and i just let out a big old scream. so there was bonnie s version. this was no accident. frances purposefully rammed her repeatedly and fatally knocked bill off the road. is there only one person to blame for this, in your eyes? of course. it s frances. she started that high speed chase. she chose to turn around. why? you know you re going to 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. nico lahood, district attorney. we do not support this behavior. frances was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. and for the death of her husband, bill hall jr., she was charged with murder.
around 100,000 troops at the ukraine border. a meeting is also set when state with nato and russian officials. now, back to dateline. back to dateline. frances hall was out on bail, facing a murder charge for the high speed chase that ended with the death of her husband, bill. the key witness against her, bill s mistress, bonnie contreras. but according to frances and her daughter, if anyone should be blamed for what happened, it was bonnie. she has a lot of responsibility or full responsibility in causing this. she ruined a family. the way the hall family tells it, bonnie was a golddigger, a stalker and a liar who had been manipulating and threatening bill for years. frances said that after she learned about the affair, she learned the truth about bonnie from bill himself. he laid it all out.
three generations of truckers with deep roots in the city. it was here that bill hall met the love of his life at the tender age of 16. her name was frances. what happened the first time you laid eyes on bill? i just fell in love with him. i knew this was the man i was going to marry. at 16? at 16. they married right out of high school. a year later, daughter nikki was born. were your parents in love? oh, yes. we definitely saw love growing up in the house. i love my baby. what was your relationship like with your dad? not your typical father-daughter relationship. like, a best friend, almost. i could tell dad anything. four years after nikki came justin. did he really want a son? oh, my god. when they pulled that baby out and they said, mr. hall, you have a son, that man cried. bill worked hard to give his young family a better life. bill used to clean airplanes.
her. no, he didn t. that was her. it was her sending those text messages. bill wouldn t have never disrespected me like that. but if there was any doubt that she d been following the halls, she seemed to confirm it herself by sending photos of their house and frances car. why were you sending those pictures? to piss her off. to defend myself. what are you i mean, you re the one but, but her telling me that bill didn t love me. her telling me that bill was using me. but bonnie, you re the one who is having the affair with bill. so why are you attacking his wife? because she was attacking me. and i will defend myself. one week after that text message feud came the car chase that left bill hall dead. nearly three years after that frances hall went on trial for murder. prosecutors stephanie paulissen 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 ki
take the savings challenge at xfinitymobile.com/mysavings or visit an xfinity store to learn how our switch squad makes it easy to switch and save hundreds. welcome back. during frances s hall s murder trail, they backed up her story nat she collisioned with her suv. but they countered she may not have hit baun bonny. here with inconclusion for collision.