No, Daddy, Don't! (29 page)
Authors: Irene Pence
Christmas 2000, the last Yuletide holiday for Liberty and Faith.
Police broke into Battaglia’s loft and found fifteen guns, including rifles, shotguns, and pistols.
(Photo courtesy Dallas County District Attorney’s Office)
The .38 revolver that John used to shoot his daughters sat by his phone, from which he called Mary Jean.
(Photo courtesy Dallas County District Attorney’s Office)
The automatic Glock was used for the final execution shot.
(Photo courtesy Dallas County District Attorney’s Office)
Dallas Police Officer Dane P. Thornton was the first officer on the scene.
ME Death Investigator Gigi Ray photographed the crime scene.
Police set up a stakeout of Battaglia’s Ford truck and waited to arrest him.
(Photo courtesy Dallas County District Attorney’s Office)
John suffered bruises and a black eye from fighting the police during his arrest.
(Photo courtesy Dallas County Sheriff’s Office)
John had red and yellow roses tattooed on his arm in memory of his daughters, whom he had just murdered.
(Photo courtesy Dallas County District Attorney’s Office)
District Attorney Bill Hill ran for re-election against Judge David Finn, whom Mary Jean exposed for trying to dismiss beating charges against Battaglia. (2002)
Because of Faith and Liberty’s murders, Texas State Representative Toby Goodman sponsored a bill in the legislature forcing judges to look carefully at allowing unsupervised visits where parents have a history of abuse.
(Photo courtesy Rep. Goodman)
The Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, where John Battaglia’s capital murder trial began on April 22, 2002.
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