In an emotional interview from behind bars, which is set to air on Crime Watch Daily today, Frances Hall, 53, says she still loves her dead husband, Bill Hall Junior, the owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking, even though his mistress sent thousands of taunting messages, including videos of the pair having sex.
Frances was jailed after being convicted of killing her estranged husband Bill in San Antonio, Texas in 2013. Her husband's younger lover, Bonnie Contreras, 34, allegedly sent the wife sex tapes and pictures of hysterectomy diagrams saying Hall was broken, disgusting and not a real woman anymore.
The couple were married for 34 years and have two adult children, while Bill's affair with Ms Contreras lasted three years. The taunting finally struck a nerve when Frances saw her husband's mistress Ms Contreras driving their 'family Range Rover' on Oct 10, 2013. Ms Contreras was being followed by the now late Bill Hall, on his custom made Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Frances did a u-turn and started to chase the mistress. She began to ram the car Ms Contreras was driving - in what prosecutors say was a fit of rage, but accidentally hit and killed her husband in the process.
Now in Jail, Frances claims to still love her late husband.
'The times he was leading this secret life, he made sure I was his number one,' she told the program. 'I love him and he is the only man I will love this way. Sometimes, I tell my kids that all that’s left of me is a shell of a woman. But I have to be there for them, they lost their father.'Hall could have been sentenced up to life in prison for the collision but a jury concluded that the woman's 'sudden passion' was a mitigating factor in her guilt in the death of her trucking company husband. Her attorneys argued the wreck was an accident but she got a two-year prison sentence for aggravated assault.
Now the mistress, Ms Contreras is suing the family for $2.5 million because of the alleged emotional stress from the car chase.
'I know that I never broke up that family. That family was already broken,' she said, claiming that Bill Hall told her early on in their relationship that he was separated and going through a divorce. 'I'm not a bad person, I just fell in love, I couldn't help it.'