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Army s fort bragg where soldiers prepare to go to war, and nestled up beside that is pope air force base. two institutions, two professional military men, and one woman. that woman found herself caught between two, marty, her air force captain, and her former lover, army staff sergeant john diamond who just wouldn t go away. i told him, i don t want to leave my husband. i never told him, i love you. i never said, i want to be with you. i mean i think i was pretty straight up. so now with the holiday season in full swing and a new commitment to her marriage, michelle and marty were on the road to raleigh for a night out. traveling with them was another couple from her office. they had gone to this christmas party that she specifically asked her boss if marty could go. it was sedate by office party standards and over early since marty had to fly first thing in ....
Long weekend. michelle wanted to see a former professor for grief counseling, she said later, while diamond stayed with his sister, debbie. he acted as if nothing was wrong because he knows he didn t have anything to do with it, he didn t shoot him. so who did kill captain frank martin theer? was it possible john diamond actually executed his romantic rival? he may have had a motive. police were very suspicious, but the physical evidence was, frankly, rather weak. so detectives kept digging in the arcane world of phone records. boring, but sometimes revealing. one telephone number in particular caught their attention, a call from diamond to one of his army buddies at fort bragg. so we asked him if diamond had any access to any weapons. he said that he loaned diamond his personal pistol. which just happened to be ....
so debbie dvorak, john ease kid sister, could certainly see her brother responding to a solicitation like michelle s. my brother has a great personality. he s an attractive guy and, you know, his personality makes him that much more attractive. then a few days after meeting online, they met in person at a local restaurant. he was charming. he was funny. talked about movies and musing and things that me and marty didn t talk about. john diamond was an army staff sergeant, based at ft. bragg, trained as a sniper, highly regarded and decorated. had been in the service since he was 18. by all accounts he was a good soldier, but he was a playboy himself. he had been married once before and had a child from his first marriage, and he left his first wife and married and they had a son together. michelle didn t know that john was still married, but ....
This is where army staff sergeant john diamond found himself, a prime suspect in the murder of air force captain marty theer. military justice is much swifter than civilian justice. so he goes to the article 32 hearing, which is like the grand jury. they immediately find cause and they charge him. and nine months after the murder in a small fort bragg courtroom, diamond went on trial before a military jury. diamond was very, very cocky at the beginning. he would laugh and joke with reporters in there. he was just so sure that he was going to be acquitted. but john diamond wasn t the star of his own trial, michelle was. she was free as a bird then, though still under investigation by fayetteville civilian homicide cops, and here she was called to testify at her former lover s military trial. she shows up. her hair is now like a red color ....