How much money Monica Melissa Patterson ended up with from the estate of her murder victim has never been determined; but according to court testimony, it was a lot. Hundreds and hundreds of thousand of dollars; and that’s not even counting how much money she stole from the non-profit McAllen-based hospice where she worked. Since 2018, Patterson, has been biding her time at a state prison for women near Waco, hoping that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will kick out her conviction and send it back for re-trial. So far, she’s lost her appeal with the original trial court, then ...