The Texas Cadet Murder: The dark side of teen love & ambition

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 20 March 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Diane Zamora and David Graham were overachieving high school students in love, sharing common dreams of flying high in the Air Force as a married couple. But a dark secret emerged as they were their first year of college. Diane was a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy and David was a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy when investigators linked them to the murder of another teen, Adrianne Jones, who had been found dead on a rural Texas road a year earlier. Nancy Grace revisits the infamous Texas cadet murder case with lawyer and psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, host of Investigation Discovery's "Fatal Vows" series, death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan, and reporter John Lemley.

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your
0:28.4	favorite podcast.
0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
0:42.3	How does a beautiful, vivacious 16-year-old little girl end up dead in a field there in
0:51.4	Grand Prairie, Texas? No leads, no clues, just a dead body.
1:04.3	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
1:10.2	This is where it all starts. Take a listen. A farmer is driving along a sleepy,
1:16.9	desolate country road near Mansfield, Texas. And he sees something behind a barbed wire fence
1:26.0	and discovers it's the body of a teenage girl. She was unrecognizable. The girl's face was
1:32.8	obliterated. One bullet hole was in her left cheek, another in her forehead. She had also been
1:39.9	hit so many times and so hard on the left side of her head that part of the skull above her
1:46.8	ear. And this was a pretty tough part of the skull was completely caved in.
1:52.3	Wow, you're hearing our friend John Limley from crime online.com
1:56.8	with me and all-star panel to make sense of it. First of all, high profile lawyer joining me
2:02.0	out of LA Troy Slayton. You can find him at Troy Slayton. Dr. Michael Donner, PhD psychoanalyst,
2:10.4	clinical and forensic psychologist and author of tearing the child apart. Dr. Kindle Crowns,
2:18.2	Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Travis County, that's Austin, Texas, and
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