James Faith was shot seven times outside his Dallas home in Oct. 2020
The emotional affair seemed to begin in March 2020, shortly after the former high school and college sweethearts reconnected on social media.
"I love and miss you so much," Darrin Lopez, 49, wrote in an email to Jennifer Faith on April 6. "Keep dreaming of our life together. Keep planning our lives together."
In the same email, Lopez, then referring to Jennifer's husband James "Jamie" Faith of nearly 10 years, wrote: "Nothing he can do to stop my love for you," he said. "He cannot destroy us no matter how hard he tries."
Just over six months later, Jamie Faith, a well-liked American Airlines technology director, was dead, gunned down outside the Dallas home he shared with Jennifer, 49. He was killed one day after celebrating the 15th anniversary of the day he and Jennifer met.
Federal authorities charged Jennifer in September with orchestrating Jamie's murder. Lopez is accused by the state of being the triggerman, driving 650 miles to the Faith's Dallas neighborhood and shooting Jamie seven times before fleeing back to his home in Tennessee. He is also facing a federal weapons charge.
Federal authorities are calling Jennifer's role in the alleged murder-for-hire scheme "depraved and calculated," alleging she not only romanced her old flame, but set up fake email accounts in which she pretended to be Jamie himself to falsely convince Lopez that her husband was physically and sexually abusing her, which...
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