Woman jailed for killing her cheating husband in road rage attack after being taunted by his mistress
Frances was jailed after being convicted of killing her estranged husband Bill in San Antonio, Texas in 2013. Her husband’s younger lover, Bonnie Contreras, 34, allegedly sent the wife sex tapes and pictures of hysterectomy diagrams saying Hall was broken, disgusting and not a real woman anymore.
The couple were married for 34 years and have two adult children, while Bill’s affair with Ms Contreras lasted three years. The taunting finally struck a nerve when Frances saw her husband’s mistress Ms Contreras driving their ‘family Range Rover’ on Oct 10, 2013. Ms Contreras was being followed by the now late Bill Hall, on his custom made Harley Davidson motorcycle.
‘The times he was leading this secret life, he made sure I was his number one,’ she told the program. ‘I love him and he is the only man I will love this way. Sometimes, I tell my kids that all that’s left of me is a shell of a woman. But I have to be there for them, they lost their father.’
Hall could have been sentenced up to life in prison for the collision but a jury concluded that the woman’s ‘sudden passion’ was a mitigating factor in her guilt in the death of her trucking company husband. Her attorneys argued the wreck was an accident but she got a two-year prison sentence for aggravated assault.
Now the mistress, Ms Contreras is suing the family for $2.5 million because of the alleged emotional stress from the car chase.
‘I know that I never broke up that family. That family was already broken,’ she said, claiming that Bill Hall told her early on in their relationship that he was separated and going through a divorce. ‘I’m not a bad person, I just fell in love, I couldn’t help it.’
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Author: Linda Ikeji