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it's a case as big as the state of Texas in the summer of 1976 Fort Worth was shaken by a notorious crime an ambush at
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a lavish mansion that left two people wounded and two people dead one of them was a child the case became known as the
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mansion murders fast forward 40 years I'm Jordan Kinsey and I worked on this case for this week's 48 hours from
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my bubble New York City why would I care about a case that is more than 20 years
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older than I am well with every call I made it was amazing to me that after all these years people are still talking
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about it debating what really happened that summer night so long ago and is still every bit as
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polarizing at the time oil tycoon Colin Davis and his wife Priscilla were in the
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midst of a bitter divorce Priscilla had taken up with a former basketball player
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Stan far on that night in August Priscilla and Stan came home from a night out on
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the town and walked into an ambush according to Priscilla a man dressed in black and wearing a wig shot
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her and Stan in the panic and gunfire two friends arrived at the Mansion Bubba gaval was shot and
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paralyzed and Beverly bass ran for her life police later discovered the body of Priscilla 's 12-year-old daughter Andrea
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in the basement when it was over Priscilla and Beverly both identified Cullen Davis as the man in
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Black Cullen was arrested and with an estimated worth of $500 million became one of the richest men in
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America ever tried for murder Cullen Davis denied having anything to do with a crime and hired the best lawyer money
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could buy Richard racehorse Haynes you always have uh something to work with when you have an innocent man but
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former prosecutor Jack Strickland said Cullen's Fortune at the time could not be ignored I don't think we can
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underestimate the effect that his wealth had after all these years the question still at the heart of this case is can
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money buy Justice you'll have to watch 48 hours to see how this case turned out