66: Tex & Diane McIver: Accident or Murder?

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 51 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.

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0:00.0	Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and there
0:17.9	may also be some explicit language used.
0:21.1	The first day of the day was a very long day.
0:27.4	On a hot Sunday in September of 2016, Tex and Diane McIver played golf in the searing
0:34.0	Georgia Sun for four hours.
0:37.2	They picked up Diane's best friend, Danny J. Carter, from their Putnam County ranch where
0:41.7	she had been riding horses before they all headed back to Atlanta, stopping for dinner
0:46.0	and conures.
0:48.3	The McIvers had been drinking.
0:50.6	So after dinner, Danny drove the rest of the way home, with Diane in the front seat,
0:55.3	and Tex behind her in the back seat.
0:58.4	At around 10pm that Sunday night, Atlanta traffic was at a standstill on the downtown
1:03.0	connector.
1:04.0	Diane told Danny Joe to get off at Edgewood Avenue.
1:07.6	Tex had fallen asleep in the back seat, and his wife fussed at him to wake up so he'd
1:11.2	be able to sleep that night.
1:13.6	When he looked around and saw the area they were on, he said, girls, this was a bad idea.
1:18.2	This is a bad area.
1:20.2	And then he said, darling, hand me my gun.
1:23.5	Diane McIver then handed her husband the gun that would kill her.
1:27.5	The Atlanta PD charged McIver with involuntary manslaughter.
1:31.7	But the DA disagreed, and charged Tex McIver with malice murder.
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