Lili: I now gather you claim it was the hospital who (presumably unintentionally) poisoned you. But did the evidence support this conviction? Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one. But I could feel my focus changing. Interesting correlation https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/us/the-poison-is-arsenic-and-the-suspect-wood.html. For someone that had money Richard claimed to battle with ants. Richard began an affair with a coworker named Tami Ayn Gaisford around 1989. Again, for the money. Preyed upon her. First published November 1, 1993. No other reason fits everything. Its a pretty common pattern. They both took the last name of Dillard and Anna got married in 2015 at the arboretum, which has an exhibit in her mothers honor. My comments will be based upon trial evidence. The system didnt work, or it did work?, The difficulty supporters of those they claim are wrongly convicted have is that they are usually, understandably, close to the convict, motivated by bonds of love and affection to support their claimed innocence. Who buys accidental poisoning? Doubt they believe he is innocent since they took their moms surname Dillard. Of course, Im sure they wish their mother was alive too. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharee_Miller. Do you visit the website? Richard Lyon pleaded not guilty at his 1991 murder trial. Cops, who just want to close their case, regardless if the defendant is guilty (but there are good, hard working cops too), and crooked DAs who just want to get ahead. In fact, theres a LOT of evidence without even approaching the motive. But what does any of that have to do with the intentional murder, which clearly happened BEFORE she entered the hospital? Although Nancy enjoyed the East Coast, Richard made the well-reasoned suggestion that the couple should reside in Dallas, the Dillard family's power base. I do believe Richard killed his wife. 2. Update on July 11, 2018: Two corrections were made to the post the website asks for legal help, not monetary donations, and the site itself was created by supporters, according to a representative for Friends of Richard Lyon. And there was something to gain from Nancys death: a $500,000 life insurance payout. The first two didnt work, and you finally finished her off with arsenic, a tried-and-true method of producing death., Creuzot gave him life in jail and a $10,000 fine. Battaglia had never harmed or threatened the girls. Tim, thanks so much for the kind words about the blog! They MAY make his attempt to cheat the law by murder a little more plausible, but you press them too much. Just put some updated info on website. Then, theres double jeopardy. And its unclear what interpretation to make of the falsified diary entry. Ironically, the fact that she felt sick probably made her less likely to have the get-up-and-go to move out. She was about to testify against her former boss in a trial for an Embezzlement charge but was poisoned before she could do so. First, ALL comments are opinion pieces. Richard Lyon suffered from addictions to alcohol and sex. Without DNA evidence, it is difficult to get acceptance from an innocence project. Slither back into your holes, snakes. Anything but discuss the actual facts. An upcoming post will look into developments in his case since the conviction. Even a cursory reading of his support materials makes it obvious why none of the innocence projects will take his case. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. Allison is a costume desisigner. Thanks again! A shame about his wife though. And yes, there are MANY innocent people in jail, and on death row, especially in Texas. Coincidentally, the condo is owned by a real estate developer who is connected to Trammel Crow. This page was last edited on 9 August 2020, at 14:16. https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Nancy_Lyon&oldid=936769. To actually expect people to buy that is insanity. Its bizarre, and if anyone ever suspected me of murder, it may look bad (they had nothing to do with me). Richard Lying is not getting out ever hahahaha Christopher Ochoa, Richard Danziger, and Cameron Todd Willingham (although possibly guilty of spousal abuse) come to mind. Whether it was deliberate, and by whom, is a matter for the police and prosecuting authority, so why would the hospital be involved in litigation (unless you imply that the hospital was medically incompetent and you wished to sue it)? Novelist Gray ( Killings ) makes his debut in true-crime writing with this story of the murder in 1991 of Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a Dallas real estate tycoon and the wife of Richard. That murderer is due to get out soon. In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. But, tell me: Why else was she clasping owl feathers and her own hair in her hand??? Nancys death was a tragedy all the way around and has affected many lives. But by means of Christs ransom sacrifice we have the forgiveness of sins, as long as we are truly repentant. Ridiculous: its hardly racist to suggest that mere suggesting cultural ignorance is racist, nor that that may be because the ignorance is a function of another race or nationality, as was argued. And no one committs suicide over the time days, months And if you just want attention from your husband (because you love your daughters), youd probably calculate the dose, not to be an overdose The wolves behind the sheeps.. Something looking obvious doesnt make it true! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7rEfV67630. He told the woman he was cheating on her with that his wife had a sickness. Did the hospital find arsenical poisoning or is that your own diagnosis? Allison and Anna wish to be left alone by EVERYONE. There are at least two separate people to whom the victim told she was poisoned by Richard. During her six-day stay at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas,Nancys violent illness continued and she begged the medical staff to save her life. Another tragedy. Richard never denied the affair and has done his penance for it. He is innocent. And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convictedand sentenced to life in prison. Nancy Cooke Dillard Lyon Birth 6 Aug 1953. Watch the Forensic Files episode on YouTube. Nancy was so cute and innocent I wish she was my wife. Tami Ayn Gaisford, Richards girlfriend, testified that Richard had told her that Nancy died from a rare fatal blood disease more proof that he was a liar. More than one some years. There can be SOME doubt , which is by definition unreasonable in compromising the reasonableness of the finding. I imagine that if you had evidence that you ingested arsenic at the hospital, and not prior to admission, the police would investigate the hospital. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. Nancy planned to move to Washington, D.C., with her daughters after the divorce, a 1991 AP storyreported. Bill Jr and Nancy were friends with this man. I was in the waiting room for ICU at Presbyterian Hospital when Nancy was admitted to the hospital in 1991. If you continue like this, one day you will look back on your life and realize you wasted a large part of your life on a killer (as the evidence shows). I can understand how a friend or family member can believe their loved one is innocent. General facts about wrongful convictions, general facts about pressure treated wood (that, unless she was eating it constantly, wouldnt give her those levels of arsenic in her system). Or the forged receipt with her name on it (typed receipt, but all receipts in that business were done by hand no typewriter), or the forged diary entries. But a Texas court rejected his blame-the-victim strategy, which included a contention that Nancy had brought about her own slow demise by intentionally consuming arsenic and barium carbonate over a long period of time. IF Nancy told the doctor she thought her husband was poisoning her, then why didnt he call the police and test her for it? His father sold insurance. I imagine the prisons low-medium security. Its likely someone in the home. I thinking itS obvious he killed her..What about the pills found at that rented flat? Lyons claims that his absence from the home on the day his wife became seriously ill is his alibi, when in fact he might have added poison to any one of numerous substances in the house that his wife could have ingested. It could have been slow suicide but it would be odd, then, to be complaining for weeks before death of headaches and nausea, never mind that it would be a serious clue that one needed to up the dose, as well as being a severely unpleasant way for a person to take their life. They merely suggest a person capable of cheating in the first two citations of the kind that millions do. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. They came from different worlds. Thats how it works. I guess Texas courts dont mess around. I knew you werent claiming the hos was responsible for the poisoning (though Lili may be); rather that they were negligent. Who told you he was innocent? Anyway, I dont agree with you regarding juries. In Richards appeal for a new trial, which was denied, it would have proven the hand writing expert wrong. Julie, Nice playacting. He determined the diary entries about Nancys brother were forgeries created by Richard. As for updates on family members of the Lyons, I wasn't able to find out who took custody of the couple's little daughters after Richard went to prison. TX is not known for its stellar justice system. But he did not kill his wife. Politics, power, and money will do what is necessary to influence the outcome of any situation. Richard is the only one with enough contact and motive. If juries are presented with partial or misleading evidence (which could be more accident than design such as failure of the defence to do a reasonable job of interrogating evidence), the wrong outcomes very possible. But the money hadnt spoiled Nancy. If he had not been arrested and allowed to raise their two daughters, he would have more than likely killed them. Taking a mother from her kids proves hes pure evil and also, the fact that not one single legal nonprofit wanted to take his case speaks volumes. She still lives in Texas but married someone else. Incidentally, William and Sue Dillard had already lost one of their adult children, Thomas, in 1986. New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA. The inheriting of considerable wealth (presumably) has been a perfectly sufficient motive for numerous others murderers and while its no proof in itself, what makes it unlikely in his case in the absence of stronger contenders AND with other suspicious circumstances AND with a wife he evidently cared little for given his affair? Have you ever read the data and studies around the behavior of a sexually abused female? At least in the USA. It seemed implausible to me at first as well, but implausible does happen occasionally. So at the first sign of trouble in a marriage STOP! All they care about is winning the case to keep up their win/lose ratio, and advance their career. Personally, Id probably force a mistrial, as I care far more for real justice, than the law. The strands of hair served as a map of doses of arsenic that coincided with Richards interactions with his wife. Invite friends and neighbors over to watch. Richard Lyon met Nancy Dillard at Harvard, where they studied to become landscape architects. To reiterate, the autopsy report said an acute dose of arsenic as cause of death. They married in 1982 and moved into a duplex in University Park, an affluent section of Dallas. Fingerprints and DNA arent going to matter a bit when they both live in the same damn house. One of them ended up serving a life sentence in a Federal prison; the other ended up dead. I understand their concern. For all of you so critical and wishing him harm, I pray that God opens your eyes and heart. Im sure youve had many more affairs in the Prison showers, but not with good looking bimbos lol. As Richard had hoped, Bill Dillard . I would have cooked, cleaned, take care of my life. RR. Never loved her. I came here tonight to see if anyone knows about the 2021 parole.. Nothing to eat there but I eyed the corn seeds and I nibbled a bag of the dried dessicated (arsenic-treated) kernals. If Eve had life insurance in Adams favour (or he thought so), and if he were short of money cos of high living, including trying to impress his new girlfriend, with unpaid bills, those are reasonably probative; and unless Eve elaborately set Adam up, a string of witnesses chronicling how they had signed for chemicals addressed to Adam is probative despite absence of proof that he ordered them. Its not like any sane person would go knocking on their door (other than possible reporters, that is). Ive had some people drop me hints/clues. Call it innocent by reason of successful cover-up. Correction: I noticed that FRL was responding to a different comment (not mine), when calling it fiction, but otherwise, my comment stands as is. So far, those organizations have declined to take on his case. It was all a big joke to them. Like I said, I dont know if hes innocent or guilty, but a lot of you people commenting on here make ridiculous statements that obviously dont prove that hes guilty and really just add more nonsense to the mix. Dallas, Dallas County, . Hes where he belongs. Sweet set-up. Guess the daughters, Anna and Allison really do wish to be left alone: neither one appears to support FORL/Cathy in their fathers conspiracy-steeped innocence. Neither does the Innocence Project. Nancy had called him a Dr. If what you think about juries is correct, its a travesty. Theres always SOME person that stands by the killer, especially one that cleans up nice. Lyon will never be paroled as long as he refuses to take responsibility for the death of Nancy Dillard. The movie made it look like he could be either innocent or guilty. It was determined that Richard wrote the notes about her brother. Tim: Yours was the opinion of the jury so you hardly need to be sheepish about it! Also, people, please stop posting about the Allison and Anna. Couldnt wait to get his hands on two more little girls, better yet THESE girls came with a hefty inheritance from their mother, who he victimized repeatedly as a child! How does all that coincide with your accidental death theory??? Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. The amount of evidence is HUGE! He did not lie or forge anything. Often, a hunch/bad feeling about the defendant wins out over lack of evidence. Give the predator two more victims. The costs for a case like this is too much for them to handle and risk. Perhaps they need a new plea category. Being that easily fooled makes you look as gullible as him for imagining he could twist and turn things around and play the blame the victim game and win. He was part of a bipartisan effort to give alcoholic and drug-addicted offenders treatment instead of incarceration.). What a slime bag. When you look at the FACTS, I cant think of any reason for this, other than an owl attack, which DOES happen; maybe the owl had just laid eggs. OBVIOUSLY, he created it. The justice system in the USA is broken. Cathy: Hello. The problem is the cost of the trial and the fact that Texans have made Richard into a monster and Nancy into a saint makes it difficult for anyone to take the case. Either way, youre wasting your life on something that wont change. Were you admitted WITH arsenical poisoning (in which case, they didnt) or with another condition, THEN were also to have been found poisoned? Sometimes, the fact that they have been murdered at all isnt even proven, but the defendant is a very arrogant and unlikable man, and thats enough. If Lyon had been a Texan cop, he may have gotten only 20 years for murder as Joseph Kent McGowen did. Many examples of such, especially in TX. I was a patient at Dallas Presbyterian who was poisoned with arsenic. Do you have evidence or first hand account? Please tell me . For all I know, you are a suspect trying to keep all eyes on Richard. I But there are facts to this case that just add up to Richard Lyon being guilty. There have been many cases attributed to that hospital. In murdering Nancy five years later, Richard Lyon took away yet another child from the Dillard family. Nancys father was none-too-pleased that his son-in-law made the decision to terminate her life support without consulting him or his wife. But it was a bizarre coincidence. Not all people are as closed-minded as you are. Good for him. Friends of Richard Lyon should spend their time being Friends of Anna and Allison instead. 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