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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Accused wife-killer lawyer Tex McIver: Witness tampering?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Prominent Atlanta lawyer Tex McIver, accused in the shooting death of his wife, is allegedly using the jail telephone to influence witnesses in the murder case against him. McIver also called a judge’s wife hoping she would help him get out on bond, according to the Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor. Nancy Grace talks with lawyer Renee Rockwell about the McIver case, which has rocked the Atlanta legal community.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Things have gotten even worse for Tex McIver.

0:08.3

Prosecutors are now saying Tex McIver intentionally pulled the trigger, killing his wife Diane.

0:14.3

McIver says he was sitting in the backseat of a car holding a pistol when it accidentally

0:19.1

went off and shot his wife.

0:21.0

According to the indictment, McIver told Danny Joe Carter, the woman who was driving

0:25.1

the couple that night to tell the police that she wasn't there.

0:29.0

The indictment also says that McIver told his spokesperson he was holding a gun that night

0:34.3

because he was afraid of Black Lives Matter protests.

0:37.8

This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:40.6

Prosecutors believe Diane McIver had a secret updated will that Tex McIver is hiding.

0:45.9

They also believe that secret will might provide evidence of motive in her death.

0:50.6

There's no financial motive, there's no jealousy, there's absolutely no motive.

0:57.8

She is dead.

1:00.2

She was beautiful, educated, had closets and closets of clothes and shoes and bags from

1:11.4

all over the world.

1:13.3

I mean, I'm embarrassed just sitting here and my same all running shorts.

1:18.7

Well, they're actually knee-tikes.

1:20.9

My tennis shoes and my brave shirt, this woman was absolutely stunning in every way.

1:28.2

Not only that, she was a business woman without compare because she ran an incredible business

1:38.3

very successful, no idiot by any stretch.

1:44.6

And she's dead.

1:46.8

What happened?

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