welcome back to dateline. michelle feared something unexpected. she left fayettville, north carolina, without a trace. authorities weren t done with her yet, but would they be able to track her down? here with the conclusion of deadly ambush is keith morrison. leavenworth federal prison. doing time doesn t come much harder than it does here. this is where john diamond was serving a life sentence for murdering air force captain marty fear, but his former lover, michelle, seemed to have dropped right out of sight. where was she? people weren t seeing her around fayettville. the d.a., meanwhile, was convinced she must have conspired with john diamond to kill her husband. she was the brains.
she said later. while diamond stayed with his sister debbie. he acted as if nothing was wrong because he knew he didn t have anything to do with it. he didn t shoot him. so who did kill captain martin fear? was it possible john diamond executed his romantic rival? he may have had a motive. police were very suspicious, but the physical evidence was frankly, rather weak, so detectives kept digging in the phone records. boring but sometimes revealing and one telephone number in particular caught their attention. a call from diamond to one of his army buddies at fort bragg. so we asked him if diamond had any access to any weapons. he said he loaned diamond his personal pill tall. which just happened to be a 9 mm berhett that pistol, the same kind of gun that killed marty
he was willing to do anything. keep the woman he s totally in love with. anything? perhaps even kill the man who stood between him and michelle? she was beginning to set him up. she was pushing him away, kind of. pushing him away but without completely pushing him away. i think she was manipulating him at that point. manipulating him into murdering her husband? why would she want to do that. there was a life insurance policy that had been taken out in 199 on marty fear. and the soul beneficiary, michelle fear. john diamond s family was outraged at such a theory. they were convinced michelle typed all those e-mails and sent them to herself to steer investigators away from her and to diamond so he d take the rap. he never once expressed a love feeling about her to me. so unless you come to me with a
telling the truth. had she been pressured? besides, said the defense, there was no dna, no footprints, no fingerprints to prove diamond shot marty fear. and anyway, diamond was a trained sharp shooter but the shots that failed marty were sloppy. must have been the work of an amateur side diamond s attorney. an amateur like michelle. michelle fear had asked for the gun several days before the murder. she had told him that her husband had been abusive, that she was afraid of him. so he gets a gun and he gives her the gun. she didn t think she was going to kill him with the gun. did she just use him, knowing he was somebody she could use to serve her purposes? she set this up to kill her husband because she wanted the insurance money and for sergeant diamond to take the fall. michelle fear was a brilliant,
broke the window and tried to make look like it was broken in. a bogus rglary? he was arrested for admitting he brought an unregistered gun on base. clearly diamond was now the prime suspect in the murder of marty fear, but was he really the killer? coming up, a secret about john and michelle s steamy affair becomes very public. she was taking him to these sex clubs and saying it s okay, go, you know f you want to have sex with her, that s fine and he just, wow, okay. when dateline continues. w. simpari-what? simparica is what kills tick and fleas, like us. kills? kills! studies show at the end of the month, it kills more ticks in less time than frontline plus and nexgard. guess we should mosey on. see ya never, roxy! use simparica with caution in dogs with a history of seizures