accomplished. i am a professor, i am trying to seek a meaningful life. she had a prestigious career, a loving husband, a young daughter, but she also had a secret. i lived with this nightmare for 18 years. and it centered on murder. they followed him, they kidnapped him, and then they dumped his body. it was clearly planned. but did she? no i was in complete shock. they were dangerous and they were violent. why did she do it? i didn t realize she was involved as deep as she was. scholar, professor, mother. what is going to happen to my daughter? she certainly knew. she is a killer in your eyes? yes. everything was at stake. i could face life in prison, i am willing to do anything that needs to be done. now, i have the strength. she was the embodiment of the american dream, an immigrant who described a childhood of poverty and abuse. attended elite schools and rose to the top of her field. against all odds, norma patricia esparza became the well
i am a professor, i am trying to seek a meaningful life. she had a prestigious career, a loving husband, a young daughter, but she also had a secret. i lived with this nightmare for 18 years. and it centered on murder. they followed him, they kidnapped him, and then they dumped his body. it was clearly planned. but did she know? i was in complete shock. they were dangerous and they were violent. why did she do it? i didn t realize she was involved as deep as she was. scholar, professor, mother. what is going to happen to my daughter? she certainly knew. she is a killer in your eyes? yes. everything was at stake. i could face life in prison, i am willing to do anything that needs to be done. now, i have the strength. she was the embodiment of the american dream, an immigrant who described a childhood of poverty and abuse. attended elite schools and rose to the top of her field. against all odds, norma patricia esparza became the well-respected p
says she wasn t unwilling participant, a wife who went along out of fear. diane had nothing to do with this. at all. so one picture shy as far as i turned down her plea deal and refused to testify, a door open for diane tran. you re willing to plead guilty to the new charge in the enhancement and receive a possible sentence of four years in prison. diane made a deal with the prosecutor, pleading guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter, in exchange, she agreed to testify in the case against patricia. and her testimony would be explosive. diane said, patricia wasn t forced into anything, but instead took part in the plan in planning the murder. yeah he was talking about wanting to find this guy, and retaliate. according to diane tran, those discussions about retaliation all began immediately. miss tran also
diane. from outside of the door, right outside, a male voice said, should we kill him? i heard sort of a resounding yes from everybody. but the one who struck me in saying yes, was diana. only because i didn t expect i didn t expect her. remember the transmissions shop where patricia saw council in chains diane tran own that shock with her husband cody, cody too was a suspect in the murder but died by suicide before the investigators to charge him. that left diane how is she doing? she is under so much pressure, the loss of her freedom, to say it s a shock is an understatement. according to diane s attorney, cody was part of the group that killed gonzalo. but diane was only at the shop because he forced her to be there. cody tran was a very, very difficult character to live with. very volatile, violent. i would say that, she was subject to his commands. come to the shop. come with me. we re going. in other words, diane story was much like patricia s. she
A chance meeting at a nightclub ends in murder; those involved in the gruesome crime thought they had buried the secrets of the past, but a relentless team of.