When Jerry was trying to tell me, they had a fight and Shelley walked out and left her girls.

He said, yeah, she was upset. She just walked out.

And I said, Jerry, I don't think she would do that.

He goes, well, she did.

Shelly was a very beautiful and vibrant and smart young woman.

She didn't put up with any bullshit.

She was, as we call a woman like that in Texas,

a pistol. She disappeared on Labor Day night. We had gotten a call that fishermen had found a body

floating in the river and that they had tied it up to a tree. She was face down in the water, and her hair was just floating on the surface.

She was wrapped in plastic wrapping, and she had a chain around her neck with cinder blocks,

and she had chains around her legs with cinder blocks.

I mean, it's so obvious that whoever threw her in there had no idea

she'd ever rise again. They assumed that she was going to be underneath the Trinity River for

eternity. Somebody that knows her and wants to get rid of her body does what they did. I was just so shocked

and somebody had done something really bad in my friends. Somebody had murdered Shelley.

And just tossed in the river, like she was nothing.

It breaks your heart.

And then Jerry got indicted.

The evidence was not overwhelming by any means, but we felt like it deserved a trial.

I thought for sure Jerry's going off to prison, and all that blew up, too.

We were gearing up and getting ready to try it.

I'm sending my desk as an assistant district attorney.

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