eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [bleep]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, ashley fallis was in the mood to
dateline. what did you hear? a, lapping, screaming. you heard screaming? i know those kids my whole life. i don t believe for a minute that they made any of that. screaming doses or something else? like laughing and screaming. they believe their father killed their mother. we they found her in the bedroom. a young mom, stabbed to death. i could see her fighting. fighting for her life. i was so distraught. she was gone. she was your, wife and mother children. i would wish anybody. her accident is in the day she died. a trip with the kids, who went just like that, he was suspect number one. i was absolutely flabbergasted. how could anyone think this? police say they were a key to the mystery of his own young children. she said he picks through the mail slot. the ideas were paying undermined. two children, on the stand. what they see? that was the hardest thing. because i love him so much i did want them to do. this hello, welcome to datelin
murder? or accidentally committing a? and he told my mom about dexter. you see the show dexter, this is all modeled after dexter. when you take a step back, you see this is a real man who s been murdered. it was darker than anyone knew. holy mackerel! everyone is on the edge of their seat. an underground parking garage. you re watching a violent attack, caught on tape. who is this? what is happening? or did it happen at all? movies, like that one. are by design deceptive. they blur words. but have you noticed, maybe it s all the technical doodads. the digital cameras. the reality pristine editing. some stories have claimed to be true. are not. anybody can manipulate reality, but sometimes what they say is true, isn t. sometimes fiction turns out to be fact. and then there are stories, just a few, in which fact and fiction hughes. and that s where we re going tonight. a twilight zone world. an illusion. and deception. and deceit. follow the howling wind, no
murders in paradise. people still talk about this one. just a darling girl with two darling children. it is a story keith morrison followed for nearly ten years. how? when? i got a call from her boss, said she hadn t showed up for work. they found her in the car. i saw in the back of her neck some ligature marks. just didn t deserve that. a small island, a small pool of suspects. ryan, her lover with a past i had no idea he was a drug dealer. and darren, the soon-to-be ex-husband. that morning he called in sick. was darren polygraphed? he didn t pass. and the lover? he didn t do that good either. without much else to go on, this case was growing colder by the day. nothing. just nothing happens. but a father doesn t forget. i have to have justice for my daughter. after all these years, are there still secrets to uncover? must have been quite a journey for you. it isn t over yet. this father finally got his answer, but is it the o
we looked at suspects after suspect after suspect. the crime was a mystery for decades. we re still with no answer. this poor family, we thought, we might be able to solve this case. could cutting edge science yield a new clue. this was a huge lead. absolutely. this wasn t somebody they had a reason to look at or talk to before. he was here, he was here the all-time. you are literally talking to chris s killer. right. face to face. evil comes in all packages. it certainly does. hello, welcome to dateline. kristie morocco always knew she wanted to be a teacher. her enthusiasm showed. colleagues marvel that are way with kids, but her life was cut tragically short. investigators eventually had a dead end. decades later, a crash course in dna analysis, gave them a picture of chrissy s killer, and revealed a stunning truth that he had been hiding in plain sight the whole time. here is andrea canning, with facing the music. they were having so much fun