murdered. as the years went by, the case grew cold, until a reporter he did it up again. stayed up all night reading that file, and it was astonishing. it turns out there was a lot less to this marriage then met the eye. he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. but not every cheating part hides a killer. you could hear members of the jury gasp. hello and welcome to dateline, when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved, the victim and new mother had been forgotten by almost everyone, except a complete stranger determined to find justice. in the lore of the lone star state, texas lawmen rank pretty high, the good guys in the white hats. their badge brought prestige, their gun fights in the history books. but in the modern-day town of denton, texas, the little the outside the big the dallas deserved one texas law man with
offense than that his wife died, sounded more like a dying then a report from a police officer. i would have to say it was the most bizarre statement effort that i have seen that was given by a witness or suspect in a criminal case 85, 90% of the statement was extraneous information and typically that is a good indication that somebody is being deceptive to investigators, it was troubling, to bob s friends his behavior sounded familiar. many who knew bob, often surmised there was something behind the badge that was not quite what it seemed. it was a husband, there were questions as well. like the schoolyard visits that bobby always paid to vicky outlines time, well her fellow teachers thought it was just a loving gesture first, but then they began to suspect the visits were really about something else. i think he wanted to see what she was eating, he wanted to be in control of the
box of evidence. a year went by, then two, then more. so for four years, you just kept hitting wall, after wall, after wall. so what kept you going? vicky was still there, and vicky had not had any justice she kept a, and finally a warm down police department relented, giving donna that box after a formal written request. the archaeological details of vicky s life and death were now in the hands of the one person it seemed who still cared. i stayed up all night reading that file, and it was astonishing someone looked in the window and saw him shoot her, but the totality of that case was so strong, i had no doubt whatsoever when i finish reading the report that bob had shot and killed his wife.
of all that grief, vicky s mother offered up a theory about what might have led to her daughters shooting she said did the dogs jump up, did the dogs jump up and make the gun go off? i thought that was on. vicky s, dogs small ones, they could have startled, but how could that have led to a wound in the middle of her chest. the only way gun can go off, is if you pull the trigger. you know you are not going to sit around a table and it will go off. the scene puzzled investigators, and the more they observed bob s demeanor, the more puzzled they became. did he seem agitated, though? he seemed uncomfortable with how and it was reacting, he s seen uncomfortable with the emotions that were there in the room. it was some heavy stuff. it was really thick with emotions and with grief. heavy, and that s emotional as that scene was, it wasn t for bobby. he did not seem to be
blood tell you? that she had been deceased for a substantial amount of time. it seemed vicky couldn t have been alive just a half an hour earlier, the way bobby had said. he had a pretty good sense from the get-go that night that something wasn t right? sure, i think anyone who walks into that scene is going to think the same thing, something does not fit right, it does not feel right. but the piece that really didn t fit was bob s farewell to vicky. bobby told, me i want to see her before they take, or the medical examiner stopped the stretcher she was being wheeled out, on the body bags was unzipped, and then bobby uttered the strangest thing. all of a sudden he looks at her, he says, take care. take care? he turns, and he walks in the house. yeah, for someone to take care, and walk back inside like nothing happened, i thought that was really cold. maybe reality staring back from a body bag was too much for bobby to bear, maybe being