3) Richards handwriting was identified by a forensic expert in Nancys diary accusing her brother of sexually abusing her. Tim, thanks so much for the kind words about the blog! Friends: Many thanks. How does all that coincide with your accidental death theory??? Im so glad they had the support of others to get them through the loss of their mother & the cause of her death based over their dad! I will follow up with specifics about Dr. Bagheri. Friends of Richard Lyon are hardly friends of justice. So, perhaps the hospital was negligent, though of course it leaves us with question of the poisoners identity If the above is correct, Nancys family would seem justified in litigating. Read the article under Nancy Dillard Lyon on the website. The old boss didnt have opportunity, and I seriously doubt the brother did either (and the hospital certainly didnt, based on the current BS FRL is spouting). An opinion can contain facts, incorrect information, neither (only opinion, citing no facts at all), or both. See https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Rogue-cop-gets-20-years-in-killing-2064331.php Nancy might have had a dark side. If no one else touched it, they wouldnt have been exposed and it explains the high dosage on her fingertips. Your email address will not be published. In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. You have to show remorse. They constructed a dollhouse shingle by shingle for their daughter Allison. Cant find her anywhere. You also said no one commits suicide over time. I dont agree that, in the USA, juries are more likely to wrongfully acquit than convict. And its a real shame that good decent people are often the victims of narcissistic creeps. Excellent! It would be the kiss of death for anyone in TX to take this case that is what some have told me. The Nancy Dillard Lyon Trail in Grand Prairie was named for a woman from an influential Texas family who tragically died at her husband's hands. Taking a mother from her kids proves hes pure evil and also, the fact that not one single legal nonprofit wanted to take his case speaks volumes. Can we read hearts? Obviously people commit suicide over time. The police then found out she had been suffering from depression for the past year after finding out Richard had an affair with another woman. Follow your gut feelingand live! Lyon later admitted to buying some poisons, for killing fire ants in his yard, he said. And this website/belief/him takes up a very large part of your life, doesnt it? Lol. Does an atheist (I am not) have the right to condemn acts of brutality as much as the ardent believer as the repentance and forgiveness are complex issues and do not mitigate crimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7rEfV67630. Actually, people all over the world follow this story. For these reasons Im cautious in averring that the jury was wrong particularly in the many cases on this site that have been through at least one appeal with the same conclusion. Thats how it works. Lyon has applied to the Innocence Project of Texas and New York, the Thurgood Marshall School of Law Innocence Project, and the House of Renewed Hope. Nancy planned to move to Washington, D.C., with her daughters after the divorce, a 1991 AP story reported. The same is true of saying hes absolutely guilty, convicted or not. Watch the Forensic Files episode on YouTube. In early 1990, Richard moved out of the house and continued his extramarital relationship. Im following up: do either of the daughters have a relationship with their father? He MUST have done SOMETHING for the police to be looking at him, sometimes before the person is even charged? But the money hadnt spoiled Nancy. Cathy: Hello. 12 People Found Him Guilty, Due To Tremendous Amount Of Evidence. He killed her for the life insurance money. They had watched them bury one of their four children, thirty-year-old Tom, who died of a brain tumor in 1985. The two purposely tweaked their handwriting so it looked similar enough that he could get away with handing in papers shed written for him. It came out in the trial. The quantum of circumstantial evidence is persuasive, but youre implying that such evidence is of less value than physical evidence. When Richard Lyon first began sneaking poison into his wifes beverages, he probably hoped she would die quickly and doctors would attribute the tragedy to natural causes, end of story. The first two didnt work, and you finally finished her off with arsenic, a tried-and-true method of producing death., Creuzot gave him life in jail and a $10,000 fine. Correction: FROM THE TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS: There is no PHYSICAL evidence that directly links Richard to sneaking poison into his wifes beverages. IF Nancy told the doctor she thought her husband was poisoning her, then why didnt he call the police and test her for it? Her condition deteriorated overtime and her organs started to fail. My husband had read the book before he had ever met him. I suggest you watch, Life After Life, the Michael Morton story. Thats so great to hear thanks so much for writing in! If she were framing the husband, she could have done it rather quicker and hence less painfully. Curious as to how Richard explains (or explained) the baggie of empty capsules in his apartment? Feel free to point out any specific thing you believe isnt fact. Meanwhile, a laboratory found lethal amounts of arsenic in Nancys hair, liver, and kidneys. Homewrecker. During sentencing, Judge John C. Creuzot said that Lyon used various and sundry chemicals to kill Nancy. If you just wanted attention from your husband, you wouldnt use arsenic at all, since it causes permanent damage. 1. Of course, I have seen some DAs who do care if the defendant is innocent. Her husband claimed she purchased the poison to get rid of some fire ants in her yard. Doubt they believe he is innocent since they took their moms surname Dillard. If Lyon had been a Texan cop, he may have gotten only 20 years for murder as Joseph Kent McGowen did. Richard Lyon met Nancy Dillard at Harvard, where they studied to become landscape architects. The SEC brought a successful multiple securities violations lawsuit against Charles O. Couch, in June, 2016, when Charles Couch agreed to pay $10,000,000 to the SEC and some of his hundreds of victims. His evil can suffocate him, for all i know, it would be only minus one scum to live on societys tax payers income as he deserved death. No matter how much he lies about it, the truth is clear as day. I saw him yesterday. She came in contact with wet, burnt, pressure treated wood. But a Texas court rejected his blame-the-victim strategy, which included a contention that Nancy had brought about her own slow demise by intentionally consuming arsenic and barium carbonate over a long period of time. I shouldve added above that of course juries can and should only judge on the evidence presented to them, rather than adding their own second-guesses, prejudices etc to the mix. Marcus I hope I would do the same where I perceived a gross miscarriage of justice I hope you would have someone fight for you or your child if there was a gross miscarriage of justice. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he alleged. Fortunately, the state of Texas and Nancys family werent so easily fooled. }} There WERE owl feathers and her own hair found in her hands; what POSSIBLE explanation is there for that, other than an owl attack? Or the forged receipt, or the life insurance he thought he was going to get. Thats why I always say, I believe, or the facts point to his guilt. It is unreasonable to think that the children would have never been around while their mother made their playhouse (BTW, did tests ever even show arsenic in the wood? 1) While at college, Richard had Nancy write some of his assignments. My mom, my dad, my stepfather, all my grandparents, my exs mother, my friends siblings. Death bed declarations are not considered hearsay. They both took the last name of Dillard and Anna got married in 2015 at the arboretum, which has an exhibit in her mothers honor. I wish I had more time and money to pursue his innocence, but I do not. Talk about clutching at straws! I wondered, instead, what twisted passion had carried him through the months of premeditation, through the hours of her retching at home, through the days of her decline and death. A jury convicted him of first-degree murder, and Lyon began a life sentence at the W.F. Cmon, FRL. Dallas, Dallas County, . Thanks again! Being that easily fooled makes you look as gullible as him for imagining he could twist and turn things around and play the blame the victim game and win. Were you admitted WITH arsenical poisoning (in which case, they didnt) or with another condition, THEN were also to have been found poisoned? Hes a murderer. If Eve had life insurance in Adams favour (or he thought so), and if he were short of money cos of high living, including trying to impress his new girlfriend, with unpaid bills, those are reasonably probative; and unless Eve elaborately set Adam up, a string of witnesses chronicling how they had signed for chemicals addressed to Adam is probative despite absence of proof that he ordered them. While the rest of us have the opinion he is guilty. I hope he rots slowly where he is. In my view there is too little doubt to permit acquittal, but I accept that this wasnt quite a slam-dunk. This was not a slam-dunk but was the most likely of all the explanations, which the court found so likely as to reach the threshold of guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Nancy told her doctor about the times she already believed Richard drugged her: the pop at the movie, a nightcap that left her severely sick on the bathroom floor, not to mention those vitamins that made her sick. I feel he is smart enough to find bored and lonely sycophants to engage in defending him when even FIVE legal services that offer assistance to unjustly convicted prisoners have declined to take on his case. Again, the truth will come out. Nancy would get sick/notice a bad taste/powder in drinks supplied to her by Richard. One of them ended up serving a life sentence in a Federal prison; the other ended up dead. Sorry, sir. Good thing youre not a detective! Nancy Dillard Lyon was a very successful real estate development project manager from a wealthy family. Richard forged the part of the diary about the abuse. Allison and Anna wish to be left alone by EVERYONE. Then she got hopeful. Search obituaries CALL NOW Alexandria (318) 442-3363 Pineville (318) 640-1678 Jena (318) 992-4158 Marksville (318) 253-5979 Toggle navigation And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convictedand sentenced to life in prison. Alice: From these three facts, we can ascertain that Richard does not have integrity, loyalty, morals, scruples or decency. All I know is what commenters have said that both daughters grew up to be accomplished adults. All the evidence against him and he still wont fess up to his crime. Nothing sweet about that deal. Invite friends and neighbors over to watch. But I could feel my focus changing. https://obits.dallasnews.com/us/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/name/jerri-sims-obituary?id=2148042. . Thats all for this post. But Allison and Anna are adults now. A shame about his wife though. This is such a tragic case for all involved. While Golden described Nancy as infuriatingly optimistic about saving her marriage when Richard first left her, it came out at the trial that her hopefulness had finally receded: At some point, she had quietly removed her husband as beneficiary of her life insurance policy. Rot in that cell you scumbag Richard Lyon. 3) Nancy told MULTIPLE, trustworthy witnesses that Richard was trying to poison her. These facts dont constitute a dangerously unscrupulous person and arent probative of murder. As for the NY Times article about the arsenic in the wood, both the wife and the husband in that article had high arsenic levels. There might be a bit of Better Call Saul-ness in the case. A LOT of moronic jurors out there and guilty people go free and sadly innocent people go to prison. He did not lie or forge anything. He concluded that Richard was the one who wrote that to try and cover up his crime. Ramsey Unit prison farm at the tender age of 34., Correction: Richard began his sentence at the Eastham Unit: 2665 Prison Road 1, Lovelady, TX 75851, Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~ John Adams. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Thank you for your testimony! Who are we to judge! FRL: Thanks; Ill/well read with interest. The records for the condo show everyone who had lived there prior to her and after her, but not her. Nancys father was none-too-pleased that his son-in-law made the decision to terminate her life support without consulting him or his wife. Thanks for writing in I had never heard that theory. Youre as bad as the p.o.s. Richard Lyon's trial took place on December 2nd, 1991 and ended on January 19, 1992. That law/right has ended up causing a lot of innocent people to end up in jail in that country, along with the beyond foolish war on drugs, which have put a lot of innocent mothers, wives, and girlfriends to end up in jail for longer than the actual drug dealers (Im talking about 20 year mandatory sentences, mandatory sentences for anything is foolish there are always exceptions)!!! I agree, one must be a demon to kill in the first place and secondly a mother to two beautiful young girls. In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. But nothing in that comment was fiction: Give the predator two more victims. Their decision to change their names is definitely understandable. Cathy: Just read the case. But I have a question: Is the main person of Friends of Richard Lymon either: Something just didnt seem right watching the family as they gathered. I didnt state there couldnt have been a third-party. Nancy Cooke Dillard Lyon Birth 6 Aug 1953. Paper Lyon. Ironically, Texas is the leading state in false convictions and leads the nation in exonerations with 23 in 2017 alone! Or the forged receipt with her name on it (typed receipt, but all receipts in that business were done by hand no typewriter), or the forged diary entries. Adultery and greed are characteristics of the young ladys husband. I have gut problems to this day; 50+ years later and I spend many nights in the late hours with an upheavalnot a fun thing but nothing like that sick poisoned feeling.and I know mine was a mere dusting of what that poor woman went through. And there can be few crueler ways to kill than this appalling manner. Youre crazy (or stupid) if you believe that. He is innocent. Man has to answer to man what comes later is based on personal belief. She told the doctor (her psychiatrist/psychologist) that she believed Richard was systematically poisoning her thats directly from the victim! 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