comic book store. renee had five children and needed the money, her floundering marriage had ended in divorce just three weeks before barbs murder. not long after they married barbara, mary shamo remembers dropping it unexpectedly a comic book shop along with her boyfriend joe and they got a shock. they sought michael and renee, the shop assistant, canoodling. they didn t see us pull up, they were close and they were giggling in their arms crossed over to each other and when you lose somebody in your life you kind of look around at the world and say what is going on? what does the world keep moving when i just lost somebody so important? and here this man is just he s happy as a clamp. you wouldn t think he had any care in the world where he was carrying out with her. michael and renee would set up a new home together with the help of 130,000 lights insurance payout on barb that he had received as beneficiary. is he becoming what cops call a person of interest? yes, at that poi
he sounded like he was busy. he was in a hurry to get off the phone. did he say, you know, âiâm busy. there are people in the shop. i got to go. no, no. it was just a short just something you could hear in his voice or the way he we would b. s. a little bit. and there was no time for b. s. the cold case cops had struck gold. mike renaud s story was the missing puzzle piece that detectives had been looking for years. renaud s account, if true, did nothing less than demolish michael georgeâs alibi that he d been napping at his mother s at the time his wife was murdered around six pm. renaud s phone call story meant george was lying. renaud swore that he d talked to the store owner at the comic book shop and their brief conversation must have taken place just minutes before barb was killed. the embarrassing thing about this nugget of a clue was that mike renaud had told the very same story to the police back in 1990, the day after the murder. what looked like a case-b
birthday and all of the superheroes from his beloved marvel and action comics looking on. all those guess now stone to find the party turned into a crime scene. and barbed, the hostess, dead. coming up, what could be two key clues to solving the mystery. right after the murder, witnesses reported seeing a speeding car. and we both thought to ourselves and then send it to each other, that cars going too fast. and a man waiting outside the comic book shop. and it was a dark outfit for the time of the year. a fisherman s cap, some would describe it. when dateline continues. continues breeze driftin on by. .you know how i feel. you don t have to take. [coughing] .copd sitting down. it s a new dawn,. .it s a new day, it s time to make a stand. and i m feelin good. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd. .medicine has the power