A couple’s first date ends with an ambush. Both are shot. Can the only survivor identify the shooter? Erin Moriarty reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What happened on the fatal first date?
Easton spotted two silver colored bullet casings from a nine millimeter gun, one in the kitchen and the other near Leslie's body. As Easton processed the scene, detectives began learning about the victims. Chris Smith was a 48-year-old divorced father who worked for a pool contractor.
Chris was a nice guy. He would hang out here frequently, was friends with most people in town. Everybody knew him.
Bartender Dena Legrand says Chris was well-known in town as the guy who grew banana trees and giant pumpkins.
I remember one Halloween, he donated hundreds of pumpkins for decorations for any of the kids to paint. He gave back to his community.
Did either one of you ever worry about Chris? No. No. Sharon Costanza is Chris's mother, Ashley Holcomb, his sister.
Chris is a stay-home person that literally would just work in his backyard.
Chris lived with a dog named Tiki, and an EMT told the family that Tiki may have helped Chris make it through the night by huddling with him for the roughly 12 hours that Chris was bleeding before being rescued. I think Tiki protected Chris.
I think she probably laid right next to him.
Chris's close-knit family could not imagine anyone wanting to kill him. It was like, no way. How? Why? Like, who? Yeah, who would have done that? Investigators had the same questions about Leslie and learned that she was a divorced mother of two children who lived in Troy, about an hour south of Farmersville.
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