20/20: Why Was Belinda Temple Killed? Murder Suspect and Killer David Temple Still Free- What Happened?
Belinda Temple’s murder suspect and killer, David Temple, got arrested in November 2004. The murder trial began in 2007, and he got convicted after a four-week trial in November 2007.
David’s appellate attorneys got a new hearing in the case in 2015. After a months-long hearing, the judge sided with his defense, and he got a new trial. Temple’s conviction got overturned in November 2016.
Temple walked free after he was released from prison on December 28, 2016. After a retrial, a jury convicted him of the 1999 Belinda Temple murder on August 6, 2019, and he is now facing life in jail.