July 1, 2020 • 27 mins
David Temple spent a decade in prison after a jury convicted him of murdering his wife, Belinda Lucas Temple. She was 8 months pregnant when killed by a shotgun blast in her Katy, Texas, home in 1999. Prosecutors argued her husband wanted to get rid of her so he could marry his mistress. The conviction was tossed when an appeals court ruled prosecutor misconduct denied Temple a fair trial. When did the marriage fall apart?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,
a production of iHeartMedia and Crime Online. To the world
around them. David and Belinda Temple were the Golden couple.
It seems like it's a picture perfect life. So it's
not long until they discover they're going to have a
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baby to really complete that perfect picture. It wasn't long
after that that she finds out she's pregnant again. But
for Belinda, it was bittersweet when David tells Belinda he's
not sure if he still loves her, She's completely devastated.
I'm Nitzy Grace and this is Killers amongst Us. I'm
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Nitzy Grace, Killers amongst Us. Thank you for being with us.
You know. Joining me right now is or now. Defense attorney,
family law specialist Randall Kessler, forensics expert, Professor Forensics at
Jacksonville State University, an author of Blood Beneath My Feet
on Amazon. Joseph Scott Morgan, forensic psychiatrist, Joining me out
(01:17):
of the Florida jurisdiction doctor Daniel Bober But right now
I'm want to go to Katie Times owner in Katie, Texas,
Brandy Kelcini with me. It seemed like a dream, the
perfect job, a beautiful wife, a baby boy, a happy home.
Blenda Temple then finds out she's pregnant with a baby girl,
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and things seem to be on the right track. But
when David tells Belinda he's not sure if he still
loves her, she's completely devastating. But then the very next day,
David's mood changes. Suddenly he needs new life into the marriage.
(02:03):
David came up behind Belinda, wrapped his arms around her,
and said, I do love. To Randy Kessler, a renowned
family law specialist, why is it that so often people
think having a baby can fix the marriage? Man, that
is a great question. And you know, if you already
have problems, then maybe you shouldn't have children. You know,
having children doesn't fix problems, it, you know, I mean
(02:24):
we all know it makes life harder. You got more complications.
But it's just a terrible thing. Kids don't fix marriages.
Marriages and people helped kids. I mean, they're not a solution,
They're not a problem. So over their gift to Joseph
Scott Morgan, author of Blood Beneath My Feet, and you
have investigated literally thousands of death scenes. But I guarantee
(02:46):
you if you went home and told your beautiful wife
you don't know if you still loved her, I'm pretty
sure I would be investigating the crime scene myself. Yeah
you would. You'd probably have to dislodge the act. It
will be buried in the back of my skull, So yeah,
you'd be correct in that. Nancy, Well, it's not just
doctor Daniel Bober getting your feelings hurt that somebody may
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not love you. It's it's not just about love. It's
not just about romance. By the time you're married and
you have one child, another on the way, or in
my case, two children at once, you are side by side,
shoulder to shoulder, creating something bigger than yourself, a family.
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And love is really not about flowers and a box
of chilcolated and romantic getaways. In my mind, it's about
someone you can rely on that will be there for
you and with you. I mean, look, you know, when
you're having your special latte at Starbucks in the morning
(03:52):
with a little twist of sentiment or whatever it is
you have Bober at quarter of seven, I'm cleaning the
guinea pig cage we have at a dog at two
guinea pigs twins and my eighty eight year old mother.
And you know what, you know who's there to help me,
David Lynch. He is there when the Shi two hits
(04:14):
the fan, he is there. And in my mind, that's
what love really is, a real love. I mean, when
I need help, I don't want some you know, pretty
boy running across the street for a cigarette. I need
somebody what I call a real man that steps up
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to the play and will hit a home run when necessary.
For somebody to say, I don't know if I love you.
That sounds like high school. Talk to me like junior high.
If you love me, circle yes? If not, circle note,
I mean the note passed in class. That sounds so
silly to me and unrealistic. Doctor Bober, Yes, you're totally correct,
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actually to my patience all the time. And I tell them,
don't think of love as a feeling, think of love
as an action. And love is about being there. Love
is about stability and reliability, and you know, knowing that
when you wake up the next day, it's going to
be the same as the day before. So you're absolutely
right now. I'm just that hurts me for her with
me Brandy Kioncini, the owner of The Katie Times. She's
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already had one baby, now another one is on the way,
and he jumps up and says he doesn't know if
he loves her. What. Yes, it was. It was a
very difficult time for Belinda after Evan was born. She
had gained some weight and was having trouble losing it.
And considering they were both kinesiology majors while they were
at SFA, and she had been an aerobics instructor while
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she lived in an Ecodochius, they were both very, very fit,
and this was a hard thing for David to get past,
and so their marriage did hit some rocky lay whoa, whoa, Brandy, Brandy, Brandy,
you're telling me she gained weight when she had the baby.
It was a hard thing for him to get past. Oh,
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I'm in big trouble. I am in big trouble. If
that's the truth. Take a listen to this. But over
the next few months things change for David. Belinda hasn't
lost the weight she's gained in pregnancy. David won't settle
for anything but the perfect wife, and he lets her
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know it. David had complained about Belinda's weight in front
of other people, including their friends, and he'd been really
pretty brutal about it. Belinda's face would fall, she would
almost start crying. And she was a very proud, independent,
spirited lady. So for her to be that beaten down
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by a man she still loved and worshiped, it was
just terribly sad to hear all those girlfriends know that information.
To David, he didn't want a wife that had a
few extra pounds. She was breaking a deal. The deal
he had with Belinda in his own mind, was that
she was to be an extension of him, and when
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she showed this flaw, it was unacceptable to him. He
began to lose interest in Belinda. Some people said that
he was upset with her for, in his words, letting
herself go. Nothing could make David happy. In my opinion,
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he always wanted more. I would not say that he
was happily married in love, but Belinda was. Wow, Okay,
I'm in big trouble. You know what's interesting, You know,
Joseph Scott, Morgan, Randy Kessler, doctor Bob or you all
know my husband one way or the other. When I
look at him, to me, he looks just like it
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did the first time I ever met him. Now I
don't know what that means. Maybe I need glasses, But
to me, he's even better than the person I married
or the person I met, and it it hurts me
to think that her feelings are being hurt. You're hearing
our friends over at Scorn. That was the Cole Blackman
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and Katherine Kasey Kelly Siegler. But that is just the beginning.
David drifts further and further away from Belinda. He begins
to spend many nights away from home at strip clubs
and topless bars. As a football coach, his long hours
provide the perfect cover, but soon looking and flirting isn't
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enough to satisfy David. When many of the coaches went
home to their wives and families, Temple was often known
to go out to local haunts and try and recruit
a female companionship. He was very open about men, and
then the following Monday, he sometimes would say the other
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teachers when one of the other teachers say, helplo, how
did you do on Friday night? And David would say,
I scored. He was a cheater. When many of the
coaches went home to their wives and families. Temple was
often known to go out to local haunts and try
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and recruit a female companionship. He was very open about men.
And then the following Monday he sometimes would say to
the other teachers when one of the other teachers would say, helplo,
how did you do on Friday night? And David would say,
I scored. He was a cheater, so he really felt
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that he should be able to be with whoever he wanted.
He didn't put boundaries around his relationship. He wasn't a
monogamous kind of guy. He's what a lot of people
would call a player. Okay, I don't like that at all.
You're hearing our friends over at scorned, okay, doctor Daniel
bober Uh No, in Oh, I am not gonna work
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all day. Feed the guinea pigs, feed the cat, feed
the dog, feed my mom, feed the twins, get their
clothes ready for school, and make dinner. And in oh,
if David Lynch does not come home for dinner after
I have made it what I believe to be a
gourmet meal, of course, but no, that is like the
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ultimate diss at the end of a work day, not
to bother to come home. Oh, no, mmmmm no, Bober.
Well that's because Nancy, you're in you know, a healthy,
stable relationship. But when you're you know, with someone and
you disrespect your partner, that's how you act. So you know,
obviously the way you're doing it is the way it's
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supposed to be done. Well, you know, Jo's kind of
morgan if he is not there to sit with me
and the twins and my mom typically to have his
uh Captain Morton's fish filet and hiss carrots and green
beans and no or the traditional broggle. I've served broccoli
so many times the twins now have a nickname for it.
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It's broggle. And oh, he has got to come home,
Joe Scott. Can you even imagine your beautiful wife, she
makes your dinner and your son is sitting there at
the table and you don't show up. H E L
L would break loose at that house. Yeah, it really would.
And that's what we call a clue when we begin
to dig into cases involving when we you know, when
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we dig into cases involving infidelity that actually wind up
leading to horrible circumstances in the end. So yeah, I mean,
that's that thread that we look through in all of
these cases to find out what actually happened. In other words,
what was the genesis of the just absolute destruction that follows.
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I mean, Randy Kessler, you're the family Lost specialists. You
have represented more divorces and you can probably count. One
of the happiest sights in my life is when I
see David pull up and in each arm he's got
a grocery bag full of broccoli. Okay, forget red roses,
bring on the broggle because so I guess what we're
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saying is if you don't show up for dinner, there's
gonna be a murder, because it's what we're saying. But
you know, all joking aside, Randy Kessler, have you read
all of those studies that show, depending on the night,
the number of nights that you sit down with your
family to eat dinner, regardless of the scenario, the more
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nights a week you are together as a family at
supper time, the more likely your children are going to
be stable. They're going to have less problems at school,
they're going to more likely than not go to college
and be successful. Now, I don't know what the broccoli
the broggle has to do with the getting into college.
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But the studies, the statistics are not lying. Randy. This
is a major disc for him not to show up
at dena. It is. And look, a lot of people
think that stuff doesn't make sense, and it doesn't and
it's silly, but it's not silly. And you know, at
another level, we talked about reconciliation and your marriage isn't
good and you get back in and you jump in
bed for one night and you know you talked. We
talked earlier about that as being you know, reconciliation. But
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the truth of the matter is what everyone finds in
family laws. Reconciliation is doing those things together, going to
the grocery store together, holding hands, talking about day's events.
You know, what breaks up marriage is is not the
sex with somebody else. That's the having the emotional attachment
to someone else and not having it at home. Well, whoa, whoa,
whoa why Wait a minute, wait a minute. What breaks
up at marriage is not the sex with somebody else,
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because to hold on, I'd be looking for my hatchet
right there. But it wasn't all about not showing up
for dinner. We Linda knows that something is not right
with her marriage and she's afraid of what it might be.
She did say she suspected that maybe something was going
on about him seeing someone, but I don't think Blenda
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wanted to admit to this. I think she was hoping
that it was for good reasons that he wasn't coming
home on time. But all that changes when she discovers
his credit card receipts from the strip clubs b Linda
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immediately confronts David, and he has a shallow excuse. He says,
it's friends consoling a friend. She was upset by it,
but she just kind of said, you know, he's helping
friends out. He's trying to be a good friend, trying
to listen, and I just let it go. Trying to listen.
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That's Nicole Blackman over at Scorn, trying to be a
good friend to who a stripper. Well, she knows something
is wrong, but she doesn't know quite what. And then
here is the icing on top of the cake. David
turns the tables on Belinda and decides to put an
end to her snooping. He said that he wanted his
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own checking account, that he didn't want her sing his
bills any longer. The finances in a relationship, reveal a
truth about what's going on between a couple. And David
made a very clear message when he said, I'm going
to open up my own checking account so I could
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basically lie and do whatever I want without you noticing. Wow,
our friends at scoring at doctor Robbie Ludwig. You know
I tried one time, Brandy kean Cini with me, the
owner of the Katie Times, I tried to snoop on David.
I got into his computer and started reading his emails.
They were so boring. I thought my head was going
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to blow off. It was one business deal after the next,
after the next. In I tried to look at his texts,
same thing. I don't even want to look at his
credit card or his checking account. Oh, just the thought
of it. But can you imagine, Belinda, snooping I guess
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you could call it looking through his credit cards and
is checking out, trying to checking accout, trying to figure
out what's happening. That's a horrible way to live when
you've got to you feel that you have to go
through somebody's credit card and checks to find out what
they're doing. By all accounts, Belinda absolutely love David completely
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and thoroughly, and I'm sure that it was a very
difficult thing for her to be faced with the idea
that he might have been somewhere that it would not
be expected for a married man. And a lot of
times women just don't want and so they want to
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believe what their spouse tells them, and we'll go along
with it until it's either right in their face and
they have no choice but to deal with it, or
they're ready to deal with it on their own. And
she loved him so much that she wanted to believe him,
and so apparently she did. Belinda Temple sees her marriage
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falling apart. By the end of nineteen ninety eight, David
starts taking serious risks in his marriage. He announces to
Belinda that he won't be spending the New Year's holiday
with her. Blinda had said that she wanted to spend
New Year's Eve with him, but he decided to go
honey And we thought that was odd because Blinda was
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due with her baby within a month or so, and
sometimes you come early. Belinda and David argue over his
planned trip. She's very upset. They get into a little
argument about it because she didn't want him to go,
and he just told her I'm going hunting. So he
packed up his guns and left on New Year's Eve
to go off hunting. Didn't give her any details. But
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David's story about a hunting trip is just another layer
of deception. When your husband announces that he's not going
to be with you and you're seven eight nine months
pregnant over New Year's you have a problem. Warning red
bell of alarm, warning, welcome back everybody. I mean, see
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Grace and this is killers amongst us. What exactly was
going wrong with the Temple marriage? Now we know that
Belinda suspected David Temple was having affairs, but I'll tell
you when real trouble hit town. It was that fall. Listen. Then,
in late August of nineteen ninety eight, David begins a
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new year at Hastings High School and the teacher's lounge
is live en up by a stunning new addition to
the faculty, an English teacher named Heather. Heather's a beautiful lady.
Probably a lot of the guys talked about how pretty
she was. It doesn't take long for the new teacher
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to fit right in with the schools All boys club.
Heather was known around Hastings amongst the parents and the
staff as being sort of a football coach groupie. She
liked hanging around with those guys and spending time with them.
I think Heather was flirtatious with a lot of the coaches,
a lot of the men, male teachers out there. She
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did a good job of dangling a few of them
at the same time for quite a while. But David
Temple is used to coming out on top in every
situation and winning Heather's attention is the perfect challenge. I
don't think David Temple ever lost anything or any girl,
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or any game or anything in his whole life. David's
very competitive and if there was a prize, he wanted
to get it, and Heather this time was the prize. Wow,
you're hearing scorned love kills. That was Nicole Blackman, along
with Kelly Siegler and doctor Robbie Ludwig joining me right now,
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Randy Kessler, defense lawyer, family law specialist, Brandy Keimcini, Katie Times,
owner detective, author of Outside Your Door, Steve Lampley at
Steven Lampley dot com, psychotherapist and author of Till Death
Do Us Part and you Can see her on Talking
Live with Doctor Robbie Ludwig on Facebook Watch. Also death
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investigator for ensc's Expert Joseph Scott Morgan, author of Blood
Beneath My Feet and very Special guest, the author of
Shattered on Amazon. Katherine Casey Catherine Casey. The marriage of
Belinda and David Temple was already in trouble. Many people
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believe that when you have a baby, you can fix
the marriage. What do you think was the turning point
in their relationship when it was beyond repair? You know,
I think that summer had been really bad, Nancy. They
hadn't talked for about six weeks, and at one point
Belinda asked David, do you still love me? And he said,
I don't know. And then that fall when he walked
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into school and met Heather and got into kind of
a tee to tea with her along with one of
the other coaches, and it was kind of this self
cirtaceous triangle going on and his you know, just the
whole competitive thing got going. Things very quickly spun out
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of control. You know, it kind of feels doctor Robbie Ludwig,
like it was a powder keg. And this new teacher
Heather just really lit the fuse. That's just all it
took was a new woman. I mean, I'm convinced there
have been many, many other women, but for some reason,
that was the tipping point, Doctor Robbie. Yes. And sometimes
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there's a quiet desperation that can go on within long
term relationships or marriages, and the thought process isn't quite conquertized,
and then there's this new person that arrives and it
triggers all these chemicals and it's almost like a high,
and the other person becomes like a drug. And this
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appears to be the answer to a better life or
to the life that this husband in this case, David
felt he really deserved to live. But Randy Keesser, you're
the family laws specialist. You've probably handle more divorces and
you can count. I mean, in my mind, Heather was
just one of many. She was just one in the
hint parade for him, right. So, I mean, if you
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want to check the box and say he's a bad guy,
he checks that box. While that box is definitely checked,
you know, to Steve Lampley, you're the detective author of
Outside Your Door. I mean I would bet then, in
addition to major felonies. A large part of your detective
or spouses that are suspicious their husband or wife's having
an affair, And really all you have to do is
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look at the cell phone, unless they've got a burner
phone or a secret cell phone like Scott Peterson did.
If David Lynch walked in the house and I found
out there was another cell phone, oh there would be
h double l to pay. Long story short, a secret
cell phone, or look at credit card records or bank
withdrawals if you're that suspicious. I mean, I told you
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what happened, Steve Lampley. When I tried to surreptitiously ready
David's emails, my head nearly blew off. They were so boring.
I mean, oh so I never did that again. I
don't even know why I started in the first place.
But Steve Lampley, there are a lot of ways to
figure out. I don't want you to give away trade secrets.
So Brandy Kinsini she had to know Belinda that he
was having an affair, and then Heather just ignites the flame. Well,
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by all accounts, Belinda had made come to several friends
that she thought that David might be having an affair
then she would go back and say, no, everything's fine.
So it is possible that she absolutely did know, but
she didn't want to believe it and wasn't quite ready
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to deal with it. She was pregnant, and when you
are pregnant, you are thinking towards the future, not necessarily
thinking that your husband might be having this fair Wow,
and Robbie Ludwig, you've been through it so many times,
of course, not in your own marriage, but dealing with
it as a psychotherapist. There are so many red flags.
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There are red flags, and then there's denial, and sometimes
couples feel that they can get through it, and sometimes
they actually can. So there are a lot of different factors.
I mean, there are a lot of different reasons why
people choose to stay with a partner. But it's sounds
like on some level, you know, this woman knew that
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she was losing her husband in some way. I don't
know if I would I could really call it losing,
because you know, I couldn't ditch him fast enough based
on the way he was acting. But and I don't
want to come down on her because a lot of times,
as Brandy Kieroncini, the owner of the Katie Times pointed out,
sometimes you don't want to know. You put on blinders
and you don't want to know a baby's coming. You've
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already got one son, but there's no doubt about it. Listen. Soon,
Heather becomes a regular at the Coach's weekly happy hour
at the local bar. David spends more and more time
talking to her alone. They were spending a lot of
time kind of segueing off on their own, separate from
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the group, and people started to look at them like
they were kind of a couple. There were a lot
of people who didn't actually know that David was married.
The romance escalates, Heather invites David over to her apartment
and the relationship goes from exciting flirtation to a full
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blown erotic affair behind David's pregnant wife's back. When I
learned he was having an affair, I was not surprised
at all. David is completely caught up in the exciting
and beautiful English teacher, and she feels the same way.
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They were both lusting after each other, almost addicted to
one another. They couldn't stay away, they didn't want to
stay away. They were each other's drop. David temple cheating,
and even worse, cheating openly with a new hot teacher
at his own school, where he's a chief football coach.
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No one could foresee what happened next. Nancy Grace killers,
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Hi, guys, Nancy Grace here, Welcome back to Killers amongst Us,
a production of iHeartMedia and Crime Online. To the world
around them. David and Belinda Temple were the Golden couple.
It seems like it's a picture perfect life. So it's
not long until they discover they're going to have a
(00:26):
baby to really complete that perfect picture. It wasn't long
after that that she finds out she's pregnant again. But
for Belinda, it was bittersweet when David tells Belinda he's
not sure if he still loves her, She's completely devastated.
I'm Nitzy Grace and this is Killers amongst Us. I'm
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Nitzy Grace, Killers amongst Us. Thank you for being with us.
You know. Joining me right now is or now. Defense attorney,
family law specialist Randall Kessler, forensics expert, Professor Forensics at
Jacksonville State University, an author of Blood Beneath My Feet
on Amazon. Joseph Scott Morgan, forensic psychiatrist, Joining me out
(01:17):
of the Florida jurisdiction doctor Daniel Bober But right now
I'm want to go to Katie Times owner in Katie, Texas,
Brandy Kelcini with me. It seemed like a dream, the
perfect job, a beautiful wife, a baby boy, a happy home.
Blenda Temple then finds out she's pregnant with a baby girl,
(01:40):
and things seem to be on the right track. But
when David tells Belinda he's not sure if he still
loves her, she's completely devastating. But then the very next day,
David's mood changes. Suddenly he needs new life into the marriage.
(02:03):
David came up behind Belinda, wrapped his arms around her,
and said, I do love. To Randy Kessler, a renowned
family law specialist, why is it that so often people
think having a baby can fix the marriage? Man, that
is a great question. And you know, if you already
have problems, then maybe you shouldn't have children. You know,
having children doesn't fix problems, it, you know, I mean
(02:24):
we all know it makes life harder. You got more complications.
But it's just a terrible thing. Kids don't fix marriages.
Marriages and people helped kids. I mean, they're not a solution,
They're not a problem. So over their gift to Joseph
Scott Morgan, author of Blood Beneath My Feet, and you
have investigated literally thousands of death scenes. But I guarantee
(02:46):
you if you went home and told your beautiful wife
you don't know if you still loved her, I'm pretty
sure I would be investigating the crime scene myself. Yeah
you would. You'd probably have to dislodge the act. It
will be buried in the back of my skull, So yeah,
you'd be correct in that. Nancy, Well, it's not just
doctor Daniel Bober getting your feelings hurt that somebody may
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not love you. It's it's not just about love. It's
not just about romance. By the time you're married and
you have one child, another on the way, or in
my case, two children at once, you are side by side,
shoulder to shoulder, creating something bigger than yourself, a family.
(03:29):
And love is really not about flowers and a box
of chilcolated and romantic getaways. In my mind, it's about
someone you can rely on that will be there for
you and with you. I mean, look, you know, when
you're having your special latte at Starbucks in the morning
(03:52):
with a little twist of sentiment or whatever it is
you have Bober at quarter of seven, I'm cleaning the
guinea pig cage we have at a dog at two
guinea pigs twins and my eighty eight year old mother.
And you know what, you know who's there to help me,
David Lynch. He is there when the Shi two hits
(04:14):
the fan, he is there. And in my mind, that's
what love really is, a real love. I mean, when
I need help, I don't want some you know, pretty
boy running across the street for a cigarette. I need
somebody what I call a real man that steps up
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to the play and will hit a home run when necessary.
For somebody to say, I don't know if I love you.
That sounds like high school. Talk to me like junior high.
If you love me, circle yes? If not, circle note,
I mean the note passed in class. That sounds so
silly to me and unrealistic. Doctor Bober, Yes, you're totally correct,
(04:59):
actually to my patience all the time. And I tell them,
don't think of love as a feeling, think of love
as an action. And love is about being there. Love
is about stability and reliability, and you know, knowing that
when you wake up the next day, it's going to
be the same as the day before. So you're absolutely
right now. I'm just that hurts me for her with
me Brandy Kioncini, the owner of The Katie Times. She's
(05:22):
already had one baby, now another one is on the way,
and he jumps up and says he doesn't know if
he loves her. What. Yes, it was. It was a
very difficult time for Belinda after Evan was born. She
had gained some weight and was having trouble losing it.
And considering they were both kinesiology majors while they were
at SFA, and she had been an aerobics instructor while
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she lived in an Ecodochius, they were both very, very fit,
and this was a hard thing for David to get past,
and so their marriage did hit some rocky lay whoa, whoa, Brandy, Brandy, Brandy,
you're telling me she gained weight when she had the baby.
It was a hard thing for him to get past. Oh,
(06:05):
I'm in big trouble. I am in big trouble. If
that's the truth. Take a listen to this. But over
the next few months things change for David. Belinda hasn't
lost the weight she's gained in pregnancy. David won't settle
for anything but the perfect wife, and he lets her
(06:26):
know it. David had complained about Belinda's weight in front
of other people, including their friends, and he'd been really
pretty brutal about it. Belinda's face would fall, she would
almost start crying. And she was a very proud, independent,
spirited lady. So for her to be that beaten down
(06:47):
by a man she still loved and worshiped, it was
just terribly sad to hear all those girlfriends know that information.
To David, he didn't want a wife that had a
few extra pounds. She was breaking a deal. The deal
he had with Belinda in his own mind, was that
she was to be an extension of him, and when
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she showed this flaw, it was unacceptable to him. He
began to lose interest in Belinda. Some people said that
he was upset with her for, in his words, letting
herself go. Nothing could make David happy. In my opinion,
(07:33):
he always wanted more. I would not say that he
was happily married in love, but Belinda was. Wow, Okay,
I'm in big trouble. You know what's interesting, You know,
Joseph Scott, Morgan, Randy Kessler, doctor Bob or you all
know my husband one way or the other. When I
look at him, to me, he looks just like it
(07:53):
did the first time I ever met him. Now I
don't know what that means. Maybe I need glasses, But
to me, he's even better than the person I married
or the person I met, and it it hurts me
to think that her feelings are being hurt. You're hearing
our friends over at Scorn. That was the Cole Blackman
(08:14):
and Katherine Kasey Kelly Siegler. But that is just the beginning.
David drifts further and further away from Belinda. He begins
to spend many nights away from home at strip clubs
and topless bars. As a football coach, his long hours
provide the perfect cover, but soon looking and flirting isn't
(08:38):
enough to satisfy David. When many of the coaches went
home to their wives and families, Temple was often known
to go out to local haunts and try and recruit
a female companionship. He was very open about men, and
then the following Monday, he sometimes would say the other
(09:00):
teachers when one of the other teachers say, helplo, how
did you do on Friday night? And David would say,
I scored. He was a cheater. When many of the
coaches went home to their wives and families. Temple was
often known to go out to local haunts and try
(09:23):
and recruit a female companionship. He was very open about men.
And then the following Monday he sometimes would say to
the other teachers when one of the other teachers would say, helplo,
how did you do on Friday night? And David would say,
I scored. He was a cheater, so he really felt
(09:45):
that he should be able to be with whoever he wanted.
He didn't put boundaries around his relationship. He wasn't a
monogamous kind of guy. He's what a lot of people
would call a player. Okay, I don't like that at all.
You're hearing our friends over at scorned, okay, doctor Daniel
bober Uh No, in Oh, I am not gonna work
(10:10):
all day. Feed the guinea pigs, feed the cat, feed
the dog, feed my mom, feed the twins, get their
clothes ready for school, and make dinner. And in oh,
if David Lynch does not come home for dinner after
I have made it what I believe to be a
gourmet meal, of course, but no, that is like the
(10:31):
ultimate diss at the end of a work day, not
to bother to come home. Oh, no, mmmmm no, Bober.
Well that's because Nancy, you're in you know, a healthy,
stable relationship. But when you're you know, with someone and
you disrespect your partner, that's how you act. So you know,
obviously the way you're doing it is the way it's
(10:52):
supposed to be done. Well, you know, Jo's kind of
morgan if he is not there to sit with me
and the twins and my mom typically to have his
uh Captain Morton's fish filet and hiss carrots and green
beans and no or the traditional broggle. I've served broccoli
so many times the twins now have a nickname for it.
(11:12):
It's broggle. And oh, he has got to come home,
Joe Scott. Can you even imagine your beautiful wife, she
makes your dinner and your son is sitting there at
the table and you don't show up. H E L
L would break loose at that house. Yeah, it really would.
And that's what we call a clue when we begin
to dig into cases involving when we you know, when
(11:36):
we dig into cases involving infidelity that actually wind up
leading to horrible circumstances in the end. So yeah, I mean,
that's that thread that we look through in all of
these cases to find out what actually happened. In other words,
what was the genesis of the just absolute destruction that follows.
(11:58):
I mean, Randy Kessler, you're the family Lost specialists. You
have represented more divorces and you can probably count. One
of the happiest sights in my life is when I
see David pull up and in each arm he's got
a grocery bag full of broccoli. Okay, forget red roses,
bring on the broggle because so I guess what we're
(12:19):
saying is if you don't show up for dinner, there's
gonna be a murder, because it's what we're saying. But
you know, all joking aside, Randy Kessler, have you read
all of those studies that show, depending on the night,
the number of nights that you sit down with your
family to eat dinner, regardless of the scenario, the more
(12:40):
nights a week you are together as a family at
supper time, the more likely your children are going to
be stable. They're going to have less problems at school,
they're going to more likely than not go to college
and be successful. Now, I don't know what the broccoli
the broggle has to do with the getting into college.
(13:01):
But the studies, the statistics are not lying. Randy. This
is a major disc for him not to show up
at dena. It is. And look, a lot of people
think that stuff doesn't make sense, and it doesn't and
it's silly, but it's not silly. And you know, at
another level, we talked about reconciliation and your marriage isn't
good and you get back in and you jump in
bed for one night and you know you talked. We
talked earlier about that as being you know, reconciliation. But
(13:23):
the truth of the matter is what everyone finds in
family laws. Reconciliation is doing those things together, going to
the grocery store together, holding hands, talking about day's events.
You know, what breaks up marriage is is not the
sex with somebody else. That's the having the emotional attachment
to someone else and not having it at home. Well, whoa, whoa,
whoa why Wait a minute, wait a minute. What breaks
up at marriage is not the sex with somebody else,
(13:43):
because to hold on, I'd be looking for my hatchet
right there. But it wasn't all about not showing up
for dinner. We Linda knows that something is not right
with her marriage and she's afraid of what it might be.
She did say she suspected that maybe something was going
on about him seeing someone, but I don't think Blenda
(14:05):
wanted to admit to this. I think she was hoping
that it was for good reasons that he wasn't coming
home on time. But all that changes when she discovers
his credit card receipts from the strip clubs b Linda
(14:28):
immediately confronts David, and he has a shallow excuse. He says,
it's friends consoling a friend. She was upset by it,
but she just kind of said, you know, he's helping
friends out. He's trying to be a good friend, trying
to listen, and I just let it go. Trying to listen.
(14:50):
That's Nicole Blackman over at Scorn, trying to be a
good friend to who a stripper. Well, she knows something
is wrong, but she doesn't know quite what. And then
here is the icing on top of the cake. David
turns the tables on Belinda and decides to put an
end to her snooping. He said that he wanted his
(15:12):
own checking account, that he didn't want her sing his
bills any longer. The finances in a relationship, reveal a
truth about what's going on between a couple. And David
made a very clear message when he said, I'm going
to open up my own checking account so I could
(15:34):
basically lie and do whatever I want without you noticing. Wow,
our friends at scoring at doctor Robbie Ludwig. You know
I tried one time, Brandy kean Cini with me, the
owner of the Katie Times, I tried to snoop on David.
I got into his computer and started reading his emails.
They were so boring. I thought my head was going
(15:55):
to blow off. It was one business deal after the next,
after the next. In I tried to look at his texts,
same thing. I don't even want to look at his
credit card or his checking account. Oh, just the thought
of it. But can you imagine, Belinda, snooping I guess
(16:15):
you could call it looking through his credit cards and
is checking out, trying to checking accout, trying to figure
out what's happening. That's a horrible way to live when
you've got to you feel that you have to go
through somebody's credit card and checks to find out what
they're doing. By all accounts, Belinda absolutely love David completely
(16:35):
and thoroughly, and I'm sure that it was a very
difficult thing for her to be faced with the idea
that he might have been somewhere that it would not
be expected for a married man. And a lot of
times women just don't want and so they want to
(16:56):
believe what their spouse tells them, and we'll go along
with it until it's either right in their face and
they have no choice but to deal with it, or
they're ready to deal with it on their own. And
she loved him so much that she wanted to believe him,
and so apparently she did. Belinda Temple sees her marriage
(17:22):
falling apart. By the end of nineteen ninety eight, David
starts taking serious risks in his marriage. He announces to
Belinda that he won't be spending the New Year's holiday
with her. Blinda had said that she wanted to spend
New Year's Eve with him, but he decided to go
honey And we thought that was odd because Blinda was
(17:43):
due with her baby within a month or so, and
sometimes you come early. Belinda and David argue over his
planned trip. She's very upset. They get into a little
argument about it because she didn't want him to go,
and he just told her I'm going hunting. So he
packed up his guns and left on New Year's Eve
to go off hunting. Didn't give her any details. But
(18:07):
David's story about a hunting trip is just another layer
of deception. When your husband announces that he's not going
to be with you and you're seven eight nine months
pregnant over New Year's you have a problem. Warning red
bell of alarm, warning, welcome back everybody. I mean, see
(18:31):
Grace and this is killers amongst us. What exactly was
going wrong with the Temple marriage? Now we know that
Belinda suspected David Temple was having affairs, but I'll tell
you when real trouble hit town. It was that fall. Listen. Then,
in late August of nineteen ninety eight, David begins a
(18:54):
new year at Hastings High School and the teacher's lounge
is live en up by a stunning new addition to
the faculty, an English teacher named Heather. Heather's a beautiful lady.
Probably a lot of the guys talked about how pretty
she was. It doesn't take long for the new teacher
(19:16):
to fit right in with the schools All boys club.
Heather was known around Hastings amongst the parents and the
staff as being sort of a football coach groupie. She
liked hanging around with those guys and spending time with them.
I think Heather was flirtatious with a lot of the coaches,
a lot of the men, male teachers out there. She
(19:39):
did a good job of dangling a few of them
at the same time for quite a while. But David
Temple is used to coming out on top in every
situation and winning Heather's attention is the perfect challenge. I
don't think David Temple ever lost anything or any girl,
(19:59):
or any game or anything in his whole life. David's
very competitive and if there was a prize, he wanted
to get it, and Heather this time was the prize. Wow,
you're hearing scorned love kills. That was Nicole Blackman, along
with Kelly Siegler and doctor Robbie Ludwig joining me right now,
(20:19):
Randy Kessler, defense lawyer, family law specialist, Brandy Keimcini, Katie Times,
owner detective, author of Outside Your Door, Steve Lampley at
Steven Lampley dot com, psychotherapist and author of Till Death
Do Us Part and you Can see her on Talking
Live with Doctor Robbie Ludwig on Facebook Watch. Also death
(20:41):
investigator for ensc's Expert Joseph Scott Morgan, author of Blood
Beneath My Feet and very Special guest, the author of
Shattered on Amazon. Katherine Casey Catherine Casey. The marriage of
Belinda and David Temple was already in trouble. Many people
(21:02):
believe that when you have a baby, you can fix
the marriage. What do you think was the turning point
in their relationship when it was beyond repair? You know,
I think that summer had been really bad, Nancy. They
hadn't talked for about six weeks, and at one point
Belinda asked David, do you still love me? And he said,
I don't know. And then that fall when he walked
(21:24):
into school and met Heather and got into kind of
a tee to tea with her along with one of
the other coaches, and it was kind of this self
cirtaceous triangle going on and his you know, just the
whole competitive thing got going. Things very quickly spun out
(21:45):
of control. You know, it kind of feels doctor Robbie Ludwig,
like it was a powder keg. And this new teacher
Heather just really lit the fuse. That's just all it
took was a new woman. I mean, I'm convinced there
have been many, many other women, but for some reason,
that was the tipping point, Doctor Robbie. Yes. And sometimes
(22:07):
there's a quiet desperation that can go on within long
term relationships or marriages, and the thought process isn't quite conquertized,
and then there's this new person that arrives and it
triggers all these chemicals and it's almost like a high,
and the other person becomes like a drug. And this
(22:29):
appears to be the answer to a better life or
to the life that this husband in this case, David
felt he really deserved to live. But Randy Keesser, you're
the family laws specialist. You've probably handle more divorces and
you can count. I mean, in my mind, Heather was
just one of many. She was just one in the
hint parade for him, right. So, I mean, if you
(22:51):
want to check the box and say he's a bad guy,
he checks that box. While that box is definitely checked,
you know, to Steve Lampley, you're the detective author of
Outside Your Door. I mean I would bet then, in
addition to major felonies. A large part of your detective
or spouses that are suspicious their husband or wife's having
an affair, And really all you have to do is
(23:11):
look at the cell phone, unless they've got a burner
phone or a secret cell phone like Scott Peterson did.
If David Lynch walked in the house and I found
out there was another cell phone, oh there would be
h double l to pay. Long story short, a secret
cell phone, or look at credit card records or bank
withdrawals if you're that suspicious. I mean, I told you
(23:33):
what happened, Steve Lampley. When I tried to surreptitiously ready
David's emails, my head nearly blew off. They were so boring.
I mean, oh so I never did that again. I
don't even know why I started in the first place.
But Steve Lampley, there are a lot of ways to
figure out. I don't want you to give away trade secrets.
So Brandy Kinsini she had to know Belinda that he
was having an affair, and then Heather just ignites the flame. Well,
(23:56):
by all accounts, Belinda had made come to several friends
that she thought that David might be having an affair
then she would go back and say, no, everything's fine.
So it is possible that she absolutely did know, but
she didn't want to believe it and wasn't quite ready
(24:20):
to deal with it. She was pregnant, and when you
are pregnant, you are thinking towards the future, not necessarily
thinking that your husband might be having this fair Wow,
and Robbie Ludwig, you've been through it so many times,
of course, not in your own marriage, but dealing with
it as a psychotherapist. There are so many red flags.
(24:41):
There are red flags, and then there's denial, and sometimes
couples feel that they can get through it, and sometimes
they actually can. So there are a lot of different factors.
I mean, there are a lot of different reasons why
people choose to stay with a partner. But it's sounds
like on some level, you know, this woman knew that
(25:04):
she was losing her husband in some way. I don't
know if I would I could really call it losing,
because you know, I couldn't ditch him fast enough based
on the way he was acting. But and I don't
want to come down on her because a lot of times,
as Brandy Kieroncini, the owner of the Katie Times pointed out,
sometimes you don't want to know. You put on blinders
and you don't want to know a baby's coming. You've
(25:27):
already got one son, but there's no doubt about it. Listen. Soon,
Heather becomes a regular at the Coach's weekly happy hour
at the local bar. David spends more and more time
talking to her alone. They were spending a lot of
time kind of segueing off on their own, separate from
(25:47):
the group, and people started to look at them like
they were kind of a couple. There were a lot
of people who didn't actually know that David was married.
The romance escalates, Heather invites David over to her apartment
and the relationship goes from exciting flirtation to a full
(26:11):
blown erotic affair behind David's pregnant wife's back. When I
learned he was having an affair, I was not surprised
at all. David is completely caught up in the exciting
and beautiful English teacher, and she feels the same way.
(26:33):
They were both lusting after each other, almost addicted to
one another. They couldn't stay away, they didn't want to
stay away. They were each other's drop. David temple cheating,
and even worse, cheating openly with a new hot teacher
at his own school, where he's a chief football coach.
(26:53):
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