Glenna Whitley
Appearances
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
Sandra hires a private investigator who's very well-known in Texas, Bill Deere.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
She tells Bill, I didn't do this. I want you to find out who really did this.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
and talked to him about all the allegedly crazy things that Alan was involved with, like drugs and gambling, etc., etc.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
A anonymous person who police called Deep Throat called the Oklahoma police.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
She goes in full regalia with her widow's fur coat and her gloves, never takes her gloves off.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
She plays the poor little me. She plays the, isn't this awful officer? It's just so tragic and bats her eyes and plays damsel in distress. And they're looking at her going, huh? I'm not so sure about the damsel in distress, but that made them even more suspicious, of course, because they've gotten some prior knowledge.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
Gloria begins to get a sense of that there's something terribly wrong with Sandra. She starts to hear from people who tell her these other stories which she has never heard before.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
At the time it was ruled a suicide, they assumed that the police know what they're doing. And most people felt extreme sympathy for her.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 1. Body in the Bronco
Sandra is the last person to see her alive.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
The overriding feeling was poor, poor Sandra. Here she is with three children, very young children, She is now a widow at a very young age.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
And it does pay out in cases of suicide.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
While there's people that had suspicions, at the time it was ruled a suicide, they assumed that the police know what they're doing. And most people felt extreme sympathy for her.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
A lot of the women in this community could put themselves in her shoes. And so they really tried to reach out to her to help her with her kids, just to treat her as they would want to be treated if such a tragedy had happened to them.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She wanted to find a wealthy man who could take care of her in the style that she had dreamed of being taken care of.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She researches men who are wealthy, whether they're married or not married, and goes after them.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
For example, one was a very prominent restaurateur, Norman Brinker.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She managed to show up on the day that he was having his car washed at the same car wash. and introduced herself and finagled a date out of it.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She begins regaling all of her friends with tales about the ex-wife, you know, trying to come after her, you know, writing threats in lipstick, even throwing a knife at her.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
There were people that started after this to think, wow, that's kind of weird. But there were others who said, well, let's introduce her to another person who was quite beloved.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
He's the life of the party. Men like him and women like him. He's one of those guys who's fun to be around, just well-traveled, doing his own deals, and, you know, pretty high-flying. He was quite a catch.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
It was a dinner party specifically held so that she could meet him. People were trying to get them together in an elaborate way, a fun way. And they arranged for her to pop out of this closet in the middle of this party.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
But Bobby found her charming. He was instantly smitten with Sandra.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She did not realize, however, that Bridewell wasn't as wealthy as she had thought that he was.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
Bobby was diagnosed with lymphoma. And he became very sick.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
Even though he was treated with chemotherapy by the premier oncologist in Highland Park at the time, John Bagwell, he got sicker and sicker.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
Then Sandra does something somewhat inexplicable. She moves Bobby out of the house into a hotel and announces that she's remodeling.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She parks her kids with various friends who also have children and sometimes doesn't come back for a day or so.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
People start to think this is somewhat callous.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
she's starting to feel some desperation like she couldn't stand to be alone like she expected others to help her she needed them and she wasn't going to take no for an answer it seemed the constant request and the constant leaving of her kids at betsy's it just starts to get suffocating
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
Betsy is sympathetic, but enough is enough. I can't take this. And John was feeling it too, I'm sure. But I think that Betsy was just trying to extricate herself as delicately as she could, but Sandra wasn't taking the hints. She just kept insinuating herself into their lives to the point of just making Betsy resent her.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She puts a frozen package of pasta sauce in the sink to thaw, tells her kids not to pig out, they're going to have a big pasta dinner, and that's the last she's heard of by anybody. Sandra is the last person to see her alive.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
The fact that she shot with a Saturday Night Special doesn't make any sense. This is a wealthy woman. If she wanted to have a gun, she's not going to buy a Saturday Night Special at a pawn store or something like that.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
This gun was traced back to somebody who lived in Oak Cliff. And they said, oh, we haven't seen that gun in years. It was stolen. We never reported it.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
Dr. Bagwell had enough concern to hire a private investigator.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
He came to believe that it was a staged suicide.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
A lot of people, when they're in their college ages, they are not working on this glamorous, sophisticated persona.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She had set her eyes from the very beginning on living a glamorous, expensive, almost aristocratic life. And when she married David Stiegel, he was successful enough for her to begin living.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
The people that live there are... wealthy people who live in gorgeous, huge, very expensive homes. And it's a very tight-knit society.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
They got as close to Highland Park as they could by moving into Greenway Parks, which was a little slice of nice bungalows. They had to start somewhere. She's setting herself up to entertain people from the world in which they want to rise. And so you had to have the right furnishings and the right linens and everything had to be the best.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
She's learning how to get her foot on that social ladder and begin the climb.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
They couldn't afford it. She was spending her husband into the poorhouse. Even though he was making very good money, she was spending it faster than he could earn it.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
So this began creating a pattern of whatever she had was never enough.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
David Stiegel had to borrow $100,000 from his father.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
I heard something really weird, and I haven't gone in there, but would you see if David's okay?
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Fatal Beauty | 2. An Open Secret
In his king-size bed, with a gunshot wound in his head, he's dead. And his wrists have been slashed.