Signal 51 Chronicles

Murder in Rivercrest Pt. 3 Finale | Signal 51 Chronicles

December 15, 2025 41:49

The Koslow case comes to a close in Part 3 as John Henry and retired Fort Worth PD sergeant Jake White wrap up the River Crest murder saga—from the moment the investigation pivots away from Jack Koslow to the domino-effect arrests of Jeffrey Dillingham, Brian Salter, and Kristi Koslow. Along the way, the guys detour through a classic Police Blotter: an “atom bomb in the attic” insurance-fire fiasco, plus the timeless tradition of naked suspects doing absolutely the most.
Back on the case, the spotlight turns to court: Dillingham labeled “the muscle,” Salter cutting a deal to testify, and Kristi walking into trial trying to look like an innocent kid—only to face the devastating moment where her own father tells the world she deserves death. They unpack motives, money, and the rare cocktail of wealth, influence, and violence—then zoom out into bigger questions: why people do this, how capital murder works in Texas, and what “justice” even looks like when the sentences are life, life, and lethal injection.
The finale closes with Dillingham’s last meal and final statement, a strange sports-world footnote about who bought the infamous house, and the team officially putting a bow on the first full case of the show’s new era—the murder of Caren Koslow.
Chapters
00:00:01 – Welcome Back: Part 3 & The Finale Setup
00:00:53 – Police Blotter: “Atom Bomb” in the Attic
00:02:59 – Aliens, Government Spying, and Needing New Friends
00:03:28 – Rookie Shift Talk: Graveyard Reality Check
00:04:30 – Jake’s First Call: The Moving-Truck Burglary Report Marathon
00:05:58 – Blotter: Fisher-Price “Suspect” + Naked Yard Wrestling Match
00:07:33 – Naked Guy Syndrome: Jake’s Fort Worth Story
00:08:26 – “I Don’t Need Backup”… Until He Does
00:09:20 – The Pajama Guy: “There’s Somebody in My Bed”
00:10:34 – Baton Poke, Germaphobe Panic, and the “What’s Up?” Suspect
00:12:41 – Back to River Crest: How the Koslow Case Turned
00:13:56 – The Arrests: Jeffrey Dillingham, Brian Salter, and Kristi Koslow
00:15:01 – Media Frenzy: River Crest + “Talker” Case Status
00:17:02 – The Press Conference: Kristi Tries to Play Innocent
00:18:31 – Trial Relocation: Why Dillingham’s Case Went to Wichita Falls
00:19:09 – “The Muscle”: Evidence, Photos, and the Map of the Koslow Home
00:19:35 – Salter’s Plea Deal: Life Sentence + Testimony Against Kristi
00:19:56 – Motive & Money: $12 Million and Promised Payouts
00:21:17 – Showdown Set: Kristi Koslow vs. The State (and Jack Koslow)
00:21:24 – June 1994 Trial: The “Young Girl” Image and Courtroom Strategy
00:21:44 – Jack Koslow’s Testimony: “She Killed the Woman I Loved”
00:23:42 – 90s Trend Talk: Similar Cases and “Mastermind” Narratives
00:24:26 – Diane Zamora / David Graham Reference: The Cadet Murder Parallel
00:25:08 – Wealth & Violent Crime: Why This Case Hits Different
00:26:13 – Nature vs. Nurture: What Explains Kristi?
00:28:07 – Texas Murder Law: What Makes It Capital Murder
00:29:24 – Remuneration Angle: “Promise of Payment” and the Death Penalty Stakes
00:29:52 – Sentences Recap + Kristi’s Parole Window (2027)
00:30:55 – Dillingham Executed (2000): Final Statement + Supreme Court Appeal Denial
00:31:00 – The Last Meal: Cheeseburger, Lasagna, Cinnamon Rolls, and 8 Pints of Chocolate Milk
00:32:56 – The Psyche Question: Sociopath, Abuse, or Something Else?
00:35:18 – The Final Words Read + Confession Details
00:37:46 – No Prior Criminal History: “How Does This Even Happen?”
00:38:22 – Aftermath & Sports Tidbit: Who Bought the Koslow House
00:39:00 – Dr. Bobby Brown Connection + Price Talk
00:40:00 – Closing the Case: Crime, Punishment, and the End of the First Series
00:40:29 – Where to Find Signal 51 Chronicles + TikTok Banter
00:41:40 – Stolen Water Media Outro
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This is the Signal 51 Chronicles murder and rivercress the Coslow case. I'm John Henry. I'm here with my
compadre Jake White, former retired, fourth police sergeant. Back here somewhere is our producer
Ashley. Welcome back. It's our third episode since returning in our third episode on the case
in Rivercrest, the Coslow murder. Before we get there, what do you say we jump on the police
blotter? Check out the blotter.
It's a call in Tennessee somewhere probably Johnson City up there in the hills. The
Appalachian, you're been up to Johnson City? No, I don't think so. I would either, but it's
deliverance type stuff. I know somebody from there, I think. Oh, okay. All right. You have a
source of reference there. So responding officers in Johnson City arrived to find an elderly woman
trying to set her house on fire. For the insurance money, of course, right? No. Disarm the
atom bomb, she said. She was certain this thing was ticking in her attic. So one quick thinking
officer talked her into walking calmly to his cruiser, assuring her it was the only place she
would be safe from the blast. Once inside, she realized that wait a minute, I'm inside a police
car. You're arresting me, aren't you? She said, you can't take me to jail. I haven't done
anything wrong. She, she explained the officer explained, hey, we're, we're just headed to the
hospital. She only became more indignant. I am not crazy. She yelled, keeping his
composure, the officer said, hey, listen, I don't think you're crazy. But you were standing next
to an atom bomb. You better get checked out for radiation poisoning. And according to the
story, her eyes went wide and she said, quote, oh, shit. I didn't think about that. We better hurry.
You were run across an Illinois lady thinking she might have an atom bomb in her house. Not
with an atom bomb, but you get the, you're more than your fair share of aliens and the government
spying on you, the, you know, those are very, very common. Not an atom bomb, though. No, I did not
experience that. I just get on Facebook. And there's people thinking the government is spying on them. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I need new friends. That's for sure. Then there was this, this, this, this
rookie cop, first night in the job, working the graveyard shift. What is that in fourths? It's seven to seven or something? Or what is that? I
think it's no, no, it's like 11 to 8 or something. Oh, now I think it's like 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Somewhere in that ballpark. The long night on
the job. Yeah, it does. Especially on the streets. It's a long night. Yeah. What, what do you, does everybody have to work
that that first shift? I mean, you don't have to. Most people do have a little run through that. Did you, what was your first
shift when you got on the job? I worked 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Yeah. And then I did as a sergeant have a short run on what we
call midnight's was not cut out. You know, I mean, it's over nights, right? Over nights, some over 40. I'm not cut out for
staying up to four o'clock in the morning or five o'clock in the morning. It did not work out well for me at all. Do you, do you
remember your first, do you first call? And you're 2 to 10? Not all my own, no. Well, you're training officer. This is a story about
Oh, yeah, he is training officer. So what, what, what do you remember? Oh, it was an encounter. Yeah, I mean, it was so
uneventful because the training officer I had was, you know, he was kind of done with the job himself. And so there
was no going to look for crime. We would just let crime come to us. So the first one involved a burglary from
a moving truck where like hundreds of pieces of property were taken out of this moving truck. So I
spent the next seven hours doing a report on that. I never actually left. We call them sectors. We never left
the sector that shit. Were you interviewing a, you've already done your interviews and oh, yeah, you found
all the stuff. No, we didn't find any of it. No, somebody just came by the moving van. They they the victim in
this case came to the sector and said, Hey, my moving truck just got broken into. Oh, that came to you. They came
to us. So we never left you literally. It was terrible. So uneventful. So probably not I have no clue what
you're about to tell me, but I can guarantee you it was way more exciting than what I had. Well, this rookie cop
and his training officer, they roll up to a house where the homeowner swears. Someone's out in my yard creeping on my
house. So they get out with the flashlights. They start sweeping the property. Apparently according to the police
report, the grass was up to the knees. Everything just dead silent. No, no noise. Just everything quiet. Until the bright
eyed rookie, he spots something strange. It's a bright red and yellow Fisher price car. Toy was moving. They move
in and they find their suspect. It's but naked. High as a kite. Surprisingly, right? This guy's stoned out of his
mind, trying to crawl under the tiny plastic car. Very stealthy. This guy is kind of funny. He thinks he is. Well, the training officer,
probably like yours would have said, go ahead, go ahead, go handle this one rookie. Every go ahead. Well, apparently a full on
wrestling match is naked. But he finally, finally, corralled his man for his first, first booking. I guess you call that. Yeah, I
don't know what it is with the, the ranged naked guy syndrome, if you will. But yeah, that too is a not common, but it
happens. You know, we had our fair share of run-ins with similar type stories. Uh-huh. So anything specifically come to mind. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we had one. It was a, we
were working at my buddy and I were working a overtime shift and we were riding together, we called it two man. And so we were
riding together and it's like two o'clock in the morning. And one of the officers gets dispatched to a call about a burglary in progress. And this
officer was, he was a big guy. He was older. I mean, at the time, he was older, probably like early 40s, maybe. Right. Good shape. And he would sell them have backup or assist units with him. He
would usually just handle everything. If I'm not saying he was like some, you know, knuckle dragon, beaten people up, it's just frankly, most of the time, either the suspects gone or you can, you know, he must have been, he must have done while
it diffusing these situations. Or he's John McClain, you know, and that guy, Bruce Willis and the Christmas movie. Yeah, no, he's not wouldn't quite like that. But I see where you're coming at. And so one day, like said, it's two o'clock in the
morning. And he gets dispatched to this burglary. He says, Hey, I don't need a backup unit. And then a couple minutes later, and he's real soft-spoken guy was, I think it passed away.
Gets on on the radio and says, Hey, I do need backup. So my buddy, Chris and I were like, wow, if he's asking, this has got to be good. And so we get to this house.
And there's a dude in the front yard wearing some pajama pants and, you know, like normal sleeping garb and he's distraught and panicked.
And the other officer, the midnight officer was at the door and he kind of motions for us to come up there. So the guy wearing the pajamas is in the front yard and he's going on about.
There's somebody in my bed. So I immediately like, there's nobody in here. Like I think he's, you know, whatever. I thought it was bullshit.
Well, we go in the house. And we go in. It's over. Well, it's over by Arlington Heights High School. Okay. That's oddly enough. Yeah, we've already discussed that place. And we go in the room. And there is a dude butt naked laying in this guy's bed.
And he's asleep. So at this point, I'm kind of like, what is going on here? Like I do not understand this. So we try to, you know, look, I'm a germaphobe. Everybody that knows me. Well, a test of that. Yeah. So I'm, you know, get the edge of my baton, like trying to poke him in the chest or something like, man, I don't want a good being. We're near this.
So finally, the guy wakes up. You know, and you, you would think your typical reaction would be if there's three cops standing over you.
Like you would freak out. Not this guy. He's just like, what's up?
I don't know. Why don't you tell us what's up? I'm just laying here in bed.
So it gets even more confusing because I'm like, well, what if he is like this is his bed? What if this is his bed? Like what if this whole thing's a big misunderstanding and lover squirrel? Who knows what's going on here?
The guy outside was at this point. He is freaked out. And so we're like, no, this is not like something's going on. So we're telling the guy. We're like, hey, get up. And he's like, no, you know, he's not going to get out of bed.
So he gets drug out of bed. He gets put in handcuffs and we go outside. And when we get outside, deranged naked guy looks and now all of a sudden he's got a look of confusion on his face.
Apparently, as the story goes, he leaves a well, much like we discussed in some of our intros where nothing good happens after pick a time midnight or all good stories started out of the bar.
Yeah. Well, that's where he was earlier. And he thought he was in his own house. And he wasn't. So was he a neighbor? I mean, it was like the street behind.
So I got the street confused, I guess. So he wasn't deranged, you know, in that regard, he was just basically hammered coming home.
A little lost. Yeah, drunken a little lost. I'm sure. I mean, frankly, we've all been there. God bless him. God. Anyway, haven't walked into the wrong house ever. But first for everything, I guess.
Yeah, I suppose it's time. All right, let's get back to our case.
Let's look back what we discussed in episode two.
If I can, if I can remember it. So police had initially centered, focused their attention on Jack Coslow as the assailant and murder of his wife Karen Coslow in March of 1992.
The case changed course when police received a phone call from a young man who said he had some information that they probably would be interested in, which was a crowbar some clothes and he knew exactly where this stuff came from.
To the eventual arrests of Jeffrey Dillingham, 19, 19 year old Jeffrey Dillingham, Brian Salter about the same age, maybe a year younger, year older, I think.
And Salter's girlfriend, Christy Coslow, the daughter of Jack Coslow, the mastermind of it all. Christy, yeah.
I can imagine that the interrogations were pretty quick. Those guys, and you can talk about this if you like, but those, those guys on the detectives in homicide are both savvy and shrewd and also ruthless at the same time in their interviewing questions.
They're highly trained individuals, yeah. And by all reports, they all pretty much folded like so fast.
The friend said, I've used to say, folded like a cheap Robert Hall suit. I had to look that up when he told me that the first time, but anyway, that's where we stand.
And it didn't take long, of course, for the case like this, which was already highly publicized because of where it occurred and the victims, that could be another story in its own right.
Really affluent people, white, elderly, and then now you have this crazy ass story about the daughter being involved in the attention murder of her own father and the murder of her stepmother.
Because this news broke, the media jumped even further to attention, rushing out to the home on Clark Avenue where Jack Coslow lived.
Talk shows, of course, went nuts speculating about the money and motive. It was just that kind of story in the news business. We call it a talker.
People everywhere are just talking about it. They can't get enough of it. The current age, it is a dream for internet traffic, website traffic.
This type of story everybody will be on there reading it, reacting to it, and getting that glorious engagement that news platforms are so desperate for.
And then, of course, before she even became a suspect in this case, Christy did something kind of strange.
Call their own press conference. We've seen that in other cases where the weird responses at press conferences.
I can't remember, did OJ call press conference? I don't think OJ did. But there's been other ones where they've called the press conference or they had the weird reactions.
I mean, she wasn't even really at this point when she does this. She really wasn't even on the radar, right? Because there was no reason to suspect her. Their focus was on Jack, the husband.
They were certainly looking around Jack. That's their full attention was at that point. Again, like we mentioned earlier, I mean, you've got to start somewhere.
How did it not been for that phone call? Who knows what happens? Absolutely. But this to detectives, as you found out in your research, was strange that she would do this.
Yeah, there was definitely. And it certainly raised their antenna. Christy going on stage, figurative stage, and asking for justice in this case that she hoped the police succeeded in finding their killer.
And in doing so, she kind of played the innocent card. Yeah, exactly. Why the world is she doing that? It's what they wanted to know. Get the heat off of her.
It didn't work. Like I said, the antenna went up. The phone call was made by that young gentleman who was friends with Dillingham, I believe, at the blockbuster video in Arlington. And we moved on to Jeffrey Dillingham's court case.
That case, ultimately, because of the media attention, was moved to Wichita Falls, simply because of that, because of the intense media scrutiny on this case.
Dillingham's defense counsel successfully argued that he could not receive a fair trial.
In Tarrant County, specifically, Fort Worth, out to Wichita Falls, we went. It's about two hours northwest of here in Fort Worth. And in that trial, in the opening statements, prosecutors called him the muscle, the man who was behind the brutal, traumatic force that killed Karen Coslow with a crowbar.
Jerse, of course, showed photos of the murder scene, the weapon, and even a handwritten map of the Coslow home that we think we know where that came from.
Next up, you got, um, so with Dillingham's conviction, the attention turns to Brian Salter, the boyfriend of Christie. Ultimately, Salter pled guilty to Capitol murder in exchange for life in prison and is promised to testify against Christie.
He was the muscle on Christie, right, is what the prosecutors saw as he could nail her.
And I think here's why so in court, Salter described Christie as the instigator, but here's the why.
Salter said Christie told him her father was abusive and that they would inherit millions once her parents were gone.
The one thing that we haven't covered is how much Christie thought she was going to inherit $12 million.
She gave, she promised Dillingham and Salter either $500,000 each or $1 million each. That was their motive. That's what led to this whole thing.
$500,000 or a million? $500,000 or a million. There was some conflicting accounts on how much each were to get.
Now, Salter thought, hey, if she's getting $12 million, then I'm about to, they were fiance, they were engaged. So he's going to have access to that money.
So once it was all said and done, he kind of painted himself out to be the pawn, but he was definitely not innocent.
I mean, he took part in that killing of Karen Coslow.
Clearly acknowledging that, pleading guilty.
So his sentence ensured he would die in prison, but ultimately that testimony, the reason for that plea was to help seal the fate of Christie Coslow.
So that sets up a showdown with Christie and Jack Coslow.
Yes, it does. Tell us about it.
So that trial started in June of 1994.
And she entered the Terran County Courthouse wearing a navy dress and glasses looking much younger, not the 20 years old as old, but she looked much younger than her 20 years.
A young girl is what she was trying to portray herself to be, but her father took the stand and where did that go?
Jack Coslow said about Christie, she killed the woman I loved, she gave Karen death, and that's what she deserves.
Own father.
Own father. That reaction, that response, I would imagine that that was quite powerful for the prosecutors.
For certain, right? I don't know that there's, frankly, I've never heard of another case. I've never read about another case where that scenario has presented itself.
Well, you know, it just seems so counterintuitive to the love of a parent.
As you well know as a parent involves a lot of forgiveness.
You grew up all the time, you stupid stuff all the time. You even see victims of, well, the families of victims of homicide, homicides.
Some of them, not all of them certainly, some of them even offer forgiveness to the assailant.
So it seems counterintuitive that a father would not, under any circumstance, without any reservation whatsoever, ask almost a man that is daughter, own daughter we put to death as she deserves a death penalty.
I mean, like I said, that was a pretty powerful part of the case for sure. I mean, you know, still kind of, you know, that was kind of the, one of those kind of unreal moments when, you know, we're going through this because, you know, frankly, like for us, I mean, we've heard about this story for years, right?
Everybody knows on, you know, on our side of town, I mean, there's always these little one offs or no kind of have that 30,000 foot view of the story.
But when you start digging in, it's stuff like that that most people don't know or don't remember, that's never part of the story.
So you brought up an interesting point in the last episode about this trend in the 90s.
Young girls or women or teens or however you want to, however you want to describe them, being involved in these similar plots.
We had one in just a few years after this. Well, I guess it was about five years from this point, 94 years. I think that case is a 98, 97, 98, the cadet murders, which of course has been told to national, national audience now.
But in that case, oh, hell, that was a year. No, because we're kind of on 30 years. So that was just merely a year after this.
I think it was 95 or 96, 95 is what it was. Diane Zamora, a jealous Diane Zamora, I guess demanded asked. I don't know what you have.
You have you'd say it that that her boyfriend, David Graham, murder, the young girl.
And I, with all due respect, I believe her name was Audrey Jones, Adrian Jones, Adrian Jones, Adrian Jones, because he had had a fling worth there on a school trip.
What was the other case you were talking about that was there was another one in Fort Worth, but I think this one with this case, there was a few things that that, you know, obviously the
you know, the female kind of masterminding this, right. But the part that the other part that I think is kind of interesting, it has to do with more of the socio economic status of at least Christie.
I mean, frankly, it's rare. I mean, it happens, but it's rare that the wealthy commit violent crimes. You know, I mean, usually crime is committed because of lack of resources, lack of, yeah, exactly.
There's like desperation money for direct, right. Right. Right. Hungry. You know, there are people that are starving that they steal, of course. You know, so with this one, I mean, I said, you have, you have a couple of elements. You've got that you've got the, you know, female, you've got wealthy or from well to do means.
I, you know, I think ultimately it kind of boils down to this whenever I look at crime. And this is just my, my take on it. Right. There's, there's a couple thing, you know, you have a genetic component.
Are people predisposed to crime? No, I don't think so. I don't know. Then you have your environment. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I learned, yeah, learned stuff. Yeah. What would explain her then? Not her environment. What would explain her motive?
So, I mean, she did come from dysfunction. Parents were divorced. I have no idea what the, what the conditions of the divorce were, whether, what, what Pauline, Paula, Pauline, I think was her name, what she received in that divorce.
So, Christie was not a regular at the causal house. You know, she, she, she, she lived with her mother. Her father's, you know, obviously successful, lived in Rivercrest. She was not from that.
She lived there 100% of the time is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. I guess I want to, but I guess I don't know. So I get down to this. Is it a fine balance of genetics and environment? Right. There are, I mean, I don't think there's a, to me, I think that there are certain people that would be predisposed to.
Criminal behavior. Yeah. Some of us, many of us, most of society has the ability to say, you know what? That's probably not a good idea. I'm not going to follow through with that act. Yeah. Or there never, it just simply doesn't enter their mind. Right. Right.
But then you get in, like I said, then you get into that environmental element to where even if you don't have the predisposition to be involved in it, if that's what you grow up around it, that's what you see.
That's how that's your conflict resolution. So with her, it brings on these all these weird elements, right? I mean, it's just very, you know, there's, there's not a ton of cases like this. I mean, since then, even, I mean, there's some, but I mean,
right. Certainly, it's, it's certainly, you know, not, not a equal scale, if you will, of like how many dudes kill someone, for example, you know, the other thing, and I think to bring all that up, you start looking at the concept of capital murder. Right. So what was their motive? Their motive was to get money. That was the reason for the murder. I, that's what enhances it to the capital murder. A lot of people get confused about the various types of murder. In Texas, we have a negligent homicide. Is that the, is that the minor?
Man slaughter? Well, I mean, you, I mean, you have a murder, a capital murder. Those, I mean, the murder and capital murder would be the primary two. It's only, so there's only two. There's not like second degree murder. No, no, no, no, it's not like that. Not it, not here. Not in Texas. Exactly. Some states do have that. Correct.
Capital murder, one example, someone murders a peace officer or a firefighter. That's automatically capital in the line of duty. Right. The person intentionally commits the murder in the course of committing or attempting to commit kid, while they're specific crimes, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction, terrorist threat. So murder and commission of one of those. Right. And one of the, yeah, the person.
commits the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration or employs another to commit the murder for remuneration. Oh, there you go. That's what this is. There you go. Rare for sure. But I think the other thing is is she's looking at, I mean, guilty of capital murder. It could mean the death penalty.
Right. I mean, we're in Texas. I mean, I, I don't know that there's any other states that utilize the death sentence more than we do. That's a hard case. You know, if you're prosecuting the case, I mean, I'm never been a prosecutor, but how do you paint the story that, hey, yeah, where the state should go, put this 19, even the dad said, that's what she deserves.
That's still, you know, that's, that's definitely got its challenges, you know, for sure. Ultimately, with Coslo, she dodged the death penalty. Yeah, she got her, got her life sentence with her possibility of parole after 35 years. So what's coming up in two years.
2027 is when she is set for that. You actually did a request center pending still pending. Yeah, well, maybe if that is at some point, not pending, we can come back and touch on this. If you have the opportunity to go down there and talk to her, recap on the sentences, dealing him, put the death, convicted of the capital murder. He never took a plea deal, solter, life in prison, Coslo, life in prison.
That trial went eight days. I believe the jury deliberated five hours came back with guilty of capital murder. And Dillingham was executed by lethal injection in 2000.
I found Dillingham's final statement. Hey, is this last meal included? It is actually. Would you like to know what it was? Yeah, I'm all I am intrigued by those. He had a cheeseburger with American cheddar mozzarella cheese, mayonnaise, mustard, onions, large fries.
Bowl of macaroni and cheese, lasagna with two slices of garlic bread, four ounces of nacho cheese, like in a cup or three large cinnamon rolls, five scrambled eggs, and eight pints, chocolate milk. Go ahead.
Have you ever tried to replicate someone's final meal? No, I haven't. I'm not interested in that one. I feel like that should be a show segment.
Yeah, I think we could actually eat their final meal while we're doing the show. That's not a bad idea. This is brainstorming.
I got to say though, it definitely when you get a spinal meal, it's like that's somebody that got incarcerated young in life.
Oh, I mean, it's like it's like it's like he never left his teenage years, right? That's what a teenager would eat.
It's interesting when you, I mean, granted off topic, but if you look at or talk to people who have gone into the system really young, when they get out, how hard it is for them to get back into society, because they were developed and they're formidable development years of adulthood in carcerated, so they just don't know how to act.
Exactly. And we've done cases and we'll do more. I can assure you where like Charles Manson, they don't know how to survive outside.
The penal system. I'm going back to the final meal. Like if I'm not going out on a high note, if I know tomorrow, I'm doing something just like just horrible.
Oh, oh, oh, you mean like like like like a puree of beets and sardines or something like just something terrible.
So then when they have to clean you afterwards, that's just disgusting. Yeah, pay back. Yeah, maybe that's what he was thinking. I could be anyway anyway.
Wait, so has there been anything that's been released about the daughter about the murder Christy was her name, right? Yeah, about Christy's like her psyche. Like does she was she classified like a sociopath or anything like that?
I wouldn't be shocked if she was sociopath. They never they never went into to great detail. I think I mean, honestly, you know, in looking at her hit. I mean, she went off the rails that a super young age, right?
And you could start to see that. And again, I'm not I don't want to see bounce around schools around school. I don't want to paint this with like a broad brush. But I mean, you know, she leaves the affluent private school going into her freshman year.
Yeah, she goes at the time. Heights was a probably a highly rated high school if they did ratings.
That doesn't last. She goes to I think we used to call him alternative schools. Yeah, I think it is an alternative school. She's going off the rails somewhere who knows? I mean, you know, the perhaps it was the divorce perhaps like I said, I mean, I would stand by that I think that, you know, there's just something not taken right up there.
If you're planning the murder of your dad and your stepmom, yeah, but I don't recall any kind of formal diagnosis. I know I didn't read anything about. Well, there, there must have been testimony.
Actually, that that was in her favor, I suppose, because because they the jury ultimately decided not to give a death penalty because she was not a threat to society. It's a great question though.
We get to talk to her or interview her at some point down the road. Maybe we can figure out a little more about her psyche. Yeah, I'm sure we will.
We can make assumptions based on our epic lack of being able to diagnose people, but still try.
Yes. Well, yeah, exactly. Like I said, like I said, we just play psychiatrists on the middle, middle health workers.
I mean, on as somebody who loves studying that kind of stuff, like people psyche and wide serial killers do what they do in those things, it either sound like she's a sociopath or she was abused heavily growing up.
Yeah, I wouldn't rule either of those out. There's no way. I mean, the in terms of there's no way I would rule those out.
I mean, I mean, yeah, why do why do people do this stuff? And it's a very, it's very complicated, clearly.
So, so let me right quick, Jeffrey Dillingham's final words, according to murderpedia.org.
That's what it says, Ashley. I just, I just, I just do the reporting.
But he said, quote, I would like to apologize to the victim's family for what I did.
I take full responsibility for that poor woman's death, for the pain and suffering inflicted on Mr. Coslow, father.
He's, he's talking about God, the father, father. I want to thank you for all the beautiful people you put in my life.
I could not have asked for two greater parents than you gave me. I could just ask for two greater people.
I could just, I could just ask for two greater people in their life now.
Not sure I understand that one. It is a blessing that there are people that they love so much, but even more so people that I love so much.
He really needed to take this through some sort of program on grammar and clarity.
I thank you for all the things you have done in my life, for the ways that you have opened my eyes, softened my heart, the ways that you have taught me, for teaching me how to love, for all the bad things you have taken out of my life, for all the good things you have added to it.
I thank you for all the beautiful promises that you make us in your word and I graciously received every one of them.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, for getting me off death row in this instance, the permanent solution, and for bringing me home out of prison.
I love you, Heavenly Father. I love you, Jesus. Thank you both for loving me. Amen.
Our current Senator, John Corman, who's running for re-election, was the Texas Attorney General announced that the execution had been executed.
He goes on to say that Dillingham confessed to police about the murder and the involvement of a friend who helped him dispose of the evidence, the gentleman in Arlington,
Salter confessed to police implicating Dillingham and Dillingham told police that he tried to plan the killings of best he could, because he did quote, not want to get caught, and of course the friend who helped Dillingham.
This also includes, it's also worked to note going back to our previous conversation that none of these defendants had any previous criminal history.
Dillingham came from a really good family with what sounded like strong structure and support.
So God knows how this happens, but he was put to death in 2000. His appeals went all the way to the Supreme Court, which was the United States Supreme Court, which was tonight's final appeal.
Well, that takes us to not the aftermath, but some of the things, you know, after the convictions, the death, all that.
Little interesting sports tidbit. I'm always interested in sports tidbits.
We talked about the Texas Tech Met, by the way.
No, we'll get to that.
But the sports reference on this. Do you know who bought the Coslow House? I don't. Former Yankee baseball player. The American League president.
Dr. Bobby Brown has that right. Yeah.
But shortly after the late Dr. Bobby, the late Dr. Bob, not not even a year after.
93 somewhere in that time frame. Keep it intact. Or if you tore it down and built. No, it's still there. No, it's it is.
How much city buy it for? You got a good discount on that. What you saying? I don't don't quote me on the exact it was somewhere.
I think it was somewhere in the three hundred and fifty four hundred K range back then.
Yeah, that I mean that today that gets you one bedroom. Yeah, barely. It's definitely it's it's got a it's got to be north of two mill mile for sure.
Oh, good God. Yeah. So Jake, if you don't know is a hot shot real occur around.
A hot shot. He knows he knows neighborhoods in four Texas. I'll tell you that right now.
That's from driving around a lot or whatever. So yeah, that kind of.
Concludes the.
Coslow murder and a lot of people are, you know, still asking the same questions we are about, you know, how does this happen?
The whole crime and punishment, you know, are you better off dead or alive? You know, Dillingham was clearly felt he was being liberated by.
Being sent to across the plane into another spear and I certainly understand that that emotion that concludes our first.
For series first case of this new iterations new iteration of of this signal 51 Chronicles.
We thank all of you for being so patient on our return and we welcome you back and we welcome back our new listeners.
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The signal 51 Chronicles as well. All right. And selfishly, I've never been on TikTok. Do I get to be on TikTok?
I can do TikTok. Yeah. Wow. I like TikTok. I like TikTok. Actually, I actually quite like TikTok.
All right. I didn't think I would be that person that I do. All right, Mal. I hear you.
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