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Speaker 8 An affluent community is rocked when a high-society couple falls victim to a horrifying crime.

Speaker 2 There was a near-massacre inside that bedroom.

Speaker 2 He is beaten severely and lucky to get out of it alive.

Speaker 2 Her throat had been cut. It was an extremely bloody crime scene.

Speaker 8 Had the couple been targeted for their wealth?

Speaker 9 There were a lot of disagreements over money.

Speaker 8 Or were there more personal motives at play?

Speaker 2 There were some that believed that this was a staged crime scene. You'd have her husband, who survived it with, on the surface, a lot less injury than what she had.

Speaker 8 In the midst of a chaotic investigation, a twisted romance emerges. And at the heart of it all is a deadly conspiracy fueled by desperation and greed.

Speaker 2 She said that she would pay him. She told us to plan.
She just said, do it quietly.

Speaker 2 That just completely opened wide the investigation, and there was no turning back after that.

Speaker 9 They plotted a cold-hearted murder.

Speaker 2 They felt that this was the only way to get what they wanted.

Speaker 5 That sense of betrayal, it has to rip your heart in two.

Speaker 8 On the west side of Fort Worth, Texas, lies the affluent neighborhood of Rivercrest.

Speaker 2 The Rivercrest neighborhood is some of the wealthiest people, not only in the city, but in the state and the country.

Speaker 2 Billionaires who are known all over the world, they live in this neighborhood. It was very low crime.

Speaker 2 Seldom did you hear on a police scanner any sort of ruckus that would be going on in that neighborhood.

Speaker 8 But on March 12th, 1992, the community's veneer of safety is shattered when Fort Worth police receive a disturbing 911 call from a Rivercrest resident.

Speaker 2 I received a call. About 4 o'clock in the morning, and I was told that there was a Signal 11 stabbing.

Speaker 5 The dispatcher relays to officers that the caller is the victim's neighbor he opened up the door and to his surprise it was his neighbor jack coslo

Speaker 5 his head and his neck covered in blood

Speaker 5 the only other thing that jack was wearing was a pair of boxer shorts

Speaker 2 He did say that Jack was articulate in talking to him and telling him some people came into the house and I think Karen may be dead.

Speaker 8 Police and EMTs arrive on the scene moments later. While one EMT tends to Jack,

Speaker 8 police rush next door to check on his wife Karen.

Speaker 2 We proceeded up the stairs to the master's bedroom.

Speaker 2 The victim's body was the first thing that my eyes went to.

Speaker 2 She was partially clothed

Speaker 2 and lying face down on the floor at the foot of the bed.

Speaker 2 All of it, it was just an overwhelming kind of scene trying to look at it and try to piece this thing together.

Speaker 8 Born in 1951, Karen Koslow came from a long line of Texas oil tycoons.

Speaker 5 Karen was an oil heiress. When she was younger, her uncle set up a trust fund for her that was a total of $4 million.

Speaker 5 So she didn't have any financial concerns at all.

Speaker 8 When Karen and Jack Koslow met in the early 1980s, both enjoyed successful careers in commercial banking.

Speaker 2 Jack Jack was a banker at a big, big major bank in Fort Worth. He worked his way up to a management position

Speaker 2 and was very well liked.

Speaker 5 Jack and Karen met at the bank where Karen also worked.

Speaker 2 He was head over heels in love with her.

Speaker 8 The couple married in the late 1980s. While their wealth had made them players at the highest levels of Fort Worth's social scene, the Koslos were known for giving back to their community.

Speaker 9 They were big patrons of the arts, of the ballet, of the symphony. They helped raise a lot of money for the local children's hospital.

Speaker 5 Karen one year was the chairman of the Jewel Charity Ball, and that's no small accomplishment in upper society in Fort Worth.

Speaker 10 People of North Texas, they all send

Speaker 10 their patients, their children, the sick children to this hospital.

Speaker 10 It's good not only for the city, but for this part of the stay.

Speaker 8 At their sprawling brick house in the esteemed neighborhood of Rivercrest, the couple had also helped raise Jack's adopted daughter, Christy, from his previous marriage.

Speaker 9 Jack, he had first married his first wife, Paula, and they adopted a little girl, Christie Ann Koslow.

Speaker 9 Jack and Paula were married for several years, but when Christy was six, they got divorced. Christie and her mom, Paula, only lived a half mile away.

Speaker 9 They lived in a a very nice upper middle class neighborhood.

Speaker 2 Christie was in the care of Paula, but visited and stayed with Jack and Karen a lot.

Speaker 2 She grew up into her teens.

Speaker 2 She went to a nice school, was paid for by Jack.

Speaker 8 By 1990, Jack Koslow decided to retire from the banking industry and pursue a new chapter in his career.

Speaker 5 He was planning on buying a ceiling fan company and going into more of a service business than the banking business.

Speaker 8 Karen was supportive of her husband's new career goals, and the couple, along with Jack's daughter, seemed to be living the good life.

Speaker 8 Until the tragic night in March of 1992,

Speaker 8 Karen Koslow has been found dead in the couple's bedroom.

Speaker 2 It appears that Jack Koslow has also also been wounded but survived and has been rushed to the nearest hospital jack was quite bloody his face was covered in blood his hair matted with blood blood on his hands he was swollen he seemed very groggy maybe somewhat even incoherent he was transported to tarris hospital

Speaker 8 Around 4.45 a.m., homicide investigators arrive at the Koslo's home and try to piece together exactly what happened.

Speaker 8 They carefully examine Karen's body for possible clues.

Speaker 2 We noticed bloody handprints on the back of her t-shirt indicating that maybe she had been moved. Somebody with bloody hands had grabbed her and either rolled her over or drugged her or moved her.

Speaker 2 She had obviously had major trauma to her head area,

Speaker 2 her face.

Speaker 2 When the body was turned over, we could see this horrendous

Speaker 2 cut to the throat.

Speaker 2 Her throat was cut severely to the point that I remember thinking it almost decapitated her.

Speaker 8 Investigators find more evidence as they survey the rest of the room.

Speaker 2 We saw a butt knife lying on the floor. It It was open still, had a very ornate handle,

Speaker 2 and was covered in blood.

Speaker 2 We were obviously suspicious that might be one of the murder weapons.

Speaker 8 Inside a nearby hallway closet, police find evidence of ransacking.

Speaker 2 There was a rack in there that held several firearms.

Speaker 2 and drawers that were open,

Speaker 2 shotgun shells on the floor, blood everywhere in there. Obviously, somebody was going through and looking for something in this closet.

Speaker 8 Behind the residence, detectives find evidence where the attackers entered the property.

Speaker 2 The gate had been pried open. It appeared to be a pry bar because you could see the points of the pry bar embedded into the wood.

Speaker 2 And there was a little piece of what looked like a latex glove that had been torn off. We saw that the back door had also been pried open using it, looked like the same tool.

Speaker 5 The first thought,

Speaker 5 when

Speaker 5 there is a crime in a wealthy household, the police naturally turned to thinking a burglary.

Speaker 5 That's sensible. These people have a lot of things worth a lot of money.

Speaker 8 Coming up, new evidence points to a person of interest.

Speaker 2 Whoever did this wanted Karen Koslow dead.

Speaker 2 But then looking at Jack, we had a lot of questions on how come you're not dead.

Speaker 8 And an unexpected tip exposes dark secrets within the Koslo family.

Speaker 5 Was he smitten? He was pulled over by her.

Speaker 2 They were willing to do whatever it took to get to that end.

Speaker 8 In Fort Worth, Texas, investigators are searching the home of wealthy socialites Karen and Jack Koslow after a brutal attack that left Karen dead

Speaker 8 and Jack fighting for his life.

Speaker 8 Between the signs of forced entry and the ransacked closet inside the home, it appears that the attack on the Koslos might have been a home burglary gone terribly wrong.

Speaker 2 I think anybody under those circumstances would assume they were getting robbed. I mean, they're in a very affluent neighborhood and they're obviously security conscious.

Speaker 8 But what had the attackers been looking for?

Speaker 2 The rest of the house was normal. I mean, a beautiful home and didn't really see anything out of place.

Speaker 5 It made no sense.

Speaker 5 There was no ransacking for jewelry, no picking up of valuable items that weren't even hidden.

Speaker 2 So there was more going on than just a robbery or home invasion. The entire crime scene was very confusing.

Speaker 8 Hoping for answers, detectives head to the hospital around 3 p.m. that afternoon to speak with Jack Koslow.

Speaker 8 Doctors informed police that like his wife, Jack had been beaten with a blunt object.

Speaker 8 His neck had also been cut, but not deep enough to cause a life-threatening injury.

Speaker 2 Jack had been talking, but he seemed to be in a confused state about what had happened. He seems very groggy and very confused.

Speaker 8 Detectives also get a better look at some of his injuries.

Speaker 2 His hands were swollen.

Speaker 2 There were little angular marks that

Speaker 2 looked to me and everybody else remarkably like back marks.

Speaker 2 That immediately raised the level of our concern on how did that happen.

Speaker 5 When he was confronted about the marks on the back of his hands, he just really didn't have anything to say about it at all.

Speaker 2 It was obvious that whoever did this wanted Karen Koslow dead.

Speaker 2 But then looking at Jack, we had a lot of questions on

Speaker 2 how come you're not dead?

Speaker 2 You have her husband who survived it with, on the surface, a lot less injury than what she had. You know, it automatically raises questions.

Speaker 8 Detectives asked Jack Jack to walk them through the events leading up to the attack.

Speaker 5 Jack said he retired about 10. Karen joined him a little while later.

Speaker 2 He went to bed and then was later awakened by what he described was noise downstairs.

Speaker 9 Jack said he was awakened by an alarm going off.

Speaker 8 Jack says the alarm was quickly followed by a crash and the sound of footsteps footsteps running up the stairs.

Speaker 2 Jack said these two men kicked open the door, and that's when they ordered him down on the floor and Karen down on the floor.

Speaker 8 Jack says both men had guns and flashlights, but it was too dark to get a good look at either of the intruders.

Speaker 2 They started beating him with a heavy object.

Speaker 5 They hit his wife. They hit him just back and forth.

Speaker 5 And at one point, he went unconscious.

Speaker 5 He was totally unaware of everything that was going on.

Speaker 5 At some point, he regained consciousness.

Speaker 5 He is

Speaker 2 bleary.

Speaker 5 He's lost blood.

Speaker 8 Jack tells detectives that when he woke up, the intruders were gone.

Speaker 2 He checked on Karen and couldn't get her to wake up. He grabbed the phone and was trying to dial 911, but because of all the blood in his eyes, he couldn't see.

Speaker 2 He staggered over to a neighbor's house directly across the street and woke them up in the middle of the night.

Speaker 8 It's a harrowing story, but detectives can't help but be suspicious. They're particularly skeptical of his explanation for why he didn't call 911.

Speaker 2 Even when you can't see, you know where the nine and the one going on the telephone. That didn't make a lot of sense to me.

Speaker 2 It raised our level of suspicion. There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 8 Questions about Jack's story are still hovering over the case the next day when the medical examiner completes Karen's autopsy report.

Speaker 2 The medical examiner's report indicated that she was killed from a crushing blow to the throat,

Speaker 2 which crushed the larynx.

Speaker 2 She can no longer breathe, swallow. She is

Speaker 2 gasping and choking. It's a horrible way to die.

Speaker 5 As if that wasn't enough, after she was dead, someone slit her throat and even cut her carotid artery. Her head was nearly removed from her neck.

Speaker 2 It's heart-wrenching to think what all she went through.

Speaker 2 Why would someone just butcher a person like that?

Speaker 2 So many times there's family violence situations, a sudden rage, a fight, something happens,

Speaker 2 and it turns into a homicide and then the killer tries to set up the scene to match his story.

Speaker 2 We believe that Jack very possibly was involved in it. To obtain some of this evidence I was required to write search warrants and in the search warrant I was

Speaker 2 required to name a suspect

Speaker 2 and why we wanted the warrant. And in these affidavits, I named, of course, Jack Coswell.

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Speaker 8 24 hours into the investigation of Karen Koslow's brutal murder, police in Fort Worth, Texas are looking at her husband, Jack, as a person of interest after he survived the same attack that left her dead.

Speaker 2 I thought there were some explanations for some of the evidence that we were seeing that

Speaker 2 could mean that he was our guy.

Speaker 8 To find out more, investigators dig deeper into the Koslows' marriage and learned that the wealth the couple shared came mostly from Karen.

Speaker 2 Karen Koslow had a trust fund that was considerable, around four million dollars.

Speaker 5 That kind of money always raises suspicion. Jack had his own money, but in comparison to hers, it wasn't a fortune.

Speaker 8 According to most of their family, the couple's relationship had seemed perfect on the surface for many years.

Speaker 8 But police learned that not long before her death, Karen had confided to some of her friends that she and Jack were having marital problems.

Speaker 2 They had at some point in time gone to some counseling.

Speaker 8 Authorities theorize that the expense of Jack's new business venture might have led to some of the tensions between the couple.

Speaker 9 Jack actually left the banking industry. He was looking at buying a business that dealt in ceiling fans.

Speaker 2 It was going to be a considerable investment. That made us look at Jack trying to finance his new business by doing this.

Speaker 8 Further incriminating information is revealed when police ask the couple's family about one of the weapons found at the scene.

Speaker 5 That knife that was involved in the death of Karen,

Speaker 5 that was laying on the floor beside her body, belonged to Jack Koslow.

Speaker 8 While police continue to investigate, news of the heinous crime leaves many in the community reeling.

Speaker 2 People were panicked. All kinds of wild rumors started flying.
Certain people were convicting Jack Koslow

Speaker 2 just based on, you know, news reports that they were hearing and stuff.

Speaker 8 Four days after her passing, Karen Koslow is laid to rest.

Speaker 5 Jack Koslow left the hospital on March 16th to attend his wife's funeral and assume the position of Paul Bearer.

Speaker 5 Some people were absolutely outraged. They had already become convinced that he was responsible for his wife's death.
Some people, even not sure of his guilt, still thought

Speaker 5 that with that question mark hanging over his head, he had no right to attend the funeral.

Speaker 8 Eager to stamp out the rumors and defend her father, Jack's 17-year-old daughter, Christy Koslow, holds an impromptu press conference on the front yard of the family home.

Speaker 12 It was scary, you know, almost losing my dad, but he looked good. I was, you know, I was happy to be able to see him and see that he was alive.

Speaker 2 She talked very fondly about her dad. She talked very fondly about

Speaker 2 Karen. She said unequivocally that Her dad couldn't have done this.
She couldn't imagine who did it.

Speaker 12 I talked to the hospital and they said he was just seriously injured. They didn't want to give any details right now.

Speaker 2 She did reach out and encouraged anyone with information about the case to contact authorities.

Speaker 8 On March 18th, detectives meet with Jack's ex-wife, Paula, to see if she can shed light on Jack's relationship with Karen.

Speaker 8 Accompanying Paula to the station is Jack's daughter, Christy, as well as Christy's 19-year-old boyfriend, Brian Salter.

Speaker 2 Paula and Christy and Salter came to the office with their attorney and we talked to them.

Speaker 8 Paula tells detectives she wasn't close to her ex-husband or his new wife, but she doesn't think Jack would hurt Karen. Christy agrees with her mother.

Speaker 2 She had no idea about whether it would have been a robbery or something, but she suspected that because everybody loved her dad and her stepmom.

Speaker 8 Detectives ask Brian if he knew Jack and Karen. He tells them he'd met them a few times since he and Christy started dating four months earlier.

Speaker 2 Brian and Christy were just members of the same social circle. They knew each other from young people that they hung out with and such.

Speaker 9 Brian came from a very middle-class background and he was more of the unassuming, quiet type.

Speaker 5 He hadn't been exposed to the kind of affluence in Jack Koslow's house, and he was dazzled by it.

Speaker 5 And it added to the glamour that he saw in Christy.

Speaker 8 Brian says the Koslos had always been kind to him. Like Christie, he has no idea who would do this to them.

Speaker 8 While investigators worked diligently to gather evidence for the next week, they continue to receive concerned calls from the community.

Speaker 2 There was never a point in time when we had decided to arrest Jack Kosler. There was never a point in time where anybody said, we need to arrest him.
Let's get a warrant to arrest him.

Speaker 2 He was a suspicious person that we had to clear.

Speaker 8 But on March 24th, nearly two weeks after the crime, a man calls investigators with information that completely changes the direction of the case.

Speaker 2 He said, I really need to talk to you. I know what happened.
I asked him where he was, and he gave me an address, and I said, I'll be right there.

Speaker 2 And I jumped in the car and drove out there and met him.

Speaker 8 The caller is a 20-year-old man named Paul Carrillo.

Speaker 8 And he says he knows who killed Karen Koslow.

Speaker 9 Paul was friends friends with Nisgaist Jeffrey Dillingham.

Speaker 2 Jeffrey had told Paul that he had committed a murder.

Speaker 9 He had been involved in something that was very dark, and he needed to cover it up.

Speaker 2 He sat there with me and told me about Jeffrey Dillingham, how this guy had come to him and confessed to him.

Speaker 2 He actually had physical evidence that he had been given by Jeffrey Dillingham and asked to dispose of it.

Speaker 2 But he had kept it.

Speaker 2 Paul Carrillo gave us a backpack which contained several items. We got Jack Koslow's wallet

Speaker 2 which had his ID and business card, a bulletproof vest.

Speaker 8 Also inside the backpack is a bag of bloody clothes.

Speaker 8 as well as an 18-inch metal pry bar.

Speaker 8 The same pry bar police believe was used to break into the home.

Speaker 2 There was blood on the crowbar that turned out to have very high evidentiary value.

Speaker 8 But why would 19-year-old Jeffrey Dillingham target the Koslos?

Speaker 8 According to Paul Carrillo, Jeffrey had an accomplice who knew the couple.

Speaker 2 He had gone into the house with Brian Salter.

Speaker 8 Detectives recognize Brian Salter as Christy Coslow's boyfriend.

Speaker 8 But what could possibly motivate Brian to hurt Christy's father and stepmother?

Speaker 2 It was just another bizarre chapter to this whole investigation.

Speaker 8 Coming up, detectives confront Brian Salter and Jeffrey Dillingham.

Speaker 5 They expect this is going to be a tough interrogation.

Speaker 8 But what one of the new suspects reveals leaves police stunned.

Speaker 9 He dropped a bombshell that they did not see coming.

Speaker 2 It shocked everybody.

Speaker 8 Ever since Karen Koslow's body was found on the floor of her master bedroom, The primary person of interest in her murder has been her husband, Jack.

Speaker 8 But 12 days into the investigation, Jack is ruled out when Fort Worth police get a tip that two 19-year-olds, Brian Salter and Jeffrey Dillingham, are the real killers.

Speaker 2 Jeffrey Dillingham, I was curious about his criminal history and found out very quickly he'd never been arrested for anything.

Speaker 2 Salter, that guy was so weak acting, I didn't think that guy could do anything to anybody.

Speaker 8 In fact, both teenagers had excelled as honor role students in high school.

Speaker 2 Brian seemed like he had been a straight-up kind of guy all his life.

Speaker 5 Jeffrey had a girlfriend. He was planning on getting married in the summer.
He had no record of trouble.

Speaker 8 Detectives secure arrest warrants for both Brian Salter and Jeffrey Dillingham.

Speaker 8 They set their sights on apprehending Jeffrey Dillingham first.

Speaker 8 Officers head to the video store where the teenager works and take him into custody without incident.

Speaker 5 They sat him down and questioned him. They expect this is going to be a tough interrogation.

Speaker 5 What they didn't expect was that Jeffrey would start cooperating immediately.

Speaker 8 According to Jeffrey, he was recruited by his friend Brian Salter to break into the Koslo's house.

Speaker 2 They were supposed to kill both Karen and Jack Koslow.

Speaker 2 When I questioned him about how he hit Kieran, as she was on the floor, she rolled over on her side at one point.

Speaker 2 He struck her in the throat with the crowbar, which is consistent with what the medical examiner's report showed.

Speaker 8 Jeffrey confesses to beating the couple with the pry bar, but that it was Brian who found Jack's buck knife in the couple's bedroom.

Speaker 2 At some point in time, Brian Salter then takes the knife they find and uses it to cut Jack's throat and Karen Koslow's throat so severely it almost severs her head.

Speaker 2 He talked about these things with seemingly no remorse.

Speaker 8 But why had the two teenagers targeted the Koslos in the first place?

Speaker 8 Jeffrey shocks investigators when he explains that the attack hadn't been his or Brian's idea.

Speaker 5 He told him that the plot was mastermind by Christy Koslow.

Speaker 8 According to Jeffrey, Christy told Brian she would inherit millions of dollars if her dad and stepmom were out of the way.

Speaker 2 She was going to share that inheritance with Brian and Jeffrey. I think the two of them were going to get a million dollars

Speaker 2 apiece.

Speaker 2 When we hear that the investigation has shifted and that suddenly Mr. Koslow is not the suspect, Christy Koslow and her boyfriend and a friend,

Speaker 2 they're the suspects, just threw everybody in a tizzy.

Speaker 2 It was one of the shockers of my career.

Speaker 8 Following his confession, police charge Jeffrey Dillingham with murder.

Speaker 8 They also arrest Christy Koslow and Brian Salter at their homes.

Speaker 2 I personally arrested both of them. I put Brian in the car with me and another detective transported Christy from that location straight up to our homicide office.

Speaker 8 When questioned by detectives, Brian admits to his role in the crime.

Speaker 8 He says he was willing to do anything to make Christie happy.

Speaker 5 When they started dating, oh my, was he smitten.

Speaker 2 He was bowled over by her.

Speaker 2 She was in charge in the relationship. She called the shots, and he pretty much showed up and jumped when she said jump.

Speaker 8 Brian says that Christie had first brought up the idea of murdering her father and stepmother only a few weeks into their relationship.

Speaker 2 She told me to talk to Jeff about doing it. She said that she would pay him and

Speaker 2 she told us to plan it. She just said do it quietly.

Speaker 2 She could draw out a map, which she did of the interior of the residence, show them exactly where they slept.

Speaker 8 Brian tells police he and Jeffrey planned to carry out Christie's plan on the evening of March 12th.

Speaker 5 Brian stole the two guns from his parents' house, and then he and Jeffrey drove over to Christie's house.

Speaker 2 We had a backpack, a leather backpack, latex clothes, my father's two guns, and Jeff had a pry bar.

Speaker 8 Brian says Jeffrey was also wearing a bulletproof vest.

Speaker 2 They were concerned that Jack had firearms there in the house and that, according to Christy, kept them up there in the bedroom.

Speaker 9 Ryan and Jeff came in from the back of the house. There's a little alleyway there.
They used an air conditioning unit, hopped up on there to get over the fence.

Speaker 2 Jeff cried open the back gate.

Speaker 2 He cried open the back door.

Speaker 2 He went upstairs and into their bedroom as I entered the alarm code, which I had gotten from Chrissy.

Speaker 8 Brian says it was Jeffrey Dillingham who kicked in the Coslow's bedroom door.

Speaker 2 By the time I was finished punching the code, Jeff was already up the stairs in the bedroom and had them on the floor. He told me to

Speaker 2 go listen for noises

Speaker 2 and I walked out into the hall.

Speaker 2 Jeffrey Dillingham has the pry bar and he starts striking both Jack and Kieran Coslow.

Speaker 2 I turned around

Speaker 2 and I saw him swing the pry bar.

Speaker 5 While Jeff is brutalizing Jack and Karen,

Speaker 5 Brian is rummaging through drawers looking for some easy money, some ready cash.

Speaker 2 You know who got that knife, Val.

Speaker 2 Jeff, did you say any more of it? No, I did not say any more of that. He totally later.

Speaker 2 Jeffrey claimed Brian retrieved the knife and ended up cutting Karen's throat.

Speaker 2 But now Brian said Jeffrey Dillingham Dillingham had done it.

Speaker 8 It's clear that Brian Salter and Jeffrey Dillingham are trying to pin the murders on each other.

Speaker 8 The only parts of their story they agree on is that the crime's mastermind was Christy Koslow.

Speaker 8 But what will she say when confronted by police?

Speaker 2 I went in and sat down with her and I told her, you need to tell me the truth of everything you know.

Speaker 8 Fort Worth, Texas police have arrested three suspects for the deadly attack that took the life of Karen Koslow and left her husband, Jack, severely injured.

Speaker 8 19-year-olds Jeffrey Dillingham and Brian Salter have confessed to their roles in the crime.

Speaker 8 Now, police are ready to question the purported mastermind, Jack Koslow's 17-year-old daughter, Christy.

Speaker 2 Christy Koslow admitted she hated Karen and came to hate her dad.

Speaker 2 She became tearful and stated that she resented Karen Koslow for taking her father away from her mother, Paula.

Speaker 2 She also felt she and her mom lost out on some of the nicer things in life and that they didn't have it as nice as Jack Koslow and Karen Koslow had.

Speaker 8 Christy admits to the murder for hire plot, but she tells investigators that she never thought it would turn out this way.

Speaker 5 She thought it would be a quick and painless death. She had no idea that it would be this brutal.

Speaker 8 But investigators don't buy it.

Speaker 2 Christy

Speaker 2 felt that she deserved to live a lifestyle that she could only get if her dad and stepmother were dead and she got their money. She thought that somehow she was entitled to that,

Speaker 2 and she was willing to do whatever it took to get to that end.

Speaker 8 But unbeknownst to Christy, she never stood to inherit even a penny.

Speaker 2 During the course of the investigation, I had acquired a copy of Karen Koslow's will.

Speaker 2 Karen Koslow had expressly eliminated Christy Koslow from receiving any money in the event of her death. So this plan to kill and to murder her parents

Speaker 2 was really for nothing.

Speaker 2 Jack was both angry and sad

Speaker 2 about Christy being involved in this. He was furious that she could do something like this and arrange this and take his wife away and destroy his life

Speaker 2 like

Speaker 2 she had done.

Speaker 2 What he had to go through is unimaginable. First, he loses his wife to murder.
He is beaten severely, lucky to get out of it alive. And then he finds out his own child was responsible for this.

Speaker 5 That sense of betrayal must feel so overwhelming.

Speaker 8 Prosecutors announced the three suspects will face the death penalty if convicted.

Speaker 8 Jeffrey Dillingham is set to go on trial first.

Speaker 2 Mr. Dillingham was offered a sentence of life in prison if he would testify against

Speaker 2 uh Mr. Salter and Miss Coslow, and he turned that down.

Speaker 8 In August 1993, a year and a half after Karen's murder, Jeffrey Dillingham's murder trial begins in a Tarrant County courtroom.

Speaker 9 The jury got to hear his confession, and the confession said it all. And that was the nail in the coffin for Jeffrey Dillingham.

Speaker 8 Jeffrey Dillingham is convicted on all charges.

Speaker 8 On August 11th, 1993, the 20-year-old is sentenced to death by lethal injection.

Speaker 2 He rolled the dice and he lost.

Speaker 2 The jury looked at the facts of this case and thought it's so horrible that he simply deserved to die for it.

Speaker 8 To avoid a similar fate, Brian Salter agrees to plead guilty and testify against his girlfriend.

Speaker 5 I think at some point, Brian realized he's been used by Christie.

Speaker 5 Christie saw him nothing more but as a tool to get what she wanted.

Speaker 5 And that realization

Speaker 5 made it easy for him. to agree to testify against her.

Speaker 8 Per his plea deal, Brian Salter receives a life sentence with the possibility of parole in 35 years.

Speaker 8 Christy Koslow's trial begins in May of 1994. Despite her previous confession, Christy pleads not guilty.

Speaker 2 Her basic defense was, while I might have discussed this with these two guys, they took the ball and ran with it.

Speaker 8 But the jury doesn't buy her story.

Speaker 8 After just three hours of deliberations, they find her guilty on all charges.

Speaker 2 The question was, was she going to get a life sentence or was she going to get the death penalty?

Speaker 8 On June 30th, 1994,

Speaker 8 a judge sentences her to life with the possibility of parole in 35 years.

Speaker 2 There was surprise that Christy and Brian both escaped execution, especially Christie, because Christie was the mastermind of this whole thing.

Speaker 2 Brian was such a weak personality,

Speaker 2 and Christie

Speaker 2 was such a forceful, demanding personality.

Speaker 2 Brian just fell right in line with her. And whatever Christie wanted, Brian was up for it.
He wanted to do anything. to please Christie.

Speaker 2 And he believed that they're going to be rich rich and they're going to have nice cars and live in a big house.

Speaker 2 And that's what it was all about. Brian Salter was a weak person who fell for whatever Christie told him and he was willing to go kill people to realize this dream he had.

Speaker 2 This is a 17-year-old girl. How in the world she got to the point where she somehow felt that this was the only way to get what she wanted and

Speaker 2 she didn't care what happened to everybody else you know it was strictly all about her and what she wanted

Speaker 2 and karen and jack were just in the way and they were just a means for for her to get what she was looking for

Speaker 2 This is such a tragic story.

Speaker 2 This astounded me.

Speaker 2 One of the most bizarre cases that I'd ever been involved in.

Speaker 2 The real tragedy was the death of Karen Koslow and the loss by Jack Koslow of his wife.

Speaker 2 He was furious that Christy could do something like this.

Speaker 7 In 2001, at age 27, Jeff Dillingham was executed by the state of Texas. Christy Koslow will be eligible for parole in 2027 at the age of 52.

Speaker 7 Brian Salter will be 54 when he is eligible for parole in 2027.

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