Hello and welcome to dateline. Diane mciver was an atlanta businesswoman who enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle with her husband tex, then in a flash it was gone. A strange car ride through a dodgy neighborhood left one person dead and another struggling to explain how it happened. It was a mystery riddled with wealth, privilege and power, but for investigators it boiled down to one crucial question. Was this an accident or murder. Here is josh marching onkiewicz deadly detour. All they wanted was to get home, turning off the interstate to escape the crawling atlanta traffic. He says, girls, this is the wrong place, we dont need to be here, this is a bad idea. It is still hard to fathom what happened next or why. I was trying to figure out where the explosion was. But here is what is pretty clear. One wrong turn really can destroy your life. To think that one moment in time you have an accident and you lose everything after that. Our story begins and ends with her, diane mciver. Nobody k
best friends and confidantes. dani jo was a cosmetologist with a front row seat to her brilliant career. she loved crunching numbers and along with billie corey i think she learned how to wheel and deal. she rose through the ranks and with her boss s blessing became president of the company, hiring, firing and calling the shots. she would say, i don t want to hear about the labor pains, just show me the baby. jay grover was a vice president at diane s company. when she started in business here in atlanta, there were not a ton of female executives. no, absolutely. and i think that was what one of the things that really set diane apart. she was a woman in a man s world. she had a big personality. loved clothes, furs, hats and kids, although she never had any of her own. she survived one bad marriage and was in her 50s when she met tex mciver. he was self-made, too, a