Play Trailer 0:21. Raised in Ohio, Thompson spent five years in the Army, earning the rank of captain and commanding a military police unit in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. Then U.S. district judge Barbara Lynn gaveled the court to order. I cant undo what hes done.. The jury determined Friday that Dallas homicide Detective Dwayne Thompson showed a reckless disregard for the civil rights of 36-year-old Hephzibah Olivia Lord. She claimed that Thompson show a reckless disregard for her rights in having Plaintiff arrested in 2010 for the shooting death of her boyfriend, Mcihael Brunside. Jaffe and Lord were taken to the station, and Thompson headed inside Burnsides home. You shot him!, Olivia, youre not telling me the truth., Youre arguing about a goddamn birthday party, and he says, Im so upset about the goddamn birthday party that Im going to kill myself? Thompson said, his voice growing louder. There was another, longer silence. There were too many unanswered questions, he said. Both have worked numerous murders and each has been featured on the popular A&E reality television show, He sustained a fatal contact gunshot wound to the right temple. | Privacy Statement. Seriously, does anyone believe this story that Olivia tells about being in the bathroom and hearing something that sounded like glass breaking in the kitchen? Lord shook her head. You [expletive] shot him! She explained that after she had found Burnside, her calls to 911 kept getting dropped due to a weak signal on her cellphone. Yes you did!. (Thompson still hadnt told anyone outside his office about the discrepancy.) And Im a person who thinks your behavior tonight doesnt add up. He pointed his finger at her. But he stayed in the bedroom, pacing, walking around, yelling at me, screaming, angry. Finally, after he couldnt get her to respond to him, he left the room. I had the impression that she told me that [Burnside] had nothing to do with it and she did it. But he refused to say, like he had said on his porch, that he had definitely heard Lord confess to the shooting. Nevertheless, as far as Thompson was concerned, that did not eliminate her as a suspect. Shearin paid a visit to Reade Quinton, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Burnside, to ask him why, just prior to Lords arrest, he had changed his ruling about the cause of death from pending to homicide. Quinton replied that Thompson had informed him about the statement made by Rastegar. They returned a unanimous verdict in favor of Lord, and ultimately the city had to pay her $1.2 million, which reportedly was the largest judgement of its kind in Dallas. I mean, she got no-billed. Lundberg paused again. I do believe you killed him. If the detectives thought they had noticed the smell of chemicals on her, it must have come from the paint thinner and the floor stripper that she and Burnside had been using that day. And then Thompson pounced. 1983 claiming that she was wrongfully arrested for a killing that she did not commit, which landed her in jail for nine days. Mimi Swartz is a staff writer based in Houston. texasmonthly.com Bring on the Shiplap? According to Thompson, Rastegar said he had been in bed during the early morning hours of May 9 when he heard screaming in Burnsides front yard. Tittle then had the jurors watch Thompsons interview with Lord and Lundbergs interview with Rastegar. Prosecutors are also aware that detectives can develop a kind of tunnel vision about a case. If I discover anything that substantiates what I believe, Im going to charge you with murder., He glared at her for a moment. In the taped interrogation, the detective asks Lord some general questions about what happened on the night that her boyfriend died then Thompson changed things up. For her part, Lord said that she would gladly give up any money in return for Thompsons being sent to prison. Why did you let my son bleed to death on his own kitchen floor? Five years later, Lord clearly remains tormented by that conversation, haunted by the idea that she might have said something that pushed her boyfriend into committing an impulsive act that no one could have imagined him doing. Or maybe the two had struggled for the gun before it went off, leaving residue on both of them. A&E | Air Date: unknown. Im willing to accept that it might have been an accident. Do I feel an overwhelming feeling of guilt because I may have provoked something? He called the tone and line of questioning a formula for a false confession. And Sanders questioned why Thompson did not read Lord her right to remain silent after the point in which he clearly considered her a murder suspect during the interview. There was something else that didnt seem right: drops of blood leading into another room. Scattered around the floor were a few bottles of household cleaning products. Why did you wait seven minutes before calling 911? he yelled. That was one of the most-watched episodes in The First 48s run, drawing 2.3 million viewers, and the producers told Thompson that they wanted to do more shows with him. Lundberg said that there was a gunshot wound to his right temple, a contact wound where the muzzle had been pressed directly against his head, which is common in suicides involving a handgun. I work cases because thats what I get paid to do., Tittle asked Thompson why he didnt seem particularly disturbed that Burnside was drunk and had showed off his Beretta on the night of the shooting. When the paramedics arrived, Burnside had faint vital signs, but he died shortly after reaching the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. A uniformed officer walked over and told Thompson that the house belonged to a man named Michael Burnside, age thirty. The jurors, however, werent buying any of it. Im still going to suffer for the rest of my life for this, she said. After telling Lord and Jaffe that he was sorry for their loss, Thompson asked them to sign releases agreeing to gunshot residue testsroutine procedure, he assured them. Lord was slumped over in a chair, still wearing her blood-stained clothes. Then, on June 5, his phone rang. Thompson studied Lord and Jaffe for a moment, then walked over to them. The officer identified him as Brian Jaffe, a thirty-year-old civil engineer who had been Burnsides best friend since high school. She had always insisted that she had not fled from the police. Shearin went to see Brandi Mitchell, a prosecutor with the Dallas County district attorneys office who was in charge of the Burnside case, and claimed that Thompson had perjured himself. The Reid method has been challenged as being primed for pushing people to give false confessions and many argue that it should not be used by law enforcement agencies. Its insane, he was overheard saying one afternoon at a restaurant near the police department. Police interrogations happen all the time here in Dallas, and over in Fort Worth as well as the rest of Texas and around the country. She also said that when he got angry, he could be a little scary and that he threw stuff in the house. She would usually ignore him when he got into one of his moods, but this time it had only made him angrier. Basically she said, I know the kind of stuff that goes on in Vegas, Jaffe told Thompson. Who do you fing think you are?. He remains convinced that he got a raw deal at the civil trial and that Tittle played the video of his interrogation of Lord only to plant in jurors minds the idea that he was an intimidating black man taking advantage of a grieving, attractive white woman. Testimony. Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives. They liked to say that when he pursued a suspect, he was as unstoppable as a locomotive. Theres no way my son shot himself,John said. Lord was accused of murder countless times, and she always denied it. And the bullet had exited toward the top of the left side of Burnsides head. She grew up in the Dallas area and after graduating from high school, she went straight to work, leasing apartments for a large real estate company and later selling cosmetics at Neiman Marcus in NorthPark Center. But Love also acknowledges that he is bewildered at the idea of Burnside shooting himself. Shearin asked if Thompson had mentioned that an inebriated Burnside had shown the Beretta to his friend that night. (The autopsy report revealed that he had at least a .17 blood alcohol level when he diedtwice the legal limit to drive a vehicle.) City attorneys are defending him, saying he acted in good faith and without malice. The jury watched it. Thompson returned to headquarters and took the elevator to the homicide offices on the fifth floor. He said that Lundberg had told him that Rastegar had wavered a little bit in his statement but that Lundberg had also let him know that the gist was the same and nothing substantively had changed from what he had already written in his affidavit. I cant say unequivocally whether the young woman did or didnt do the shooting because I wasnt there., At the same time, Mitchell and other prosecutors in the DAs office were not convinced Thompson had committed any serious wrongdoing. She has also enrolled in college for the first time. "The goal is to arrive at the truth." I went into the kitchen and he was on the floor and there was blood. Based on what we see, it looks like you got upset and shot him. He thought he had a mild case of COVID-19. Will detectives be able to catch the killers before they strike again? (Jaffe had been drinking Shiner Bock, and Burnside had been having Red Bull mixed with vodka.) I was leaning over my future husbands body, Lord said. For several seconds, the courtroom was quiet except for Lords muffled sobs. W.D. Okay, fine. But Lords attorney, Don Tittle, said the detective was wrong that police records show she called 911 immediately after trying to reach the friend. You did! By the end of the interview, Thompson had returned from his lecture and walked into the room. Its terrifying., Lords claim of innocence has been bolstered by Rastegar, who told me that he never said to Thompson or Lundberg, not even on his front porch, that he had heard her confess to shooting Burnside. On August 6 Brown signed the report, and Thompson was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. Ive talked to her many, many times, and if she is lying about what happened, shes a hell of an actress, said one friend, Eric Love. Had she washed up with towels before the paramedics and police arrived? What this trial is about is whether this detective had probable cause to believe that she did it. Then Schuette began listing all the reasons that would make a detective like Thompson believe Lord had killed her boyfriend. But Detective Thompson couldnt or wouldnt accept that. Tittle said that Thompson allowed a screenplay [of the shooting] in his mind to take over. And thats a dangerous, dangerous thing if youre a homicide detective with the Dallas Police Department., Lord took the stand and was overcome with emotion as she described her love for Burnside. He insisted that what Rastegar told him in the homicide office was the same and consistent with what he said out on the porch. Tittle said that Thompson told one of Burnsides friends within 12 hours of the death that he would bet his career that Lord killed Burnside. For Thompson, there was no question about it: Lord was on the run. It was now 5:44 a.m. In his free time, he read Civil War history and played Internet chess. Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson hunts for a band of carjacking killers that are terrorizing a neighborhood. They had not laid eyes on each other since he had interrogated her. When he wasnt solving murders, Thompson restored sports cars and tooled around in a black Corvette convertible. . However, the police may or may not let the person know about this right (remember the experts concerns that Thompson had not told Lord about her right to a lawyer). But, said Lundberg, there was no sign of blood spatter on Burnsides right hand or arm. But she maintained her innocence and claimed Thompson was the one who should go to prison. He studied the call histories on the phones and took some notes. He often said that victimology was the most overlooked part of a homicide investigation even though it could help explain whether a suspect was guilty or innocent. Although Thompson would not consent to my request for an interview, people who have talked to him say he feels that he has done nothing wrong. But she never did: she kept saying that she loved her boyfriend, that they were happy together, and that he had taken his life for reasons she could not imagine. The only thing I can tell you that might make any sense to anybody is that when hes drunk, hes very irrational, she said. She claimed that Thompson show a reckless disregard for her rights in having Plaintiff arrested in 2010 for the shooting death of her . "It was a good experience," Thompson says, "It kind of launched me into police work." Ill tell you this about Mikey: his motto was I love my life. Every time something worked out, hed be like, I love my life. In fact, Jaffe said, Burnside had used that very phrase that evening because his company was about to bill $70,000 for work it had done in a single week. What do you guys think? Ive never seen anything like it, Sanders said. Lord spent the next four days at her mothers home in the Dallas suburbs, lying in bed, taking sleeping pills. He also had run up some debt: he owed a rental car company money for crashing one of its vehicles, and he had received letters from the IRS demanding that he pay more than $50,000 in back taxes. Summary: Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson and the homicide team investigate the brutal double murders of two friends shot and burned beyond recognition in the trunk of a car. He allowed a few seconds to pass. S8, Ep2 8 Jan. 2009 On July 15, the Public Integrity Units report landed on the desk of Dallas police chief David Brown. What he needed was irrefutable evidence pointing to Lords involvement in the shooting. I know that he could get dramatic and a little crazy when he drank. He is a Democrat representing District 96 in the Tennessee House of Representatives . This has been kind of a sexy case here: an attractive female shoots the boyfriend, you solve the crime. A 9mm Beretta was also on the floor about five feet from where Burnsides body had been. Shed given her telephone to her aunt, who was screening her calls. He is one of the most popular detectives in the Dallas Police Departmenta charismatic man, big and boisterous, with a powerful deep voice, says Craig Miller, a former deputy police chief who served as Thompsons lieutenant in the homicide unit in 2010. She was on an airplaneon her way to California. After going through perfunctory questions about what happened that night, Thompsons voice boomed without warning. She was Miss Right as far as he was concerned, Jaffe replied. And now that he had a witness who was going to provide bombshell testimony about what had really happened that night, he was ready to go to trial. Thompson, a 21-year veteran of the Police Department, has been a homicide detective since 2006. Brian, we got a problem, Thompson said. We were joking around about somethingI dont remember whatand I said, Hey, wheres your Beretta? And he opened up [a kitchen drawer] and said, Its right here.. Jaffe called Thompson back the next day and said that he had reached Lord. And its going to come out.. When Michael Burnside was found dead in his Dallas home four years ago, detective Dwayne Thompson decided that the victim's girlfriend, Olivia Lord, had pulled the trigger. Please E-mail suggested additions, comments and/or corrections to Kent@MoreLaw.Com. The arrest was based upon Thompsons affidavit. Come on., Lord closed her eyes when I asked her about those detractors who continue to believe shes hiding something. Dwayne Thompson and Kim Sanders are both grizzled veterans of the Dallas police homicide unit. Lundberg also took the stand, testifying that he too remained convinced that Lord was guilty of murder. Kim Sanders, a more than 30-year veteran of the department who served as a homicide detective, said the interview amounted to intimidation. I did not kill my boyfriend. And then theres Jaffe, Burnsides best friend, who says he remains convinced that Lord is hiding something. Home Another detective, Dwayne Thompson, charged into the interrogation room. They make honest, reasonable mistakes. | Articles He took her to dinner, and the date lasted the entire weekend. You fing shot him! he bellowed, nearly coming out of his chair. But she was pointedly not invited to a get-together that Burnsides friends were throwing after the service at one of his favorite bars. Facebook gives people the power. Only Burnside and Lord were in the apartment where they lived at the time. Hephzibah Olivia Lord, distraught and sobbing, sat across from Detective Dwayne A. Thompson in the Dallas Police Departments interview room several hours after her boyfriend had died from a gunshot wound to the head. I dont want to answer that, she said. Rastegar ran outside and asked her what had happened. She wanted to know why they were there. He spoke to her the way a loving father would talk to his daughter. He can go so far as to lie to a suspect to try to obtain a confession. Olivia, youre not telling me the truth, Thompson told her. The officer looked at the notes he had jotted down. Mikey said, Im not going to cheat on you in Vegas. Contact info; Agent info; Help contribute to IMDb. And, yes, she said, she had grown irritated when she heard Burnside and Jaffe talking about the birthday party. | Advertising The lawsuit also claimed that Thompson had permanently damaged Lords reputation in Dallas and caused her to suffer extreme emotional and mental anguish, including depression, insomnia, nightmares, and constant anxiety of the most extreme nature. Lord was asking for monetary damages, and according to courthouse gossip, Tittle was not willing to settle for less than seven figures. Then she looked at Thompson. Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich said he brought thousands of offenders to justice, bringing closure to victims and their families. He told the jurors that he didnt believe that Lord had shot Burnside. Burnsides parents say that they still cannot believe that their son took his own life. They couldnt get the dishwasher installed because of a broken valve, which sent water all over the floor, so they took a break. Which brings us to the story this week here in Dallas of Hephzibah Olivia Lord, who sued and won a civil lawsuit against a Dallas police detective for false arrest, reportedly in large part because the jury found that the detective had acted with malice (a legal term here) during his interrogation of Lord after she was arrested on a charge of murdering her boyfriend. Its so ridiculous. Lets make a bad thing right. His fellow detectives nicknamed him D-Train. There was no sign that he had struggled with an assailantno bruises or scratches on his skin, no scuffed knuckles. Did she, in fact, tell him that she was leaving him? And whats really frightening is that Thompson could come back after me, plant some new fake evidence, and arrest me for murder again. And a handful of Burnsides friends have reunited with Lord, saying they now believe that she had nothing to do with his death. West Texans Are Learning What It Means to Live in Bear Country, Jimmy Carters Peanut-and-Egg Taco Made Quite the Impression on San Antonians, The Top 50 Texas BBQ Joints: 2021 Edition, The Campaign to Sabotage Texass Public Schools. At around twelve-thirty, the officer continued, a woman had called 911 from the house. Lord said that she and Burnside had gotten into an argumentsomething about a birthday party. The detective was 47 years old and built like a linebacker at six feet two inches and 230 pounds. Shearin ordered Lords cellphone records and received more good news: there was no seven-minute gap in her calls. The lawsuit claimed that Thompson had violated Lords civil rights by engaging in malicious prosecutionin particular, that he had intentionally misrepresented the facts about Burnsides shooting and omitted significant exculpatory information that would have proved Lord innocent of any wrongdoing. Sometimes he would think [a gun] was unloaded and he would swing it around, you know, not trying to hurt anybody, just being stupid. Thompson repeatedly asked Lord during the interview why she waited seven minutes to call 911 after trying to reach a friend of Burnsides by phone. She added a detail about their relationship that she hadnt told Thompson, saying that she had been disappointed that Burnside hadnt proposed to her the previous Christmas. Of course not, she said. Thats what you did! He wasnt stressed-out, Thompson said. Thompson, a 21-year veteran of the Police Department, has been a homicide detective since 2006. In this interrogation method, its deemed acceptable to manipulate through accusations of guilt through an aggressive protocol of nine steps. Although she had her own apartment, she was planning to move in with him as soon as he finished remodeling the house. Most of Thompsons fellow officers assumed it would be only a matter of time before he was firedand perhaps even indicted. He told Lundberg that he wasnt sure this was a suicide. But, Jaffe added, Burnside didnt wave the gun around. It was a very overwhelming issue., Thompson leaned back in his chair and stared at Lord. HEPHZIBAH OLIVIA LORD What other results could you have with the police policing themselves? she said. In Lords case, while she was arrested by Dallas police it was soon shown that there was no murder; her boyfriend had committed suicide. After being honorably discharged, in 1991, while stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he joined the Dallas police. Something is not right.. Im innocent, Lord kept saying. He then asked them to ride down to Dallas police headquarters in separate squad cars to give their statements. Was she Miss Right or Miss Right Now? Thompson asked. No, said Quinton, Thompson hadnt mentioned either of those things. Chip Gaines Bought Larry McMurtrys Historic Texas Bookstore. She liked pampering him, waiting on him hand and foot so that he could focus on building his company. Yes. Thompsons interrogation of Lord was videotaped. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. Finally, after Thompson barked at him, he stepped onto the front porch and told a flabbergasting story. I believe that with all my heart.. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? See full summary . Thompson left the room, walked down the hall, and opened the door to another interview room. Why are you doing this to me right now? Lord asked Thompson at one stage during the questioning. Comments are welcomed here and I will respond to you -- but please, no requests for personal legal advice here and nothing that's promoting your business or product. Some are arguing that Lord has won this jury verdict because Detective Thompson used a controversial form of interrogation method called the Reid method of questioning. A few days after the funeral, Lord called Burnsides brother to ask if she could retrieve some of her belongings from the house. I wondered about the story Jaffe had told Thompson about finding her in the front yard, desperately saying, I wasnt going to leave him. Im innocent.. Cameras followed him as he solved a murder case in which the body was never found. She works at a clothing shop, making $14 an hour, far less than what she was earning when she was in the mortgage business. It was Lundberg, who had gone to Parkland to examine Burnsides body. Hed been as tall as Thompson, with a lean, athletic build. Who do you think you are? But a Dallas County grand jury later declined to indict her. Just because the words were less strong doesnt mean they were any less true.. In fact, she had purchased the airline tickets for herself, her nieces, and her nephew to go to California thirteen days before the arrest warrant had been filed. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); With more than 150 jury trials under his belt, Michael Lowe has strong and varied courtroom experience. But she maintained her innocence, claiming that he committed suicide. Lundberg then brought up the trajectory of the bullet through Burnsides brain. Thompson is the one whos gotten away with the crime., Lord told me that she was not surprised to hear that the police departments Public Integrity Unit had ignored the civil jurys verdict and cleared Thompson. In August, three months after the shooting, Shearin requested an examining trial, a legal procedure in which a police officer must appear in a magistrates court to lay out the probable cause for the arrest of a suspect in a felony case. (For a philosophy class, she wrote a paper on Socrates being sentenced to death under false charges.) Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson and the homicide team investigate the brutal double murders of two friends shot and burned beyond recognition in the trunk of a car. . Filing in behind him were at least a dozen of his fellow homicide detectives, there to show support. In this trial, Lord was definitely the underdog. And in Cleveland, an argument among friends spins out of control when one of them makes a deadly decision. Dressed in one of his dark suits, Thompson strode toward his seat. Something happened there tonight, and it doesnt make sense., The only thing I can think of is that he was careless sometimes with guns, Jaffe said. Nor did Burnsides parents invite her to the reception. The trial finally began in a federal courtroom in downtown Dallas this past Januarynearly four years after the shooting. See production, box office & company info. When Michael Burnside was found dead in his Dallas home after an argument with his girlfriend, detective Dwayne Thompson decided that the victim's girlfriend, Olivia Lord, had pulled the trigger. "You look at that. How Florence ButtNot Her SonLaunched the H-E-B Empire. You were very disappointed. Or maybe in the midst of the argument, Burnside had pulled the Beretta out of the kitchen drawer for a second time, handed it to Lord, and said, in an effort to be dramatic, If you hate me so much, then just shoot me. And she did. On May 11, 2011, in the case of Texas v. Lord, the grand jury returned a no bill. The officer flipped another page. But I dont know how to do it. Yes, the video of him interviewing her is pretty rough, and it looks like he comes across as a bully. The officer flipped a page in his notebook. Not only that, Sanders also pointed out Thompsons failure to read Ms. Lord her Miranda rights including specifically her right to remain silent after it was clear that Thompson considered Lord to be a suspect in a crime. Strapped around his shoulders was a thick brown leather holster that held his department-issued pistol, a 9mm Sig Sauer. Nearly a year after the shooting, a grand jury met and heard the evidence. But what did you actually tell Michael during the argument? Thompson started his career in law enforcement as a corrections officer in a maximum-security prison in South Carolina. When he finished, he left a packet of evidence that hed compiled for the grand jurors to peruse, including the results of two polygraphs that concluded that Lord had not shown deception when she said she had not shot Burnside. Her voice shook when she spoke. She had then grabbed the bottles of cleaning products from under the sink to wash away the blood and the gunpowder residue, which would account for the chemical odor he thought he had smelled on her. These laws are especially important when those being questioned are already emotionally reeling from the events themselves like Ms. Lord who first dealt with the discovery of her boyfriends body, calling 911 for help, and that loss then to face questioning by police while vulnerable and upset like Lords being questioned by Thompson as if she had committed a crime for several hours. Something is definitely not adding up, Thompson thought, as he walked into one of the interview rooms where Brian Jaffe was waiting. Lord claimed that Burnside, who was intoxicated, shot himself.Thompson rejected the theory that Burnside committed suicide and investigated the death as murder. Shearin got Lord out of jail on bail. 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