turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know if the suspect is still out. there it s nerve racking. who killed your husband? oh my god. a small town murder with a big time twist. she knew somebody that she wasn t telling. yes sir. hello and welcome to dateline. at six four and nearly 300 pounds, robert poynter looked menacing. but to love once he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others but no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered only fuzzy details and yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus here is josh mankiewicz with out of the darkness . 9-1-1. this friday night sounded like trouble. it was 10:47 pm, a woman calling 9-1-1 santa desperate. calm down. what do you need? we are you at? i ma am, we are u.s.? i reporter: she was on the cell phone, somewhere on the outskirts of town. this is hunt county wit
she had mud and blood all over. her panicked, saying her husband had been shot. a woman in distress, a murder in the dead of night. i m trying. we were concerned for her. that s my husband s body. yes sir. did she say who shot her husband? that s all i saw. she said just a figure, who turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know if the suspect is still out. there it s nerve racking. who killed your husband? oh my god. a small town murder with a big time twist. she knew somebody that she wasn t telling. yes sir. hello and welcome to dateline. at six four and nearly 300 pounds, but robert poynter looked menacing. but to love once he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others but no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered only fuzzy details and yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus here is josh mankiewicz with o
the head. there s a female who had mud and blood all over her. frantic. saying her husband had been shot. a woman in distress. a murder in the dead of night. calm down. breathe slow. we were concerned for her. she was next to him as he was hit. yes, sir. ridge say who shot her husband? i saw a shadow. she said it was a figure and turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know the suspect is still out there. who killed your husband? a small town murder with a big-time twist. she knew something she wasn t telling? yes, sir. welcome to dateline. at nearly 300 pounds, robert looked menacing but to loved ones, he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others. no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered fuzzy details yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus. here is josh mankiewicz with out of the darkness. 911. this friday ni
josh mankiewicz: as the cops investigating the murder of bob poynter search for their prime suspect michael garza, they knew he might have already as the cops investigating the murder of bob poynter search for their prime suspect michael garza, they knew he might ve already climbed in his big rig and left texas, never to return. is that sheila? they turn to his family for help. we don t want to hurt him. we d like him to walk in with a smile on his face and let us do our job. she defended her son. i did not raise a boy that s evil like that. we don t want it to get ugly for him then we wanted to get ugly for us. two days after the murder, garza turned himself in. does he have an attorney? he does not.
imagination was everything. ashley got to know chacey s husband bob and their young daughter named edison who helped her mom decorate cakes. it was something her and addison did together. if chacey and addison spent time together, chacey and the husband she could robert did not. what did she say about robert? he was never there. he always worked. he was a fire captain and worked a lot of shifts? yes. bob tried to make things right. in 2016, he took his family on a trip to mexico. it was a chance to reconnect. six days later bob poynter was dead and not in a fire. detective michael burke drove out to county road 2595 to investigate his first career homicide.