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>> guilty of murder and aggravated assault. frances's friends and family were shocked. >> it was the worst feeling of my life. >> it was a moment frances herself did not seem prepared for. >> help! >> you were found guilty and you were facing possibly life behind bars. >> yes, i was. i didn't want to be there. i wanted to go home to bill. i was like, i can't do this. >> but things weren't over yet for frances. there was still a second phase of trial. sentencing. texas law allows the defendant to be sentenced by either the judge or the jury. francis chose the jury. the same one that found her g...

Sequin frances hitter? >> this is her purse in her car. when you get hit in the rear, where does my purse go, it doesn't dump in the front. it's simple physics. >> in fact, he said, the purse falling ford supports frances's claim that bonnie was repeatedly slamming on her breaks. >> she's moving like this, then the purse will go into the floorboard. bonnie contreras is not telling the truth. >> what's more, both defense and prosecution agreed bonnie was wrong about her contention, that bills motorcycle was struck from behind. evidence showed the motorcycle actually collided with the side of fr...

>> the family told them, that's all bonnie gathered information to manipulate him. >> if we went on a family vacation, he took my mother to las vegas immediately after he would have to take her somewhere. >> according to frances and nikki, bill said that he wanted to break up with bonnie. but she threatened to air their affair all over the internet. >> he goes, i can't get rid of this person. she had over 2000 pictures. in my 34 years of knowing bill, i don't have that many pictures. who does that? >> frances said bill told her that bonnie also stopped her and her family. >> she knew where my ...

Two years. >> two years, the absolute minimum sentence. >> what is going through your mind when you hear that? because things were looking bad. >> oh, yes. i was like, thank you jesus. i can do this. >> and she did. on september 7th 2018, after serving her sentence, frances walked out of prison a free woman. we thought that this was the end of the story. but we were wrong. there is a whole new chapter. in june of 2022, frances was indicted in a multi million-dollar fraud scheme. she's accused of providing false payroll information to get their insurance premiums for the committee she and bill ...

Hall was staying with girlfriend bonnie contreras. the two had plans to pick up bill's motorcycle at a storage facility for a bike rally they'd attend the next day. >> and he was laying in our bed taking a nap, and that was two hours before he died. i woke him up and i said, hon, it's getting late. we've got to go pick up the bike before it gets dark. >> and that, bonnie said, is how she and bill ended up on the road that fateful evening, with bonnie behind the wheel of the range rover, bill in front of her on his baby blue motorcycle. neither of them knowing that frances, quite by chance, was...