Episode 18-The Texas Cadet Killers
Ep-18: The Texas Cadet Killers – David Graham & Diane Zamora
In the Fall of 1996, David Graham and Diane Zamora were living out their dreams – each at highly competitive colleges. David Graham just finished up his first summer at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Diane Zamora finished up her first summer at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. But investigators soon came knocking.
David & Diane were high school sweethearts and they were engaged to be married. But when they went on to college, they were both harboring a terrible secret. A secret so terrible people would never believe it. The secret? They had both participated in the brutal murder of one of David’s high school classmates, 16-year old Adrianne Jones (AJ).
Even though David quickly came to the top of investigators lists as someone who may have been the last person to speak to AJ, it was hard for anyone to fathom that such a straight laced kid would be capable of a brutal murder. Tune in to this week’s episode of Military Murder, as I take you through the murder and discovery of AJ, as well as the investigation, and ultimately the written confessions of both David and Diane. Now, let’s dig in.
You can find David Graham’s confession here. You can find Diane’s confession here. Both confessions can be found online here.
Adrianne Jones
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David Graham & Diane Zamora
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Cover of People Magazine, October 1996
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David Graham & Diane Zamora
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Episode 18 – Resources:
- https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/03/arts/tv-film-about-teen-ager-s-murder-draws-protests-on-network-s-timing.html?ref=dianezamora
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-killer-cadets/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070823123156/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/young/zamora/1.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071102210135/http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/zamora/grahamconfession.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070610120546/http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/zamora/zamora.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070613080515/http://www.courttv.com/archive/trials/zamora/chronology.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sITCDhYg6JM (Exclusive Interview – Part 1)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8dAWcdchpg (Exclusive Interview – Part 2)
- https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/07/25/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-teenage-love-triangle-that-sent-the-texas-cadet-killers-to-prison-20-years-ago/
- https://murderpedia.org/female.Z/z/zamora-diane-photos-2.htm
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