48 Hours Presents: Temptation in Texas
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48 hours presents. Michelle and Greg Williams could have been married for some time and she was enjoying a nice lifestyle. His job was to make the money and Michelle's job was to spend the money. Greg treated me like a queen. He showed me a world that before him I had no means to have. My mother is captivating. She's easy on the highs, she's extremely intelligent, just being able to say the right things at the right time to get what she wants. My brother treated her like gold. She had everything. Did you feel as though Michelle targeted your brother once she realized he had money? She was all about the money, the lifestyle. Michelle Williams is a manipulator. She's had great success manipulating men. She's manipulated husbands. She's manipulated boyfriends. She had to be the center stage at all times, you know? She thought she was God's gift. I hear an echoing sound that wakes me up. I walked to the bedroom and all of a sudden I get hit. Greg's in bed and I realized, oh my God, he's been shot. I know one more is the emergency. I called my sister and told her Greg is dead, Michelle killed him. There were parts of the story that really didn't make a lot of sense the first time that she told it. It's almost three months after a color man was found shot in his own bed, police have arrested his wife. We became convinced very quickly that indeed that Michelle was responsible for this. There was no eyewitness. There were some shortcomings in the investigation. No fingerprints. There was a question of the crime scene being tampered with. No DNA that links Michelle to the killing. The judgment was made to offer a plea deal. They didn't have the evidence to go forward with a murder trial at the time. The district attorney's office wanted her and the judge wanted her to take responsibility. What changed? Well, primarily the interview that Michelle did with you immediately before the judge was to accept her plea deal. Every time I watch a client in an interview, I start to think, oh man, we're really screwed. Did you murder your husband, Greg? No, I did not. That undermines the validity of her plea and caused me to go in and ask the judge to strike that plea deal. Lady justice may very well be blind, but she's neither deaf nor stupid. If you're innocent, have a trial. Let the chips follow they may. The state is going to introduce videos of the show 48 hours. Who shot Greg?
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A 48 Hours interview with the wife of a millionaire shot dead turns the case upside down.