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Deadly Blessing
The wealthy son of a Texas governor shocked everyone by divorcing his first wife, a proper Texas blue blood, and marrying a local Dairy Queen waitress--who later killed him. This startling look at a privileged family rocked by drugs, abuse, and perversion is reissued to tie-in with the major ABC-TV movie starring Susan Dey.
- GenresTrue Crime
320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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November 22, 2025
This is a so-so true crime book to me and maybe more of interest to Texas, certainly of the time or I suppose of the Bed of Lies TV movie (1992). Southern Dairy Queen waitress Vickie Daniel, a "low born woman married to rich man", is accused of his murder. However, the subsequent trial reveals their marriage was lies, abuse, and infidelity. Both in the marriage were unstable and in 1981, Price Daniel Jr., son of Texas Governor Price Daniel, was shot to death by this second wife Vickie, a former waitress. The murder trial of Vickie Daniel, who was represented by famed attorney Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, unleashed a storm of disclosures about the younger Daniel's private life and habits, including drinking, pot, and apparent pedophilia. This aberrant behavior meant the custody case for the children is more central to the story than the murder trial which ended in Vickie's acquittal.
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