Bonnie Contreras
Appearances
48 Hours
Driven To Death
think of the most flattering way to describe Bonnie Contreras. Bonnie Contreras is almost like a master manipulator. She would take compromising photos, kind of just gather all these nuggets that if things ever went south, she had all the proof she needed to kind of force you to do what she wanted.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
She's texting and calling Francis. Bonnie would call her every explicit name in the book and just say, you're so fat and disgusting. You have this toxic love triangle. You've got a multimillionaire husband and wife, and this mistress trying to wedge her way between them.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
While this is going on, Bill actually comes to this unfinished shoulder right here and pulls to the side of the car and lets both cars pass him.
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Driven To Death
Bill has to react, and while he's reacting, remember, Francis is reacting in that Escalade.
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Driven To Death
And so her car is fishtailing a little bit while she's doing it, as Bill's coming to the side in that big old Harley, and they make contact right about here, and Bill ultimately ends up actually right behind you in this big, tall grass down here.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
You know, Peter, if anyone is guilty of anything, I would say it's Bonnie Contreras of reckless driving because everyone else had to react to her actions. But it was just a tragic accident.
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Driven To Death
Nothing is harder than defending someone that you know and believe in your heart is innocent.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
When Frances first sees her husband Bill and then Bonnie, she's about two miles down the road this way, and that's when she makes the decision to make a U-turn and finally confront this woman that's been, you know, wreaking havoc in her life.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
I see the bill with the truck. And I see him fly off the motorcycle. And then I see the bike fly.
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Driven To Death
Exactly. They're coming this way. They're still going 85, 90 miles an hour.
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Driven To Death
I see the Escalade coming, and she just, boom, she hits him, he flies off, the bike flies off, and then she kept hitting me and hitting me, and I kept going faster and faster.
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Driven To Death
I started screaming, crying. I said, oh, my God, Francis is taking me from behind. What do I do?
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Driven To Death
I don't think anyone imagined that by the end of that day, there would be a dead body and someone in handcuffs.
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Driven To Death
She's been living in hell for three years. Let her go home. Let her be with her family. And let her mourn her husband.
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Driven To Death
She's a strong, strong, strong woman. That being said, she wasn't going to go murder her husband and say, if I can't have him, no one can have him. That's just not Frances.
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Driven To Death
I'm very happy on the convictions she got on both counts. That gave me peace.
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Driven To Death
If ever there was a person that the sudden passion provision was written for, it's Frances Hall, absolutely.
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Driven To Death
Sudden passion that you were so entrenched or stuck in the heat of the moment that you are unable to think clearly.
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Driven To Death
I hate to say this because I'm a woman, but I think that a lot of women see successful men, self-made men, attractive men. They think, I want a piece of that.
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Driven To Death
Her story is that she was helping her aunt or someone sell chicken on a stick.
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Driven To Death
And she just happened to see these five guys, and he was dressed really nice. I mean, he's met her supposedly for two minutes. I think she said, we locked eyes, and I knew right then.
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Driven To Death
I wanted to have a family with him. My plans were to get married, to have a home, and to live the rest of my life with this man.
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Driven To Death
He was excited by her in the beginning. You know, she was an attractive younger woman that, you know, wanted to do everything she could to be the center of his attention.
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Driven To Death
She kept calling Bill, and Bill would decline her calls. And all the while, Bonnie's texting Bill saying, I'm going to tell your wife, I'm going to tell her about us, and ultimately calls Frances.
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Driven To Death
After she makes the call, she really takes it up a notch, and she starts going to Frances and Bill's house. She'll take pictures of the outside of the house, and then she'll text it to Bill, and then she'll text it to the wife and say, you know, ugly, ugly, nasty things to the wife.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
It doesn't matter if they're married or not. Oh my goodness. Frances and Bill Hall met when they were in high school. I think they were around 16. Neither of them had very much money. They started dating, and they were married by 18. Frances Hall is someone that you wish was in your family. She's very selfless, caring, and really always thinking about other people.
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Driven To Death
I was just defending myself and never once did I threaten her. I never once threatened that woman.
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Driven To Death
I'm a good person. I never mean no harm on anybody. And never once confronted his kids. I would never threaten anybody in that way.
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Driven To Death
Frances sees her husband drive by on that big blue motorcycle. You know, a few seconds later, for the first time ever, she lays eyes on Bonnie Contreras, this woman who is ruining her life.
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Driven To Death
And she grabs a steering wheel and she just goes, I'm going to go confront her.
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Driven To Death
At this point in time, 28 days have passed since she's found out about the affair.
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Driven To Death
I think at one point Bill and Frances go to the movies and she knows about it and literally sits three rows back behind them, watching them the entire time, texting Bill, just going crazy. It's pretty insane.
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Driven To Death
They're coming this way. They're still going 85, 90 miles an hour. So Francis is getting behind Bonnie, and every time she gets close to her, Bonnie will brake check her over and over again. It's this cat and mouse game.
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Driven To Death
At first, I thought it was an accident. Maybe somebody had hit me from behind by accident. But then when I looked back and I looked through the rearview mirror, I saw that it was Ms. Hall. Francis.
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Driven To Death
Bill Hall loved Frances and his children. But Bill's fatal flaw is that he also liked the attention of younger women.
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Driven To Death
Then she hit me more times. I then got thrown onto oncoming traffic. After I got thrown onto oncoming traffic, I was fighting cars coming at me.
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Driven To Death
I see her clearly behind Bill, and I'm thinking to myself, she's not going to hit Bill. Like, I don't think she had the heart to do that. So then I was just driving, and then I started screaming because I saw the Escalade getting closer and closer to him.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
Now Bill's over here, and I'm speeding up, and I see Bill, and I'm wanting to stop, but I don't stop because I'm fearing for my life. I don't know what she's thinking, what she has in the vehicle, if she has any weapons, if she... I don't know what she's thinking in her head. And I see the Escalade coming, and she just, boom, she hits him. He flies off. The bike flies off.
48 Hours
Driven To Death
And then she starts to hit me from behind again. I do a really, really fast U-turn right there. I almost hit a pole, and she did the U-turn really quickly behind me. Then I started speeding back up towards where the accident had happened, and then she was speeding up behind me. She then continuously was hitting me I sped up the Range Rover up to like 100.