128: The Belinda Temple Case, Part 2 - REMASTERED

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

After the brutal murder of Belinda Temple, an 8 month pregnant school teacher in 1999, the Harris County DA’s office took five years to finally charge her husband, David, with murder. They had an ace in the hole. They had star prosecutor Kelley Siegler. But David Temple’s family hired Dick DeGuerin, the guy who got Robert Durst off after he dismembered his landlord. The trial had the promised fireworks but afterwards, Kelly Siegler was accused of prosecutorial misconduct. So David Temple went to trial for a second time, 20 years after his wife was murdered. Will Belinda Temple and her unborn daughter ever get justice?

Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/127-128-the-belinda-temple-case-part-1-part-2

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners,
0:15.7	and there may also be some explicit language used.
0:19.3	Listener discretion is advised. I like circumstantial evidence.
0:26.2	I've said this before. It tells a story. Obviously, you want DNA evidence, fingerprints,
0:33.3	and other scientific evidence to bolster the story. But when it's a domestic crime, the defense
0:39.8	will be able to scoff at a lot of that evidence. They will say my client lived with the victim,
0:45.3	of course his fingerprints and DNA are in the house. In the Belinda Temple case, they needed the gun.
0:51.8	If they had found the murder weapon, David Temple probably would have been arrested right away.
0:57.2	It's probably the main reason this case went cold.
1:00.6	The other issue we have to discuss is prosecutorial misconduct.
1:05.2	Harris County DA Kelly Siegler was excoriated over her actions in this case.
1:10.7	What is sad is that she herself likes
1:13.2	circumstantial evidence. She was indisputably a very effective trial lawyer. She's folksy, sarcastic,
1:21.2	and very engaging. She tells that story, and she didn't need to play dirty. But was it as bad as people think? And did David's
1:30.0	attorney play fair? He was also a famous and respected lawyer, and he tried plenty of tricks
1:35.8	himself. So David Temple got a second trial. Welcome to episode 128, the Belinda Temple case, part two, the trials of David Temple.
1:52.4	Before we get started, I've got a correction to make.
1:56.2	Heather Scott was not from Kansas, as I stated in the last episode.
2:00.7	She was from Little Rock, Arkansas. However,
2:03.4	she moved to Franklin, Texas when she was in the eighth grade. I know it's not a big deal,
2:08.5	but I like to get things right. It also means to me that it doesn't sound like Heather just fell
2:14.3	off the turnip truck from Kansas on the way to Houston, Texas. Franklin is about two
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