prison supposed to solve any problems? >> i didn't do anything on purpose. >> did you willingly provoke him, as the attorney suggests, even leaving open that e-mail to light the torch? >> no, no, no. i wish i never would have left that e-mail open. >> because that's the story that the jury is hearing about you, that you're driving the events. >> yeah. that's not true at all. >> reporter: but the defense attorney went even further, maybe those blistering e-mails from taglianetti to reed had been written by mary? while she denies it, he implies it could be a way for her to frame her husband to show that he left the house with murder on his mind. >> there's no corroborating evidence whatsoever of mary's testimony that rob authored those e-mails. >> reporter: to try to prove that point, the defense attorney cited a phrase in one of those messages that he said rob taglianetti would never have used. >> a marine doesn't refer to himself as a former marine. once a marine, always a marine. >> reporter: as for what did happen on keith reed's property the night he was killed, the defense did not concede that rob taglianetti was there, but if he