WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.000 This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:10.480 sexual violence against adults, children, and animals. Listener discretion is advised. 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:17.039 Hi everyone, I'm Talia and I'm Tanya, and together we are Crimes and 4 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:38.560 Consequences, a true crime podcast. Hi Tania, Hi Talia. Welcome back 5 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:43.640 everybody to this week's episode of Crimes and Consequences. I want to thank you 6 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:48.039 all for joining us this week, and Yutania, well, you're welcome. 7 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.759 Well, thank you, And I would like to thank everyone for joining us 8 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:55.280 this week. We just both want to I have a great story. I 9 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:59.960 had never heard it before, and I don't know if you've ever heard of 10 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:03.400 Sandra Bridewell. Nope, I have not. Well, i'm gonna start it. 11 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:08.120 But before I start it, when I asked everybody the subscribe or follow 12 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:12.719 a button or whatever it is, like, whatever you gotta do. And 13 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:15.719 with that, I'm gonna start. All right, I'm gonna give you some 14 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:23.480 background on Sandra Camille Ridewell. She was born as Sandra Powers on April fourth, 15 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:30.000 in nineteen forty four in the little town of Siedelia, Missouri. Do 16 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:33.319 you know it? No? No, I don't either. She kind of 17 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:38.280 had a rough start from the get go when her natural parents immediately gave her 18 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:42.359 up for adoption. Okay, she was adopted by a couple who couldn't have 19 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.560 any children of their own. Her adopted father, his name was Arthur Powers, 20 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.120 and he owned and managed the local Doctor Pepper bottling plant. Oh I 21 00:01:53.280 --> 00:02:00.879 love, I know you love. Sadly, her adopted mother, all this 22 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:04.560 is sad was killed in a car accident when she was only three years old. 23 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:09.319 Oh that's so sad, so damn kind of rough start. It didn't 24 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:14.919 take long at all for her father to marry a woman named Doris, and 25 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.800 he relocated his family to Oak Cliff, Texas. That's a suburb of Dallas, 26 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:29.879 and he found work as a cemetery platz salesman. Oh really, okay, 27 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:32.599 look at this lovely st How do you do you go door to door 28 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:37.719 for that? I don't know either. Back then? Okay, all right, 29 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:42.840 ay, cool, you gotta make money. Somebody got by. But 30 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:47.800 as for a new stepmother, Sandra didn't get along with her at all. 31 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:55.039 Oh that sucks. Sandra held so many memories of her upbringing, and Sandra 32 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.039 was really just upset about the way her life had turned out. And she 33 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:07.199 voiced that often towards stepmom. Many of her friends and her ex friends can 34 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:13.879 recall numerous stories Sandra told them of how bad her childhood was. During her 35 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.000 teenage years, she told her closest friend, and her name was Susan Dreath, 36 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:23.120 stories of how her and her stepmom had just the most horrific relationship, 37 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:30.759 and she would always talk about particularly traumatic events for her. Apparently, one 38 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:36.039 time her stepmother was throwing a birthday party for her and forgot to send out 39 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:44.280 the invitation. Now fuck the parent, oh man. Oops. So when 40 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:49.479 the big day came, no one showed up. That oh, poor little 41 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:55.759 Sandra Man, nobody likes. I'm just kidding. Sandra also told about how 42 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:01.520 her stepmother would tell her she hasn't wanted oh oh, and would often lock 43 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:05.960 her in a closet. Damn. Sandra went to Kimball High School in oak 44 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.680 Cliffe, and she ended up graduating in nineteen sixty two. While there, 45 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:16.240 she just mostly kept to herself. She wasn't considered very popular and wasn't really 46 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.800 involved in any extracurricular activities or school activities. It just wasn't the way she 47 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:25.920 was. As a matter of fact, when the yearbook came out, her 48 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:31.279 picture didn't even appear. Really no trace of Sandra. But there was one 49 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:38.000 picture of her. It was in the school organization for Future Homemakers of America. 50 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:44.519 There was an organization called Future Homemakers at so like the homeac Club. 51 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:48.399 No. So she did do some sort of curricular right, right, And 52 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:55.360 although Sandra was beautiful, she didn't date much. Another thing her friends remembered 53 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:00.680 about her where the constant lies. Oh, I fucking hate that would always 54 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.240 tell she would just make up stories about her life where she grew up and 55 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:09.600 kind of I guess, embellish what her life was really like, probably because 56 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:14.120 it sucks so bad she wanted to make up happier stories when she was an 57 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:17.600 adult. People recall her saying that she went to SMU, which is Southern 58 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.639 Methodist University, I believe, but the Register's office had no record of her 59 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:28.000 effort taking a course there. On her ten year high school reunion questionnaire, 60 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.399 she wrote that she attended TCU, which is Texas Christian University. However, 61 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:38.279 they had no record of her ever going there. What is documented is that 62 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:43.120 she attended Tyler Junior College for a year after high school, where she was 63 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.199 a member of the local sorority. She returned to Dallas sometime after that, 64 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:51.879 and by nineteen sixty six, twenty year old Sandra was living the life of 65 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:59.120 the young North Dallas single women at the Windsor House apartments near the Upper Greenville 66 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.120 area. And that's a really nice area. That's all you need to know. 67 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:05.639 It's a very nice area. Whether it was a result of her troubled 68 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:12.639 upbringing or just wanting something better for herself, she developed a taste for the 69 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:17.720 most exquisite an expensive things life could offer. Those that knew her in the 70 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:24.959 sixties say that she was even striving for some kind of sophistication that others her 71 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:30.639 age didn't have. While her friends were talking movie magazine, she was talking 72 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:38.920 about Southern Living magazine. She was ahead of the game and instinctively knew what 73 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:43.560 kind of man she wanted and was such charm. Because she did have a 74 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.959 lot of charm and she was pretty, it didn't take long for men to 75 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:53.319 come flocking right to Sandra. She began dating a young dentalist student who had 76 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:58.439 ambitions to become a great dentist in Dallas. He lived in an apartment complex 77 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.720 across the street from Sandra, and after just six weeks of dating, he 78 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:06.079 asked her would she marry him? Shut up. In May of nineteen sixty 79 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:13.160 seven, David Stiegel became Sandra's first husband. First husband, this is going 80 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.040 to be a story. Following the footsteps of his father, David went on 81 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:19.920 to Baylor College of Dentistry and he graduated with honors. So he's a really 82 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:25.519 smart guy. But he wanted to do something more in his profession than simply 83 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.879 run the family practice like his father did. He was set, I'm becoming 84 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:36.000 a big time dentist and part of the society, up berth society. He 85 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.160 wanted to be the dentist of the rich people. Yes, yeah, thank 86 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:44.240 you, that's what I'm trying to say. Instead of doing normal stuff like 87 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:51.120 fillings, David was into full mouth construction and some patients he charged ten thousand 88 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.759 dollars and this is back in like sixty seven, so that's at a lot 89 00:07:55.800 --> 00:08:00.439 of money money. David went to Los Angeles to study with a prominent dentist, 90 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:07.120 but a long client list of Hollywood celebrities under his wing, David learned 91 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:13.040 how to make all the right moves to attract the proper clientele. The Newlywoods 92 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:18.240 also joined Saint Michael in All Angels Episcopal Church, which on Sundays is filled 93 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:24.360 with or at least it was the wealthiest people in Dallas. From the beginning, 94 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:30.800 Sandra moved really easily upscale into the high class world, as if it 95 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:37.480 was almost her natural element. She was a wonderful hostess. Oh how lovely. 96 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.600 She was part of the neighborhood book club. I didn't ever have a 97 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:50.360 neighborhood book club me. She was cookbook chairman, cookbook chairman for the Saint 98 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.679 Michael Church. Okay. Her main goal was to be in the Junior League, 99 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:01.120 which is a league of young women organized for volunteer service spacific days in 100 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:07.440 social organizations. It was as if she was trying to gain this lavish social 101 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:13.720 identity. She always wanted to do things first class. One time, there 102 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:16.960 was a birthday party throne for one of the neighborhood children, and she showed 103 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.879 up everybody that was there. While the mothers brought small presents that were like 104 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:28.519 five dollars, she got this massive, huge balloon arrangement that just knocked everybody 105 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.720 out and made everybody else look like shit. Yeah, examly, just like 106 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:37.080 a show off. Yeah. Another acquaintance met David and Sounder in nineteen seventy 107 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:41.240 one at a backyard beer an oyster party. Oh that sounds fun. But 108 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.399 does sound fun even though I don't drink beer or eat oysters. I don't 109 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.799 need oysters, but beer and oysters, I don't know. It just sounds 110 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:48.960 good. I like beer. Sounds like a good time. Though it was 111 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.799 thrown by an elite Highland Park real estate agent, this agent recalls it, 112 00:09:52.879 --> 00:10:01.039 Santra seemed offended when she was offered a beer to She's like, you don't. 113 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:07.840 I don't drink beer. Beer a con. She seemed very pretentious and 114 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:11.679 everyone could tell she was trying really hard to climb that social ladder. Beer's 115 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.840 good, though I've never been a fan. Well, I know you're too's 116 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:22.279 naughtyous. But at the end of the day, David was also enjoying the 117 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:26.879 high life I described him to you. He liked that too, and not 118 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:33.240 to mention the social aspects of it didn't hurt his dental practice. To be 119 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:39.000 hobnobbing with rich he was finally making some money. His income almost tripled from 120 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:45.000 twenty seven thousand and nineteen seventy two to sixty eight thousand in nineteen seventy three. 121 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.759 Wow, that is the equivalent of four hundred and sixty four thousand dollars 122 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.120 today. That is not bad, No, that's a nice salary. They 123 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.639 were living the good life, and they became addicted. Soon they began trying 124 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.000 to live like the people that threw all those lavish parties. By nineteen seventy 125 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:09.440 three, they'd moved to the upscale Greenway Parks neighborhood, buying a sixty five 126 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.919 thousand dollar house. And I'm gonna guess that's a four hundred thousand dollar house. 127 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.039 And they quickly remodeled it and it costs them forty five thousand to remodel 128 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.840 it. Holy shit, So that's probably like three hundred thousand remodel it. 129 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.799 Sander was taking care of all the bills at home while David head it off 130 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:31.639 to work in his new nineteen seventy three Cadillac. How did I know? 131 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:33.759 You were gonna say Candillac? Yeah, And he would wear a coat of 132 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:37.240 sport covids like three hundred dollars, so I thought that would be over a 133 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:43.320 thousand. Now while over they got to live in made because they'd already they 134 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.039 had two kids. Sandra's busy, right, she's got a lot going on, 135 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.000 I guess. Yeah, book club and the cook book chairman, Yeah, 136 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.679 and all that. So they had a live in made Oh excuse me, 137 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:58.080 she's a busy lady. You know you can afford it. But I 138 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:01.759 wouldn't really want someone to living with me. Wouldn't either, but whatever, 139 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:05.279 But then I guess I would have to do nothing but to live in made. 140 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.519 Well, if you were the maid too, what kind of fucking life 141 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:11.480 do you have? I don't know. I want to go home, I 142 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:13.840 know, but I want to go home and get away from well, my 143 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:22.000 employer. That's true. The spending escalated. Sandra paid a renowned Dallas interior 144 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:26.360 designer thirty five thousand to redecorate the home of antiques. And that's got to 145 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:30.799 be over one hundred thousand now, yeah, easily. Someone once commented that 146 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:35.720 the house looked like the Palace of Versailles. Oh and apparently Sandra's end goal 147 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.720 was to get her home featured in the architectural digest. I've never had that 148 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:46.480 goal, but good for her me either, But she she okay. By 149 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:52.080 nineteen seventy four, the couple had three children and the debts were getting a 150 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.679 little bit out of control. That's what happened. The i RS put a 151 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:58.200 lean on their house for unpaid taxes. Pay your fucking ta yeah, like 152 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.840 we can pay it. You can't get away. You're not gonna get wait 153 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.240 right, like you're not going to get away from it. You're not gonna 154 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.720 get away from it. They're gonna know. And they owed a North Dallas 155 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:13.480 bank more than thirty thousand, So again we're talking about at least one hundred 156 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:20.919 and ten thousand dollars. David had stopped referring patients with simple Dunnam problems to 157 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:22.960 other Dunnasts like he always would do because he always did the big work, 158 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.960 right, Yeah, and instead he started, you know, taking every client 159 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.960 he could up doing the ghetto Dennist dental work. We excuse me, lowering 160 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.840 himself for cavities. He was working night and day to pay the bills, 161 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.600 but Sandra would continue to spend as if everything was just fine. Man. 162 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:50.320 In the fall of nineteen seventy four, their financial picture worsened. David had 163 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:56.639 to borrow one hundred thousand dollars from his father and this is like six hundred 164 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:58.960 thousand, yeah, to try to stay above water. Oh my god. 165 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.440 But these problems they affected his work in the office. I'm sure he's about 166 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:09.879 ready to have fucking nervous breakdown. I'm just guessing and make matters worse. 167 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:15.799 Life at home with Sandra was miserable, surprised because he just had a viral, 168 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:22.200 like a botload of money from his parents. Sandra and David always fought. 169 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:24.240 Yeah, because he's probably like chill out with the spending, right, 170 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.840 And she accused him of having an affair because he's working all the time. 171 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.840 One time Sandra came over to another friend's house. She had a black eye. 172 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.279 Oh, she said, David hit her. Oh yeah, it's getting 173 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:43.799 dark. Sandra began to sleep in the children's bedrooms, and friends said that 174 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.440 she was really scared of David's violent temper. But this was all nacked. 175 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:54.480 Was it just a con artist? Damn? Late one night, David's attorney 176 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.559 got a frantic phone call from Sandra saying that David was drunk. The lawyer 177 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:05.240 rushed the house. Okay, really, we're lawyers. That's two lawyers. 178 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.320 I'm not rushing to anybody's house. Oh he must be paid. Well, 179 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.480 well that's true, all right. If a thousand dollars an hour, I 180 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:20.639 will rush to your house. I suppose maybe maybe maybe sleeping because I'm not 181 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:24.399 getting up for any anything. I know, my phone's always unsilent. Yeah, 182 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.240 i'd never get the call. I mean back then, I don't think 183 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.519 you could turn the phone off. Could you maybe turn it down? I 184 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:37.679 don't know, maybe turn it down. So he rushes over there and he 185 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.639 finds David crouched in a closet, pointing a pistol at his head. Oh 186 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.000 no. As lawyer struggled with David and then was able to take away the 187 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:52.080 gun. After that night, David told friends that everything was fine and said 188 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.120 he would never try to commit suicide again because he loved his children too much. 189 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.039 But I'm February twenty second, nineteen seventy five. Just three weeks later, 190 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:07.279 David did try again, and this time he succeeded. Oh Sandra told 191 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:14.559 police she was sleeping in another wing of the house you know have wings in 192 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.240 our houses, and awakened to find David lying in a pool of his own 193 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:23.559 blood in the bed. Plice found the dentist with his wrists slash and a 194 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:29.519 bullet wound to his left temple. A twenty two caliber pistol was in his 195 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:33.960 hand. Later police would find out that the gun David used to kill himself 196 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:38.000 had apparently been stolen from one of his patients. Who's bringing a gun to 197 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:44.440 the dyer. I don't know. This is Texas, Okay, this is 198 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.399 Texas. I don't think your gun is on your person. I don't know. 199 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:49.600 I don't know how do you get that? But I would love to 200 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:53.639 know. Sandra sold the home for one hundred and forty seven thousand, five 201 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:59.360 hundred dollars and got one hundred and sixty thousand in life insurance. And that's 202 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.000 a lot of money. Yeah, we're talking over million. Yeah, over 203 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:08.720 a million. David's Donald practice was sold for only fifteen thousand. Even after 204 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.960 paying off all the bills, she and her children, they still had enough 205 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:18.839 money to live a comfortable life because they got a ton of money. Yeah. 206 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.400 Now, Sandra all on her own. She had a seven year old 207 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.200 son and two daughters ages four and one. She didn't have a job. 208 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.480 To someone who knew her, it seemed as if this pretty young widow had 209 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:37.720 nowhere to turn except for another man. In all reality, that was the 210 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:42.160 only way she could survive. Some old friends of David's really resented Sandra, 211 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.640 but many friends and neighbors were ready to help her out. They felt bad 212 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:52.000 for her, and then Sandra started going out again. She went out with 213 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.599 the Highland Park Wives. And these are really rich women, and they set 214 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:02.039 her up on dates with wealthy divorced friends. It's like the housewives of Highland 215 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:08.960 Park. And these men found her to be bewitching, bewitching. She was 216 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:15.519 remarkably appealing to men. She knew how to flatter them, flirt with them. 217 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:22.440 She did her fair share of dating before she finally met an hotel investor. 218 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.920 He was the son of a rich oil man. Oh damn, there's 219 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.839 money right. His name was Bobby Bridewell. It was late nineteen seventy seven 220 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:37.599 and Bobby was going through an ugly divorce. His first wife had announced that 221 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:42.759 she was in love with her horse trainer. It's like a cheesy Lifetime movie 222 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:47.799 or on some novel. Yeah, fell in love with my horse trainer. 223 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.200 Many of his friends knew. He was just wrecked by this. He was 224 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:56.359 devastated. And then Sandra came along at the perfect time for Bobby lift his 225 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.720 spirit. They love going out together and she a point of sharing his interest. 226 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:06.880 When they started dating, she read several books on horse racing, knowing 227 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.839 that Bobby loved that sport. After a whirlwind romance, they were married June 228 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.440 twenty six, nineteen seventy eight. Bobby was swept off his feet. He 229 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:22.000 was headed over heels in love with Sandra, and everybody knew it. However, 230 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.799 what a lot of people didn't know was that Bobby had been sliding into 231 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:33.000 a major financial crisis. Oh shit. He was involved in dozens of joint 232 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.920 real estate ventures in the hotel industry because I told you he's a whole tal 233 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.359 investor, and almost all of them were failing because there was a nineteen seventy 234 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:47.440 eight real estate market crash. Yeah, I remember, the best stationed their 235 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:52.079 minds forever and blah blah blah. By the end of nineteen seventy eight, 236 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:59.440 he was bankrupt, only bankrupt, but he had three million in that I 237 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:03.839 don't I'm not going to there's a minimum. Still, Bobby refused to be 238 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.640 discouraged. He better get out there, gotta get out there and hustle. 239 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.559 By nineteen seventy nine, he was starting to turn things around again. Get 240 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:18.119 a very unique hotel project on a drive one day by the old Shepherd King's 241 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:23.079 mansion, and it's a sixteenth century Italian styled villa. An idea flashed through 242 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:27.559 his mind. Sounds very lovely. Why not convert the villa into a pricey 243 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:36.039 hotel and restaurant? Why not? Maybe because I don't have any money in 244 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:41.759 debt. Yeah. He sold the idea to a woman named Carolyn, and 245 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:45.599 her Rosewood Hotels ended up purchasing the property, so she had a bunch of 246 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:52.559 hotels. Bobby was a consultant and he watched his idea turn into reality when 247 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:57.359 the mansion opened for business in nineteen eighty. By then, the bankruptcy judge 248 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:02.799 had released the bridewalls of all their debt and he was making six figures again. 249 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.119 So he turned it around in like two years thanks to bankruptcy court. 250 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.839 God bless. Yeah. But before I tell you more, we're gonna take 251 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:23.039 a quick break. Quickly, Sandra found herself thrust even higher into Dallas's society. 252 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:26.400 Nice Bobby circle of friends, and most of them were in their mid 253 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:32.680 thirties. They were well on their way to becoming really successful prominent businessmen and 254 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:37.359 their socialites in Dallas. Sandra was given the chance to do the invitations for 255 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:45.240 the exclusive cattle Baron's Ball, the cattle Baron's ball nice. She was given 256 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:49.559 the best table and fawned over at the mansion. When she traveled to Houston, 257 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:55.559 she stayed at the chic Remington on Post Oak Park Hotel. I have 258 00:21:55.640 --> 00:22:00.519 no idea, and that was one of Bobby's other new projects. Bobby even 259 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:07.279 ended up adapting her children and giving them the distinguished Bridewell last name. Bobby's 260 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.519 friends seemed to like Sandra. She definitely had cast a spell over them, 261 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.240 and she was able to get them to do things for her, like really 262 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:22.200 running errands, taking her children places. While it was in a secret she 263 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:27.119 was simply down having lunch. She's like, I'm going to be having lunch, 264 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.960 shooting lunch, So if maybe someone could help me with my kids, 265 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:37.240 because I'm gonna be really busy. She had away with people and she just 266 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.400 got what she wanted. The friends continued to help Sandra, especially after the 267 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:47.039 shocking news came in nineteen eighty that Bobby had been diagnosed with lymphoma oh Man. 268 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.599 At first, Bobby continued work as usual. He was always busy, 269 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:56.480 always thinking of ways to make money, and he seemed undaunted by all the 270 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:02.920 chemotherapy he was receiving. But By nineteen eighty one, he was losing a 271 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.640 ton of weight, and he was starting to spend more and more time just 272 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:11.519 in bed. Oh that's side, I know. Fuck cancer, Fuck cancer 273 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:17.200 cancer. Bobby's last month should have brought the kind of love and warm generosity 274 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:23.000 that comes from people during misfortune, but instead, Bobby's friends were overly bitter 275 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:32.039 towards Sandra in all centers around her blatant disregard for Bobby because she continued to 276 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:37.319 remodel their Highland Park home. Should spend money while he's dying of cancer. 277 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:42.079 Wow, to some of the people, it was just outrageous. Yeah, 278 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:47.279 like it's really inappropriate. Yeah it is. Oh, look at how beautiful 279 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:49.359 I'm going to make the house. Yeah, you're dying as you're dying, 280 00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:52.880 and you won't see it when it's done, because you'll be done. Like, 281 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.039 what the fuck is that. In the spring of nineteen eighty two, 282 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:00.640 thirty eight year old Sandra asked a neighbor her name was Marian Underwood, if 283 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:07.200 Bobby could stay for a week in one of her spare bedrooms while Sandra had 284 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:12.519 the central air conditioning and heat installed in her Huh, hey, could you 285 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:18.480 make dying husband for a week, Can you move into your home? What 286 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.920 the fuck is that? It's a bitch, Yeah, Bobby Winter, but 287 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:27.480 he never ended up coming home. Instead, he stayed at the Underwood home 288 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:33.640 for three weeks until Bobby's father got so angry at Sandra and moved him into 289 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:40.960 a suite into one of his hotels. Geez Marian, who adored the Bridewells, 290 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:44.720 also had a falling out with Sandra, and I don't blame her either, 291 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:49.640 as many of Sandra's friends had been taken care of her children and helping 292 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:56.799 with Bobby, and they didn't feel like Sandra appreciated what she did what they 293 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:02.519 were doing for her and Bobby. So poor Bobby is staying in a fucking 294 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:07.319 hont hole room until late April. Then he spent the last two weeks of 295 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:12.079 his life at the Baylor University Medical Center, all the while his house is 296 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:18.119 being reminded this is so stupid. Bobby died at the age of forty one 297 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:22.160 on May nine, in nineteen eighty two. A few weeks later, Sandra 298 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:26.039 left for a vacation in Hawaii. Oh shit, well she got to get 299 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:32.279 away on vacation. She had to get away because her whole world was just 300 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.640 falling apart because of her. Though Sandra might not have realized it, she 301 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:45.039 was quietly being ostracized from her cliquish, high end society friends. The talk 302 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:51.599 was like snowballing, bringing an avalanche of rumors and innuendos, and just everybody 303 00:25:51.680 --> 00:25:55.079 just kind of hated her. His long story short, what happens next didn't 304 00:25:55.119 --> 00:26:00.319 help matter as much. Bobby's cancer doctor, his name was John that Well. 305 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.880 He was one of the most distinguished physicians in Dallas, and his wife 306 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:08.720 Betsy, she worked for the Shakespeare Festival, which was part of the Junior 307 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:15.759 League. And remember Sandra had aspired to be part of that junior league. 308 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.480 I don't even know what hell really a junior league is. But his wife 309 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:22.480 was active at the Highland Presbyterian Church, and she taught a Bible class for 310 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:26.119 the children at her home, and she was raising two children in her own 311 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:32.000 So that's a little background on Bobby's doctor and his wife, Betsy Bagwa lived 312 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.960 a kind of stable life that Sandra had always hoped to achieve. While Bobby 313 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:41.240 was dying of cancer, she became very close to the bag Walls. Betsy 314 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:47.599 became her new best friend and she depended on them during Bobby's cancer and even 315 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:52.920 more after his death. But the bag Walls were getting a little weary of 316 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.960 her. Like many people who were once friends with Sandra, they felt like 317 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:03.920 she was smothering them, always asking them to do something for her. One 318 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.920 Wednesday evening in July, Sandra called John to tell him that her car had 319 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.759 stalled while she was out running errands. Being then he was a nice guy, 320 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.599 John reluctantly agreed to help Sandra, but when he got to the site, 321 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.440 he saw a policeman getting into Sandra's car, and he tried the car 322 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:25.839 and it started immediately. John believed Sandra had lied about the car trouble to 323 00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.240 lure him from his home. Now why yeah, why. He was pretty 324 00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:34.160 pissed off by this, and he told her to get out of their lives. 325 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:38.079 Oh. He also made sure to tell Betsy to stay away from Sandra. 326 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:42.319 But a few days later, in July sixteenth, Betsy received a phone 327 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:47.960 call from Sandra. Sandra was really upset. She claimed she found a letter 328 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:52.680 written from another woman to Bobby. That this letter she discovered it inside a 329 00:27:52.759 --> 00:28:00.599 frame behind a photograph, and Bobby had been having an affair. Oh while 330 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.079 he's dying of cancer. I guess, I don't know. For Betsy, 331 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:07.160 there was something that didn't seem right about this story, and she told her 332 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.640 husband about it that morning and brought it up again to two of her friends 333 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:15.640 over lunch at the Dallas Country Club. Later, just for the record, 334 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.960 Sandra denies the existence of the letter and says she never said that to Betsy. 335 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.079 Later that afternoon, Sandra called Betsy. She said her card stalled again, 336 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.960 this time is at church and she needed help and Betsy couldn't say no. 337 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.839 She ended up driving Sandra to love Field. I don't know where love 338 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:41.440 Field is. I want to go to love Field Field. Just roll around 339 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:48.240 in love Field at about four thirty to pick up a rental car, but 340 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.559 because Sandra had forgotten her driver's license, she couldn't get a car. Sandra 341 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.920 said. Betsy then took her back to her car, which was at the 342 00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:02.799 church, but this time when they went back, the car started. Oh 343 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:07.319 no car trouble again. The police later say that Sandra told him that when 344 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:12.200 she left with Betsy, she went to a shopping center at Preston Center at 345 00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:18.160 a twenty That evening, police found Betsy in the terminal parking lot of love 346 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:23.119 Field slumped in the driver's seat of her nineteen eighty Mercedes Benz station wagon with 347 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:30.960 a bullet hole in her right temple. What any twenty two caliber revolver in 348 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:37.359 her hand? Oh? The Dallas County Medical Examiner ruled her death a suicide. 349 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:44.880 M but everyone knew that Betsy wouldn't do that. Nobody believed Betsy would 350 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:49.240 just go and kill herself. This death marked a turning point in the way 351 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:56.000 the Park Cities people regarded Sandra. People were really wondering, who is Sandra? 352 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:02.440 Like, what the hell? She would become known as the black widow. 353 00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:06.119 Oh well, there's like ten thousand of them, but she was the 354 00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:11.079 black widow in the Park City's area, the rich area. But Sandra could 355 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:14.200 have cared less what people thought of her. Surprise, yeah, surprise. 356 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.920 She remained in the big Highland Park home that Bobby left her, and she 357 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.279 just tried to pick up the pieces of her life. She's like, fuck 358 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:26.559 you, I don't care if you think I'm a killer. Right, See, 359 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:27.839 I would be like, I didn't do it. I know I didn't 360 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:33.720 do it. I didn't do it. She's like, fuck off, right. 361 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:38.400 She bought a new two seater Mercedes. Oh, even though she's got 362 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:44.799 a bunch of carry kids. And she used the memorials given in Bobby's honor, 363 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:49.400 amounting to nearly fifty thousand, to help establish a week long summer camp, 364 00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:56.440 which is nice, one by Dallas's Children's Medical Center for children afflicted with 365 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.400 cancer. That is nice. So she did some good things. She's trying 366 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.920 to make up for the murders. Yeah, see, I'm not so bad, 367 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.519 right, I got a camp for kids. They know I helped kids 368 00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:12.200 would cancer. Sandra met new friends, and she slowly began moving forward with 369 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:15.759 her new life. And then in the summer of nineteen eighty four, guess 370 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:21.400 what she met another man? Oh, of course she did. His name 371 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:26.839 was Alan Rerig Okay, and he had just moved to Dallas. Nope, 372 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.160 Nope. The day after he arrived in town, he was looking for some 373 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:37.119 garage apartments that he hadn't heard were often available behind mansions. As he came 374 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.640 down the street, he saw a beautiful woman, Sandra, talking to her 375 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:48.079 gardener on the front line. Allen got out of his Ford Bronco, walked 376 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.319 up to her and answer if she knew of a place he could rent, 377 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.200 and they just had a conversation and then things went from there, did a 378 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:02.759 courtship. Five months later they were engaged, and then on December eight, 379 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:07.079 nineteen eighty four, they were married in a ceremony at the mansion that Bobby 380 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.839 had developed. Of course, Alan was twenty nine and Sandra was forty. 381 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:19.240 Oh damn. December, Allen told his friends and his mother that he thought 382 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:23.720 destiny had brought him to Sandra's front yard soon after his arrival in Dallas. 383 00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:28.880 It was fate, It was fate, was meant to be. He felt 384 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:32.880 bad for Sandra. She'd had such awful luck, she really had her previous 385 00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:38.759 marriages. Interestingly enough, Sandra had given him the impression that her first husband 386 00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:44.240 had died of a brain an years long. She didn't mention suicide. Really. 387 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:49.400 Yeah. Ellen adored Sandra's three children. Those poor kids, right, 388 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:54.559 and they are just going through dad's and the relationship, you know, blossomed. 389 00:32:54.920 --> 00:33:00.000 And Sandra would have her two daughters come up to his office on occasion 390 00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:04.079 and they would bring him flowers. Oh that's nice. He worked ended up 391 00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:07.559 working at Nolan Mortgage. Recalled a time when one of Sandra's daughters, her 392 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:12.599 name was Katherine, would say to Allen, quote, I'm pulling for you 393 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.000 in Sandra, we need a daddy. Oh, of course they do. 394 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:25.160 While Allen's friends thought their relationship would never result the marriage, Sandra's friends thought 395 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.319 Allen was a gold digger. He was out for her money. Really, 396 00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:36.839 is he looking to rent some garage? That's true, apartment need Let's say 397 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.000 it was a relationship that sprang from uncertain beginnings, but no one would know 398 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.720 that it would end up in death. Phil ask you, a friend of 399 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:50.880 Alan's, said, he vividly remembers an emotional scene in which he and Allen 400 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:53.839 were driving back from a Mavericks game. And this is the fall of nineteen 401 00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:59.039 eighty four, and Allen was in tears. He said that Sandra told him 402 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.319 she was pregnant and he just didn't know what to do. Now, mind 403 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:07.519 you, Sandra had a hysterectomy. Oh come on, really? Yes, 404 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:14.599 okay, but he didn't obviously, and that's why Alan and her got married 405 00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:19.039 so quickly. Damn, it's a shitty thing to do. A few weeks 406 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.119 after the wedding took place, Sandra called Phil's house from a seven to eleven 407 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:25.639 one night because Alan was hanging out there. She told him she was coming 408 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:30.159 back from the Baylor Medracle Center, where that very night she had a miscarriage. 409 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:37.199 Of course, there was no records of that happening. Surprise, surprise. 410 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.480 Within six months the marriage soured. Oh there's a lot going on. 411 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:45.239 Yeah, Sandra had sold her home and now they were living in a duplex 412 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.679 in Ashbury in University Park. I don't know where that is. But one 413 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.920 of Sandra's neighbors there, who she'd become like really close friends with remembers listening 414 00:34:54.920 --> 00:35:00.559 to Sandra, complained that Alan had become a financial drain on her her Oh 415 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.400 shit, Sandra didn't understand why he was spending so much money. Oh really, 416 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.280 really, you don't get it. The popcorn, the cattle black right. 417 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:15.199 Hello. Meanwhile, Allen's friends at Nolan Mortgage watch and astonishment. Is 418 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:21.880 Sandra ran out more than twenty thousand dollars on Allen's American Express card. Yeah. 419 00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:27.719 Sandra and Alan argued over everything, how to treat Sandra's son, his 420 00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.840 name is Britt, who'd been getting bad grades at school and was often saying 421 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:37.360 out because he's older now till late hours of the night. Alan once found 422 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.840 his prize golf clubs missing from his Bronco and He accused Sandra of stealing them. 423 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.519 He was furious that she hadn't written notes thinking the guests for their wedding 424 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:51.679 gifts. Oh, she didn't write thank you note? But why he could? 425 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:53.440 Yeah, I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just pointing out he could, 426 00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:57.840 he could. You're right? And then Sandra told friends that Allen was no 427 00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:02.760 longer sexually interested in her. All right. Alan's mother said she received a 428 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:07.679 phone call from Sandra accusing Allen of having an affair. Alan called a guy 429 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:13.599 named Ron Barnes. He was a lawyer friend of his in Oklahoma and said, 430 00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:16.000 quote, I don't know who I'm married too. Oh, yeah, 431 00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:20.079 you don't know. You don't, You don't, You really don't, On 432 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:22.239 and on a win. It was just going back and forth. A neighbor 433 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:27.920 of Sandra says that in the summer of nineteen eighty five, Sandra began talking 434 00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:30.559 about how she was worried that Allen might kill her. Oh, oh, 435 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:34.920 I see where this is going, right. According to the neighbor, Sandra 436 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:40.760 said she'd hired the feigned De Soto private detective Bill Dear to check Allen out. 437 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.800 Several of Sandra's friends were called Sandra, saying that Allan was into serious 438 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:51.760 gambling, and she thought he might even be doing drugs, but Alan's friends 439 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.239 said that's just sto good. During the first week of November nineteen eighty five, 440 00:36:55.800 --> 00:37:01.440 Allen and Sandra separated. Alan moved in with Philip Askew. Remember I 441 00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:06.079 told you their friends they lived in Richardson. I don't know where it is, 442 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.639 But according to her friend, Sandra began investigating the possibility of what would 443 00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:15.639 happen if she were to divorce him. A neighbor remembers that Sandra showed her 444 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:19.800 a bill for a thousand dollars consultation with one of the city's most prominent divorce 445 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:24.639 lawyers. We get free consultations. What is the shit? We are doing 446 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:30.280 something wrong, dear? But Sandra never filed for divorce. Of course she 447 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:35.199 didn't. Why would she file for divorce. On December fifth, two days 448 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:40.320 before Alan disappeared, a close friend said while the two of them were hanging 449 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:46.840 out, Alan again brought up Sandra's refusal to help pay that American Express bill 450 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:52.119 that she'd racked up under his name, and then he told his friends that 451 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:57.320 he had plans to track down some financial information on Sandra. He was planning 452 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:00.960 on looking into her more the very next day, because he didn't know who 453 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:07.000 she was and what she was about. Whatever ended up happening, we don't 454 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:12.000 know, because the following Saturday, Allen was supposed to meet Sandra at a 455 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:16.559 mini warehouse in Garland to help her move a few boxes from her duplex. 456 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:21.519 At this time, it had been a month since he'd seen Sandra, and 457 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:27.559 Philip Ascue recalls that he was very nervous. Allen was very nervous about his 458 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:31.400 meeting. The two men planned to meet later that evening for dinner. At 459 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:37.760 around four fifty pm, Alan left to meet Sandra in Garland, but Alan 460 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:45.280 never came back. At six fifteen at evening, Sandra called Philiscue to see 461 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:49.559 that Alan never showed up. He never made it to the warehouse then, 462 00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:54.079 of course, she added that it was just like him to miss appointments. 463 00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:59.639 He'd done this so many times to her before. When Allan didn't show up 464 00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:05.159 on Saturday night or Sunday, Sandra still didn't file like a missing person's report, 465 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.320 and then he didn't show it for work on Monday. The executives at 466 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.840 Nolan Mortgage knew something was wrong because he had never missed a single day of 467 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:17.440 work, and yet still Sandra never filed a missing person's report. But you 468 00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:22.840 know who did, Phil, He took it upon himself to file one Monday 469 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.719 at eight pm with the Dallas Police. On an icy Wednesday evening, two 470 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:34.079 days later, two Oklahoma Police officers were cruising through the remote area in the 471 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:38.199 city's southwest side. They found a four Bronco with a Texas license plate next 472 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:45.079 to an electrical substation. Inside, shot twice with a thirty eight caliber pistol, 473 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:50.760 was a frozen body of Alan. Because this is December eleven, nineteen 474 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.519 eighty five, one year and three days after Allen and Sandra had been married. 475 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.239 When the Oklahoma City Police called Sandra, they were not able to notify 476 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:05.599 her of Alan staff because she asked if it was bad news, and when 477 00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:08.000 they said it was, she said, I don't want to know what happened. 478 00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:14.159 Oh stop it, huh, and she ended up hanging up. Is 479 00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:16.719 the bad news? Yes, okay, click, I got time for that. 480 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:22.000 I'm going through my own stuff. My cup is full, my cup 481 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:28.280 is full, already full. But the hell was that Sandra was a suspect, 482 00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:30.920 but nothing could be pinned on her. She was coy with the police 483 00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:36.960 during an initial interrogation, and she was almost playful, and then she became 484 00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:42.639 completely uncooperative. She refused to let anyone speak to her minor children, and 485 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:46.960 she lauriered up roll fast, it's not it's completely On the weekend of the 486 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:53.679 funeral, Sandra's behavior baffled friends. She ordered the cheapest casket available for Alan, 487 00:40:54.480 --> 00:41:00.880 and that really infuriated as relatives, but she insisted Alan would want it 488 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.760 this way. He wouldn't want anything fancy. Then she forgot to bring her 489 00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:09.480 checkbook and couldn't pay for the funeral. Really, yes, so everybody else 490 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:13.400 had to chip him. Oh my god. And she was late for the 491 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:17.960 service. She arrived at the very last minute, dress to the nines and 492 00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:22.159 a mink coat. Oh come on, why not? Why not? Because 493 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:27.760 when Alan died, she got two hundred and twenty thousand dollars of life insurance 494 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:34.599 money put right into her bank account. Her reputation was turnished. A detailed 495 00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:40.360 local magazine article profiled Sandra's mysterious and curious past. Less than a year after 496 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:45.639 Alan's death, Sandra left Dallas. She's like, I'm done, and she 497 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:51.440 relocated to San Francisco and she changed her name to Camille Bridewell. She brought 498 00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.559 all her charm to Marin County, where she cycled through a new round of 499 00:41:54.599 --> 00:42:00.400 wealthy men who were suckered by her lack of sexual inhibition. Ooh and her 500 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:06.079 sad dad stories. Oh yeah, all her husbands are ending up bad. 501 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:08.920 She got one man to loan her twenty three thousand. Another man gave her 502 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:13.519 seventy thousand, which you pulled out from his pension. What the hell? 503 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.119 And she never repaid any of them. Of course, this one I'm for 504 00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:21.079 years. There are other places she'd call home to, such as Hawaii, 505 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:28.559 Connecticut, but new addresses definitely didn't mean a change in her old ways. 506 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:34.719 Using the social security numbers of other people, she took out credit cards because 507 00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.400 she didn't have enough money. She had more money, I had my whole 508 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:43.639 life. She took out credit cards and rang up big purchases with no intention 509 00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.960 of paying anything back. The list of victims included her three children, who 510 00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.719 credit she managed to destroy. Of course, she did, you know my 511 00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:58.760 grandma. I'm just saying, oh, I'm not, you know, allegedly, 512 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:05.599 God rest her soul. I'm not saying she stole identities button but if 513 00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:09.000 she did, she would sound a lot like Sandra. As the twenty first 514 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:14.920 century rolled around, the now middle aged Sandra had turned from sexuality to religion 515 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:22.039 to get her victims. Oh my god. Her news story sent around the 516 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.079 idea that she was a missionary who traveled the world to work with orphans. 517 00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.239 It, I can't stop it. As always, she had a way of 518 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:35.840 getting people to do what she wanted. In Alabama, she befriended a couple 519 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.519 who owned and managed a local motel. Despite not being able to pay for 520 00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:44.199 her own room, come on, she received food and money from the husband 521 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.920 and wife owned it. She then went to Atlanta and she used a slightly 522 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:52.440 different name. It was Bridewell instead of Bridewell, and she convinced a woman 523 00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:58.039 she met in church to split the cost of an expensive condo rental. You 524 00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:00.679 know, she must have been charming as fuck. You know what I mean? 525 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.960 I mean, how is she getting all these people give her money? 526 00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:08.800 Lay Connor. Yeah, soon Sandra's new housemate was paying for everything. Wow. 527 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:12.280 She told her friend she was going to get a whole chunk of money 528 00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.800 from a trust fund. I'll pay it back. In two thousand and six, 529 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:22.119 Sandra surfaced in North Carolina at a new church under the name Camille Bowers. 530 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:25.639 That September, she moved in with a woman named Sue Mosley, a 531 00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:30.280 seventy seven year old woman who lived in a million dollar home on the Carolina 532 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:36.719 Coast. Sandra struck a deal with Mosley's son, his name was Jim. 533 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.920 In return for her managing the housework, Sandra would live with free room and 534 00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:45.079 board. As she made a name for herself in the community, Sandra got 535 00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:52.159 to work on taking over all of Mosley's finances. Oh shit. She collected 536 00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:57.440 tax records, rerouted the elderly woman's Social Security payments into her own bank, 537 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:04.440 siphoned off mortgage money, ran up credit card charges, and used Mosley's bank 538 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:10.599 account to help fund her spot treatments and expensive shoes. Jim Mosley grew very 539 00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:15.679 suspicious of his mother's new housemate, and in early two thousand and seven, 540 00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:22.039 he came across a lengthy newspaper story and the Dallas Observer that chronicled Sandra's life 541 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:27.760 working with the police. Jim played the frontman in a whole police team. 542 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.079 He took her down. He took her down. On March second, two 543 00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:35.239 thousand and seven, she was arrested in cafe in Charlotte, North Carolina. 544 00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.760 Later that year, Sandra was charged with identity thaft fraud, mail faft SO 545 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:44.480 security fraud, and then that sparked a whole new interest in Alan's death in 546 00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:50.760 the Oklahoma City Police agreed to put resources and manpower into investigating it. In 547 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:54.199 February two thousand and eight, Sandraw Camille Powers applied guilty to one count of 548 00:45:54.239 --> 00:46:00.199 identity staft. That September, Sandrad was formerly sentenced and order to serve two 549 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.280 years in prison, an issue two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine to be 550 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.159 sixteen hundred in restitution to the Masley's family. Sixteen hundred. Yeah, that 551 00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:14.519 is not compared to the ship she did in her life. And that's the 552 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.400 end of the story. Is she in prison still? No? No, 553 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:22.840 no, she never got charged for these murders. So that's it all right, 554 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:27.519 M Well, that's not a happy ending, no piece of shit. 555 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:30.480 I want to thank you guys all for listening to this week's episode of Crimes 556 00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:36.199 Consequences. If you want to hear some online only episodes, they're free on 557 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:39.840 our website Crimes of Consequences dot com. You can also join our patron it's 558 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:46.159 patreon dot com slash t n T like TNT, and we release one episode 559 00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:52.480 every week that's only for our patreons. 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