back in 1993, said woods, he met tony french while tony was living with their mutual friend, oren o.j. johnson. back then, tony was very upset, and angry. he wanted his wife killed because he felt the divorce was ruining him financially. woods said he could help him out. he originally was to hire a friend of his, chad, that he knew from the outlaws. the biker gang. yes. david chose him because he had no morals, was his way of describing him. mary says her husband told her that for some reason chad was not following through with the hit. tony was getting nervous, he wanted his wife out of the way before their home was sold, and the divorce became final. it was then mary says her husband told her something that
together with o.j. make sure you tell him i don t know dave woods, never met him, we haven t talked. i think the one line that is the topper of all is when he tells o.j., unless there is something in this vehicle to prove otherwise, that s the story and we re sticking to it. i don t know anything either. stick to it. eight days later, tony french was arrested in muncie. david woods in california. for years, mary dabbs had concluded, like so many others, that the men had gotten away with murder, but then investigators called her in to tell her the news. i was a basket case. after all those years, for it to surface. was there a day that went by where you didn t think about the
murder of teresa french? never. i never had in moments, not even a moment s peace. prosecutors say mary was a crucial and compelling witness for the state, even though she was terrified to face her ex-husband in court. the hardest thing i had to do. based on mary s testimony, as was that of o.j. and others, both men were convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. tony french in late 2008 was sentenced to 80 years in prison. david woods in 2009 received a sentence of 100 years. both filed appeals. woods is pending, french lost his but has a new attorney who is trying to find another way to get him a new trial. tony s current lawyer, jeff lockwood, thinks the police unfairly focused on him all along, ignoring other possible
reached in the drawer and he had a shirt that had the logo of the outlaws on it, it had a picture of a heart, start out with a heart beat and then goes to flat line and it says snitches are a dying breed. snitches are a dying breed. he threw it on my face. he told me that s what was going to happen to me. that he would kill you? yes. just like he killed teresa french? yeah. repeatedly. did you believe him? oh, yeah. why didn t you just leave? you re trapped. you can t. mary said she didn t leave because she felt woods would harm her if she left. what would your husband do to drive home the point that you better not talk about the details you knew of the teresa french murder?
and her husband were visiting o.j. and his girlfriend when the two men started talking about tony s late wife, teresa french. you heard the name teresa french before that? never. did you know who that was? no. did you know the circumstances around her murder? no. i was confused at first. didn t know what they were talking about. police had interviewed o.j. back in 93 when teresa was killed, but they hadn t learned anything from him. now he had been arrested on cocaine charges, the charges were eventually thrown out, but mary says for some reason her husband seemed worried o.j. might have talked to police about teresa french. he asked o.j. if he had. and what did o.j. say? he told him not to worry about it, that he hadn t told him anything and they weren t going to get anything out of him. did your husband seem relieved at that point? he was very unsettled. he was very agitated. he was very nervous. he was a very different person at that point. he was different than i h