Hello, everyone. And welcome back. So happy to have you here with me to discuss yet another case. And if you are new, then welcome also so happy to have you here. So today we're going to be getting into a case that reminds me a lot of Lacey Peterson.

And I'm surprised that it's not more well known today. We're going to be talking about Belinda Temple. And I think that more people should hear Belinda story in preparation for this video. I listened to Catherine Casey's shattered the audio book. And as you can imagine, after listening to a whole book on a case, it was very hard to narrow down all of what I wanted to talk about today because there's just so much.

So much so much to talk about when it comes to the case, her life, the trial. And so I've narrowed it down, although it's going to be a bit of a longer one. I have a huge document here in front of me full of information. So let's just jump in. So Belinda was actually born Belinda Tracy Lucas. And she had a twin sister named Brenda. They were born December 30, 1968 to their parents Carol and Tom. The girls had three older brothers and Carol having so many boys.

But having so many boys was actually very surprised when they were girls and even more surprised that there were two of them. She didn't know she was going to be having twins. I cannot imagine a bigger shock.

Belinda and her four siblings were raised in knockadocious Texas and had extremely happy childhoods. Belinda was a very energetic child. She was very active. She loved sports when she wasn't playing basketball, which was her favorite sport.

She was watching games and taking notes on how she could improve her own game. Belinda really had an eagerness to life and never had trouble making friends and accomplishing her goals.

As she was growing up, she knew she wanted to help people and at first she wanted to be a nurse, but she ended up deciding that it was her dream to become a special education teacher and also a basketball coach, which were two dreams that did end up coming true.

Another one of Belinda's dreams was to get married one day and to have children, a lot of children. She knew she wanted to have a big family just like her family and she was so good with kids.

Belinda's family was really strong. She was loved and supported by her parents. She had a great relationship with her siblings and like I said, she had a really happy childhood and her dreams were never that far out of reach.

As she got older into her college years, Belinda first attended a local junior college and then chose to live at home during that time, but this definitely came with difficulties.

She knew she wanted that next level of independence, so she got a job. She actually got three jobs. That's one thing about Belinda is she was such a hardworking driven person and eventually she had enough money to support herself, move out and she moved in with two of her closest friends.

At one point, Belinda did end up getting engaged to a boy that she had been dating since high school, but then he was unfaithful to her and she was not about that, so she dropped his ass and never looked back.

And I think that's one great example of the type of person that Belinda was. She did not take any shit and I want to really emphasize that and it was no secret that she was like this.

People knew this about Belinda and that was one of the reasons that she was so respected and loved by her peers. Now I just mentioned that she was living with friends and attending a local junior college, but eventually she made a pretty big change in her life when she decided to transfer to Steven F. Austin University.

And it actually wasn't completely random that she decided to go there. Her twin sister Brenda was going there as well and this is eventually where she would meet her future husband, David Temple.

Now David was from Katie, Texas and he was actually born the middle child to his parents Marine and Kenneth Temple and oftentimes we hear that the middle child is ignored by their parents.

We've all heard of middle child syndrome. Obviously it's not always the case and it definitely wasn't the case when it came to David.

He was very loved and pretty spoiled by his parents from a very young age David was treated differently than his other two brothers. They were much harsher on the other two much more strict and David would just get away with shit all the time.

And Katie, Texas is a sports loving city, especially high school sports very big there and from a young age it was obvious that David was going to be a star.

Just like Belinda, he had always taken an interest in sports and he started playing football as early as he could.

And once he was playing at Katie high school, his town start-um, as you could say, only continued to grow.

If you've grown up in a place like Katie or have seen the show Friday Night Lights, you'd know that being a football player, especially a good one, really meant everything.

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