Character. He was always very affectionate tour, and he didnt like. It everyone was suspect. Then a break. Tips from other woman who had been targeted, too. He wanted to get me in there and i didnt budge and all the bells were going off. I took off. I felt i had dodged a bullet. The who is frightening, but the white was much worse. In my wildest dreams i never thought result like this could even exist. He certainly had a motive. Yes you did. It was the afternoon of november 15th, austin, texas. Four pm, there is something ominous in the air. The smell of it, the familiar feel of it against the skin, a storm coming. Something big. They did tell us on the news if you dont have to go out tonight dont. In the sky overhead turned dark by midnight in the afternoon. When it gets like that, it is pitch blackout. You have the fear of tornadoes. Sure enough said the announcers on tv, twisters had been spotted headed to parts of the city, including the northwest. Diane lived in the northwest. I said hey girl, they said there was a Tornado Heading in your direction. She said my direction. She is like i dont know what to do. I have never been in a tornado. She must have been freaked out. Very freaked out. The Ferocious Rain And Hellish Win and Funnel Clouds dipped and swirled around the city. The next morning, a friday, it was all over. Friends checked on friends but nobody could reach diane, the freaked out one. Diane worked from home. Worked for ibm. The friday morning, so unlike her she missed a conference call. It is 2 00. Worried about you. All Day Phone Calls from ibm and friends went to voicemail. Diane, i was calling to see if you were going to show up tonight or not. She didnt. I got to the club and i was waiting and she didnt come. I spent all of my time wondering when she was going to show up. Was she caught in the storm. Was the house hit . A coworker called the police who cruised over to dianes exclusive neighborhood and found her fine, big house unscathed. Peered through windows. Saw no one. They secured a key. They went upstairs. And there, all but hidden behind a Guest Room Bed they found diane. Someone had killed her. I actually had a scream of some sort. Its not true. That is not what happens. Of course it was. Diane, 43 years old, suddenly the unlikely center of a strange and disturbing mystery and a most unlikely victim of murder. Absolutely lived a life with gusto. Lynn had known diane since the 90s. We would vacation together and have so much fun and laugh and laugh and laugh. A lot of things that we like to do is that we hit the clubs a lot. Lots of dancing. In the ladies room of an austin bar. You have on cowboy boots. You must know where a country bar is. I said my best friend is coming and we are going to go there. She said cool, im going to go with yall. She had only been in town three weeks. Diane said i am not dressed for the club. She starts pulling out western wear and putting it out right there in the parking lot. She was crazy. She was throwing on things. Right there in the parking lot. We all went dancing all night long. She was having a blast and so happy she met the two of us because she said now i have me some dancing buddies. So, magnetic. Which, said her colleague, lynn, helped to make her a fine recruiter for ibm. I would send her off to colleges and the kids would gravitate to her. She had a personality that stood out. And her attitude . Endlessly adventurous. She pulled me out and said i need a half day off. She said im jumping in a balloon and going. She would always test the edges. Yes. She would throw all kinds of parties at her house and invite everyone she knows. Where are they may not know each other, but everybody knew her. Yes. She was great. She just loved to have all of these wonderful people around her. In any room, any crowd, diane was the lure. Especially to men. That was never a problem going out with her. She was like a magnet for all of us. 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No. What about her eyes and face. She had it in the eyes. She appeared to have a bruise on the cheek like a rubbing type of a bruise. She had four of them on her stomach. A rubbing type of bruise. As if you were being dragged across the carpet. We also found a spot of urine where her body would have been. She must have been killed there and dragged behind the bed where they found her body. Any indication she was sexually assaulted in any way . No. Her clothes were not messed up. Nothing to indicate that. She had no scratch marks. As we look at the body we notice faint red marks on the lips. That was interesting. There was no tie. There was no rope. There was no tape. That was rounder in the room, just read marks. Little red marks that looked, somehow, familiar. It looked like two parallel lines, and then perpendicular to those lines are little lines that are probably a 16th of an inch apart. Ive seen these marks before, sometimes on the flex ties that we used to make arrests. We thought, oh wow, he used zip ties to bind her. But then you would cut them off afterwards. He obviously cut them off afterwards, and we knew that immediately. Detective mind went to the darkest of places. Diamonds to been restrained with a zip ties, helpless, terrified as she watched her killer prepare the ligature and put it around her neck. What kind of horror did she go through . What was going through her head . After she was dead, the killer must have stayed for a while, carefully erasing any sign of his or her presence. So that, in itself, was odd. That does not happen a lot. You commit the act of murder and then you leave, you are scared, you want to get out of there and you dont want to get caught. This person, we did know for his mailers, email did that. Who is this person so deliberate, cold. This was no safe forward case. I probably didnt sleep for 72 hours. As they chased down their endless questions. What does that leave you with . Was it a targeted killing . With somebody angry with her . Those are all possibilities, most of the time youre going to be killed by someone you know. Sometimes its someone you know very well. And, of course, were all familiar with Domestic Violence so we want to see who is in the immediate inner circle of her life. Dianes friends, they learned, she had been married years before, but had spent most of her adult life as a single woman and happily single into she changed her mind. She loved her single life and loved her independence. But an interesting thing happened when she hit 40. She decided that i need a partner, i see need somebody like my friends have. I need a marriage, i want things they have. So diane set out to find a mate. With the help of the dating service, it is just lunch and, pretty soon, she met a divorced father of two named dennis convoy. I think they truly, immediately had a chemistry. I think they were in love. He was a successful businessman. He was handsome, he took her everywhere and that is what she was looking for. Just two months later, dennis presented diane with the bobble of a lifetime. A 20,000dollar Engagement Ring. He loved her. He put her on a pedestal entry deter like a queen. She likeds daughter, she cared very much for his daughters, and that was a strong point. They made plans, as lovers do, dennis had moved from austin to houston. The idea was diane could sell her big house and moved down there, too. It was a down market than, but as diane told her friends, she met at least one potential buyer. But now, diane was dead and there were all those questions. Not a robbery and, as the detective soon discovered, something was missing. That 20,000 dollar Engagement Ring. Nowhere to be found. So, police wondered, where was fiancee dentist during the Violent Storm . And did he know something . Coming up, a Storm Out Side and in. They argued a lot. They had their ups and downs, no question, but no physical . Fights nothing,. Never. When dateline continues. Teline continues dan i want a raise his name is bob. Woolite protects your favorites from fading, pilling, and stretching. So you can wear them as long as you love them. New emergenc crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. And who doesnt love a good throwback . [sfx video game sound] new emergenc crystals. Throw it back. It was true. All her friends knew it. Diane holik was in love with the man she met through the dating service, smitten like a teenage girl. But, the road of love, as we all, know is not always smooth. They were engaged so quickly, too quickly . Before long, they encountered some serious issues said her Friends Anita and sharon. They argued a lot. One example, her dogs who are like children to diane. But she told her friend dennis didnt want any dogs in the new house in houston. They fought, said your friends, about what he seemed to want her to be. She is always talking about he didnt want her to do this or that and that would cause arguments. She would not go along with it. She wouldnt. She was independent . Yes. What was . He controlling. That can be a difficult combination. It was confusing. She proudly wore the spectacular ring, but the engagement was off and then, maybe, on again. That very weak, center friends, diane told them she still didnt know what to do. So she had gone back and forth . Emotionally it was a rollercoaster for her because she couldnt see how it was going to work and none of us could see how it would work either. Especially when she told sharon that she made a date with another man. We kept telling her, if you are still wanting to do these things, you are not ready for that. She had her house for sale, right . She was going to downside. If you didnt get married to down as she was going to downsize anyways, because this house was just way too big. A date with another plan, anita said she had seen dennis angry and so, after diane was murdered, she wondered maybe he had lost control this time and killed her. That was my first thought. Detective asked dentist to come into the station where he agreed to speak with and without the aid of a lawyer. The detectives focused on the timeline. They believed diane had been killed that stormy, thursday afternoon or evening. Her body was discovered about 5 30 pm on friday. We are definitely interested in where he had been for the last three days. He knew he was going to have to verify his alibi to us. At the station, dennis seemed upset but composed as he told investigators he was in his office in used in the night of the biggest storm, but exchanged online messages with diane back in austin that afternoon. It was like, hey, im working late, im getting ready to go home. She said i love you. Okay. That was it. And you are at the office when, she sent out to . Dennis said he got home from work late thursday evening and was back at the office early friday. We looked at the timeframe, good to have risen down to austin and Murdered Diane and theoretically durham back in time for work, and yes he probably could have. They checked dianes answering this sheen and found messages from him. This one was left on friday, the day after the big storm. She was dead by then. Hey, if i dont hear from you im calling the police to drive by your house, okay. Another message, saturday morning. Diane, what is going on . Give me a call. You have new worried to death. Which could have been some sort of coverup, of course. Dennis admitted their relationship was if he. We ran into some rough spots, we are going to build a house in houston and i decided that, given the fact that we werent getting along together very well, i mean there were no fights, we dont fight. Everybody carries baggage in your relationships at this stage and our baggage was it clashing and we were working on it, but we decided not to be engaged anymore. Stopped building the house. He said they were going to therapy, which was helping. We were really, really making breakthroughs. About dianes dogs, for example. She thought i was accepting the fact that her dogs were going to be in the house. And not long before diane was killed i remember her saying that she loved me and that she would jump at the chance to be in a relationship and marry me, no matter how long it took. We had our ups and downs, no question, but it was not like no physical fights . Nothing, never. Never even angry or loud words. It was just, its stupid. She thought i should be more of a handyman kind of guy, like her dad. And i thought she should be more appreciative. Was she faithful to you . I would be shocked if she wasnt. I would be stunned. Everyone has his or are version of the truth, of course. Denniss story not at all what dianes friends said they had been hearing from her. I wanted, so many times, to just say you are so stupid because she did not want to marry you. Detective gareth took fingerprints, collecteds dna, and dennis, before he, left denys brought up another name. Has anybody gotten a hold of gray . Were trying to figure out who wray is. Wright was a colleague of dianes at ibm. He seemed to worship the ground she walks on. He seems to be attracted to women that are not attracted it to him. Honestly, if i was a woman, he would give me the creeps. And, according to, dennis right and diane or not on good terms. They had out a falling out about a month or so ago. I dont know the exact nature of it. So, time for a talk with ray. Coming up, a coworker with a crush, but did you want something more . I was always very spoiling her, and affectionate. When dateline continues. When dateline continues my tip is, send your kids a text. 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