210: Update on the Tex McIver Case

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Late on a Sunday night in September of 2016, Atlanta power couple, Tex and Diane McIver, were driving back into the city and got caught in Atlanta’s notorious traffic. Diane’s best friend was driving as Diane rode in the passenger seat and her husband, Tex, sat directly behind her. When they were stopped in what they considered a dangerous part of town, Tex asked for his gun, and then fell asleep. What happened next would cause one of the most hotly debated criminal cases in recent Atlanta history.

I covered this case in August 2019. But In June 2022, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously reversed Tex’s convictions. This episode is a refresher on the original episode and an analysis on the new developments in the case.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners,
0:08.0	and there may also be some explicit language used.
0:11.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:16.0	In 2016, Tex and Diane McIver
0:20.0	had spent a hot Sunday in the late September sun in Georgia playing golf and then going to dinner
0:25.5	with a colleague of Diane's and Conyers, a town about a half hour from Atlanta.
0:31.6	Danny Joe Carter, Diane's friend and manicurist, had acted as chauffeur for the couple that day after they played golf.
0:40.0	She had gone horseback riding at the couple's Putnam County Ranch as they goughed, and then they picked her up and she took over driving as they both drank wine in the car as they headed to dinner.
0:51.0	After dinner, it was late in the evening as they were headed back to Atlanta in its famous
0:56.2	congested traffic with Danny Joe driving, Diane in the passenger seat, and Tex in the backseat directly behind his wife.
1:05.1	Though Red Wine had been served at dinner, Tex didn't drink much of it.
1:08.9	He didn't like it.
1:10.6	But still, on the way home, he struggled to keep his eyes open, exhausted after a full day in the Georgia
1:17.1	heat.
1:18.1	Diane kept turning around and fussing at her husband, arguing that if he slept on the way home, he wouldn't sleep well that night.
1:26.0	As they neared Atlanta, traffic on the downtown connector was a parking lot.
1:31.0	Even at 10 p.m. on a Sunday night you can count on Atlanta traffic
1:35.2	being the worst. Diane told Danny Joe to take the Edgewood Avenue exit and
1:40.6	then she turned around and told Tex to wake up.
1:45.2	When he did, he looked around and realized they were in a midtown area.
1:50.0	He said, girls, this is a bad idea.
1:53.0	This isn't safe.
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