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When Wealth Turns Deadly: The Cullen and Priscilla Davis Story-Part Two
A six-million-dollar mansion, a bitter divorce, and a midnight shooting that left a 12-year-old dead—then a not guilty verdict that stunned Texas. We retrace the aftermath of the Cullen and Priscilla Davis case and examine how venue changes, narrative warfare, and community loyalty can bend the arc of justice. From Racehorse Haynes’s masterclass in defense strategy to a courtroom culture that felt more like a fan convention, we unpack how a jury heard two eyewitnesses, zero physical evidence, and a thousand rumors—and still walked a wealthy defendant out the front door.
The story doesn’t end there. When the divorce court kept ruling against him, a murder-for-hire scheme targeted the judge and Priscilla. An ally flipped to the FBI, staged macabre photos with ketchup “blood,” and recorded the payoff in a diner parking lot. On tape, with cash in hand, the case seemed unloseable—until the defense floated a wild counter: he was “helping” the FBI. Despite the Bureau’s denial, another jury acquitted. We explore why that argument resonated, what it reveals about juror psychology, and how hometown prestige, oil money, and media frenzy intertwined to shape both trials.
Along the way, we reflect on the victims who too often vanish in the glare: Andrea, a young girl whose death became a footnote, and Stan Farr, remembered mostly for how the case treated his family afterward. We follow the mansion’s strange second lives, the fall of Ken Davis Industries, and the uneasy legacy of a case that still feels modern in all the worst ways. If you care about true crime beyond headlines—jury dynamics, defense tactics, and the real cost to families—you’ll find this chapter of Texas history impossible to forget.
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Welcome, all of you wine and true crime lovers. I'm Brandy. And I'm Chris. And this is Texas Wine and True Crime. Thank you for being here, friends, for this week's episode, part two of Colin and Priscilla Davis. Chris, before we jump into that part two, I want to let our listeners know we are giving away two sets of tickets, one set of general admission tickets, and another set of VIP tickets to the Valley View Wine Walk in or near Valley View, Texas. There's going to be food trucks. There's going to be a VIP tent. There's going to be all the different wineries you can walk around and taste from. So to be entered to win these tickets on October 18th event, you need to email us team T-E-A-M at TexaswineandTrueCrime.com. Tell us you just want to be entered. Or go post it on our socials. Tell us you want to be entered. Invite a friend. Let them enter as well. Or you can leave us a review, take a screenshot, and uh send it to us. So either way, plenty of ways to enter, either on our socials, shoot us an email again, team T-E-A-M at Texaswine at TrueCrime.com. Chris, we're sad we won't be there this year for the Valley View Wine Walk. Uh, we did go last year. So fun. So you get to win these tickets. So don't forget to enter. We will announce the winners. We will send you a message probably Monday or Tuesday before the event. So we uh will give out those tickets. So go ahead and enter team T E A M at Texaswine and TrueCrime.com. All right, Chris, we are here to talk about part two of Colin and Priscilla Davis.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, so in part one, we really led up to um the murder. Essentially, this is going to be all the aftermath that kind of falls out. And so it really set the stage. Cole and Priscilla Davis um were in kind of the throes of a divorce. About two years have pass this point. He was not really getting much of what he wanted in the way from the divorce, um, divorce court. And the judge was really kind of awarding her most the divorce was not final, of course, at this stage, but she was getting the best of the deal. And so Priscilla was shot. Stanfar her boyfriend was shot and murdered. Um, most importantly, as well, too. Her her daughter, 12-year-old daughter Andrea was shot uh at their Fort Worth mansion. And Cullen is uh the main suspect at this stage.
SPEAKER_00:I eyewitness identified um by Priscilla and Priscilla's friend at the end of the day.
SPEAKER_03:Well, that they see his face. They see um they see him wearing you know a just a wig and dark clothing. Yeah. But he is identified by by her, and of course, another witness, her friend, uh Beverly, who showed up as well. And so um he um he is called, of course, by his brother and told um that you know Priscilla's been shot, Andrea's dead, um, you know, according to reports, not that much phased by this statement. And of course, his brother says, and by the way, you're a suspect in this murder. Uh he is picked up by the police, of course, uh charged with two counts of capital murder. And uh, you know, obviously very serious offense, um, but he is a wealthy man. And so what does a wealthy man do when they are certainly in sort of legal trouble? They're gonna hire the best uh best defense attorney that they can. And so he chose uh a gentleman out of Houston, uh Tim Ray's horse Haynes, who really specialized in kind of getting the guilty free. And of course, uh he at this point had not gotten um, you know, never had a case quite this high profile. So for him is a chance to of course bolster his himself or himself, not not himself, um, you know, in the legal realm if he can get this guy off, you know. And of course, um knowing that you're taking this high profile, I mean, that's kind of a big going to be a big toll, you know. And so one of the key elements that really he did for this case was get it moved out of Tarrant County to Amarillo, Texas. Um he felt like, you know, this was such a high profile. Uh Colin Davis is really one of the richest people in Texas.
SPEAKER_00:Um I think at the time, Chris, you know, we're talking, we're at what is this, like 76. This is 1976. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So you were murder happened August 2nd, so 1976.
SPEAKER_00:So at the time, I think he said they said he was the richest man to ever be tried in Texas.
SPEAKER_03:Like that's no, the richest man to ever be tried for murder may still be. I mean, I don't know about that, but of course at the time he he was the richest man to ever be on the top.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so this was this was a big this was a big deal. And then not only that, but come to find out that Racehorse Haynes moves it to Amarillo, and Colin Davis has a work associates there.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I mean, that was all by design. He he said, let's move to Amarillo. This is a small little West Texas town, uh, kind of duped the prosecutor and the judge, and you know, really, because at this stage leading up to the trial, um, this is a media frenzy. You know, I mean, everybody's talking about it. He's concerned about the jury pool being tainted, of course, by the story, and so yes, we're gonna go to West Texas. Um, prosecution doesn't really think much about this. Yeah, good idea. Let's go to a little small town, totally agree. And as you said, um Amarillo is an oil town. Uh, this guy is uh the owner of Ken Davis Industries, or him and his brothers, uh the number one selling, you know, oil-filled uh product, you know, equipment, anything you can imagine. And so, yeah, he's got some ties, lots of ties. He's looked upon very highly in that community. And so that was kind of part of the play of the defense was to put him in a place where he is well liked and of course um run a smear campaign against Priscilla. Priscilla. Yeah. And that wasn't a hard thing to do, unfortunately. Um, you know, obviously we had spoke earlier about their kind of wildlife. She had been living in this house. Um, you know, when when they split up, they split up in 1974. That's when the filed for divorce. And so, you know, having wild parties. A lot of the, you know, a lot of people, of course, this is the 70s, mid-70s. Um, you know, there's suspicion of swinger parties going on, orgies, as they say. And of course, this little small Texas town here, all these stories really um She didn't have a chance. Well, it's not she's not on trial, but it is as though she is on trial. Right. And they really paint her in that light. And so, you know, that was pretty instrumental by doing this. Of course, she kind of knew this heading in the heading in the heading into the um the trial. You know, I think they even described um, you know, her dress. She dressed very I mean, I wouldn't say she dressed inappropriately, she just was very um revealing in her attire leading up to this. So, you know, she showed up, as they said, in kind of a little house on the prairie kind of dress, yeah, a frock of sorts that was up, you know, neck high and covering all of her arms. Of course, they did make the statement that that didn't really change the change the opinion. But really, yes, she was kind of put on trial. And they had no physical evidence in this case. And so I think from that standpoint, um, you know, they did catch her lying on stand. Um, one of the things they really tried to paint that she was a drug addict. Yeah, and so they it was pretty well known that she took Percadan, to which she said that she didn't. And I don't know how on earth that the um defense attorneys were able to present receipts where she had bought that medication. I mean, I always thought about that too. Yeah, I mean, it's 1976.
SPEAKER_00:Receipts from a pharmacy, right? I mean, that's kind of where my mind goes. You don't I mean, did you have to have prescriptions?
SPEAKER_03:I don't know if there was like HIPAA back then, like where you're you know, did you have could you have prescriptions and your your health information was private? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:I think like that's in the era of the before the internet, before like electronic files, right?
SPEAKER_03:So you probably had everything in a file folder in a doctor's office, or I guess it's um I mean uh maybe they're able to subpoena it because it's somehow it's relevant to the case, but I thought it was a little odd. I mean, but yeah, her purchasing from a pharmacy. I mean, obviously you have to have prescriptions, you can't just walk to the pharmacy and say, I want some percadans. Yeah, but I think they really kind of painted her. They brought lots of witnesses on the stand to kind of you know paint her in a bad light. There were parties there, you know, claimed that she did, you know, cocaine and whatever was going on.
SPEAKER_00:And she denied everything, by the way.
SPEAKER_03:Well, she denied there's no doubt there were parties going on. Yeah, okay. This house, I mean, we've talked at length about the house in the first episode. This is um, if you're gonna throw a party, probably the house to do it. You know, we're talking at the time, six million dollar fortress, and um yeah, she was living the lifestyle. There was people in and out of there. There is no doubt. And so they're kind of raised that reasonable doubt. Well, if she's hanging around with all these people that are partying due to drugs, it's 1976, what's the natural thing? Oh, you're hanging around drug dealers, hanging around bad people, bad things are gonna happen. And so I think they did an excellent job of kind of saying, well, it could be anybody. Why why do you think it's Cullen? You know, you could have owed money to a drug dealer, you could have done this, Stan, you know, could have owed money too. And so, you know, the thing was there was the motive was there for him to do it, but there was really no evidence.
SPEAKER_00:Well, and I also think it's important to note like it's not like he had some a few business associates in Amarillo, and so that just ties him. Women were baking him cookies, they were bringing him Bibles, people were bringing like supporting him in this community.
SPEAKER_03:I mean Well, he probably even beyond business probably employed these people. I mean, there's I'm not sure if they had warehouses in um he certainly sold a lot of these businesses, but yeah, you know, he was looked up um how they uh as a rock star, essentially. That's how I described, you know, he's a rich man. Yeah, and you have the wealthiest man in Texas, you know, and so I mean people are thinking, oh well, how on earth could this lovely gentleman do this to this, you know, this little harlot that he's married, and she's out there running around trying to take his money and live in his house, and and this, you know, she got what she deserved. It couldn't have been him. I mean, that's the picture that the public is certainly trying to paint.
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SPEAKER_00:But I guess that's my point to all of this is like that's this isn't that's not even like what this trial is about. This trial, this trial is about right, the murder of a 12-year-old, which is kind of when you sit and think about it, and the support from the community that they're giving to him, knowing that he is accused of killing a child. And so I think we see this even when we're Chris, when you're gonna talk about like the second case, the second trial, and then you know, kind of what happens to this. But I think that is just so lost in all of this. And I and I'm and I'm sure that the her atter Priscilla's attorneys felt this way, but um it is kind of wild to look to see the public's reaction to a guy that has money like that, but in all of this, he is accused of killing a child. It's just very strange how people react.
SPEAKER_03:Killing a child and a man and step farm and shooting um Beverly's uh boyfriend Bubba and paralyzing him. And so, yeah, I mean, Priscilla's not on trial, she just called by the fence as a witness, you know, to um I mean, because he never even takes a stand in this case. Um, but you know, to kind of you know, we can panther on back about how they basically slam her, but everything that the fence did, it did work because, you know, one year later, or what I guess about fourteen months later in 77, uh jury goes to deliberate and takes them four hours to return a verdict of not guilty. And so he's a free man.
SPEAKER_00:Um, but they throw I didn't know this. I didn't know about the party they threw after he's exonerated. They actually throw a party, um, his attorneys, um, people that were in the courtroom, uh his assistants.
SPEAKER_02:The bailiffs, the uh jurors, the bailiffs, even the judge shows up.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, like again, unbelievable, not surprised, but a little unbelievable. Um, but this happens, you know, again, an accused child killer, but now he's off. But God, it's just kind of it's just disheartening to see sometimes. You know, the justice system, I don't know, has it changed much? I don't know. We still see this stuff kind of, you know, even today.
SPEAKER_03:Well, he's a free man. He is, he's a free man. He's uh obviously uh has no um no step closer to finding out or you know, the person who's guilty for murdering her daughter and her boyfriend. Um but they still have some dealings within the courtroom, and this is of course the divorce trial. And things are still not going well for him in this realm. I mean, you know, his money, wealth, and power in the murder trial, you know, we had the judge did not like him. Well, I don't know that they like him, but I mean it's different. He had groupies there signing autographs, it's that nobody was there at the divorce trial. And this judge was having no, you know, not not having any nonsense. And he really um he was ruling uh at every turn in favor of Priscilla. He was and so this was, you know, as they said, this is a man used to getting what he wanted at every turn, and he was not getting what he wanted, and so he needed to make sure that he did. So he um, you know, it's kind of it's just this is the craziest part. I mean, it's all crazy, but as we get into it, but you know, he is approached by his friend David McCrory, where actually I believe he approaches David McCrory about wanting to um have both the judge and his divorce trial, Judge Edson and Priscilla both murdered. And so David kind of obviously this is a little probably a bit much he can handle. He reaches out to the FBI and tells them that you know this is what he's been approached by colon. And so they say, go ahead and go along with you know with this plan. Let's see if we can kind of catch him. And what David does is um, you know, they they involve the judge, they take some photos of the judge, kind of fake ones of him in the back of David McCrory's trunk in his car, which I think it's funny. They use ketchup packets to look like he was shot in the back, and take some black and white photos, and then he meets David at a um it's very interesting. Um they met at this restaurant called Coco's in Fort Worth, and just it reminds me of a place that used to be in Dallas. There was a Coco's in Dallas too, that kind of a late night burger diner place, whatever. But met him there in the parking lot, and of course, David shows the pictures, and he's got a tape recorder and he says, Hey, I got this judge dead for you, I get anybody else dead for you. Once he sees the pictures, he turns around and hands David McCorrey$25,000. Cash. David hops out the car. Of course, Colin kind of heads down the road, stops to make a phone call at a payphone, and instantly is surrounded by police and FBI. And so, once again, back in hot water, you know, for arrested for solicitation to commit murder. Exactly. So, two people. So, once again, like, man, did again the first time we're gonna get him for this.
SPEAKER_00:Look at the arrogance. So, this guy, I've already told you, I I think this guy's a sociopath, and I'll finish my comments at the end of this episode. Um, just because of recent things that I that I have read, like within the last few years, um, the family of the victims and and how they felt about colon and their forgiveness and all of this stuff. But this guy, to the then to not only be acquitted for, you know, two two counts of capital murder, you're now a free man, it's not enough. You're not getting enough. You want your house back, right? You want your you want your life back. You've had it with this judge, you've had it with your ex-wife, or not yet ex-wife, but soon to be. And now you have solicitation of murder. He thinks he's untouchable, right? I think he thinks at this point he can get away with just about anything.
SPEAKER_03:You know, he's picked up. He they he's picked up. They got a lot of evidence. They have a video recording of him and the meeting. They have, of course, video tape. I'm not video, um, not video cassette recording. My apologies. Audio recording, cassette, of course, at this time, of him making this deal. And they also have$25,000 in cash that he gave to David McCrory. So, I mean, you know, this time there's no we're gonna move this trial to some little small Westsex town. It's tried in Terrant County. And, you know, they think they got him. So once again, you know, who does he call? Um Racehorse Haynes to be his attorney. And so I thought it's kind of interesting that, you know, Racehorse Haynes said he would represent him, but I think at the time um said he would do it for two million dollars, which is such an ungodly amount of money for a representation by an attorney. And I guess he figured he, you know, if the the legend is he felt like he was underpaid for getting him off for, you know, double homicide, I guess. And so, uh, but lo and behold, yeah, he's he gets that money. And so, but I mean that's a it's a tall hill to climb, you consider all this evidence that they have. And so, you know, and it's the same scene at the courthouse. There's you know, people there, he's signing autographs and and um, you know, eating good, everything is there, and so eventually, um, you know, they're it's the day of you know, jury goes back to it takes them back to, you know, they have to go deliberate. It takes them two and a half days to come back with a verdict. And um, you know, I think one of the big it's interesting defense that they presented is that Colan was you know, his defense was that he actually was working for the FBI and he was undercover, and that you know, he was trying to get David McCory was the bad guy, and he was into some nefarious business dealings, and the FBI reached out to him, which they deny, of course.
SPEAKER_00:Right. FBI says we are not working with this guy, he's not helping.
SPEAKER_03:The jury hears all this stuff. They clearly they know he's not. I mean, it's just like one of those things you watch it, you hear it, you listen to it. I mean, he's guilty.
SPEAKER_01:I know.
SPEAKER_03:And so in two and a half days, um, they realize it took them that long to figure out that he wasn't guilty guilty. So once again, not guilty as well. Not guilty, you know, and just um I thought it was interesting. We didn't really mention it here. Um the first trial, they did learn years afterwards that he his defense team had bribed somebody on the prosecution side. Simply, I mean, it's still cheating, but they what their essentially what their prosecution, what their angle was, their plan. And so, you know, that probably helped them tailor, you know. This time, I mean, who knows? We never heard anything after the fact. There's really nothing if somebody was bribed again or what they knew. Because I mean, it's just like one of those things where you look like you look at it and like, how much more evidence do you need to know? Right, like to prove this guy, this guy's a bad guy. And once again, you know, just the the public eye, you know, they really she wasn't the one on trial, but just to believe that goofy story that he was working for the FBI and that's why he had all this money. And so that's of course, yes, that's why he was uh trying to set this deal. That's why he was answering all his questions, that's why he was trying to set her up because he clearly was trying to get David McCroy in trouble.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I don't wanna I don't want to think that our jurors are um uh the not uh that dumb, right? Like we we tr we leave it up to our justice system to pick to to to you are you are innocent until proven guilty. You have a court, a group of your peers that can decide your fate, and we and the and the people who put who dedicate their lives in the justice system, and then we in the public expect justice, right, based on the evidence, based on what's brought to court. And then you have this you have such blatant evidence and such direct evidence tying him to to to killing a a public servant, a judge in the courts, not just his ex-wife, not just some woman who but but a but a a court official, a judge. And I mean the arrogance, right? The arrogance. And by the way, in the first trial, he was supposed to pay$250,000 to Stan Farr's family. Stan Farr's family has still never seen a dime of that money. And they actually forgave Colon for this, but Colin had said that he would actually meet with their family, but he was not going to be paying any sort of restitution monetarily because he was not actually the killer. So that's why he's never going to pay that money, is because he didn't do it. Well, I think he did, and I think he knows he did. And that's why this case is so frustrating. It it's it's a it's our our justice system not doing and making the right decisions to have this guy serve the time that he should have, not just for double capital murder, but because and but for double solicitation of murder. And I've covered a lot of people, Chris. We've done a lot of investigations, and this is um some top sociopathic arrogance, in my opinion. It's hard to look past the the um his ability to think that I mean it worked. And you know, money talks. Yeah, I have to think if Colin Davis was poor and he was on trial for these two things, that he might have probably died in prison. So it's just very hard to get past the whole like good old boy thing. And, you know, is this still something we're dealing with today? Yeah, but I mean, money talks.
SPEAKER_03:And yeah, I you know it's you that said there's no evidence that anybody was paid off or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00:That's right.
SPEAKER_03:Um, you know, I think the judge in the case even uttered uh they said an expletive whenever they came out with the not guilty and got up and walked out. So he certainly wasn't paid, you know, probably most likely.
SPEAKER_00:And you expect the jurors to get it right when the evidence is presented in the appropriate and right way. And it's mind-boggling. So I have I have I absolutely understand the frustration of this job.
SPEAKER_03:I think you know, I think the notion of I'm working for the FBI and the FBI says, No, you're not, and then a juror that was to hear that would say, Okay, I mean, then there's no reasonable doubt. But they're like, Oh, yeah, maybe we used him as a witness on something and he was working. I mean, I could see, but yeah, I mean, it's um it is kind of crazy, but but he walks away free. Um, you know, his luck starts to get a little better. Uh, the judge in his divorce case, Judge Edelson, Edson, I'm sorry, not Edelson. Uh it's a doctor at the place I work for. Um, you know, he ends up stepping down from the divorce proceedings. And so, you know, a new judge steps in, and he certainly is not quite the same type of judge. He does end up awarding, uh, you know, the divorce does become final. He does, you know, Cullen gets his house back, which what he wanted all the whole time, you know, the main motive of you know the murder, the murders, my apologies. And um, but he does get the house back. You know, she was asking for, I believe, a hundred million dollars. I think she got three point two five million in the deal, uh, which I think um you know it's kind of said she just was over and done with it. What's the sense of even pushing this on? At this time, the divorce has been going on since 74. So was this 79, probably after this trial. Um, so yeah, that's quite a few years. I mean, over and done with. You know, and he moves on. Of course, he finds God.
SPEAKER_00:Uh soon after, I think. Uh well, soon soon you know a few years within a couple years, I think.
SPEAKER_03:Well, during uh really during the second trial, he already had kind of found God, as he said. He was devoting his life to that. Um, you know, luck was good.
SPEAKER_00:But after the solicitation of double murder.
SPEAKER_03:Um, I think it was kind of a round time. Yeah, I think it was kind of around time. But anyways, he uh gets the house, but he has good luck then, but you know, the um the oil business certainly takes a pretty big decline around this time in Texas too, you know, beginning of the 80s. And so Ken Davis Industries ends up kind of going belly up. He does become broke.
SPEAKER_00:Um loses everything, I think. Right.
SPEAKER_03:Loses everything. You know, they end up having us sell this um yeah this house. Um, you know, we were kind of looking into it. This house has had many different lives after this event. You know, it's been um, I think we determined um that it was you know a Mexican restaurant at some point.
SPEAKER_00:Church at some point.
SPEAKER_03:Uh it's a church now.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, it is a church now.
SPEAKER_03:It's currently a church. And so, you know, you can look up, I mean, you can go out and check this place out. I mean, it it's it's still legit. It's it's quite a sprawling. It's it's interesting it was a church though, too, knowing that there were two murders. I just thought that was an odd choice for a church to um and not the church that he's associated with.
SPEAKER_00:Um, well, you know, the church that Missy Beavers was murdered in is still a church, so and a daycare center.
SPEAKER_03:So but it was already a church, and so I get that. But like to buy a place that turned it into a church. And then turn it knowing that you already got that bad juju there and just know it, but you know, it's kind of funny. I mean, you think about the um you know the wild parties being thrown there and it's so, but I don't know, is that somehow the are they uh making a statement that you know we're not gonna let evil deter us from possibly. I guess I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:But I mean it's um This was a big case though.
SPEAKER_00:Like I'm huge case, and you know it's it's I um there's a couple books on it, lots of different series people can watch on it.
SPEAKER_03:This book, um the how I got interested in this case, my mother. I still have this book. It looks all ratty. You can see it. It's called Final Justice. Uh it's by Stephen Nefey and Gregory Whitesmith. Um it was written in the 90s. Highly recommend. I mean, it it's better than anything out there on the if you just want to see all the little nitty-gritty details. Yeah, there's really a lot of great information to just kind of there is you know, from the first trial, there's infighting with the prosecution, and just I mean, it's it's all kinds of different little angles, you know. She um, you know, he goes off, he finds God, loses money, you know, in and out of the house.
SPEAKER_00:He gets remarried.
SPEAKER_03:Gets remarried.
SPEAKER_00:I think he was married to this woman. By the way, he went through a divorce not that long ago. I would say within the last five, I'm gonna say maybe like five to eight years. I mean, I think I believe he was in his 70s when he ended up getting a divorce because he was married to her. You know her name. I can't remember her name, but it's Karen Masters. Yeah, it was the secretary, yeah. Yeah, she was supporting him through the trials.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they got divorced.
SPEAKER_00:They got divorced, but he but he was married to her for a long time, according to my I mean, I think that's what I saw. And then, but but they had uh I did not know they had gotten divorced when she, you know, so well I had I had always so you know, obviously this happened.
SPEAKER_03:I was pretty young, no knowledge of this. I after I read the book, I'd always suspected that um like growing up the series Dallas was huge, uh huge everywhere, huge in Texas too. And so watching that, you know, all those years after that, and there is I swear as it's like they must have based Dallas off of oh just that that this storyline to some degree, you know. I mean, just the wild parties, the money, the you know, the salaciousness and all the stuff going on. I mean, it's just it's it's ripe for that, you know. And I and we had discussed too, I'm surprised that you know there's a really hokey movie with like Heather Lock Lear plays her and it's a made for TV, like how this never got turned into like a movie series. I mean, this there's so much information, like a series.
SPEAKER_00:Um, well, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:But does he have maybe he does?
SPEAKER_00:I mean, obviously at one point, you know, well, I'm assuming if he found God, he doesn't want it, he wanted this in the like the reason.
SPEAKER_03:But I mean he would have he would have had to give uh given the rights to make the movie though, the Maverick TV movie, and why not have something? I mean, it's just it'd be a great story and for really people to see. I mean, I I Yeah. I mean, think about um oh, the series Candy that we watched. Like we did that story. But it's a you know, I mean, when they came out, it just it really brought a lot more light to that case and stuff, you know. I mean, I just I don't know. It'd be great for something like that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Well, maybe um maybe it'll happen one day. 'Cause I think there's You know, there's a lot of family members still alive of the victims too. They could have Yeah, they would really like to.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, they they'd like to never know.
SPEAKER_00:You know, it's um there's a lot of unanswered questions. He was found not guilty, you know. So there's still a lot of like a like holding accountability that, you know, some closure that they've never really received.
SPEAKER_03:And well, I mean, and that was the big thing with the murder trial. Like, you know, since there were so many people in and out of the house that they probably didn't know half of them because they were always partying there every other weekend. You know, and because that was the big thing too. Like her boyfriend was kind of hanging around drug dealers and biker gangs and things like that. Did he owe money to somebody? The thing that doesn't make really make sense though is why would the little girl get shot? I mean That's right. What's the motive for that?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you typically don't have somebody just coming in and starting shooting and at random people. I mean, this isn't it was I mean, and then you have two eyewitnesses that uh it didn't say they saw him.
SPEAKER_03:The high security of this house and the fact that um the 12-year-old knew how to arm the alarm and that when she came home that night on August 2nd, 1976, the alarm was off and disabled.
SPEAKER_00:That's right.
SPEAKER_03:And so, you know, there were so many angles. I I think though, the the public opinion and just everything, it was more about her being the bad guy, he's the good guy, and just all about her. And that's the shame of this whole thing that really gets lost.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I mean, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03:With the kid with uh with her daughter being murdered in Stan. And you don't ever get shot to.
SPEAKER_00:Well, and that's the thing. You don't ever really hear about either of those. The whole time you're listening about what it was happening in Amarillo at the time, the whole time you're listening about the with the solicitation of double murder with the judge and Priscilla, like you don't hear one lick of what he a child killer. And then what was the deal about one of the sheriffs? Was it the sheriff of Tarrant County at the time who got invited to his birthday party? He threw himself a birthday party.
SPEAKER_03:That was during the second trial.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. So he throws himself, Colin Davis throws himself a birthday party, invites the sheriff of Tarrant County, and he comes to the party. And the in in the the defense team had spoken about the fact that they couldn't believe that the sheriff, the sheriff is is going to the party of a child of a possible child killer. I mean, it was a very strange time, Chris, for me to wrap my head about everything that was happening in these two trials within Amarillo, and then you have Tarrant County, and it's like I mean, it's pretty, it's pretty mind-boggling when you're trying, when you're really into this case and realize all of these powerful people, and something could have been done, and nothing was done. He was celebrated, and it's just sick. It's just really hard to think about as a mother what Priscilla was really dealing with. Not only was she put on the stand and completely torn apart, but but to lose a child, and then to know that there would be no accountability because he had money and people loved him, and then you're destroyed on the stand, and then he's still not, and then he's trying, and then he wants to have you killed, so he hires someone to kill you, and then he goes to trial for that too. And he and it's like I mean, just I can't just imagine the dread that she probably felt going through all of this, just knowing what he did, and it's just terrible.
SPEAKER_03:All over house, all over a house.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's what he I know. It's just it's just now now a hundred million. I don't know if they were married long enough for that. I mean, I don't know where that number comes from, if that was just something she was asking. Uh to me though, maybe that number involved a little bit of accountability for what happened to our daughter Chris, just like Stanley.
SPEAKER_03:No, I'm sure that that that was initial.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, think about civil trials that went with some of this, you know?
SPEAKER_03:Well, think about if we know that his house cost six million dollars to build in nineteen seventy three or four, and today's money that's forty-three million. What the fuck is a hundred million dollars worth in today's money? So yeah, that was probably I mean crazy amount of money.
SPEAKER_00:Like, I guess I'm just trying to like wrap my head also, like, where did that number come from?
SPEAKER_03:We're talking billions.
SPEAKER_00:I know. That's what I'm saying. I know.
SPEAKER_03:Billion. Well, how much would it be?
SPEAKER_00:Was it a lot? So it's just a very eccentric, it's just a very eccentric um Yeah, like eight hundred and something million dollars.
SPEAKER_03:Like it it that's it's almost a billion dollars. So yeah, you're asking for that for somebody you were married to for sixty-nine to seventy five years, you know.
SPEAKER_00:It's just very eccentric on both sides, right?
SPEAKER_03:I mean, and that was the other thing, you know, like his brothers were getting angry with him during this divorce, too, because a lot of what this judge was doing, like the the company was in financial disarray too, because she was in order for them to sell things, and like um she had to be the final not veto, but the final okay, somehow she got that power that this judge had given her. And so they were losing money too, and she was really poised to you know, if the girl if the judge had granted divorce and she was awarded a hundred million dollars, um you know, he may have not been the richest man in Texas anymore. She might have been one of the richest women in Texas. Yeah. I mean, for her worth and value. I mean, so yeah, I mean, he um he had a lot uh strong motive to do what he was um accused of doing and eventually found not guilty. But you know, it's just wild story, money, you know. I mean, it still plays out today, too. People with money can get off of stuff.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, well, he is um he's still alive, living his life. Priscilla died at age 59 of breast cancer. Um the this uh Priscilla and Colin Davis, Chris. I remember we us talking to our parents because you're right, we were I mean, I think I was I was just born. Um, so I there were a lot of questions I had about like what was the I always like to know like what was the environment like at that time, what was the court like? What were people thinking in the in in DFW at the time of all of this? And so it's just very interesting. So if you want to take a really, really deep dive, um a great book like Chris said, Final Justice.
SPEAKER_03:Um, but yeah, that's one thing of note I thought was kind of interesting in talking with my father about we were doing this case, and he's like, you know, you probably don't remember meeting her, but you know, come to find out she actually attended my sister's wedding in 1988. Priscilla, that's it. Oh, that's right. Which uh, you know, I guess he knew um I can't remember the guy that she accompanied her, but my father knew him. I'm not sure what the ties were, who invited her, what side of the family. I thought that was kind of interesting, though. Just a little side note. I mean, I don't know, I was 15.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That is interesting.
SPEAKER_03:Wow, I guess people can have to figure out my age. But uh yeah, I thought that was an interesting note. I thought that was interesting. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, we always say Texas is so big, but it's actually really small. Yeah, it is really small. All right. Well, that was part one and part two of Priscilla and Colin Davis. Until next time, friends, stay safe, have fun, and cheers to next time.
SPEAKER_03:Cheers.