The Friends of Richard Lyon website was proven to be a money-making scam. No sane person would see the evidence, then actually believe that Richard is innocent. I imagine the prisons low-medium security. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson_(criminal)#Owl_theory Nancys death was a tragedy all the way around and has affected many lives. And whats with this Adam and Eve nonsense?! In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallasreal estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. They would like their privacy and to be left alone.. Can you imagine their pain? But do I blame them? But more importantly, he deserves a new trial. If Richard didnt do it, he fatally weakened his case by lying and forgery. That I have been 6 times is implausable, yet true. All they care about is winning the case to keep up their win/lose ratio, and advance their career. They succeeded in getting Richard Lyon removed from the Dallas Country Club and deposited into the W. F. Ramsey Unit on a prison farm in Rosharon. At the trial, internist Dr. Ali Bagheri noted that Richard was "smiling, joking, and laughing" with hospital staff members during his wife's emergency room visit. So sorry to hear about this - she did such great job with this case! Situation like that they could had hired to handle the cause of the issue! Hes right where he belongs! Slither back into your holes, snakes. Contents 1 Death 2 Investigation 3 Trial 4 References 5 Nancy Lyon Julie: I certainly dont think US juries are more likely wrongfully to convict than others juries: that would be hard to evidence and I wouldnt presume to speculate, except to use the countries own stats for wrongful conviction. As a mother of a son, this case and others are examples of how the rich can control the justice system. So it is sadly predictable. All the evidence against him and he still wont fess up to his crime. But it must be the hospital who Nancy said gave her a nightcap that made her deathly ill, or gave her strange tasting pop at the movies with a strange powder floating on top? Dillard parents. Actually, people all over the world follow this story. The truth is, there is just far too much that cant be explained away. Aware that the No. This comment on behalf of this scum is as sick as the scum himself. Richard Lying is not getting out ever hahahaha Thanks. So sorry to hear you were made ill, Lili. He left an irrefutable paper trail that shows he bought it. https://obits.dallasnews.com/us/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/name/jerri-sims-obituary?id=2148042, The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Forensic Files Lost Episode, Dawn Fehring: A Missionary Dies Too Young, Ron Gillette: An Air Force Man Who Didnt Exactly Aim High. It is all hearsay. Who had a stronger motive than him? 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. There seemed less to fear from Battaglia when it came to the couple's two young daughters, 9-year-old Mary Faith and Liberty, who was 6. He thought Nancy was a money making machine!!!! In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. 3) Nancy told MULTIPLE, trustworthy witnesses that Richard was trying to poison her. Geeze what a family!! No evidence? And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convictedand sentenced to life in prison. Lol. Its just conceivable that you could hate someone enough to poison yourself purely to frame them, at the expense of your own life, but its barely likely. To reiterate, the autopsy report said an acute dose of arsenic as cause of death. Well, I myself do not know definitively what happened to Nancy Dillard Lyons. 1) While at college, Richard had Nancy write some of his assignments. To answer one of your questions, the bottle of pills was found eight months later! Because it follows along the south fork of Fish . Thank you for your testimony! youre insane, just like him. Since then, Ive been stuck in elevators 5 more times (a different building), although I know how to get out myself, from that first time. Hes a man that didnt want to be married, pay child support, and keep her insurance policy. He became eligible for parole 15 years later in 2006. After being treated as Royalty by Texas Securities top enforcement dog, Joe Rotunda and the lose way in which the law suit was handled by the SEC, the only thing that might come as a surprise is that Joe (Rotunda) and Jay (Oman, Deputy Director of Enforcement) did not give Couch a ride to the airport., One of our clients, I understand, made repeated request to both agencies to seize or freeze Couchs assets, to stop the selloff of investors assets and take measures to prevent his leaving the country. Such people are unfit for office and should be punished just as they have tried improperly to punish others with prison. It would come up in court later. Or is it supposedly the pressure treated wood? 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. I worry about Lyon getting out. IF Nancy told the doctor she thought her husband was poisoning her, then why didnt he call the police and test her for it? Id have thought there should be a protocol about this but can imagine there isnt or wasnt (ie, it may not be that uncommon that people sick with potentially substance-attributable symptoms wrongly claim theyve been poisoned by another). Read: The New York Times: The Poison is Arsenic and the Suspect is Wood., https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/us/the-poison-is-arsenic-and-the-suspect-wood.html. Richard Lyon pleaded not guilty at his 1991 murder trial. Although Nancy enjoyed the East Coast, Richard made the well-reasoned suggestion that the couple should reside in Dallas, the Dillard family's power base. When sufficient circumstantial evidence aggregates, each aspect of which IN ISOLATION can be explained away or attract doubt, a threshold is reached which cannot be ignored or explained away in its entirety. She didnt appreciate his using $5,900 of their money to buy a ring for Gaisford. Until next week, cheers. She wasnt poisoned by anyone. If you just wanted attention from your husband, you wouldnt use arsenic at all, since it causes permanent damage. If there is a guilty party here, it is the hospital. I spend my time in prayer for those in need and for truth. Cant find her anywhere. Forensic tests. Occams razor (or Ockhams razor): suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. Richard began an affair with a coworker named Tami Ayn Gaisford around 1989. . Curious as to how Richard explains (or explained) the baggie of empty capsules in his apartment? And so Richard wasarrested, tried, and convictedand sentenced to life in prison. Nancys death was a tragic accident. 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. Testifying on his own behalf at the trial, Richard Lyon tried to implicate Bagwell. There can be SOME doubt , which is by definition unreasonable in compromising the reasonableness of the finding. The grieving husband also showed authorities an anonymous letter Nancy had received; it threatened violence if she went ahead and testified against a former colleague named David Bagwell who allegedly embezzled $720,000 from Trammell Crow. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, then headed to the Harvard School of Design for a graduate degree in landscaping and architecture. Nancy would get sick/notice a bad taste/powder in drinks supplied to her by Richard. And was it the hospital that forged documents to make it look like Nancy ordered the arsenic? Nancy Dillard Lyon was a very successful real estate development project manager from a wealthy family. 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. Im sure youve had many more affairs in the Prison showers, but not with good looking bimbos lol. I imagine that if you had evidence that you ingested arsenic at the hospital, and not prior to admission, the police would investigate the hospital. My comments will be based upon trial evidence. Tim, thanks so much for the kind words about the blog! In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. Agreed. We know that juries get it wrong perhaps theres a figure for what proportion of convictions have subsequently been proved unfounded but because of the high threshold of certitude to convict, more are likely wrong in acquitting than convicting (which is as it should be). Thanks for reading about the Michael Morton case. Maybe his gf gave him soap on the rope? You are very blind. Without money, there is no justice. In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. He should NOT be paroled. Told to you by him? I cannot pretend to know what happened between Richard and Nancy, but I believed then, as now, that Richard loved her once as deeply as he must have grown to hate her. I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his pathetic life. At the trial, prosecutor Jerri Sims called on a handwriting expert who could see the small differences between Richards and Nancys handwriting. He killed her for the life insurance money. On the website, I state very clearly who I am. Fingerprints and DNA arent going to matter a bit when they both live in the same damn house. Richard Alexander: Wrongly Convicted of Rape, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peterson_(criminal)#Owl_theory, https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Rogue-cop-gets-20-years-in-killing-2064331.php, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharee_Miller, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5vYDUYFjqw, https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/michael-morton/, https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/reviewDetail.action?sid=04503067&tdcj=00612188&fullName=LYON%2CRICHARD+ALAN+ABOOD, The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Forensic Files Lost Episode, Dawn Fehring: A Missionary Dies Too Young, Ron Gillette: An Air Force Man Who Didnt Exactly Aim High. Dick Lyin. But he did not kill his wife. Have you ever read the data and studies around the behavior of a sexually abused female? As a police rep on one FF ep commented of a conviction the case of which was re-tried, resulting in acquittal, said: What do you say? Thats all for this post. Thats how it works. The powerful family had to make someone responsible and answer for it, and as always, TX seems to look at the spouse. }} Nancy Cooke Dillard Lyon (6th August 1953 - 14 January 1991) was an American woman who was poisoned with Arsenic and killed by her husband Richard Lyon. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. Coercion much? But he was ready for a criminal investigation into Nancy Dillard Lyons death just the same. I dont include in this fighting hard for their case, regardless of their view of guilt or innocence: I demure somewhat from the notion that counsel is strictly about establishing truth, which is properly a matter for the jury; but there can be no latitude where concealment of evidence helpful to the defence is concerned (Brady doctrine). Have people from all over the world. I was wondering how they were doing! 12 People Found Him Guilty, Due To Tremendous Amount Of Evidence. My husband was friends with this guy in prison. Juries, and people in general, often give DAs and the police, benefit of the doubt. The doctors who took care of Lyon made 2 phone calls to the Dallas County Police and to medical examiner Jeffrey Barnard listing that her death looked like a homicide. And the wounds DO look exactly like owl attack wounds I looked up pictures of other cases. This scenario was found less likely than that she was poisoned which is reasonable and with which I agree. It was determined that Richard wrote the notes about her brother. Ive heard it all now. Not to mention his arrogance in continuing to deny what he did and actually soliciting legal help to get away with it. His blame-the-victim strategy was rejected by the Texas court at his murder trial. Anna is now a dentist in the Dallas area. Nancy worked her way up to a partnership at Trammell Crow, a real estate development firm. Another way of stating: the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. He should never get out. But members of the jury brought their healthy sense of skepticism with them for the two-week trial. Welcome to CrimeBox The Murder of Nancy Dillard Lyon Show more Show more Forensic Factor: A Murder in Texas - Full Episode (S6, E4) | A&E A&E 1.5M views 1 year ago Golden State Killer victim. Fortunately, the state of Texas and Nancys family werent so easily fooled. First published November 1, 1993. Richard Lyon's trial took place on December 2nd, 1991 and ended on January 19, 1992. Richard was admitted on his own merits whereas Nancy was declined admission and then her father had to intervene. 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. There is sin and there is SIN. 3) Richards handwriting was identified by a forensic expert in Nancys diary accusing her brother of sexually abusing her. The problem is the cost of the trial and the fact that Texans have made Richard into a monster and Nancy into a saint makes it difficult for anyone to take the case. Cause thats not what he told me. It was Richard who supplied the bogus/forged receipt showing Nancy buying the arsenic (no one has a motive for that, except Richard). Death bed declarations are not considered hearsay. Lyon is guilty of a horrible murder and is fortunate he got life, not death. Or put it in her own beverage and then drink it. The colonists were also familiar with how narrowly the right against double jeopardy had been defined in England and sought to enlarge the definition by making the right against double jeopardy applicable to all crimes not just capital felonies. I doubt very much, that she ate the wood), and either way, it doesnt explain the vitamins filled with poison, or the empty capsules matching those vitamins in Richards apartment, or the fact that Nancy thought he was trying to poison her, or the strange powder she found floating in a drink HE gave her. The following morning she was admitted to the emergency room of Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas, suffering from nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. You are a fool. His father sold insurance. Friends of Richard Lyon are hardly friends of justice. Nancy Dillard Lyon, the Harvard-educated daughter of one of Texas's wealthiest real estate tycoons, died at age 37 in January 1991. The system didnt work, or it did work?, The difficulty supporters of those they claim are wrongly convicted have is that they are usually, understandably, close to the convict, motivated by bonds of love and affection to support their claimed innocence. My husband had read the book before he had ever met him. Gray alluded to. He posed a continued threat to public safety, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Time to leave the Land of Denial and move to the Land of Reality. 00612188 in the capable hands of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I think William Dillard Jr. has a lot to do with it. Evidence was circumstantial. And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convictedand sentenced to life in prison. Eves belief that he was poisoning her either suggests he may have been (with other circumstantial evidence) or she was framing him. Nothing sweet about that deal. Its not like any sane person would go knocking on their door (other than possible reporters, that is). I say keep the arrogant a hole in prison indefinitely. It never happened! A serpent? During her six-day stay at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas,Nancys violent illness continued and she begged the medical staff to save her life. Or naked and give you clothing? 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