my husband he s been shot, help, please. she had mud and blood all over. 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 something 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
around the curve, and i went off the road. reporter: chacey, still visibly shaken, said her jeep got stuck on that muddy road. so, bob, already at the jack-in-the-box, drove out to help her. but when he got there he said, i don t think i can make it down the road. so, we walked, we walked up here, and we walked back, back to my cheap. reporter: she said bop jumped to the driver seat and pulled her jeep out. and i was standing right at the back of it, and i want to go get it, and i just heard a shot, and as he started rolling, i don t see anything. i saw a shadow. that s all i saw. reporter: she went to bob, she said, and yelled his name, no answer. and then, she said, in a panic, she ran. i don t know what to do. reporter: chacey asked about her husband. is he okay? reporter: under the bright lights, inside the ambulance, chacey could see her own arms. that s my husband s blood.
to burke, she revealed much more. i ve got random bruises from robert, and you could see him grabbing me. he s done this to me for seven years. she says she is in a marriage full of domestic abuse? yes, sir. and violence? yes, sir. she made comments that he had thrown her up against the wall. reporter: the rest of her story was by now as familiar as the summary run. the planned meeting at jack-in-the-box, her jeep getting stuck, and then, chacey hearing, but not saying, the shot that killed bob. and i put jeep in park, and then i touched his face, and i yelled his name, and then i put my hand away, and there was blood all over my hand. reporter: detective burke zeroed in on key detail. if chacey touched bob the way she has said, what the blood should have dropped down from her hand. it did not. this street, the street right there, you see how it s betters up your arm?
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just breathe for me, okay? just breathe for me. that s my husband s blood on me. given my training experience, i need to not her let her focus on that. so i would ask are separate questions to redirect her focus. reporter: officer meek documented chacey s injuries and the visible blood on her, and once the paramedics released her, meek escorted chacey back to the police car, where she seemed to open up. it was reporter: she described ongoing marital problems. we don t spend a lot of time together. we only stay with each other for a couple of days. why? because do you argue? it s because we didn t don t spend all a lot time together because of his shifts. reporter: chacey said they talked about divorce, and bob had threatened to take addison, if it went through. my daughter is not why would your husband would be trying to take your daughter from you? because he knows that s what s gonna hurt me the most. he knows that s what s gonna