Zamora Denies Role in Jones's Murder and Blames Graham Chronology Video Index Zamora's confession Graham's confession Feb. 2 Update Feb. 3 Update Feb. 4 Update Feb. 5 Update Feb. 6 Update Feb. 9 Update Feb. 10 Update Feb. 11 Update Feb. 12 Update Feb. 16 Update Feb. 17 Verdict The Aftermath David Graham's Trial (FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Feb. 10) Diane Zamora told a very different version of the murder of Adrianne Jones--and her relationship with her former fiancee David Graham--when she took the stand today. According to Zamora, she was not involved in Jones's murder at all and that on the night of the incident, Graham never even told her that he intended to hurt or kill Jones. Zamora told the court that she only wanted to verbally confront Jones about her alleged affair with Graham. Zamora's stunning testimony contradicted testimony from four prior witnesses about her alleged confession to her involvement in Jones's murder. And it completely contradicted Graham's allegations that a jealous and enraged Zamora ordered him to kill Jones after he told her about his tryst with the 16-year-old victim. Diane Zamora denies ever wanting to kill Adrianne Jones or asking David Graham to kill Jones Download Microsoft Netshow Zamora told jurors that when Graham told her about his affair on December 1, 1995, she was hurt but did not really believe him. "I didn't believe him...I thought he was making it up just to make me jealous," Zamora said. "I asked him to get out of my house but he wouldn't leave." During direct examination by her defense attorney John Linebarger, Zamora repeatedly denied wishing to physically harm or kill Jones. She also denied asking Graham to kill Jones, saying that she only asked him to produce the victim so that she could confront her about the one-night stand. "He [Graham] placed the blame [for the affair] on Adrianne and told me that she had been following him at school and wouldn't leave him alone," Zamora said. "He also blamed me, saying that he had been trying to contact me on the night he returned from the track meet while I was out with my parents at the movies. (Apparently, on Nov. 4 1995, when Graham returned from a weekend track meet, he tried to call Zamora, but she was at the movies with her parents.) He said that if I had been home, he would not have driven Jones home and it [the affair] would have never happened." Zamora testified that Graham set up the intended confrontation between her and Jones on Dec. 3. She said that she never intended for Jones to be harmed and that Graham never even told her that he planned to hurt Jones. Zamora said that she did not see Graham bring the gun used to shoot Jones into the car. "I only wanted to know what was going on," Zamora said about the alleged affair. "I wanted to tell her [Jones] to stop following him [Graham] around, to leave us alone." Zamora tells the court how Graham told her about his alleged affair with Jones According to Zamora, she was on medication on the night of the murder and was not wearing her contact lenses. She did not remember seeing Jones's blood in the car, but she remembered seeing Graham swing at Jones. Zamora claimed that she never hit Jones with a weight and was not capable of holding a weight with her injured left hand. (Zamora had severely injured her hand during a car accident that prior September.) Zamora testified that on the night of Jones's murder, she hid in the hatchback of her father's car while Graham drove and picked up Jones. Graham told Jones that he wanted to talk to her about their affair and the trouble it was causing with Zamora. According to Zamora, Graham told her to sit in the hatchback because Jones would not come out to the car if she knew Zamora was there. Graham drove to a secluded road and parked. According to Zamora, Jones did not realize that she was in the car, and Zamora did not reveal herself until Graham seemed to be on the verge of kissing Jones in the front seat. Zamora then confronted Jones by asking her, "So, did you enjoy sleeping with my boyfriend?" Zamora said that Jones was surprised and only responded to her by saying, "No...there was too much guilt." The defendant then claimed that she sat in shock in the car and told Graham to turn on the radio. Then a scuffle erupted between Graham and Jones. Again, Zamora denied hitting Jones but admitted to grabbing her sexual rival's hair. Jones then exited the car. Zamora then said that she got out of the car to follow Jones and bring her back. She said that she was not finished talking to Jones and wanted to further confront Jones. But Graham alleged told Zamora to get back into the car. He followed Jones with the car and the got out to follow Jones into a secluded field. Zamora admitted that she could not clearly see Jones and Graham in the dark field. However, said Zamora, it seemed like Jones "ran into something" in the field and that she saw "the crook of Graham's arm come down." Zamora then heard a gunshot and saw Jones fall. Allegedly, Graham then returned to the car and told Zamora that Jones was dead. "I told him [Graham] , 'She's not dead. I'm not done with her yet,'" Zamora testified. "I didn't believe him. I thought he was lying to me...It was like a horror movie." Zamora denies killing, kidnapping or physically harming Jones Then Graham went back into the field and allegedly brought Jones's body back to the car to show Zamora. As Jones's bloody head rested in the front seat, Zamora claimed that Graham called her name in a voice similar to that found in a Poltergeist movie. "Diane, Diane...," Graham allegedly said the Zamora. "Look what you made me do." When asked by her defense attorney whether she had made Graham kill Jones, Zamora said, "No, but I had asked him to let me meet her." Graham, claimed Zamora, Graham brought the body back to the field, and she heard two more shots fired. She described Graham as "excited" during the shooting incident. But after the shooting, when they went to Graham friend John Green's house to clean their clothes, Zamora said that Graham was calm while she was hysterical. He tried to comfort her, telling her that he would "take care of everything." Graham also allegedly told Zamora to gather her senses because Green would suspect that something was wrong. Later that night, Zamora said she tried to clean the blood out of her parents' car while Graham fell asleep for a while in her room. According to Zamora, Graham made her promise not to tell anyone about their involvement in Jones's murder. Even after Grand Prairie police arrested an initial suspect, Bryan McMillen, Zamora did not contact police because of Graham's orders. (Zamora claimed that she wanted to leave a anonymous tip with Crimestoppers, but Graham told her not to do it. Police eventually released McMillen from custody.) Graham was upset when Zamora told her friend Kristina Mason about the murder. However, Zamora said she never told Mason--or anyone else--about the full details of the crime. She admitted that she was obsessed with Graham. "I was obsessed with David Graham," Zamora said. "I feared and loved him." The defendant described Graham as the dominant figure in their relationship. Zamora told the court that during her stay in the hospital after her car accident in September 1995, Graham stayed by her bedside day and night and did not attend school. She said that Graham even controlled her intake of morphine and told jurors how he allegedly sexually groped her while she was groggy from drugs in the hospital bed. After she was released from the hospital, Zamora said she worried about catching up with her school work and getting accepted into the Naval Academy. This made her depressed, and Graham apparently decided to control her intake of medication. Zamora describes Graham's behavior after the killing Zamora even implied that Graham had tricked her into their first consensual sexual encounter. Sometimes, Zamora claimed, the medication she took for her mangled hand made her groggy, and she and Graham frequently argued over sex. According to Zamora, during one incident, Graham told her that they had had sex, but she had not remembered it. Because she did not want to have lingering doubts in her mind, Zamora said that she then consented to have sex with Graham. And in rather troubling testimony, the defendant also told the court how Graham allegedly once stuck a gun between her legs and in her mouth during another sexual encounter. The defense was clearly trying use this testimony to paint Graham as a person who controlled and manipulated Zamora. In addition, Zamora said that Graham had violent tendencies and like his "military nut" friends, had a fascination with firearms. Graham often took a gun with him on their dates. Zamora even said that she had asked Graham about his alleged beating of his own mother. Yet, despite Graham's alleged tendencies, Zamora was attracted to Graham's intelligence and continued to go out with him. Zamora claimed that Graham even tried to control her after he had entered the Air Force Academy and she had entered Annapolis. When asked about her relationship with previous witness Jay Guild at Annapolis, Zamora said that she had a good friendship with Guild and that Graham had threatened to kill Guild on more than one occasion because of the friendship. The defendant admitted that she told Guild about Jones's murder because she wanted him to tell Naval officials. "I was tired of it all," Zamora said. "I was tired of having David in my life. I figured that the only reason I was still around was because David didn't want me to tell anyone." However, allegedly Graham told Zamora what to do and say if questioned by investigators about the murder. Zamora said that Graham threatened to hurt her if she ever told the truth about Jones's murder. So, when Grand Prairie investigators brought in Zamora for questioning, she claimed that she followed his orders. Zamora claimed that Detective Alan Patton promised her that if she cooperated, everything "would be okay, that they [the police] wouldn't come down hard on me. He made it seem like they would let me go home and let me see David." Zamora admitted that during her confession to Patton, she wanted to see David Graham and that he was the most important person in her life. The defendant claimed that Patton showed her Graham's confession and that she had memorized parts of it so that she could corroborate it in her confession. Zamora claimed that she later asked another detective about recanting her confession because it was wrong. However, the detective told Zamora that she could not take back her confession and that she would have to contact a lawyer to make another statement. But Zamora had neither a way nor the money to hire an attorney at that time. Between the first day of her imprisonment until about April 1997, Zamora said that Graham had written her letters in jail and told her not to tell her lawyers the truth about Jones's murder. Graham allegedly threatened Zamora and her family, and Zamora believed that he was capable of carrying out his threats. Prior to her testimony about the murder, Zamora tearfully told the court about her troubled family life in which her family struggled with poverty and her parents often had to work multiple and odd jobs in order to pay bills. Zamora also described how she and her mother had to deal with her own father's infidelity and how she struggled with bouts of depression and low self-esteem. The defendant claimed that she was so depressed at times that she would sometimes cut her wrists mildly. "I hated myself," Zamora said. "I didn't like myself growing up and hated my life." Zamora told her mother about her feelings, but the family did not have the money to seek psychiatric counseling for her. Despite all of this, Zamora aspired to be an astronaut and get a doctorate in physics. Zamora will have to defend her version of Jones's murder when her cross-examination by prosecutors begins tomorrow.