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Chapter 1: What happened the night Diane McIver died?
The Bench. I had no idea what had happened that night. I was on the West Coast in San Francisco when I got a call from Billy Corey, who had told me that Diane was dead and Tex was not. He said there had been a tragic firearms accident and Diane is no longer with us. I immediately texted and called Tex, which rolled to voicemail.
I rushed back to Atlanta from San Francisco, and I heard from Billy Corey again. He was blunt. We're going to go to Austin's soccer game. And that's exactly what we did. Austin Schwall is Tex and Diane's godson. Austin was probably 10 at the time. We all went over to Brookhaven, this group of friends, and we supported Austin in his soccer game because he had lost his godmother.
Austin's parents, Anne and Craig, were also part of this inner circle. Diane had a particular affection for their son, Austin.
I die in love, children. And when Austin was born, before he was born, his parents asked if she would be the godmother to their child. And when he was born, he was like, you know, the golden child. I was crazy about Austin. He was a cute little boy. He was really sweet.
I was afraid she was very, you know, connected to him, that he was going to end up being really spoiled and not be one of those children that you enjoy to be around. And that was not the case. He was an adorable, respectful, fun, sweet child and has continued to grow up that way. Everybody was second to Austin. Everybody was number two. Austin hung the moon and he was the world to Diane.
Diane was much, much closer to Austin than being a godmother. You could argue that she was neck and neck as his mother. In fact, when I received the call from Billy that early morning, my initial thought was that it was Austin that had died, not Diane. Billy Corey had an unbreakable bond with Diane, and now Billy was crushed.
She had supported him for years, helping him acquire a variety of multi-million dollar companies. But she was also there in the best moments, the singing, the trips, the parties. And what about Tex? He got on the phone with Billy, who asked him what had happened. But Tex didn't talk like a husband. He talked like a lawyer, telling Billy, on the advice of my attorney, I just can't talk about it.
This was a big mistake in the eyes of Billy. He started to doubt that Diane's death from Tex's gun was an accident. And Tex did not seem a bit remorseful about any of it. From Sony Music Entertainment and Waveland Road, you're listening to Deadly Fortune. This is Episode 2, Pulling the Trigger.
She looked at me one day and she says, Danny Jo, she said, I've got enough money to buy anything I want and all I want is your hair. The hats were part of that. She would wear her hair done one day, maybe put it up the next day, and then for about two days she'd wear hats, and then it would start all over again. She had a winter and a summer closet in her house.
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Chapter 2: Who was Austin and what was his relationship with Diane?
one o'clock in the morning at this time but the two policemen sat in there and started asking me questions and they said that they were expecting a phone call well they were expecting the hospital to call and they got a phone call and they left the room and then I got a text from my husband that Diane had died I was devastated.
I was absolutely devastated and I was angry that I was at the Fulton County Police Department in a, it seemed like an empty building, in an empty room by myself when I get a text. Yeah, it was awful.
Danny Jo, still stuck at the police station, now learned of Diane's death in the worst way possible, by text. Her husband called her immediately.
Tom called me and he said, what do you want me to do? And I said, go to the hospital and, you know, be down there with text. Because they weren't going to let him in the room with me. I didn't even know where I was. And I figured they would take me back, but they didn't. Tom came to Garnett Street and picked me up and took me back to the hospital where Tex had had an anxiety attack.
But he was insisting that they were going to get the car back, the vehicle. And I thought, they are not going to bring that car around. And I'm not driving it anyway, and you can't. But he kept on and on, and I knew that the nurse had given him Ativan, I think, that night.
And I thought, it's going to hit him any minute, and he's going to be out, and I don't want to have to drag him out of the car. I didn't want to mess with any of that. Tom drove us back to the condo and text said, can I borrow Danny Joe? I can't do this by myself. And he was talking about telling people and calling people.
Tom left and went home, and I didn't think anything, you know, about being there to help him because at the time I still thought it was an accident. He started making some phone calls. He tried to call Billy Corey.
Craig Stringer, who had been out with McIvers and Danny Joe at Longhorns just hours earlier, heard from Tex.
Tex called me at 4 o'clock in the morning. And told me that Diane had been in a terrible automobile accident. And Greg, she passed away. I said, tell me. He said, tell me what happened. I'm like, gosh, we just left from dinner at 9 o'clock. He said, well, her and Danny Joe were in the car. They were at 10th and Piedmont when he shot her.
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