- 8 hours ago
Killer Confessions Case Files of a Texas Ranger S01E08 A Devil Always Lies
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:08I was supposed to go pick her up but she never showed up. Samantha was a mother of three recently
00:15separated. One of the worst experiences I've ever been through. Anytime that you've got a missing
00:20person's case the ultimate goal is to find the missing person alive and well. Her boyfriend's
00:28claiming that he don't know where she's at. Our relationship was a good relationship was loving
00:31we cared for each other quite a whole lot. But when you ask questions
00:37he would start yelling and degrade you. When you need somebody to go in the box
00:44match wits with the suspect Jim Holland is who you want.
01:24Wise County was largely rural wooded very conservative
01:29kind of what I would term salt of the earth for the most part, hard-working people.
01:36I've lived in this area since I was five years old.
01:39It's always been that way.
01:42But at the end of the day, you'll be surprised sometimes where you find yourself and what you'll find yourself
01:48doing.
01:48That couldn't be any more true in this line of work.
01:57Last time I talked to my daughter, Samantha, I was supposed to go pick her up.
02:01She was texting me on the phone, saying where to meet her and that, and she would be there at
02:06a certain time.
02:08I got there a little bit early, and she never showed up.
02:16Then I just lost contact with her for a little while after that.
02:21It was normal not to hear from her.
02:25But then when she finally texted, I noticed that the texting was different.
02:31Samantha would always make, you know, short answers and then abbreviate everything.
02:36But then they were all starting to be wrote out.
02:39And then they just stopped.
02:44And I never heard anything back.
02:49We filed a missing persons report the next day.
03:04We went out handing out flyers any place we could.
03:08Decatur, Bridgeport, Chico.
03:10There was flyers going out everywhere.
03:13And we were searching in different places, trying to get her located.
03:19I hoped she would come home or she'd call and say, hey, come get me.
03:24Yeah, nothing.
03:27Samantha was a young lady, 28 years old, mother of three, recently separated from Paul that she has the children
03:36by.
03:39The authorities needed to confirm that the person she was separated from was ruled out as suspect.
03:47The timeline is very important.
03:49I mean, that's one of the first steps we do.
03:51Paul was at the very end of the timeline.
03:55They did mention searching my property.
04:05I said, fine.
04:06Let's search it together.
04:11I met Samantha because I worked with her mom and dad.
04:16Her dad installed swimming pools.
04:18She started coming to the jobs with us.
04:20She was a hard worker.
04:22She's beautiful.
04:23Always has been.
04:25Funny.
04:25Always cutting jokes and pulling pranks on people.
04:29Samantha would prank anybody.
04:31I'd rather shoving them in the swimming pool.
04:34You name it, she would do it.
04:36And she could throw a punch.
04:40We loved each other very much.
04:43It was my first love.
04:45Hers, too.
04:46We spent every day together at work.
04:49Love letters all day long.
04:51I have a box of love letters at home.
04:55We had three kids together.
04:58Life was great.
04:59Love and laughter and fun all the time.
05:05Samantha and Paul got together really young.
05:08And then later on, they just kind of grew apart.
05:15One night at our house, she met David.
05:18I knew the Malone family from the truck stop.
05:21And they were truckers.
05:23She started dating him after that night.
05:26He seemed really nice.
05:27He would bring her home flowers and take her places.
05:30And seemed like a really nice guy.
05:33And then shortly after they got together, Samantha moved in with them.
05:42When I found out that David Malone was Samantha's boyfriend, I was concerned.
05:48I've had dealings with David Malone in the past.
05:52David did have a criminal history of violence against women.
05:58David and Samantha, they was together for about four months before she did become missing.
06:06It wasn't too long into the relationship that I noticed things wrong.
06:11Samantha came home with marks around her neck.
06:14And she said it was from rough sex.
06:17And I was like, no, that's not.
06:19But that's what she kept on saying every time.
06:23My first encounter with David Malone was going to get my kids.
06:29Immediately you can tell someone's jealous or think something's going on.
06:33Even if absolutely there was nothing going on like that.
06:48During the time they actually lived together, David wanted her to stay there at the house all the time.
06:54He wanted his control over her.
07:07She called me and said, I need you to come get me, please.
07:13Went to Springtown, picked her up.
07:16Took her to my house.
07:17The house we were raising our kids in.
07:19Then she read to Courtney, they ate pizza together.
07:23She said, somebody's coming to pick me up.
07:25I said, it better not be.
07:28It's not, it's not.
07:29And then she said, if I don't ever see you again, I love you.
07:48Samantha reported in Parker County that she was sexually assaulted by David Malone.
07:56She went to the hospital and they did a rape kid on her.
07:59She pressed charges.
08:02CBS was called and I got emergency custody of the kids.
08:07Thank God, you know, the system don't always work.
08:13She had been beat and raped several times and picked up by her brother.
08:17I was trying to make sure she left David this time, but she was her own person.
08:23There was nothing I could do.
08:25She wouldn't listen.
08:34I don't know how many times I called her for the next couple of days.
08:39I continuously blew her phone up.
08:41I started getting on the phone to other people and telling them something's wrong.
08:46And her mom agreed with me that nobody's heard from me to write something's wrong.
09:00Any time that you've got a missing person's case, the ultimate goal is to find the missing person and hopefully
09:07find them alive and well.
09:08We had searched many areas that we knew Malone was connected to.
09:13Eventually the warrant guys located him.
09:16At that time, Malone actually had a warrant for his arrest for sexual assault.
09:21It was a traffic stop.
09:23He was arrested for the outstanding warrant.
09:27I was hoping that they would find him and she would be there.
09:35But she's not with him.
09:38I'm like, we gotta find her.
09:44David Malone was transported back to Parker County.
09:48After finding David, you know, we're hoping that we're gonna find Samantha.
09:53I go down there and interview him.
09:56As long as you let him talk, he's fine.
09:58But when you start wanting to ask questions, it kind of changes.
10:01He would get upset.
10:04He would start yelling and trying to degrade you.
10:09He didn't seem really concerned about Samantha.
10:12I mean, he's only wanting you to believe what he wants you to believe.
10:19But as far as any kind of details, no.
10:26In any situation where you need somebody to go in the box and match wits with the suspect,
10:36Jim Holland is who you want.
10:40He's just better at it than everybody else.
10:43So get your ass down here and come take care of it.
10:55A North Texas mother of three young children disappears.
10:58There's no sign for two weeks as her family waits, wonders, and hopes.
11:04This hits the news and it just blows up.
11:13Wise County Sheriff's Department gets the idea that Samantha McNaughton's boyfriend, David Malone,
11:18is gonna be a special dude and if he did this or if he had anything to do with it,
11:24then, you know, maybe I can get him to talk.
11:28There's always a chance that Samantha McNaughton's alive and we're hopeful,
11:35but there's a clock and it's ticking.
11:38That's a lot of pressure on me, but moments like this are why I became a Ranger.
11:54James B. Hellen with the Texas Rangers.
11:57Time is now 7.43 p.m.
12:02Sir, could you state your full name, please?
12:04David Wayne Malone.
12:06I know when I get into the box with David Malone,
12:09the only way I'm going to get the truth out of him
12:11is to be patient and listen to the story he wants to tell.
12:15I need him to trust me.
12:19You've known Samantha for how long?
12:20I've known Samantha since June this year.
12:24So like four or five months?
12:25About four or five months.
12:26Okay, and you're boyfriend and girlfriend?
12:28We're boyfriend and girlfriend.
12:30Okay, and in the course of this four to five months,
12:33I guess you're living with Samantha, is that correct?
12:35That's correct.
12:36Is there anyone else living with you?
12:38I mean, Samantha and her kids.
12:40Okay, and does Samantha have a job?
12:43She worked part-time.
12:44Okay, but you were the-
12:46Yes, she only worked part-time.
12:48You're basically supporting Samantha and her kids?
12:49Yes.
12:51I start off the interrogation by building him up,
12:56by letting him understand that I recognize that, you know,
12:59he's a hard-working person, that he's been supporting this girl,
13:03that he's been supporting her children.
13:06Describe your relationship as a good relationship.
13:08My relationship was a good relationship.
13:10It was loving.
13:11We cared for each other quite a whole lot.
13:15And it was kind of rocky, but, you know, what good relationship is?
13:19Prior to this record statement, we talked about how you're being bothered by some things.
13:23Is that correct?
13:23That's correct.
13:24That's correct.
13:35I was driving, and around 7 o'clock at night I get this call from a captain at Wise County
13:41Sheriff's Department.
13:43And he said, I need you.
13:44This girl's missing, and I need you to go to Parker County and interview this dude.
13:51So, I reached out to Tony Bradford, who was a ranger in Parker County.
13:56Jim primarily needed my help because he wanted a Robin to his Batman, so to speak.
14:03I've known Jim since 2007.
14:06He can be the most arrogant, cocksure person you've ever met,
14:11but then he's also very down-to-earth, and he's able to relate to a whole spectrum of people.
14:16He's as good as gold in my book.
14:20Parker County Sheriff's Department tells me right away that Malone was hungry.
14:26So, I grabbed some fast food for David Malone and myself, and the idea is break bread and build some
14:33type of rapport.
14:37They said the Texas Rangers had come in.
14:41When you know they're coming, you know things are fixing to be set right.
14:46They are a special group of people.
14:50I said it to myself, they would find out where Samantha's at.
15:14So, I introduced myself to David Malone, and we sit there and we eat hamburgers, and just kind of get
15:21to know each other a little bit.
15:25Everyone this guy has talked to has immediately jumped him about Samantha McMorton.
15:31I felt like that was not the place I needed to go.
15:37He basically just says as we're eating that he dated Samantha McMorton, but he didn't have anything to do with
15:44her disappearance.
15:46He says the last time he saw her, he had dropped her off at a convenience store, and they had
15:51kind of reconciled a friendship.
15:54And he agreed to take us there, myself and Ranger Bradford.
15:59Thought process was that in the vehicle, we can get him talking and begin this opportunity of communication.
16:13Almost immediately, Malone says I didn't sexually assault her.
16:18He really seemed to concentrate on this aggravated sexual assault.
16:23And then he starts talking about how Samantha McMorton was cheating on him.
16:28We opened up the conversation and kind of talking about, you know, yeah, I've been there before and trying to
16:34empathize with him.
16:36And I pull in Ranger Bradford.
16:39If I remember right, I made up some bullshit about some old gal that cheated on me in college or
16:45when I was in the Army or something like that.
16:48You know, letting them know, hey, yeah, I get it. You know, you're right.
16:51They can break your heart and you can't trust them and all that.
16:56Malone is really buying into this.
16:58This underlying theme just really pops out that this is all about guys being done wrong by their cheating girlfriend.
17:07The more we talk about the cheating, the more and more anger that you start seeing in this.
17:15It didn't take long to draw a beat on him, personality-wise.
17:19It's obvious he had a problem with women.
17:23He likes to hear the fact that we both had issues with women.
17:27And so you create this character, I guess, that would be someone that if they were going to share their,
17:34you know, innermost secrets that they would open up and share them with.
17:43We get to the convenience store, Malone says, you know, this is where I left her off.
17:48And he says, we sat down and we talked and we worked everything out.
17:52I left and that was it.
17:55It didn't make any sense to me.
17:58I mean, as we're driving, he's mad, he's cussing at her, he's calling her all these horrible names.
18:04And then all of a sudden he changes to, but we talked and we were friends and she was going
18:10to go be with her boyfriend.
18:12I left and that was it.
18:17Based on this immediate 180 and complete change in persona, there was no doubt in my mind that he was
18:26lying.
18:28Of course, I start pointing out video cameras in the parking lot.
18:33I told him, you know, this is your problem.
18:35That's not going to be on video.
18:39But he basically says, well, I don't know what to say other than that's what happened.
18:45So then it's all right, well, let's pivot.
18:48Where did you go next?
18:49And he said, well, I went to my dad's house in Runaway Bay.
18:57So the thought process was, let's keep talking.
18:59Let's keep driving.
19:01The longer that he talks to us, the more likely he is to shoot himself in the foot.
19:06The more you can keep them talking, the more rope you give them to hang yourself with.
19:14We start driving.
19:17Malone really, really starts opening up.
19:20You know, how horrible, how angry and mad and upset he was getting because she was cheating on him.
19:31We arrive at Malone's father's residence.
19:36And I basically tell Malone, man, look, we haven't seen this girl for 11 days.
19:44And it's looking more and more like she's not alive.
19:49And I said, you know, David, if this is a crime of passion, you need to tell us because that's
19:55different than premeditated murder.
19:58And he asked to smoke a cigarette.
20:05And so we step out into this grass area right in front of the lake with a bunch of trees
20:10and stuff around.
20:12You see the anger in his eyes.
20:16This isn't a feigned anger.
20:18I mean, if there's anything that's clear at this point, he hates this woman.
20:23He just turns around.
20:25I feel like this could be the moment.
20:30He finally says, I need to think about this overnight.
20:34I knew not to push him any farther because I think if I would have continued to push him, he
20:40would have shut down.
20:43It's a roller coaster of emotion, but at the end of the day, it's up to them.
20:48It's not up to you.
20:51So we ended up taking him back to Parker County and putting him back in the jail.
21:10The next day, I head back up there with Ranger Bradford.
21:14There was some strategy talk about how we're going to approach it.
21:18Jim even told me I'm going to bear down on him a little bit, bring a little more pressure today.
21:26We meet with Malone and he goes, I want to take you somewhere and show you something.
21:31I mean, what do we have to lose?
21:37The first day, you know, we get the chisel in.
21:39But I felt like the second day, one of my goals was to really hammer him into a story and
21:46really lock him in.
21:48In a situation like this, you're kind of up to bat.
21:53You're going to knock in the win and run or you're going to lose the game.
22:00Malone said that he was going to take us to his grandmother's house, that Samantha McNaughton's glasses were there.
22:09We pulled down this road into, I guess, what would best be described as a compound.
22:16And as soon as I pull in there, I get this bad feeling.
22:23We stop and get out and he's going to show me where these glasses are.
22:27And all of a sudden, men start coming out of the house.
22:31You know, one, two, three, four, I don't remember how many.
22:35And the house just starts emptying out with hillbillies.
22:38And we're, nobody knows we're out here with this son of a bitch, okay?
22:44That's what had my ass tight enough you couldn't shove a marble in it.
23:16Myself and Ranger Bradford, we're in a bad spot.
23:21This is the Malone family compound.
23:25It hits me.
23:26I remember the location because I had been out there to this 20 to 40 acre piece of property that
23:33actually has tunnels and caves in it.
23:35About a year before helping the DEA serve a warrant on the property.
23:41There were several individuals that lived out at that location that had pretty serious criminal histories.
23:47You know, I felt like at any minute a shootout could occur.
23:56Ranger Bradford quickly disappears behind my truck.
24:01I'm out there getting this 308 out and putting it on the tailgate.
24:04I was afraid we were gonna end up getting in a banjo rifle shootout out there.
24:13I'm stuck out on the other side of the truck with Malone and his family.
24:20And they bring him out with some tea and everyone's drinking tea.
24:24It's almost like we're, you know, we're having a family get together, a family social.
24:31I really felt like things were gonna go south.
24:34And I started coming up with ways to defuse it.
24:38I said, you know, David's made a rough decision.
24:42He's decided to help us and we're actually here to help him.
24:46And that seemed to kind of settle them down.
24:50I basically thanked them for their time and grabbed Malone and escort him back to my truck as Tony's taking
24:56cover on both of us.
25:00And we pull out of there.
25:02Happy to be alive.
25:03Happy not to have been in a shootout.
25:09We start driving down the road again and Malone said, I want to go to my mom's house.
25:16I literally locked up on the brakes in the middle of the highway.
25:19I said, man, I'm not your taxi service.
25:21We know this occurred and now it's time to tell us what happened.
25:29It was awful because you didn't know where he put her.
25:32There was so many places he could have put her.
25:37It's one of the worst experiences I've ever been through.
25:41A lot of staring out the windows.
25:45I seen her in a dream and something was wrong.
25:49I was trying to get to her and I couldn't get to her.
25:52It was cold, getting cold.
25:54And I'm like, we got to find her.
25:56She's cold.
26:06I had keyed in on the fact that for Malone, it was just sticking in his craw that he was
26:11being charged with sexual assault.
26:14That morning, I discussed my idea with Jim about calling the DA to write this letter out that if he
26:21cooperates in the disappearance of Samantha, this sexual assault charge will be dropped.
26:27Jim said, yeah. He said, that sounds good. Go for it.
26:30I said, David, I feel like you're not giving us information because you do have issues with the sexual assault.
26:37So we got this letter from the district attorney and he seemed to really, really appreciate that.
26:45I remember it seemed like it was instantaneous where he looked at Jim and he said, all right, let's go
26:50inside.
27:00It's time to really put the screws to David Malone.
27:06The juggle was I wanted the confession, but I really needed the body.
27:11The only way I'm going to get his help on the body is if I hold his hand during that
27:17confession.
27:20And he at least believes that I'm trying to help him out.
27:25I've got all the confidence in the world in Jim.
27:27There's nobody I'd rather have in there, but I'm a born pessimist.
27:32There's still that in the back of your mind.
27:34It's thinking, what if he gets in there and then Malone just decides to give the big finger to everything
27:40and be like, take me back to jail.
27:47At a certain point in this relationship, did you start wondering if she's having these, I guess, sexual relations with
27:54other people?
27:55Yes.
27:56Why do you start thinking that?
27:57Because she'd be gone for hours and the way that her attitude was and everything, it showed all the signs
28:05of her having sexual relations with other people.
28:08Going into the interview, I felt like if I could put him in this painful place again, I could really
28:15drive him into the truth.
28:17And if he felt like he had accurately portrayed why her murder was ultimately justified, then we wouldn't have any
28:27issues in him leading us to the body.
28:42David Malone was convinced that his girlfriend, Samantha McNorton, was cheating on him the entirety of their relationship.
28:50The question is, what exactly happened the day she disappeared that escalated things?
29:01So, let's go to around, I guess, November 5th. Do you remember that day?
29:07Yes, I remember that day clearly.
29:09We got up and I was waiting on my boss to call me to go to work.
29:13Okay, and who's your boss?
29:14The guy I was working for at the time was Justin and Samantha came to work with me that day.
29:19Okay, and does anything strange or peculiar happen that day?
29:23Yes, we're at work and, you know, Samantha's helping me run the plumbing and everything in the attic.
29:29I see that Justin and Samantha are kind of messing around.
29:35It was dark. We're cleaning the stuff up.
29:39I'm standing in front of Samantha and Justin's behind her.
29:41And he bends down to act like he's getting parts and Samantha shines a light in my eyes so I
29:47couldn't see what they were doing.
29:49As Malone describes everything specifically, what happened on November 5th at his job site, you see the anger really start
29:59setting in.
30:00But he's behind her.
30:02Yes, he's behind her.
30:04So what do you think is going on?
30:08I think what was going on is she was grabbing on her and messing with the rear end or whatever.
30:15It's interesting because Malone never says that he actually sees anything.
30:18He just believed from seeing his boss behind his girlfriend that, you know, she'd done something wrong.
30:26And obviously that doesn't make any sense.
30:28And it was just bizarre.
30:31But there's no doubt in his mind that she's cheating on him.
30:37So what happens next?
30:39I get upset and I tell her to go to the truck.
30:42I go back and confront Justin about it.
30:45He denies it and he says that she had been shining a light in his eyes all night.
30:50He gets in his truck and he leaves and I get in my truck and I leave.
30:53OK, you leave with Samantha.
30:55Yes, me and Samantha are in my truck and we leave.
30:57And we go to the house.
30:59We go there and I notice that the curtains pulled down and somebody had broken into my house.
31:06OK, and then what happens?
31:08I go into the house.
31:09Somebody had just broke in and for what reason I still don't know.
31:12OK.
31:14Did that happen?
31:16Probably not.
31:17These are things that he developed in his own mind based on this paranoid psychosis that he was living in.
31:24And it's the same paranoia that convinced him that his boss was having sexual relations with Samantha.
31:31And so I get, you know, a few of my things, my clothes and me and Samantha leave.
31:39OK, and where do you go?
31:40I'm just basically driving around to find somewhere so we can sleep until we wake up in the morning and
31:45figure out what we're going to do.
31:47I don't know the actual road name or anything, but we turn off on a dirt road off of that
31:55highway that goes toward Bridgeport.
31:56OK.
31:57And when we're going down there, you know, I'm trying to talk to Samantha about what's going on and I
32:01told her that I'm tired of her lying to me and I told her that she needed to tell me
32:04the truth.
32:06I wanted to really get his emotion on video of how much this alleged cheating affected him and how much
32:16anger there was.
32:17And you could see that.
32:22When we eventually get to where we're going, we pull off the road and I'm looking over at her and
32:27just starting to get serious.
32:29And I grab Samantha by the hair and I put her head in my lap.
32:36OK.
32:36And I'm asking her to tell me the truth, to tell me everything.
32:41His paranoid psychosis has convinced him that she's having relationships.
32:46And he wants to take complete and total control of her at this time.
32:52The reality is, is this poor young lady has a madman holding her down in the middle of nowhere.
32:58And the truth doesn't matter.
33:03She had been cheating on me and I was tired of it and I was fed up and I wanted
33:07to know the truth.
33:09OK.
33:10And while we're sitting there, I feel this out of body experience of, like, this is the reason why I
33:17was put on the earth to be there that night with Samantha.
33:21And I feel like Lucifer's with us there.
33:27I can't think of a single time that I've been interviewing someone about a murder and they started telling me
33:34about how Lucifer appeared to them.
33:36I pull out my pocket now and I put it to her back and I tell her to tell me
33:43the truth.
33:43And she starts telling me about the guys that she's been with and she goes into gory details.
33:50Basically, just trying to hurt me in my head.
33:55Basically, what he did was interrogated her about all the times that she's cheated on him.
34:00Is there any truth to this? No.
34:04Sam wasn't like that. She was faithful.
34:07She had a pure heart. She wasn't a party person.
34:10She was a faithful person to whoever she was with.
34:15But Malone, he is convinced that something was going on.
34:20And so we have a poor woman who's being held down by her hair, who's got a knife shoved into
34:26her back.
34:27You know, he's doing what she can to save her life.
34:32So basically, she's saying when you're going off to work busting your ass.
34:35Yes.
34:36Then while you're gone, she's sleeping with other men.
34:38That's correct.
34:41This interrogation's a tightrope.
34:44Because as Malone's going through what he did to Samantha, I'm sickened by it.
34:50But I know if I let it in for a second, I'm going to be thinking about what I want
34:55to do to David Malone.
34:57And that doesn't do any good.
34:59I don't want Malone to think that I'm judging him in a negative way.
35:02Because I want him to lead me to her body.
35:06And what happens next?
35:23I've been talking to David Malone for two days.
35:27He begins telling me how he grabbed Samantha McNorton by her hair and pulled her into his lap and began
35:35forcing her to answer his questions.
35:39I can't imagine what Samantha went through.
35:43She had to be wondering if she was ever going to get out of this alive.
35:52I've got the knife and it's in her back.
35:55And she starts screaming and fighting.
35:57She grabs the knife and we're resting around in the front of the truck.
36:02And she goes over to the passenger side.
36:06And somehow the door opens and we both fall out.
36:10And I put my hands around her throat and I basically choke her to death.
36:23I think ultimately Samantha knows that she's going to die.
36:28She tries to fight him off.
36:30And Malone is able to immediately grab her and to suffocate her to death.
36:37I can't imagine how horrible that was.
36:40And there's this presence with us and I turn around and I see this dark shadowy figure like someone standing
36:51there like the Grand Reaper.
36:53And I feel the presence and it was just like a chill all the way down inside my body from
36:57inside the depths of the most eternal depths of my body.
37:00I feel this presence there.
37:03And I tell her that she's here.
37:06You tell Samantha that he's here.
37:07Yes.
37:08And you mean the Grim Reaper.
37:10Yes.
37:10That devil.
37:16I've worked a lot of murders.
37:18A lot of murders.
37:21I think it's probably one of the oddest murder confessions that I've ever heard.
37:29I've heard some real weird shit.
37:31That was pretty far out there.
37:36But you kind of roll with it.
37:38Because you don't want to confront them on something that's core to their beliefs.
37:46Reality's setting in.
37:48What's going on?
37:51And I get Samantha and I pick her up and I put her in the back of the truck.
37:56Okay.
37:57And where do you go next?
37:59I got to the place where I'm going to bury her body.
38:02And I park and I get out and I dig a hole.
38:07Okay.
38:08I get Samantha out of the back.
38:11And I drag her to the hall and I put her in and I bury her.
38:20We conclude it.
38:23And he agrees to take us to this location.
38:29So we drive north and we get to this rural location.
38:33The Stanford Ranch.
38:38We get out.
38:41And he directs us to where he had dug holes and buried her.
38:53As we were using brushes to remove the layers of dirt on top of her, you start seeing a picture.
39:01On her hand, there appeared to be a defensive wound from a knife.
39:07Which I think at the end of the day shows you the type of person that she was.
39:10I mean, she was not someone who was ready to die.
39:13And she fought valiantly, ultimately removing the knife from him with her hand cutting herself and trying to live.
39:26Friends and family of Samantha McNorton held a candlelight vigil at a Decatur Park.
39:31It came just hours after they learned their search may have ended in tragedy.
39:36We had a candlelight vigil set up for the night that they found her.
39:41So it went from a vigil to a memorial.
39:44And it was really, really hard.
39:47It was about six or seven days later, I got a call from the Sheriff's Department dispatch.
39:53And they advised me that David Malone had hung himself in his jail cell immediately after getting off the phone
40:01with his mother.
40:03Thank God I didn't have to sit through a trial.
40:05That would hurt really bad.
40:08There is justice.
40:15The Texas Rangers, they're doing God's work.
40:21If they hadn't have come along, I don't believe that we would have ever found out anything.
40:28When Jim starts to work a homicide, he refuses to accept the fact that this is going to be an
40:35unsolved case.
40:36He will go without sleep, he will not eat, whatever it takes.
40:41We wanted to find this woman.
40:44And we were both dedicated to doing whatever we needed to do to bring her back and to seek some
40:52type of justice and make sure that David Malone didn't kill anyone else.
40:58Samantha's family wants her legacy to be people having a better understanding of domestic violence.
41:07I know of two after she was killed that got out of their relationships.
41:11And they're still alive today.
41:13And don't put up with that anymore.
41:16What's my message?
41:18Get out and don't go back.
41:28To be continued...
41:30To be continued...
41:31To be continued...
Comments