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?
behind her murder got everything, including his freedom. i was mad. i really didn t understand the way of the law at the time. there was no physical evidence tying him to this murder. no. no fingerprint, no dna. no. no witnesses who saw him do anything. right. did you see him anywhere around town? oh, yes. he would pull up aside you and just on more than one occasion did he do that to me. just pull up next to you and scoff. grin and ride by and wave on his motorcycle, his new girlfriend. it was a little hard to take. police had no suspects other than tony french. and he had a concrete alibi. still, they suspected that while he didn t pull the trigger, tony definitely was involved. but the case went nowhere, until years later, that s when a woman, whose life would become intertwined with teresa s death, heard something.
threatened by him for about a year before teresa was murdered. lana says she was so scared of tony, she bought a gun, security at her work advised her on how to evade him. whatever way you drive to work, drive home a different way. mix up your routine. jennifer says tony s threats and demeanor were so dark, teresa was convinced he meant what he said. i think she actually knew she was going to die. really? i think she believed every word that he told her. and i took her to cancel the life insurance policy. you drove her over there? yes, i did. tony had two life insurance policies on teresa. a $5,000 policy through his work and a $50,000 policy he bought himself. teresa tried to have the larger one canceled. they wouldn t let her cancel because tony owned the policy. and they told her, sorry. she said, i don t want him to
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
where his aunt jennifer met him. i got down on my knees in front of him and told him that his mother had been killed. and he said, where is he? where is he at? i know he did it, where is he at? talking about his father? right. those were the first words out of his mouth to me. police thought the same thing. in fact, they arrested tony shortly after teresa s body was found. but tony had an iron clad alibi for the time of the killing. as richard bradshaw, then a muncie police detective, discovered. his alibi was he was at work, he was seen by numerous co-workers, all of whom were interviewed, gave statements that they were with him all day long, and that he was inside a secure plant where you were logged in when you came to work and logged out when you left. so there was no way he could have committed this murder himself? that s right. with a firm alibi, and no physical evidence tying him to the crime, tony couldn t be held for more than 48 hours. he was released, but the