keith reed, rob taglianetti went on trial for second degree murder. he pleaded not guilty. ladies and gentlemen of the jury. the prosecutors told the jury that this case was about an explicit email that provoked a husband to kill. he sought out keith reed and shot him to death. the prosecutor laid out his case. taglianetti caught here on tape at the superintendents school, the day of the murder. a gold buick like taglianetti s spotted in reed s driveway that afternoon. and that piece of paper phone on s lawn, it was a atm receipt linked to rob s bank account. what a detail? wonderful. there were more incendiary details to, a flurry of them, prosecutors said, sent to keith the night before the murder. capital letters stuff. exclamation points. i m going to get you. i m going to take care of you. you don t mess with me and my family. and all but say goodnight forensic evidence found in taglianetti s car. in a case
though, did find the strength to speak. years before they had almost lost their father and a motorcycle accident. he persevered. now they were determined to make him proud. i knew that he wouldn t want us to be sad and depressed. i knew he would want it to be a celebration of his life. it was the same afternoon that taglianetti s gold buick was spotted speeding down a road near a national park in virginia. make the plate, pull it over, and take him into custody without incident. anthony rob taglianetti was charged with a second degree murder of keith reid. to the prosecutor, the theory of a jealous husband killing his perceived rival connected all the dots. but wait, the defense said, the real story of who is to blame had yet to be heard. rob taglianetti was merely the puppet, the defense would argue. it was his wife, mary, a cunning and manipulative woman who pulled the strings. all she wanted was to be
master murphy later, he said, dead set on destroying the marriage any way she could. rob taglianetti, she wanted out of her life. keith reed, she wanted to be with him. she did whatever she needed to do to accomplish both of those ends. take robs discovery of his wife sexual emails. the defense suggested mary left that email open on purpose. why? maybe because a confrontation was why else, he said, would she have not alerted authorities to the impending showdown with the superintendent. if you are really worried about what your husband is going to do to another individual, when you call the officials? when you call the police? she waits literally days to call law enforcement. mary taglianetti, a prosecution witness, says she s appalled by the defenses theory and finds it preposterous. how was killing keith reid and get your husband thrown in run
but if he had been, he said, maybe the superintendent was the aggressor. after all he argued, it was his reputation that was at stake with if the phone sex with mary was exposed. when someone is confronted with that situation, who knows where they could? do no, there were just too many unanswered questions, to justify a guilty verdict, the defense told the jury, during closing arguments. the prosecutor has failed to establish the case and every element of the charge beyond a reasonable doubt. all rise. but it didn t take the jury long. just three hours to come to its decision. how does the judge jury to find the defendant? the jury finds him guilty. guilty of the second-degree murder of school superintendent keith reed. rob taglianetti received 25 years to life in prison. he declined to do an interview with dateline . outside, kevin reed embraced his niece. our a brother and father killed by the husband of a woman he had dinner one time in his life. a
suppose to solve any problems? i didn t do any of that on purpose. did you willingly provoke him, as the attorney suggests? even leaving opened that email? no, no, i wish they would ve never left that email open. because that s the story the jury is hearing about you. that you are driving the events. yeah, that s not true it all. the defense attorney went even further. maybe those blistering emails from rob to keith had really been written by mary. while he denies, it he implied it could be a wait for him to frame the husband. with on the mind. there is no corroborating evidence whatsoever of mary s testimony that rob offered to try to prove that point, defensive tierney cited a phrase, in one of those messages, saying rob never would have used a marine doesn t refer to himself as a former marine. once rain, always a marine. as for what did happen on key threes property the night he was killed, the defense did not concede that rob was there.