October 5, 2025 • 38 mins
A six-million-dollar mansion, a bitter divorce, and a midnight shooting that left a 12-year-old dead—then a not guilty verdict that stunned Texas. We retrace the aftermath of the Cullen and Priscilla Davis case and examine how venue changes, narrative warfare, and community loyalty can bend the arc of justice. From Racehorse Haynes’s masterclass in defense strategy to a courtroom culture that felt more like a fan convention, we unpack how a jury heard two eyewitnesses, zero physical evidence, and a thousand rumors—and still walked a wealthy defendant out the front door.
The story doesn’t end there. When the divorce court kept ruling against him, a murder-for-hire scheme targeted the judge and Priscilla. An ally flipped to the FBI, staged macabre photos with ketchup “blood,” and recorded the payoff in a diner parking lot. On tape, with cash in hand, the case seemed unloseable—until the defense floated a wild counter: he was “helping” the FBI. Despite the Bureau’s denial, another jury acquitted. We explore why that argument resonated, what it reveals about juror psychology, and how hometown prestige, oil money, and media frenzy intertwined to shape both trials.
Along the way, we reflect on the victims who too often vanish in the glare: Andrea, a young girl whose death became a footnote, and Stan Farr, remembered mostly for how the case treated his family afterward. We follow the mansion’s strange second lives, the fall of Ken Davis Industries, and the uneasy legacy of a case that still feels modern in all the worst ways. If you care about true crime beyond headlines—jury dynamics, defense tactics, and the real cost to families—you’ll find this chapter of Texas history impossible to forget.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:17):
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All right, Chris, we are here totalk about part two of Colin and
Priscilla Davis.
SPEAKER_03 (01:57):
Yes, so in part one, we really led up to um the
murder.
Essentially, this is going to beall the aftermath that kind of
falls out.
And so it really set the stage.
Cole and Priscilla Davis um werein kind of the throes of a
divorce.
About two years have pass thispoint.
He was not really getting muchof what he wanted in the way
from the divorce, um, divorcecourt.
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And the judge was really kind ofawarding her most the divorce
was not final, of course, atthis stage, but she was getting
the best of the deal.
And so Priscilla was shot.
Stanfar her boyfriend was shotand murdered.
Um, most importantly, as well,too.
Her her daughter, 12-year-olddaughter Andrea was shot uh at
their Fort Worth mansion.
(02:39):
And Cullen is uh the mainsuspect at this stage.
SPEAKER_00 (02:43):
I eyewitness identified um by Priscilla and
Priscilla's friend at the end ofthe day.
SPEAKER_03 (02:49):
Well, that they see his face.
They see um they see him wearingyou know a just a wig and dark
clothing.
Yeah.
But he is identified by by her,and of course, another witness,
her friend, uh Beverly, whoshowed up as well.
And so um he um he is called, ofcourse, by his brother and told
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um that you know Priscilla'sbeen shot, Andrea's dead, um,
you know, according to reports,not that much phased by this
statement.
And of course, his brother says,and by the way, you're a suspect
in this murder.
Uh he is picked up by thepolice, of course, uh charged
with two counts of capitalmurder.
And uh, you know, obviously veryserious offense, um, but he is a
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wealthy man.
And so what does a wealthy mando when they are certainly in
sort of legal trouble?
They're gonna hire the best uhbest defense attorney that they
can.
And so he chose uh a gentlemanout of Houston, uh Tim Ray's
horse Haynes, who reallyspecialized in kind of getting
the guilty free.
And of course, uh he at thispoint had not gotten um, you
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know, never had a case quitethis high profile.
So for him is a chance to ofcourse bolster his himself or
himself, not not himself, um,you know, in the legal realm if
he can get this guy off, youknow.
And of course, um knowing thatyou're taking this high profile,
I mean, that's kind of a biggoing to be a big toll, you
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know.
And so one of the key elementsthat really he did for this case
was get it moved out of TarrantCounty to Amarillo, Texas.
Um he felt like, you know, thiswas such a high profile.
Uh Colin Davis is really one ofthe richest people in Texas.
SPEAKER_00 (04:31):
Um I think at the time, Chris, you know, we're
talking, we're at what is this,like 76.
This is 1976.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:39):
So you were murder happened August 2nd, so 1976.
SPEAKER_00 (04:43):
So at the time, I think he said they said he was
the richest man to ever be triedin Texas.
SPEAKER_03 (04:49):
Like that's no, the richest man to ever be tried for
murder may still be.
I mean, I don't know about that,but of course at the time he he
was the richest man to ever beon the top.
SPEAKER_00 (04:58):
Yeah, so this was this was a big this was a big
deal.
And then not only that, but cometo find out that Racehorse
Haynes moves it to Amarillo, andColin Davis has a work
associates there.
SPEAKER_03 (05:14):
Well, I mean, that was all by design.
He he said, let's move toAmarillo.
This is a small little WestTexas town, uh, kind of duped
the prosecutor and the judge,and you know, really, because at
this stage leading up to thetrial, um, this is a media
frenzy.
You know, I mean, everybody'stalking about it.
He's concerned about the jurypool being tainted, of course,
by the story, and so yes, we'regonna go to West Texas.
(05:37):
Um, prosecution doesn't reallythink much about this.
Yeah, good idea.
Let's go to a little small town,totally agree.
And as you said, um Amarillo isan oil town.
Uh, this guy is uh the owner ofKen Davis Industries, or him and
his brothers, uh the number oneselling, you know, oil-filled uh
product, you know, equipment,anything you can imagine.
(05:59):
And so, yeah, he's got someties, lots of ties.
He's looked upon very highly inthat community.
And so that was kind of part ofthe play of the defense was to
put him in a place where he iswell liked and of course um run
a smear campaign againstPriscilla.
Priscilla.
Yeah.
And that wasn't a hard thing todo, unfortunately.
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Um, you know, obviously we hadspoke earlier about their kind
of wildlife.
She had been living in thishouse.
Um, you know, when when theysplit up, they split up in 1974.
That's when the filed fordivorce.
And so, you know, having wildparties.
A lot of the, you know, a lot ofpeople, of course, this is the
70s, mid-70s.
Um, you know, there's suspicionof swinger parties going on,
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orgies, as they say.
And of course, this little smallTexas town here, all these
stories really um She didn'thave a chance.
Well, it's not she's not ontrial, but it is as though she
is on trial.
Right.
And they really paint her inthat light.
And so, you know, that waspretty instrumental by doing
this.
Of course, she kind of knew thisheading in the heading in the
heading into the um the trial.
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You know, I think they evendescribed um, you know, her
dress.
She dressed very I mean, Iwouldn't say she dressed
inappropriately, she just wasvery um revealing in her attire
leading up to this.
So, you know, she showed up, asthey said, in kind of a little
house on the prairie kind ofdress, yeah, a frock of sorts
that was up, you know, neck highand covering all of her arms.
(07:26):
Of course, they did make thestatement that that didn't
really change the change theopinion.
But really, yes, she was kind ofput on trial.
And they had no physicalevidence in this case.
And so I think from thatstandpoint, um, you know, they
did catch her lying on stand.
Um, one of the things theyreally tried to paint that she
was a drug addict.
Yeah, and so they it was prettywell known that she took
(07:47):
Percadan, to which she said thatshe didn't.
And I don't know how on earththat the um defense attorneys
were able to present receiptswhere she had bought that
medication.
I mean, I always thought aboutthat too.
Yeah, I mean, it's 1976.
SPEAKER_00 (08:06):
Receipts from a pharmacy, right?
I mean, that's kind of where mymind goes.
You don't I mean, did you haveto have prescriptions?
SPEAKER_03 (08:13):
I don't know if there was like HIPAA back then,
like where you're you know, didyou have could you have
prescriptions and your yourhealth information was private?
I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (08:24):
I think like that's in the era of the before the
internet, before like electronicfiles, right?
SPEAKER_03 (08:30):
So you probably had everything in a file folder in a
doctor's office, or I guess it'sum I mean uh maybe they're able
to subpoena it because it'ssomehow it's relevant to the
case, but I thought it was alittle odd.
I mean, but yeah, her purchasingfrom a pharmacy.
I mean, obviously you have tohave prescriptions, you can't
just walk to the pharmacy andsay, I want some percadans.
(08:50):
Yeah, but I think they reallykind of painted her.
They brought lots of witnesseson the stand to kind of you know
paint her in a bad light.
There were parties there, youknow, claimed that she did, you
know, cocaine and whatever wasgoing on.
SPEAKER_00 (09:02):
And she denied everything, by the way.
SPEAKER_03 (09:04):
Well, she denied there's no doubt there were
parties going on.
Yeah, okay.
This house, I mean, we've talkedat length about the house in the
first episode.
This is um, if you're gonnathrow a party, probably the
house to do it.
You know, we're talking at thetime, six million dollar
fortress, and um yeah, she wasliving the lifestyle.
There was people in and out ofthere.
There is no doubt.
And so they're kind of raisedthat reasonable doubt.
(09:25):
Well, if she's hanging aroundwith all these people that are
partying due to drugs, it's1976, what's the natural thing?
Oh, you're hanging around drugdealers, hanging around bad
people, bad things are gonnahappen.
And so I think they did anexcellent job of kind of saying,
well, it could be anybody.
Why why do you think it'sCullen?
You know, you could have owedmoney to a drug dealer, you
could have done this, Stan, youknow, could have owed money too.
(09:45):
And so, you know, the thing wasthere was the motive was there
for him to do it, but there wasreally no evidence.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
Well, and I also think it's important to note
like it's not like he had some afew business associates in
Amarillo, and so that just tieshim.
Women were baking him cookies,they were bringing him Bibles,
people were bringing likesupporting him in this
community.
SPEAKER_03 (10:11):
I mean Well, he probably even beyond business
probably employed these people.
I mean, there's I'm not sure ifthey had warehouses in um he
certainly sold a lot of thesebusinesses, but yeah, you know,
he was looked up um how they uhas a rock star, essentially.
That's how I described, youknow, he's a rich man.
Yeah, and you have thewealthiest man in Texas, you
know, and so I mean people arethinking, oh well, how on earth
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could this lovely gentleman dothis to this, you know, this
little harlot that he's married,and she's out there running
around trying to take his moneyand live in his house, and and
this, you know, she got what shedeserved.
It couldn't have been him.
I mean, that's the picture thatthe public is certainly trying
to paint.
unknown (10:49):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:51):
But I guess that's my point to all of this is like
that's this isn't that's noteven like what this trial is
about.
This trial, this trial is aboutright, the murder of a
12-year-old, which is kind ofwhen you sit and think about it,
and the support from thecommunity that they're giving to
him, knowing that he is accusedof killing a child.
(11:14):
And so I think we see this evenwhen we're Chris, when you're
gonna talk about like the secondcase, the second trial, and then
you know, kind of what happensto this.
But I think that is just so lostin all of this.
And I and I'm and I'm sure thatthe her atter Priscilla's
attorneys felt this way, but umit is kind of wild to look to
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see the public's reaction to aguy that has money like that,
but in all of this, he isaccused of killing a child.
It's just very strange howpeople react.
SPEAKER_03 (11:48):
Killing a child and a man and step farm and shooting
um Beverly's uh boyfriend Bubbaand paralyzing him.
And so, yeah, I mean,Priscilla's not on trial, she
just called by the fence as awitness, you know, to um I mean,
because he never even takes astand in this case.
Um, but you know, to kind of youknow, we can panther on back
(12:11):
about how they basically slamher, but everything that the
fence did, it did work because,you know, one year later, or
what I guess about fourteenmonths later in 77, uh jury goes
to deliberate and takes themfour hours to return a verdict
of not guilty.
(12:32):
And so he's a free man.
SPEAKER_00 (12:36):
Um, but they throw I didn't know this.
I didn't know about the partythey threw after he's
exonerated.
They actually throw a party, um,his attorneys, um, people that
were in the courtroom, uh hisassistants.
SPEAKER_02 (12:50):
The bailiffs, the uh jurors, the bailiffs, even the
judge shows up.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
Yes, like again, unbelievable, not surprised, but
a little unbelievable.
Um, but this happens, you know,again, an accused child killer,
but now he's off.
But God, it's just kind of it'sjust disheartening to see
sometimes.
You know, the justice system, Idon't know, has it changed much?
(13:16):
I don't know.
We still see this stuff kind of,you know, even today.
SPEAKER_03 (13:20):
Well, he's a free man.
He is, he's a free man.
He's uh obviously uh has no umno step closer to finding out or
you know, the person who'sguilty for murdering her
daughter and her boyfriend.
Um but they still have somedealings within the courtroom,
and this is of course thedivorce trial.
And things are still not goingwell for him in this realm.
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I mean, you know, his money,wealth, and power in the murder
trial, you know, we had thejudge did not like him.
Well, I don't know that theylike him, but I mean it's
different.
He had groupies there signingautographs, it's that nobody was
there at the divorce trial.
And this judge was having no,you know, not not having any
nonsense.
And he really um he was rulinguh at every turn in favor of
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Priscilla.
He was and so this was, youknow, as they said, this is a
man used to getting what hewanted at every turn, and he was
not getting what he wanted, andso he needed to make sure that
he did.
So he um, you know, it's kind ofit's just this is the craziest
part.
I mean, it's all crazy, but aswe get into it, but you know, he
is approached by his friendDavid McCrory, where actually I
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believe he approaches DavidMcCrory about wanting to um have
both the judge and his divorcetrial, Judge Edson and Priscilla
both murdered.
And so David kind of obviouslythis is a little probably a bit
much he can handle.
He reaches out to the FBI andtells them that you know this is
what he's been approached bycolon.
(14:49):
And so they say, go ahead and goalong with you know with this
plan.
Let's see if we can kind ofcatch him.
And what David does is um, youknow, they they involve the
judge, they take some photos ofthe judge, kind of fake ones of
him in the back of DavidMcCrory's trunk in his car,
which I think it's funny.
They use ketchup packets to looklike he was shot in the back,
(15:10):
and take some black and whitephotos, and then he meets David
at a um it's very interesting.
Um they met at this restaurantcalled Coco's in Fort Worth, and
just it reminds me of a placethat used to be in Dallas.
There was a Coco's in Dallastoo, that kind of a late night
burger diner place, whatever.
But met him there in the parkinglot, and of course, David shows
the pictures, and he's got atape recorder and he says, Hey,
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I got this judge dead for you, Iget anybody else dead for you.
Once he sees the pictures, heturns around and hands David
McCorrey$25,000.
Cash.
David hops out the car.
Of course, Colin kind of headsdown the road, stops to make a
phone call at a payphone, andinstantly is surrounded by
police and FBI.
And so, once again, back in hotwater, you know, for arrested
(15:54):
for solicitation to commitmurder.
Exactly.
So, two people.
So, once again, like, man, didagain the first time we're gonna
get him for this.
SPEAKER_00 (16:02):
Look at the arrogance.
So, this guy, I've already toldyou, I I think this guy's a
sociopath, and I'll finish mycomments at the end of this
episode.
Um, just because of recentthings that I that I have read,
like within the last few years,um, the family of the victims
and and how they felt aboutcolon and their forgiveness and
all of this stuff.
(16:23):
But this guy, to the then to notonly be acquitted for, you know,
two two counts of capitalmurder, you're now a free man,
it's not enough.
You're not getting enough.
You want your house back, right?
You want your you want your lifeback.
You've had it with this judge,you've had it with your ex-wife,
or not yet ex-wife, but soon tobe.
(16:46):
And now you have solicitation ofmurder.
He thinks he's untouchable,right?
I think he thinks at this pointhe can get away with just about
anything.
SPEAKER_03 (16:53):
You know, he's picked up.
He they he's picked up.
They got a lot of evidence.
They have a video recording ofhim and the meeting.
They have, of course, videotape.
I'm not video, um, not videocassette recording.
My apologies.
Audio recording, cassette, ofcourse, at this time, of him
making this deal.
And they also have$25,000 incash that he gave to David
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McCrory.
So, I mean, you know, this timethere's no we're gonna move this
trial to some little smallWestsex town.
It's tried in Terrant County.
And, you know, they think theygot him.
So once again, you know, whodoes he call?
Um Racehorse Haynes to be hisattorney.
And so I thought it's kind ofinteresting that, you know,
Racehorse Haynes said he wouldrepresent him, but I think at
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the time um said he would do itfor two million dollars, which
is such an ungodly amount ofmoney for a representation by an
attorney.
And I guess he figured he, youknow, if the the legend is he
felt like he was underpaid forgetting him off for, you know,
double homicide, I guess.
And so, uh, but lo and behold,yeah, he's he gets that money.
(17:59):
And so, but I mean that's a it'sa tall hill to climb, you
consider all this evidence thatthey have.
And so, you know, and it's thesame scene at the courthouse.
There's you know, people there,he's signing autographs and and
um, you know, eating good,everything is there, and so
eventually, um, you know,they're it's the day of you
know, jury goes back to it takesthem back to, you know, they
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have to go deliberate.
It takes them two and a halfdays to come back with a
verdict.
And um, you know, I think one ofthe big it's interesting defense
that they presented is thatColan was you know, his defense
was that he actually was workingfor the FBI and he was
undercover, and that you know,he was trying to get David
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McCory was the bad guy, and hewas into some nefarious business
dealings, and the FBI reachedout to him, which they deny, of
course.
SPEAKER_00 (18:51):
Right.
FBI says we are not working withthis guy, he's not helping.
SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
The jury hears all this stuff.
They clearly they know he's not.
I mean, it's just like one ofthose things you watch it, you
hear it, you listen to it.
I mean, he's guilty.
SPEAKER_01 (19:02):
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (19:03):
And so in two and a half days, um, they realize it
took them that long to figureout that he wasn't guilty
guilty.
So once again, not guilty aswell.
Not guilty, you know, and justum I thought it was interesting.
We didn't really mention ithere.
Um the first trial, they didlearn years afterwards that he
his defense team had bribedsomebody on the prosecution
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side.
Simply, I mean, it's stillcheating, but they what their
essentially what theirprosecution, what their angle
was, their plan.
And so, you know, that probablyhelped them tailor, you know.
This time, I mean, who knows?
We never heard anything afterthe fact.
There's really nothing ifsomebody was bribed again or
what they knew.
Because I mean, it's just likeone of those things where you
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look like you look at it andlike, how much more evidence do
you need to know?
Right, like to prove this guy,this guy's a bad guy.
And once again, you know, justthe the public eye, you know,
they really she wasn't the oneon trial, but just to believe
that goofy story that he wasworking for the FBI and that's
why he had all this money.
And so that's of course, yes,that's why he was uh trying to
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set this deal.
That's why he was answering allhis questions, that's why he was
trying to set her up because heclearly was trying to get David
McCroy in trouble.
SPEAKER_00 (20:16):
Yeah, I don't wanna I don't want to think that our
jurors are um uh the not uh thatdumb, right?
Like we we tr we leave it up toour justice system to pick to to
to you are you are innocentuntil proven guilty.
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You have a court, a group ofyour peers that can decide your
fate, and we and the and thepeople who put who dedicate
their lives in the justicesystem, and then we in the
public expect justice, right,based on the evidence, based on
what's brought to court.
And then you have this you havesuch blatant evidence and such
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direct evidence tying him to toto killing a a public servant, a
judge in the courts, not justhis ex-wife, not just some woman
who but but a but a a courtofficial, a judge.
And I mean the arrogance, right?
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The arrogance.
And by the way, in the firsttrial, he was supposed to pay
$250,000 to Stan Farr's family.
Stan Farr's family has stillnever seen a dime of that money.
And they actually forgave Colonfor this, but Colin had said
that he would actually meet withtheir family, but he was not
going to be paying any sort ofrestitution monetarily because
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he was not actually the killer.
So that's why he's never goingto pay that money, is because he
didn't do it.
Well, I think he did, and Ithink he knows he did.
And that's why this case is sofrustrating.
It it's it's a it's our ourjustice system not doing and
making the right decisions tohave this guy serve the time
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that he should have, not justfor double capital murder, but
because and but for doublesolicitation of murder.
And I've covered a lot ofpeople, Chris.
We've done a lot ofinvestigations, and this is um
some top sociopathic arrogance,in my opinion.
It's hard to look past the theum his ability to think that I
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mean it worked.
And you know, money talks.
Yeah, I have to think if ColinDavis was poor and he was on
trial for these two things, thathe might have probably died in
prison.
So it's just very hard to getpast the whole like good old boy
thing.
And, you know, is this stillsomething we're dealing with
today?
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Yeah, but I mean, money talks.
SPEAKER_03 (22:49):
And yeah, I you know it's you that said there's no
evidence that anybody was paidoff or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00 (22:56):
That's right.
SPEAKER_03 (22:57):
Um, you know, I think the judge in the case even
uttered uh they said anexpletive whenever they came out
with the not guilty and got upand walked out.
So he certainly wasn't paid, youknow, probably most likely.
SPEAKER_00 (23:08):
And you expect the jurors to get it right when the
evidence is presented in theappropriate and right way.
And it's mind-boggling.
So I have I have I absolutelyunderstand the frustration of
this job.
SPEAKER_03 (23:21):
I think you know, I think the notion of I'm working
for the FBI and the FBI says,No, you're not, and then a juror
that was to hear that would say,Okay, I mean, then there's no
reasonable doubt.
But they're like, Oh, yeah,maybe we used him as a witness
on something and he was working.
I mean, I could see, but yeah, Imean, it's um it is kind of
crazy, but but he walks awayfree.
(23:42):
Um, you know, his luck starts toget a little better.
Uh, the judge in his divorcecase, Judge Edelson, Edson, I'm
sorry, not Edelson.
Uh it's a doctor at the place Iwork for.
Um, you know, he ends upstepping down from the divorce
proceedings.
And so, you know, a new judgesteps in, and he certainly is
(24:03):
not quite the same type ofjudge.
He does end up awarding, uh, youknow, the divorce does become
final.
He does, you know, Cullen getshis house back, which what he
wanted all the whole time, youknow, the main motive of you
know the murder, the murders, myapologies.
And um, but he does get thehouse back.
You know, she was asking for, Ibelieve, a hundred million
dollars.
(24:24):
I think she got three point twofive million in the deal, uh,
which I think um you know it'skind of said she just was over
and done with it.
What's the sense of even pushingthis on?
At this time, the divorce hasbeen going on since 74.
So was this 79, probably afterthis trial.
Um, so yeah, that's quite a fewyears.
I mean, over and done with.
(24:45):
You know, and he moves on.
Of course, he finds God.
SPEAKER_00 (24:49):
Uh soon after, I think.
Uh well, soon soon you know afew years within a couple years,
I think.
SPEAKER_03 (24:55):
Well, during uh really during the second trial,
he already had kind of foundGod, as he said.
He was devoting his life tothat.
Um, you know, luck was good.
SPEAKER_00 (25:04):
But after the solicitation of double murder.
SPEAKER_03 (25:06):
Um, I think it was kind of a round time.
Yeah, I think it was kind ofaround time.
But anyways, he uh gets thehouse, but he has good luck
then, but you know, the um theoil business certainly takes a
pretty big decline around thistime in Texas too, you know,
beginning of the 80s.
And so Ken Davis Industries endsup kind of going belly up.
(25:27):
He does become broke.
SPEAKER_00 (25:29):
Um loses everything, I think.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (25:31):
Loses everything.
You know, they end up having ussell this um yeah this house.
Um, you know, we were kind oflooking into it.
This house has had manydifferent lives after this
event.
You know, it's been um, I thinkwe determined um that it was you
know a Mexican restaurant atsome point.
SPEAKER_00 (25:49):
Church at some point.
SPEAKER_03 (25:50):
Uh it's a church now.
SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Oh, it is a church now.
SPEAKER_03 (25:52):
It's currently a church.
And so, you know, you can lookup, I mean, you can go out and
check this place out.
I mean, it it's it's stilllegit.
It's it's quite a sprawling.
It's it's interesting it was achurch though, too, knowing that
there were two murders.
I just thought that was an oddchoice for a church to um and
not the church that he'sassociated with.
SPEAKER_00 (26:11):
Um, well, you know, the church that Missy Beavers
was murdered in is still achurch, so and a daycare center.
SPEAKER_03 (26:16):
So but it was already a church, and so I get
that.
But like to buy a place thatturned it into a church.
And then turn it knowing thatyou already got that bad juju
there and just know it, but youknow, it's kind of funny.
I mean, you think about the umyou know the wild parties being
thrown there and it's so, but Idon't know, is that somehow the
are they uh making a statementthat you know we're not gonna
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let evil deter us from possibly.
I guess I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (26:43):
But I mean it's um This was a big case though.
SPEAKER_00 (26:46):
Like I'm huge case, and you know it's it's I um
there's a couple books on it,lots of different series people
can watch on it.
SPEAKER_03 (26:54):
This book, um the how I got interested in this
case, my mother.
I still have this book.
It looks all ratty.
You can see it.
It's called Final Justice.
Uh it's by Stephen Nefey andGregory Whitesmith.
Um it was written in the 90s.
Highly recommend.
I mean, it it's better thananything out there on the if you
just want to see all the littlenitty-gritty details.
(27:16):
Yeah, there's really a lot ofgreat information to just kind
of there is you know, from thefirst trial, there's infighting
with the prosecution, and just Imean, it's it's all kinds of
different little angles, youknow.
She um, you know, he goes off,he finds God, loses money, you
know, in and out of the house.
SPEAKER_00 (27:32):
He gets remarried.
SPEAKER_03 (27:33):
Gets remarried.
SPEAKER_00 (27:34):
I think he was married to this woman.
By the way, he went through adivorce not that long ago.
I would say within the lastfive, I'm gonna say maybe like
five to eight years.
I mean, I think I believe he wasin his 70s when he ended up
getting a divorce because he wasmarried to her.
You know her name.
I can't remember her name, butit's Karen Masters.
(27:55):
Yeah, it was the secretary,yeah.
Yeah, she was supporting himthrough the trials.
SPEAKER_03 (28:00):
Yeah, they got divorced.
SPEAKER_00 (28:01):
They got divorced, but he but he was married to her
for a long time, according to myI mean, I think that's what I
saw.
And then, but but they had uh Idid not know they had gotten
divorced when she, you know, sowell I had I had always so you
know, obviously this happened.
SPEAKER_03 (28:18):
I was pretty young, no knowledge of this.
I after I read the book, I'dalways suspected that um like
growing up the series Dallas washuge, uh huge everywhere, huge
in Texas too.
And so watching that, you know,all those years after that, and
there is I swear as it's likethey must have based Dallas off
(28:40):
of oh just that that thisstoryline to some degree, you
know.
I mean, just the wild parties,the money, the you know, the
salaciousness and all the stuffgoing on.
I mean, it's just it's it's ripefor that, you know.
And I and we had discussed too,I'm surprised that you know
there's a really hokey moviewith like Heather Lock Lear
(29:00):
plays her and it's a made forTV, like how this never got
turned into like a movie series.
I mean, this there's so muchinformation, like a series.
SPEAKER_00 (29:12):
Um, well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (29:14):
But does he have maybe he does?
SPEAKER_00 (29:16):
I mean, obviously at one point, you know, well, I'm
assuming if he found God, hedoesn't want it, he wanted this
in the like the reason.
SPEAKER_03 (29:24):
But I mean he would have he would have had to give
uh given the rights to make themovie though, the Maverick TV
movie, and why not havesomething?
I mean, it's just it'd be agreat story and for really
people to see.
I mean, I I Yeah.
I mean, think about um oh, theseries Candy that we watched.
Like we did that story.
(29:45):
But it's a you know, I mean,when they came out, it just it
really brought a lot more lightto that case and stuff, you
know.
I mean, I just I don't know.
It'd be great for something likethat.
SPEAKER_00 (29:53):
Yeah.
Well, maybe um maybe it'llhappen one day. 'Cause I think
there's You know, there's a lotof family members still alive of
the victims too.
They could have Yeah, they wouldreally like to.
SPEAKER_03 (30:06):
I mean, they they'd like to never know.
SPEAKER_00 (30:07):
You know, it's um there's a lot of unanswered
questions.
He was found not guilty, youknow.
So there's still a lot of like alike holding accountability
that, you know, some closurethat they've never really
received.
SPEAKER_03 (30:19):
And well, I mean, and that was the big thing with
the murder trial.
Like, you know, since there wereso many people in and out of the
house that they probably didn'tknow half of them because they
were always partying there everyother weekend.
You know, and because that wasthe big thing too.
Like her boyfriend was kind ofhanging around drug dealers and
(30:41):
biker gangs and things likethat.
Did he owe money to somebody?
The thing that doesn't makereally make sense though is why
would the little girl get shot?
I mean That's right.
What's the motive for that?
SPEAKER_00 (30:52):
Yeah, you typically don't have somebody just coming
in and starting shooting and atrandom people.
I mean, this isn't it was Imean, and then you have two
eyewitnesses that uh it didn'tsay they saw him.
SPEAKER_03 (31:07):
The high security of this house and the fact that um
the 12-year-old knew how to armthe alarm and that when she came
home that night on August 2nd,1976, the alarm was off and
disabled.
SPEAKER_00 (31:20):
That's right.
SPEAKER_03 (31:21):
And so, you know, there were so many angles.
I I think though, the the publicopinion and just everything, it
was more about her being the badguy, he's the good guy, and just
all about her.
And that's the shame of thiswhole thing that really gets
lost.
SPEAKER_00 (31:35):
Oh, I mean, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03 (31:36):
With the kid with uh with her daughter being murdered
in Stan.
And you don't ever get shot to.
SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Well, and that's the thing.
You don't ever really hear abouteither of those.
The whole time you're listeningabout what it was happening in
Amarillo at the time, the wholetime you're listening about the
with the solicitation of doublemurder with the judge and
Priscilla, like you don't hearone lick of what he a child
killer.
And then what was the deal aboutone of the sheriffs?
(32:03):
Was it the sheriff of TarrantCounty at the time who got
invited to his birthday party?
He threw himself a birthdayparty.
SPEAKER_03 (32:11):
That was during the second trial.
SPEAKER_00 (32:12):
Yes.
So he throws himself, ColinDavis throws himself a birthday
party, invites the sheriff ofTarrant County, and he comes to
the party.
And the in in the the defenseteam had spoken about the fact
that they couldn't believe thatthe sheriff, the sheriff is is
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going to the party of a child ofa possible child killer.
I mean, it was a very strangetime, Chris, for me to wrap my
head about everything that washappening in these two trials
within Amarillo, and then youhave Tarrant County, and it's
like I mean, it's pretty, it'spretty mind-boggling when you're
trying, when you're really intothis case and realize all of
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these powerful people, andsomething could have been done,
and nothing was done.
He was celebrated, and it's justsick.
It's just really hard to thinkabout as a mother what Priscilla
was really dealing with.
Not only was she put on thestand and completely torn apart,
but but to lose a child, andthen to know that there would be
(33:21):
no accountability because he hadmoney and people loved him, and
then you're destroyed on thestand, and then he's still not,
and then he's trying, and thenhe wants to have you killed, so
he hires someone to kill you,and then he goes to trial for
that too.
And he and it's like I mean,just I can't just imagine the
(33:42):
dread that she probably feltgoing through all of this, just
knowing what he did, and it'sjust terrible.
SPEAKER_03 (33:50):
All over house, all over a house.
SPEAKER_00 (33:53):
Yeah, that's what he I know.
It's just it's just now now ahundred million.
I don't know if they weremarried long enough for that.
I mean, I don't know where thatnumber comes from, if that was
just something she was asking.
Uh to me though, maybe thatnumber involved a little bit of
accountability for what happenedto our daughter Chris, just like
(34:14):
Stanley.
SPEAKER_03 (34:15):
No, I'm sure that that that was initial.
SPEAKER_00 (34:16):
I mean, think about civil trials that went with some
of this, you know?
SPEAKER_03 (34:22):
Well, think about if we know that his house cost six
million dollars to build innineteen seventy three or four,
and today's money that'sforty-three million.
What the fuck is a hundredmillion dollars worth in today's
money?
So yeah, that was probably Imean crazy amount of money.
SPEAKER_00 (34:44):
Like, I guess I'm just trying to like wrap my head
also, like, where did thatnumber come from?
SPEAKER_03 (34:49):
We're talking billions.
SPEAKER_00 (34:50):
I know.
That's what I'm saying.
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (34:53):
Billion.
Well, how much would it be?
SPEAKER_00 (34:54):
Was it a lot?
So it's just a very eccentric,it's just a very eccentric um
Yeah, like eight hundred andsomething million dollars.
SPEAKER_03 (35:06):
Like it it that's it's almost a billion dollars.
So yeah, you're asking for thatfor somebody you were married to
for sixty-nine to seventy fiveyears, you know.
SPEAKER_00 (35:17):
It's just very eccentric on both sides, right?
SPEAKER_03 (35:19):
I mean, and that was the other thing, you know, like
his brothers were getting angrywith him during this divorce,
too, because a lot of what thisjudge was doing, like the the
company was in financialdisarray too, because she was in
order for them to sell things,and like um she had to be the
final not veto, but the finalokay, somehow she got that power
(35:42):
that this judge had given her.
And so they were losing moneytoo, and she was really poised
to you know, if the girl if thejudge had granted divorce and
she was awarded a hundredmillion dollars, um you know, he
may have not been the richestman in Texas anymore.
She might have been one of therichest women in Texas.
Yeah.
I mean, for her worth and value.
I mean, so yeah, I mean, he umhe had a lot uh strong motive to
(36:07):
do what he was um accused ofdoing and eventually found not
guilty.
But you know, it's just wildstory, money, you know.
I mean, it still plays outtoday, too.
People with money can get off ofstuff.
SPEAKER_00 (36:21):
I mean, well, he is um he's still alive, living his
life.
Priscilla died at age 59 ofbreast cancer.
Um the this uh Priscilla andColin Davis, Chris.
I remember we us talking to ourparents because you're right, we
were I mean, I think I was I wasjust born.
Um, so I there were a lot ofquestions I had about like what
(36:43):
was the I always like to knowlike what was the environment
like at that time, what was thecourt like?
What were people thinking in thein in DFW at the time of all of
this?
And so it's just veryinteresting.
So if you want to take a really,really deep dive, um a great
book like Chris said, FinalJustice.
SPEAKER_03 (37:01):
Um, but yeah, that's one thing of note I thought was
kind of interesting in talkingwith my father about we were
doing this case, and he's like,you know, you probably don't
remember meeting her, but youknow, come to find out she
actually attended my sister'swedding in 1988.
Priscilla, that's it.
Oh, that's right.
Which uh, you know, I guess heknew um I can't remember the guy
(37:22):
that she accompanied her, but myfather knew him.
I'm not sure what the ties were,who invited her, what side of
the family.
I thought that was kind ofinteresting, though.
Just a little side note.
I mean, I don't know, I was 15.
SPEAKER_00 (37:34):
Yeah.
That is interesting.
SPEAKER_03 (37:36):
Wow, I guess people can have to figure out my age.
But uh yeah, I thought that wasan interesting note.
I thought that was interesting.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (37:45):
Well, we always say Texas is so big, but it's
actually really small.
Yeah, it is really small.
All right.
Well, that was part one and parttwo of Priscilla and Colin
Davis.
Until next time, friends, staysafe, have fun, and cheers to
next time.
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All right, Chris, we are here totalk about part two of Colin and
Priscilla Davis.
SPEAKER_03 (01:57):
Yes, so in part one, we really led up to um the
murder.
Essentially, this is going to beall the aftermath that kind of
falls out.
And so it really set the stage.
Cole and Priscilla Davis um werein kind of the throes of a
divorce.
About two years have pass thispoint.
He was not really getting muchof what he wanted in the way
from the divorce, um, divorcecourt.
(02:18):
And the judge was really kind ofawarding her most the divorce
was not final, of course, atthis stage, but she was getting
the best of the deal.
And so Priscilla was shot.
Stanfar her boyfriend was shotand murdered.
Um, most importantly, as well,too.
Her her daughter, 12-year-olddaughter Andrea was shot uh at
their Fort Worth mansion.
(02:39):
And Cullen is uh the mainsuspect at this stage.
SPEAKER_00 (02:43):
I eyewitness identified um by Priscilla and
Priscilla's friend at the end ofthe day.
SPEAKER_03 (02:49):
Well, that they see his face.
They see um they see him wearingyou know a just a wig and dark
clothing.
Yeah.
But he is identified by by her,and of course, another witness,
her friend, uh Beverly, whoshowed up as well.
And so um he um he is called, ofcourse, by his brother and told
(03:10):
um that you know Priscilla'sbeen shot, Andrea's dead, um,
you know, according to reports,not that much phased by this
statement.
And of course, his brother says,and by the way, you're a suspect
in this murder.
Uh he is picked up by thepolice, of course, uh charged
with two counts of capitalmurder.
And uh, you know, obviously veryserious offense, um, but he is a
(03:31):
wealthy man.
And so what does a wealthy mando when they are certainly in
sort of legal trouble?
They're gonna hire the best uhbest defense attorney that they
can.
And so he chose uh a gentlemanout of Houston, uh Tim Ray's
horse Haynes, who reallyspecialized in kind of getting
the guilty free.
And of course, uh he at thispoint had not gotten um, you
(03:53):
know, never had a case quitethis high profile.
So for him is a chance to ofcourse bolster his himself or
himself, not not himself, um,you know, in the legal realm if
he can get this guy off, youknow.
And of course, um knowing thatyou're taking this high profile,
I mean, that's kind of a biggoing to be a big toll, you
(04:15):
know.
And so one of the key elementsthat really he did for this case
was get it moved out of TarrantCounty to Amarillo, Texas.
Um he felt like, you know, thiswas such a high profile.
Uh Colin Davis is really one ofthe richest people in Texas.
SPEAKER_00 (04:31):
Um I think at the time, Chris, you know, we're
talking, we're at what is this,like 76.
This is 1976.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:39):
So you were murder happened August 2nd, so 1976.
SPEAKER_00 (04:43):
So at the time, I think he said they said he was
the richest man to ever be triedin Texas.
SPEAKER_03 (04:49):
Like that's no, the richest man to ever be tried for
murder may still be.
I mean, I don't know about that,but of course at the time he he
was the richest man to ever beon the top.
SPEAKER_00 (04:58):
Yeah, so this was this was a big this was a big
deal.
And then not only that, but cometo find out that Racehorse
Haynes moves it to Amarillo, andColin Davis has a work
associates there.
SPEAKER_03 (05:14):
Well, I mean, that was all by design.
He he said, let's move toAmarillo.
This is a small little WestTexas town, uh, kind of duped
the prosecutor and the judge,and you know, really, because at
this stage leading up to thetrial, um, this is a media
frenzy.
You know, I mean, everybody'stalking about it.
He's concerned about the jurypool being tainted, of course,
by the story, and so yes, we'regonna go to West Texas.
(05:37):
Um, prosecution doesn't reallythink much about this.
Yeah, good idea.
Let's go to a little small town,totally agree.
And as you said, um Amarillo isan oil town.
Uh, this guy is uh the owner ofKen Davis Industries, or him and
his brothers, uh the number oneselling, you know, oil-filled uh
product, you know, equipment,anything you can imagine.
(05:59):
And so, yeah, he's got someties, lots of ties.
He's looked upon very highly inthat community.
And so that was kind of part ofthe play of the defense was to
put him in a place where he iswell liked and of course um run
a smear campaign againstPriscilla.
Priscilla.
Yeah.
And that wasn't a hard thing todo, unfortunately.
(06:20):
Um, you know, obviously we hadspoke earlier about their kind
of wildlife.
She had been living in thishouse.
Um, you know, when when theysplit up, they split up in 1974.
That's when the filed fordivorce.
And so, you know, having wildparties.
A lot of the, you know, a lot ofpeople, of course, this is the
70s, mid-70s.
Um, you know, there's suspicionof swinger parties going on,
(06:42):
orgies, as they say.
And of course, this little smallTexas town here, all these
stories really um She didn'thave a chance.
Well, it's not she's not ontrial, but it is as though she
is on trial.
Right.
And they really paint her inthat light.
And so, you know, that waspretty instrumental by doing
this.
Of course, she kind of knew thisheading in the heading in the
heading into the um the trial.
(07:04):
You know, I think they evendescribed um, you know, her
dress.
She dressed very I mean, Iwouldn't say she dressed
inappropriately, she just wasvery um revealing in her attire
leading up to this.
So, you know, she showed up, asthey said, in kind of a little
house on the prairie kind ofdress, yeah, a frock of sorts
that was up, you know, neck highand covering all of her arms.
(07:26):
Of course, they did make thestatement that that didn't
really change the change theopinion.
But really, yes, she was kind ofput on trial.
And they had no physicalevidence in this case.
And so I think from thatstandpoint, um, you know, they
did catch her lying on stand.
Um, one of the things theyreally tried to paint that she
was a drug addict.
Yeah, and so they it was prettywell known that she took
(07:47):
Percadan, to which she said thatshe didn't.
And I don't know how on earththat the um defense attorneys
were able to present receiptswhere she had bought that
medication.
I mean, I always thought aboutthat too.
Yeah, I mean, it's 1976.
SPEAKER_00 (08:06):
Receipts from a pharmacy, right?
I mean, that's kind of where mymind goes.
You don't I mean, did you haveto have prescriptions?
SPEAKER_03 (08:13):
I don't know if there was like HIPAA back then,
like where you're you know, didyou have could you have
prescriptions and your yourhealth information was private?
I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (08:24):
I think like that's in the era of the before the
internet, before like electronicfiles, right?
SPEAKER_03 (08:30):
So you probably had everything in a file folder in a
doctor's office, or I guess it'sum I mean uh maybe they're able
to subpoena it because it'ssomehow it's relevant to the
case, but I thought it was alittle odd.
I mean, but yeah, her purchasingfrom a pharmacy.
I mean, obviously you have tohave prescriptions, you can't
just walk to the pharmacy andsay, I want some percadans.
(08:50):
Yeah, but I think they reallykind of painted her.
They brought lots of witnesseson the stand to kind of you know
paint her in a bad light.
There were parties there, youknow, claimed that she did, you
know, cocaine and whatever wasgoing on.
SPEAKER_00 (09:02):
And she denied everything, by the way.
SPEAKER_03 (09:04):
Well, she denied there's no doubt there were
parties going on.
Yeah, okay.
This house, I mean, we've talkedat length about the house in the
first episode.
This is um, if you're gonnathrow a party, probably the
house to do it.
You know, we're talking at thetime, six million dollar
fortress, and um yeah, she wasliving the lifestyle.
There was people in and out ofthere.
There is no doubt.
And so they're kind of raisedthat reasonable doubt.
(09:25):
Well, if she's hanging aroundwith all these people that are
partying due to drugs, it's1976, what's the natural thing?
Oh, you're hanging around drugdealers, hanging around bad
people, bad things are gonnahappen.
And so I think they did anexcellent job of kind of saying,
well, it could be anybody.
Why why do you think it'sCullen?
You know, you could have owedmoney to a drug dealer, you
could have done this, Stan, youknow, could have owed money too.
(09:45):
And so, you know, the thing wasthere was the motive was there
for him to do it, but there wasreally no evidence.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
Well, and I also think it's important to note
like it's not like he had some afew business associates in
Amarillo, and so that just tieshim.
Women were baking him cookies,they were bringing him Bibles,
people were bringing likesupporting him in this
community.
SPEAKER_03 (10:11):
I mean Well, he probably even beyond business
probably employed these people.
I mean, there's I'm not sure ifthey had warehouses in um he
certainly sold a lot of thesebusinesses, but yeah, you know,
he was looked up um how they uhas a rock star, essentially.
That's how I described, youknow, he's a rich man.
Yeah, and you have thewealthiest man in Texas, you
know, and so I mean people arethinking, oh well, how on earth
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could this lovely gentleman dothis to this, you know, this
little harlot that he's married,and she's out there running
around trying to take his moneyand live in his house, and and
this, you know, she got what shedeserved.
It couldn't have been him.
I mean, that's the picture thatthe public is certainly trying
to paint.
unknown (10:49):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:51):
But I guess that's my point to all of this is like
that's this isn't that's noteven like what this trial is
about.
This trial, this trial is aboutright, the murder of a
12-year-old, which is kind ofwhen you sit and think about it,
and the support from thecommunity that they're giving to
him, knowing that he is accusedof killing a child.
(11:14):
And so I think we see this evenwhen we're Chris, when you're
gonna talk about like the secondcase, the second trial, and then
you know, kind of what happensto this.
But I think that is just so lostin all of this.
And I and I'm and I'm sure thatthe her atter Priscilla's
attorneys felt this way, but umit is kind of wild to look to
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see the public's reaction to aguy that has money like that,
but in all of this, he isaccused of killing a child.
It's just very strange howpeople react.
SPEAKER_03 (11:48):
Killing a child and a man and step farm and shooting
um Beverly's uh boyfriend Bubbaand paralyzing him.
And so, yeah, I mean,Priscilla's not on trial, she
just called by the fence as awitness, you know, to um I mean,
because he never even takes astand in this case.
Um, but you know, to kind of youknow, we can panther on back
(12:11):
about how they basically slamher, but everything that the
fence did, it did work because,you know, one year later, or
what I guess about fourteenmonths later in 77, uh jury goes
to deliberate and takes themfour hours to return a verdict
of not guilty.
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And so he's a free man.
SPEAKER_00 (12:36):
Um, but they throw I didn't know this.
I didn't know about the partythey threw after he's
exonerated.
They actually throw a party, um,his attorneys, um, people that
were in the courtroom, uh hisassistants.
SPEAKER_02 (12:50):
The bailiffs, the uh jurors, the bailiffs, even the
judge shows up.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
Yes, like again, unbelievable, not surprised, but
a little unbelievable.
Um, but this happens, you know,again, an accused child killer,
but now he's off.
But God, it's just kind of it'sjust disheartening to see
sometimes.
You know, the justice system, Idon't know, has it changed much?
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I don't know.
We still see this stuff kind of,you know, even today.
SPEAKER_03 (13:20):
Well, he's a free man.
He is, he's a free man.
He's uh obviously uh has no umno step closer to finding out or
you know, the person who'sguilty for murdering her
daughter and her boyfriend.
Um but they still have somedealings within the courtroom,
and this is of course thedivorce trial.
And things are still not goingwell for him in this realm.
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I mean, you know, his money,wealth, and power in the murder
trial, you know, we had thejudge did not like him.
Well, I don't know that theylike him, but I mean it's
different.
He had groupies there signingautographs, it's that nobody was
there at the divorce trial.
And this judge was having no,you know, not not having any
nonsense.
And he really um he was rulinguh at every turn in favor of
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Priscilla.
He was and so this was, youknow, as they said, this is a
man used to getting what hewanted at every turn, and he was
not getting what he wanted, andso he needed to make sure that
he did.
So he um, you know, it's kind ofit's just this is the craziest
part.
I mean, it's all crazy, but aswe get into it, but you know, he
is approached by his friendDavid McCrory, where actually I
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believe he approaches DavidMcCrory about wanting to um have
both the judge and his divorcetrial, Judge Edson and Priscilla
both murdered.
And so David kind of obviouslythis is a little probably a bit
much he can handle.
He reaches out to the FBI andtells them that you know this is
what he's been approached bycolon.
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And so they say, go ahead and goalong with you know with this
plan.
Let's see if we can kind ofcatch him.
And what David does is um, youknow, they they involve the
judge, they take some photos ofthe judge, kind of fake ones of
him in the back of DavidMcCrory's trunk in his car,
which I think it's funny.
They use ketchup packets to looklike he was shot in the back,
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and take some black and whitephotos, and then he meets David
at a um it's very interesting.
Um they met at this restaurantcalled Coco's in Fort Worth, and
just it reminds me of a placethat used to be in Dallas.
There was a Coco's in Dallastoo, that kind of a late night
burger diner place, whatever.
But met him there in the parkinglot, and of course, David shows
the pictures, and he's got atape recorder and he says, Hey,
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I got this judge dead for you, Iget anybody else dead for you.
Once he sees the pictures, heturns around and hands David
McCorrey$25,000.
Cash.
David hops out the car.
Of course, Colin kind of headsdown the road, stops to make a
phone call at a payphone, andinstantly is surrounded by
police and FBI.
And so, once again, back in hotwater, you know, for arrested
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for solicitation to commitmurder.
Exactly.
So, two people.
So, once again, like, man, didagain the first time we're gonna
get him for this.
SPEAKER_00 (16:02):
Look at the arrogance.
So, this guy, I've already toldyou, I I think this guy's a
sociopath, and I'll finish mycomments at the end of this
episode.
Um, just because of recentthings that I that I have read,
like within the last few years,um, the family of the victims
and and how they felt aboutcolon and their forgiveness and
all of this stuff.
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But this guy, to the then to notonly be acquitted for, you know,
two two counts of capitalmurder, you're now a free man,
it's not enough.
You're not getting enough.
You want your house back, right?
You want your you want your lifeback.
You've had it with this judge,you've had it with your ex-wife,
or not yet ex-wife, but soon tobe.
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And now you have solicitation ofmurder.
He thinks he's untouchable,right?
I think he thinks at this pointhe can get away with just about
anything.
SPEAKER_03 (16:53):
You know, he's picked up.
He they he's picked up.
They got a lot of evidence.
They have a video recording ofhim and the meeting.
They have, of course, videotape.
I'm not video, um, not videocassette recording.
My apologies.
Audio recording, cassette, ofcourse, at this time, of him
making this deal.
And they also have$25,000 incash that he gave to David
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McCrory.
So, I mean, you know, this timethere's no we're gonna move this
trial to some little smallWestsex town.
It's tried in Terrant County.
And, you know, they think theygot him.
So once again, you know, whodoes he call?
Um Racehorse Haynes to be hisattorney.
And so I thought it's kind ofinteresting that, you know,
Racehorse Haynes said he wouldrepresent him, but I think at
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the time um said he would do itfor two million dollars, which
is such an ungodly amount ofmoney for a representation by an
attorney.
And I guess he figured he, youknow, if the the legend is he
felt like he was underpaid forgetting him off for, you know,
double homicide, I guess.
And so, uh, but lo and behold,yeah, he's he gets that money.
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And so, but I mean that's a it'sa tall hill to climb, you
consider all this evidence thatthey have.
And so, you know, and it's thesame scene at the courthouse.
There's you know, people there,he's signing autographs and and
um, you know, eating good,everything is there, and so
eventually, um, you know,they're it's the day of you
know, jury goes back to it takesthem back to, you know, they
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have to go deliberate.
It takes them two and a halfdays to come back with a
verdict.
And um, you know, I think one ofthe big it's interesting defense
that they presented is thatColan was you know, his defense
was that he actually was workingfor the FBI and he was
undercover, and that you know,he was trying to get David
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McCory was the bad guy, and hewas into some nefarious business
dealings, and the FBI reachedout to him, which they deny, of
course.
SPEAKER_00 (18:51):
Right.
FBI says we are not working withthis guy, he's not helping.
SPEAKER_03 (18:54):
The jury hears all this stuff.
They clearly they know he's not.
I mean, it's just like one ofthose things you watch it, you
hear it, you listen to it.
I mean, he's guilty.
SPEAKER_01 (19:02):
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (19:03):
And so in two and a half days, um, they realize it
took them that long to figureout that he wasn't guilty
guilty.
So once again, not guilty aswell.
Not guilty, you know, and justum I thought it was interesting.
We didn't really mention ithere.
Um the first trial, they didlearn years afterwards that he
his defense team had bribedsomebody on the prosecution
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side.
Simply, I mean, it's stillcheating, but they what their
essentially what theirprosecution, what their angle
was, their plan.
And so, you know, that probablyhelped them tailor, you know.
This time, I mean, who knows?
We never heard anything afterthe fact.
There's really nothing ifsomebody was bribed again or
what they knew.
Because I mean, it's just likeone of those things where you
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look like you look at it andlike, how much more evidence do
you need to know?
Right, like to prove this guy,this guy's a bad guy.
And once again, you know, justthe the public eye, you know,
they really she wasn't the oneon trial, but just to believe
that goofy story that he wasworking for the FBI and that's
why he had all this money.
And so that's of course, yes,that's why he was uh trying to
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set this deal.
That's why he was answering allhis questions, that's why he was
trying to set her up because heclearly was trying to get David
McCroy in trouble.
SPEAKER_00 (20:16):
Yeah, I don't wanna I don't want to think that our
jurors are um uh the not uh thatdumb, right?
Like we we tr we leave it up toour justice system to pick to to
to you are you are innocentuntil proven guilty.
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You have a court, a group ofyour peers that can decide your
fate, and we and the and thepeople who put who dedicate
their lives in the justicesystem, and then we in the
public expect justice, right,based on the evidence, based on
what's brought to court.
And then you have this you havesuch blatant evidence and such
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direct evidence tying him to toto killing a a public servant, a
judge in the courts, not justhis ex-wife, not just some woman
who but but a but a a courtofficial, a judge.
And I mean the arrogance, right?
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The arrogance.
And by the way, in the firsttrial, he was supposed to pay
$250,000 to Stan Farr's family.
Stan Farr's family has stillnever seen a dime of that money.
And they actually forgave Colonfor this, but Colin had said
that he would actually meet withtheir family, but he was not
going to be paying any sort ofrestitution monetarily because
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he was not actually the killer.
So that's why he's never goingto pay that money, is because he
didn't do it.
Well, I think he did, and Ithink he knows he did.
And that's why this case is sofrustrating.
It it's it's a it's our ourjustice system not doing and
making the right decisions tohave this guy serve the time
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that he should have, not justfor double capital murder, but
because and but for doublesolicitation of murder.
And I've covered a lot ofpeople, Chris.
We've done a lot ofinvestigations, and this is um
some top sociopathic arrogance,in my opinion.
It's hard to look past the theum his ability to think that I
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mean it worked.
And you know, money talks.
Yeah, I have to think if ColinDavis was poor and he was on
trial for these two things, thathe might have probably died in
prison.
So it's just very hard to getpast the whole like good old boy
thing.
And, you know, is this stillsomething we're dealing with
today?
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Yeah, but I mean, money talks.
SPEAKER_03 (22:49):
And yeah, I you know it's you that said there's no
evidence that anybody was paidoff or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00 (22:56):
That's right.
SPEAKER_03 (22:57):
Um, you know, I think the judge in the case even
uttered uh they said anexpletive whenever they came out
with the not guilty and got upand walked out.
So he certainly wasn't paid, youknow, probably most likely.
SPEAKER_00 (23:08):
And you expect the jurors to get it right when the
evidence is presented in theappropriate and right way.
And it's mind-boggling.
So I have I have I absolutelyunderstand the frustration of
this job.
SPEAKER_03 (23:21):
I think you know, I think the notion of I'm working
for the FBI and the FBI says,No, you're not, and then a juror
that was to hear that would say,Okay, I mean, then there's no
reasonable doubt.
But they're like, Oh, yeah,maybe we used him as a witness
on something and he was working.
I mean, I could see, but yeah, Imean, it's um it is kind of
crazy, but but he walks awayfree.
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Um, you know, his luck starts toget a little better.
Uh, the judge in his divorcecase, Judge Edelson, Edson, I'm
sorry, not Edelson.
Uh it's a doctor at the place Iwork for.
Um, you know, he ends upstepping down from the divorce
proceedings.
And so, you know, a new judgesteps in, and he certainly is
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not quite the same type ofjudge.
He does end up awarding, uh, youknow, the divorce does become
final.
He does, you know, Cullen getshis house back, which what he
wanted all the whole time, youknow, the main motive of you
know the murder, the murders, myapologies.
And um, but he does get thehouse back.
You know, she was asking for, Ibelieve, a hundred million
dollars.
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I think she got three point twofive million in the deal, uh,
which I think um you know it'skind of said she just was over
and done with it.
What's the sense of even pushingthis on?
At this time, the divorce hasbeen going on since 74.
So was this 79, probably afterthis trial.
Um, so yeah, that's quite a fewyears.
I mean, over and done with.
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You know, and he moves on.
Of course, he finds God.
SPEAKER_00 (24:49):
Uh soon after, I think.
Uh well, soon soon you know afew years within a couple years,
I think.
SPEAKER_03 (24:55):
Well, during uh really during the second trial,
he already had kind of foundGod, as he said.
He was devoting his life tothat.
Um, you know, luck was good.
SPEAKER_00 (25:04):
But after the solicitation of double murder.
SPEAKER_03 (25:06):
Um, I think it was kind of a round time.
Yeah, I think it was kind ofaround time.
But anyways, he uh gets thehouse, but he has good luck
then, but you know, the um theoil business certainly takes a
pretty big decline around thistime in Texas too, you know,
beginning of the 80s.
And so Ken Davis Industries endsup kind of going belly up.
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He does become broke.
SPEAKER_00 (25:29):
Um loses everything, I think.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (25:31):
Loses everything.
You know, they end up having ussell this um yeah this house.
Um, you know, we were kind oflooking into it.
This house has had manydifferent lives after this
event.
You know, it's been um, I thinkwe determined um that it was you
know a Mexican restaurant atsome point.
SPEAKER_00 (25:49):
Church at some point.
SPEAKER_03 (25:50):
Uh it's a church now.
SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Oh, it is a church now.
SPEAKER_03 (25:52):
It's currently a church.
And so, you know, you can lookup, I mean, you can go out and
check this place out.
I mean, it it's it's stilllegit.
It's it's quite a sprawling.
It's it's interesting it was achurch though, too, knowing that
there were two murders.
I just thought that was an oddchoice for a church to um and
not the church that he'sassociated with.
SPEAKER_00 (26:11):
Um, well, you know, the church that Missy Beavers
was murdered in is still achurch, so and a daycare center.
SPEAKER_03 (26:16):
So but it was already a church, and so I get
that.
But like to buy a place thatturned it into a church.
And then turn it knowing thatyou already got that bad juju
there and just know it, but youknow, it's kind of funny.
I mean, you think about the umyou know the wild parties being
thrown there and it's so, but Idon't know, is that somehow the
are they uh making a statementthat you know we're not gonna
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let evil deter us from possibly.
I guess I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (26:42):
I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (26:43):
But I mean it's um This was a big case though.
SPEAKER_00 (26:46):
Like I'm huge case, and you know it's it's I um
there's a couple books on it,lots of different series people
can watch on it.
SPEAKER_03 (26:54):
This book, um the how I got interested in this
case, my mother.
I still have this book.
It looks all ratty.
You can see it.
It's called Final Justice.
Uh it's by Stephen Nefey andGregory Whitesmith.
Um it was written in the 90s.
Highly recommend.
I mean, it it's better thananything out there on the if you
just want to see all the littlenitty-gritty details.
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Yeah, there's really a lot ofgreat information to just kind
of there is you know, from thefirst trial, there's infighting
with the prosecution, and just Imean, it's it's all kinds of
different little angles, youknow.
She um, you know, he goes off,he finds God, loses money, you
know, in and out of the house.
SPEAKER_00 (27:32):
He gets remarried.
SPEAKER_03 (27:33):
Gets remarried.
SPEAKER_00 (27:34):
I think he was married to this woman.
By the way, he went through adivorce not that long ago.
I would say within the lastfive, I'm gonna say maybe like
five to eight years.
I mean, I think I believe he wasin his 70s when he ended up
getting a divorce because he wasmarried to her.
You know her name.
I can't remember her name, butit's Karen Masters.
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Yeah, it was the secretary,yeah.
Yeah, she was supporting himthrough the trials.
SPEAKER_03 (28:00):
Yeah, they got divorced.
SPEAKER_00 (28:01):
They got divorced, but he but he was married to her
for a long time, according to myI mean, I think that's what I
saw.
And then, but but they had uh Idid not know they had gotten
divorced when she, you know, sowell I had I had always so you
know, obviously this happened.
SPEAKER_03 (28:18):
I was pretty young, no knowledge of this.
I after I read the book, I'dalways suspected that um like
growing up the series Dallas washuge, uh huge everywhere, huge
in Texas too.
And so watching that, you know,all those years after that, and
there is I swear as it's likethey must have based Dallas off
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of oh just that that thisstoryline to some degree, you
know.
I mean, just the wild parties,the money, the you know, the
salaciousness and all the stuffgoing on.
I mean, it's just it's it's ripefor that, you know.
And I and we had discussed too,I'm surprised that you know
there's a really hokey moviewith like Heather Lock Lear
(29:00):
plays her and it's a made forTV, like how this never got
turned into like a movie series.
I mean, this there's so muchinformation, like a series.
SPEAKER_00 (29:12):
Um, well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03 (29:14):
But does he have maybe he does?
SPEAKER_00 (29:16):
I mean, obviously at one point, you know, well, I'm
assuming if he found God, hedoesn't want it, he wanted this
in the like the reason.
SPEAKER_03 (29:24):
But I mean he would have he would have had to give
uh given the rights to make themovie though, the Maverick TV
movie, and why not havesomething?
I mean, it's just it'd be agreat story and for really
people to see.
I mean, I I Yeah.
I mean, think about um oh, theseries Candy that we watched.
Like we did that story.
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But it's a you know, I mean,when they came out, it just it
really brought a lot more lightto that case and stuff, you
know.
I mean, I just I don't know.
It'd be great for something likethat.
SPEAKER_00 (29:53):
Yeah.
Well, maybe um maybe it'llhappen one day. 'Cause I think
there's You know, there's a lotof family members still alive of
the victims too.
They could have Yeah, they wouldreally like to.
SPEAKER_03 (30:06):
I mean, they they'd like to never know.
SPEAKER_00 (30:07):
You know, it's um there's a lot of unanswered
questions.
He was found not guilty, youknow.
So there's still a lot of like alike holding accountability
that, you know, some closurethat they've never really
received.
SPEAKER_03 (30:19):
And well, I mean, and that was the big thing with
the murder trial.
Like, you know, since there wereso many people in and out of the
house that they probably didn'tknow half of them because they
were always partying there everyother weekend.
You know, and because that wasthe big thing too.
Like her boyfriend was kind ofhanging around drug dealers and
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biker gangs and things likethat.
Did he owe money to somebody?
The thing that doesn't makereally make sense though is why
would the little girl get shot?
I mean That's right.
What's the motive for that?
SPEAKER_00 (30:52):
Yeah, you typically don't have somebody just coming
in and starting shooting and atrandom people.
I mean, this isn't it was Imean, and then you have two
eyewitnesses that uh it didn'tsay they saw him.
SPEAKER_03 (31:07):
The high security of this house and the fact that um
the 12-year-old knew how to armthe alarm and that when she came
home that night on August 2nd,1976, the alarm was off and
disabled.
SPEAKER_00 (31:20):
That's right.
SPEAKER_03 (31:21):
And so, you know, there were so many angles.
I I think though, the the publicopinion and just everything, it
was more about her being the badguy, he's the good guy, and just
all about her.
And that's the shame of thiswhole thing that really gets
lost.
SPEAKER_00 (31:35):
Oh, I mean, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03 (31:36):
With the kid with uh with her daughter being murdered
in Stan.
And you don't ever get shot to.
SPEAKER_00 (31:40):
Well, and that's the thing.
You don't ever really hear abouteither of those.
The whole time you're listeningabout what it was happening in
Amarillo at the time, the wholetime you're listening about the
with the solicitation of doublemurder with the judge and
Priscilla, like you don't hearone lick of what he a child
killer.
And then what was the deal aboutone of the sheriffs?
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Was it the sheriff of TarrantCounty at the time who got
invited to his birthday party?
He threw himself a birthdayparty.
SPEAKER_03 (32:11):
That was during the second trial.
SPEAKER_00 (32:12):
Yes.
So he throws himself, ColinDavis throws himself a birthday
party, invites the sheriff ofTarrant County, and he comes to
the party.
And the in in the the defenseteam had spoken about the fact
that they couldn't believe thatthe sheriff, the sheriff is is
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going to the party of a child ofa possible child killer.
I mean, it was a very strangetime, Chris, for me to wrap my
head about everything that washappening in these two trials
within Amarillo, and then youhave Tarrant County, and it's
like I mean, it's pretty, it'spretty mind-boggling when you're
trying, when you're really intothis case and realize all of
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these powerful people, andsomething could have been done,
and nothing was done.
He was celebrated, and it's justsick.
It's just really hard to thinkabout as a mother what Priscilla
was really dealing with.
Not only was she put on thestand and completely torn apart,
but but to lose a child, andthen to know that there would be
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no accountability because he hadmoney and people loved him, and
then you're destroyed on thestand, and then he's still not,
and then he's trying, and thenhe wants to have you killed, so
he hires someone to kill you,and then he goes to trial for
that too.
And he and it's like I mean,just I can't just imagine the
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dread that she probably feltgoing through all of this, just
knowing what he did, and it'sjust terrible.
SPEAKER_03 (33:50):
All over house, all over a house.
SPEAKER_00 (33:53):
Yeah, that's what he I know.
It's just it's just now now ahundred million.
I don't know if they weremarried long enough for that.
I mean, I don't know where thatnumber comes from, if that was
just something she was asking.
Uh to me though, maybe thatnumber involved a little bit of
accountability for what happenedto our daughter Chris, just like
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Stanley.
SPEAKER_03 (34:15):
No, I'm sure that that that was initial.
SPEAKER_00 (34:16):
I mean, think about civil trials that went with some
of this, you know?
SPEAKER_03 (34:22):
Well, think about if we know that his house cost six
million dollars to build innineteen seventy three or four,
and today's money that'sforty-three million.
What the fuck is a hundredmillion dollars worth in today's
money?
So yeah, that was probably Imean crazy amount of money.
SPEAKER_00 (34:44):
Like, I guess I'm just trying to like wrap my head
also, like, where did thatnumber come from?
SPEAKER_03 (34:49):
We're talking billions.
SPEAKER_00 (34:50):
I know.
That's what I'm saying.
I know.
SPEAKER_03 (34:53):
Billion.
Well, how much would it be?
SPEAKER_00 (34:54):
Was it a lot?
So it's just a very eccentric,it's just a very eccentric um
Yeah, like eight hundred andsomething million dollars.
SPEAKER_03 (35:06):
Like it it that's it's almost a billion dollars.
So yeah, you're asking for thatfor somebody you were married to
for sixty-nine to seventy fiveyears, you know.
SPEAKER_00 (35:17):
It's just very eccentric on both sides, right?
SPEAKER_03 (35:19):
I mean, and that was the other thing, you know, like
his brothers were getting angrywith him during this divorce,
too, because a lot of what thisjudge was doing, like the the
company was in financialdisarray too, because she was in
order for them to sell things,and like um she had to be the
final not veto, but the finalokay, somehow she got that power
(35:42):
that this judge had given her.
And so they were losing moneytoo, and she was really poised
to you know, if the girl if thejudge had granted divorce and
she was awarded a hundredmillion dollars, um you know, he
may have not been the richestman in Texas anymore.
She might have been one of therichest women in Texas.
Yeah.
I mean, for her worth and value.
I mean, so yeah, I mean, he umhe had a lot uh strong motive to
(36:07):
do what he was um accused ofdoing and eventually found not
guilty.
But you know, it's just wildstory, money, you know.
I mean, it still plays outtoday, too.
People with money can get off ofstuff.
SPEAKER_00 (36:21):
I mean, well, he is um he's still alive, living his
life.
Priscilla died at age 59 ofbreast cancer.
Um the this uh Priscilla andColin Davis, Chris.
I remember we us talking to ourparents because you're right, we
were I mean, I think I was I wasjust born.
Um, so I there were a lot ofquestions I had about like what
(36:43):
was the I always like to knowlike what was the environment
like at that time, what was thecourt like?
What were people thinking in thein in DFW at the time of all of
this?
And so it's just veryinteresting.
So if you want to take a really,really deep dive, um a great
book like Chris said, FinalJustice.
SPEAKER_03 (37:01):
Um, but yeah, that's one thing of note I thought was
kind of interesting in talkingwith my father about we were
doing this case, and he's like,you know, you probably don't
remember meeting her, but youknow, come to find out she
actually attended my sister'swedding in 1988.
Priscilla, that's it.
Oh, that's right.
Which uh, you know, I guess heknew um I can't remember the guy
(37:22):
that she accompanied her, but myfather knew him.
I'm not sure what the ties were,who invited her, what side of
the family.
I thought that was kind ofinteresting, though.
Just a little side note.
I mean, I don't know, I was 15.
SPEAKER_00 (37:34):
Yeah.
That is interesting.
SPEAKER_03 (37:36):
Wow, I guess people can have to figure out my age.
But uh yeah, I thought that wasan interesting note.
I thought that was interesting.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (37:45):
Well, we always say Texas is so big, but it's
actually really small.
Yeah, it is really small.
All right.
Well, that was part one and parttwo of Priscilla and Colin
Davis.
Until next time, friends, staysafe, have fun, and cheers to
next time.
SPEAKER_03 (38:01):
Cheers.
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