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Crooked City: Dixon, IL

A Perfect Couple or a Perfect Crime? The Story of Tex and Diane McIver

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A single gunshot left Diane McIver dead and her husband Tex at the center of a deadly mystery - but was it a tragic accident or a carefully calculated scheme? Found out on Deadly Fortune. Search for Deadly Fortune wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes right now, completely ad-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey listeners, Dale Cardwell here, journalist and host of the latest series to drop on The Binge, Deadly Fortune.

0:08.8

From the same team that brought you hit podcasts, Noble, and three,

0:13.9

Deadly Fortune is available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:17.6

And if you're a subscriber to The the binge, you can listen to all episodes

0:22.3

ad-free right now. Tex and Diane McIver were Atlanta's perfect power couple, an accomplished

0:29.4

attorney and a charismatic high-powered business executive. But one fateful night, their storybook

0:35.4

marriage came to a sudden, tragic end.

0:39.0

Tex shot Diane in the back.

0:42.2

Their community was stunned, reeling from what appeared to be a freak accident.

0:47.6

But was it?

0:48.8

That's where I come in.

0:50.5

Tex and Diane were friends of mine, and I still remember the visceral shock when I got the call

0:56.2

that Diane was dead. Something about it didn't sit right, and I set out to dig into this case.

1:03.8

As the evidence and circumstances surrounding that night came to light, more and more pieces

1:09.8

just didn't add up. And now, after spending six

1:14.1

years behind bars, Tag spends six years behind bars, only to have the verdict reversed, putting him

1:21.9

in line to walk free and inherit Diane's $4.5 million fortune.

1:29.1

Was Diane's killing part of a schemed and carefully calculated set of events hidden in plain sight?

1:35.8

Join me as we unravel this case on deadly fortune.

1:40.7

Here's a sneak peek.

1:42.0

The ranch was Texan Diane McIver's 85-acre estate in Edenton, just outside of Atlanta.

1:48.4

The place is spectacular, surrounded by a beautiful white fence and stone columns, and woods for miles to ride horses.

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