He was the life of the party.. It was Burnsides father. The detective told him that he was doing what he could. For someone to say Dwayne maliciously would go after Miss Lord and try to set her up, I would say, You have the wrong guy, said Andrea Handley, one of the offices senior prosecutors. In Lords case, while she was arrested by Dallas police it was soon shown that there was no murder; her boyfriend had committed suicide. Skip Hollandsworth specializes in long-form narratives. As Lord hugged Tittle and members of her family, Thompson stood at the defense table, his mouth open. 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. See rank. The arrest was based upon Thompsons affidavit. When Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson checks out a missing persons apartment and finds it covered in blood, he's launched into one of the strangest cases in his career--a case that he must s Read allWhen Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson checks out a missing persons apartment and finds it covered in blood, he's launched into one of the strangest cases in his career--a case that he must solve without the victim's body. After arriving at his house, which was a ten-minute drive away, he had received a call from Lord. Who do you fing think you are?. If I was guilty, would I really have gone out and filed a lawsuit, knowing everything would be brought up again, giving Thompson and all the other naysayers one more chance to come after me?, A few weeks later, I called Lord and asked her again about Burnsides death. Lord said that she and Burnside had gotten into an argumentsomething about a birthday party. | Advertising 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. Or, asked Shearin, did Thompson say that Burnside was stressed about owing money to the IRS? The only thing I can tell you that might make any sense to anybody is that when hes drunk, hes very irrational, she said. Or he mistakenly pulled the trigger thinking the Beretta was unloaded., Jaffe shook his head. 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. Lundberg paused again. Shearin ordered Lords cellphone records and received more good news: there was no seven-minute gap in her calls. Lundberg then brought up the trajectory of the bullet through Burnsides brain. Jaffe said he had been at the house earlier that evening, helping Burnside install a dishwasher while Lord was painting the doors and baseboards, and that he had left before midnight. Sipping coffee at a Starbucks one afternoon, he went through various scenarios of what he thinks could have taken place after he left Burnsides home. She told her parents that Thompson had brutalized her. Comments: Editor's Note: Plaintiff will probably file an application for attorney's fees and costs, which will be substantial. Only Burnside and Lord were in the apartment where they lived at the time. And then Thompson pounced. But Detective Dwayne Thompson. She works at a clothing shop, making $14 an hour, far less than what she was earning when she was in the mortgage business. There hasnt been one bit of evidence in this case that has caused you to pause in your opinion that she murdered Michael?. They couldnt get the dishwasher installed because of a broken valve, which sent water all over the floor, so they took a break. 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. DALLAS Veteran Dallas police homicide detective Dwayne Thompson is on desk duty pending an internal investigation.Source: http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/W. He allowed a few seconds to pass. He said that he couldnt handle disappointing me on top of all the financial stress and tax problems that he was enduring.. Strapped around his shoulders was a thick brown leather holster that held his department-issued pistol, a 9mm Sig Sauer. But, he added, his friend wasnt the type to get married at any point.. 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. Who do you think you are? Weve been detectives for a long time, and we understand that sometimes things happen and we cant always control the situation, he said. As one Dallas County prosecutor put it, They can, even for the most well-intentioned of reasons, get too focused on making an arrest at the detriment of the true story., Mitchell began evaluating Thompsons case against Lord. Shearin called a friend in the homicide unit to ask about Thompson, whom he had never met. In his opinion, it was perfectly plausible that in the heat of the argument with Burnside, she had taken his pistol, slipped up behind him, and pulled the trigger. Thompson picked up his cellphone and called Burnsides father, John, a successful Dallas business analyst. Tittle then had the jurors watch Thompsons interview with Lord and Lundbergs interview with Rastegar. Thompson and Lundberg started talking. Lets solve some murders, my brothers, he would cheerfully bellow as he barreled into the office at the beginning of his shifts. A Dallas County grand jury declined to indict Hephzibah Olivia Lord on a murder charge in connection with the 2010 death of Michael Burnside in his home. 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. Olivia kept saying, I wasnt going to leave him. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. She liked pampering him, waiting on him hand and foot so that he could focus on building his company. What other results could you have with the police policing themselves? she said. He calmly explained that his ferocious questioning of Lord after the shooting was nothing more than a technique used by detectives in police departments around the countrythe direct method, he called itin which a suspect is openly accused of a crime to see how he or she reacts. 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. The officer pointed to a woman sitting on a chair in the front yard, her face in her hands. Contact info; Agent info; Help contribute to IMDb. Detective Dwayne Thompson quietly retired from Dallas PD. Michael Lowe is Celebrating Over 20 YEARS of Service. Lord hired Don Tittle, a high-profile Dallas lawyer who specializes in civil rights litigation, to file a lawsuit against Thompson, which he did in late 2011. But, said Lundberg, there was no sign of blood spatter on Burnsides right hand or arm. When the paramedics arrived, Burnside had faint vital signs, but he died shortly after reaching the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Will detectives be able to catch the killers before they strike again? Who cares? When Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson checks out a missing persons apartment and finds it covered in blood, he's launched into one of the strangest cases in his career--a case that he must solve without the victim's body. Shearin got Lord out of jail on bail. Sometimes he would think [a gun] was unloaded and he would swing it around, you know, not trying to hurt anybody, just being stupid. When Shearin called Lord with the news, she thanked him for all he had done for her, but then she said something else. She was so in love with him that she was always able to forgive him when he screwed uplike the night of her birthday, when he got rip-roaring drunk, staggered around the restaurant, and didnt even pay for dinner. The towels had been on the floor to soak up the water that had spilled when the dishwasher valve broke. 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? As he nodded sympathetically, she again talked about how hurt she had been on her birthday. Was it possible that he thought he was about to lose the woman he loved?. Still, Thompson had only a theory. I was picking at him all night long about that, she said. Im trying to figure out how to move on with my life, she said recently, sitting at a back table at an Italian restaurant in North Dallas. In Texas, both federal and state laws exist to protect people like Hephzibal Olivia Lord from being overwhelmed and mistreated by police during criminal investigations. The day after the verdict, Thompson was placed on desk duty. This has been kind of a sexy case here: an attractive female shoots the boyfriend, you solve the crime. Or maybe Mikey did it, Jaffe said. (2014) Maybe he got dramatic and put the gun to his own head and said to Olivia, To hell with all this, Im just going to end it now. And then, accidentally, he pulled the trigger. Thompson testified that Lord had little blood on her hands and that she smelled of cleaning solution, which led him to believe she had washed her hands. The Hephzibah Olivia Lord by Detective Dwayne A. Thompson lasted for hours. He asked Thompson if he had told one of Burnsides friends that this was the case of a lifetimethe kind of case that could make him famous. Another particle had been discovered on the front of Lords shirt. Toward the end of the year, he finally saw the video recording of Rastegars interview at police headquarters. He eventually learned about my arrest, and he was so bothered by what he read that he never called me again. On May 9, 2010, plaintiff Hephzibah Olivia Lord, 36, who works in mortgaging, was alone with her boyfriend at his home, in Dallas. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. I want him brought down.. Description: Hephzibah Olivia Lord, age 36, sued Dallas homicide detective Dwayne Thompson on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. A light drizzle was falling in the early morning hours of May 9, 2010, when detective Dwayne Thompsonpulled up in front of a modest home on Spring Grove Avenue, in a tree-lined neighborhood in North Dallas. They had not laid eyes on each other since he had interrogated her. In this trial, Lord was definitely the underdog. And, yes, she said, she had grown irritated when she heard Burnside and Jaffe talking about the birthday party. . Personal details. A 9mm Beretta was also on the floor about five feet from where Burnsides body had been. Lord called 911, and police came. Although she had her own apartment, she was planning to move in with him as soon as he finished remodeling the house. He had on a dark fedora, a dark suit, a white shirt with a tie, and dress shoes. Lord seemed to be trying to control her breathing. At the end of the interrogation, he had discarded her like trash.. Lord was charged with murder a month after her boyfriend shot himself. Thompson has still destroyed my life and hes still out there working cases. Bring on the Shiplap? Merritt had an uncanny knack for catching killers. Play Trailer 0:21. "The goal is to arrive at the truth." The way Lord had described it, she and Burnside were deeply in love, and they had been talking about marriage. See full summary . The report could be interpreted several ways: Maybe, as Shearin believed, after Burnside had pulled the trigger, some of the gunshot residue had been transferred onto Lord when she held him in the kitchen. And in Cleveland, an argument among friends spins out of control when one of them makes a deadly decision. But those mistakes do not amount to malice., Tittle, however, wasted no time going on the attack, telling the jury in his opening statement, There is not and was not a shred of credible evidence to suggest that Olivia Lord had anything to do with Michaels death. In that small house, she mistook the sound of a pistol shot for a glass falling to the floor? Did she, in fact, tell him that she was leaving him? Shearin questioned Lord about the drops of blood around the house. Prior to her arrest, Lord had been known for her good-natured personality. She was on an airplaneon her way to California. Rastegar again tried to explain what he had heard Lord say that night. Thats the exact type of case that might have been portrayed on The First 48, right? Tittle asked. Yes. Dwayne Thompson (I) IMDbPro Starmeter. No, said Lord. Why, he wanted to know, would a man suddenly shoot himself after what seemed to be a routine argument with his girlfriend? 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. He then asked them to ride down to Dallas police headquarters in separate squad cars to give their statements. The officer looked at the notes he had jotted down. Comments are moderated and these will not be published. Yes you did!. Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson hunts for a band of carjacking killers that are terrorizing a neighborhood. He asked her why, after finding Burnside on the floor, she had first called Jaffe but then waited seven minutes before calling 911. Look at it! Trailer 0:21. He can go so far as to lie to a suspect to try to obtain a confession. 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. 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. Thompson did his best to defend himself. | Link Errors Thompson told Rastegar to go to the station and make an official recorded statement, which Thompson later used to obtain an arrest warrant charging Lord with murder. I did start dating a guy not long ago, she said after the waiter left. Okay, fine. A retired Dallas police officer acting as an expert witness for Lord told the jury there was no evidence that Lord shot Burnside. Something is definitely not adding up, Thompson thought, as he walked into one of the interview rooms where Brian Jaffe was waiting. Scattered around the floor were a few bottles of household cleaning products. Im innocent.. The First 48 (2004- ) Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson hunts for a band of carjacking killers that are terrorizing a neighborhood. But a Dallas County grand jury later declined to indict her. Then Shearin got his big break. Then his own cellphone rang. Thompson, a 21-year veteran of the Police Department, has been a homicide detective since 2006. The detective was 47 years old and built like a linebacker at six feet two inches and 230 pounds. But there was no corruption involved. Its difficult to go out in public without thinking someone is saying, Theres the girl who killed her boyfriend., Right at that moment, a waiter walked up, clearly taken with her, and asked if she was ready to order. They too had been talking to Thompson and they were furious. 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