Josh Mankiewicz

But what happened was he, the bullet went, he was in the backseat.

The bullet went through the front seat and hit his wife, Diane, during which she uttered a memorable phrase, which, you know, we called this deadly detour.

But the only thing anybody remembers about this is her words, Tex, I think you shot me.

And she was correct.

He had shot her.

And then they then drove to Emory Hospital, despite the fact that there were closer hospitals.

And they took Diane to the emergency room and they were not able to save her.

She died as a result of being accidentally or, depending on who you ask, deliberately shot by her husband.

And that was the basis of this story.

You know, I think we read it in the paper.

Or your station in Atlanta called us, which also does happen.

As you know, we get alerts from local stations around the country all the time about stories that they're working on that they think might end up being a Dateline story.

And it's the kind of story that makes a great Dateline episode.

I mean, the two of them, Tex and Diane, were...

memorable characters, both in real life in Atlanta and sort of in the trial and the aftermath that followed.

Did you ever cover either one of them before this?

Did you know about them?

Wow.

And so you know how isolated that is.

Oh, very.