(L-R) Andrea Wilborn, Priscilla and Cullen Davis

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48 HOURS: “Murder in the Mansion” was Saturday’s #1 program with viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for May 13.

At 10:00 PM, the broadcast delivered 4.04 million viewers and a 0.9/03 with adults 25-54, the demographic that matters most to those who advertise in news.

Also, an encore of 48 HOURS: LIVE TO TELL: “My Name is Victoria” was #1 at 8:00 PM with viewers. The broadcast delivered 3.06 million viewers and a 0.6/02 with adults 25-54.

“Murder in the Mansion” featured Maureen Maher and 48 HOURS’ investigation into one of the most notorious cases in Texas history – an ambush in a lavish mansion that left two people wounded and two people dead, one of them a child. To this day, no one has been held accountable.

On the night of August 2, 1976, former college basketball star Stan Farr and his date, Priscilla Davis, a petite soon-to-be-divorcee, returned to her home after a night on the town with friends and met a man dressed in black and a hail of bullets. When the gunfire ended, Farr was dead, while Priscilla Davis and one of her friends were wounded. Also dead was Andrea Wilborn, Priscilla’s 12-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, who was believed to have been shot before the adults got home. At the time she was shot, Priscilla Davis was going through a brutal divorce from her husband, oil millionaire Cullen Davis. She wanted $50 million to settle the divorce. While they battled it out, a judge ordered Cullen out of their mansion. Priscilla Davis had taken up with Farr.

After the shootings, Priscilla and her wounded friend both identified Cullen as the man in black. Cullen Davis, then worth an estimated $500 million, hired Richard Haynes, the most famous defense attorney in Texas at the time, who was nicknamed “Racehorse.” Haynes took what may have been an open-and-shut case and turned it on its head. And that was just the beginning.

48 HOURS: “Murder in the Mansion” is produced by Chuck Stevenson and Gail Abbott Zimmerman. Lucy Scott and Claire St. Amant are the development producers. Gary Winter, Michelle Harris, Michael McHugh and George Baluzy are the editors. Judy Tygard is the senior producer. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.

48 HOURS: LIVE TO TELL: “My Name is Victoria” is produced by Peter Shaw and Anthony Venditti. Lauren Clark is the field producer. Michael McHugh and Doreen Schechter are the producer-editors. Jud Johnston and Grayce Arlotta-Berner are the editors. Judy Tygard is the series creator and senior producer. Susan Zirinsky is the senior executive producer.

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