tex and diane 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 that car? uh-huh. it was right in the center console, a smith and wesson.38
already in surgery when police showed up, and that, according to dani jo, is when tex said the weirdest thing. he looked past me and he said, i don t trust these guys. i hate to see you get wrapped up in this, dani jo. i ve seen how these things can go down. and he said, you just need to tell them that you re down here as a friend of the family. wait a minute. you re here as a friend of the family and not as the person who was driving the car when the shooting happened? right. and so i leaned down again. well, i said, tex, i just drove you in to the emergency room. looks at me and he goes, well, they don t know that. i thought, what do you mean they don t know that? dani jo shared her misgivings with diane s co-workers. they were now convinced atlanta police hadn t dug deeply enough. jay grover was skeptical of tex s claim that the gun had just gone off. this does not make sense.
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charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. those were, to be sure, serious charges, but they also made clear police believed tex didn t mean to kill diane. tex had dodged a murder charge, but his sister said tex didn t seem to get that. he just kept saying, but it was an accident. i said, but someone died. i don t know what he thought. who knows what was going through his mind at that point? tex mciver was released on bond, and while he seemed clueless about why he was charged with anything, diane s friends and colleagues wondered if he had been charged with enough. i was angry. it is like i didn t care i didn t i didn t care what i was angry, i didn t care what happened to him. in the months since diane s death, dani jo had become suspicious about tex s behavior during that final, fatal drive. so we asked her to take us along the route they drove that night.