Annie Elise

Okay.

So a lot of money.

So let's revisit that question one more time.

Would it make sense for Darlene to kill her husband because he was limiting her spending?

No.

Would it make sense to kill him because he was limiting her spending and she knew that his life insurance would wipe out their debt and still leave her sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Yes.

And the investigators definitely thought so.

Now, after posting bail, Darlene went right back to living life, as if she wasn't out on bond for murder.

And almost immediately, she decided that she couldn't keep living in the same house where Keith was killed.

She told everybody that it was too traumatic for her and for the kids, which, yes, okay, fair.

Under normal circumstances, that would certainly make sense.

But this wasn't exactly a normal situation.

But still, Darlene had friends who were willing to help, and one of them was a local realtor, an old friend of hers named Robert.

So despite the whispers around town about her being the murder suspect, Robert agreed to help her find something new.

And Darlene wasn't very picky.

She wasn't looking for a mansion or a fixer-upper, just some open land where she could eventually build a house from scratch.

And this was Texas, so it wasn't really difficult to find.

Robert found her a few options, but there was one property that Darlene absolutely fell in love with.

It was spacious, it was in a great area, and best of all, it had a pond.