oh, yes. i was like, thank you, jesus. i can do this. reporter: the criminal trial no. two years for a life you take? absolutely not. reporter: bonnie is suing frances, for bodily injury and emotional distress. frances attorney says those allegations are without merit. bill s never coming back. why? because she decided to make a very irresponsible decision and cause this. reporter: a decision which bonnie said cut short her dream of a future with bill. do you think there was any chance that he was playing both of you? no. reporter: he wanted his cake and eat it, too? no. he wanted out of his marriage. reporter: do you regret now ever meeting bill? no, i don t. i don t regret loving him.
no, he didn t. that was her. it was her sending those text messages. bill wouldn t have never disrespected me like that. reporter: 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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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
and i brake. and i heard something. i heard a thump. reporter: 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. reporter: 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. reporter: frances was still on bonnie s tail, when i hear this wind coming in. reporter: 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
her own collision expert that she may have not hit bonnie, which contradicted bonnie s story. but would that be enough to persuade the jury? here with the conclusion is andrea mckinney. as the jury deciding frances hall s fate deliberated into the evening hours of september 8, 2016, neither side felt confident. as time passes, you get more worried. reporter: did you have a gut feeling which way it would go? no. reporter: nothing? i didn t want to think about it. i didn t want to think about it. reporter: then just before 8:45 p.m., the jury had its verdict. we, the jury, find the defendant, frances hall, guilty of murder. reporter: guilty of murder and aggravated assault. frances friends and family were shocked. it was the worst feeling in my life. reporter: it was a moment
what is going through your mind when you hear that? because things were looking bad. oh, yes. i was like, thank you, jesus. i can do this. reporter: the criminal trial may be over. but the battle between these two women is as heated as ever. does two years fit? no. two years for a life you take? absolutely not. reporter: bonnie is suing frances, for bodily injury and emotional distress. frances attorney says those allegations are without merit. bill s never coming back. why? because she decided to make a very irresponsible decision and cause this. reporter: a decision which bonnie said cut short her dream of a future with bill. do you think there was any chance that he was playing both of you? no. reporter: he wanted his cake and eat it, too? no. he wanted out of his marriage. reporter: do you regret now ever meeting bill? no, i don t.