hear the latest top stories, joe biden and kevin mccarthy have reached a tentative agreement to raise the debt ceiling. mccarthy says the text of that agreement will be available to members on sunday and a vote is tentatively scheduled for wednesday. and as texas state house voted to impeach republican attorney general ken paxton on articles including bribery and abuse of public trust, paxton has been under it fbi investigation for years over accusations that he used his office to help a donor. 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
carat diamond ring. it meant love, it meant friendship, it meant a future together. bonnie denies calling frances out of the blue. she says frances had known about the relationship for years and that the two women even spoke by phone about the financial arrangements to solve the divorce. who was going to keep what, and she was just going on, and on about the properties and about money, about the company. and i said, i m not even asking for none of that stuff. i don t want none of it. whichever version was true, the two women had never met. because of hank told bill, he needed to break it off with bonnie before something bad happened. i said, you have to get out of that relationship, don t go back. did you feel like, bill, you re playing with fire. that s exactly what i told him. i said, you have to fix this, man. fix your house. frances threw him out, he went back to bonnie. and then he would beg frances to go back.
and i looked in my rearview mirror and it was frances. bill s wife. they d spoken by phone, but never met. bonnie said she never saw frances on the road before she felt the jolt. never taunted her with her middle finger, as frances claimed. now, bonnie said frances wasn t just chasing her, she was actually repeatedly ramming her cadillac escalate into the back of the range rover. i started screaming because she wouldn t stop hitting me. she kept ramming her vehicle into me. she said frances s story, that bonnie kept slamming on the brakes, was nonsense. you are accused of breaking, breaking. no, i was trying to get away from that woman. so i started speeding up. and she kept ramming me from behind. and she threw me on to uncommon chapek. bonnie such was hit so hard, her purse fell off the back seat. my stuff flew to the floor. and here, another significant difference from
she was like a fatal attraction, or a psycho. she claims she was in love with bill, that he was going to leave, you they were gonna start a family, there were going to be married. she got an abortion. tell me if she was starting a family. she got an abortion. bill wanted bonnie to have an abortion, said frances. but bonnie wouldn t do it unless bill gave her something in return. the only way she would get an abortion is if he got breast implants. which he, did so she got an abortion. i hate her can you just go away, can you leave us alone, go find another married man, because this is what she does for a living. she strips, she gets with married men. in the end, said the hall s, bonnie told frances about the affair in a final act of desperation. in the attempt to hang on to bill who is about to drop her. i think she finally thought, hey, i m losing this man. i m losing my bread and butter here. her sugar daddy.
sequin frances hitter? this is her purse in her car. when you get hit in the rear, where does my purse go, it doesn t dump in the front. it s simple physics. in fact, he said, the purse falling ford supports frances s claim that bonnie was repeatedly slamming on her breaks. she s moving like this, then the purse will go into the floorboard. bonnie contreras is not telling the truth. what s more, both defense and prosecution agreed bonnie was wrong about her contention, that bills motorcycle was struck from behind. evidence showed the motorcycle actually collided with the side of frances s suv. you can t believe a [bleep] thing she said on. there and closing evidence, they said that bill s death was a terrible accident and frances hall had suffered enough. she s been living in hell for three years. let her go home, let her be with her family, and let her