a sprawling southern family farm with a pair of churchgoing grandparents at its heart. they are definitely the most loving individuals i ve ever met in my life. there was no way it was supposed to end like this. she took me about a hand and said diane and charlie have been murdered. the former church deacon, and his wife. who on earth would want them down? it does not make sense. they were loved by everyone. everyone, maybe. but their own daughter who admitted to a bitter, simmering dispute. it s been a long family feud. her stepfather won her dead so she could get her property back. evidence pointed to her boyfriend as an accomplice. you have that blood on your shoe, he was there. or, was he? no hair, no fingerprints, no dna. nothing. a once loving family now gripped by suspicion. i had a lot of people in my ear saying she did it. with the terrible truth rip them apart? this cannot be happening. welcome to dateline. a daughter, battl
the former church deacon, and his wife. who on earth would want them down? it does not make sense. they were loved by everyone. everyone, maybe. but their own daughter who admitted to a bitter, simmering dispute. it s been a long family feud. her stepfather won her dead so she could get her property back. evidence pointed to her boyfriend as an accomplice. you have that blood on your shoe, he was there. or, was he? no hair, no fingerprints, no dna. nothing. a once loving family now gripped by suspicion. i had a lot of people in my ear saying she did it. with the terrible truth rip them apart? this cannot be happening. welcome to dateline. a daughter, battling her demons and her mother and stepfather for control of a 1 million dollar property. after their double murder, police started to wonder just how far bambi bennett will go to get what is hers. they followed a bloody trail of evidence deep inside the families dispute, exposing ugly secr
left her purse with her phone and car case in the detectives cruiser. she decided she would take her mother s vehicle to get home. we didn t have any way to get in touch with anybody. we didn t have anything. and i told rick, i said, see if you can find mama s purse. herself phone. so, he went in the house. police had hadn released the crime scene, but it still looked like one. detectives told the family they would have to clean it up. so, when rick says he went into fetch diane s car keys, he found himself tiptoeing through a bloody mess. what were you seeing? all the blood and just one of the most horrible things i had ever seen. rick approached the bathroom were charlie had been killed. he said he noticed bambi, through the window, pacing in the backyard. she was calling out, mama, mama. she was crying, screaming. i stepped into the bathroom, trying to step around the mess
or the very least, that she would give up rick. she did not do neither. you don t want to be charged. no. i m not going to be charged because i did not do anything. we are done, lock her up. because, you re not gonna tell us anything? we will lock you up. put some handcuffs on, are charged with two counts of murder. but the detectives were not yet done trying to break bambi. on the way to her booking, bambi said the hammer came down hard one more time. now, they surrounded me like a pack of wolves and said, go get those crime scene photos of her mom and dad. and i said, no, no, no. and that was trying to cover my face. and they were pulling my hands over my face. and he said, you did this. you. detectives said the same thing too rick gagnon. they arrested me, that was pretty much it. if bambi did it, then i had to be a part of it. so, there it was. a daughter and her boyfriend,
who did this? it was a mixture of things. i had a lot of people in my ear saying that she did it. when i came to the conclusion was she basically put it in rick s head for rick to do it. i only thought she had something to do with it from what i have been told. i resented her. i hated her. i did it want to see her face ever again. it seemed bambi s supporters were so few and far between. but one who did believe in her innocence was her attorney, jim irvin. everybody rush to judgment in this case. the way jim irvin saw it, the prosecution s case against bambi was a week, circumstantial one, that hinged on a bunch of theories as to motive. what always bothered me about this case, when you look at the gunpowder residue, there was none on bambi hands. that one bit of hard evidence detectives thought they had against bambi, what they thought was blood on her boot, turned out to be nothing. detectives said, we got her. the dna on this boot is going to belong to one of the t