Snapped: Women Who Murder - Eve Nance

Episode Date: November 22, 2020

When a beloved Wisconsin father disappears, his wife blames drugs, but close friends suspect a violent confrontation that ended a marriage filled with secrets.Season 21, Episode 1Originally aired: August 6, 2017See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal. Our newest series looks at the story of OxyContin, a popular painkiller that helps spur an epidemic of addiction and drug abuse, in which prompted a broad campaign to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable. Listen to American Scandal on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. Eve Nance fell in love with Tim at 16, and they've been married for more than 15 years. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child.

I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. I'm not a child. Eve worked so hard. She was a caregiver to her family. My dad tried and they kind of just made the best of it.

But in November of 2013, Tim went missing from their Wisconsin home. No one could get a hold of Tim. Tim wasn't checking in with anyone. That's what started to raise red flags. Your whole routine does not change in an instant, unless there's foul play in ball. The search for the missing man would reveal that Tim had a secret life. Sometimes he would go for a couple of days or a week. He said, oh, I'm just having my cake in either two.

And his marriage to Eve wasn't what it seemed. The police were called to their house for domestic issues numerous times. My dad was the aggressor. Timothy had been threatened by Eve. And his disappearance left family, friends, and investigators wondering had one of them finally gone too far. He had a gun. He's leaving it around.

I was just begging for him. to go. Just go. MUSIC Fondelac, Wisconsin, November 5, 2013. It was a quiet Tuesday in this town of 40,000 an hour north of Milwaukee. Final act is your all-American, all- Wisconsin city. It's beautiful. And it's a good place to raise your family.

Final act is very boring. It's very slow. Nothing really much happens. Not really much to do. But that Tuesday, the small town's police department would suddenly have a mystery on their hands. A 37-year-old fondle-like resident named Eve Nance called in and reported her husband Tim missing.

No one could get a hold of Tim. Tim wasn't checking in with anyone. Not only Eve, but his friends either. And 37-year-old Tim Nance had a lot of friends in fondle-like. Everybody knew who he was. He had a big smile. He talked a lot and had a million stories to tell. Eve told the police she'd last seen Tim on Friday night. Not seeing Tim for a couple of days wasn't almost abnormal thing. When he wanted to do his own thing, he would go do his own thing.

However, according to Eve, Tim typically kept in touch while he was away, but not this time. There was very unusual fin-n-n-o-b-d-e-d hear from Tim all week at long. Even more unusual, Eve said he wasn't answering his phone either. She seemed very worried, a little aggravated that he wasn't returning her calls.

And when he didn't come home on Monday or Tuesday, Eve said she'd really begun to worry. That's what started the race red flags. Maybe he wasn't just out. I haven't had time. So Eve had decided to call the police. She seemed genuinely upset and confused as to where he was. But in the days ahead, the authorities would be wondering

was her confusion genuine? Or did Eve know exactly where her husband was? Born in 1976, Eve's stedom started life far from the quiet shores of Fondelok. Eve was born in Chicago. We grew up on Northside ofok. He was born in Chicago. We grew up on Northside of Chicago. She was definitely an extrovert. She was an outgoing kid, you know,

and pretty much kept that throughout her whole life. My answer really funny. She'd always be like the one making jokes about everyone. And when the 16-year-old met Tim Nance in 1992, her sense of humor was an easy fit with Tim's ready grin and rapid fire wise cracks. He was the jokes that told the jokes me everybody felt comfortable. He was very street smart, he was a very social guy.

He was just so charismatic, you know, he just drew people in. Which is exactly what happened when he met Eve at a friend's party. The first time she looked at Tim, she was in love with him. And Tim felt the same way about Eve. Tim would say to anybody on a shame, I love that woman. And Eve would tell me the same, I love that man. They both had a real fun loving, you know, easy going personality. They both liked to have a good time and joke and laugh.

Soon, the two teenagers had moved out of their parents' houses and into their own apartment. They were both pretty mature at a young age, and she moved in with Tim within a couple of months of them getting together. Though they struggled to support themselves on their own, the teenagers were soon starting a family.

It was more of a shock than a surprise. They were 16 years old, and they had to explain this to both of their families and everything else. With a baby on the way, even Tim decided they would need to get married. It was very happy. He knew she was someone he wanted to marry. He loved her very much. At 17 or 18 years old, they weren't doing the normal stuff,

17 or 18 year old kids were doing. They were paying bills and buying diapers. This was going to be their life. They were going to have a baby. They were going to be parents, and there's no change in that. But even as the couple planned their wedding, another unexpected change would derail their future. In August of 1994, Tim was at home one afternoon

when he heard Eve nine months pregnant with their daughter Tamika screaming on the sidewalk outside their apartment. Someone was assaulting Eve. Tim came out there with a pistol. And while threatening the guy and getting him away from Eve, Tim shot him in the foot. The wound wasn't fatal, but despite the fact that he'd been trying to protect Eve and their unborn child,

the police placed Tim under arrest, and the trauma of seeing him hauled off in handcuffs was enough to send Eve into labor. You went to jail the day that Tamiko was born? Tim spent nearly a year in jail on assault charges, but Eve stayed in touch with her fiancé and brought their daughter along on every visit to the jail. We would make really long trips to go see him and stuff, and like she would still have him in my life, regardless.

Being that he was locked up didn't change the fact that that was Temeca's father. And as soon as he was released in 1995, Eve and Tim didn't waste any time planning their long awaited and change the fact that that was to me his father. And as soon as he was released in 1995, Eve and Tim didn't waste any time planning their long awaited wedding. The day you got released from jail, on the way home from picking him up,

they stopped at the courthouse and got married. Tim and Eve settled into married life. And a few years later, the family moved to Fondelock, Wisconsin. She wanted to raise her kid in a safe environment. And the cost of living was lower, too. We moved up here pretty much to better ourselves and better life. In fact, Fondelock appeared to be such a positive change for the young family

that Eve's little sister and her children soon followed her to Wisconsin. My aunt was pretty much like my second mom, so she would always be there for me and my cousin. We were pretty much raised as like sisters. However, as much as Eve loved her new home, life in Wisconsin wasn't perfect. Tim's felony conviction made it hard for him to find work. Tim worked more on and off throughout

their entire relationship, probably more often on. And because of that, he mostly stayed home as Mr. Mom. He was safe, baby. He'd be at work all day, come home, relax. I got dinner done every day. He liked cooking like he wanted to go to school for culinary ads when he was younger.

In addition to the couple's daughter, Tim also looked after her cousin. He babies sat me every day because I'm out and be at work. We were like really close. Meanwhile, it fell to Eve to support the family. Once in Wisconsin, she took a job at a local assisted living facility. Even I work caregivers for people with mental disabilities. Eve worked so hard because she was a caregiver to her family. She wanted to give them kind of a bobbin beyond.

And she always pushed her daughter to do better. She would always tell me, you know, go to school, keep furthering yourself instead of like going out to party and stuff. She'd be like, shouldn't we study? Tim, on the other hand, took a more laid-back approach. As long as I was safe and I let them know where I was going and stuff, my dad really didn't, didn't mind.

Maybe Tim didn't mind his daughter having a little fun, because once Eve was home from work and dinner was done, he'd often slip out to enjoy what nightlife fondle act had to offer. My dad would go out, he would go play pool and be a social person, see it was out there, he's talked to people. But in the fall of 2013, Eve said Tim had gone out for the evening as usual. Only this time, he didn't come home. as usual, only this time he didn't come home. Coming up, in an effort to find Tim, Eve reveals her husband's secret life.

When it first started, it was more hidden. But someone else, if Eve might be better off without him. Regardless of the ups and downs, she stuck through it. On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 37-year-old Eve Nance called the police in Fondelife, Wisconsin, and said that her husband, Tim Nance, had been missing since Friday. At first, I thought that he was off doing his own thing and just didn't want to be bothered right now, which wasn't uncommon. Because after devoting all week to taking care of the kids, the weekend was Tim's time.

He liked to go out. He liked to hang his friends. But according to Eve, she hadn't been able to get in touch with him all weekend. It wasn't really like my dad to not always like answer his phone. And he hadn't come home on Monday or Tuesday either. That was what was starting to spark interest that something might not be right here. But where could Tim have gone?

Eve told the police she had an idea. She said that while they've moved to Fondelac years ago in order to provide a safer environment for their daughter, Tim had always missed the big city excitement they'd left behind. It's a small town, a lot different than Chicago, that's for sure. But with Chicago a full three hours away, Eve told the police that Tim typically had to satisfy his big city cravings in Milwaukee instead, a mere hour away.

That's a little bit more who he was, so that's kind of where he liked to spend his time. But according to Eve, Tim's trips to Milwaukee were for more than just hanging out and playing pool. She said he was on the hunt for drugs. Eve told the missing person's investigator it all started as a result of Tim's old assault conviction, a felony on his record that made it hard for him to find steady work.

Her husband didn't put a lot on the table and was unemployed a lot. They were kind of struggling up and fond of lack. And with Tim, often out of work, Eve had been forced to make up the difference. She was the family breadwinner. She was the one who really was supporting her child. My mom worked a lot.

My dad tried and they kind of just made the best of it. So Tim tried to help out, finding ways to earn a little extra money. He had to make a hustle, anyway he could. So he would not have did his little hustle for his family. Although according to Eve, Tim's hustling essentially amounted to one thing. She said he was this drug addict and this drug dealer. But over time, according to Eve, he'd begun to sample more than he sold.

We didn't know that he was kind of like into drugs. And according to Eve, that meant that she'd ended up supporting the family and her husband's drug habit. She was hardworking, always provided for everyone and my dad kind of used that to his advantage. If you've got someone else that's taking care of that aspect a little bit, then you're a little more free to do the funner things in life. And according to Eve, Tim's fun extended to more than just drugs.

He had other women or saw other women on the side. He wasn't 100% about me and my mom. He kind of like let a double life. Eve wasn't sure exactly when her husband had begun cheating on her. When it first started, it was more hidden, a little more, you know, the stereotypical cheating, where you're sneaking around and things like that. But Eve said that as the years passed, Tim's cheating had become more blatant.

Sometimes he would go for a couple of days or a week and stay with a girlfriend and then come back home again. Eve said that it's Tim's cheating became obvious. Friends and family had begged her to leave him. I did ask her, you know, how could you stay in a relationship like this? She told me that she would rather have some of Tim's time than none of it at all.

After all, Eve had been in love with him since she was 16. My mom was very committed in the relationship. She'd never, she never really thought about leaving in regardless of the ups and downs she stuck through it. Although she didn't always accept it. Talking to the police, even admitted that she and Tim had often fought over the years. He wasn't always there like he should be as supportive as he could have been and that's when fights and stuff would happen. In fact, according to E, she and Tim had been fighting the last time she saw him.

They had gotten in an argument Friday night and he left. And she thinks he went to Milwaukee. That in and of itself wasn't too unusual, according to EVE. People can go cool off, leave for a couple days. And at first, Eve said she hadn't been too worried, and those who knew Tim felt the same way. At first, I didn't think anything about it at all. I thought that he was off doing his own thing.

Wasn't too alarming to me, really. I mean, I figured he would show up. But after he failed to come home on Tuesday, Eve had decided to call the police. She stated that he had a drug problem, and he may have relapsed, so she was reporting him missing at that time. As a theory, it sounded plausible to the police.

Tim had a history of multiple drug offenses. Tim's record may have made Eve's claim that he'd gone off on a so-called drug binge seem credible. But when the investigators talk to Tim's friends, they told police a very different story about Tim's involvement with drugs. He, at one point, dealt a little weed. He wasn't a hardcore heroin dealer. He went to Milwaukee on a drug bed.

She was what she's had. But he didn't do drugs like that. So that wasn't true. And while Tim's friends admitted he was unfaithful, they told the investigators that was because Eve had pushed him away. She was very controlled. Everything's got to be her way. She always degraded him, and she used to

say little things like to make herself feel like she was a better person. And in his friends version, it was Tim, not Eve, who'd suffered in silence. Several witnesses report that Timothy was not happy in his relationship with Eve. Was Tim simply taking a break from his troubled marriage? Was it possible he had gone to Milwaukee as Eve suggested? Hoping for some confirmation, the investigators contacted Tim, cell phone provider. A cell phone signal will ping off of three different towers and it'll give you an idea of the location as to where the cell phone signal will ping off of three different towers, and it'll give you an idea of the location as to where the cell phone was last used or where it's being used currently.

But when the investigators pulled his cell phone records, they made a troubling discovery. There was no cell phone activity. What could explain Tim's silence? Was it possible he'd been in an accident? on activity. What could explain Tim's silence? Was it possible he'd been in an accident? Or perhaps had an overdose as his wife suggested? They'd start to check hospitals in case something happened. But there was no sign of Tim.

As the days continued to pass with no word from the missing man, his friends and family really started to worry. Everyone kind of went from thinking, well, this is something that's happened before to okay, now maybe we should start being concerned that something's wrong. So even as the police launched an official investigation, Tim's family and friends had begun their own search. We started making posters like me and my sisters,

went and like copy posters and talked them around, asking people if they've seen them and stuff. And despite a sometimes troubled relationship, it appeared that no one wanted to find Tim more than Eve. She was right there alongside of them. You know, in candlelight, vigils, and making posters, and putting up flyers and searching. Tim was, I believe, the only man she ever loved in her

entire life. But would Eve and Tim ever be reunited? On November 13th with the official search for Tim in its second week, the authorities made an appeal to the public for help. They put out a new press release asking for help from hunters. It might have seen, like a logical request. If you've ever been to Wisconsin and during hunting season, there are thousands and thousands of people who go into the woods and a hunter could help them find the person who was missing. However, while the police didn't come right out and say it,

the press suspected that asking hunters to scour the winter woods for a man who'd been missing almost two weeks, signaled an unspoken shift in the investigation. This was a game changer. You're not just looking for an individual, but pretty sure that the individual you're looking for is no longer alive.

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Follow 10 Fold War Wicked Presents W Words, Wherever You Get Your Podcasts. You can listen early and ad-free on the Amazon Music or One Dreadp. By November 13, 2013, it had been eight days since 37-year-old Eve Nance had reported her husband, Tim, missing. And it had been almost two weeks since she said he'd walked out of their fondle like Wisconsin home after an argument and simply disappeared. The fact that no one could get a hold of him was what was starting to spark interest that something might not be right here. He would take his phone wherever he goes. He would respond to people's texts to their phone calls.

And that led the police to an inescapable conclusion. Your whole routine does not change in an instant, unless there's possibly foul play in ball. However, the fact that Tim wasn't answering his phone wasn't the only thing that led the police to that conclusion. Witnesses had reported incidences in which Timothy had been threatened by Eve.

One of those witnesses was an old friend of Tim's, named Deborah Hilt. She told the investigators that she'd first met Tim six years earlier in 2007. We just clicked right away. Personality-wise, we clicked. We had a lot to joke about, talk about. In fact, Deborah said they had clicked so well that Tim all but moved in with her. He spent all of his time with me?

Because according to what Tim had told Deborah, his marriage was essentially over. My impression was that he was living separately from her. Tim's description of their relationship was one of convenience. Tim may have told Deborah it was was one of convenience. Tim may have told Deborah it was a marriage of convenience, but what she didn't know at the time was that Eve had actually been desperate to save her marriage. This was Eve's one and only love. They got married young, and they met when they were 16 years old. She didn't want nobody to miss what she had.

She didn't want another woman to take that from her. And according to what Tim's friends told the investigators, Eve had tried to win Tim back, showering him with expensive gifts and even a new car. The car was his baby, his everything. But when even the car failed to win Tim back, friends said that Eve had gone from desperate to dangerous. According to Tim's friend, Benjamin Bobo,

he'd received a troubling call from Eve in the winter of 2009. She said, Ben, you need to come get your friend out of this house? Or I'm gonna do something that I'm gonna regret. Eve had driven over to Debra's apparently at her wit's end. Eve's nance demanded that Tim nance come out of the apartment. Tim's friend, realizing that Eve was unstable and that his friend was possibly in danger,

had rushed right over to Debra's apartment, but he was too late to stop an angry confrontation. We hear Eve screaming, Tim, Tim, and she's walking in through my front door. When I got there, she was inside of the house. Deborah says that when he heard Eve screaming his name, Tim had rushed out of the bedroom to confront his wife.

She's at the bottom of the stairs and she's got a gun. A gun she was prepared to use, according to Deborah. She had declared to him, I'll kill you. I will kill you. Luckily, Tim's friend intervened just in time. Ben was behind Eve pulling her by her hand. Tell her, let's go. Let's go.

You don't want to do this. I got out of the house. Till came down. He talked to her. I read back him, talked to Deb. Tell a girl, and I, it's going to be OK. It just needed to talk. Tim had managed to calm his wife down

and the potentially deadly confrontation came to an end. But after two years of dealing with his failing marriage, seeing Eve storm into her apartment with a gun was enough to convince Deborah to dump Tim before someone got hurt. I knew that Eve was unstable. I didn't want to deal with Eve anymore.

I knew what that life would be like. I knew what it would be like, and I didn't want a part of it. Debra may have been out of the picture, but that didn't mean Tim went back to Eve, at least not entirely. He still did have. I know at least two girlfriends in those next couple of years.

Girlfriends, he didn't even try to hide from Eve. I know at least two girlfriends in those next couple of years. Girlfriends, he didn't even try to hide from Eve. He literally at times would come home with another woman. In fact, one friend told the police he'd witnessed another potentially deadly showdown in August of 2013, less than three months before Tim disappeared. He was an eyewitness to an incident in which Eve had caught Timothy in bed with a girlfriend in their residence. And he observed Timothy and Eve struggling over a hand. Tim's friends told the investigators they'd urge Tim to leave his wife for good.

But Tim, who depended on Eve's financial support, had always refused. That's what he's doing to him. He said, oh, I'm just having my cake in either two. And I said, well, I'm not for that, but don't let her kill you. Had Tim's cavalier attitude about infidelity cost him his life.

His friends were convinced. I know it from dealing with Eve. That she snapped on him. I knew right away she told them. And based on what Tim's friends told them, the investigators were inclined to agree. They were pretty open about saying we believe there was no plan involved.

But could they prove it? On November 20th, the investigators descended on Eve's house with a search warrant. And in the bathroom, they made a suspicious discovery. They had the physical indications within the shower stall, the markings on the wall, indicating that a bullet had struck the wall. The police firmly believed that they had solved the crime. And they decided to turn up the heat on Eve. They came to her house and asked her to come to the station.

At the station, Eve maintained that she had no idea what happened to Tim. I suddenly decided to drug Bench. Now I have absolutely no idea. Confronted about Tim's infidelity, Eve tried to downplay it, but didn't deny it. It's a good husband other than the cheating Rika with that. Oh, looks that I knew the relationship. However, she did deny ever threatening Tim with a gun after catching him with another woman.

That might never have been that they're talking about. He kept him in bed. But her denial of that incident made little impact on the investigators. All I want to work with you is, and I told you what happened. You killed him. No, I did not. And that's when the investigators confronted her

about the bullet hole in her bathroom. We found a bullet. Well, then you need to arrest me if you found a bullet. I need to tell you, I need to tell you what happened. And I'll tell you, I'll tell you what I found. And you know where I was going to find it because you didn't find it. We didn't.

All of a sudden, now the panic sets in. I might be in charge with something, Harry. Or do you think I'm asking you? I don't know. She told them that she thought she should have a lawyer present. They said, OK, stand up. You're under arrest. Eves arrest took her daughter and brother completely by surprise.

I was in total shock and really confused. And I just wanted answers like everyone else. I was very confused about knowing if something had happened to Tim, but alone what that something was, how they could arrest her. According to the prosecutor, the answer was probable cause.

Essentially probable cause means that there is some level of evidence that suggests it's likely that the suspect committed a felony. But not enough to justify a formal murder charge, at least not yet. They didn't have a lot of evidence. They didn't have a weapon. They didn't have a body. evidence. They didn't have a weapon. They didn't have a body. For the next seven days,

the investigators worked to build a stronger case while Eve's attorney tried to get her out of jail. Her defense attorneys brought the matter before the judge claiming her continued detention without charges was, in fact, a violation of her constitutional rights. But even as her attorney tried to convince a judge to release her, Eve had an apparent change of heart.

On November 27th, she told the investigators she was finally ready to talk. She wanted to tell him what really happened. As soon as Eve sat down with the investigators, she began to tell them what happened. The last time she saw Tim. There was an altercation at the house that night. According to Eve, Tim was furious when she got home that night.

A human started arguing about where I've been. I should've been there when he got off work. Eve said that's when she'd walked away from the argument. I went to the bathroom. All I wanted to do was take the shower, go to bed. It's all in on it. Then he comes to the bathroom and starts hitting me some more. Her story was he showed up with a gun.

He had a gun. He's waving it around. Telling me that I was useless and all kind of stuff. I was just begging for him to just go, just go. But for all her begging, Eve said that two wouldn't leave. You just get hit in me. It means in the end of the moon. So I knew it.

We were arguing and fighting and the gun to them. Before I do it, we were arguing and fighting and the gun went off. And it got off because we both had it. She was trying to get it away from him and it went off. I didn't know what to do. I had to set it down for a little bit. You know, he wasn't moving. The hell are we doing now? I don't know. It seemed like forever. Was it moving? The hallmark was the end. I don't know, it seemed like forever. Any thoughts on the collar, N'Aggone 1? I couldn't think of anything.

I felt like I was fit. Eventually, Eve said that she did the only thing that she could think of. I thought I was supposed to off, and then I put him in the plastic, and I drove, and I drove, and I drove. Eve said in her panic, she didn't remember exactly where she dumped Tim's body, but she gave police a general idea of where he might be. I was down this half a street, and there was one of those cement things. Like a barrier.

That same evening, almost a month after he disappeared, the police finally found Tim's dead body buried in the snow. His body was completely naked and was frozen. It was heartbreaking to think of him out there for all that time. Without Eve's confession, Tim's body might have remained undiscovered for months. But it also gave the police enough to charge her with murder, despite her claim that she'd shot Tim while they struggled over a gun. That's where he goes, the accident.

And this was too with the back, so she would have left. And despite the fact that he had mistreated her, Eve said that Tim's death had left her heartbroken. I just had time to promise I loved him, that this is all all people's day. Coming up, the prosecution makes the case against Eve. No, prosecutor basically says it with an execution. But the defense puts the victim on trial. Tim was an aggressive person. He was a violent person. He was, he was a violent person.

On January 20, 2016, 39-year-old Evnant stood trial in Fondelite, Wisconsin. She was charged with the murder of her husband, Tim, a crime that she had essentially confessed to more than two years earlier. Detectives with the City of Fondelite Police Department received information from Evnant's, indicating that she had been involved in an altercation with her husband after their 10th street home,

that a gun had been fired and that it resulted in the death of Mr. Nance. The person who was most helpful closing this case was Evnance herself. I'm not sure where investigators would be if they didn't have help from Ev. Although at the time of her confession, Ev claimed that the shooting had occurred

during a struggle. Her story is that TM had pulled out a gun, both of them were fighting over it. Eve stated that she was trying to defend herself. But according to the prosecution's opening statement, that was a lie, and they claimed that the giveaway was something else in Eve's story. According to Eve, the've gone went off twice

and he was shot twice in the chest. But as the prosecutors explained to the jury, that wasn't what Tim's autopsy revealed. The associate medical examiner testified to the locations of the gunshot wounds in the head of Tim Nance, one being left side below the year or the other left side on the top of the head. Not only did the locations of where Tim had been shot

differ radically from Eves' account, according to the medical examiner's testimony, the shots couldn't have been fired during the sort of struggle she described. The medical examiner testified on stand that gun wounds could not have been fired at close range. The story really started to unravel when you looked at the case from the medical examiner. Not only that, the prosecutors claimed that Eve had a clear motive for murder, too.

That motive was both anger and revenge for his infidelity. Infidelity that everyone agreed had gone on for years. This wasn't a crime of passion in the heat of the moment because Eve Nancy's anger had been building up over a period of time. In the past Eve had always stopped short of doing something she would regret, but not on the evening of November 1, 2013.

According to the prosecutors, that night, Eve had finally had enough. Prosecutors argued that this was no accident, that Tim was taking a shower and getting ready to go out to the evening. And Eve, fed up with her husband's infidelity, had stepped into the bathroom and finally made good on years of threats.

I think that she came out behind him and put a bullet in the back of his head. Prosecutor basically said there was an execution. Shooting Tim in the shower not only explained why he'd been found naked. According to the prosecutors, the cold-blooded execution meant that Eve deserved to be sent away for life.

The first-screen intentional homicide charge carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Based solely on the evidence, a conviction looked likely. The medical examiner's testimony directly contradicted Eve Nancy's account of the events. But the prosecutors did face one big obstacle.

Timothy Nancy was not a great individual to his wife. He was not a faithful individual. Would the fact that he'd brazenly cheated on Eve for years, all while taking advantage of her financial support, be enough to earn the jury's sympathy? She just loved her husband so much, and he didn't love her back the way she needed to be loved. When it was the defense's turn,

they began by claiming that Tim's cheating wasn't even the worst thing he'd done to Eve. The defense presented their case that she was a battered woman. Tim was an aggressive person. He was, he was a violent person. To bolster that argument, Eve took the stand in her own defense. She got on stand and trying to make him look like he was just kind of monster. Eve told the jury that she was the frequent target of Tim's wrath.

My dad was the aggressor because he wanted things his way and kind of his way only. He would start like yelling, or just getting mad about just random stuff. But there were some times where like it would escalate while we were there and we've seen it get physical. Family members testified that they'd often urged Eve to leave Tim, but that Eve had clung to the relationship despite the violence.

I was always worried that something would happen to her and in one of their fights when you don't know anything else, what you have right in front of you is what you learn to accept. My aunt just didn't want to realize what was really happening, like she's kind of in like a fantasy thing. But according to the defense, on the evening of November 1st, Eve couldn't deceive herself any longer, because Tim had taken their arguments to a new and potentially deadly level.

The defense argued that he was the one that brought the gun into the situation. And the stories from Tim's friends and ex-girlfriends, describing all the times Eve had allegedly pulled a gun and threatened her husband. According to the defense, they simply weren't true. No police officers had ever seen her with a gun. She had never been arrested in her life. She'd never been in any kind of trouble in her life. But Tim, as the defense was quick to point out,

had been in trouble. In fact, he'd actually shot someone early in the couple's relationship. He spent time in prison. That was hardly the only thing on his criminal record, either. Yes, different domestic abuse charges. The police were called to their house for domestic abuse. She was numerous times.

And when the case went to the jury, the whole thing hinged on Eve's testimony. Would jurors believe she was a battered woman who killed her husband during a struggle to save herself? A spouse that is a persistent victim of physical domestic abuse, at the time they commit a homicide, they're acting under a reasonable belief and fear for their own safety.

Or would they decide that it was Tim's cheating that had finally pushed her over the edge? She just couldn't take it anymore. I definitely think it was intentional. Coming up, Eve's fake hangs in the balance. It really was a tale of two stories. But will the outcome be justice? If he didn't die from them to bullet wounds,

it's him what if I give him home? On January 29, 2016, the jury announced it had reached a verdict in the murder trial of 39-year-old Eve Nance. She was accused of killing her husband Tim, as revenge for years of adultery. Cross the cuters, argued that Eve came in and point blank, shot him basically execution style. But the defense said that Eve, not Tim, was the true victim. According to Eve and her lawyers, the shooting was merely the last incident in a long string

of abuse that she'd suffered at her husband's hands. Her defense was that they had an argument that turned into a physical fight. There was a struggle over a gun and the gun accidentally went off. But which version of events would the jury believe? It really was a tale of two stories. After just two hours of deliberations, the jury had reached its decision. The verdict came back to guilty. Eve was stunned by the outcome.

She was very sad. She couldn't believe that it only took them a couple of hours to convicted her. Eve's family and friends couldn't believe it either. People that really do know, even Tim, know that they loved each other. In fact, at her sentencing on May 27, many of Eves' friends said just that

when they spoke on her behalf. She cried a little bit, and you could tell that she was touched. And when it was Eves' turn, she begged the court for mercy. She said all I can hope is that I would have the opportunity to have Pearl. In a surprising twist, many of Tim's friends, including his ex-girlfriend, agree that Eve didn't deserve life in prison. Even I don't want to see her there

because I don't believe that Tim would want that. If he didn't die from them to bullet wounds, it's him but a forgiven her. But would the judge be his forgiving? She was given 25 years to life in prison with the possibility of her all. His exact words were that this was not a planned crime, and it was a crime of passion.

And when it came to the possibility of Eve getting out of prison early, he felt that a certain amount of leniency was justified, given the circumstances. I know what it feels like to love someone and lose control over your situation. Love can make you put up with things that you would not expect and love can make you possibly do things you would regret. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm this.