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May 11, 2023 · However, despite David’s reasons behind murdering Joseph, the latter’s children, Dallas and James Sonnier, and his adopted son, Phillip Prestwood, were left without a father.
Jul 13, 2024 · The producer lost Joseph and Becky extremely tragically within a period of two years. The deaths shook not only him but also the entire country because of the widespread attention they received following Joseph’s demise.
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Richelle Shetina meets Dr. Thomas Dixon after visiting Sensi Med Spa in Amarillo, Texas, for Botox injections. Dixon was the owner of the spa and administered the shots. They become friends on Facebook and developed a friendly relationship.
Shetina and Dixon begin an affair. His wife finds out and quickly files for divorce. The couple begins dating exclusively but Shetina recalls their relationship as rocky. At one point, the defense would argue at trial, that Shetina thought Dixon might propose, but he bought her a tea-of-the-month club subscription instead. After months of highs and...
Shetina begins taking dance classes at D’Venue Dance Studio in Lubbock, Texas, in July 2011, where she meets a tall, handsome pathologist named Dr. Joseph Sonnier. Their friendship quickly turns into a romance that Shetina describes as the love of her life. While Dixon is desperate to get back with Shetina, she lets him know by text message in Sept...
Shetina and Sonnier continue dating, taking trips to Los Angeles and a romantic vacation to Paris for her 50th birthday. While Shetina says they were very much in love, strange things seemed to be happening. She says she felt like she was being watched at her local gym, and in February 2012, she came home to an odd note claiming to be from an ex-gi...
Dr. Joseph Sonnier is stabbed and shot to death on July 10, 2012, as he arrives home from work. His body isn’t discovered until the next day when landscapers arrived to do work at the home. Later that week, a man named Paul Reynolds contacts police and tells them that the man he is staying with, David Shepard, mentions that he killed someone in Lub...
Dixon is arrested in connection with the killing, the same day the Sonnier family held the funeral for their father in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Dixon’s first trial begins with the prosecution using David Shepard, who had already given them a lengthy confession, as their star witness. Shepard, who is pictured above, had accepted a plea deal to testify against Dixon in exchange for pleading no contest to the charge of capital murder and avoiding the death penalty. He is currently serving a l...
Almost one year to the day later, testimony begins in Dixon’s re-trial for murder. The prosecution does not put David Shepard on the stand this time, but rather his house guest, Paul Reynolds, who recounts his story about staying with Shepard. But perhaps the most powerful testimony of all for the prosecution comes from David Shepard’s own daughter...
Dixon is found guilty on two counts of capital murder and is sentenced to life in prison without parole. His defense plans to appeal the verdict.
The 7th District Court of Appeals in Amarillo, Texas, reverses Dixon’s conviction and grants him a new trial after his reviewing his appeal.
Mar 7, 2019 · ABC. When prominent Texas plastic surgeon Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon was first put on trial in 2014 for allegedly masterminding a murder-for-hire plot to kill Dr. Joseph Sonnier, a Texas pathologist, Sonnier’s family thought they were finally getting justice.
Joseph Sonnier was found brutally murdered in his home on July 11, 2012—the result of a love triangle turned murder for hire plot. David Shepard, the gunman, pleaded guilty to the offense of capital murder and received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Jun 14, 2024 · On July 10, 2012, Shepard shot Sonnier five times and stabbed him 11 times as the pathologist arrived at his home from work in Lubbock, Texas. Sonnier’s body was found by a landscaper the following day.
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Jul 18, 2012 · Joseph and James Sonnier’s mother, Becky Gallegos, died two years ago in a suspected marital dispute with her then-husband, Juan Gallegos. Juan Gallegos turned the gun on himself and later died...
