Diane Zamora Research Paper
The most destructive of all emotions, jealousy, can cause a person to enact revenge on the person who did them wrong. This is shown in the Case of Diane Zamora because a jealous Diane killed Adrianne, for a relation between her and Diane’s boyfriend. Love can blind a person to kill their “rivals”. No matter what, with all of the facts given throughout the entire case, Diane did deserve to get life in prison.
Diane Zamora lived a nice life in the town of Mansfield,TX. She kept to herself and was madly in love with David Graham, who was a track star wanting to go into the Air Force
Academy(qtd in. The two began dating in August 1995(qtd in Murderpedia) and they hit it off.
After about a month into being together they announced their engagement to each other's …show more content…
The reason the two weren’t caught was because they did not fit the profile of
“coldblooded
killers” until closer inspection took place(qtd in True Crime Cases). Late one night at the US Naval Academy Zamora was hanging out with her roommates and they were talking about the worst thing they have ever done in their life. Zamora began to say that both her and Graham “hold each other’s fates” in their hands. One girl’s response was “What did you do, kill someone?” and Zamora’s answer shocked the others saying, “I didn’t kill anyone, but because of me, someone’s dead.”(Crime Time). Along with those girls Midshipman Jay Guild knew of the murder and kept it quiet, not telling anybody in charge(qtd in NY Times).
Eventually somebody ratted out Diane to the authorities, causing both her and Graham to be arrested on September of ‘96(qtd in Murderpedia). Both Diane and David had separate trials set to determine their future fate, both not ending so well.
Diane’s trial occurred when she was 20 years old, 3 years after the murder, In Fort
Worth, TX. The trial took a total of two and a half weeks and that was because some of
Diane Zamora lived a nice life in the town of Mansfield,TX. She kept to herself and was madly in love with David Graham, who was a track star wanting to go into the Air Force
Academy(qtd in. The two began dating in August 1995(qtd in Murderpedia) and they hit it off.
After about a month into being together they announced their engagement to each other's …show more content…
The reason the two weren’t caught was because they did not fit the profile of
“coldblooded
killers” until closer inspection took place(qtd in True Crime Cases). Late one night at the US Naval Academy Zamora was hanging out with her roommates and they were talking about the worst thing they have ever done in their life. Zamora began to say that both her and Graham “hold each other’s fates” in their hands. One girl’s response was “What did you do, kill someone?” and Zamora’s answer shocked the others saying, “I didn’t kill anyone, but because of me, someone’s dead.”(Crime Time). Along with those girls Midshipman Jay Guild knew of the murder and kept it quiet, not telling anybody in charge(qtd in NY Times).
Eventually somebody ratted out Diane to the authorities, causing both her and Graham to be arrested on September of ‘96(qtd in Murderpedia). Both Diane and David had separate trials set to determine their future fate, both not ending so well.
Diane’s trial occurred when she was 20 years old, 3 years after the murder, In Fort
Worth, TX. The trial took a total of two and a half weeks and that was because some of