A brilliant young architect mysteriously died just before she testified in a criminal trial.

Her diary contains stories of sex, betrayal, and intrigue.

Investigators needed to know if the stories were true.

University Park, Texas just outside of Dallas is better known as the bubble.

It's a place of privilege and prestige and address many would like to have, but few can afford.

It's kind of the Beverly Hills of Dallas. That's the way the park city is.

Nancy Dillard Lyon lived most of her life in Texas.

She was a Harvard-trained architect and the daughter of a wealthy and well-connected Dallas family.

Nancy met her husband Richard while at Harvard. They married and soon had two children.

They had great energy, great friendliness. When we moved in, they gave gifts of ice cream and they baked cookies and bring them over to us.

My husband, who I've said is rarely hyperbolic about anything, used to say she was the nicest person in the world.

Nancy quickly became the youngest partner in the history of Tramold Crow, a large real estate development firm.

But success came at a price.

I think she always had, as many women did at that time, a conflict between the amount of hours that she wanted to work to develop her career and time spending with her children.

Nancy was also experiencing some physical ailments.

And on a January night in 1991, her symptoms included vomiting and severe stomach pain.

Her husband Richard took her to the hospital emergency room.

Doctors were initially baffled.

She was seen by multiple consultants, infectious disease, gastroenterologist, pulmonologist, nephrologist,

and because of her multi organ failure and still being a part of all the resuscitation measures, she was not recovering.

Nancy's condition deteriorated, but she provided doctors with a potential clue.

She said she first got six several months earlier after drinking some wine from the bottle left on her doorstep.

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