I hear a big explosion. I just knew immediately that i had to get out of there. A single gunshot, and she was gone. Im going to cry. The love of my life. You said tex was emotional and distraught. Yes. Hes never been the same since. What happened in that dark suv . And what was hiding beneath the surface . Trying to cover up something. It just took my breath away. She said, i cannot trust anyone else. Power and privilege. Love and greed. She was in control of the money. This had to be an intentional act. Did a secret lead to murder . I just looked at him and i said, i cant lie. All that glitters is not actually gold. All they wanted was to get home, turning off the interstate to escape the crawling atlanta traffic. He says, girls, this is the wrong place. We dont need to be here. This was a bad idea. Its still hard to fathom what happened next or why. I was trying to figure out where the explosion was. But heres whats pretty clear. One wrong turn really can destroy your life. To think that one moment in time you have an accident, and you lose everything after that. Our story begins and ends with her. Diane mciver. Nobody knows her better than dani jo carter. Oh, shes beautiful. Shes funny. She was brilliant. And she was driven. Oh, she was very driven. She was a workaholic when i first met her. She didnt know how to relax. She didnt spend a saturday afternoon just laying around watching tv. I mean she wasnt just that way in business. She was that way throughout her entire life. Diane was born in auburn, alabama, where she survived a sad and difficult childhood. She realized her dreams in atlanta, a place that matched her ambition. What was she looking for . She was looking for success. Diane was barely out of high school when she went to work at u. S. Enterprises, a company in atlanta. She was a bookkeeper but soon caught the eye of her boss, billy corey. There were some people working there that werent really doing their jobs, and she told him that she could do her job and their job. And what happened . I think he fired them, and she did their job. It was back in the 80s when dani jo and diane first teamed up, best friends and confidants. Dani jo was a cosmetologist with a front row seat to dianes brilliant career. She loved crunching numbers. And along with billy corey, i think she learned how to wheel and deal. She rose through the ranks. And with her boss blessing became president of the company. Hiring, firing, and calling the shots. She would say, i dont want to hear about the labor pains, just show me the baby. Jay grover was a Vice President at dianes company. When she started in business here in atlanta, there were not a ton of female executives. No, absolutely. And i think thats one of the things that really set diane apart. I mean, she was a a woman in a mans world. But i think the competitors quickly found out that diane was not someone you could mess with. Diane diane could hold her own. She had a big personality, loved clothes, furs, hats, and kids. Although she never had any of her own. She survived one bad marriage and was in her 50s when she met tex mciver. He was selfmade too, a military brat from san antonio who earned a rep in atlanta as a labor lawyer and a champion of republican candidates. He had great relationships. He had everybodys direct dial mobile number. Bill crane is a political commentator and consultant in atlanta and a longtime friend of texs. He was a gentleman, he as gentleman. Both in terms of old courtly manners, standing when a lady enters the room. Tex was divorced too. Thats how he ended up living in the same condo complex as diane. They started going out. She said she started talking to him, but he was too short and too old. But obviously she got over that. It didnt hurt that he had this ranch east of atlanta. It was nice enough back when tex first bought it, but it was fabulous after diane got through with it. It had a pool, gun range, ponds, horses, a saloon, and some texas longhor longhorn cattle. Thats diane. They were there a lot. Diane was a great hostess. She was the life of the party. Soon tex and diane decided to make it permanent and a wedding date was set. November 5th, 2005, at the ranch. Everyone at the rehearsal could tell this wedding would be over the top. And it was. It looked like something out of a disney movie. Sheriff howard sills was on the guest list. Diane came in the gate with the horses and brought her up here in this elaborate carriage. There were hundreds of people here, people from all aspects of society here. A couple of bands, a note the Country Music singer performed. It was quite a quite a soiree as we would call it here. Theyd both been married before and decided this time to keep finances separate. Nearly a year later, their lives were blessed with a little boy. Sort of. A couple of friends asked tex and diane to be godparents to their baby named austin. Dianes assistant, terry brown, says diane would do anything for that little boy. He was the sun for her. The moon and the sun, i guess. The stars. He was the whole thing. Its all about austin. That was never more obvious than at the birthday bashes she and tex threw for austin. An annual exercise in excess. We love you very much, dont we, darling . Yes, forever. And ever. Byebye bye. Love you. Three weeks after austins 10th birthday, tex and diane, with their friend dani jo, were headed home after a weekend at the ranch. They were driving a king ranch ford expedition, virtually identical to this one, and they made a short stop for dinner. It was september 25th, 2016, the day everything changed. After dinner, they headed for home, a trip of about 45 minutes. Tex and diane had had a little wine at dinner, so dani jo drove. Diane sat next to dani jo in the front seat and tex was right behind diane in the back seat, and off they went. Well, we headed on into atlanta on i20. As we got off of 20 to get onto the connector, it was just eight lanes of brake lights. Dani jo says tex was dozing in the back seat as the two women decided to get off the interstate to avoid the traffic. As were riding down the ramp, tex becomes fully awake, i guess. He looks around and he says, girls, i really wish you hadnt done this. This is a bad idea. This is a bad area. Thats when tex mciver made a request of his wife. And tex said, darling, will you hand me my gun . Tex regularly kept a gun in that car . Uhhuh. It was right in the center condole, a smith wesson. 38caliber revolver. And so she reaches down and gets it and hands it back to him. In a plastic bag . Uhhuh. In minutes they were out of the sketchy area and moving up Piedmont Avenue toward the cushier parts of midtown. Everything was normal, unremarkable. We were talking about politics and the debates. What is tex doing . He wasnt really talking. I kind of i thought that he had gone back to sleep. They were at piedmont and 14th street. We were just sitting there, still waiting for the light to turn, and i hear a big explosion. Within seconds, diane turned around toward the back and said, tex, what did you do . Did he say anything . He said the gun discharged. Then she started moving. She started moving forward. And she kind of turned around. And she was moving funny. And she said, tex, you shot me. Coming up tex was calling her name, and she was kind of breathing panicky. He said theres been an accident. What happened in that suv . The questions began. I was handling the gun. I didnt realize it was in my lap. Im gonna cry. The love of my life. When deadly detour continues. Trelegy for copd. Birds flyin high you know how i feel breeze drifting on by you know how i feel [man coughing] its a new dawn, its a new day. 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She started making these noises that i had never i had never heard before, and i i thought i was hearing her die. A street sign pointed the way to Emory University hospital. Tex told dani jo to head there. Tex was calling her name, and he leaned forward and kind of grabbed her head, and she was kind of breathing panicky. They arrived at emory. Thats tex in the red shirt. Hospital personnel heard him yelling gunshot, and diane went into the e. R. She was in an emergency bay, and i knew there were doctors all around her. I glanced over there, but i didnt want to see anything that i didnt want to see. Tex is there . Yes. Whats he whats he saying . Whats he doing . Hes just standing there with his arms crossed, and hes not really saying a whole lot of anything. Less than an hour later, a doctor came out to tell tex and dani jo that diane was alert. And she said that diane had spoken and that her heart was strong. They had taken her up to surgery. By then police had arrived. They wanted to talk to dani jo outside. They wanted to drive the route. Oh, they drove the route with you right then . Yes. Then they took her to headquarters for questioning. She told police what happened in the car. He woke up, and i guess he had it had it in his hand, and he just pulled the trigger. As she sat there, dani jo was still thinking diane was going to be okay, but then they had gotten a call, and they they both left the room. I was sitting alone, and then i get this text from my husband. No. No. That diane had died. It turned out the gunshot wound through dianes back was catastrophic. The blood loss too great. And i was devastated. I was i couldnt believe it. Diane mciver, so much larger than life in so many ways, was suddenly gone. Tex called me in the early hours of the morning and he said, theres been an accident and weve lost diane. Dixie martin, texs sister. How long until you realized the accident involved something he had done . Later in the kofrgconversati and he was very emotional on the phone. I mean we were both crying. What was it like to break that news to people at the office . It was it was heartbreaking. Within our company, if you go down the roster of employees, diane had hired most of these people and had been the boss to most of these people. It was devastating. Its stunning to everybody. Absolutely stunning. Dianes company put her picture up on their landmark tower in atlanta. All the while, police were trying to figure out what exactly had happened in that car that night. Three days after the shooting, tex and his attorney steve maples went to answer their questions. Maples offered a preview. His only recollection is he had the the brown paper bag i mean, plastic bag and hes holding it down like this. And he said he didnt play with the hammer, and he didnt pull it back to full cock. This is texs attorney saying the gun wasnt cocked. Youll want to remember that part. Tex himself entered shortly after and went over the whole story, explaining why he was so scared on that drive he felt he needed his gun. We went through an area i thought that was particularly dangerous at night. I had seen Police Vehicles there. Its its a route i take from my office to her office. Thats one that has a particularly high population of Homeless People. Okay. And and i quickly said, this is a big mistake and were in a place that we dont belong in. That, tex said, is when he asked for the gun. A few minutes later the threat seemed to pass and tex said he fell back asleep. Anyway, i just just time to wake up and but she came to a stop, and i was handling the gun. Did not realize it was in my lap. Right. And it went off. He seemed emotional as he recalled how doctors told him his wife was dead. Two surgeons in scrubs and a chaplain come around the corner and start walking towards me. I actually looked behind me, hoping it was somebody else. Im sorry. No, its all right. Take your time. The love of my life. If tex mciver had done nothing after that, if he had kept his mouth shut, if he had just grieved we probably wouldnt be telling you this story. But doing nothing . Thats just not tex mciver. Coming up, a media firestorm, and tex provides the match. Texs comment. Gets blown up into hes making this up to get out of the fact that he shot his wife. Could this have been more than an accident . There was no tears. There was no i never saw him cry. When deadly detour continues. To show up. For the sweet. The hectic. The tender. The tense. And the fiery. But for many, migraine keeps them. From saying. I am here. We aim to change that. With. Aimovig, a preventive treatment. For migraine in adults. One dose. Once a month. Is proven to reduce monthly migraine days. For some, by half or more. Dont take aimovig if youre allergic to it. Allergic reactions like rash or swelling can happen hours to days after use. Severe constipation can happen. 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There were also more substantive questions like why would the gun just go off . According to bill crane, tex said it happened after the car jolted. That was part of texs initial account to me, that he was jarred awake, he thought by a bump in the road. I actually drove within a day or two of the incident that piece of piedmont road. There are plenty of those metal plates were so famous for in atlanta, so i could easily see where there might have been something that jarred him awake. And why in the first place would tex suddenly feel threatened by a homeless encampment hed driven past many times before. I asked him that. Bill said he said tex was thinking of several black lives matter protests in atlanta and how protests in other places had gotten violent. Tex was a bit of a news junkie. So all of that was fresh in the headlines the days and weeks prior to the shooting. So tex said to me, i didnt know looking at those people, were they Homeless People . Were they carjack us, or were they black lives matter protesters . But i was concerned. Tex apparently thought that would help explain to the public why he asked for the gun. So he told bill to give that story to the Atlanta Journal constitution. It didnt exactly work as planned. Texs comment, he didnt know whether the people around the car were Homeless People or some kind of street criminal or a black lives matter protest gets blown up into bonfire of the vanities writ large in life, and hes making this up to get out of the fact that he shot his wife. And that comment somehow morphs into i saw a black lives matter protest, and i was afraid. Correct, which he never said, and i never said that he said. The story, with its racial overtones, went viral. While tex was fighting to repair his public image, dianes colleagues were committquestion behavior after her death. There were no tears. There was no i never saw him cry. Ken reccer is the companys general counsel. I never heard him say, it was a tragic accident. Im so sorry. Tex looked crushed, crying, sad . I didnt detect any of that. He was he was just kind of matter of fact. His voice break at all . Anything . Nothing. I never saw those emotions from tex. What my emotions would be if i had just killed my soul mate, the love of my life, i dont know that i could talk, but he didnt seem to have any problem in in carrying on business. Diane a colleagues also thought tex seemed way too interested in how his financial situation would change now that diane was dead. And he asked a very strange question about, did i know anything about Social Security . Could he get any of dianes benefits . I was shocked. Texs sister, dixie, says she w