sitting on a hallway chair. it just didn t make a lot of sense. neither did the use of a shotgun. it s large, potentially bulky. if you re going in to break into something, you have to carry whatever you steal out with this shotgun that you brought also. it wasn t until the next day that police found their first significant piece of evidence, evidence that led the investigation in a whole new direction. down in the foleys dusty basement was a suspiciously dust-free yellow plastic bag.
absolutely not. tom said he s never owned or used a shotgun. never. wouldn t know how to operate it. wouldn t know the first thing about it. tom schafer then asked why tom failed to call his home when dar didn t show up at the birthday celebration. something just wasn t right so that s why i went home. if we had cell phones i would have called her on the cell phone. i had to find her. i had to go see where she was at. then it was time for tom to describe his relationship with dar. it didn t take tom long to lose his composure. we were very close. and we were go ahead. we were together all the time.
carbon, whoever staged the burglary didn t factor in the weather that day. it got really warm. we had a huge snow meltoff. the ground around the farmhouse was unusually wet and muddy. so you would expect that there would be muddy footprints from inside the residence where somebody would come through that door? absolutely. was there any footprints, anything? there was nothing. but it was the yellow bag found in the basement, the bag containing shotgun shells, that interested carbon the most. downstairs in the basement we found a dunham s bag that had in shotgun shells in it. okay. did you ever see that before? no. the foleys didn t own a shotgun as far as we know? that s correct. carbon sent the bag to the lab for analysis. what technicians found on the bag surprised even this veteran detective. tom s fingerprint was on the bag. yes.
yes. she was always on time or early to events. so tom left the party and headed back home in search of his wife. our kitchen back door was open, and i noticed that the glass was broken and there was glass all over our kitchen floor. so i looked through the rest of the house for her and ended up finding her in our bathroom. she d been shot in the head with a shotgun at point blank range. tom immediately called for help. what s the problem? my wife is in the shower. she s just laying there in the blood. first responders rushed to the foley farm. when michigan state police detective james carbon arrived on the scene, he knew he was in for a long night. we don t have a lot of homicides that happen in and around branch county. because of her position as a school teacher, just for the
heath s left without her. the plan was for dar to follow in her own car and meet them all at the party later that afternoon. but dar never arrived. that gave you some sort of sixth sense that something was wrong. yes. she was always on time or early to events. so tom left the party and headed back home in search of his wife. our kitchen back door was open, and i noticed that the glass was broken and there was glass all over our kitchen floor. so i looked through the rest of the house for her and ended up finding her in our bathroom. she d been shot in the head with a shotgun at point blank range. tom immediately called for help. what s the problem? my wife is in the shower. she s just laying there in the blood. first responders rushed to the foley farm. when michigan state police detective james carbon arrived on the scene, he knew he was in for a long night.