tells me that he hadn t made it and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, he did not make it. [crying] two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me make a u-turn. bonnie, the mistress in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror and it was francis. francis, the wife and the other. i gave her the middle finger. the middle finger? right. i start following her. i say what the hell. she breaks, and i break, and he s pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man, hating each other. you are getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex. yes. a hollywood love story? this was the man i wanted to marry. or a fatal attraction. he goes i can t get rid of this person. and so many about to lose so much. why? i will live with that for the rest of my life. hello, and welcome to dateline. bill and francis hall were has school sweethearts agree family and a trucking
three people come to me wearing suits and one of them tells me that he hadn t made it and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, he did not make it. [crying] two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me make a u-turn. bonnie, the mistress in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror and it was francis. francis, the wife and the other. i gave her the middle finger. the middle finger? right. i start following her. i say what the hell. she breaks, and i break, and he s pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man, hating each other. you are getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex. yes. a hollywood love story? this was the man i wanted to marry. or a fatal attraction. he goes i can t get rid of this person. and so many about to lose so much. why? i will live with that for the rest of my life. hello, and welcome to dateline. bill and francis hall
cause some sort of trouble. and when investigators looked at the evidence and heard bonnie s version of events, they came to the same conclusion. nicola hood was the district attorney of san antonio. objectively, we do not support this behavior. frances was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for chasing after bonnie. and for the death of her husband, bill hall jr., she was charged with murder. we felt that there was a no tempt an aggravated assault, and in that process a life was lost, which counts as felony murder. but frances says the real aggressor was bonnie. and she said she had proof. coming up frances says bill told her that bonnie she was obsessed with him, but that he wanted out. he goes, i can t get rid of this person. when dateline continues. when dateline continues
she was attacking me, and i will defend myself. one week after the text message feud came the car chase that left bill hall dead. nearly three years after that, frances hall went on trial for murder. prosecutor stephanie pilsen and scott simpson laid out the case for the jury. we understand why she was angry, but that s not justification to go attempt to run down your husband s mistress and kill him in the process. the star witness for the prosecution, bonnie, bonnie contreras. i was getting hit from behind. bonnie told the jury as she watched with horror when she believed frances deliberately knocked bill off the road. i saw her hit bill with a truck. i saw him fly off the handlebars. bonnie said she later discovered frances s daughter nikki hall a message that seemed to speak to frances s intent that