Texas True Crime
April 25, 2015 10:18 AM Subscribe
TWO PROMINENT DOCTORS. ONE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN LOOKING FOR ROMANCE. AND A LIKABLE MISFIT WHO SPUN TALL TALES. THEIR LIVES INTERSECTED AFTER AN INTENSE RELATIONSHIP TURNED SOUR, BUT NO ONE GUESSED THAT THE PATH TO LOVE WOULD LEAD TO MURDER.
- Texas Monthly: "A Deadly Dance" By Skip Hollandsworth
Texas Monthly might look into changing their name to Texas True Crime.
posted by Bee'sWing at 11:11 AM on April 25, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Bee'sWing at 11:11 AM on April 25, 2015 [2 favorites]
Spoiler: woman mentioned above was not physically harmed.
posted by infinitewindow at 11:17 AM on April 25, 2015
posted by infinitewindow at 11:17 AM on April 25, 2015
I love Texas Monthly's True Crime pieces. But all the way through this, I keep getting hung up on this particular (and presumably uniquely American) phenomenon for naming a small-town small business - such as a dance class studio - so that it communicates a special sort of class:
D'Venue
First thought: I know in my little Texan heart she pronounced it "DA-ven-oo" or maybe "DA-ven-yoo", but I hope all the snarky people in town call it "duh ven-yoo" like a TV mobster referring obliquely to a location where action has or will take place. "I need ya to wait for da guys to come out of da venue, then you wack 'em."
Second thought: were A'Venue, B'Venue, and C'Venue already taken? Lubbock's not that big.
posted by Lyn Never at 12:17 PM on April 25, 2015 [9 favorites]
D'Venue
First thought: I know in my little Texan heart she pronounced it "DA-ven-oo" or maybe "DA-ven-yoo", but I hope all the snarky people in town call it "duh ven-yoo" like a TV mobster referring obliquely to a location where action has or will take place. "I need ya to wait for da guys to come out of da venue, then you wack 'em."
Second thought: were A'Venue, B'Venue, and C'Venue already taken? Lubbock's not that big.
posted by Lyn Never at 12:17 PM on April 25, 2015 [9 favorites]
This story supports my theory that nothing good ever comes out of hanging out at Buffalo Wild Wings.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:09 PM on April 25, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:09 PM on April 25, 2015 [10 favorites]
Helen of Lubbock
posted by knoyers at 4:08 PM on April 25, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by knoyers at 4:08 PM on April 25, 2015 [3 favorites]
I'm not a big fan of conventional marriage or monogamy. With that out of the way I'm always amazed how far really stupid people can get in life. On the other hand Dixon may walk away from this.
Dixon seems to have been surprised that after he dumped his wife for a new hotter model the new hotter model would dump him for an upgrade. Shepard didn't have enough sense to talk to Sonnier's exes to find out what his relationship patterns looked like. Maybe he might have cottoned on to the fact that Sonnier didn't tend to marry his dance partners. The bit about paying a hit man in silver is just pure idiocy. Shepard should have kept his mouth shut after committing the murder although I don't understand why the police didn't follow up on what must have been tons of physical evidence at the crime scene. It doesn't sound like Shepard was particularly careful while murdering Sonnier.
It's sad that someone died over junior high school bullshit.
posted by rdr at 6:23 PM on April 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Dixon seems to have been surprised that after he dumped his wife for a new hotter model the new hotter model would dump him for an upgrade. Shepard didn't have enough sense to talk to Sonnier's exes to find out what his relationship patterns looked like. Maybe he might have cottoned on to the fact that Sonnier didn't tend to marry his dance partners. The bit about paying a hit man in silver is just pure idiocy. Shepard should have kept his mouth shut after committing the murder although I don't understand why the police didn't follow up on what must have been tons of physical evidence at the crime scene. It doesn't sound like Shepard was particularly careful while murdering Sonnier.
It's sad that someone died over junior high school bullshit.
posted by rdr at 6:23 PM on April 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeah, so when do the Coen Bros actually option this? Holy crap, it's almost as good as the plot of Blood Simple or Fargo.
posted by LoRichTimes at 6:39 PM on April 25, 2015
posted by LoRichTimes at 6:39 PM on April 25, 2015
It's sad that someone died over junior high school bullshit.
Most of life, literature, and human history is heavy on junior high school bullshit, unfortunately.
posted by blue suede stockings at 7:02 PM on April 25, 2015 [4 favorites]
Most of life, literature, and human history is heavy on junior high school bullshit, unfortunately.
posted by blue suede stockings at 7:02 PM on April 25, 2015 [4 favorites]
I'm torn.
The slug is clearly a reference to Hart To Hart, but I read it in the narrator's voice from Force On The Case, and murder as "muurrrrderrrr".
posted by Mezentian at 2:18 AM on April 26, 2015
The slug is clearly a reference to Hart To Hart, but I read it in the narrator's voice from Force On The Case, and murder as "muurrrrderrrr".
posted by Mezentian at 2:18 AM on April 26, 2015
Ah Texas.
These people have crass and empty lives. This is what happens when all moral compass points lead to the swamp.
The almost unmentioned victims of this are the dozen or so discarded, unconsidered children of their various selfish histories. Sonnier's kids lost both parents to murder.
posted by spitbull at 4:39 AM on April 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
These people have crass and empty lives. This is what happens when all moral compass points lead to the swamp.
The almost unmentioned victims of this are the dozen or so discarded, unconsidered children of their various selfish histories. Sonnier's kids lost both parents to murder.
posted by spitbull at 4:39 AM on April 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Although I don't mean to imply Sonnier and Sherina aren't also real victims of what is at root bog standard obsessive middle aged white guy domestic or intimate partner violence.
posted by spitbull at 5:17 AM on April 26, 2015
posted by spitbull at 5:17 AM on April 26, 2015
root bog standard obsessive middle aged white guy domestic or intimate partner violence
I should possibly take exception to the middle-aged and white bits of that statement.
I will concede the "guy" or "intimate partner violence" parts, since I fear statistics are against me.
posted by Mezentian at 5:28 AM on April 26, 2015
I should possibly take exception to the middle-aged and white bits of that statement.
I will concede the "guy" or "intimate partner violence" parts, since I fear statistics are against me.
posted by Mezentian at 5:28 AM on April 26, 2015
I wonder if this story getting published is what prompted this tweet a few days ago:
@annehelen: Texas Monthly can publish a bonkers true crime story every month because Texas is vast and filled with bonkers
That said, I've read as many of those that I possibly could.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:07 AM on April 26, 2015
@annehelen: Texas Monthly can publish a bonkers true crime story every month because Texas is vast and filled with bonkers
That said, I've read as many of those that I possibly could.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:07 AM on April 26, 2015
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