tells me that he hadn t made it and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, he did not make it. [crying] two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me make a u-turn. bonnie, the mistress in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror and it was francis. francis, the wife and the other. i gave her the middle finger. the middle finger? right. i start following her. i say what the hell. she breaks, and i break, and he s pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man, hating each other. you are getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex. yes. a hollywood love story? this was the man i wanted to marry. or a fatal attraction. he goes i can t get rid of this person. and so many about to lose so much. why? i will live with that for the rest of my life. hello, and welcome to dateline. bill and francis hall were has school sweethearts agree family and a trucking
three people come to me wearing suits and one of them tells me that he hadn t made it and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, miss hall, he did not make it. [crying] two women racing down a texas highway. she saw me make a u-turn. bonnie, the mistress in one lane. i looked in my rearview mirror and it was francis. francis, the wife and the other. i gave her the middle finger. the middle finger? right. i start following her. i say what the hell. she breaks, and i break, and he s pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man, hating each other. you are getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex. yes. a hollywood love story? this was the man i wanted to marry. or a fatal attraction. he goes i can t get rid of this person. and so many about to lose so much. why? i will live with that for the rest of my life. hello, and welcome to dateline. bill and francis hall
frances s version. bonnie says when she swerved back into her lane, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw bill was riding behind her, between the two suvs. i see her coming up behind bill and i m yelling at the top of my lungs. i see her hit bill and i see bill fly, and then i see the bike fly. according to bonnie, she saw frances deliberately hit bill from behind. then, keep chasing her. i was shaking and i was in shock. i didn t understand why she hadn t stopped when she hit bill. i couldn t understand it. i still don t understand it. i felt like stopping, but i wasn t sure if she had a gun. my first instinct is to make a quick u-turn. she does you turn to. yes, right behind me. and she continues to hit me. and we ve been passed the scene of where bill was cleaning to his life. and even at that she didn t bother to stop hitting me. bonnie eventually made her
she was attacking me, and i will defend myself. one week after the text message feud came the car chase that left bill hall dead. nearly three years after that, frances hall went on trial for murder. prosecutor stephanie pilsen 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 down your husband s mistress and kill him in the process. the star witness for the prosecution, bonnie, bonnie contreras. i was getting hit from behind. bonnie told the jury as she watched with horror when she believed frances deliberately knocked bill off the road. i saw her hit bill with a truck. i saw him fly off the handlebars. bonnie said she later discovered frances s daughter nikki hall a message that seemed to speak to frances s intent that
the star witness for the prosecution, bonnie contreras. i start to get hit from behind. bonnie told the jury how she watched with horror as she believed frances deliberately knocked bill off the road. i see her hit bill with the truck. and i see him fly off the motorcycle. bonnie said she later discovered frances daughter, nikki hall, had left a message on her voice mail during the car chase. a message that seemed to speak to frances intent that evening. told you to watch your back you [bleep] stupid [ bleep ]. what does that tell you? that they were out to cause harm to somebody. this is not an accident. tim lovett was the state s collision reconstruction expert. he said the evidence showed frances chased and hit bonnie. that escalade definitely hit that range rover at least two, maybe three times. but frances defense attorneys, leigh cutter and jean brown, said investigators