Most women who are serial killers do it by poisoning their victims. That's a well-known fact. With that in mind, it was odd to hear of a story in which the male was poisoning the female....but that's what happened here. The motive: a typical one; money.
This crime takes place in a Ritzy area, too: Park Cities, right in the middle of Dallas, Texas. This spot, labeled "like an island in a sea of concrete," by the narrator of this show, is comprised of Highland Park and University Park. It's a very pretty area with big homes and a social life of its own with débutantes still reigning supreme each year and Charity Balls abounding. The folks have a ton of money, but they are generous with it.
A not-so-rich guy from Connecticut married one of these hometown rich girls by the name of Nancy Dillard. Her father was "Big Daddy," Bill Dillard, a man who made lots of money in the real estate business. He had four kids: three boys and one girl, the sweetheart of his life. Nancy, that apple of dad's eye, was a bright girl who went on to Harvard, married Richard Lyons in 1982, came back to Park Cities to live and became almost an overnight business success.
The Lyons family was another of these that City Confidential loves to profile: idyllic on the outside, but with big hidden family problems.
It's sickening to hear about what Mr. Lyons did to his wife, making her suffer for months and months with arsenic poisoning until she died. The details, and how Lyons and his defense attorney tried to smear the Dillard family, are all in this "Dallas" (the TV show)-like soap opera murder story. It's another interesting episode and recommended.
This crime takes place in a Ritzy area, too: Park Cities, right in the middle of Dallas, Texas. This spot, labeled "like an island in a sea of concrete," by the narrator of this show, is comprised of Highland Park and University Park. It's a very pretty area with big homes and a social life of its own with débutantes still reigning supreme each year and Charity Balls abounding. The folks have a ton of money, but they are generous with it.
A not-so-rich guy from Connecticut married one of these hometown rich girls by the name of Nancy Dillard. Her father was "Big Daddy," Bill Dillard, a man who made lots of money in the real estate business. He had four kids: three boys and one girl, the sweetheart of his life. Nancy, that apple of dad's eye, was a bright girl who went on to Harvard, married Richard Lyons in 1982, came back to Park Cities to live and became almost an overnight business success.
The Lyons family was another of these that City Confidential loves to profile: idyllic on the outside, but with big hidden family problems.
It's sickening to hear about what Mr. Lyons did to his wife, making her suffer for months and months with arsenic poisoning until she died. The details, and how Lyons and his defense attorney tried to smear the Dillard family, are all in this "Dallas" (the TV show)-like soap opera murder story. It's another interesting episode and recommended.