Morbid - Episode 528: The Murders of Stan Farr and Andrea Wilborn

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

When Priscilla Davis filed for divorce from her husband, Cullen Davis, in 1974, she had no idea that her actions would have such tragic consequences. Less than two years later, on the same day the divorce was finalized and the terms of the alimony were settled, a man wearing a disguise broke into Priscilla’s home and killed her twelve-year-old daughter, then waited for Priscilla to return. When she arrived a short time later, the intruder said hello to Priscilla and her new boyfriend before shooting them both, wounding Priscilla and killing her companion.Cullen Davis was immediately suspected of the murders and taken into custody, leading to one of the most sensational and captivating trials the country had ever seen. The wealthiest man to ever be tried for murder in the United States up to that point, Cullen Davis was said to be the primary influence for the villainous J.R. Ewing, the main antagonist on the hit television series Dallas, and he more than lived up to the role. Davis’s wealth and status allowed him to control the narrative of the trial, which quickly became an indictment of his former wife, who, despite being the victim of a horrible crime, was vilified by the press and the defense as the real villain in the case.Although it is nearly five decades in the past, the marriage of Priscilla and Cullen Davis, and the murder trial that followed, are emblematic of many of the issues that the American justice system (and the public) continues to struggle with today including who is and isn’t a victim, and how power and money can control the pursuit and application of justice.Thank you to David White, of the Bring Me the Axe podcast, for research assistanceReferencesBrown, Greg. 2016. Texas Tragedy: The Story of Priscilla Davis: A True Story of Money, Murder and Survival. Dallas, TX: CreateSpace.Cartwright, Gary. 1977. "Rich Man, Dead Man." Texas Monthly, March 1.Cochran, Mike. 1977. "Davis trial: Haynes says Farr target of shooting." Denton Record-Chronicle, October 25: 5.Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 1977. "DA's narration to Davis jury detailed but brief." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 21: 2.—. 1976. "Judge defends bond on Davis." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 4: 1.Guzzo, Glenn. 1977. "Davis cries tears of joy after acquittal." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 18: 1.—. 1977. "Davis' fate now in jurors' hands." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 17: 1.—. 1977. "Final arguments begin." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 16: 1.—. 1977. "His innocence avowed, Davis doubts provocation." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 7: 1.—. 1977. "Questioning nets no jurors." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 1: 1.Hollandsworth, Skip. 2001. "Survivor's gilt: convinced that it was her husband who tried to kill her, the Texas socialite devoted herself to the best revenge." New York Times Magazine, December 30.—. 2000. "Blood Will Sell." Texas Monthly, March 1.McConal, Jon, and Mark Nelson. 1977. "Few surprised by Davis verdict." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 18: 1.Moore, Dick. 1976. "Slain man was liked by fans, teammates." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 3: 1.Moore, Evan. 1976. "Davis jailed without bond." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 20: 1.—. 1977. "Picture of Priscilla, Rufner not allowed as evidence by judge." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 24: 1.Stiteler, Rowland. 1976. "Blood-spattered white foyer tells story of slayings." Fort Worth Star-Telegram , August 3: 6.—. 1976. "Davis jailed after slayings." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 3: 1.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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It's COVID-free, morbid! It's COVID-free, morbid! It's COVID-free, morbid! It's COVID-free, morbid! It's COVID-free, morbid! Harley wave of nausea. And I was like, Drew, we have to go home. We're gonna have to go home. And then I took a COVID test and it said, nope, and then I checked another one this morning to be safe. And it was like, no, girl, you don't have COVID. It was like, you don't have COVID. You don't have it. Go to work.

Yeah, I was like, okay. No, I've been happy to come to work this week. Yeah, this week. No, just this week. Just this week. Just kidding. You know what I mean? When you get back from VK and you're like, aw, I'll work Just the sweetest. Just kidding. No, like, you know what I mean? When you get back from Vekan, you're like,

ah, I'll work. Yeah. Yeah. Vacation. Vacation. Vacation. All right. Well, yeah, so COVID free up in here.

I was gonna say, do you have like any other news about your life? No, except for the fact that I don't think he'll be listening for a long time to this because he started at the beginning, but Will for Dell from Boy Meets Worlds also had COVID. Oh, you guys are coming for COVID, but I'm sorry. Yeah, we're COVID brothers. And so shout out to him whenever you get to this episode. Shout out to Will. I think he was probably going to listen to like some of the more

recent ones to hear his shout out. Oh, yeah. So here's another shout out. There's another one, Will. Yeah, for having COVID. Double shout out to you. I feel like that's only fair to shout people out when you have COVID up the same time It's true, you know, you know, you know, COVID brothers COVID brothers. Yeah, don't get it guys. It's not great Why would you it is not true? I don't know why you made that choice in No, it's not either. It was that choice. It was not awesome, but you know, cold free. Feeling good. Cold free, yay. I don't really have any news since I last spoke to anybody.

Yeah, I'm trying to think. Yeah. It's been, it's really just been a convalescing time up in this house, so. Yeah, I just been trying to get my life together back at home. My house is a fucking wreck. Get my life together. Between like the getting married thing of it all, like my whole super back at home, my house is a fucking wreck. Get my life together. Between like the getting married thing of it all,

like my house got super messy during that, because like there's just fucking piles of wedding shit everywhere. And then we left, and then we came back and we were like, well, we should do something about that. And he said, nah. It's very overwhelming. Mostly Drew is doing something about it.

So like shout out to him. Shout out to Drew. Yay. Hell yeah. Yay. Yay. But yeah, other than my house being a mess, I don't really have any opting notes. Shout out to him. Shout out to Drew. Yay. Hell yeah. Yay. Yay. But yeah, other than my house being a mess,

I don't really have any update. No. I have a case for you today that it's a very interesting case. I had actually never heard of it before. And I was looking for new cases and I found it. And I was like, oh, I'll cover that. And then Dave was like, whoa, that was a wild one to cover. I love the journey that that just took. Yeah, I was like, that was a wild one to cover. I love the journey that that just took.

Yeah, I was looking for cases to cover, and I found it. Yeah, and this is it. This is it. There you go, all done. I'm just kidding. From beginning to end, that's how the sausage is made. That's pretty much how the sausage was made.

I was looking for a case, and I found one. And then I put the sausage casing. And the sausage casing, and here it is. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, that's what I did. And Dave helped, so shout out to him. But this is the, it's a double murder, unfortunately. It's the murders of Stan Farron, Andrea Wellborn.

But I think I heard of this. Yeah, I was surprised that I hadn't, because it's the basis for for a pretty popular television show. Really? Yeah, Dallas, the soap opera. Oh. Yeah. Okay, I never watched Dallas more than I did.

I don't know of it. But I don't love it, and now I kind of want to watch it. I don't, but. Okay. I'm sorry. Okay. I think it's usually something that you would watch. But I remember it was like a huge thing in the 80s.

Yeah. It was like Dallas was like the shit. The like super drama. Yes. So, and you can, you'll see why at the end of this. But at the center of these tomb murders is there's a couple of people. But at the center that we're going to start is Priscilla Lee Childers. She was born July 30th, 1941 in Dublin, Texas.

Not Ireland to be clear. And Dublin, Texas as a small town right outside of Houston. And her mother, Adi Lee, already had two children, both boys. And Adi was just going through it, trying to raise her kids as a single parent. After she was abandoned by her husband, shortly after Priscilla was born. Oh, boy. He was like, oh, we have three kids now, by cool. Can you imagine?

Love that. So with her help from her brother guy, Adi did her best to raise the kids, right? And passed down a love of arts and culture that she had developed herself when she was a kid. And as a result, little Priscilla was enrolled in dance and piano classes at an early age, which, that's fucking awesome. That her mom's a single mom and still figured out how to make that happen. It's hard enough when you have a village tale. Yeah, exactly. But she was also

encouraged to focus on her studies and get good grades so that she could have a better life than what her mom had had and what was really available for most young women in this rural part of Texas. So in 1956, when she was 16 years old, Priscilla found what she thought was a way out of Dublin in the form of 19 year old Jasper Baker. Jasper Baker. Out of name. Jasper Baker. Now, despite her young age, Priscilla fell desperately in love with Jasper Baker. I feel like you just have to say both of his names. You do? You can't just say Jasper. No. And before long, they decided to get married just 10 days before her 17th birthday.

Oh boy. She gave birth to their daughter. Oh wow. Angela D, who they simply called D, which I think is like a really cute little nickname. Angela D, that's cute. But unfortunately, it seemed like things really happened super quickly and then fizzled out as quickly as they had started.

Things quickly turned bad between the two of them and like her own father had done, he abandoned her not long after she had the baby. Oh, fuck you, Jasper. Yeah, which forced her to move back into her mother's house in Dublin, which is where she was trying to get out of it. Not because she had like a bad relationship with her mother. She wanted more. She wanted more. Now, it didn't take long before Priscilla had found another way out of Dublin. This time with a man named Jack Wilborn.

Unlike Jasper, Jack was mature. He was actually 19 years older than Priscilla, and he owned a used car business in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas. So in 1960, Jack and Priscilla after they had fallen in love, got married, they moved into a new house in Fort Worth, and at first things were like a dream. Versilla wasn't even 20 years old. She already had a husband, a maid, a really nice house in the suburbs. And within a year she gave birth to their first child, Jack Jr., who they referred to as Jackie. And then he was followed in 1964 by her third and final child, a girl they named Andrea Lee.

Okay. Now from the outside, Versilla and her husband were married and they child, a girl they named Andrea Lee. Okay. Now from the outside, Priscilla and Jack's marriage really seemed ideal. They had a stable income, he owned that business, they had great kids, and they were members

of one of the nicest country clubs in the state. Oh, I feel like this is too much good happening. Yeah, I feel like whenever it starts with a country club, it's like, it's just like, it can go perfect, it can go Southquick. Yeah, thanks. I mean, it can always go well at the country club too, of course, but I've never been there. But what people didn't see from the outside

was that Jack and Priscilla had been drifting apart for quite some time. According to Priscilla, not long after Andrea was born, Jack became verbally and emotionally abusive towards her. She told a friend, Greg Brown, I could never do anything right. I used to go out on the swing in the backyard and just cry at night. Oh, that's so sad.

Which like, you have three kids, you finally got your way out and you think you have this swing crying. Yeah, like you think you have this fairy tale life and then he just changes like and gets so dark all of a sudden. That must be so lonely. you think you have this fairy tale life and then he just changes like and gets so dark all the sudden. That must be so lonely. Now the problem it seemed was that while she had no trouble staying busy, three children and a husband, that sought the fact that she would stay busy, Priscilla didn't really

have any identity aside from being a wife and a mother. And that's the, that was not the only identity she wanted. She was seeking. Yes. She had never finished high school. She never received really any kind of specialized training. She really didn't have any marketable skills because she was 17 when she made her first husband.

So she was super dependent. Exactly. She was dependent on Jack for almost everything. So in order to combat the growing anxiety and the depression that she was starting to feel, she decided, you know what? I'm gonna reinvent myself, which I love. I love a lot of like aenvigor moment, you know?

She grew her hair longer than it had ever been. She died at Pilate No Blonde. Oh wow. She's gorgeous. If you Google a picture, I wish it'd be beautiful. She wore heavy, a lot heavier makeup than what most Texas housewives were wearing at the time. Yeah, that's true.

She started dressing in what could be considered more youthful and revealing outfits. They weren't really up to the women of Texas' standards at the time. Oh, please. But she was living. She was living her best life. According to Greg Brown, who wrote Texas tragedy, the story of Priscilla Davis, Priscilla, quote, resembled the then-sex symbol, Bridgipardo. Oh, wow. She is beautiful. Isn't she so pretty? Yeah. And he said she looks like Bridgipardo, who I also think is, likeget Bardot. Oh, wow. She is beautiful. Isn't she so pretty? Yeah. And he said she looks like Bridget Bardot, who I also think is unbelievably gorgeous.

Truth. But she didn't really look like a homemaker, the mother of three young kids anymore. Like what people thought that should look like. That's so absurd. Of course it is. Now whether the aesthetic changes helped her to feel more satisfied with her life,

or it's kind of unknown, but they definitely caused her to get noticed by men other than Jack. Skip Holland's worth of The New York Times wrote, each spring at the colonial national invetational golf tournament and Fort Worth, hordes of men would gather around, and this is so gross,

just to get a peek at what they fondly described as her balcony, which I'm assuming is her chest. Everybody needs to get it together. Like, you gotta get it together. Guys, because that's gross. Why don't you just say like, she's beautiful. Yeah, I just wanted to admire her because she's beautiful.

Yeah, I wanted to see her balcony. I wanted to look at her tits. Go watch porn, asshole. You're quiet about it. You're an asshole. That's really gross. And it's like hordes of men gathering around to like just like read her and her balcony.

What the fuck are you doing calling it a balcony? Like, there's so many problems here. Many. Now, one day in 1967, during a mixed doubles games on the courts of I think it's originally a country club. Priscilla met a new admirer. Young oil tycoon Colin Davis. That's the name Colin Davis. That's the name. She's got a thing for names. Yeah you got to pick a strong name. Yeah. Now despite being a complete stranger to Priscilla, Colin was very well known in around Fort Worth as the son of Kenneth Stinky Davis.

Ooh, they called him Stinky. What a name. Yeah, I don't know. What a nickname. That's some came from somewhere. Sure did. I don't really know if I want to know where. I don't at all.

But Stinky Davis was one of Fort Worth's well-dehist oil, then. You get not that. What you say that. But he was, he got a lot of fucking money. And after graduating from Texas, you have a lot of money in your nickname is Stinky Davis. You better have something to go and point at.

You know, after graduating from Texas and I'm university, or on 1955, Colin returned home to Fort Worth and went to work for his fathers and his family's oil business. In 1962, he got married to his first wife Sandra. And actually that day in 1967, during that mixed doubles game, he and his wife Sandra were playing against Priscilla and her friend. And that's how he met Priscilla. Oh. But with his wife. With his wife, who he was married to. Oh.

But that marriage was never really a happy marriage. And Sandra went through a lot. We will come to see. Oh. According to Skip Holland's worth, Colin was best known around Fort Worth for his way with women. And his marriage to Sandra never really stopped him

from pursuing women. So he's a pig. He is something. So Colin and Sandra Davis, they had wealth, they had status, and with their two boys, they made for a very respectable family from the outside. But at 34 years old, he's thinking, you know, he's this young buck, respectability and stability weren't really what he wanted. Which like by the time I'm 34, I would love some respect. He was stupid. But what he was after was passion and adventure.

You can have all of that. Yeah, why can't you have all that together? You can be passionate and adventure and still be stable and respectable. Yeah, like why not? But apparently not in Collins mind. Later after he divorced Sandra, Colin would tell the press that he'd only married his first wife, quote, because it seems like the right thing to do at the time. That's what every woman wants to do. Yeah. And it's like,

you have to chill and drink. And why would you ever say that about the mother of your children? Yeah, it's like, come on. Knowing that your children couldn't hear that. Yeah. Now it seems that Colin, though, in Percillaiscilla had been having similar ex-essential crises and each was seeking to shake up their lives. So yeah. They kind of met during a time where it was it was a perfect style. Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah. No, she hadn't exactly been looking to have an outright affair. But after their meeting on the tennis courts, Priscilla and Colin did start seeing each other regularly, but secretly. They were meeting at Green Oaks Inn in Fort Worth to, you know, keep everything hash hash.

In early 1968, Colin suggested that they take a trip to Acapulco, is it? Yeah, look at that. Acapulco. They wanted to go there for the weekend. But unbeknownst to them, Jack Wilborn had a sneaking suspicion that his wife was seeing somebody else, and in late December, he hired a private detective to follow Priscilla. Uh-oh.

Now, the private detective reported back to him about this trip to Acapulco, and Jack in turn called Sandra Davis, and informed her that her husband was fucking around on her with his wife. I mean. So in case you're not following, Jack is married to Priscilla, but Priscilla is seeing Colin who's married to Sandra and Jack call Sandra.

And it's like, we should probably team up here because our spouses are cheating on us with each other precisely. And together they did team up. They went full VH1 cheaters with a private investigator. Wow. They all, including the PI, devised a plan to wait at the airport for the plane to arrive for Mexico and then follow the car to Green Oaks in

where they decided they would surprise them and put an end to the love affair. Or so they thought. That's pretty hilarious. Yeah, like that is, I love that method. I think that's great. Exposed. I think it's great.

I think it's like you call the other one. You're like, well, we're both in the similar spot here. And at that point when you've been wronged to that extent, like why not get a little bit of enjoyment out of the exposure at the moment? Yeah, well, you're both showing up and being like, we both know. Yeah. So it's enjoyment out of the exposure. Yeah, well, you're both showing up and being like, we both know. Yeah.

So it's all out in the open. Exactly. No more like this person knows or that person knows or this person doesn't know this part. Nope. We all know. We all know. We all know. Everything's out here.

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You can listen to Dr. Death Bad Magic early and ad-free right now by joining Wondery Plus. Now, it was late when the plane arrived in Fort Worth, but Jack Sandra and the PI there waited, and they followed Priscilla and Colin to the green oaks where they checked in a little after midnight. A few hours later, while they slept, the door to Colin and Priscilla's room burst open, and they were shocked to find their respective spouses and a man that they didn't know standing before the bed.

Yikes. Clear. Exactly how they, like, the PI and the... Busted open that door. Joconsandor were able to get in there, but they did. Priscilla jumped from the bed and ran to the bathroom trying to hide, but it was too late. I was gonna say that's not gonna work.

The private investigator had already managed to take several photos of the couple in bed together, and a messy divorce was soon to follow. Now at first I was like, why the fuck would you take pictures? For the divorce. For the divorce. Because I was like, that's kind of weird, but I was like, oh, that's proof. Yeah. It's just like here and it's not just irreconcilable differences.

Now, shortly after the affairs were exposed, Jack Willborn and Sandra Cullen both filed for different, for diverse, for diverse. Goodbye. For diverse. For diverse, for diverse, for diverse, on you. I would not be married to you. It's wild too, because usually people,

in these like older stories and stuff, that you'll hear, you'll like at least one of them doesn't. Yeah, this wild, thing that happens always. I want to say. And you're thinking it's going to be like, oh, they're going to try to work it out. But this one's just like, no, it's pretty good. No, they're both just like, no.

Well, because Colin already wasn't treating Sandra very well at all. No. And I think Tristan and Jack weren't happy. So it was like, I don't think, I don't think any love was lost here. I think it was just betrayal. Yes, which is not cool. No, just get divorced. That's the thing.

Then you guys can be together. Right. No, Priscilla immediately moved out of the house and she was put up by Colin in a large apartment in a Fort Worth high rise while Jack retained custody of the children. Oh, wow. Sandra also had no intention of making the divorce easy

for Colin. In court, she quote, accused Colin of slapping her in public, beating her in private until she had bruises covering her face. Whoa. Yeah. And then he does that shit. Yeah. And then he does some other shit that you're like, you're just a violent man. Yeah. Yeah. She also accused him of extensive infidelity and neglect and claimed that was justification for a large alimony and child support as well as full custody of their two kids, which like go for it all baby. Yeah. Go for it all. Sandra for everything. Colin never challenged her for custody or even seemed to care that he wasn't going to see his children anymore. But the alibone was another matter entirely. Of course, fight for your money.

For your kids, but that's really gross. Fight for the money. That's really gross. He's nasty. That's shameful. He's nasty. The divorces were granted that summer, but Colin would spend the next 30 years fighting Sandra and court over the financial settlement.

Jesus. Yeah. Now, free of their previous relationships, though, Priscilla and Colin wasted no time formalizing their own relationship and they got married on August 29, 1968. Okay. That date was doubly significant for Colin as it was the day that his father, Kenneth Davis, died.

Died on his wedding day. Oh. Leaving his entire oil company or oil empire to colon and colon's two brothers. Damn. At the time of Kenneth Davis's death, his company, Ken Davis Industries International, was earning roughly $300 million a year. What the fuck?

Back then. Today, that would mean they weren't earning $2.5 billion per year. Yeah. In a lifetime, that's inconceivable. Oh my, yeah, you can even get the word out. I was like, I kept thinking unthinkable, but I was like, something is more intense than that.

You're inconceivable. But in a year, 2.5 billion dollars. I always think about that with like billionaires. I'm like, that's just like, my brain won't conceive of that much money, like even existing, because you can't even picture it. Never mind someone having it.

Yeah. It's just wild to me. Like, it just feels like it's not real. No. And I think at some point, people that even have that money, they don't even, can't conceive of it.

Really can see that, yeah. Damn. Crazy. But unbelievable. In the years that followed, Colin and his brothers increased that revenue to more than $1 billion annually.

So they were making even more, like, they were making crazy money. Like unthinkable and conceivable money to use both your words. But his one third ownership made Colin obviously one of the wealthiest men in Texas. And unlike his conservative father and brothers, he didn't really see any good reason not to put that wealth to good use or his view of good use. He in persp- uh, persil, excuse me, spent six million dollars to build their new home, Stone Gate Mansion. Stone Gate Mansion.

Stone Gate Mansion in Fort Worth. The place had five bedrooms, eleven bathrooms, an indoor pool, and this fucking sent me, a two thousand square foot master bedroom. That's a house. That is literally bigger than my house. That is larger than my entire house like 2,000 square feet for your bedroom. Why do you need that for a bedroom? I can't even picture that. How? What activities are you planning to undertake lots? In that bedroom.

Allegedly, lots went down there. Oh, okay. So they needed the space. Yes, but it was the rumours. The rumours. If you're a fan of a castle, so Salt Lake City, you'll get that. But they also purchased a ton of artwork that was all scattered throughout the house and collectively valued at close to $3 million back then. So like a billion's now probably

pretty soon after moving in this, this is a lot. Colin commissioned a six by eight foot oil painting of him in Priscilla to hang in the foyer. That is the most humble of men. That's the most oil tycoon shit I've ever heard. Six by eight feet. It was literally bigger than John. That painting was bigger than John. A bigger than John painting of you in your spouse. Like shit. Just a shit.

Shit. That's such oil tycoon behavior. I was like, wow. It's just like commissioning an oil painting of you. Why? I just think about it like commissioning an oil painting of like a minge on just like please do. Please do.

Take it in your foyer. Do you even have a foyer? What's a fucking foyer? It's like the entryway to your house, your foyer. Do you even have a foyer? What's a fucking foyer? Is that like the entryway to your house, your foyer? I think it is. Yeah. Just like, in case you didn't know whose house you were in, boom.

Like, here we are in oil form. The humble of it all. Mikey just was right. Mikey just said, that's some shit's creak shit. That is some shit's creak shit. See, and it didn't work out for them either. That's very true. They also bought a sky box at Texas Stadium, which Priscilla decorated entirely in pink and my note on that. So my note on

decorate a box. I think if you own it out, right? Oh, shit. My note for the oil painting was humble man's, but my note for decorating that exclusively in pink, respect. I love it. He lavished her in all the clothing that she could have ever dreamed of and expensive jewelry, including a necklace with the phrase rich bitch. Shut the fuck up. Spelled out and di-bus.

This is real. This is Dallas. I do know how that was after this. No, literally was. I also would like to inform you that Dave and I are getting matching necklaces that say Rich Bitch. We decided. Yeah.

Are we Rich Bitches? No. Are we going to wear Rich Bitch necklaces? Yes. Can you imagine actually purchasing that? Rich Bitches. And like imagine John gets you a gift and you open it up and you like,

you, the wrapping paper, you peel it back and you see, oh, like it's this long box. It probably has like this beautiful jewelry in it. You open it and it's a fucking necklace that spells out rich bitch and diamond. Can you imagine? It. I'd be like, what does this mean?

What does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean? I'm sure Priscilla was just like hell yeah. Yeah, Priscilla, honey. When you have millions and billions, you're like, yep, rich bitch. That's part of my genome at this point. So like let's go.

Dave and I were crying about this. That is amazing. Yeah. Other purchases included a lear jet, you know, an apartment, just a lear jet. Just a jet, yeah. An apartment at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, and lots and lots and lots of European vacations. Oh, shit. Now, eventually the rather lavish and decadent lifestyle that colon and brissello were living

really would become common among Texas high society. And like I was saying, serve as the basis for the soap opera Dallas. But in the late 60s and early 70s, their displays of wealth at this time were still considered very gosh. Very gosh. Very gosh, I love that word.

I do too. Among the old guard of Dallas Fort Worth oil money. They were all turn in their fucking noses up to that. Like, what are you doing with your rich bitch necklace? Because that's because you know what? Their way of doing rich was hush. Is so like for sale at Collins is so good. It is. It is like right near face and all these older money ones are like the, are like the Gilmores, you know? Bitch.

Where it's like, I literally make Gilmore Girls references. Because it's like, you know they're rich. Like you look at Emily and Richard and you're like, yeah, you got money. Yeah, but it's like nice old money. You know, like it looks like that old money. It's like just like old world kind of decorating and shit. Exactly. It's so funny because literally like the next two sentences,

I love through that, I wrote an Emily, I can't remember our first. Another thing I can always compare anything back to was good. And I got that from you. Well, you did, because you gave me your love. I love Gilmore Girls. But yes, so everybody was like, yeah, you're being real gauche.

And most of the society women quietly resented having to welcome, you know, the one-time wife of a used car salesman into the folds. And they felt that Priscilla probably slept her way up to the top and, you know, made her way up that social ladder by doing so, which reminded me of Emily and the D.A.R. ladies and good workers. That's very much when they, and then movie one, the reboot. Yeah. When they like shit all over that girl.

And then Emily's like, here's the thing. Emily's like, you're not gonna get in. Yeah. Like they're gonna talk shit about you and then they're gonna call you. Like, yeah, it's so true. That, but I immediately saw that.

Everybody's got a separate end about everybody else. Yeah, just fuck off. Everybody's just worry about your own shit. Live your own life. You only have one. Presumably. You all have it like these women all have money. It's like, you're all living.

Yeah. So just shut the fuck up. Look your way. Let the other person live their way. Talk, I mean, talk about it quietly, like whatever. That's the thing you want to talk to each other, but like there's no reason to be like nasty. No, that's the thing.

You don't need to be nasty about anything. It's just, it's not nice to be nasty. Why about your own nose? But they weren't alone these ladies. Eventually, Collins' brother Bill actually ended up filing a lawsuit against him, claiming that Colin had, quote, run up personal debts of at least $16 million back then.

That's the depth. And was using Ken Davis' like the company's assets as collateral for obtaining personal loans. What the fuck does he need loans for? That's the other thing. I have no fucking idea. I think he was spending, I mean, yeah, clearly unfathomable amounts of money. Now, the suit was eventually settled and Bill actually bought his share out of the company.

But by that point, his relationship with Colin, his brother, was completely destroyed beyond her pair. Now, really never having been one for working, Priscilla instead filled her day spending money and becoming what somebody might say is a trophy wife, a symbol of Colin Davis' success. And she was happy to be one. Yeah, as long as she was finally. At that point. At his request, she completed her physical transformation

by getting a boob job, which only made her less welcome in the eyes of Dallas Fort Worth society, because they were like, fake tits. Never. It gives a shun about people's tips. It's like, but if I can get a boob job, I'm gonna be a boob job. Leave people's boobs, my boobs are my boobs. Shut up about them.

So one friend told Greg Brown, she was known in Fort Worth, but not socially accepted, because and this was a quote, they all thought she was a whore. She's just like, really mean. But it didn't really seem like Priscilla was interested in trying to fit in with those women who shut in to her rather than try to integrate herself into a group who never wanted her in the first place. Yeah, fuck that. She was like, fuck y'all.

I deal with that on the reg. Don't try to be friends with people who don't want to be friends with you, man. No, it's not worth it. She was like, I can just spend my days planning vacations and decorating and redecorating my mansion. Yeah, there you go.

And she loved to plan for the one social event of the year that she really did enjoy the annual colonial invetational golf tournament. That was like her favorite event of the year. Now, while Colin liked having a beautiful wife on his arm, that didn't keep him from getting jealous whenever the press paid more attention to Priscilla than they did to him. And after a year or two of marriage, the adventuring excitement of the early days of their relationship did begin to wear off. And Collins' less attractive qualities shown brighter than they had when they first met. Uh-oh. And I just want to give everybody a trigger warning here for domestic abuse. At first, the abuse was verbal and emotional, much like what she went through with her previous

husband, but it didn't take long for the abuse with Colin to become physical. One night at the apartment, Colin kept in Dallas, he in Priscilla, Priscilla, excuse me, got into a trivial argument that just became more and more heated over time. And without warning, he punched her in the face several times, breaking her nose. Oh, fuck him. Broker nose. Are you kidding me?

No. Like, fuck is wrong with this guy. You punch a woman in the face once. Breaking her nose. Oh my god. And then multiple times and break her nose. Yeah, he sounds like a, and this is the same guy who abandoned his children.

So this is not shocking. No. Now, sadly, Priscilla was not the only one who suffered colon abuse. And I want to give another trigger warning here for domestic abuse and also animal abuse. It's going to be quick, because I can't even deal. Priscilla's daughter Dee moved in with her mother shortly after Priscilla had divorced from Jack. She was also a frequent target for her stepbrothers rage.

Oh, this makes me so angry. One night after Dee had gone to bed, she was woken up in the night by Colin who walked her down, back down to the kitchen, and berated her for forgetting to lock one of the doors before going to bed. What the fuck is... Like, this guy needs...

Like, he's on a power trip. Oh, sounds like a stop-up. When he asked whether she knew why it was important to lock needs, like, he's on a power trip. Sounds like a stop-up. When he asked whether she knew why it was important to lock doors, like he was very clearly being very patronizing, D gave a full-pin answer, and she was just like,

I don't know, so people would steal your junk. And that infuriated him to the point that he hit her in the face. My God. So Priscilla heard her daughter scream, and she ran down into the kitchen carrying their newly acquired kitten in her arms and Cullen was still infuriated.

He grabbed the cat and slammed it on the kitchen floor and did it over and over again until the cat passed away. The cat guy needs to be locked away. He's a fucking animal. He's an animal. An animal. That's animal behavior. Like I almost cried just thinking about it.

I was writing this behavior. And then I literally went around to all my cats and pet them because I was like, I can't imagine that. So let me get this straight. You abandoned your children. Yep. After being physically abusive to their mother, physically abusive to their mother, you have punched your new wife in the face several times. Bricking her nose. You have hit her daughter, not even your biological daughter. Yep. In the face. Yep. And now you have killed a kitten.

Yep. What else is there? What else is there? What else is there? What else is there? Oh, you'll see. Are you kidding me? No.

Oh. Years later, in an interview with Annie, Colin acknowledged this incident saying, I killed the cat, I admit it. It was a dumb thing to do, but he had smarted off to me. Oh, get so fucked, you little bitch of a man. I shouldn't have killed the cat, but it was the kids fault for not locking the door. The kids smarted off to me, shut the fuck up.

So that made you kill a fucking animal, what the fuck? The fuck up, Colin? This guy is a piece of garbage. Oh. Now, those instances of domestic and animal abuse, What the fuck up, Cohen? This guy is a piece of garbage. Yes. Now, those instances of domestic and animal abuse, unfortunately, did not dissolve the relationship between Priscilla and Cohen, and she still tried her best to keep up

our word appearances. In lieu of acceptance into Texas High Society, they took vacations and extended stays in places like Vegas and Palm Springs, and they actually started socializing with stars, some being Kenny Rogers and his wife Margo. And Kenny and Margo both took a liking to Priscilla immediately.

They said they found her charming and quote unquote, down home, but Colin was decidedly less well received. Margo Rogers recalled her husband was kind of shifty looking. He had one of those looks where he looked out looked out one side of his eye. Like she had his number. Yeah, she was like something's off here. Now, despite her opinion on Colin, Margot and Priscilla had become close in the early 70s and maintained a friendship throughout the years.

And later in an interview with Greg Brown, Margot commented on Colin and Priscilla's marriage saying, she was kind of disconnected from him and everything around her, not a loof, just observant. Now, Patricia stuck with her husband through the early 70s, continuing to keep up the appearances at social functions and events where she knew there was going to be press coverage. But by 1974, she just couldn't tolerate the abuse any longer. But the problem was everything they owned belonged to him. Oh, just as in her previous marriage, she had no real identity or income

that wasn't tied to her husband. Oh, no. And she worried that if she and her daughter D left, they'd be destitute, like they'd have nothing. Now, this is, this is like beautiful. Seeing her suffering, the Davis's long time maid, Korra, took Priscilla aside and insisted to her that she take the $1,500 that she herself had in savings.

That's all she had. Stop it. And she was like, I want you to take it and leave him for good. Oh my God. Because I see what he's doing to you and I see what's going on here. And like, you've got to get out of here. What a selfless kind human being.

Like holy shit. Wow. Now obviously it was that bad that this woman is willing to go up and give her higher savings to be like, you got to get out of here. You got to go. And like she clearly cared for Priscilla and Priscilla's daughter so much. Now taking the savings of somebody who had so less than she did and so little anyways was less than ideal. But under the circumstances, it was really the only option that Priscilla had.

So on July 30th, 1974, the day that she turned 33, Priscilla took chorus, $1,500 and filed for divorce from Klau. Now, when Jasper Baker, her first husband there, abandoned her after the birth of their daughter, Priscilla was left with nothing, and like I said earlier, had to move back to her mom's house in Dublin, Texas. When she left Jack Wilbur in 1968, she also was left with little more than her daughter in the clothes on her back. And this time, Priscilla was determined to end the marriage and come out ahead. She wasn't going to walk away from this with nothing. No. In her filing, she accused Colin of multiple forms of abuse and cruelty, which was directed at both her and her daughter. And the story she told the judge were very similar

to the stories that Sandra Davis had told in her to or so. So it seems like this is his pattern. So there's a pattern and that did not earn him any fans in the court. As a result, the judge ordered him to move out of the mansion so Priscilla could keep it and to pay her $2,500 a month for living expenses. Wow. Now, Colin Davis was as we know exceedingly wealthy, $2,500 for him, he could sneeze and that would probably come out. That was a quarter to well. Like anybody else. Truth is taken a quarter out of your pocket. legit. So the stipend for living expenses was not a

problem for him at all. But what was a problem was that the judge had frozen his assets pending a divorce settlement that they both agreed upon. Now, as somebody accustomed to spending large amounts of money, whenever he fucking felt like it, that restriction to him felt so unreasonable. Oh, shut the fuck up. So in November of 1974, he petitioned the judge to permit him to sell off nearly 45,000 shares of stock out of his Western drill company. And he quotes, he cited his reasons, a national credit crunch and short-term loans to various banks in the total of $14 million. Wow. cited his reasons, a national credit crunch, and short-term loans to various banks

in the total of $14 million. Wow. So he was like, I have all this tied up, and I can't, like I need you to let me get some of it. Yeah. Which again, why do you have $14 million tied up in loans when you are a literal billionaire? That's what I know.

So I can't. Now, Judge Eadson refused the request and instead increased his monthly payments to Priscilla from $2,500 to $3,000. He was like, you're not impressing me with the sob stories here. I know that you have access to different money. And so he increased the amount, but the couple was back before Judge Eatson the next month where Colin was ordered to pay a Priscilla an additional $18,500 quote, advance on community property for trial expenses. an additional $18,500 quote, advance on community property

for trial expenses. So he's just making it so that Colin has to pay on the list, which I love. That's hilarious. The court appearances dragged on for the next two years with Priscilla or Colin asking for postponements for one reason or another, divorce is incredibly messy. And I can't imagine with this amount of money,

how much messier it would be. And in the meantime, Priscilla started dating former Texas Christian University basketball star, turned restaurant owner Stan Far. In February 1976, Far moved into the mansion. And for the first time in a long time in Priscilla's life, it felt like things were getting back to normal for her. Her daughter Dee was almost 18 years old now, she was living still at home, and Andrea, her younger daughter, was coming to visit regularly. And even

the divorce settlement actually seemed to be going in the right direction. On August 2nd, Priscilla and Colin appeared again before the judge, and this time, Colin's monthly payments were increased to $5,000 per month, and he was ordered to pay Priscilla an additional 25,000 for accumulated bills and another 25,000 to cover legal expenses. Damn. Because they were like, you have money up the asshole. Yeah, start paying it.

Now, after what felt like a victory in the courtroom that day, Priscilla and Stan went out to dinner at the old Swiss house with friends Bev Bass and Gus Bubba Gavrell to celebrate. Because they were like, why not? Bubba, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble. It was a little after midnight when they returned home. Stan got out of the car to open the large iron gates and they made their way up the driveway

that led to the house. As she fumbled in her purse to find the keys to the front door, though, Priscilla looked through the window and she noticed that the lights on the security panel indicated that the front door had been open since they left hours earlier. She figured maybe it was Andrea who was coming to stay with them for the evening or even maybe her daughter Dee. But she shrugged it off and just made their way into the house. Once inside, Stan climbed the stairs to head to the master bedroom and Priscilla just went

to go into the kitchen to turn the lights off. And that was where she noticed what looked like a bloody handprint on the basement door. Oh shit. Priscilla took a few steps toward the basement, but between the security panel and the handprint on the door, something was beginning to feel very wrong, and she called out for stand instead. After a few seconds with no reply,

she decided to go to the bedroom to find her boyfriend. But as she made her go to the bedroom to find her boyfriend. But as she made her way toward the stairs, she was startled by a man dressed in all black, wearing a woman's black wig who emerged from the laundry room on her right. As he emerged, he greeted her, saying, hi, right before shooting her in the stomach at close range. Holy shit. So some man dressed in all black, wearing a black woman's wig.

This is like a black hair. A merges from the laundry room, says hi and shoots you in the stomach. Wow. So alerted by the sound of the gun and Priscilla's scream, Stan rushed downstairs and found the door leaning into the kitchen was locked, so he couldn't get in there. Without any warning though, the intruder shot through the door leaning into the kitchen was locked, so he couldn't get in there. Without any warning though, the intruder shot through the door, and when the door did

open, the two men started struggling, and during the struggle, Stan was shot three more times. No. Sensing that it might be her only opportunity to flee though, Persella forced herself to stand up after being shot in the fucking stomach, and managed to actually get out of the house through the sliding glass door that led out to a courtyard. And once outside, she started running toward the road, but the intruder chased after her and caught up to her

and started dragging her back toward the house. What the fuck? But luckily, there was a split second where he was startled by a sound and let go of Priscilla's arm, which led her fall to the ground. And when he went to investigate the noise, she scrambled to hide into the bushes nearby, and then she heard voices coming from the driveway, and several more shots rang out. So the commotion prompted her to run toward the road, and after making it past the gate,

she ran to the nearest house and started raining the doorbell over and over. And she shouted to whoever was on the other side. My name is Priscilla Davis. I live in the big house in the middle of the field off Holland. I'm very wounded. Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone. Oh my God, that just gave me full chills.

I mean, too. Holy shit. Wild. So the neighbors called an ambulance and emergency services did arrive a short time later. Priscilla was taken to the hospital to be treated for the gunshot wound to her stomach, and there she would learn that Stan didn't make it. Oh, no.

And neither did her 12-year-old daughter, Andrea. Her 12-year-old daughter? Who was just, she didn't even live at the mansion. She was staying there for the night. She was found dead in the basement. Holy shit. And Priscilla also learned that the commotion she had heard in the driveway was her friends

Bev Bass and Baba Gavril, excuse me, who had pulled up that to the house just as she slipped out into the courtyard. Oh my God. Gavril had confronted the intruder who shot him several times before fleeing the scene. He was in critical condition and he would survive the attack ultimately, but he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life.

Are you kidding? Oh, yes. This is like devastating. Devastating. So, despite having been shot in the stomach, Priscilla was still conscious and able to speak and she identified her attacker as her ex-husband. Holy shit. Telling even on the ambulance ride there,

she was telling ambulance drivers, he quote, put on a black wig and started shooting all my kids. Oh my God. At 4.30 a.m., Fort Worth Polly surrounded the home of Karen Master of quote unquote friend, with whom Colin had been staying with and called inside demanding that he surrender.

His only request was that he be allowed to dress before coming outside. They should have said no. They should have said no, but they consented. And he was taken into custody without incident. And when they searched the house and his car, they discovered several handguns hidden, five in Karen's house,

and two in a Styrofoam, two in a Styrofoam chest in the trunk of Colant's car. So he had seven fucking guns just lying about. Immediately after his arrest, Fort Worth officers were sent to guard the homes of Judge Joe Eatson, the divorce judge there, as well as the homes of Ronald Altman and Jerry Lofton, who were the lawyers representing Priscilla in the divorce.

Damn, you don't think of that. That's like really scary. Your life is on the line, to a certain extent. Now back at the mansion, police started combing through the crime scene, which one ambulance driver referred to as like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. That's horrifying. That tells you everything you need to know. Really horrifying. There were two large pools of blood on the floor, leading from the kitchen to the foyer. One where Priscilla was shot, and the other in the spot where it stands body had fallen.

A large trail of blood led from the hallway to the kitchen, where stands body had been dragged and dropped by the killer. And from the kitchen investigators made their way to the basement, where they found the body of Andrea Wilborn in a small utility room. What the fuck? Crime scene technicians noted that she hadn't suffered any physical trauma aside from a bullet that had entered her upper chest and exited out her lower back. Oh my God.

Later, it would be determined that Andrea had been shot in the chest and just left to die in the basement while the killer went upstairs to hide in the laundry room, waiting for Priscilla. She's 12. 12 years old. Other than the obvious carnage, there's no other word for it. Detectives concluded that nothing in the house

had been stolen or otherwise disturbed. I mean, that tells you because it's his fucking house. Yeah. If anyone's walking into that house and doing shit, they're stealing shit. Yeah. What other motive would they feel? Why else would you? Yeah. Exactly. According to Detective CR Davis, quote,

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And I'm Matt Bellasai. And this is Dis Antel. Where we unpack why we get so invested in these feuds. And whether or not our attention only makes the whole thing worse. Follow Dis Antel wherever you get your podcasts. your podcasts. Now, while Priscilla and Baba Garvel were in no shape to speak to the police after a certain point, Priscilla's friend Bev Bass was and she corroborated what Priscilla had managed to tell the police before being hospitalized. Now, it's important to note that they had

no chance to talk after this and all happened. So she is corroborating the story. And I'm saying that for her. She's just saying it because that's what happened. What she saw. According to Bev, she planned to stay at the house that evening and she and Gavril arrived shortly after Priscilla and Stan. According to Captain J.W. Tindall, the young lady recognized this person as Davis and called out his name at the same time the suspect wheeled and shot Mr. Gavril on the side. So she recognized him called him by name. And that's before she's even spoken to Bersilla who at that point had already told ambulance drivers. It was calling. So they're both, they're both saying it was calling.

Damn. Now, uh, bass, she said she ran as soon as the shooting started and was briefly pursued by the attacker, but he eventually fled as she made her way to a nearby convenience store where a security guard called police. Holy shit. But the fact that both of them are like, yeah, it was Colin, we know I mean, they're not just pulling that out of their ass. No, of course they're not. And I don't know if everybody's been listening, but he's proven himself to be a very violent and scary human being. Absolutely.

And now a human being who is losing a lot of money. Yeah. And his home, you know, technically. Now despite having been arrested on charges of murder and attempted murder on August 4th, Colin Davis was released on an $80,000 bond, which of course he has no trouble paying. In his statement to a shocked group of reporters, Justice of the Peace, WW Matthews, defended the bond, saying, it was the amount recommended by the district attorney and I stayed with it. Cool. When pressed, he speculated, this man probably will never heard anybody again. He was just drunk. The police told me he was quite drunk. And they say when he gets drunk, he gets

really mad. It's like, yeah, how comforting that he probably won't break into anybody's house and open fire on five. That has to be the stupidest shit I have ever heard. Probably. Blow out of a person's fucking face. He was just drunk. Well, he probably won't do it again. People in this case need to get so fucked. Why? It's so, and that is.

Why open your mouth and say words if those are going to be them? Well, you know, he got drunk, he gets mad. He gets mad, he punches his wife, he gets mad, he slaps his stepdaughter, he gets mad, he beats a kitten on the floor until it dies. Yeah. He it's drunk. Really, you won't get drunk in Madigan. We can all just kind of cross our fingers, right? A week later, while still recovering at Harris Hospital,

a precilegate for formal statement to the assistant district attorney, Jo Shannon, Jr. In it, she was very clear about despite the attempt to disguise, she immediately recognized the shooter as Colin Davis. She said, if you were sitting there and I was looking at you and you had on a wig, I would still be looking at your face. I looked right at him. And when Shannon asked whether it was possible

that she was mistaken, Priscilla responded, oh no, I lived with him. No, I could spot Colin in a crowd three miles away. Yeah. You know your husband's face. Better than most faces I would think. It was on a stupid black wig. It's not going to hide his fucking face.

And if you look at the pictures of him when he was younger, he's pretty like discernible. Yeah. Absolutely. You would be able to point that face out. He hasn't just had like any old, you know, oil tycoon face. Like he looks, I would be able to point him out. It looks like Colin Davis. Yeah.

Wild. And it's like, you just put on a wig. Yeah. Now, after two weeks of freedom, Colin Davis was arrested a second time when the district attorney dismissed the previously filed charges and refiled new ones this time for two counts of capital murder. Good. Mm-hmm.

Now, while the district attorney's office was vague about why they had amended the charges, the court documents alleged that Colin had committed burglary when he entered the home without permission and that he had explicitly violated judge Edson's order prohibiting him from being at the home. In Texas, Capitol murder carries a mandatory sentence of either life in prison or death, and the district attorney indicated their intention to seek the death penalty in Those days under the circumstances, no bond was issued and Colin was remanded to the custody of the sheriff's department, pending a grand jury hearing, which was scheduled for late winter.

On February 15, 1977, a grand jury returned two indictments for Capitol murder for the deaths of Stan Far and Andrea will, Andrea will born and two indictments for the attempted murder of Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavril, setting Collins bond at $150,000 for the attempted murder counts and denying bond on the actual. I was like, can we deny bond for a minute? I'm like, is that cool?

And it's also like why you even set up a bond if you can't get on a bond on the other chart? It kind of feels like a waste of time. Now, in the weeks that followed, the prosecution and defense started interviewing prospective jurors for the trial, but immediately realized due to the press coverage of the case and the notoriety of those involved, jury selection was going to be more than an uphill battle. In one case, a man who regularly serviced the business machines and several of Colin's offices told the DA,

I've kept up, I've kept up with the case real close and I do not feel the man is guilty in any way. Because you service his fucking machines and he says, how do you probably like? And it's like, shut up. You don't know anything. Shut up. You want the interiors, you've heard nothing.

The people that were shot are sitting there saying, I looked this fucker in the face, and it was Colin Davis. Right. And this guy who wasn't there, and knows nothing about, he's like, I don't know. I don't think it was him. Leskai, I never said a name. I don't know. I mean, listen to the people who looked into his face

before they shot him. That's the other thing. I'm like, dude, he doesn't know your fucking name. No. But like many of the potential jurors and interviewed, this man was disqualified for having formed a pre-trial opinion of Colin Davis, but he was not alone. Many people had their opinions.

So on April 14th, after nearly two months of an arduous jury session process, the judge Tom Cave had to declare a mistrial. After learning that one of the jurors, I believe her name was Elizabeth Panky, had discussed the case with a coworker. She'd been given permission to leave the state to attend a funeral in early April, and at that time she also discussed the case with friends on at least three occasions. My girl, that's literally like rule number one of Fight Club, as you don't talk about the case

that you're working on. Yeah, so he was, you know, obviously extremely reluctant to do so, but he saw no alternative and dismissed all the jurors. They just fucked this case right up. Damn. The problem for the DA was that while they knew it would have been impossible to find a jury that hadn't heard about the case,

they didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find a jury pool that hadn't already made up their mind about the matter of Collins guilt. Damn. And this was due in part to the fact that many people found it impossible to imagine that somebody so prominent and wealthy could commit murder, much less the murder of a child. I'm sorry.

Have you ever read anything? Have you ever turned on the television? That happens so much. You watch the news so much. In a weird way, this case kind of reminds me of the O.J. Simpson case. Yeah, it's got certain parallels. Yeah. Now, there were those people who were like, no, I just can't imagine that a rich man would kill someone. That's crazy. But there were also people who were just worried about their own wallets being affected by the outcome of the trial. There were countless influential people who stood to lose considerable sums of money.

Oh, this is so dirty. It's so disgusting. If he had been found guilty, they would have lost everything. In total, he owed nearly six million dollars in outstanding loans at every major bank in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Wow. So why gets benefits from being a dirt bag who can't pay his debts? Yeah, because you that seems right. Oh, money. And while his being refused bond had already hurt their chances of being paid, his being

found guilty would mean that they were unlikely to ever got their money back. And that was their main concern. Money over the life of a 12-year-old. And he would have killed everyone in that house if he was able to before he had disturbed. Now, equally challenging for the prosecution were the rumors about Priscilla that had started spreading almost immediately after Collins' arrest. Collins' defense team led by the rather theatrical, Richard racehorse hines. You heard that right. This man's nickname is racehorse. I don't want to know anything else about that. Better than stinky, but still wild.

Better than stinky, but real wild. Texas is a wild place. Sure is. It just is. But yeah, racehorse hines there had filed several motions to access witness testimony and other materials that they believe portrayed Priscilla in a negative light. I love that this woman got shot in her own home and her child was murdered in her own house. And they're like, you know, it's a great way to go about this. We should just make sure that she looks like a dumb bitch.

And it's like a pain. And yeah, that's a great idea. The person who got shot and lost their child. Shot in the stomach, lost her child, was punched in the face by this man. Punched in the face by this man, lost an animal because this man beat it. But let's make her look like an asshole.

Yeah, let's definitely do that. Now sometimes it's like you look at these things and you're like the justice system has so much fucking work to do. It's so flawed. And especially because shit like this is like really. I think especially when it comes to wealthy people in the justice system.

Now nothing came of their efforts in court, really, of trying to get the witness testimony and all that. But they were very public about these attempts, and that was enough to plant seeds, in the, excuse me, seeds of doubt, in the minds of the public. Of course, because nobody ever wants to look actually at facts.

It's just whatever sounds the most salacious. Exactly. And there were stories that not while they weren't exactly slanderous, they didn't paint Priscilla in a good light. They painted her in a negative light. Her own investigators had alleged that there was a contract on her life quote. And when she did go out usually late at night and always with close friends, Priscilla wore a silver plate and 32 strappedpped to a custom-made holster on her right boot. Damn. It's like clearly she was afraid of this man. She's going out with a fucking holster.

Yeah. Now despite being the victim though, the rumors in Inuendo encouraged by the defense made her seem like the one who was guilty, which I don't even know how you could spend that. That's the thing. Like my god. And before the together.

This poor woman, before the trial began, Priscilla received a call from the wife of a quote unquote prominent industrialist who had business dealings with Colin. And this wife asked her to quote unquote, let Colin off the hook. I know he punched you in the face and broke your nose and murdered your kitten in front of you

after abusing your child. Let him off the hook. Let him off the hook. Let him off the hook. For you, uh... You have to be a down, dirty, empty, pathetic bitch to call someone up and ask that. But like, what a bunch of shameful fucks. Yeah, get the bells ready.

Let's go down the street. All y'all are the most shameful of fucks I have ever heard. It's insanely. To pick up the phone and call a woman who all of those things happen to, because it's going to affect your husband's business. A mother who's checks 12-year-old.o was murdered. But your business dealings are the most important here. What about the hook?

Oh, my goodness. So, Persello was perplexed, assuming that the woman was talking about the divorce settlement. And of course, you know, it didn't occur to her that this woman was talking about the murder of it all. Yeah, let him walk free. Later, she recalled, she pointed out that I had gotten a lot of nice things that I never had before.

She said how everyone knew Colin was a weak person, but he wasn't the only person in the world with money. What the fuck? Now finally, the color empty soul. Oh yeah, she's gonna double down. She got to the point and said, Priscilla, I think the best thing for you would be to move out of town and change your name.

Honestly, bitch. Like that's a cunt right there. You're a cunt. The best thing for you. Oh. The best thing for you would be to move. If I got that fucking phone call after all of that, oh, honey.

Now, Priscilla later commented on that call saying, I was dumbstruck. All I could think to say was we all have to answer to God. Damn, I would say much worse. I can't believe after everything she had gone through, this is what she's dealing with. Are these pieces penis shit? Hainus.

But by summer, the trial was officially moved to Amarillo, Texas. I think so, yeah. And a pre-trial hearings began quietly in June. Once again, the prosecution and defense found themselves in a struggle, though, to find mutually agreeable jurors. The biggest issue was still the significant coverage of that the trial had received. But there was also the matter of defense attorney Richard Haynes,

who was a local celebrity, racehorse there. Oh, racehorse. Several jurors had become familiar with him from other cases and press coverage, and they kind of assumed this like kind familiarity with him and quote unquote insisted upon calling him racehorse. Which implied a huge degree of bias that would influence the entire outcome of this trial. I don't... What's happening? Like this is a really gross situation. Like all around.

He racehorse has the murder trial going. This really tests your faith and humanity. It really does. All of this. After nearly two more months, a jury had finally been selected, apparently less perspective jury members called this man resource. And Colin Davis' capital murder trial finally began on August 22nd, 1977, and his opening statement to the jury, district attorney Tim Curry, with the shot. Tim Curry, let out the prosecution's simple case.

He said, Colin Davis learned of a setback in his divorce proceedings. Then when that night, to the mansion, he and his estranged wife Priscilla once shared with the intent to kill her. He stopped short of citing a clear motive, but noted the fact that the murders were committed literal hours after a divorce

hearing where the amount of alimony was raised and the fact that Colin and Priscilla's relationship had just deteriorated to the point of pure vitriol. Oh, yeah. The fact that it happened hours. Yeah. After it, I'm like, that's everything we need to know. That's pure motive. Hours. Here are motives. Not even days. A couple of hours. Yeah. They went to know that's pure motive hours here. Modem not even days a couple of hours. Yes, they went to dinner and then that happened. That's the most solid motive ever. Truly. And again, two people recognized him who had no time

to get any kind of story straight but told the exact same story. Now, Priscilla was among the first witnesses to take the stand and she spent nearly six hours answering Curry's questions and giving her detailed account of the attack. She really didn't say anything that she hadn't already stated in her statement given to the police and to the district attorney's office, but that didn't stop the defense from repeatedly objecting to her testimony, claiming among other things that she, quote, ignored the rules of the court and was referring to hearsay evidence.

Shut up. This is all in her statement. Yeah. In his cross-examination, Haynes kept Priscilla on the stand for days, several days. He asked questions about her use of perkadan, which she had been prescribed for chronic pain from an ankle injury,

and continued to get prescribed after she got shot in the stomach. Yeah. Because, you know, that that he asked about her sexual history and relationships with other men. The fuck does that have to do with anything? They're trying to say she's a gold digger. Yeah.

And that she lives a dangerous life where another man could have done this to her. And even implied that she, in quote, Beverly Bass, had concocted their story to keep the real killer from coming after them and to help Priscilla get Collins' millions on the divorce. Wow. Wow. So we're just like making up a story about who killed my child. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. In questioning her morality, Haynes was clearly trying to undermine the jury in public's trust in Priscilla and it was working. Some in Texas High Society, like I said,

simply didn't like what Priscilla represented at all. A colleague of Collins told a reporter, she's trash, playing trash. Her daughter was killed. To jealousy. Who cares if she was trash or no? To jealousy. And who are you to claim who's trash and who isn't? Give me a line up.

Telling you, jealousy. To jealousy. Other simply relied on the rumor mill for information. There was talk of quote, orgies and two way mirrors and movie cameras hidden in the ceiling above the master bedroom's double queen sized bed. Some suggested the basement was full of SNM accessories

when in fact it was just full of storage. And also, who the fuck cares if it was, even though it wasn't, like it's clearly not. Right, who the fuck cares what she's into? Like fuck off. Like that, what does that have to do with the 12 year old getting murdered? Exactly.

What, like what? Like actually nothing even happened in the bedroom upstairs. So why were we even talking about it? No, that's ridiculous. But unfortunately Priscilla did somewhat play into the kind of like salacious rumors on occasion, granting interviews with the press where she kind of went outacious rumors on occasion, granting interviews with the press where she kind of went out of her way to co-catchly avoid answering direct

questions about her sex life and the rumors surrounding it. Here's the thing though, it's like she, yeah, she probably like leaned in a little bit, but it's also like, what the fuck, she's not doing anything wrong. And she's going through a ton of trauma, that could be some kind of trauma response. Yeah, and she's not, that has nothing to do with her child, her boyfriend and her friend all being shot in her, in her shot. Yeah. But like, we're not gonna concentrate on the fact

that Colin was a fucking animal in that house and was like, nightmarish inducing. No. And like, literally slammed a kitten on the ground until it dies. Blame it on the woman. Like we're not going to talk about how fucked up you have to be to do that.

Blame it on the woman. Like this is why, but they're like, she fucks sometimes. Exactly. And it's like, okay. And like she's, she wasn't rich before she met him. She pushes women and children in the face and kills animals. But, okay. Yeah. Exactly. But you know, like she kills animals, but okay. Yeah, exactly.

But you know, like she, she has tits. Oh, there's that. So we hang like fuck. You should all be ashamed yourself. They absolutely should be, but something tells me that they were not. Now, of course not. Now, when racehorse hines there was finally given the opportunity to give his opening statement, his strategy was made clear. The intruder had entered the house to kill Stan, not Priscilla. He told the jury with absolutely no fucking basis. Mr. Far was a target of those assailants because of his business connections with those other people. Referring to Priscilla, Andrea, and Gavril as quote, accidental victims, racehorse insisted

that it was an unpaid drug dealer who had gone into the house to kill Stan and simply executed the others because they were there. What? So one They were there no no Collect their payments. Absolutely not no and when Priscilla ran outside The this chase the staffed dealer who was not after Priscilla. Chase after her and try to drag her back in the house.

Yeah. Okay. And didn't take anything took a lot to take anything. Yeah. Okay. That would be not for much. I'm going in a $6 million mansion with $3 million worth of art.

Take the fuck off the base. Boom. Just baseline $3 million worth of fucking art on the walls. Never mind everything else in that place. And like diamonds, fucking jewelry. It doesn't even break anything. It doesn't even look around. The bullets.

Didn't even take a, I mean, he didn't even take a fucking coke out of the refrigerator. Nothing. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Collect payment. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, it makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Collect payment. Yeah, absolutely.

That makes sense. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Absolutely. That makes sense. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The defense had zero, zero evidence of Stan being a drug user or of owing anyone money with drugs.

That's for drugs. Yeah, that's definitely just slander this dead man who has murdered that guy, trying to say totally his, like, the people he cared about. Literally zero evidence, but Haynes still called several witnesses who claim to have seen Stan associating with drug dealers. Okay, well, you know what? How is that not hearsay? Exactly.

I'm, hearsay is such a confusing thing that doesn't make anything like, I saw him be a naughty once. What? No, he did. No bottom. I don't even know. He's like, you know, we do have actual record of

Cullen being a fucking animal. There's a literal record of that. That's why the divorce proceeding several records of record were going so well for Priscilla because he had done the exact same shit to his last wife. Exactly. He has a clear pattern of being in a record. He has a clear pattern of being in a abusive piece of shit who clearly was escalating his violence.

Like he's abusive to his first wife. He has an affair. He abandoned his children. He abandoned his children. He doesn't give a shit about them. He just has about the money. Mary's the new wife starts abusing her to, abusing her child.

Without killing animals. Yep. And now he's mad because he's got to lose more money. And that's the other thing that you can point to. This mother fucker was still in court with Sandra fighting over money. Yeah. He's upset about losing money.

It's clear as day. Exactly. What the fuck, y'all? But in his cross-examination of Priscilla, all Haynes needed to do was question Stan's moral character and implied drug use and the jury's imaginations. Let that do the right. That prejudice is the jury. I don't understand how that's allowed. I don't either. I don't at all. Other witnesses for the defense included Karen Masters, who that's where Colin was found. The friend. Yeah, the quote unquote friend. They were more than friends. Clearly. She claimed that Colin was in bed next to her at the time of the killing. Friends totally. And the other witness for the defense was the owner of a small fort worth nursery,

who claimed that he had sneaked onto the property on the night of the murders. According to the nursery owner, he had gone to the house to reclaim some plants that hadn't been paid for. I'm sorry. In the night? Yep, totally. They sent you in the night to go repo plants.

No, he did. He was repoing his own. Hell yeah, just go repo some plants. Never rid of repoing plants. This makes absolute sense. What he said, he saw the killer. And it wasn't Colin Davis. Oh, let's believe this guy.

I believe him. Like the rumors in a new endosarounding the trial, it never seemed to occur to anyone to question whether those statements were actually true. Now take it a face value. For instance, Colin being in bed beside masters on the night of the murder seems like it would be a good alibi. But that information was noticeably absent from her statement to police given that same night. And in never ever came up in subsequent police interviews.

Yeah, she just forgot. It happened that at the trial she remembered that. Yeah. Now multiple interviews with the police now that I think about it. He was asleep in bed next to me. Yeah, right next to me. That's friendly. And similarly, the claims from the nursery owner would also have gone a long way towards clearing Colin's name, but this was the first time anyone was hearing that information. Yeah, it's hard to find people who repoplanse in the middle of the night. Of course.

They stay real chill. Of course. A lot under the radar. Not everyone was impressed with Haines' tactics. In a statement to reporters, Priscilla's former boyfriend, W.T. Ruffner, who had also been slandered by Haines in the trial, which like, what was the point of that?

Refuted nearly everything Haines had implied during the trial to that point. He told the press, Mr. Haines has brought drugs, whiskey, and sex, everything else into this case. What the hell does that have to do with a 12-year-old girl being murdered by someone? Thank you. That's literally what we were just saying.

Like, you're the only person to say that so far. Roughner had made the news several months earlier after an arrest for cocaine and weapons possession, which Haynes was able to use to his advantage in the courtroom associating Priscilla with Roughner to further undermine her character. Oh, could have been your other boyfriend too, you know, I was dealing with cocaine charges. Well, and also it's like, I love that we are just focusing on making Priscilla look like a bad person here. And it's like, how what? Yeah. Like it's well established. That you're calling it fucking monster. He's an animal. And I know that's your job. I

realize that that that's the whole job. Like nobody needs to tell me like I understand that that's a job. Yeah. It's infuriating. Of course it is. It is infuriating to look at a mother who has lost her child to murder and sit there and make her look like she brought this all on herself. Yeah. That takes like that's fucked up and I don't understand how you sleep and I do that. That takes a special kind of person to look into the eyes of someone who lost their boyfriend and their 12-year-old child. And their 12-year-old child and one of their good friends was paralyzed. And basically, I'm kind of the steer yourself, didn't you?

I think that's fucked. Wow. I don't know how you do that. But after nearly four months of witness testimony, final arguments began on November 16, 1977, in his 95-minute closing damn, which like go off King. Assistant District Attorney Tolly Wilson summarized their belief that after becoming enraged by and raged by yet another divorce court ruling in Priscilla's favor, Colin Davis, John, and obvious disguise snuck into the home where he killed Stan Far and his stepdaughter

Andrea Wilborn and attempted to kill Priscilla and Gus Gavril. They also reminded the jury that both Priscilla, Gavril and Bev Bass had all positively identified colonists. I love that. That just means nothing to these people because they're like, it's just meaning nothing. They don't care. They they went into this all with preconceived notions. As for colon supposed at alibi, Wilson pointed Wilson pointed out that Karen Masters, excuse me, Masters had failed to mention it to the police and her statement, and even on the stand seemed uncertain as to whether Colin was in bed at the time of the murders.

He said, she asked him on four different occasions when he got in after she found out about the murders. So I think we have to conclude that Karen Master knows herself that Thomas Cullen Davis was not at her house at the time of those murders, that the time those murders were committed. Fuckin' Karen, what the fuck's wrong with you, too? He was in bed with me and then she was like, I had to ask him a few times when he got back after the murder. Imagine protecting a man who beats women, murders, kittens.

Imagine being that person. No, I won't. Like imagine that being who you go down as Karen. Karen. Imagine. Can you imagine it, Karen, because that's how you go down here. Mm-hmm. Now in his nearly three-hour closing statement, Haynes again went after Priscilla's character

telling the jury, Priscilla Davis is the Machiavellian influence behind this whole thing. Right. What? Right. According to the defense, Priscilla had conspired with Gavril and Bast to frame Colin for the murder in order to access his vast fortune. Oh, so he was just fine being paralyzed for life. And again, I don't understand saying that she did this to access his vast fortune.

Three hours before this happened, she had access to it. Yeah. She would... Why the fuck would she have gone and made this all messy when she was getting exactly what she wanted? She was wanted and too deserved. Like the judge was on her side. He was giving her the up and up every time. If this jury hadn't been from this community,

any other jury would have been like, what the fuck? Yeah, they'd be like, that doesn't make any sense. That are even suck. That literally doesn't make sense. But he continued, Miss Bass is one of a series of young girls and Mrs. Davis' history who has been corrupted by the drugs and sex

at the mansions since Davis moved out and divorce proceedings began in 1974. I feel sorry for Bobba Gavril. I can understand how he got into this. I have no malice toward him, except he came into the courtroom, raised his hand to God and he lied, and I do not forgive him for it. I don't fucking forgive you, you piece of shit.

You're standing there lying out of your fucking face. Get your theatrics out of here. You're gonna get yours, my friend. Now, one would think that the case against Colin Davis was a strong one. Literally the strongest. He had the clearest mode of probably anyone I've ever seen. Yeah.

A questionable alibi at best. Very questionable. And there were at least three eyewitnesses who not only identified him as the killer, but also corroborated one another's statements without being able to even speak to each other at the time that their statements were given. That's the entire thing.

Because they had all been here to fight. The defense had little more than slanderous rumors in Inuyendo that at best suggested the victims were maybe people of poor moral character. So everyone was like, okay, a guilty verdict seems like a foregone conclusion. Yeah. After deliberating for two days, the jury returned within a quiddle on all charges. Every single charge there were four. I'm sorry, what? The wildest thing is um,

they acquitted this motherfucker. No, no, no. The wildest thing is um, they acquitted this motherfucker. No, no, no. The wildest thing is that I regret to inform you, it gets worse. It gets worse. I am with out flabbergasted. Thought. Flabbergasted. When I got,

I just erased it so, when I got to that point, I was like, no. I was like, wait, does acquitted not mean what I thought? I was worried that something like a mistrial maybe. Something that I can't be. To that happened because you said something about an A&E documentary where he talked and I was like, oh, that fucker is still talking.

acquitted on all counts. Yeah. Just wait though, because we're not done. We're not done. Skip Holland's worth of the New York Times joke. The jury had actually believed the theory that Priscilla and Beverly had conspired to frame Colin, even though they told different people that he was the killer before they had the chance to compare stories.

Now, this jury... Whoa. Oh, God. When they were later interviewed regarding the verdict, jury members gave a variety of flimsy reasons for the acquittal because they didn't have one standup reason. One juror told reporters,

there were too many unanswered questions in my mind. I can't sentence a person to death until I know he's guilty. What unanswered question did you have? Yeah, can you, is the unanswer answered question in the room with us right now? Can you point out it? Can you point you in? Can you identify it?

Because what are you talking about? The public on the answer question. What is it? The public on the other hand did not seem surprised by the verdict. One resident told reporters, no, it didn't surprise me. Money does so many different things. I mean, that is truth. It shouldn't surprise me. Money does so many different things. I mean, that's the, that is truth. It shouldn't surprise me.

Yeah, but holy shit. Another man who lived near the crime scene, echoed the, the sentiment saying, oh, there's no doubt that his wealth helped him get off. And the length of the trial helped him because those jurors were getting tired. A few days later, at a victory party thrown by Colin Davis. A victory party thrown by Colin Davis, a victory party,

and a tending of the party put it more succinctly. Rich men don't kill their wives. Rich men don't kill their wives. Where do you live? Where do you live? What? What fucking alternate universe planet are you living on where rich men don't kill their wives? Rich men kill their wives, poor men kill their wives, middle class men kill their wives,

husbands kill wives all the fucking time. That's a backwards L-wood shit of happy people don't just shoot their husband. Don't look that is. Who are their wives? Who said the name you about 6 billion fucking instant sys where rich men do kill their wealth. Are you the person who said that? Who are you?

Raise your name yourself. Stupid shits. That is some ignorant shits. Toilet. Which I say girl by. Girl by. Oh my god. Fuck you. Rich men don't kill their wife. What? Wow. What? That's someone controlled by a rich man sure fucking is or or a rich man. But I not share

exactly. Now following the trial things more or less went back to the way that they were before the murder. Oh good. Colin and his new girlfriend, Karen there, continued. Oh, wait, I thought they were friends. And they became more friends to love us. Yes, yes. They continued attending society parties and events, and he went back to his position as the head of Ken Davis Industries.

Oh, good. I'm glad everybody, you know, just as for all. No, and for all the good men. You're not ready for this. I'm sorry. I just want you all, don't read ahead. I'm not. You're not ready for this.

And that, oh my God. I just want to tell you don't read ahead. I'm not. You're not ready for this. I'm not. Oh my God. I just want to tell you one more time, guys. You're not fucking ready for this. What's happening? Nine months after his acquittal, Colin was caught on tape soliciting a murder from an FBI agent that he believed was a hitman. I'm going to say that for you one more time.

Nine months after this guy got acquitted for murdering a 12 year old, somebody's boyfriend paralyzing another man and attempting to kill his current wife who he was getting divorced from, Colin was caught on tape soliciting a murder from an FBI agent he believed was a hitman. On the tape, Colin can be heard saying,

do the judge and then his wife, the judge and then his wife, the judge and then his wife. He was talking about the divorce judge and his wife. Holy shit! I'm not done. In order to make the case stronger, the agents actually faked photographs, supposedly showing judge eats and covered in blood

and stuffed into the trunk of a car. How hard they would. Enjoy that. When the agent showed Colin the photos, he acknowledged that they had done as he had asked. And when the agent asked if Bev Bass was next, he said, all right, like, yep, she's next. A trial followed his arrest.

And Colin was once again represented by fucking racehorse hines on the witness stand. He can't get away from this. I mean, he's on camera. Yeah, he is. He sure is. I'm so, I'm very angry. On the witness stand, Colin claimed that

in one of their unrequited conversations, the informant claimed that he had actually been hired by Priscilla. And he did. He'd be willing to turn against her for the right price. Oh my God. Mind you, be willing to turn against her for the right price. Oh my God.

Mind you, baby, this is an FBI agent. He's talking about this like it's a literal hitman. It's an FBI agent undercover. He's sheepishly admitted that he had been tricked by yet another of his ex-wife schemes. Given the amount of damning evidence against him, the story was fucking preposterous and implausible. I am without words. Get ready.

Because in November of 1979, that jury returned a verdict of not guilty and Colin was yet again acquitted. I on tape with an FBI agent saying that he need that this FBI agent who he thought was a fucking hitman needed to kill his divorce judge and the divorce judge's wife which shows you what a fucking animal this man is. I indicated that Beth Bass was the next target. Who had pointed at him as the killer. Yep. was the next target. Who had pointed at him. Pointed at him. As the killer. Yup. Yup.

But then you got, how are this many people stupid? They're not stupid. How are this many people evil? Correct. That's more like it. How are this many people gathered together onto two juries?

That fucked up. Money. The root of all fucking evil in this case. Holy shit. Following the second acquittal, Colin claimed that he and Karen had become born again Christians. Literally fuck off. They were turning their lives over to God. You're a bit of God. And in the spring of 1980, he held a ceremony on the front lawn of the mansion, which he had ended up reclaiming from Priscilla in the divorce settlement, where so he's having this whole party where he's turning his life over to God.

He and a local evangelical reverend destroyed more than a million dollars worth of gold and jewelry, claiming they honored what he called false gods. Okay. Decades later in an interview with Skip Hollinsworth, Colin claimed all I care about is live in Fajizus and doing what the Babel says to do. Karen Davis and Colin Gotmarried in the spring of 1979 and they lived together until she unfortunately passed away from breast cancer in 2016. He continued to live in Fort Worthin as retired. For Priscilla, the future held much less promise than her ex-husband.

After the trial, she and Colin finally did reach a settlement in their divorce where she retained a large alimony payment. But unfortunately, she continued to live as she had when she was still married to the wealthiest man in Texas, picking up the check for everyone whenever they went out and but continuing to buy big ticket items. And according to Holland's worth, by the early 1990s, she was close to broke. She lived in a one-bedroom apartment, driven old rusty Cadillac, and even did part-time work at

Neiman Marcus, passing out frequent samples. Wow. Now, despite her wildslide down the economic and social ladder, friends say that Priscilla lived a contended life in her later years, and her only regret was that her ex-husband was never brought to justice. And on February 19th, 2001, unfortunately, she also died from breast cancer at the age of 59 years old. Wow. Not a fucking ounce of justice in this case was served. Wow. I caught on tape with the FBI. You were caught on tape asking for two people to be murdered

and then acknowledging that they had done the job correctly and then agreeing to another person being murdered. Say what you want about race horse, but he's a fucking defense attorney. Holy shit. Like, poof. My mind. Wow. Is blown. I literally don't even know how to comprehend this.

Wild. I don't know how to comprehend it. Absolutely wild. Truly one of the craziest stories I think I've ever read. Wow. I don't understand the FBI of any of that. I don't. You were caught on tape with the FBI. And everybody was like, I don't know.

Should we trust the FBI? Like who knows? How do we trust Cullen? Oh, okay, you guys. Wow. I need to go in a deep meditation or something. I'm so put off by that. And just how sad for Stan Farr's family and for Andrea Wilborn.

Man, fucked. That I'm just shocked. I'm shocked. Shocked. I don just shocked. I'm shocked. Shocked? I don't even have anything to say. Yep. That's that. Wow. Okay. So, we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep it weird.

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