In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: A love triangle involving a jealous ex and a hitman who accidentally snapped a photo of himself lying in wait to kill the successful Dr. Joseph Sonnier.
On July 11, 2012, Dr. Sonnier’s gardeners found him dead in the garage of his sprawling Lubbock, Texas home with a Gatorade bottle used as a silencer next to his body. The beloved pathologist had been stabbed and shot several times.
At the time, Dr. Sonnier had been dating a woman named Richelle, but he had supposedly also been dating other women on the side.
Richelle told investigators her ex-boyfriend, Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon, was unhappy that she broke up with him and wanted to win her back. Then, police caught a huge break when a man called and reported that his friend, David Shepard, admitted to killing Dr. Sonnier. The friend said that Dr. Dixon had paid Shepard in silver bars to carry out the hit.
Shepard pleaded guilty to capital murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In 2015, Dr. Dixon went to trial, but the jury could not reach a verdict, so the judge declared it a mistrial. Prosecutors took him back to court, and he was convicted of two counts of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole. One count of murder related to the murder-for-hire plot, while the other related to murder during burglary.
He appealed, and the appellate court overturned the murder-for-hire decision. He will continue to serve life in prison because of the other capital murder conviction.
Let’s look back at the case of a doctor’s murder whose life ended because of one man’s bitterness over his ex.
Now that I know the common characteristics of NARCISSISM I can recognize the people who are capable of destroying others lives. The former bf Mike Dixon of Rachel fit that category. He doesn’t speak in a professional or educated manner either. SUS.
Nothing otherwise makes any sense. Theirs is always a twisted backwards world that we will never understand. BE CAREFUL with people like this.
Adults behaving like lovesick teenagers………
"wife was shot dead second husband?" You mean shot BY second husband? Who shot the wife?
The guy was alpha guy who attract ambitious sexy women, and he had a good personality, money, and physique, that drove women crazy. He had lots of good qualities, but in a way he was a high class cad. He lived dangerously on the edge, and paid for it.
Make up can do wonders!
Interesting how TX and FL murders often appear on this show.
Funny on a side note, the creators of the video need a lesson in geography. Their map shows the two cities, Lubbock and Amarillo upside down from each other Amarillo is 122 miles north of Lubbock, not south. Wow. 😂
Who would think if you have an affair with a married man, that he would end up cheating on you? Poor lady..
These are successful, good looking Physicians, making top dollar. Lot of available women… easy to replace.
That blonde woman sure makes the rounds with the doctors, doesn't she? Oh, but it's just a myth that women want rich men, isn't it?
My GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!————— I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY WILL YOU RUIN YOUR FUTURE AND YOUR CAREER AND YOUR FAMILY JUST FOR A WOMAN whereas you already married and still for a new woman in your life ?!?!?! Why will you insist yourself to a woman who doesnt want you and not interested in you?!?!?!? WHY——- WHY ———-WHY ———-
YOU HAVE A NICE PROFESSION——— SO I GUESS YOUR INTELLIGENT IF NOT GENUIS !!!!!!
God Purposely Put our Brain on top of our body and heart on Lower Part of that Brain ————- THAT MEANS ——- WE HAVE TO USE OUR BRAIN AND COMMON SENSE FOR ANY REASON BEFORE USING OUR HEART !!!!!!! ———- AS A DOCTOR—— YOU WENT TO SCHOOL FOR AT LEAST 15 yrs including training before you got your doctorate degree ———— WHY WASTE YOUR FUTURE FOR A SECOND OF PLEASURE WHICH IS NOT WORTH IT?!?!?!?!?!?!
I DONT UNDERSTAND ——— WHERES THE BRAIN!!!!!!!! WHERES THE COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!
I knew Dickson when he was in medical school, he was a piece of sh+t then and still is.
The casual manner Dave describes killing a fellow human being is scary. Dr. Dixon is a vile SOB & lies with a smooth voice.
Calling her boyfriend a cheater to police while engaging in a relationship with an obviously married man, unbelievable!
You have to be a cold-blooded evil heartless person to stabbed a human 11 times including shooting. 💔
Dr Dixon was a plastic surgeon! The number one hardest specialty to get into, wow. Throwing it all away for an almost 50 year old when he could be dating 21 year olds 😂
I'm sorry but I'm not trying to seem like I'm not being a "insensitive" person, but its not one woman in this world who's 😽😽 is strong enough to have me acting like this lol.
Imagine throwing your life away for a middle aged 7.
This was absolutely insane,
My full condolences to the family,
Doctors gone crazy over pussy?
All these lives destroyed over a Golddiger I cant understand how smart accomplished Men could fall victims to their desires. How someone could be so weak…..Just walk away.
It doesn’t matter how much education, success and money a person has, if they are willing to compromise their integrity to destroy their family by being led by their you-know-what then they have poor character.
You have lots of money successful you just throw all away over nothing. what a loser smh
This proves you don't need to be smart to be a doctor, or a salesman for that matter.
Listen carefully to the detectives in the 1st interview with the girlfriend. They are just textbook naive and inexperience. Why would they provide information to a suspect??
that was funny really… to fight and kill over a stupid female???
This is an old case.
When someone like him have multiple women on the go, something like this is bound to happen to him. He was a despicable serial cheater.
What a dichotomy…one doc says “eh, you’re not hot enough, I wanna date some other girls too”… The other doc says “you are hot enough to kill for”…
Why did they get divorced? Had they stayed together this all would have been avoided. Tragic for all those kids!
Funny. The Dr. blames her for wrecking his marriage when he had a choice as a married man to pursue her or not. That's one expensive piece of nookie. Hope it was worth it.
WOW
How things started out I thought they were saying Richelle set it up… whole situation is pretty sad though
She calls him a cheater dating her even though she knew he was married. The kettle calling the pot black for sure.
I wish they wouldn’t repeat the same information over and over
Over this old hag? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is shocking that he threw away his freedom and career for a woman 🙄🤦♀️🤡💀
Worst hitman ever.
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Yeah cos he is a rich doctor no love ❤️ if not why killing him
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