A TV bailiff accused of murdering his wife is determined to prove his innocence. Listen to his first television interview. Natalie Morales reports. This "48 Hours" episode last aired on 01/11/2025. 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
Chapter 1: What triggered the emergency call?
What is your emergency? A shot fired. What is your name? My name is Renard Spivey. Yeah, my wife had an argument. I accidentally shot her. You accidentally shot her? Yeah.
Houston, please. Where you at, ma'am?
Sir?
Yeah. I'm back here. All right, where's the weapon?
Right here.
Stay away from it. I don't want to see it in your hand, you understand? Where she at?
On the floor? Yeah. OK. His leg. All right. Shot in the leg.
OK.
We was arguing, tussling with the gun. And we had been arguing all day.
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Chapter 2: Who is Renard Spivey and what is his background?
Renard Spivey was a longtime deputy sheriff. And the deceased was his wife, Pat or Patricia Spivey. Spivey, who also worked for a time as a TV judge show bailiff, is now charged with his wife's murder. There was a lot of publicity because he had been on a very popular reality TV show, Justice for All with Christina Perez.
All rise. Court is now in session.
He was the perfect person in front of everybody else. I think he thought the camera was always on.
When it comes to how your mom died, do you think it was accidental? No. It just, it didn't make sense. It didn't line up.
The security cameras, how important were the security cameras and the evidence? I think they were very important. On the surveillance, you clearly hear the three gunshots. One. Two, three. The prosecution's theory is that he shot her and then shot himself to cover it up.
You don't accidentally shoot someone more than once.
Was the autopsy consistent with an accidental shooting? Well, ultimately, I guess that's the million dollar question.
whose finger was on the trigger.
Who was the aggressor? She was threatening him with a gun. If he is the aggressor, then this is a murder. If she is the aggressor, this was either self-defense or an accident. This is the 9-millimeter gun.
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Chapter 3: What evidence is there against Renard Spivey?
Oh, she loved it. She was excited. And as a matter of fact, I took her to a couple of the Emmys.
Patricia's childhood friend, Ezra Washington, had a small part as an extra on that show and remembered meeting Renard when Patricia and Renard got together.
You recognized him right away from his time.
Renard and Ezra became close friends. But over time, even before Patricia married Renard, Ezra says Renard was controlling with her.
They were at Papa Doe's Friday night. You know, she'd have a few, and he told her, don't drink no more. And she said, why? He was like, because I said so. And she dumped him.
The couple got back together, but their problems hardly went away, says Ezra, and eventually impacted Patricia's relationship with her cousin, Sybil.
He didn't like Sybil at all. He literally just hated her. She allowed Pat to have freedom. They would go on this cruise every year, and they'd party, have fun, and they'd meet people from other parts of the country.
He definitely felt intimidated by the relationship that we had. sybil says after the couple got married patricia distanced herself it was more so trying to just put that wedge between the two of us and it worked i just backed off from it i didn't want to come between somebody and their marriage it almost seemed like he was jealous of her relationships that he already knew she had i mean
Petrina says her mom and Renard had no business being married. She says their relationship became strained once they moved into their new house.
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Chapter 4: How did Renard Spivey defend himself against the accusations?
He's on the phone with 911, holding the towel on his leg.
Typically, when you're performing CPR, you don't take breaks.
Renard says he went to unlock the garage door to make sure medics could get to his wife as soon as possible.
I came right back and continued the chest compressions. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. He loved her. Happy anniversary to you too, dear.
Happy anniversary to you. He really loved her.
Renard's twin sister is not surprised her brother was emotional.
She lost her life and he still, he was hurting.
But Patricia's close friend Ezra Washington says just two days before Patricia died, she told him she was fed up with Renard's controlling ways and his suspected steroid use, which she blamed for the lack of intimacy in their relationship.
She said, you know what? She said, I'm done. She said, I'm leaving.
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Chapter 5: What was the relationship like between Renard and Patricia?
No, ma'am, not at all.
DeGaran says there is no evidence to contradict that. He says that a crime scene technician acknowledged at trial that the trigger was never separately swabbed for DNA. She said, well, I was afraid that the gun would go off again. Now that tells you how dangerous that gun was. But Petrina says her mom was not the type of person who would pull a gun on anyone.
My mom is not violent like that. It didn't make sense to me.
Instead, Petrina believes her mom was in the closet that night because she was packing.
I think she was trying to leave that night.
Prosecutors had Ezra Washington tell the jury about those phone conversations with Renard, where Renard talked about his frustrations.
I just want to give him the truth. Everything that came out of his mouth that I know.
But the prosecutors ran into a problem. They say Ezra told them he spoke to Renard using apps on his phone, and they were unable to find records of those calls. DeGarren says he doesn't believe those conversations ever took place.
Are you saying Ezra Washington, then, when he testified because he was a key witness for the prosecution, was he lying when he talked about those phone calls?
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