my purse into his chest. and i shoved my purse into his chest. and i said, jesus, save me. and the bullet shot me right in the head, and i went down. reporter: nancy doesn t know how long she lay unconscious on the garage floor. when she came to, the shooter was gone, but she says she was not alone. i began to kind of come to. and i thought, i think you ve been shot. you re going to die. and then there was another voice. and it was voice of my heavenly father, who is more powerful than a speeding bullet. and he said, get up. get up. reporter: how much pain are you in? i m in excruciating pain. but it s more the pain of not to be able to get a breath and knowing i m simply gurgling and spitting blood the whole time and barely able to breathe, trying to have the strength. and so i ended up belly crawling. reporter: nancy knew she needed help fast, but her cell phone was gone. it had been in her purse, and that had been stolen. so she crawled into her
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let the jury make the decision on whether he called the shot. reporter: so you re not ready to say he ordered i m not ready to say that. reporter: the hit? denton county prosecutor jamie beck was ready to say that and a lot more. i try not to get too personally involved, so to speak. but i just i did not like him. i did not like the good versus evil aspect to him and the manipulation that i felt. reporter: in early august 2014, frank howard went on trial for attempted capital murder. prosecutors started with nancy s 911 call. lord jesus help me. oh, my god. help me. oh, jesus, help me. reporter: it was an emotional opening punch. one that left frank visibly shaken, as did nancy s testimony about her injuries and overwhelming feelings of betrayal.
his name is john, okay? okay. we always called him john. that was it. reporter: the detectives found dustin staying with friends in a trailer. we were able to locate him, get him in custody and then for the next probably 2 1/2 to 3 days bryan and i spent talking to dustin. you re a good kid. got yourself messed up in a little thing, but you re a good kid. reporter: what was that like? the first night, of course, he was on meth. crying. he was pretty upset. reporter: and so it was dustin, scared and strung out, who provided the detectives with new details about this man named john. a man who wanted nancy howard killed and wasn t shy about suggesting how it could be done. he told dustin that he wanted nancy to be robbed while she was staying at the hotel in grapevine and he wanted it done with a baseball bat. reporter: john provided a
eldest daughter ashley says that whatever the howard family did they did together. both our parents did choir in church. anytime they need aid family it was oh, get the howards, they ll come and like bring all the kids. we were, you know, always together, always a family. we went to all of their events. they were busy. they were always doing something. i mean, whether it was soccer or anything of the fine arts musically. you guys almost do sound like leave it to abeaver. oh, we joke that we were the cleavers and jay was cleaver, i was the beavette. we would have game nights and legitimately the cleaver family. yeah. absolutely. but by 2012 those days were gone. frank and nancy were now empty nesters. ashley and her brother jay were each married and on their own. brianna was