Annie Elise

She walked right over to the pond, and she began digging around like she was searching for something.

Now, at first, she was just bent down at the edges, kind of poking the shallow bottom with a stick.

But then, she got into the water, and she looked almost panicked.

She knew where she had left the gun, yet it was missing.

They had already retrieved it.

She also knew that she was in a very heavy time crunch.

The workers would probably be showing up the following day to start draining this pond, so she needed to find this gun and find it fast.

And

Every second of her panic and hysteria and, you know, just frantic movement, all of it was caught on camera.

There was no getting out of this one.

Darlene was literally standing in the exact same spot where the investigators had just found the gun.

She was peering into the water, clearly looking for something, and all of it was recorded.

She was screwed.

So right there at the scene, the police rearrested her.

Darlene's trial began on February 6th, 2007.

Her defense team argued that the prosecution's case was weak, that it was circumstantial at best.

And interestingly, their strategy, the defense's strategy and focus, it was all on Darlene's looks.

They basically tried to convince the jury that someone who looked like Darlene, this petite, pretty Texas mom, she couldn't possibly be capable of murder.

And her attorneys told the press that they were confident that she would be acquitted, that they would prove her innocence.

But then things got kind of weird.