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When a Texas car dealer was found shot to death in his bed, it looked at first like suicide.

But a closer examination of the evidence convinced investigators the man had been murdered in cold blood.

A decade would pass, and a family would be ripped apart before a jury rendered final judgment on what really happened that hot Texas night.

In the early morning of September 16, 1987, a couple in Brownsville, Texas, Texas watched late-night TV before going to bed.

43-year-old Bill Mowbray complained of having trouble with his back and told his wife, Susie,

he was going to sleep. About a half hour later, she switched off the TV and turned in for the night. Soon afterward, the

Mowbray's lives would change forever. Susie said she heard a noise and woke up to see her

husband's elbow pointing upward into the air. Seconds later, she heard a loud explosion. She leapt out of bed

and found him bleeding profusely. A pistol lay near his hand. She said she pulled it away and dropped it.

It landed in a pool of his blood. She rushed downstairs to call for help. Her first call was to one of her husband's co-workers.

He did it, she told him.

He shot himself.

My husband, after threatening suicide, for at least three years, almost on a weekly basis, finally did it.

And the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone happened to me. After telling the co-worker what happened, Susie Mowbray

then called 911. Homicide investigator George Gavito was one of the first people on the scene.

She was waiting there at the gate.

She had a mixed drink in one hand and she had a cigarette in another hand.

She went in, when the deputies came in, went back to the house,

she pointed to the room upstairs where it was.

Paramedics and investigators found Bill Mulbray with blankets pulled up to his neck.

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