TX v. Lopez 'Accomplice to Murder with Vinnie Politan' | A Court TV Original
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- 'Accomplice to Murder with Vinnie Politan' S2 EP1 - TX v. Darrin Ruben Lopez - A retired Army sergeant was on trial for his role in an elaborate murder-for-hire plot, in which he claims he was manipulated into killing his former high school sweetheart’s husband.
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Hey Vinnie! Nice with graphics
8:07 why not just show the actual interrogation footage? the cartoons are cheesy
I love the frumpy cartoon depiction of Jennifer, great passive aggressive shade!
How did this beast manage to have a husband and boyfriend? Poor Jaime!
If you study narcissistic personality disorder, the narcissist isn't often good looking. Many times people who are their victims will say: "I wasn't even attracted to him/her when we first met. I don't know why I became so attached." It's because they are gifted at mind screwing. They give you so much attention. They give you so much affirmation. This is also why so many married men cheat with dogs, compared to their wives. They met butt licking narcissists. Sad, but true.
Ikr. She's a hideous beast.
Poor man... murdering someone is a serious crime no matter what explanation you try to come up with. That woman has ruined your life.
Before men decide to become heroes, please remember this man!
This dude 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ I feel bad for him, because his the only one who believes and now 2024 still believes the story 🙄🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🙈😂
Didn't know Vinnie did on site journalism! Awesome! I hope I get to watch more of Vinnie documenting cases like this!
Just get a divorce!
She was a sadistic person . Is very twisted evil. She'd make a Great dictator.
Yes, but that doesn't make sense to Greedy people wanting everything!
She didn’t want a divorce. She loves drama. Two men fighting for her was exciting for her. Poor Jamie. And poor Darrin. Lost and wasted their lives for a POS.
Bout time! I’ve been waiting SO long for Vince to cover this story! 😊💕👌
Evil woman manipulated 2 men.
Darrin should of gone to the cops,ridiculous, he had all the emails
Oh my gosh,those fake emails 👀👀👀
Love Vinny! First Class! ❤
This whole thing was just so bizarre from the outset. Who shoots someone in the street at that time of day and then duct tapes a woman just to steal some cheap jewellery. It’s a lot of effort for nothing. How they thought they could get away with such a stupid idea is flabbergasting!
These are the court tv videos I Love production 10/10
I could tell that the female prosecutor was never in love! If she was she would understand what love can do and none of it was role playing!
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Good show ❤️
Darrin was initially manipulated by the U.S. government and deployed to Iraq, where he was involved in the killing of innocent civilians. Upon returning home, he suffered from severe mental distress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Subsequently, his former high school sweetheart, Jennifer, exploited his vulnerable state and coerced him into killing Jaime, a defenseless and responsible family man, without verifying the information she had provided.
Jennifer was supposed to be in the death role, period.
Darrin was supposed to save a lifetime without the possibility of parole, period
Been watching vinnie since day one!! Love you thank you for getting these story’s out. ❤❤
Mad crush on my part. ❤💋🌹
So Sad poor Jamie.
Wow!!!! Oak Cliff has definitely changed!!! Back in the day, no one would blink twice about an Oak Cliff shooting in terms of seeking justice.
He acts completely normal here on the stand.
Indeed his PTSD was no worse than he was seen cognitive competent enough to allow to have his driver license still. But it may have been problematic for him to go forward in life, which may explain he re-connected with her if he was reminiscent of better times in his life.
I tried to empathize with Darrin. But the more he spoke about relying on his military training, the more it showed he knew right from wrong. Love and infatuation is a hell of a drug.
That’s the problem now. You won’t empathize with a black man at face value. No you will wag your finger and scold him before sentencing him to death when it is due to white mens belief that has the world in the chaos it is now
I think the more it shows the reason he acted the way he did. PTSD. He thought her life was in immediate danger. I don't understand how anything could have been in love with that weasel though.
I may think his PTSD was not overly severe but bad enought to have him not go forward in life. He was perhaps not even,really, even infatuated of the Jennifer of today but a sentimental idea of what they were in high school?
shot seven times and she is just ducked taped? yeah right! this is totally a fake murder for the boyfriend to have her and she gets the insurance. WHO would just shoot a guy seven times just to rob them in DAYLIGHT! if the police didn't see this from day one she was involved they are stupid from the get go.
Jennifer is a sicko
Holy smokes…..did she ‘go to the dogs’ or what! Geesus…
Like Jennifer Crumbley. Woof.
She was always a dog.
SAD STORY
Yay. Vinnie is back
If he could be so manipulated by a woman then he's dangerous on the outside....lock him up
10:18 the ONLY person Role Playing is Jennifer Faith! she doesn’t even deserve that last name she should have to go back to her maiden name 🤬 and she deserves the death penalty but I believe the man she manipulated Mr Lopez should only have gotten 10 years tops.. without Jennifer these 2 men would have never seen each other 💯
Jennifer faith looks like John Goodman
😅😅😅😅😅
Oh crap, she does 😂
the prosecutor reading the nasty emails in her regular ass court voice has me rolling
Sigh. Another tragic story that didn’t need to happen.
At 80% that is 49.5 years to parole!
Lookin good, Vinnie!!
You can literally see the pennies dropping in Darren's head
Would like to have vinnie politan on dephy case as prossacuter like your show vinnie❤
The cartoons courtv added are funny! And woman on chair with dark pink dress like she at prom adds only dramatization of an already well covered Dateline version
7:24 8:32 Since High School, Jennifer & Darren gained HUNDREDS OF POUNDS between them.
What, on earth, does their weight have to do with Anything?
SMH . Shame on you, You should already know… every body ain’t able 😅
What's wrong with you?
😅😅10:13.....NO NOT HIS ASS 👿😅😅
Military training & love for Jennifer sealed Darrin & Jamie's fate 🥴 .
this one is hard.. I mean.. c’mon.. you his ain’t Cindy Crawford! she should be happy to have ANYONE! she played on this other dude’s issues to use him for her horrible selfish wants! and Jaime seemed like the nicest guy on earth and he even reminds me of my bf 😢 just a good man and he’s also even raising another man’s child with none of his own with her 💔 if these people are so unhappy.. I wish they’d do themselves instead 🤬 these people are missed 😢
She wanted to be Jennifer Lopez 🙈
Instead she ate Jenny Lopez
12:37.... THAT'S RIGHT 😉....NONE OF THIS SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED... NOPE 😔
To blame this on TBI and PTSD is BS. The defendant knew what he was doing. He wasnt having a flashback or episode. He purposely planned, drove 600 miles, waited and executed. Then drove home and went on his daily business. He knew right from wrong and did what he wanted to do. Regardless of the fake emails or manipulation he made his own decisions and paying for it now.
The lesson here is stay away from white people. So far there's been 4 white men murdering their latino spouses in Texas. They got less than 30 years for it. That's BS!
It's definitely PTSD. The way he talks about it like she is going to die if he didn't take care of the threat shows that fact. 65 years is a bit much. It never would have happened if she wasn't such a manipulative monster.
@@Gdub33Yeah, but he was the one who started to look for reconnecting with her. Probably because of PTSD, but he wasn't so severely damaged that one would pull off his driver's license. I would expect that to happen if the cognitive decline was that bad since driving in modern traffic situations requires ability to judgement, some stress tolerance and situational awareness etc.
It seem there is maybe a delusion of sense of identity of a grandiose type of sort, that he needs to be needed in some way. He wanted to believe this.
And he is a danger to society, with his mindset stuck on of being a one man army thinking he "saves" old acquaintances.
@johannas.l.brushane2518 Yeah but you can still drive when you're messed up in the head. 65 years seems too long. She should get 65 years and he should get like 40. Let him out when he's 80 years old. He won't be a threat to anyone.
@Gdub33 Yes, but it would depend on what type of mess there is with the head. Driving would require ability of being here and now, ability to forsee consequence from X moving towards Y and engaging the executive function to do A or B. But indeed, depressed people can well drive, overreacting to sudden loud noise, perhaps anger issues to some degree or other similar relative mild but common PTSD symptoms. But these symptoms does not imply that much detachment from reality that would make him ultra gullible. I think he much conjured up this to his mind as well because he wanted to see himself as some vigilante of the idea of his former high school sweetheart. He is trained in the military and he used that description in how he went about committing the crime in his defence because he wrongfully it would benefit him because in his view it made him respectable (which may have been true if he attacked an armed violent person). So he is a dangerous person, someone he snogged in highschool stick targets on persons she may not like for the day and he comes running like Rambo. He should be locked, up. Stupid people are the most dangerous people there is, and ideally both should be locked up for a very, very long time.
Det. Barnes has become a superstar homicide Det. Vinnie you should have on the final arguments episodes 👍 he's from Dallas I'm from Jersey and I know of three high profiled cases he has solved some of them solo he's that great Vinnie 😮
36:55.... IT'S KAREN 😈... THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE THIS.... DESTROYING PEOPLE ❤️ LIVES..43:55...
Half of his sentence should be transfered to her.
Surprised they sent a war veteran away for 65 years who was acting off PTSD and manipulated love. Ive seen way worse people commit way worse murders and get away with 20 years.
Too bad he has to serve 80% of his sentence. I would feel safe with him on the streets. Might be an unpopular opinion, but that dude is not going to hurt anyone else. I dont think he's as gullible as he used to be.
He was offered a plea deal (which require acknowledgement to some guilt) but wanted to stick with portraying himself doing a heroic act.
@@johannas.l.brushane2518 oh. Jeeze he is sick in the head. They should have sent him to the mental hospital instead of prison lol.
16:00.... TALKING ABOUT THE REAL DARRIN 👿AND KAREN 👿....I REALLY WISH 😔HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING OF THE SORT
... KAREN'S👿 ARE ALWAY'S LYING 🤥 AND THEY FAKE 20:01 ....CRY 20:44.... TOO.. DIVORCE IS ALL THEY HAD TO DO SO THEY👿👿 COULD BE DOING THEIR SEXUAL FANTASIES TOGETHER AND LET THE HUSBAND LIVE HE ❤️,DIDN'T DESERVE IT...
*FEWER number of years
JENNIFER FAKE!!!
This guys reminds me forest gump 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🙄
Jennifer Fake
Ahh u watch channel did a episode of this triple act
Yo creo que él es claramente inocente por enajenación mental transitoria. En España saldría libre. Pobre Darrim
20:00.....KAREN👿, KAREN 👿,KAREN👿...43:43....
That woman was Psychotic, she used this poor guy. PTSD is not a Joke, nor is it's long term affects. She knew this and like the lunatic POC she is she used him with lies and manipulation to use this man for her evil bidding. My heart goes out to him as well as the poor innocent victim.
As for her she should never see the light of day outside a prison cell, just sick.
The fact that she used his scars to manipulate him is simply Vile. As usual well done Vinnie you're truly one of the best reporters and just in depth. Just tragic you have to report stories like this because there are 2 victims here not to mention their families, as for her well I have nothing to say!!