Leslie Jenea Chance makes the admission in a new episode of NBC Dateline, titled Point Blank, which is due to air at 9pm on Friday, November 20. Led by reporter Andrea Canning, the episode revisits the murder of 45-year-old Todd Chance, who was found dead with two bullet wounds to the chest in a rural almond orchard in Bakersfield, California, on August 25, 2013.Ĭhance, 53, who was once the principal of Fairview Elementary, was convicted of first-degree murder in the case in January this year and later sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.ĭuring the trial, prosecutors said she decided to kill Todd after unearthing a steamy texting tryst between him and his ex-fiancee.Ĭhance allegedly planned the murder out over a series of months beforehand, using information she had learned from a Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) convention she'd recently attended in Las Vegas to help cover her tracks. While the evidence mounted against her was substantial, Chance revealed to Dateline that she didn't believe for a moment that jurors would find her guilty. 'I was very confident,' Chance tells Canning in a clip obtained by, which was filmed at the Kern County Correctional Facility back in February. Actually when I would lay in bed at night, I thought, 'My goodness, they're not only gonna stand up and say, 'She's not guilty,' they're gonna say, 'She's innocent and this was a ridiculous, you know, case,' Chance said.Ĭhance (shown left at trial) said she thought she 'heard the verdict wrong' when she was convicted of Todd's murder in January (Todd Chance shown right) 'I expected to go back the next day and it be done. Todd Chance's body was found in on August 25, 2013. He'd last been seen alive hours earlier, leaving his home with another woman between 7:30am and 8:00am, before they both got into his black 2011 Ford Mustang. Later that day, police found Todd's car abandoned at an intersection, with a revolver on the floorboard. The gun was later found to belong to Todd and Chance and was also confirmed to be the murder weapon.Ī grainy surveillance video also showed a woman leaving the area at the time the car car was abandoned, which police identified to be Chance. The figure, who was wearing a hat and sunglasses, was walking down the street and into a Walmart store on a circuitous route prosecutors said Chance took to get home on the morning she murdered her husband.Īlong the route, prosecutors said Chance disguised herself by changing her clothes. She also threw away a number of items and used a payphone to hail a cab. Prosecutors said her motives for the killing were money and infidelity.
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