Diane Zamora

Background Diane Zamora and David Graham met at a Civil Air Patrol meeting at Spinks Airport, near Crowley, Texas, when they were both aged 14. Zamora had wanted to be an astronaut and Graham wanted to be a pilot. The two began dating about four years later in August 1995, when they were both high school honor students. Incarceration , Gatesville, Texas, where Zamora was imprisoned. Zamora was transferred from a jail in Fort Worth, Texas to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. She was initially held in a state prison diagnostic unit in Gatesville, Texas in February 1998, Graham was held at the Ellis Unit near Huntsville after the trial. In 2016 he was held at the Darrington Unit near Rosharon. he is held at the Allred Unit in Wichita Falls. He is currently enrolled at the Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary's inmate seminary in order to become a pastor behind bars. In 2008, Graham said that his confession to the police was correct and expressed remorse for killing Jones. He also said that if he had it to do over again he would have pleaded guilty to murder. == Marriage ==

Zamora got to know Steven Mora, a fellow Texas inmate, through the mail. He had committed auto theft and burglary and was in prison for threatening someone related to one of his cases. Although they never met in person, the two decided to get married and petitioned Bexar County for a marriage license in 2003. A wedding ceremony was performed on June 17, 2003. Zamora's mother and a male friend stood in for the imprisoned couple in the county's first proxy marriage, which was performed by a judge in San Antonio. They were divorced in or around 2008. == 2007 interview ==

Zamora was interviewed by Stone Phillips on Dateline in a show broadcast in April 2007. Her appeals were exhausted, and with her lawyer's permission she took a polygraph test administered by Dateline. Her new story was that Graham and she had been breaking up, and that Graham was using the murder to "tie her to him". She noted that she obstructed justice by cleaning the car afterwards and was an accessory after the fact; however, Zamora pointed out that the jury had convicted her of intending to kill Jones, which she denied. When she took the polygraph, the administrator repeatedly told her to stop her exaggerated breathing, a counter-measure for such tests. He said that he believed he had enough to actually say that Zamora had failed the crucial question on whether she had intended to kill Jones. Two other independent polygraph administrators, who were not at the test, were contacted by Dateline and asked to review the results; they said that they could offer no opinion due to counter-measures. Zamora responded to Phillips that she was nervous and hyperventilating despite being told all the questions in advance and reviewing them with the administrator before the test. == Popular culture ==

• In 1996, Ellise Pierce of the Dallas Observer wrote that the crime "has become part of Mansfield teen folklore; kids obsess about the details of the crime as if they were unraveling a plot from The X-Files". • Before Zamora's trial began, the case was the subject of a 1997 made-for-television movie called ''Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder''. Zamora was played by Holly Marie Combs. • Two books were written about the case. : * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz2x54eEm-sC|title=The Cadet Murder Case: A True Story of Teen Love and Deadly Revenge (Onyx True Crime)|author=A. W. Gray|publisher=NAL|year=1997 : * • Zamora and Graham's crime was discussed at length in the American Justice episode "Duty, Honor, and Murder", which aired in 1999. • The crime was covered by People Magazine Investigates on December 12, 2016, the episode was called In the Name of Love. • The Cold Case first-season episode "Love Conquers Al" is based on this murder. == References ==