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Apr 21, 2023 · A former Houston-area high school football coach was convicted twice of killing his pregnant wife in a staged burglary. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 after a new resentencing trial.
Apr 27, 2023 · David Temple, a former HS coach, was convicted for the second time of killing his wife Belinda and their unborn child in 1999. He had an affair with his mistress, who testified in his sentencing hearing, and was granted a retrial after his first conviction was overturned.
Apr 21, 2023 · Published 3:47 PM PDT, April 21, 2023. HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston-area high school football coach on Friday was sentenced for a second time to life in prison in his pregnant wife’s killing more than 24 years ago. A jury sentenced David Mark Temple, 54, during a new resentencing trial, which began on April 10.
- A Small-Town Couple Builds A Life Together
- Jan. 11, 1999: The Day of The Murder
- Police Investigate Belinda Temple’s Murder
- David Temple Is Arrested, Goes to First Trial
- Temple’s Defense Successfully Negotiates For A Second Trial
Originally from Nacogdoches, Texas, Belinda Temple’s father Tom Lucas described her as a person who "always had a smile on her face. She loved life and she loved people." Known as Belinda Lucas at the time, she met David Temple at Steven F. Austin University in Nacogdoches in 1989, the same year he helped the football team win its first conference ...
On Jan. 11, 1999, Evan Temple’s daycare called Belinda Temple to tell her he didn’t seem to be feeling well and asked her to take him home. But with a busy day ahead of her, she began trying to reach her husband at his job. At first, he was nowhere to be found, but finally, around noon, she reached him. "She was just like, 'I don’t know where he’s ...
Four days after the murder, police interviewed three children who lived in the house behind the Temples. The kids told police they had been watching a movie after returning home from school and that they heard a "big boom" like a "gunshot." Based on the scene in the movie that the kids remembered was playing when they heard the sound, police said t...
Four years after Belinda Temple’s death, the FBI crime lab results from the scene came back. The results showed gunshot residue found on the clothes Belinda Temple was wearing the day she was killed matched that found on the clothing David Temple was wearing that same day. David Temple was arrested in late November 2004 and he went to trial for the...
David Temple’s legal saga was far from over. Five years after his first conviction, Temple’s trial attorney Dick DeGuerin said he got a call from one of Riley Joe Sanders’ friends, Daniel Glasscock. DeGuerin said Glasscock told him he believed that he had heard Sanders confess to being involved with a murder a few days after Belinda Temple was foun...
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- Denise Martinez-Ramundo,Anthony Rivas,Keren Schiffman,Steve Bronstein
Apr 21, 2023 · David Temple, a former Katy-area coach, was convicted for the second time of murdering his wife Belinda, who was eight months pregnant, in a staged burglary. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2023 after a jury found him guilty of lack of remorse and acceptance of responsibility.
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- Mycah Hatfield
Apr 17, 2023 · Heather Scott Temple was David Temple’s mistress in 1999 when his wife, Katy High School teacher Belinda Temple was murdered. Prosecutors say Temple shot his wife to death in order to be with his mistress. Temple and Scott married two years later, but they have since divorced.
Apr 21, 2023 · David Temple was convicted for a second time of killing his pregnant wife, Belinda, in 1999. He was a high school football coach in Houston and had an affair with another woman.
