She gave birth to two sons, but never acquired the polish expected of the wife of an up-and-coming Texas politician. He was rarely home. And when he was home, he was physically abusive — at least once beating her in front of their children. News of the petition quickly hit the wire services. Family members encouraged Vickie to change her mind. Price came home and promised to make amends. Within 48 hours a motion was filed to withdraw the divorce.
His opponent, Mark White, entered the race as an underdog but by the spring, they were neck and neck. Always parsimonious, Price rejected suggestions that he launch a massive advertising campaign.
After all, he had name recognition. In Liberty County he had a margin of 63 percent. Liberty had set a precedent of letting retired politicians climb down from the pedestal and live ordinary lives. But when the election posters came down, the problems in the marriage escalated.
Vickie was pregnant again, she hated taking pills of any kind. When she told Price about the child, they fought for a week before she agreed to go to Houston for an abortion. The relationship rocked along and in May the couple took a cruise. When they returned, Vickie shelved her divorce plans. When she returned, she realized she was pregnant once again, and that Price would not want the child. The marriage had degenerated.
And the children often witnessed the contempt Vicki and Price had for each other. As an example, Price was a Dallas Cowboys fan. The disagreement dissolved in a remote control war with each of them battling to change the channels on all the TVs in the house. Ultimately, Price was holding Vickie down on the bed in the master bedroom and Kimberly pounded on his back, trying to defend her mother. Peace pacts were drawn up.
Eventually those documents became public. Also list 10 things that you would do differently, improve, or change. Be specific. No general statements permitted. In a scratchy scrawl with frequent misspellings, Vickie listed 17 points on which she wanted amends from Price, 11 of which she promised to improve herself.
I think you should express your own true feelings… to your family and friends. On other points she was sarcastic. The written negotiations show that money remained a touchy subject. Price had never made Vickie an equal partner when it came to financial decisions.
Still not doable with four children in the house. Vickie had one credit card she could use to purchase gas at a Gulf Station. At the end of the peace pact, Vicki admitted that the reconciliation was unlikely to work.
They were both resistant to change. She pleaded to continue her pregnancy, he hoped the child would help moderate his hyperactivity. In November , Price moved his law office from a downtown building to a doublewide on Hwy. He put away most of the plaques and photos from his political life except two — A photo of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and another one of LBJ.
They were on the floor, leaning against a wall. Price had been a second business for many years, but after the defeat in , the Liberty Land Company sign took a higher position over his lawyer shingle. By the end of he was a director of 12 corporations that were involved in some aspect of the housing market.
Price thought there was a fortune to be made. He planned to be the king of the trailer park and sub-development world in Liberty County. Instead of suits, Price now went to work in western shirts and jeans. He bought a pickup. Those were encouraging signs for Vickie. Employees were surprised to see the once-driven attorney, lean back in his chair, put his boots up on his desk and smoke a cigarette.
Remember when you had to get out the record player to hear your favorite song? Price had enough. He took the 45 off the turntable, smashed it and threw the pieces away. The lyrics from a Judy Collins favorite were ironically significant:. On Feb. But it was Vickie that hospital staffers called on to fill out the birth certificate information.
Price called the baby Bob, apparently in honor of Robert Broussard, a black youth who did yard work and other maintenance chores for Price. Broussard lived with the family from November to May when Vickie underwent a hysterectomy. Price drew up a new will that named his sister as executor of his estate.
After the surgery, the couple moved into separate bedrooms. Price began giving more attention to a pretty divorcee in his office named Betty White. Rumors went into over drive, but their relationship was not romantic in the least. By Thanksgiving , the couple was negotiating terms of their divorce. Vickie went shopping for a mobile home to move into, but Price and a law partner chose a different, more staid, trailer. He wanted her to move the trailer into Twin Oaks — where he would be within eyeshot of his office.
At work, it appeared that Price was adopting co-workers to replace the family that was fracturing. He gave Betty White new autonomy in paying the company expenses. He gave all the employees raises and offered attorney Mark Moorefield a partnership in the law firm. The raises were the last straw. She wrote Price a note, announcing that she would not be waiting on him any more.
She called ex-husband Larry Moore on Monday, Jan. To learn what happened over the next 90 minutes, we have to look at witness testimony from a child custody case that was tried in Liberty the next spring. When he arrived home, Price handed a set of papers too Vickie.
Vickie refused to sign the papers without having her own attorney review them. Price jumped up and reportedly grabbed Vickie around the neck. She called out for help, and her 12 year old daughter Kimberly came into the room to find Price on top of Vickie, who was laying face up on the floor.
Kimberly pushed on Price, and he ordered her out of the room. Price and Vickie got up and she said she went tot he kitchen to make supper for the children. Price went to the master bedroom and gathered up some personal items. He may have loaded some items into his truck in his preparation to leave. Vickie took that to mean a small amount of marijuana that she had found and flushed months earlier. She started up the attic stairs but Price kicked her in the forehead, she said.
She was knocked off the stairs, and Price followed her down the stairs. She ran to the back door, but was unable to open it. Frustrated, she reached into a hallway closet.
Vickie picked up a bolt-action Remington, threw back the bolt and shoved a live round into the chamber. She returned to the foot of the folding stairs and asked Price to leave.
The bullet went up the stairwell and missed Price. He came down the stairs real fast and said he was going to kill me. And I backed away. I was scared he was going to hit me again and I closed my eyes and I heard something real funny … and I opened my eyes and he was walking away from me. A portion of the round passed through his aorta.
Eight seconds later he fell dead … killed by ballistic bad luck. In pretrial proceedings, Vickie faced numerous allegations. Allegations that the door with several locks was standing up until she shut and locked it.
Haynes was well known for trying the victim — following a pattern set by Percy Foreman. In all, eight people would wander through the family home that night. Inside, Vickie fought with paramedics. Price lay on the kitchen floor, dead. Buchanan answered that the though never occurred to him. Testimony did show that Buchanan accidentally stepped on one of the two spent shells from the.
Zimmerman later wrote about the shooting and courtroom adventures that followed in the Journal of the American Bar Association. There were two district judges sitting in Liberty, but both recused themselves from the criminal trial as well as the custody matter. The custody case proceeded to trial first … a sequence that even the district judge had never seen before. It was a bitter six-week-long fight before the judge ruled that the mother could keep her two sons.
Seven months later, the murder trial began. No one was allowed to interview Vickie Daniel. Jack Zimmerman wrote about the trial in Litigation magazine in the Fall edition. The case presented several novel questions of law and would require a unique trial strategy. The two district judges recused themselves and Judge Sam Emison of Houston was appointed to preside over the custody trial The gist of the custody was trial was that Vickie was an unfit mother and posed a danger to her children because she had shot her husband.
After a bitter, six-week trial, Judge Emison ruled that Vickie could keep her sons. The murder trial began seven months later. Zimmerman sought to exclude all testimony from the civil trial, arguing that it was involuntary. Zimmerman also questioned potential jurors about the reactions of a reasonable woman defending herself from a man. One response Zimmerman received was that the average woman is just as strong as a man. At that point he seized the opportunity to educate the jury that a woman who is five foot 2, pounds, cannot be expected to defend herself against a man who is 5 foot 8, and weighs pounds using only her hands.
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