they seemed like the ultimate power couple. she told me, should be traveling on secret missions. he had all of the medals. the silver star, the purple heart. glamorous military careers, but, was it all camouflage? says the bs alarms are going off in my head like you wouldn t believe. did they have something to hide? we start doing surveillance. maybe a crime here? yes. something that made me say, this campeche. we were in disbelief. what happened to her last husband? whoever did this was evil. the hurt, the anger. it makes you question everybody. it seems alive, somehow, here in the foothills of tennessee s appalachians. the creeping tendrils of mountain mist that snake and swirl. like lies. there is gold in there, somewhere, so they say. the sort of place where you could strike it rich, or maybe get away with murder. very scary. shocking. and devastating. so, after that mysterious death here, who can anyone trust? dearest friends? the word bet
a walker and a cane? both. and a knee brace. still flooded. he was toting an oxygen tank as well. as chuck fumbled his way inside, nate and his agents were waiting. busted. i interviewed charles. we pulled him into an office. and then martha ann was being questioned by another va agent and social security administration. martha ann and chuck kaczmarczyk had been found out. chuck was no decorated hero. he was never in combat. no silver stars. no purple hearts. those ribbons, all fake. and martha, had never walked the hallways of the pentagon as a marine colonel, much less present at a 9/11 attack, or flew on air force two. they confessed to perpetuating
kaczmarczyk, to reveal finally the real story of that deadly monday in 2006. who did what, and why? then, out came the investigators, smiles on their faces, chuck talked. that was kind of like the combination of everything, knowing that what we had suspected was correct. nate understood falwell. the stage was set for an epic she said he said battle with between two major con artists. they couldn t know which story would win. nate was pretty sure the one finally telling the truth was chuck. we didn t suspect it anymore, now we know. in november 2015, in madison ville tennessee, martha and my clancy went on trial mcclancy went on trial. she was charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. attorney matthew rogers was
it was told by chuck has more sick. did you kill your husband? no sir, i did not. i did not kill bob mcclancy i had nothing to do with killing bob mcclancy. i cannot tell you anything more than what i know that he died of a drug overdose. and that was martha ann s story, every ward of it was true, she swore. if martha ann believes her husband was murdered, she would stay it wished chuck kaczmarczyk. he was there with bob mcclancy when he died. he was the one who took photographs of mr. mcclancy, and manipulated the crime of the death weather was a crime scene or not. but, battle of the corn artist was just getting started. and the prosecutors believed they had a strong case. what was the most important piece of evidence in your view? the most important piece of evidence, of course, was the confession taken from chuck kaczmarczyk.
called 9-1-1 sooner, or try to do cpr or something, he would ve been alive? he let him die before he called 9-1-1. chuck was charged with tempering with evidence and criminal negligence. so it seemed like you had him then. that s what we thought. but that s not what happened. before the case could go to trial, a judge ruled the photos taken by chuck were not admissible in the court of law. why? the camera belonged to chuck, not bob. and detective jones had gathered the photos without a search warrant. the case against chuck kaczmarczyk collapsed. go back to that time when you got that ruling, and was basically thrown, out you weren t going to get that case at all, what was that like? it was devastating. did you feel as if you were responsible? i did. i felt guilty about it.