an intruder. their home so deep in the woods now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. police had suspects. i remember kelley not wanting to be home alone. they also had a problem. why would this guy go up and kill this woman? her family had questions of their own. something is not right here. something is wrong. and then someone remembered a phone call and a fib. i pulled out my phone. i m like that s strange. a killer living two lives. it hurts when you thought you knew was all a lie. hello and welcome to dateline. kelley and tom clayton seemingly happy life together came to an abrupt end when she was found brutally murdered. investigators set out to uncover the truth, finding stories of bestral and betrayal and a witness who may have seen everything, the clayton s daughter, charlie. in this case, not everything was what it seemed. here with the house in the woods is andrea canning. these ones are not fun to do. finally he found it. down a secluded driv
when it happened. he said something about his kids telling him that there was a robbery. all they told us was there was an intruder. their home, so deep in the woods, now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. this is a real whodunnit? very much so. the police had suspects. i remember telling them they want to be alone. they also had a problem. why would the sky go up and kill this woman? her family had questions of their own. something is not my right here, something is wrong. and then, someone remembered a phone call and a fib. i pulled out my phone, and i m like, that is strange. a killer living two lives. everything that you thought you knew was all a lie. hello, and welcome to dateline, kelly and tom clayton s seemingly happy life together came to an abrupt end when she was found brutally murdered, investigators set out to uncover the truth, finding stories of betrayal and a witness who may have seen everything. the clayton s daughter, charlie
maybe his daughter s description of the killer was wrong. maybe it was michael beard she saw. this phone call, this is, like, the key. this is it. that s the first real connection that we had that put beard anything to do with the murder. that kind of just alerted us right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. did that seem odd to you? that did seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn t even remember receiving it, and he wouldn t have answered a call that wasn t that he didn t know the number. and when investigators looked at beard s phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller s cell. it had been, uh, erased. he explained that away by saying that he, the night before, had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it was a little bit suspicious to me. did you start to come down really hard on him? like, i don t we re not b
calls and texts in the weeks leading up to the crime. clayton was contacting beard, saying, hey, we have to meet. he was getting him a bicycle, so he was having these clandestine meetings. investigators also pulled surveillance footage from outside tom s business. they believed this was video proof of a conspiracy. that s beard, they say, in a red truck that tom loaned him just hours before the murder. and that s tom following in his green servpro truck. also know that during that time period beard turned his phone off, turned it on, turned it off again. why do you think he did that? well, the inference to be drawn from that is that he has guys are not naive. they know that there s a possibility of being tracked with their phones. then, after the murder, the video shows what looks like beard returning to tom s business to drop off the truck. there are its headlights entering the lot. and investigators believe that s
and tom was even trying to help beard find another job. are you getting any bad feeling from him? are you suspicious of him? not at all. so you re thinking this is going to be something that we re going to cross off the list? yes. i didn t expect to see him again. to the investigator and those close to kelley, michael beard didn t seem like a good suspect after all. did you think it was it was possible that he s a disgruntled employee? he was, you know, taking revenge? i didn t. because if you re disgruntled, why wouldn t you kill the person that you re disgruntled against? i mean, i m i m angry at you, so i m going to go kill your wife. but as a matter of procedure, the investigator asked beard for a dna swab and permission to look through his cell phone. he was very, very forthcoming. very willing, no problems. just very cooperative. while the state investigator was checking out the not-so-promising michael beard tip, sheriff s investigators had tom down at