Chapter 117 Section 20

Another reason that prompted the prosecution to make this decision was that the victim's parents, Bill and Linda Jones, had stated that the maximum punishment they requested for the perpetrator was life imprisonment, and that they would rather see Devon and Diana on the high wall. Useful, worthless, and even painful consumption of my life behind the scenes. But for the parents of the two criminals, the Joneses expressed genuine sympathy.After learning of the arrest of Devon and Diana, Linda told reporters who came to interview: "Nine months ago, when the police informed me that the body on the ranch was my daughter, I cried out. : 'No no no! That can't be my child.' Now, they must be saying the same thing... They never had children for this. In fact, no parent expects their child to grow up to be a child. criminal."

Mike Palicki said that Bill and Linda Jones "suffered the pain of losing a child, and they go through it every day without Artienne in their lives. They don't want Devon and Diana's parents to go through that." Same misfortune". On February 2, 1998, the trial of Diana Zamora began in Fort Worth.At the time, Diana had just celebrated her birthday in January — she hadn't been 18 when Artienne Jones was murdered two years earlier.It is not difficult to imagine that this is another event that caused a sensation in the media. The main interest of journalists is how the jury will determine the status and role of the 20-year-old former Navy reserve officer in this case.Is she a—as some have argued—the victim of a cheating boyfriend, or the driver of jealousy?

The first witness to appear in court for the prosecution was Diana's boudoir friend Christina Messing.Diana spoke to Artian Jones about the case a week after she was killed.Kristina told the jury on the witness stand that Diana had said at the time that she had "ordered" Devon to kill Artian as proof of his love for her. During cross-examination by defense attorney John Limberg, Kristina recounted an incident she had witnessed.It was about half a year after the murder, on a weekend in early June 1996, a few good friends went camping in the mountains together.That night, Devon and Diana quarreled about something, and after a while, Diana ran into Christina's tent in a panic, crying and begging Christina to allow her to stay here for one night, because "She's scared of Devon".While the two girls were talking, Devon had already rushed outside the tent and brandished a 40cm long knife, cutting Christina's tent to pieces.The defendant wanted to use this example to prove that in the relationship between Devon and Diana, the former was the dominant one, and it also proved Devin's so-called "violent tendencies".

Jay Gelder, who was next in court, said that Diana had told him that when she heard about Devon's affair with Artian, "she was very angry and asked Mr. Glenmont to kill Miss Jones." . "Miss Zamora said the reason she asked him to do it was because she hated her." "Later Miss Zamora asked me if I thought she should be sentenced to death for what she did, and I asked her if she would do something like this again in the future, and she said yes. During our conversation, I I asked her why she did this many times, and she said that at that time she just felt that this matter must be completely resolved, and if similar things happened again in the future, she would do this again. I asked her if she would really do it again? She Said yes. Miss Zamora also said that Miss Jones deserved to die because she knew he was dating Miss Zamora."

"Miss Zamora says she, too, made a promise to Mr. Glenmonds that if she cheated him, she would kill the man herself." "Miss Zamora said that she sympathized with Miss Jones' parents, and that it disturbed her. But she had no sympathy for Miss Jones herself, because she knew that Mr. Glenmonds was hers, but she still stole money that was not hers. She wants to make her pay. She said that anyone who wants to get in between her and Devon will have a dead end." Two of Diana's other Naval Academy classmates, Janine Moconi and Mandy Gertsch, also took the witness stand.

Janine Moconi told the jury that Diana herself said that when she and Devin tricked Artien into the car, Artien "asked if they were going to kill her and Diana said yes, they to kill her." "Diana said she doesn't regret it at all because she has a deep hatred for Artian." "Diana said she saw Artien's parents at the funeral and she felt sorry for them. But if it all started again, she would do it anyway." Mandy Gertsch testified: "She said she loved Devon so much she would kill anyone who touched him." When Diana learned that Devon was sleeping with Artian, "she told him he had to kill Artian if he wanted to get back together with her. Diana said, 'I want you to kill her.'"

"Diana said that there is a deep hatred between her and Artian, and killing her is not a crime at all." "We asked her if she regretted her actions? She said Artian was beautiful and she just felt sorry for her at that point. She said: 'I think I hate her too much, so if I do it again in the future I'll do it again in a similar situation.'” The focus of the defendant's court debate was to accuse Devon and shirk responsibility.Up front, John Lindbergh presented the jury with a very different Diana and Devon-Diana relationship.In his opening remarks, the defense lawyer stated: "In his relationship with Diana, Devon Grammond was a multi-faceted person, he was her father, her mother and her lover at the same time. . . . Devon manipulated Diana, not the other way around... What kind of girl was Diana? She took care of her younger siblings for years and years, and she cherished her love with Devon Glenmont very much, and she valued her virginity holy."

Dr. Michael Robert is a psychologist hired by the defendant, who is good at analyzing various family relationships, especially the relationship between husband and wife and boyfriend and girlfriend.His testimony supports John Limberg's thesis about the Devon-Diana relationship - "a domineering, domineering boy controlling a girl whose necessities he must provide for," Dr Robert said. He based these conclusions on observations and psychological evaluations of Diana, as well as on correspondence between the couple.Dr Robert showed the court the email Devon sent to his fiancée on August 9, 1996, when he heard that Diana and Jay Gelder had kissed: