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'I was shot in the face by a hitman - then I found out who ordered the hit'

Nancy Shore was shot in the face by a hitman in her own garage, but when she woke up in hospital she was stunned to find out who police thought was behind the attack

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sounds, nancy managed to open the front door for them. >> help me. >> yes, ma'am. >> help me. help me. >> soon, carrollton police detectives michael wall and brian turner were on the case. >> it's just incredible how she was able to give the information to the dispatcher about what had happened and be able to wait for the police at the front door. >> this was a really bloody crime scene. >> there was quite a bit of blood, yes. >> there was a small hole just above nancy's left eye. she was struggling for breath. and her vital signs were slipping. as paramedics rushed her to parkland hospital in dallas, detective wall turned his attention to the crime scene. >> you could see exactly where she'd gone through the house. >> the garage and the hallway

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piney woods and an affluent carrollton family experienced the kind of violent crime that had always happened somewhere else. >> help me! help me! >> i need you to call me needily. your mom is in the hospital with a gunshot wound. and i'm like, i'm sorry, what? >> we look at each other, michael and i just say we can't make this up. >> our story begins in august 2012.

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who gladly took that money were not charged because they were either doing time or facing prosecution for other crimes. still jamie beck and her team wanted to link frank to the men who they believe actually shot nancy, the men in the silver car. first they tried to establish that frank had paid the alleged driver. they played a snippet of the jailhouse call recorded a few weeks before the shooting. >> and so i basically, you know, gave michael every -- i said, i'm all in with you, buddy because i don't know what else to do. i was all in with him. >> reporter: even more incriminating, prosecutors said phone records proved frank was communicating with the alleged driver the day of the shooting. as for the alleged shooter, the other michael, the prosecution called a witness who testified he confessed to her the night

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>> reporter: now, as she recovered in the hospital, it was obvious to nancy why frank hadn't been interested in saving their marriage. her husband was in love with somebody else. >> i said, where did you meet her? and he told me. and i said, and how long has it been? and he told me. >> reporter: three years, frank told her. three years of lying. three years of living a double life. one in texas. one in california. frank wasn't proud of it. you're a preacher's son. you know better than that. >> sure. it was very wrong. and you know, i know it now, and i knew it then. i mean, i knew it going through it. it was just trying to figure out, you know, how to deal with it. >> reporter: while most men try to keep their indiscretions private, frank howard's dirty laundry was now part of a criminal investigation. but the detectives say they were determined to keep an open mind. >> i think i told michael, let's not get tunnel vision on this. just because he's got a

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because she knew details that only the shooter and nancy would know. for instance, in a flustered moment nancy had handed her bag of food to the shooter. >> my ears perked up, and i felt like she had some pretty good information about who was responsible for shooting nancy. >> reporter: the caller led them eventually to someone who they believed was the shooter. his name was also michael, michael lorance. he and speck had been prison cellmates. this is like six degrees of separation. >> it is. >> reporter: everyone in this case. >> all the puzzle pieces were starting to come together for us. >> reporter: the police thought they could finally put both michaels in that silver car on the night nancy was shot. it would now be up to a jury to decide whether frank howard had paid them to kill his wife. >> coming up -- the case begins. and the witnesses sure are colorful. but are they credible? >> very questionable characters. >> absolutely. >> how do you get the jury to believe what they're saying? >> when "dateline" continues. final interview. buy or lease? masterpiece. inside joke. artichoke. game with doug. brand new mug. come here, kid. gimme a hug. the more you want to do, the more we want to do. boosters designed for covid-19 variants are now available.

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having an affair and that he'd paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a bunch of make-believe hit men, they also had a picture of him meeting with one of them. still, a crucial element for solving this case was missing. >> we're still knee deep in the middle of this. we don't have the shooter identified. and everyone that we have arrested up until this point, we can only confirm that they're involved in a solicitation to have nancy killed. >> reporter: which is not to say that they didn't get some useful hints from the east texans. >> dustin hiroms, he gives us the name of michael speck. and michael speck is billie johnson's nephew. >> reporter: the investigators zeroed in on that name, michael speck. a search of jail recordings of billie earl johnson's phone calls soon revealed a surprise. not only did they hear billie earl talking about somebody named michael, they also heard

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another familiar voice. it was the voice of frank howard. >> i can get out of here, which will take about a month to get out of here, but i need some money. >> well, that's part of my problem. i mean, what happened to michael? i gave him a bunch of money. >> how much you give him? >> i don't even know anymore it's been so long. >> did you give him 20? >> uh, at least. >> it's clear from those phone conversations at the jail that frank's directly involved in orchestrating this. >> michael's got everything i had left. he said he could take care of everything. >> reporter: even though the police were sure michael speck was one of the men in that silver car, they had no idea who the other man was. then a few months later, a call out of the blue seemed to provide the break they'd been looking for. the caller sounded credible

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Ennis' return to prominence lands Mustangs in 8-Man quarterfinals

As the Ennis Mustangs enter the state quarterfinals in 8-man football, for them and the town, it’s signaled a change from the last few seasons.

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