Detective Smith
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Detective Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's go back to September 26th, 2016, the day of Diane's death. Detective Smith of the Atlanta PD was already on the phone with Stephen Maples, Texas attorney, who, if you'll remember, had shown up at the hospital shortly after Diane had arrived that same morning.
Tex had an anxiety attack while at the hospital. It was all becoming too much for him. Detective Smith wanted to talk with Tex.
Maples continued to make the point that key hospital employees and himself had heard Diane say that tax didn't shoot her intentionally.
That same day, Detective Darren Smith received a call from Tex McIver.
Tex and his lawyers were already building a wall.
From Sony Music Entertainment and Waveland Road, you're listening to Deadly Fortune. This is Episode 4, The Deeper You Dig. The Deeper You Dig Tex had continued to try and reach Danny Joe. This is when she finally had had enough and arrived at my house with her husband Tom. She was hiding from Tex.
We discover that Tex wanted Danny Joe to leave the hospital that morning, wanting her to claim that she was not even with Tex and Diane. This was highly suspicious. Why in the world would he want Danny Joe to leave the hospital and pretend she wasn't with them? If Danny Joe leaves the hospital and is later discovered to have been part of it, her credibility is significantly harmed.
So how do you believe anything she says? This would have allowed Tex to create a narrative that was more favorable to him. I call this Tex and the Tell-Tale Heart. Tex continues to make decisions that arouse suspicion. Still grieving, Tex did agree to sit down with police to share his side of the story. This is Brett Zimbrick, who was immediately involved in the case.
Brett was in the room the day Tex and his lawyer came in to speak with police.
Darren is the detective you heard in the phone call earlier with Stephen Maples.
As investigators had questions for Tex, Billy Corey had his own set of concerns about what had happened that night, and he wasn't the only one in the office invested in finding answers.
This is Christy Phillips, the fiance of Jay Grover, who had worked for Billy Corey since he was a teenager.
Jay, Billy, and Diane were all close. And the news shook Jay, too.
Before becoming VP at Corey Companies under Billy Corey, Jay Grover had been a detective. He was a very, very sharp guy. Billy and Jay started to dig into the events of that night and Tex's story.
While the police had interviewed Tex and the story wasn't completely clear, it didn't seem like the investigation would lead anywhere. After all, Tex said it had been an accident.
Bill told me in interviews that Tex suggests to Bill that the reason that he had the gun in his possession is because they took an exit off the interstate that was in a dodgy part of town and that Tex wanted Bill to put it out there to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other media sources that he feared for his life and his wife and his friend's life because of Black Lives Matter protests.
In retrospect, this is like our modern-day news bubble. Folks that live in an environment where this is a plausible explanation to them, with no awareness of how volatile that kind of claim would be.
And he wouldn't stop talking.
He decides he's going to sell all of Diane's belongings, her jewelry, her hats, her dresses, as quickly as he can. He makes this decision within two weeks of her death and sets the auction for December, which would have been eight weeks, 12 weeks after her death. This infuriates Billy Corey. You're selling off all of Diane's possessions.
It continues, Tex refuses to go to the funeral home to collect Diane's cremains, telling the funeral director, I'm waiting for the estate to make funds available for that purpose. We're talking a couple of thousand dollars. Tex allows Diane's cremains to stay in a cold building in Conyers instead of going to collect them. Jake Grover's theory about this?
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