Dramatic retrial finds high school football coach, 51, guilty of 1999 murder of his pregnant wife so he could marry his blonde co-worker
Daily Mail
August 6, 2019
A former high school football coach was found guilty for a second time of the 1999 murder of his pregnant wife in Texas.
David Temple, 51, was accused of shooting his wife, Belinda, who was eight months' pregnant when she was killed in 1999.
Temple, who coached at Alief Hastings High School, was found guilty of her murder in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison. However, nine years later the Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction, claiming that prosecutors hid or delayed turning over hundreds of pages of evidence to Temple's defense team, ABC13 reported.
David Temple's re-trial got underway in June 2019. During closing arguments, State prosecutor Lisa Tanner was reported by the Houston Chronicle as saying: 'The circumstances are damning. Only one person could do this.'
He told authorities that he came home from a trip to the park and store with the couple's 3-year-old son and found his wife dead amid an apparent burglary. She was found in the house with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.
Prosecutors argued that Temple, who was having an affair with a coworker named Heather Scott, killed Belinda with a close-contact shotgun wound shortly after she arrived home from getting soup for their son who was sick.
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