she didn t want to sit down with her husband and explain to him that the business you spent your entire life building, i ve destroyed by not paying taxes. they re going to take it all away from you. apparently, amy mistakenly believed that bob s death would take her off the hook. amy thought that because bob was the owner of the business, that all liability would fall on him. and if he was no longer there, there was no one to accept that liability. so if bob wasn t alive, the chances are that the irs agents would just quit and go home. prosecutors believe that amy panicked when the irs demanded a meeting with her husband. instead of telling bob what she d done, amy chose murder. the night before the irs meeting, amy put the children to bed and waited for bob to fall asleep.
it into a multimillion-dollar operation. bobby loved to help people. there was a woman that needed some repair work on her roof because it was bad weather. and she was more or less worrying how she was going to pay for it. and he told her, ma am, it s christmas, merry christmas, don t worry about it. bob and his wife, amy, had two small children and lived a very comfortable life. he was very well off. he had nice cars, nice home, loved boats. he had pretty much all the toys that anybody could want. until one night, something happened that changed their lives forever. shortly before dawn, they woke to find an intruder in their bedroom. [ gunshots ] shots were fired and the intruder fled. someone is breaking into our house and my husband stay on the line with me.
ballistic experts compared the handgun to the shell casings found in the bedroom and inside the washing machine. they all had characteristics that were like that produced by the submitted pistol. my name is amy bosley. one year after bob s murder, amy bosley accepted a plea bargain. she pled guilty to first-degree murder in return for a sentence of 20 years in prison. i didn t want the kids on the stand because i didn t want to tear them any more apart than they were. what did amy do with the money? i don t know if anyone can answer that except for amy bosley. i think that that $1.7 million probably went to support their lifestyle, probably went to help buy the big boats, to buy the property in pendleton county to help build their dream home.
it was at one of these parties that bob met darla cope, one of the women in the pictures. she was ten years younger than bob, and there were rumors they d had an affair. but darla told police she had an alibi for the night of the murder. there was no bad blood, there was no reason for her to commit this crime, nor a jealous boyfriend or husband that would have come in and committed the crime because of her. when questioned, amy bosley claimed that bob did most of the partying, but the evidence contradicted that. she partook in the same type party atmosphere that she did. it wasn t uncommon for her to be on the houseboat with other people in some sort of state of undress. there were a lot of rumors surrounding bob and amy s relationship and their marriage. i think that people thought that it was possible that both of them were having affairs. and when police interviewed the bosleys children, who were 7 and 10 at the time, they
workers comp, social security. those items. but it was never sent to them. but where was the $1.7 million? i think that s the $1.7 million question. what did amy do with the money? the irs first met with amy bosley. dissatisfied, they later wanted to meet with bob, too. but amy wouldn t allow it. the irs investigator insisted on talking to bob. so amy actually got on to the phone and started talking to this agent. she was disguising her voice, trying to sound like bob bosley, and what the investigator told us was that it really sounded like somebody acting like kermit the frog. the irs asked amy for her business records, and she promised to comply. she never provided the information nor did she arrange a meeting between her husband and these agents. but there was no indication bob bosley knew anything about