go to some day, look up bryan rein when you get there and ask him who killed him. because that s the only way we are ever going to know who killed bryan rein. i m craig melvin. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. there was no way you could look at this and say this is a person who ran away. the mystery had this sort of sinister side to it. oh, my god. oh, my god this is really happening. it s happening right now. in the dark waters off miami, miles out to sea, a federal agent hunting for drug smugglers spots a suspicious boat. i notice the passenger roll a large duffel bag off the side of the boat.
something. because why would she leave you for another guy? must be drugs involved? must be something like that something other than just wanting to make a switch? yeah, that was my initial impression. and all that other stuff? the hang-up phone calls, the stalking, going into her bedroom to read her diary? not great behavior. no. it was wrong of me to do that. i wanted to see her thoughts, what she had to say about me, what she had to say about bryan. you re having a lot of trouble letting it go? i did, yes. there s no manual on how long it takes to get over a relationship, and for me, it took awhile. but he swore to us here, as he did when he talked to the investigators way back when, that he had nothing to do with the murder of dr. rein, even though it looked pretty bad for him. they told me right away that this happened on a friday night. and i was home alone on friday night. i had no alibi. and so i was kind of stuck. although, remember, the medical examiner was
dr. rein returned home from a conference on friday evening, but his body wasn t found until sunday. investigators canvassed nearby farms. and? there was a neighbor that lived probably about a mile away, maybe a little less as the crow flies, that had seen an atv go by that night. and then said he heard two loud retorts about that time. that is, friday night. but it could ve been that night or the next morning or something? at first he wasn t sure, and then he wasn t sure of the date. phone records showed the last time dr. rein received a phone call was at 10:15 on friday night. nobody heard from bryan after that last phone call on friday night. the thought that he would go all day saturday
beat your head over. but tom had an alibi, and a pretty solid one, for most of the weekend when dr. rein was murdered. except for friday night. oh and yes, he did admit, he phoned dr. rein that night. so my intentions were to just call him and just tell him that i didn t have any grudges against him. and that wasn t going to interfere with him and ann s relationship. and i hope you take good care of ann because she s a really special person. he answered the phone and he said hello twice and i just couldn t do it. i chickened out. and so i and when was that? this was this last friday, about quarter to ten. investigators had been thinking it, though the medical examiner couldn t tell them, friday night was possibly when dr. rein was murdered. and after they heard tom s story, how he didn t have an alibi for friday night, that seemed to them to clinch it. you called him up at 10:00 on friday night. yeah. to say, i don t hold any grudges against you? that s right.