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

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 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. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Troy Slaten - Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC, Twitter @TroySlaten Dr. Michael B. Donner, PHD - Psychoanalyst, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, Author: "Tearing the Child Apart: The Contribution of Narcissism, Envy and Perverse Modes of Thought to Child Custody Wars", michaelbdonner.com @michaelbdonnerDr. Kendall Crowns – Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Travis County, Texas (Austin) Justin Boardman - Former Special Victim's Unit Detective, West Valley City (Utah), Author: "I Was Wrong: An Investigator's Battle-cry for Change Withing the Special Victims Unit. Boardman Training & Consulting, JustinBoardman.com, Instagram/Twitter: @boardman_trainPeter Meyer - Author: "Blind Love: The True Story Of The Texas Cadet Murder", Found: School Life Media, schoollifemedia.org

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:12.4	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:16.5	How does a beautiful, vivacious 16-year-old little girl end up dead in a field there in Grand Prairie, Texas?
0:28.0	No leads, no clues, just a dead body.
0:40.7	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:47.0	This is where it all starts.
0:48.0	Take a listen.
0:55.4	A farmer is driving along a sleepy, desolate country road near Mansfield, Texas.
1:03.8	And he sees something behind a barbed wire fence and discovers it's the body of a teenage girl.
1:14.2	She was unrecognizable. The girl's face was obliterated. One bullet hole was in her left cheek, another in her forehead. She had also been hit so many times and so hard on the left side of her head that part of the skull above her
1:21.4	ear, and this is a pretty tough part of the skull, was completely caved in. Wow.
1:33.0	You're hearing our friend John Lindley from crime online.com with me, an all-star panel to make sense of it.
1:34.0	First of all, high-profile lawyer joining me out of L.A. Troy Slayton.
1:38.6	You can find him at Troy Slayton, Dr. Michael Donner, PhD, psychoanalyst, clinical and forensic psychologist, and author of
1:48.1	tearing the child apart.
1:51.4	Dr. Kendall Crown's Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Travis County, that's Austin, Texas,
1:57.3	and lecturer, University of Texas, and of course, forensic sciences.
2:01.9	Justin Bordman, former Special Victims Unit Detective West Valley City, author, I Was Wrong,
2:08.9	an investigator's battle cry for change within the special victims unit.
2:12.9	You can find him at Justin Bordman.com.
2:14.9	But first, Peter Meyer, author of Blind Love, the true story of the Texas Cadet Murder.
2:24.6	Peter, thank you so much for being with us.
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