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having a good day so far. I'm tired. I'm internally living
on iced coffee today, trying to get through
we're getting rain today. And that always makes me so tired. Does that happen to anyone else? I have fibromyalgia and I
get super achy and exhausted whenever there's a huge pressure drop. Even though I feel honestly like today, I decided to still record this
video because I really want to get out my thoughts on this
case, because I have a lot. This case, it's incredibly annoying. The people in it are incredibly
annoying, not the victim, of course, but the others involved, wow. Like learning every new detail
and every new twist or change in the story was driving me nuts. And I feel like you guys will
probably feel that same way towards the end of this video. Today, we're gonna be talking about the murder of Adrian Jones. Her full name was Adrian Jessica Jones. She was born on June 18th,
1979 in Mansfield, Texas. Her parents are named Bill and Linda, and she also had two
brothers, Justin and Scott. Their family moved to Mansfield in 1984 from the Dallas area. And they did that because they
wanted to raise their kids in a more small town environment. Get out of the city of Dallas
as it was growing a lot at that time. Adrian's father, Bill was
a very protective parent, especially of her being his only daughter. So of course like a lot
of protective parents when she started getting older, Bill started putting more rules
into place to keep her safe. They gave her a strict 9:00 PM curfew. And if she ever went to
like a fair or a concert, she always had to bring back
a ticket stuff to show proof of where she went. But like with many teenagers, this only made her want
to break the rules more. At some point he suspected
that she was sneaking out at night. So he decided to nail her windows shut. And I think he was just worried
because he knew that Adrian was very pretty. She was a popular girl, but
she really had it together. She was in advanced honors
courses and spent hours studying after school every day. She was very determined. She was on the soccer team, but eventually she got a
knee injury and she decided to switch to a different
sport, cross country. And she really excelled at that. She was very fast. And not only was she very
smart and excelling in sports, she also worked 20 hours a
week at a fast food restaurant. It was called Golden Fried Chicken. And when she was working there, she was known as a reliable
employee who made work more fun for everyone. So she had stellar work ethic too. And she also managed to
keep up a social life. Adrian had tons of friends. She was a social butterfly. She met people in school at
work on cross-country and then also met people from different
through cross country as well. One of her teammates said that
she was the type of person that would say hi to anyone. She came across in the hallway. She was always making small
talk when in a small room with someone or in an elevator
being friendly and cheerful just seemed to come naturally to Adrian. And she also liked boys. And one of her close friends
said that she was a big flirt, but wouldn't go more into
detail about what that meant. And as Adrian got older, she
got more into makeup, hair, fashion, and she would
spend hours sometimes getting ready to leave the house. Even if she didn't have a
date or an important event to go to, she always locked her bathroom, she left the house, because she said, you never
know who you might meet. So in fall of 1995, their team
was preparing for regionals, which was gonna be in Lubbock
during the first week. In November of 1995, their team piled into a large
van for a five-hour drive from Mansfield to Lubbock. Their team did pretty well. And the trip was uneventful
as far as drama or gossip, any fights between people. And none of that happened. Everyone got along really
well, according to teammates. And they all went back to the high school. Once they got back to the high school, Adrian got a ride home with a friend. This is important. She dropped Adrian off at home. Everything went on as normal after this until December 3rd, 1995. It was a Sunday evening. And that night around 10:30,
Adrian got a phone call. It was her boyfriend at
the time Tracy Smith, who went to another high
school and he actually had just been out of town. So Adrian's parents said
that she could talk to him, even though they normally didn't
like her to be on the phone that late at night. So she's on the phone with
Tracy and her mom is kind of listening in while she's doing some things around the upstairs floor. And at some point, her mom, Linda heard Adrian switch
the phone line over to another call. She talked to somebody
else for about a minute and then switched back over to Tracy. She finished your call with
Tracy said goodnight to him. And then her mom came in
and talked to her and asked who, you know, called in
while you were on the phone with him and said, oh, that
was David from cross country. He was upset about something. Linda didn't know who David is was, and she didn't think much of it. But about 10 minutes later, she went back into Adrian's
room and she noticed that Adrian seemed unsettled. She just seemed to be
very anxious and thinking about something clearly. But her mom said goodnight
to her and she went to bed. But the next morning at 7:00 AM, Linda was woken up by
one of her sons asking where Adrian was. At first, Linda assumed
that Adrian went running before school. This was something she would do sometimes. But when she went in her room, she realized her running
shoes were still there. Her mom knew there was a
possibility that she had snuck out. It was something that she had done before, but she had always come
back before morning. Later that morning when
Adrian didn't jump for school, her parents called 911
and reported her missing. And this is the nineties. So Adrian had an address book. So Linda got that out and
started contacting everyone she could, that her daughter
was acquainted with. At some point she talked to
Adrian's cross-country coach and she thought it was a
good opportunity to ask him about David, the guy that Adrian had
said that she spoke with on the phone briefly that Sunday night. Her coach said the only
David on their team was David Graham, but he didn't really think
the two of them were friends. So the next day at school, the cross-country coach told
another student to go talk to David and ask him if he had
talked to Adrian that night. And that kid said that David
seemed confused and said, no, why would I? So they started thinking, you know, maybe Adrian just used the name David, to cover up for who she
was actually talking to. This was December 4th. So Adrian had been missing
for at least 24 hours at this point. And later on that morning, a farmer was just driving
down, along rural county road, near Joe Pool Lake in
Grand Prairie, Texas, about 10 miles from Mansfield. And he actually came across Adrian's body. At first, he thought maybe
it was a prank or a setup. So he stayed back for a little
while and just watched her. And then when he noticed
she wasn't moving, he went ahead and walked
over there and confirmed that she was dead. Someone had clearly beaten her. Her head was caved in on one
side and she'd also been shot twice, once in her forehead
and once in her cheek. As soon as the farmer
realized that this was a body, he called 911, Adrian was dressed in a
sweatshirt and shorts, but had no shoes on. And they also found two
shell casings near her body. The medical examiner was able
to determine that she died around 1:00 AM the night before. Of course, everyone in the
town wanted to know why, why Adrian, was this a sexual assault? But the medical examiner also said there was no sexual assault involved. Per father Bill had to
go and identify her body, which I truly can't imagine
what being in that situation would be like. That is so traumatizing. The whole town, all of her friends, their extended family and other
states were all devastated and confused. Why did this happen to
16 year old, Adrian, who would want to see her dead? - I mean, here she is this beautiful
young girl and she's found in this really wacky place. And I didn't know where Landon. She's been shot in the face, can bludge it in the back of her head. And you don't know why, what did this young 16 year
old little girl know or do it had caused you to hate her that much? My husband had to go with the detectives, then identify her body. And I called all my family and
I can still hear their forces saying, no you're wrong. And it was the truth. She had been shot and
murdered by somebody. No one could figure out why. - So of course investigators
looked into Adrian's life, looked at her house, her
room, there were no signs that Adrian had been
abducted from the house. It seems like she left on her own. For someone to leave their home willingly, most likely it's gonna be
with someone that they know. And it's hard to narrow down
who this person could be because Adrian, like I said
earlier, had so many friends. She had a very wide circle. Investigator send that there
were literally hundreds of potential suspects and they had to thoroughly go through them all. They started just casually
interviewing people at the high school and
then making lists of people they actually wanted to
bring in and interrogate. There were several students
that they wanted to bring in for a lie detector tests. And her brother had seen
a pickup truck that night. So they tried to narrow down any students that had pickup trucks. Their small community was
absolutely shocked by this murder. And just how gruesome it was. The fact that the person
still out there was freaking everyone out thinking what
if this is a serial killer, who's going to kill more students. And her classmates of course
were broken hearted over this. They had to bring in
guidance counselors to talk a lot of them through the grief. A bunch of students at
the school got together and they planted a tree in Adrian's memory on the soccer field,
like right next to it. And people also wore ribbons
around in honor of her memory. And when counselors were working
with a lot of the students, they noticed that a lot
of them were repeating the same thing. They had heard that the killer
was one of their classmates and that they were still just
walking around the school, trying to act normal. And Adrian's friends
were really freaked out because they felt like maybe
this Keller had something against all of them and
maybe they were next. Meanwhile, Linda and Bill
are desperate to find answers about what really happened to Adrian, who she really talked to that night. So they were talking to as
many classmates as they could, as many of their friends
trying to dissect the rumors, figure out what was true, what was not. And at some point she
even contacted a psychic and tried to get help that way but nothing really came out of that. As investigators are working
their way through the long list of people that could have
potentially done this to Adrian, her mom, all along, had a
feeling that it was David, the boy that Adrian said she
was talking to that evening. David Graham was a senior at the time. He was 18 years old and he
wasn't even on detectives radar really because Adrian didn't even have him in her address book. And they figured that he and
Adrian weren't close enough for him to be really considered suspect. Plus her friends said
that she had nothing to do with David Graham and they didn't think they were even close to
them as LinkedIn says, but they both were on
the cross country team. And her saying that she had
talked to him the night before, of course put him on their interview list. So let's talk more about David Graham, David Christopher Graham. He was born on November 2nd, 1977. He's a little older than Adrian. But even though he was older than Adrian, they did have a lot in common. They were both excelling
in academics and athletics. David was very popular. He was well-liked and Adrian
may have been interested in that. One of his classmates
actually described him as one of the coolest people left on earth. David was actually a battalion commander in the junior ROTC
program and planned to go to the air force academy
in Colorado Springs as a first step to his future
career as a fighter pilot, this was a career that he
decided he wanted to do. And he was just seven years old. When David talked to investigators, he said that he and Adrian
were just casual friends and he hadn't talked to her in a while, but he was very upset about
her death and actually cried openly in front of them
about how emotional he was feeling about it. And while several other
people on their suspect list were given polygraph tests. For some reason, they decided that David
didn't need to take one. And not only that, they ended up just
clearing him as a suspect. Meanwhile, they're focusing
on their first real suspect, a girl named Tara. Now, apparently Terra,
isn't her real name, but she just is referred
to as Tara in this case for some reason. But this girl, Tara had a
history of violent behavior. In one incident, she shot her boyfriend
and seriously wounded him. And another time she actually attacked one of Adrian's friends
with a baseball bat because she thought her
boyfriend was sleeping with her. She ended up breaking
this girl's cheekbone and gave her a concussion
all because of jealousy. So that tells you a lot about her. Maybe she could have been involved. Adrian's friend had filed a
restraining order against Tara and Adrian testified in court. So they thought maybe she would
after Adrian to get her back because she actually said in
court, I'll get you for this. So most of the rumors at school
were centered around Tara. At this point, most people
thought that she was the killer, but as detectives looked more into her, they realized that her
alibi was rock solid. She was able to prove that she
could not have killed Adrian. They also cleared Adrian's
boyfriend, Tracy Smith, although Bill and Linda, her parents were still very sus of
him because they thought it was weird that he never
contacted her parents after the news broke
that she was found dead. And they thought that
was really odd and cold. But Tracy passed a polygraph
test and also led them to their next suspect, 17
year old Brian McMillan. So this guy Brian used to
visit Adrian all the time when she would work at a
local subway restaurant. And he just creeped her out. According to her friends, he became obsessed with her,
started following her around. And any time that he would
come into the subway, she would literally hide. Tracy, her boyfriend claimed
that he was actually Brian, that she was talking to
that night on the phone. It's very confusing because that's not what she told her mom. But Tracy said that when she
clicked back over to him, she said that it was Brian
and that he was upset. So when they talked to Brian at first, he said that he didn't even know Adrian, but after more questioning, he admitted that they did know each other and that they were friends, which, who knows what Adrian
would have said about that. He said that the night
that Adrian was killed, he drank a lot because he was
depressed that all his friends had girlfriends. So it was the first time
he drank in six months and he was blackout drunk. So he doesn't know if he
talked to Adrian or not. He said it was possible. He could have even gone
over to Adrian's house. Anything was possible
because he was drunk. So they ended up arresting Brian. Not long after Adrian was
killed December 15th, 1995. And right away, tons of Brian's friends came
forward in his defense saying that he was not a violent guy. He would have never done
something like this. His father also said that on
the night that Adrian died, he was home and he was sure he never left, but they put him in jail and
he was there for three weeks. And while he was in there, he took a polygraph test and he passed it. And the person who gave it
to him said that he passed it with flying colors. So he was immediately released
and Brian's family ended up suing the city for an undisclosed amount for the whole thing. So maybe Tracy was confused
about who Adrian had talked to that night, or maybe for some reason, Adrian just told Tracy that
she was talking to Brian. So at this point, detectives
are back to square one. They have no substantial
leads and no one that they're really looking at more than anyone else. So then nine months after
the investigation began, two cadets from the Naval
Academy and an Apolis Maryland came forward and said that
their roommate had confessed to them that she had been
involved in a murder. They said that they
doubted that it was true, but she had given them so many
details and seemed so serious that they felt like they had to report it. Now, this roommate is someone
we haven't talked about yet. Diane Michelle Zamora. She just randomly told her
roommates that she had committed the murder of Adrian Jones with
her boyfriend, David Graham, who have talked about already. So Diane was born on January 21st, 1978. She was raised in a very religious family. She was the oldest in the
family and was oftentimes a caretaker for her younger siblings. Their family really struggled financially. There were times that their
electricity would just be shut off and Diane would
have to study by candlelight because she was a very determined person. She really wanted to be
a NASA astronaut one day. She decided when she was
very young and she woke up at 6:00 AM even before
school, every day to study. In high school, she took honors courses and belong to multiple
clubs and organizations. And she also played the
flute in the marching band. And just like David and Adrian,
she also ran cross country, but she was way different than Adrian. She was introverted. She didn't socialize much. She wasn't really into makeup
and fashion and really kind of stuck to herself. And she said before that the
reason she didn't date is because most guys were
too immature for her. She and David actually met
when she was only 14 years old at a civil air patrol meeting. They stayed in touch after that. And then they started dating
their senior year in 1995. - I knew Diane in the civil air
patrol for about three years before we started going out. And I'd always known her to be a real bubbly spontaneous girl. I knew she was very smart
that she made straight A's in school. She was real determined
to get what she wanted. I knew that the relationship
we had was too serious for that time in our life. And I tried to slow it down, but there was nothing I could do. I was infatuated with her
and she was obsessed with me. - They were both very
career-driven overachievers with high ambitions that
hadn't planned on getting into serious relationships. But a month after they started dating, they announced their engagement
and their wedding date. They plan to get married the summer right after college graduation in 2000. But they had a long distance
relationship for a little while because Diane got into the
Naval academy in Annapolis and David was accepted
into the air force academy in Colorado Springs. Staying faithful to each
other, meant a lot to Diane because she was determined
to marry another virgin. Like I said, she was very religious. So she was a virgin herself. She wanted to lose her virginity
to her husband and only have slept with one person her whole life. And she planned for
this person to be David. Her virginity was incredibly
important to Diane. It was a big part of who
she was her identity. In the fall of 1996, Diane was a midshipman
at the Naval Academy and David was a first-year cadet in U S Basics Air Force cadet training at the Air Force academy. And everything for them was
going according to plan. But this didn't last long
because Diane, for some reason, decided to tell her
roommates that she and David killed somebody and that she
was basically proud of it. She was actually bragging
to them about it saying that that's how much David loved her. He would do anything she said. And they said that she was
very cold about it saying that it had to be done. And according to them, the only time that she
expressed any remorse about killing Adrian was
being at Adrian's funeral and seeing her parents cry. And that made her feel sad. So detectives from Grand
Prairie get this news and they flew out to where
Diane was right away. But when they interviewed Diane, she said that she made the whole thing up. She said she and David weren't
involved in a murder at all. She just made it up to seem
cool to her fellow cadets. - As I spoke to her and told her why we were there and who we were. I got no reaction whatsoever. I got what is sometimes referred to as a thousand mile stare. She just kind of looked through it. - But at least now they had a lead. They knew that someone
wouldn't just make something like that up. So detectives went back to
Texas and continued to work on gathering evidence
against Diane and David. The Naval Academy
actually asked Anne to go on a temporary leave while
she was under investigation. And she was very upset about that, but she went back home to Texas. And then on August 31st, she flew out to Colorado Springs
to see David and tell him face to face what she had done. She told him that she had
told her roommates about what they had done. And she had told them all
slightly different versions. But then when the police interviewed her, she just denied the whole thing. So David decided that he
would just do the same thing. If they interviewed him,
deny the whole thing. - She told me that she had, she
had told her roommate stuff. She had given him several
different versions. And, but when the police came, she said she did not everything. So I thought, well, if the police come and talk
to me, I'll just tell them, I don't know anything about it. - They questioned David on September 4th. And of course he denies
having any involvement with Adrian Jones murder. When asked why Diane would
make up story like that. Then he just said, he didn't
know, maybe she was bored. So the Air Force actually
made him take a polygraph test and he failed that. So that only heated things up more, and the interrogations
began to get more intense. They questioned David, for two days, without a lawyer present, unfortunately. And they also told him
that if he didn't confess to everything, he and Diane would likely
get the death penalty. So they were clearly trying
to scare him into confessing. At some point they told him
that if he just wrote everything down on a piece of paper, gave a written confession that
they would go easy on him. So finally, David agreed and he wrote out a four and half page
confession about what happened the night that Adrian died. It started with that regional
cross country meet in Lubbock. He said on November 4th,
he gave Adrian a ride home. You know, we heard earlier that her friend gave her a ride home. So it's a bit confusing. And on the way home, they stopped at an elementary
school in the parking lot and decided to have sex there. And David actually had
the nerve to describe this sexual encounter
with Adrian as short-lived and hardly appreciated. He said, right afterwards, he felt bad. And he decided to confess
the whole thing to Diane. So he went back and told her that night. And when she found out that he
had slept with another woman and broke their promise
to save their virginity for each other, after they were married, Diane was just beyond angry. She was livid that David
had wrecked the purity of their future marriage, that he had sex with somebody else. That was huge for her because
she had actually started having sex with David already. Even though she wanted
to wait until marriage, she decided at some point that
it was just too hot to handle with David. And they decided to go
ahead and start having sex, but they promised to get married. So she thought, you know, God would probably be okay with that. But this to her was bad. This ruined everything. And he said that Diane just went berserk. She was screaming hysterically, throwing herself all over the room, bashing her head on the
walls and the floor. And this is when she
started telling David that she wanted Adrian to die. To her the only way to
cleanse their marriage of this impurity was to kill Adrian. And obviously this makes no logical sense. If you kill someone, you're
not erasing what has happened, especially in the eyes of God. If that's what you're worried about, God still knows what you did, but I guess it was more about
other people's for Diane. She was worried about other
people judging her relationship. She felt like they had to get rid of her. And David agreed. He said he was too hard
to deny her anything. In fact, she said, Diane's beautiful eyes have always played the strings
of my heart effortlessly. He said, ultimately,
when he killed Adrian, he had no hard feelings
against her at all. He just wanted to make Diane happy. So on December 3rd, that Sunday night, he called Adrian and asked her to meet him outside of her house. He said, he asked her to
go there around 1:00 AM. Am he planned to pick
her up and take her away from the house. Then his plan was to break her neck and drop her in the lake. And he brought weights with
him to tie to her feet, to make sure her body sunk. And they actually decided
that Diane would join him. She hid in the back of the car. He drove out to a deserted
field with Adrian in the car. And then all of a sudden, Diane pops up out of the
back and attacks her. But he said that killing her
was harder than he expected. He actually said in his
interview that he realized that snapping someone's neck
wasn't as easy as it looked in the movies. Even after being struck in the head, Adrian tried to fight back. She actually climbed out
of the window of the car and ran as far as she
could eventually collapsing into a barbed wire fence. According to David, Diane said we can't stop here
and told him that he needed to finish the job, even though he wanted
to leave at that point. But he knew he couldn't let her live. She had witnessed his crimes at this point and he would be caught. So he walked over to Adrian, put his gun to her head
and shot her twice. When they got back in the car, their first words to each
other were, I love you. But then there was a pause and Diane said, we shouldn't have done that, David. And he wrote all of this down in four and a half page statement, signed it and turned it in. Early the next morning, 1:30 AM, they arrested Diane who was staying at her grandparent's house at the time. She didn't ask any questions
or try to deny anything. She just went with officers very quietly. The next day, she was charged with murder and held on a $250,000 bail. - Diane was very obviously surprised. She didn't, she wasn't
asking you questions. She wasn't making any denials. You know, she wasn't no outburst of why are you arresting me? She kept quiet. - After her arraignment
detectives showed her Brian's confession, which was faxed over from Colorado Springs. And she kind of took a peek at it, but didn't read the whole thing. And then they asked her
if she wanted to tell her side of the story. And she said, yes. So just like David,
without a lawyer present, she told her version of
events to investigators while they typed it out in a typewriter. And even though she didn't read
David's confession in full, they had read certain parts of it to her. She pretty much wrote out
the exact story that David had in his confession. It literally mirrored his down
to the smallest details and they knew that this is
likely what happened. She explained that when she found out that he cheated on her, she
went absolutely berserk. She just lost it. She talks about how she was
ramming her head into the floor over and over that night,
trying to crack her skull. And then she even confessed
that at some point she stood up and just looked at David and
said, kill her, kill her. She felt betrayed. She wanted to get even she told
David that the only way that they could purify their
love was by killing Adrian. She said the same thing, David did that the plan was to break her neck and drop her in the lake,
but that didn't work out. So she had to get involved. She said that Adrian
and David were fighting and it was making her mad. So she attacked Adrian in the head with one of the dumbbells. She said, Adrian stumbled back
from the car after being hit in the head and tried
to get away from them. But eventually passed out
along the barbed wire fence. And the investigators believed that this was the true version of events. It aligned just with what David
said down to every detail. And then three days later, David was arrested in Colorado Springs. He was extradited back to Texas
and charged with the murder. Later, kidnapping was also
added to both of their charges, making it a capital crime
punishable by death. However Adrian's parents intervened. They said there was enough death already. They didn't want them to
face the death penalty. Instead, they wanted to
go for life in prison. Diane and David's friends from
high school were all shocked. They had been the perfect couple, the adorable high school
sweethearts who were completely devoted to each other. It just didn't make sense. Investigators ended up finding
the gun and the dumbbells in David's parents attic, which is exactly where he
said that they would be. It seemed like David was going
along with them cooperating and seemed to not be
putting up much of a defense until he decided that he had been coerced into giving a false confession. He said that he had
been awake for 30 hours. He was exhausted and he didn't
understand how his confession would have any effect on the real world. - It came to a point where the
detectives were threatening, telling me that it didn't
matter what I said. I was gonna get the death
penalty and Diane was gonna get the death penalty too. And one of the detectives said, David, just write us a
story, tell us something. We'll make sure they go easy on you. So I said, okay, here,
I'll write you something. It was all so for real. I hadn't really internalized it yet. And I guess after being
awake for so many hours, you know, what I said to the
police didn't I guess I didn't see how any of that could affect my life. - Soon, the national
media picked up this story and it was widely reported on and dubbed the 'Texas Cadet Murder.' David's confession was
also leaked to the press and was used as a basis
for the TV made movie, 'Love's Deadly Triangle,
the Texas Cadet Murder,' which aired in February of
1997 before either of them even went on trial. This was a very sensationalized
version of the story. And it was released on DVD, under the title of 'Swearing Allegiance.' - And it's beautiful eyes. I always play the strings
of my heart after the sleep. I couldn't imagine life without her. - She'd have to suffer the consequences. She laughed in joy. - In the meantime, while
waiting for their trials, David and Diane were both kept
in the Tarrant county jail. They couldn't see each other,
but they wrote dozens of love, notes, back and forth. And one of the notes gave it, got quite creative when
describing his love for Diane. I miss you like I miss ice cream. You're both rich and
creamy, sweet and ice cold, milky and tasty and bad for you. Diane would write back saying things like, when will my love come find me? When will I get to walk
out of these bars for good? I just wish I had a remote
control for time that would rock. The judge decided to try them separately. And they would both be tried as adults, even though Diane was only 17 at the time. And of course they both
pleaded not guilty. And this is where these two
starts to really annoy me. They started to change
their story all the time. Like it's extremely
hard to keep up with it. They just go back and forth
between guilty, not guilty, who's involved, who's not involved. It's so confusing. I mean, they both confess to it. And now here they are saying, they're not guilty and
they're gonna fight as hard as they can in trial to prove
that they're not guilty. Diane's trial was first. It started in January, 1998 in Fort Worth. And the judge actually decided
to let this trial be filmed and aired on TV. Even though there had already
been so much publicity and so much talk about the case. And it was kind of a surprising decision. The prosecutor's case relied
mostly on Diane's confession and her confession to her roommates. All the witnesses were deemed
to be reliable and would have no reason to lie on the stand. On February 2nd, they called
Christina Mason to the stand who was Diane's best friend. And she provided details about the motive, David's sexual encounter with Adrian. - She said, this is the girl that he had sex with and that they had planned her murder. - They planned her murder. - At first, they were
planning to snap her neck and drop the body in the lake, but didn't go as planned. - He also called up
David's high school friend, John Green Jr, who testified
that the night of the murder, Diane and David had
showed up at his house. He said that David was
calm and he comforted Diane while she cried. And the couple laid down on
John's floor and went to sleep. - He came out of the bathroom and David was just holding Diane. And she just kind of
went for it and stuff. And that this laid down
my floor and went to sleep for a while. - One of the most important
witnesses was Jennifer McKenney. She was one of Diane's roommates. And she said that Diane told
her that Adrian was a tramp and a slut who deserved to die. - She said that the girl, everyone knew that the
girl was a tramp and a slut and that she deserved to die. She said that she and David
went to the funeral and that when she went to the funeral, she saw the parents and
she saw how sad they were. And it made her feel very bad. She felt sorry for the parents. - They also had physical evidence. They had the gun, they had the dumbbells and they also had found Adrian's
blood on the passenger side of Diane's car. Then they also found
something very suspicious in Diane's day planner. And this is truly unbelievable. But Diane actually wrote
in her day planner, what she had done on December 4th. On December 4th at 1:38
AM Diane wrote Adrian and circled it. Why would that be in your
calendar unless you were there? Pretty fucking stupid. I mean, putting a murder that you did down in your day planner, like
it's just go in a starbucks. But Diane's defense attorneys
tried to argue that Diane was also a pressured into
making a false confession. And that she did it just to protect David, who was her abusive and
controlling boyfriend at the time. They tried to prove that
David was the dominant one in the relationship and that
she was the submissive one. They brought up the fact
that he called her kittens and she called him tiger
and actually said in court that the tiger is the bigger one. Therefore he was the dominant one and she was a submissive on it. I don't know, it's so
stupid, the whole argument. They tried to make the
argument that David was abusive and controlling of Diane. They said that he would say
very possessive things to her, like you are mine, no
one else can have you. I earned you, I own you. You belong to me completely. There was a lot of argument
in court around the wound. Could it have been made by the
dumbbell or was it actually just made by the butt of
the gun who actually did it? They tried to argue that
David did both, you know, if he was one holding the
gun and it was an injury made by a gun, then he probably
would have done both. And if that were the case, then David would be responsible
for Adrian's murder. And Diane would be a bystander
and still be charged, but not as much. So they ended up making
the decision to put Diane on the stand, to convince
the jury that all of this was true. And while she was on the stand, she admitted that she was there, but that David committed the crime and she had no involvement,
she was just a bystander. The only thing that she
was guilty of was trying to cover up the crime. She claimed that David went
after Adrian and that she just heard gunshots. Then he dragged Adrian back
to the car to show Diane what he had done. Then according to her, he took her back out to the
field and shot her again. Diane cried a lot in her testimony. She really struggled to get the words out. Her story changed completely
from her original confession. She said she never even
asked David to kill Adrian, that she didn't want Adrian to die. She said she was under the
impression that they were all gonna just be talking to Adrian. And she just wanted to confront her. She said that she had taken
blame for David to protect him and his future career in the military. - Did you make him do that, Diane? - No. - Had you ever asked him to
kill Adrian Jones for you? - No. - But the prosecution did
not buy her crying act on the stand. And when she was cross-examined
her whole demeanor changed, she seemed calm, confident,
even cocky at times. - Oh, we found somebody with this. Ain't gonna lie, no, sir. I believe Jay Guild and Jennifer McCarney, he was interpreted a lot and
there were reasons I said, but they're not buyers. Christina Mason is a liar though. - She tried to say that
people that testified against what she was saying
on the stands were all lying and she had nothing to do
with Adrian Jones' murder. Then it was time for
the jury to deliberate. They talked for six hours
before they came back with a verdict. On February 17th, 1998, Diane was found guilty of capital murder. - We, the jury, find the
defendant, Diane Michelle's and Maura guilty of the
offense with capital murder as alleged in the indictment. - She was then sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole
until she served 40 years. Adrian's family said they were
content with this verdict, with the sentence as well, but it didn't fix the
pain for them at all. - A lot to me. And when she died, something
was worked out for my heart that cannot be replaced. - We can only hope that if David Graham respects his military code of honor, he will step forward and
accept responsibility. - So then it was time for David's trial, which began in July of 1998. And because all the media
coverage around Diane's trial, David's trial was actually moved
to New Brownfield in Texas, near San Antonio. And immediately after Diane's trial, David broke off his engagement with her. He was very upset that she
got up there during her trial and pinned everything on him. He felt like now it was his turn. And he was going to tell the truth. - When it came down to my defense, I wasn't gonna let that,
you know, crazy infatuation, obsessed relationship stop
me from telling the truth and from getting myself out. - His defense attorneys tried to argue that there was no physical
evidence at the scene placing David there. And that the blood evidence that was found was found in Diane's car. The only proof that he
had committed this crime was his own confession, which they said shouldn't
count because he was exhausted. He had been awake for 30
hours when it was given to him and he didn't have a lawyer present. They found out that
detectives actually told him he didn't need a lawyer. They made him believe that if
he just wrote down everything that he knew, everything would be okay. - To me, that statement is a product of 30 hours of interrogation, of false promises being made to him, of assurances to him that
he doesn't need a lawyer. And a lawyer will only confuse them. - And they said the same thing
that they said about Diane, that David was simply covering for Diane, trying to protect her. But the main problem with his
defense is he had no alibi. And wouldn't even say where he was when the crime was being committed. He claimed he met up with Diane
after she murdered Adrian. And that she confessed to him that did it. They argued that this confession matched the physical evidence at the scene. David claimed that he had
just hidden the murder weapons for Diane and his parents
addict, trying to help her. He explained that she had some
type of twisted attachment to the barbells and the
gun and that she wouldn't let him get rid of them. And throughout the trial,
David seemed smug and cocky. He had this arrogant smirk on
his face and that did not go over well with the jury. And then on July 15th, a girl named Wendy
Bartlett took the stand. And this is big. She is a friend that drove Adrian home from the cross-country
meet, if you remember. David also said he drove her home from the regional cross country meet. But Wendy was now testifying
that she definitely took Adrian home. Which makes you question, if David even had sex with her at all. - In your past, have you drove her home on that particular evening
after the cross country meet? - Yes. - This testimony blew up the
whole narrative of the case. Why would he have even killed
her if they hadn't have had sex? Why would he have made
that up and told Diane? And there was no proof that
David and Adrian had sex. It was all just going off of his claims. Adrian's friends also testified
that it was unlike her to have casual sex like that. And she knew he had a girlfriend
and she had a boyfriend. They said that her doing
something like that would be very out of character for her. And no one had questioned David
on his version of the story. Because without this part of the story, what would his motive for murder be? David did not take the
stand during the trial. His attorney knew that the jury
wouldn't believe him anyway and letting him testify
would only hurt his case. They actually only called
one witness for the defense. Diane's a Maura. And she just walked in
there and pled the fifth. She and David made eye contact, but showed no emotion for each other. So it was time for the jury
to make their decision. On July 24th, the jury
deliberated for eight hours before coming back with a guilty verdict. David was sentenced to 40 years in prison. - The jury find the defendant,
David Christopher Graham, guilty of the offense of capital murder as late in the night. - Was a surprise. The worst part was just
hearing my family behind me start crying, having to
face him after him after. - And shortly after his conviction, he did an interview and David
said that his whole confession was a lie. He never had sex with Adrian. They were just casual friends. He said that he had given her a ride home after a few practices here and there, but they never saw each other
outside of cross country. And to this day they still deny
their original confessions. They continuously change
their version of events. David has seemed to adjust
really well to life in prison. It seems like he actually
enjoys it in there. - At the jest of the prison life, a lot better than most people would think. I guess prison life and
military life are a lot alike, but I think in the military
you get a lot more respect from your superiors. In prison, I guess a lot of
the guards don't, you know, they think you're worth much. - He passes his time by exercising, attending church services. And he works on a blog about airplanes. David is obsessed with
airplanes and one day he hopes he can get out of prison
and fly in a plane again. And he said that there's
a silver lining to prison. He was able to get away from Diane. - The situation got me away from Diane. That shouldn't, it
doesn't justify anything, but at least I know in my life, my coming to prison and
getting away from Diane was it was worth losing my dream over. - He actually got married by
proxy in 2010 and he also got a degree in criminology. And as of right now, he remains in jail and let's hope it stays that way. Diane of course requested a new trial. And in 2005 she was denied. And her life in prison has
been a bit more of a struggle than David's. She didn't make a lot of friends. She didn't figure out a lot
of ways to keep herself busy. She didn't get an education or anything. She also got married by
proxy to another inmate who she never met in person. And they actually got
divorced a few years later. She only had one inmate
that she was friends with. And if you are into true
crime or a fan of Selena, you can probably guess who this was. What other famous killer
could be in a Texas prison. If you guessed Yolanda, you are correct. Yolanda Salvador who
murdered at Salina Cantonese. And if you haven't heard
about that case, it's wild. I have a whole video on it. I did a couple years ago. I'll link it below. But in 2015, Diane tried to
claim that she and Yolanda were being targeted by other inmates because they had high profile cases. She tried to convince them
that they both needed to be in protective custody. And it's pretty obvious
why she wanted to do this. People in protective custody, get to stay in air conditioned
units with larger cells and they get access to the TV. Diane tried to file a civil
rights lawsuit alleging that he moved to the general population, violated her constitutional
right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. But this was immediately dismissed. After her request for
a new trial was denied, she did an exclusive
interview with Dateline and it's one of the most
frustrating interviews to listen to. I'll link some of it below. You can tell she is just such
a liar still to this day. She barely takes any blame. She doesn't take it seriously. She thinks she was just
screwed over by everyone else. And in that interview, she actually said that she
felt like if she didn't take blame for David, that
he would have killed her too. But she did admit that if
it wasn't for her jealousy, David probably would
have never killed Adrian. But to this day she says
she wasn't involved. She was in the car that night
and she does admit to pulling Adrian's hair while
they were all fighting. But that's it. She also agreed to take a
polygraph test when she did this interview with Dateline
and they gave it to her and the results were mixed. During the test, Diane was breathing oddly and the person administering
the test had to ask her to breathe like a normal person. But she said she was
just trying to calm down. But obviously it's well
known that people will try to control their breathing to
try to throw off the results or produce a different result. Two independent examiners
looked at her results and said that they were inconclusive. But a third examiner
said that she had failed. Then the following year,
David gave his own interview. And in this interview, he explained that when Diane
had come and visited him in Colorado Springs
before they got caught, it was for them to
collaborate on their stories and make sure they were
going to tell investigators the same thing. He said that the only
crime that he committed was covering up the murder
and God has forgiven him for that. In fact, he
said that if you ask God to forgive you for anything that he will. So Diane says that she was
a bystander to the murder. David did everything and she just watched, and that's not what she wanted. And David says the complete opposite that Diane did everything and
he had no involvement at all. But then he changes his story
again in November of 2002. In the British documentary, he said he did murder Adrian
and his motive was to prove ultimate devotion to Diane. He called Diane the
motivator of the murder, but admitted that he
was the one who did it. And he did deserve life in prison. Most people believe that
they were both involved. I'm sure that's how most of you feel. That's how I feel. I think their original
confessions were the truth. Adrian's mother, Linda says
that she has no intention of ever communicating with
her daughters killers. She's grateful that
justice has been served, that they're behind bars. And she said their family has
really tried to move forward, but it's been hard. Her brothers were devastated
when they lost her. It had a lasting impact
on their whole family. - The memories I have of Adrian are soccer and watching her play and knowing that she was gonna do it, watching her hair flip in the
air, watching her with people. - It's just incredibly sad that
Adrian's life was cut short for no reason. I mean, it's possible that her and David never even hooked up. It could have all been
to fit some weird lie that he was telling Diane. Either way, she got
caught up in a situation that she never should
have been involved in. And it's incredibly sad to think about what her final moments were like. I'm glad like Linda, that justice has been
served there behind bars, but it is very concerning. They are both up for parole in 2036, which isn't that far away. I'm not sure how their
family feels about that, but I would be angry if I were them. I think both of them should
be in jail a lot longer. They are just such liars. So selfish haven't
seemed to learn anything, just continuing to lie. Oh, they're such scum. I just hope they stay in
prison as long as possible. But that is gonna be it for today's case. I hope you guys found it interesting. I know it was another long
one and it also probably got confusing with all those
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