frances s version. bonnie says when she swerved back into her lane, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw bill was riding behind her, between the two suvs. i see her coming up behind bill and i m yelling at the top of my lungs. i see her hit bill and i see bill fly, and then i see the bike fly. according to bonnie, she saw frances deliberately hit bill from behind. then, keep chasing her. i was shaking and i was in 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 wasn t sure if she had a gun. my first instinct is to make a quick u-turn. she does you turn to. yes, right behind me. and she continues to hit me. and we ve been passed the scene of where bill was cleaning to his life. and even at that she didn t bother to stop hitting me. bonnie eventually made her
in her final arguments, defense attorney lee qatar insisted frances hall s actions were textbook example of sudden passion. the text messages, the calls, the taunting, those will make you hate someone. never having seen them until they re driving by in your car, that s not sudden passion where you are incapable of thinking clearly, i don t know what it is. but prosecutor scott simpson told jurors not to be swayed by emotion. you shouldn t, for one second, feel ashamed or bad for doing what you believe to be right. after about three hours of deliberations, the jury was ready. all eyes were on bonnie contreras when she arrived to hear the sentence. and on frances hall to. which you get life in prison or a chance at freedom? we unanimously find the defendant caused the death of bill hollander the immediate influence of sudden passion. we
turned around. turned around to chase down her romantic rival. how fast are you going? i m doing about 65, 70. she s in a super sport range rover. this thing will go fast. my range rover. frances stepped on the gas and soon had bonnie in her sights. i m asking her to pull over, she told me, no. pull over, no. she kept playing this cat and mouse game. she kept breaking. she said bonnie repeatedly slammed on the brakes, forcing frances to slam on hers. frances had a large slab of granite in the back of her escalate from a home renovation project. i can hear this piece of granite every time i break because it moves. as bonnie accelerated, frances stayed on her. it was as if she had developed tunnel vision, could focus on only one thing. i m going to confront her. i m done. i ve had it with her. i m going to tell her, you want
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