I cant find a trailer for the Sky programme. Just watched the first episode and so far, Her son, who found the body, has admitted to lying to the police. Her husband claimed to have seen a white man in his house on the security camera. The lab that processed the DNA has been threatened with losing its accreditation. The accused, a black man, has escaped. So its a bit of a f...k up so far.
Inside the murder of an oil heiress: ‘One of the weirdest in Florida history’
Someone brutally stabbed the blonde, 59-year-old member of the Halliburton oil dynasty about 25 times and left her blo ody corpse, hands and feet bound, in the bathtub of her posh Florida home in 2014.
Her son, then 20, found her, and called the cops in what sounded like a panic.
“My mom killed herself!” he cried when he reached Broward County’s 911 dispatcher. “She just stabbed herself and threw herself in the bathtub!”
But even as the second murder trial of the suspect, Dayonte Resiles, begins this week, finding out whodunit has become something out of a made-for-TV movie.
“This is what we call ‘Bro-weird County,’ where anything can happen. But there are twists and turns in this case that are pretty strange even for this place,” said H. Dohn Williams, a renowned Florida criminal defense attorney who has represented some of the state’s most notorious murderers and briefly served as Resiles’ lawyer.
First, the victim’s son was briefly considered a person of interest, then Resiles staged a daring courtroom escape in July 2016 and went on the lam for six days before being captured. Finally, in December, the trial ended in a mistrial amid rumors of racial bias. And in a twist that was arguably bad for both the prosecution and defense, a crucial piece of video evidence was deleted.
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Just watched the first episode and so far,
Her son, who found the body, has admitted to lying to the police.
Her husband claimed to have seen a white man in his house on the security camera.
The lab that processed the DNA has been threatened with losing its accreditation.
The accused, a black man, has escaped.
So its a bit of a f...k up so far.
Someone brutally stabbed the blonde, 59-year-old member of the Halliburton oil dynasty about 25 times and left her blo ody corpse, hands and feet bound, in the bathtub of her posh Florida home in 2014.
Her son, then 20, found her, and called the cops in what sounded like a panic.
“My mom killed herself!” he cried when he reached Broward County’s 911 dispatcher. “She just stabbed herself and threw herself in the bathtub!”
But even as the second murder trial of the suspect, Dayonte Resiles, begins this week, finding out whodunit has become something out of a made-for-TV movie.
“This is what we call ‘Bro-weird County,’ where anything can happen. But there are twists and turns in this case that are pretty strange even for this place,” said H. Dohn Williams, a renowned Florida criminal defense attorney who has represented some of the state’s most notorious murderers and briefly served as Resiles’ lawyer.
First, the victim’s son was briefly considered a person of interest, then Resiles staged a daring courtroom escape in July 2016 and went on the lam for six days before being captured. Finally, in December, the trial ended in a mistrial amid rumors of racial bias. And in a twist that was arguably bad for both the prosecution and defense, a crucial piece of video evidence was deleted.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/jill-halliburton-su-murder-one-of-weirdest-in-florida-history/