do this on purpose. a dark house, a husband witho a gun. a wife dead on the floor. make sure that she is still breathing. oh, i don t think she is, damn it. there was no question who killed her. the mystery was why. i hear the door squeaking, and i hear the rumbling and i hear the dog growling. how could you not tell that s your wife?ld it was dark. he just kept saying it was an accident. he said he didn t do anything wrong. others disagreed.di we never for a second believe that he didn t know who that was standing in front of him. was it a tragic mistake? he was broken. or cold-blooded murder. emotion is only done in front of the detective. a room too dark to see? shut the light off.e or a story too hard to believe.or there was nothing accidental about what he did. a shot in the dark and found in the light of day. the love of your life. yes, sir. the person you know better than anybody else. yes, sir. and you can t tell it s he
cause your dog growled? yes, sir. he never growls. he barks. reporter: there was no witness or apparent evidence to contradict him. after an hour of questioning, police once again let lars go. six days later, he said his final goodbye to debbie, her parents by his side. how was lars at the funeral? very composed, very reserved. uh, he stood up with me. what did that say, that the family was supporting him? it said a lot. it was great. reporter: debbie s friends weren t nearly as supportive. did you say anything to him? did he say anything to you? no. no, i didn t. i did not. reporter: they were furious at lars for doing something so stupid, so careless. everything he did bothered them. even his taste in flower arrangements that day. like the one that s pictured here. there was a wreath up at the front that was a huge flower heart, and in the middle of it, it was broken with these lines. so it was this broken heart. and it actually looked like a heartbeat, and