Conviction Upheld For Hunt County Woman Charged In Husband’s Death

Chacey Poynter Hunt County SO

An appeals court has upheld the love triangle murder conviction of a Royce City woman whose case became a national television story. Chacey Tyler Poynter admitted to police that she helped set up her husband, a University Park Fire Captain, for an ambush murder after learning that he would file for divorce. Robert Poynter died from a shotgun blast in 2016 after luring him to a rural Hunt County road by his wife and her lover, Michael Glen Garza.