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foreign of mine introduced us all I knew was that he was in real estate David was nice
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very Charming easy to get along with we've always had a good time he had a lot of ambition a lot of good
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ideas David is the kind of person that makes people feel good he could sell you just about anything he
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could sell a screen door to submarine just how he was Tracy it was the new girlfriend she
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really wanted to take over so she was going to be in charge that was her mode of operation Donna she was his ex-wife
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it was weird I liked him in his personality if he had a son that didn't matter to me
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Tracy was nice just about everything was good at the beginning [Music] well I started finding out stuff he
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gambled like crazy David owed everybody money very paranoid taped everything prostitutes call girls
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David left with cash he had twenty five thousand dollars with him this was a pretty brutal crime just cold
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calculated murder he was shot and burned the parking lot he had been wrapped in what appeared to be an electric blanket
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and then outside of that was what appeared to be a blue plastic tarp if you're going to kill somebody you
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would do it for a reason David and Donna didn't get along she had a half a million reasons Donna
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has gained everything she wanted the house [Music] the only one who had anything against
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them really somebody's lying if I wasn't walking in my shoes I wouldn't believe somebody telling me a
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story secrets and lies on Grapevine Lake [Music] [Music] it was the middle of the night when
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forensic death investigator John Briggs got the call to report to the scene of a
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homicide as soon as you get out of the vehicle you can smell a burning odor [Music]
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the body was wrapped in several items that had burned during the fire but were not totally consumed
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there was the remains of a blue plastic camping tarp then around all that was rope the body
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was still smoldering as Briggs carefully rolled it over hoping to identify the victim I could not even tell if it was a
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male or a female but based upon the face I knew it was a Caucasian person when police first arrived at this crime
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scene in Grand Prairie Texas in April of 2002 the intensity from the fire had damaged the body to such a degree that
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crime scene investigators had to spend hours delicately recovering The Remains the police found tire tracks and some
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Fiber materials but Little Else by way of evidence the medical examiner determined the
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victim was a man in his 40s killed by a single gunshot wound to the heart but his identity was a mystery
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dental records would later confirm the victim as 40-year-old David Nixon a successful realtor from nearby
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Grapevine Texas I knew the second he never called me back because he would never not call me back
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to do something that happened fourteen-year-old Nicholas is David Nixon's son what's your favorite picture
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where was this is in Steamboat we're snowmobiles had a great smile here Dad [Music]
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idolized his father a bear of a man at 6'4 240 pounds trustworthy Dependable protective anybody who knew him knew
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that he would do just about anything for anybody everyone that knew him well just
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talked about how much he loved you he was always bragging about something I did come on Nicholas's mother Donna lella is
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David Nixon's first wife they married in 1990. years later she still has fond memories
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Charming vivacious and full of life and you never know what you're gonna get love surprises love surprises love
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surprises Nicholas their only child was born the following year anything for Nicholas
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crazy about him David soon found success selling real estate becoming a top agent eventually
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brokering million dollar deals on high-end properties in the affluent suburbs north of Dallas he hardly ever
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slept it was bigger and better faster it was always a race it was always about competition
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their marriage ended badly in 1995 after David had an affair with flight attendant Lisa Hill
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they married and divorced within two years [Music] single for long before his divorce was final he met
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another woman an attractive 27 year old accountant named Tracy frame it was nice very Charming
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easy to get along with very smooth I wasn't interested in dating right then but he was pretty persistent and
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convincing so David and Tracy soon started living together in this house in Grapevine
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they lived extravagantly often taking ocean cruises together the trips were amazing did he have a taste for the
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Finer Things in life absolutely he always wanted to have the best of the best Drive Alexis Mercedes they live
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beyond his means yes [Music] at home David and Tracy were fixtures in the social scene at Grapevine Lake
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everybody out there and he you know it was it was great that lake is a Peyton Place I'm telling you right now
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it was amazing to see who woke up with who in the mornings Jerry Val knows that scene very well everybody knew everybody
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and uh there were a lot of really good times a lot of fun times Tracy and I just became friends
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Tracy was especially popular among men good looking one of the most attractive women out there I would say
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some people didn't like her maybe because she was that good looking but Tracy only had eyes for David the
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beginning when I first met him they loved each other they were spending time together they enjoyed doing things
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together but their relationship was volatile most the time they were a lot of fun to be around but boy when they
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argued you just wanted to get away from it and longest arguments were over finances
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and David's gambling debts so the money was going out faster than it was coming in absolutely I hoped that things would
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get better and it just didn't in fact the arguing got worse it was cats and dogs every time we saw each
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other there were a lot more Angry Words than they were happy sometimes it got rough did he batter you no not on a
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regular basis absolutely not not on a regular basis did he ever batter you we got in some shoving matches but I
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wouldn't say that's battering in the spring of 2002 after almost four years together
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it was over and so you said we're done yeah I told him that this isn't what I wanted
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and you know we should probably think about going our own ways but going their separate ways would be
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complicated David reportedly owed more than a hundred thousand dollars in back taxes
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to the IRS to protect his property he had the house put in Tracy's name you wanted full
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ownership of the house well I had full ownership of the house can I get an officer to come through uh
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my house David disagreed arguments over ownership of the house escalated on April 9th when he called
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the police David Nixon he was livid that Tracy had changed the locks to the house she has
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now locked me out of my own house I'm sitting out here in the driveway with nobody here and I'm locked out okay our
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house and it's my stuff and I want to know my life and I will get someone out there and they can explain that all to
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you okay the police helped settle that argument so after that domestic disturbance call
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on April the 9th things were civil between the two of you I wouldn't say civil it was business
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I wasn't going to leave him high and dry almost two weeks later David Nixon was dead
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I was crying and they just said he had been murdered he was shot and burned didn't even cross my
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mind that it had been hurt or injured in any way Tracy says she was stunned by the news
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you must have been thinking like who could have done this sure I mean it was there was a lot of things going through
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my mind I just I just couldn't believe it danielella David's first wife could believe it when I went to the police
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department those were my first words that Sunday night I went there Tracy frame did it David told me I had to tell
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you this [Music] it was eerie [Music] he was preparing for the worst here Donna lella tell the story David
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Nixon her ex-husband had a premonition that he would be murdered he told me what was going to happen and
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what's more he knew the person who would kill him he was going to be murdered by
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Tracy he used the word murder that Tracy was going to kill him he didn't call the police with his
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suspicions or his fears no no I didn't think to tell him that Donna went to the police and reported
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David missing after he didn't return phone messages from their son Nicholas Donna then confronted Tracy frame over
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the phone what did you ask her I asked her what she did with David and what did she say and she said well he's
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on vacation what makes you think I did something to David I said David's missing Tracy what'd you
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do kept asking for that Tracy wasn't worried about David's disappearance what were you thinking
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nothing I mean it's normal at that point it was not uncommon for him to do what he wanted to go out with the guys or go
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stay in a hotel I didn't call him beg him to come home or whatever absolutely not
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she says David sometimes snuck off to Las Vegas for a weekend of gambling what else happened in Vegas
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I don't really know how to say this apparently there were prostitutes call girls
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other activities that happened despite their differences Tracy and David were still living together at the
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house in Grapevine but David had found another place to live and was making arrangements to move just days before
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his murder you were discussing plans for him to move his things out of the house
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and what did he ask you to do to rent a van I mean we've rented them before Tracy did rent a Penske moving van and
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furniture dolly but David never returned since David and Tracy lived together she
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was she was our key witness she was the one we wanted to talk to the most Grapevine police detective Larry
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Hallmark was assigned to investigate the murder of David Nixon once we met her her demeanor was completely
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not what I expected or are not what would be normal under those circumstances they just said he had been
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murdered gunshot wound and they had to use the dental records the first thing she asked
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was how did they identify him which I thought was an extremely suspicious response the detective is quoted as
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saying that you asked immediately how did they identify the body and that's not true that's not true no
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frame told detectives that she was Home Alone the night David disappeared she agreed to be questioned on videotape at
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the police station Tracy tells them that she and David were having problems in the months leading to
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his murder and we just aren't getting along enough I just love to be Tracy learned she was pregnant the
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previous fall just as her relationship with David was crumbling David you know he was totally against it
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um wasn't interested in it at all Tracy now says Health complications forced her to terminate the pregnancy
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but at the time she blamed David writing to him I have given you everything heart
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and soul including murder of her unborn baby I hope you are happy because I am not the loss of her unborn baby and
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David's reaction left Tracy bitter but he was Unapologetic he could be cruel he could be very
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vicious with his tongue but was she angry enough to commit murder homework and another detective Matt
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gudgel start pressing Tracy for answers she could never tell the truth during that entire interview she was evasive
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and sometimes she just out and out lied did you shoot David Nixon no I didn't did you wrap him in electric blanket and
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set him a fire no do you know the circumstances surrounding David Nixon's murder no
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while Hallmark had his suspicions about Tracy frame he had little to go on as far as physical evidence you don't
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have much to work with do you no no no gun no gun no bullets no no blood no blood and an exhaustive search of the
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crime scene the storm drain yielded a few Clues the area had already been washed down by
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firefighters you actually went down in the storm drain it's an eight foot tall storm
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drain that's 15 feet below where we are standing right now and I actually walked that 94 feet
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looking for any physical evidence what I found was that this storm drain was clean
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I didn't even find gravel or broken glass in here the police did find a set of tire tracks
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at the scene providing Hallmark with an important clue the tire tracks that backed up to this body were the same
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make model and size as the tires that were on the Penske truck that Tracy had rented and Hallmark soon caught another
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break security cameras at a Tom Thumb supermarket near David and Tracy's house captured fleeting images over that
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weekend blurry at best but recorded at very precise times the videotape shows a Penske moving van
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that looks similar to the one Tracy rented driving through the parking lot also on tape someone abandons David's
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white Lexus in the lot three days after his murder the cameras show a woman walking outside
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the store inside she's seen buying several items and then leaving now she's going to come out of the store
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right there is that woman Tracy frame you're sure that's her it's a woman that looks like her
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but it wasn't you no it doesn't even look like me were you at the store with the truck no
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you weren't there no I was at my parents house in Arlington Saturday and Sunday but if it is Tracy caught on tape she's
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caught without an explanation what's your theory what happened that night Tracy had finally made the decision that
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she was just going to have to kill David and she shot him while he was sleeping then she rented a moving stuff and
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waited until the cover of night to move his body how does a woman weighing 145 pounds
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dispose of a body weighing 245 pounds you use a furniture dolly it would just be a matter of rolling him
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onto that Dolly and strapping him down Hallmark says Tracy tried but failed to shove Nixon's body down into the storm
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drain you believe that she dumped the body here and then two days later returned to set it a fire to get rid of
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the evidence right sweep him into that storm drain and he would just disappear forever
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plan fell apart after a passerby spotted the fire but the question remained why would
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Tracy want David dead money greed that's the only thing that I had to go on there
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was nothing to gain nothing Tracy is about to counter-attack and the new man in her life is leading the way
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do you believe that she knows nothing about the circumstances surrounding David Nixon's murder
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I don't think she has a clue I'm innocent [Music] [Music] thank you I've never been in trouble with the
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police I've never thought the police were anything but out there to help you and the last time he talked to him was
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Thursday I didn't know what the heck was going on I'm confused why is that a lie
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that is not true you need to listen to what I'm about to tell you you really do I'm gonna promise you I'm not mad at you
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but things have just turned were that serious for you why the day after Tracy fraim met with
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police detectors she was arrested and charged with the murder of David Nixon what are you thinking about right now
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it's been a horrible experience I I knew that it would happen it was no surprise
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I knew in my heart that she had done it but would it stick was the question Tracy was released on Bond and fitted
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with an electronic monitoring device to be worn until her trial to go to a restaurant or to go shopping
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in shorts when it's 105 degrees it's it's hard everybody stares leaves bruises on my ankle and stuff but
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Tracy has her Defenders a lot of cold a lot of vibration none of the keyword and none is more loyal than
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dentist Roland Taylor a native of Great Britain who settled in Texas everybody goes what a [ __ ] she is she's totally
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the opposite and in her hour of need he is standing behind her who would want David Nixon dead probably the people
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that he owed money to uh and he owed a lot and Tracy fraim did not have a motive you know what it would
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behoove her to keep him alive because he owed a ton of money Roland and Tracy were longtime friends
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from Grapevine Lake I've never met anybody like her she's very smart she's fun after her arrest a
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romance developed all Tracy's ever wanted to do is love and be loved that's all she's ever wanted
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and when they say Roland you better watch her back that's why I put a ring on her finger
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Roland and Tracy are engaged to be married I will never ever ever stop loving her I'll never leave I'm there
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yeah Donald fear is Tracy's defense attorney as the state said this is purely a circumstantial case
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it's worked on only three murder cases in his career but he's confident he can quickly win an acquittal for frame she
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was arrested in the first 36 hours in a homicide case and that's just unheard of
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unless it happens to be standing there with the Smoking Gun screaming I did it I killed him
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fear says an ambitious detective Hallmark got it all wrong from the beginning you have a detective Corporal
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Who Wants To Be A detective Sergeant a high profile homicide case comes across his desk
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make a quick arrest make a quick case you look good you make sergeant fear says the case against his client
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doesn't add up pointing out that no incriminating evidence was found at the house or in the moving truck where did
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she kill him they tore the house apart and if she killed him in there she had white carpet
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Miami CSI needs to hire her to show how she can defeat all possible scientific trace evidence dragging a body across a
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house through vehicles and then out on the ground he says the videotaped interview with detectives was designed
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to trap his client did you find her an evasive during that questioning no I found her confused
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he would have called me the mayor you saw interrogation question aimed at trying to make her look bad and trip her
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up Sunday at night see now we're getting back into everybody's lying the traces and she looked bad and she looked bad
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and that's how it's supposed to work break them down who knows maybe they'll pull a Perry Mason I did it I killed him
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God help me I didn't get that so you just keep beating on her and it worked worked real
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well Donald fear and Tracy frame also dismissed the videotape evidence allegedly showing Tracy abandoning the
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white Lexus parking the Penske truck and shopping at the convenience store who is that shadowy figure I don't know
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if I did they would be sitting here and I wouldn't be Tracy says no one can tell who that is
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but more than just a blurry figure is being recorded in this transaction store records show that whoever this
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person is she uses Tracy's store discount card at the checkout saving 19 cents someone using your discount card the
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weekend David went missing that's correct but it wasn't you no it doesn't even look like me Tracy
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admits the discount card is difficult to explain so I don't I don't have an answer for it but I don't think that
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I would use a discount card if I was trying to sneak around town one would think
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it's pretty hard though I agree fraim and her attorney throw out several theories about who may have killed David
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Nixon first they suggest Nixon could have been murdered during a robbery was it common for David to walk around with
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big wads of cash in his pocket oh yes when he had it he liked to show everybody he liked to be flashy or that
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it was payback over gambling debts I mean I knew he gambled I just didn't know to the depth of it I guess I could
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say and they points an accusing finger at someone who knew both David Nixon and Tracy frame very well
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hey Paul this is Jerry valent best auto sales in Fort Worth Jerry Val friend at the lake used to be a friend he's into
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businesses of helping people you know if they need to borrow money or whatever and in the business of helping people
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who want to borrow money okay hold on can I answer that fear stops Tracy from finishing her sentence
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I think where you all come from they call them shylocks I'm an easy target I sell used cars you know I take a
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thousand for it at one time David loaned me some money and right after Christmas
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I paid him back Jerry and David had a plan to meet the night he disappeared Tracy and her
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lawyer insist the meeting was to discuss David's interest in a new boat and he had twenty five thousand dollars cash on
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him that he took from the bank to buy the boat now David didn't carry large seven to money he didn't owe anybody
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money we were going to get together for a drink well we ran out of time it was just getting too late for us to go out
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and meet and so I spoke to him on the telephone and uh that was the last time I spoke to David
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and Donald Feer raises questions about yet another possible suspect did Tracy fraim stand to gain anything financially
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David Nixon's death not a thing but the first ex-wife did what are you suggesting
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I'm suggesting stating the fact two months before he died David Nixon took out a life insurance policy for half a
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million dollars and Nicholas was named the primary beneficiary yes she's secondary beneficiary but in all reality
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as her son is the primary beneficiary she got the money Tracy frame got nothing so who stood to
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gain the most well that's obvious I mean Donna has gained everything did you receive anything from David Nixon's
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estate very little very little less than ten thousand dollars I don't find losing
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David again at all in fact I find it the hardest part of my life for Nicholas so
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when you found out that Tracy was arrested what was going through your mind did you believe
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it was possible it had to be her everybody else I knew they knew him liked him I mean she was the only one who had
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anything against them really as the trial Begins the defense is confident the prosecution has no real
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case no proof we cannot get a handle on even what their theory of the crime was insisting that the police never
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investigated other suspects Tracy frame is the only person on the planet that would absolutely not have killed David
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that would have put money in to get him a bodyguard if he had been threatened because the only way she was ever going
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to get her money back out of the thousands she'd spent on him was keep him alive and selling houses
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[Music] more than three years after David Nixon's murder hello Tracy frame is finally about to stand
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trial I feel fine I feel like everything's going to turn out right what do you make of the prosecution's
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case against you it's pretty apparent that they don't they don't have as much as they would
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lead you to believe they had there's no doubt in your mind that that Tracy frame
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killed David Nixon no Tarrant County Texas assistant D.A Sean Colston is Prosecuting the case against
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Tracy fraim I think if you look at Tracy frame she's just an unpredictable type person and uh
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she's the type of person who could kill without a motive what kind of personality are you talking about well
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Tracy frame as a personality where it's all about Tracy Tracy is going to get what Tracy wants
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and she doesn't care how she gets it even if it means killing someone if it means murder
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Tracy's willing to do that Tracy's fiancee Roland Taylor says prosecutors are trying the wrong woman
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is that Tracy inside the Tom Thumb store no defies they were touching and I'll tell you
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what that lady has got a set of legs that don't quit there's no doubt in my mind that's not our that's not her no
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not at all she said she was never at the Tom Thumb store do you believe that absolutely not she says that someone
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else used her TomTom card do you believe that absolutely not I thought we'd hang out here in the lobby
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with little forensic evidence no eyewitnesses and the wash down crime scene the defense believes the
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prosecution simply cannot make a case for murder you know we're going to show you the smoke and mirrors for two weeks
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and you're just going to be overwhelmed by that so much smoke it must be a fire somewhere so who's responsible for
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David Nixon's murder today will I don't think we'll ever find out because they never looked very far
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once they accused me in the courtroom Tracy's defense was to go in the offense arguing that the
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prosecution failed to offer proof Beyond a reasonable doubt that there was no real evidence linking Tracy to the crime
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that no blood was found at the house nothing was found at the storm drain that these tire tracks could have come
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from any number of other trucks and that this woman is not Tracy frame and along with no apparent motive
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there's no murder weapon no gun or was there did your dad have a gun yeah and where did he keep it it is safe
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you saw that yeah you saw the gun yeah he showed it too he used to you know make sure I was okay with it David's
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safe was in the bedroom of the house he shared with Tracy the police didn't find
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a gun in the in the safe in his house I know where is it I don't know like Grapevine perhaps
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down a drain pipe I don't know what she did with it she she Tracy did David keep a gun in the house no he
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never did no he didn't keep a gun in the safe in the house no police did not find a gun but they did
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find two key witnesses to bolster their circumstantial case against Tracy she just kept asking a lot of questions of
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how to get Steins out John Wright and Mike Heaton remember the day Tracy Frank came into their Janitorial Supply
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Company shopping for cleaning products to remove odor and blood we sold her probably about a hundred dollars worth
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of stuff it was one day after David disappeared I mean she was I don't even want to use the word desperate but
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appeared desperate for it's got to work so Tracy asked the salesman if there was
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a foolproof way to remove blood stains then we told her about the muratic acids which we don't sell the next day the
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shadowy figure who prosecutors say is Tracy frame is that the Tom Thumb store buying just that muriatic acid every
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item purchased by that woman was found in the home when we searched it for the prosecutor tuition all the pieces of the
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puzzle fit I think once you put all of that information together I think any reasonable person can say that that is
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Tracy fraim and as for the defense suggestion that Donna may have had more to gain from David's death than Tracy
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investigators say there was nothing to it I'd heard some innuendo from Tracy and her attorneys that somehow there was
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this large insurance policy everything checked out there was never anything suspicious about Donna's Behavior almost
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nothing Tracy told us checked out every Trail led to Tracy but will the jury agree
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on the eve of the verdict Tracy frame who did not take the stand seems subdued and uncertain I don't believe in Justice
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very much right now and I don't know how I feel after it but I have to believe that the right thing will be done
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I think Tracy saw an opportunity and she took it it was all inference coincidence could be maybe looks good
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well that isn't enough to convict somebody of murder after a two-week long trial it is
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Judgment Day for Tracy Frank scared yes of course Very if convicted of Murder She faces a possible sentence of life in
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prison it's a reality but I don't think that I'll have to worry about that defense lawyer Don fear is anxious
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actually we're confident that we're going to be successful and material will see that clearly my client is not guilty
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as a lawyer who knows the day March 9 2005 would also have been David Nixon's 43rd birthday
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Nicholas is feeling the stress members of David's family from New Hampshire have attended the trial for
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three years now we've been struggling with this and waiting for this day and we're glad it's here today is David's
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birthday their fingers crossed whatever the outcome for Donna and Nicholas some questions may never be
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answered what was it that Tracy frame had on David Nixon why couldn't she let him go how did it get so out of control
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that she wanted to kill him I don't know that was the answers am I sure they have
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the right person yes and the moment of judgment finally arrives a jury has reached a verdict
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I'll ask the audience realize their emotions in here but we need for everyone to keep their composure judge
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Mike Thomas has not permitted cameras to cover the trial but he does allow us inside for the verdict good stand please
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we the jury find the defendant guilty of the offense of murder is charged an indictment signed by the four person the
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jury takes less than four hours to find Tracy guilty the sentence 40 years I'm very happy very happy with the
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jurors verdict Hallelujah David's family is elated but later that night the mood becomes thoughtful David
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will never ever ever be with us again she's taken the rest of his life away from us and I really don't think she
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deserves to have any freedom just glad it's finally over you know it's gone on long enough
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Donna worries Hal Nicholas is coping without his father the little things that his dad did the big peacock chest
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sticking outgoing That's my boy that's what he's struggling with that's what he misses
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Donna wishes that somehow she had done more mad that I can't change anything can't bring it
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I know in my mind Tracy killed David Jerry vowell is sure the jury got it right she probably just said heck with
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you bang so the motive was money I think it was money and I think it was a sense of entitlement entitlement says
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detective Larry Hallmark to her fair share of the house David Nixon was killed for eighty thousand dollars I
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think he could have been killed for eighty dollars if it had suited Tracy Now Tracy Frain was the person that
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ultimately has paid the price for this crime not the person who did it Roland Taylor remains loyal to his fiancee
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aren't you setting yourself up for many years of Heartache no it's not hard being engaged to a woman who's serving
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40 years in the State Penitentiary no it'd be heartache if she wasn't in my life
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there's nothing here anymore except the memory do you think you have strong grounds for
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an appeal oh God I hope so yes Tracy frames spoke to us just weeks after her conviction how did the
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prosecutors manage to convince the jury that you were guilty of murder I'm not sure um
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they threw a lot of stuff at him how have you been getting through these last couple of weeks
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just care what's your greatest fear right now the unknown I guess do you have any regrets
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right now yeah in the justice system do you think you have the inner strength to get through this
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no no I'm pretty scared what are you scared of the most seriously it's the rest of my life
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I don't really get the whole thing you know but I don't know it's weird do you think we
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get older you'll be able to understand it any better you [Music] can thank you [Music]