time. Because of the claims that ended up
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Speaker 1: reversing the original trial, Local prosecutors handed the case over
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Speaker 1: to the Attorney General to try to Catherine Casey, did
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Speaker 1: you see any change in strategy second time around? You know,
32:40
Speaker 1: the case was basically the same, except mare was brought
32:43
Speaker 1: in about Briley, Joe Sanders, the neighborhood kids. The defense
32:48
Speaker 1: team used a lot of that information throughout the trial
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Speaker 1: to try to set up this scenario of another viable suspect.
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Speaker 1: The second jury trial of David Temple was us as
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Speaker 1: hard fall. Take a listen to this our friends at CBS.
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Speaker 1: We the jury find the defendant, David Mark Temple, guilty
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Speaker 1: of murder as charged in the indictment for the second time.
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Speaker 1: David Temple is convicted of killing his pregnant wife back
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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety nine. Belinda was eight months pregnant when
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Speaker 1: she was shot in the back of her head in
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Speaker 1: her closet and Katie. Investigators soon learned her husband, a
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Speaker 1: high school football coach, had been having an affair with
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Speaker 1: a fellow teacher. The phone call I get that night
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Speaker 1: at time nis to nine on Monday night at January eleventh,
33:32
Speaker 1: I said he was guilty. Then twenty and a half
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Speaker 1: years later, David Temple was still guilty. Belinda's brother, Brian
33:38
Speaker 1: says he never lost hope even after Temple's first conviction
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Speaker 1: was thrown out. He says justice may have been delayed,
33:45
Speaker 1: but today it was finally served again. This day's about Belinda.
33:50
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with David Temple. Yet even
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Speaker 1: after a second guilty verdict, David Temple manages to get
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Speaker 1: a bond hearing. Now that sent shot waves through the community.
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Speaker 1: Catherine Casey, When this guy twice convicted of his wife's
34:08
Speaker 1: a murderer gets a bond hearing, and then letters are
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Speaker 1: read in court about how great David Tipple is, But
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Speaker 1: they were countered by letters from the victim's father and
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Speaker 1: the community. What happened at the bond hearing, Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: I've never seen this happen before. But the jury came
34:26
Speaker 1: back with their guilty verdict, and then there was a
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Speaker 1: mistrial on the sentence thing Judge. Severe violence has already
34:34
Speaker 1: been done to most, which is underlined of our conscience
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Speaker 1: to even get this far. We believe it is a
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Speaker 1: total fluke, a one in a thousand chance that this
34:45
Speaker 1: group of jears was assembled. We know the price of
34:50
Speaker 1: we know the price a mistrial carries. We know it
34:54
Speaker 1: will put families through weeks of hell again. But for
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Speaker 1: the sentence we can in our will to accept it.
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Speaker 1: It is worth it. We believe any other jury assembled
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Speaker 1: could do this job properly and deliver the proper or
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Speaker 1: even a reasonable sentence. Two jars are not willing to
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Speaker 1: budge at all. There is nothing more we can do.
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Speaker 1: It is best for our all, It is best for
35:18
Speaker 1: all families involved, as well as society to give someone
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Speaker 1: else a try. We will keep deliberating until you tell
35:27
Speaker 1: us otherwise. And that signed the foreman. So David Temple
35:33
Speaker 1: was not going to be sentenced for another eight months,
35:37
Speaker 1: and during that time under Texas law, he was actually
35:41
Speaker 1: eligible for our bond. So they were looking at putting
35:44
Speaker 1: someone who had just been convicted of murder out back
35:47
Speaker 1: on the streets to Harris County again and people were upset.
35:52
Speaker 1: This was, you know, a major disappointment for the family
35:57
Speaker 1: and for everybody involved. The bond hearing of the defense
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Speaker 1: brought in witnesses who testified that they didn't still didn't
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Speaker 1: believe that David was guilty and that he was just
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Speaker 1: this great guy and that he ought to be given
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Speaker 1: a bond. His brother, older brother, got on the stand
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Speaker 1: and said that he would be willing to put up
36:18
Speaker 1: some money toward a bond. The judge was in the
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Speaker 1: position where she had a defendant who'd been convicted of murder,
36:25
Speaker 1: but he was entitled to a bond, and then the
36:28
Speaker 1: prosecutor got up and said, this has changed. This is
36:32
Speaker 1: no longer a defendant who's been you know, indicted for
36:38
Speaker 1: a murder. This is a convicted killer. And you know,
36:42
Speaker 1: she argued that therefore this bond had to be high.
36:47
Speaker 1: The judge came back and agreed with the prosecution and
36:50
Speaker 1: set the bond at one million dollars. So once again
36:54
Speaker 1: the family is left hanging high and dry. You know,
36:58
Speaker 1: I'm always leary of retrials many many years after the fact,
37:03
Speaker 1: and I've had to do them myself. I remember I
37:07
Speaker 1: had not been at the prosecutor's office very long when
37:10
Speaker 1: a case that went down, the murderer of and Atlanta
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Speaker 1: police officers a brother, which is before I was even
37:17
Speaker 1: in law school. Had to put that case back together
37:20
Speaker 1: again and retry it. That is hard to do. Evidence loss, witnesses,
37:25
Speaker 1: memories fade. It's really hard to do. But the prosecutors
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Speaker 1: in this case hung in there. A dramatic retrial finds
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Speaker 1: high school football coach, the superstar of the region, guilty
37:39
Speaker 1: in the murder of his pregnant wife all the way
37:42
Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety nine so he could continue his
37:46
Speaker 1: affair with his so called hot coworker, David Temple, now
37:53
Speaker 1: convicted for shooting his eight month pregnant wife, Belinda, in
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Speaker 1: the back of the head, killing her. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at ABC. It was you could heard
38:05
Speaker 1: a pen drop, just a never ending nightmare. I was
38:09
Speaker 1: dumbfound that was the last thing I expected. Evan may
38:14
Speaker 1: have touched them. The fact that the jury became aware
38:18
Speaker 1: he had already served ten years had to have had
38:21
Speaker 1: an impact. I know that two people were at probation.
38:25
Speaker 1: There were six in the middle of thirty to forty
38:29
Speaker 1: years and then for want of life. Twice convicted, still unsentenced.
38:35
Speaker 1: I don't understand that he's still convicted and an entirely
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Speaker 1: new jury is now going to be been to evaluate
38:44
Speaker 1: what punishment he should get. There is no if fans
38:48
Speaker 1: or butts. David Temple is a cold blooded, diabolical murder
38:53
Speaker 1: who deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.
38:56
Speaker 1: His family can visit him. Belinda's family has to visit
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Speaker 1: her in a grave no matter what the sentence is
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Speaker 1: from David Temple. His son Evan, whether he knows it
39:10
Speaker 1: or not, got life. Still no justice for Belinda Temple,
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Killers amongst us, signing off goodbye friend,