time you have an accident and you lose everything after that. our story begins and ends with her, diane mciver. nobody knows her better than dani jo. she s beautiful, she s funny, she was brilliant. she was driven. diane was born in auburn, alabama, where she survived a sad and difficult childhood. she realized her dreams in atlanta, a place that matched her ambition. what was she looking for? she was looking for success. diane was barely out of high school when she went to work at u. s. enterprises, a company in atlanta. she was a bookkeeper, but soon caught the eye of her boss, billy corey. there were some people working there that weren t really doing their jobs, and she told him she could do their job and her job. i think he fired them and she did their job. it was back in the 80s when dani jo and diane first teamed
had had a little wine at dinner, so dani jo drove. diane sat next to dani jo in the front seat and tex was right behind diane in the back seat, and off they went. well, we headed on into atlanta on i-20. as we got off of 20 to get onto the connector, it was just eight lanes of brake lights. dani jo says tex was dozing in the back seat as the two women decided to get off the interstate to avoid the traffic. as we re riding down the ramp, tex becomes fully awake, i guess. he looks around and he says, girls, i really wish you hadn t done this, this is a bad idea, this is a bad area. that s when tex mciver made a request of his wife. will and tex said, darling work, you hand me my gun? tex regularly kept a gun in
so we asked her to take us along the route they drove that night. this is the underpass where tex says he first began to worry about the homeless people in the area. dani jo says there was no danger. nothing that would have kept you from driving away, going on your way? no. just a few minutes later we came to where they made that fateful stop in midtown, atlanta. and it was, says dani jo, just a stop. we were sitting at a red light. no bump? no bump. you know the rest. diane was shot and dani jo took off for the hospital. she says she was frantic, but tex, she says, was calm. as a matter of fact, at some point a little bit farther up he told me to slow down and be careful, that there might be people out here with walking with baby carriages. wait a minute. his wife is wounded in the front seat here by his hand, and he s telling you to slow down? yes.
message to the judge we don t see a path to overcome our differences on the defendant s intent. the judge refused to accept a deadlock and sent them back to deliberate. four hours later the jury signaled a verdict had been reached. tex s sister dixie and his friend sat anxiously on one side. diane s colleagues, including jay grover filled the prosecution side of the room. the case that had riveted atlanta was coming to an end. on count one, murder, we find the defendant not guilty. not guilty of deliberately murdering diane, but, wait. on the felony charge of shooting the gun at diane we find the defendant guilty. killing someone while commit a felony. guilty of felony murder. possession of a firearm in the course of a felony. guilty. trying to influence the witness dani jo carter. guilty. in lay terms the verdict meant tex didn t mean to kill diane but he did mean to shoot
with her, diane mciver. nobody knows her better than dani jo. she s beautiful, she s funny, she was brilliant. she was driven. diane was born in auburn, alabama, where she survived a sad and difficult childhood. she realized her dreams in atlanta, a place that matched her ambition. what was she looking for? she was looking for success. diane was barely out of high school when she went to work at u.s. enterprises, a company in atlanta. she was a bookkeeper, but soon caught the eye of her boss, billy corey. there were some people working there that weren t really doing their jobs, and she told him she could do their job and her job. i think he fired them and she did their job. it was back in the 80s when dani jo and diane first teamed