have ever happened. diane would have avoided that, i believe, at all costs to try to keep the marriage together. as for the allegation of a second will, that was easy. it doesn t exist, that s why it was never produced. the receptionist testified she never actually saw the will, and prosecutor clint rucker admitted he never did find it, and he tried. you never produced the second will? never produced the second will. an er doctor called by the prosecution gave the defense one of the most intriguing bits of testimony. she said diane told her the shooting was an accident. and in the end it was clear she was saying he had the gun, correct? yes. in her coherent state she said it was an accident? yes. but the bottom line for the defense was that the murder scenario itself was absurd. we re going to drive back to atlanta, to our condo in buckhead, and on the way i m going to shoot my wife through the back of the seat with her
much i put on that face and tell everybody that i m fine. i ll never be the same after this. 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.
then in a flash it was gone. a strange car ride through a dodgy neighborhood left one person dead and another struggling to explain how it happened. it was a mystery riddled with wealth, privilege, and power. but for investigators, it boiled down to one crucial question was this an accident or murder? here s josh mankiewicz with deadly detour. all they wanted was to get home. turning off the interstate. to escape the crawling atlanta traffic. he says, girls, this is the wrong place, we don t need to be here, this was a bad idea. it s still hard to math tom fathom what happened next or why. i was trying to figure out where the explosion was. but here s what s pretty clear. one wrong turn really can destroy your life. to think that one moment in time you have an accident and you lose everything after that. our story begins and ends
catastrophic. the blood loss, too great. and i was devastated. i couldn t believe it. diane mciver, so much larger than life in so many ways, was suddenly gone. tex called me in the early hours of the morning and he said, there s been an accident and we ve lost diane. dixie martin, tex s sister. how long until you realized the accident involved something he had done? later in the conversation, and he was very emotional on the phone. i mean we were both crying.
the car were homeless people or some kind of street criminal or a black lives protest gets blown up into bonfire of the vanities, larger than life and he is making it up to get out of the fact he shot his wife. and it morphed into black lives matter. that s correct, which he never said and i never said that he said. the story with its racial overtones went viral. while tex was fighting to repair his public image, diane s colleagues were questioning things after her death. there were no tears. i never saw him cry. ken rickert is the company s general counsellor. i never heard him say it was an accident, i m so sorry. tex look crushed, sad? i didn t detect any of that. he was he was just kind of matter of fact.