True Crime Stories

I learned about this case from an episode of Forensic Files called Within Arms Reach. I was quite disappointed that I could not find a lot of information on this case because I feel like it is an extraordinary story that needs to be told. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from this case, not just about the law and legal proceedings but also about human behavior. In July of 1994 Paul Dunn was a sixteen year veteran of the Farmington New Mexico police department. He and his wife Monica had separated over the recent months after she discovered he had been unfaithful. It was not made clear in my research how long Monica and Paul had been married but they had two daughters together. Monica also had a daughter before she and Paul were married. As would be expected Monica was obviously not happy about Paul's adultery and while it has been a while since I have seen the Forensic Files episode and I did not watch again while doing the research for this case, as I recall this ...

The only thing that this case has in common with the last two blogs that I have done is that the accused was a woman, oh and they were convicted for a crime. The difference here is that Susie Mowbray was retried after serving nearly nine years in prison and acquitted. There are some that think she should have never been charged and others who believe she got away with murder. In the end, whether you believe she was guilty or innocent even the second jury admitted it came down to the investigation conducted by law enforcement and the behavior of the prosecution. Several years later Cameron County Texas, where this case took place, would be rocked with a scandal involving corruption that most say was so deep and outrageous only a fiction writer could talk about it. It was not clear just how long the corruption went back but more than a dozen people were involved including a judge, a State Representative and several current and former members of the DA office. Some of th...