i just didn t want to convince the 12 jurors. i wanted to convince the prosecutor. i wanted to convince the police. i wanted to convince my wife s family. i wanted them to know and look at me and hear me. tom started by answering some still-nagging questions, like, how did a yellow plastic bag with shotgun shells in it get into tom s basement? did you have dunham s bags in your home? yes. how do you explain the bag in the basement with the shotgun shells in the basement? they weren t ours. the bag is probably ours. i mean, my fingerprint is on the bag. but for three clean shotgun shells to be in my basement? it just doesn t make sense. you have no idea where those came from? absolutely not. tom said he s never owned or used a shotgun. never. wouldn t know how to operate it. wouldn t know the first thing about it. tom schafer then asked why tom failed to call his home when dar didn t show up at the birthday celebration.
witness? i call tom foley to the stand. i didn t just want to convince the 12 jurors. i wanted to convince the prosecutor. i wanted to convince the police. i wanted to convince my wife s family and look at me and hear me. tom started by answering still nagging questions lake how did a yellow plastic bag with shotgun shells in it get into the basement. did you have those bags in your home? yes. how do you explain the bag in the basement. they weren t ours. the bag is ours. my fingerprint is on the bag but for three clean shotgun shells to be in my basement, just doesn t make sense. you have no idea where those came from? absolutely not. tom said he s never owned or used a shotgun. never. wouldn t know how to operate it. wouldn t know the first thing about it. tom shafer then asked why tom failed to call his home when dar
you have no idea where those came from? absolutely not. tom said he s never owned or used a shotgun. never. wouldn t know how to operate it. wouldn t know the first thing about it. tom schafer then asked why tom failed to call his home when dar didn t show up at the birthday celebration. something just wasn t right so that s why i went home. if we had cell phones i would have called her on the cell phone. i had to find her. i had to go see where she was at. then it was time for tom to describe his relationship with dar. it didn t take tom long to lose his composure. we were very close. and we were go ahead. we were together all the time. tom admitted to the jury he did once flirt with carrie zuk, but he said that happened three years prior to the murder during a brief time when he and dar were arguing more than they were communicating. that put quite a bit of distance between us, and it also led to intimacy problems between her and i. tom says he eventually
reporter: tom schaeffer then asked why tom failed to call his home when dar didn t show up at the birthday celebration? something just wasn t right. so that s why i went home. if we had cell phones, i would have called her on the cell phone. i had to find her. i had to go and see where she was at. reporter: then it was time for tom to describe his relationship with dar. it didn t take tom long to lose his composure. we were very close. we were together all the time reporter: tom admitted to the jury he did once flirt with carey zuck. but he says that happened three years pior to the murder during a brief time when he and dar were arguing more than they were communicating. that put quite a bit of distance between us. and it also led to intimacy
home when dar didn t show up at the birthday celebration. something just wasn t right. that s why i went home. if we had cell phones, i would have called her. i had to find her. i had to see where she was at. reporter: then it was time for tom to describe his relationship with dar. it didn t take tom long to lose his composure. we were very close. we were go ahead. we were together all the time. reporter: tom admitted to the jury he did once flirt with carrie. but he says that happened three years prior to the murder. during a brief time when he and dar were arguing more than they were communicating. that put quite a bit of distance between us.