Belleinda. As an investigator you know when you see something that doesnt look right, and that didnt look right to me. The proverbial other woman enters the picture. She was young, she was single and, frankly she was smoking a hot. Heather scott drops a bomb. Wow. David seemingly has an airtight alibi, and its on video. An innocent man is sitting in prison for something he didnt do. State of texas verse david mark temple. All rise. 178th District Criminal court is now in session. Honorable judge Kelli Johnson presiding. This is a case y hat tueadly. This was a preg put on her knees in the closet and shot in the back of the head. Its been 20 years since Belinda Temples murder, and there was her now grownup son, evan, in court. Hes supporting his father, but this trial is about the death of his mother. Ive been covering the david temple story for a long time and wondering whether he was going to be convicted or not. In a lot of cases where husband is suspected of killing pregnant wife, its not very close. This case, there are some real questions. One day you might feel one way, the other day completely a different way. Theres just been a struggle in the conscience of houstonians about whether or not he really did it. Belinda temple was a lovely teacher, a lovely mother, and a lovely wife, and there is only one person on this earth who had the motive, the means, and the opportunity to cause her death and that was this defendant, her husband of seven years. Were going to hear a story of betrayal. First, david temples betrayal of his wife, of his son. The second betrayal is law enforcements betrayal of us, which brought us here today. David temple could not could not have killed his wife, even though he betrayed her. David temple is a star Football Player at Katy High School for the katy tigers. Hes really kind of a local hero around town. He was a terrific linebacker, and they tagged him with a nickname. The temple of doom. Interestingly, Renee Zellweger was a cheerleader at Katy High School at the same time that david temple went there, and then shes going to go on one day to talk about it on jimmy fallon. Get ready. Get set. The tiger team is the best yet. Get ready. Get set. Right . David ended up getting a scholarship to steven f. Austin in nacogdoches. David was number 42. David temple, the linebacker. Hes 511 233 out of katy, texas. I think one of the was such a good middle linebacker is because he felt that need to be in charge. He was a very aggressive person, you know, on the football field and off. In 89, we won the first conference championship at the history of the university. Everybody got a ring. Its at steven f. Austin university where david temple would end up crossing paths with a local girl named belinda lucas. Belinda grew up in nacogdoches. A yoonks the its a rural, very small, quaint environment. She always had a smile on her face and she loved life and she loved people. Belinda was an athlete and quite an athlete, and im sure thats probably what attracted david to her, being, you know, the sports big man on campus star that he was. He was very affectionate with her. He always had his arm around her. They did everything the fairytale way. After dating for just a year, david drops down on one knee at the 50 yard line to propose to belinda, and of course, she said yes. He came over and asked for her hand in marriage, and we thought that was a neat thing. They both get their masters in education, and then shortly after here comes evan temple, and then they end up moving back to katy, davids hometown, to settle down. Katy, texas, was really known for its rice farms and the railroad. Farmers would ship their rice right through the center of town. Its also known as the waterfowl hunting capital of the world. Belinda and david end up moving to a very nice neighborhood. It was the allamerican town. They had a nice home with a backyard and a friendly dog, so they had a great life. Belinda and david both get jobs as teachers. David got a job as a High School Football coach and a teacher at alief hastings. The first time i met david temple was at a coaches and wives get together. Very, very tough looking. I think coach temple was a great coach. He was intense. Hes the one you didnt want to piss off. At davids trial, friends paint a vivid picture of this young couple moving to a small town with their future ahead of them. We became friends, our wives became friends. We just clicked immediately. We spent a lot of time together because our husbands were gone and we had small children. You have to be a very special person to be a coachs wife. Not everybodys cut out for that. Youre practically a single mother during football season. At the same time david is a football coach over at alief, his wife belinda is now teaching special ed at his former alma mater, Katy High School. We called her our sunshine lady. She was just a bubbly young woman and loved teaching. But the one thing that she might have loved even more than that was being a mom. She was very caring and loving with evan. After a full day of work, no matter how tired she was, every day they would be playing in the driveway, and it was pretty consistent. Both david and belinda doted on evan. You know, kind of the light of their world. How would you describe david temple as a father . Everyone had told me he was a committed father, and i think the best evidence of who david is, is evan, is the young man that the jury met. When we did our abcs, when we would get to the letter s he would sing a song that he said him and his mom would sing together. He would just break out on his own. Yes, he would sit up on his knees above everybody else, and he would just start singing you are my sunshine. Its summer of 1998, and belinda finds out she is expanding her family. She was having a little girl, and she was so excited about a new little girl. I got a boy, a girl, two teachers you cant describe a better all american family. I walked in the nursery and it was a beautiful bright yellow. The baby girls name was supposed to be erin. I had asked her at that time, when the baby was due again, and she said, about a month. There is so much excitement around this new baby girl, and then it all comes to a screeching halt when a typical day turns chaotic. Belinda, you know, whether she knew it or not, was extremely vulnerable at that time. She just didnt know how vulnerable. [ ] every time you touch a surface, bacteria is left behind. Now, consider how many times your family touches the surfaces in your home in 24 hours. Try new microban 24. 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No, i think shes already dead. Shes eight months pregnant. Let me tell you about january 11, 1999. It was not a normal day. And the reason why it was not a normal day is because evan was ill. That day, he was not wanting to play with any of the other kids. He didnt want to eat, and that was one thing that he loved to do. He felt a little warm to us. Belinda got a call from the daycare center. So she had to go pick up evan. She didnt want to leave school. Not only does she want to hold her days, but she had an afterschool meeting, so when she got the call, she immediately started trying to call the defendant. She called and she called, and she couldnt get him. Folks, she was miffed. She was just like, i dont know where hes at. He should be at work. I cant get a hold of him. Probably the most frustrated id seen her. She didnt seem like she was in a very good mood. She picked him up, carried him, and left. She is going to take evan home. Hes sick. At what point does she get ahold of david . The phone records show that she finally got ahold of him somewhere around 12 10 and 12 15, and he left the School Campus and went to the house. Reporter how was evan doing by the time david arrives home . According to what we know, he was asleep. As soon as david gets home, belinda heads back to Katy High School. She returned to the school at 1 00. I remember looking at the clock and i said, you were fast, belinda, you did a good job. She left the school around 3 20 to 3 30. Reporter according to david, belinda comes home and goes upstairs to rest, and he plans to take evan to the park and to run some errands. When david comes home, it looks like there had been a home invasion. The gate is open, the door has been broken, and he knows that something is really wrong. He panics, and he takes evan across the street to their friends. And he starts banging on mike ruggieros door. It was, mike, mike, mike. This is david. Open up the door. Davids usually very quiet, so you knew that something was going on. I saw david temple with his 3yearold son evan at the door. He just shoved him to my husband and said, call 911, someones broken the house. My husband turned around, shoved evan in my arms. Here, you take evan. Im going after david. David then takes off like a linebacker after a running back and barrels through the back gate. He runs upstairs and finds belinda. He immediately goes to the landline and calls 911. Does she have a pulse . No, shes dead. Oh jesus christ. I responded along with another paramedic. Theres certain calls you never forget. This is one of them. Okay, i want you to do cpr for that baby. Okay. Okay . Yes. Reporter with th h. Her blood flow would have ceased almost at the same time the shot was fired, very shortly there after. Once her blood flow ceased, the baby would very soon be robbed of, um, oxygen. I cant. Her heads just gone. Jesus christ. Oh is there any way you could do this . Theres just no way. When i got to the gate and attempted to open the gate to go in, shaka was there. Shaka was the temple family dog. And he was the biggest, baddest, fiercest watchdog in all of the neighborhood. There was a call put out. And we had learned that someone had been shot. The dog was barking at us, actually jumping against the fence. He was extremely aggressive. When police get to the scene, they cant even get inside the house because the dog looks like hes ready to attack. Theyre getting ready to shoot the dog, and thats when david comes out. He said, my wife has been shot and shes dead. I was the first Sheriffs Department person to arrive. It was a death investigation. At first glance, it looks just like a burglary. You see forced entry to the back door, thats kind of what you think. Once they get to the master bedroom closet, the scene is horrific. The victim laying on the floor of the closet. Heads kind of underneath the, um, pair of jeans there. 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Simple, easy, awesome. [ barking ]. Our top story on Eyewitness News a Katy High School teacher, eight months pregnant. Belinda temple was murdered execution style at her home. A husband makes a gruesome discovery. And i didnt know if it was somebody targeting coaches wives. I was scared to go home unless my husband was there. We didnt know if it was just some random kids coming in, trying to steal stuff and she got in the way so they killed her. With the killer still on the loose, the neighborhood is uneasy. Shes a very nice person. I just its kind of scary you know, happening in your own neighborhood, and right next door to me. I live right around the corner from where thi happened, and to believe that Something Like this could happen in our little neighborhood was just unbelievable. Students are now grieving for their loss. She helped a lot of troubled teens. She was a good person. She didnt deserve this. One of the first things that strikes the investigators is that this murder happened in not even the dumbest burglar in the world is going to break into a home when people are coming home from work, go up and shoot and execute a pregnant woman. When police first go in, it looks like a burglary but as they start looking at it a lot more closely, things arent adding up. As an investigator, you just know when you see something that doesnt look right. And do you have an opinion about this crime scene . That it was staged. If its a burglary and the door is closed and somebody punches through the window frame, why is the glass scattered over to the side as opposed to straight into the house on to the couch . Welsh there is a couple pieces, but the states position was there should have been more. Doesnt that cause a little suspicion though . But that doesnt mean that dave is the one that broke the glass. The only way that glass could have gotten where all that glass was was if the door was open when the glass was broken. I think we can all agree, if the door was open when the glass was broken, this aint no burglary. Vam scene crime scene investigators continue to search through the home. So as investigators continue to work the crime scene, they see this big gigantic television, looks to be kind of laid on its side and still plugged in. There was scrape marks where. Starting to wonder, what has been taken . And we noticed several drawers were opened, but the contents of the drawers werent disturbed. It was kind of what was the point of open