and i brake. and i heard something. i heard a thump. that piece of granite again, frances thought, and she continued to chase after bonnie, still hell-bent on confronting her. suddenly, bonnie made a u-turn. and as she makes a u-turn, i make the u-turn. she takes off. i got a black escalade and a black range rover they re traveling at high rate of speed. i don t know, 90-100 miles an hour that black range rover was. an off-duty officer spotted bonnie and frances and called it in. they re hauling ass driving on the wrong side of the road acting like idiots. frances was still on bonnie s tail, when i hear this wind coming in. the howl of the wind snapped frances out of her trance. she looked back and realized her third-row passenger window was shattered. and then, she realized something else. she couldn t see bill anywhere.
shock. i didn t understand why she hadn t stopped when she hit bill. i couldn t understand it. i still don t understand it. i felt like stopping, but i didn t know if she had a gun. and my first instinct is to make a quick u-turn. so she does a u-turn too? right. she continues to hit me. we even pass the scene of where bill was clinging to his life, and even at that she didn t bother to stop hitting me. bonnie eventually made her way back to where bill lay by the road. and i see just hecticness everywhere. police cars, detectives, ambulance. she said she tried to get to bill, but the officers wouldn t let her near him. i wanted to hug him. i wanted to hug him. i wanted to tell him everything was going to be okay. bonnie watched the helicopter take bill away. hours later, a police officer gave her the news she was dreading. he goes, bill has passed away.
the star witness for the prosecution, bonnie contreras. i start to get hit from behind. bonnie told the jury how she watched with horror as she believed frances deliberately knocked bill off the road. i see her hit bill with the truck. and i see him fly off the motorcycle. bonnie said she later discovered frances daughter, nikki hall, had left a message on her voice mail during the car chase. a message that seemed to speak to frances intent that evening. told you to watch your back you [bleep] stupid [ bleep ]. what does that tell you? that they were out to cause harm to somebody. this is not an accident. tim lovett was the state s collision reconstruction expert. he said the evidence showed frances chased and hit bonnie. that escalade definitely hit that range rover at least two, maybe three times. but frances defense attorneys, leigh cutter and jean brown, said investigators
take bill back or kick him out for good? the morning of october 9th, her anger boiled over. he was brushing his teeth, and i glanced over and i just i was enraged. she started pulling his hair, tussled with him all around the house. bill appeared to take the assault as a joke. he was doing these little dancing he does. and it upset me so much. and i kicked him. and he goes, stop already. i go no. she went after his prized possession, knocking over his prized custom harley davidson and hitting their new range rover with a stick. he pushed me down. i fell down. and he took off and waved at me. smiling. the following day was rough for frances. her family coaxed her out of the house to watch her niece s volleyball game. then, on her way home, driving her cadillac escalade i see bill, in back of bill, i see the range rover. and i m like, who is that? the vehicles were coming toward her in the opposite lane. and as they passed, frances did a double take. sitting behind th
i m craig melvin, and i m natalie morales, and this is dateline. three people come to me wings tooth 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, mrs. hall, your husband didn t make it. two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me, and then made the u-turn. bonnie, the mistress, in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror, and it was frances.