this is dateline. the first time i saw her, i thought she was beautiful. we just loved being together, we were always together. our kitchen back door was opened and the glass was broken. i need an ambulance now. my wife, oh my god. it was him who found her. i said i don t know how to handle that. i wish i could ve been there to protect her. a wife murdered, and later, a husband under suspicion. he was such a nice guy that you would ve never guess that he would ve done something like that. you think he faked that burglary and killed his wife? yes. he wanted the house, he wanted her money, and if he divorced her, he would lose everything. in court, a stunning verdict. this could not be happening, i did not kill my wife. but more stunning still was what came after, a mysterious witness with a secret. this is a woman who essentially says i saw the murderer. and it wasn t tom folly. would her story be the ultimate twist? hello and welcome to dateline.
we were always together. our kitchen that door was open. glass was broken. i need an ambulance now. my wife. oh my god. it was him who found her. i don t know how to handle that. i wish i could ve been there to protect her. a wife murdered, and later, a husband under suspicion. he was such a nice guy, that you would ve never guess that he would ve done something like that. you think you fake that burglary and killed his wife? yes. he wanted the house, he wanted her money and if he divorced or he would lose everything. in court, a stunning verdict. this could not be happening, i did not kill my wife. but more stunning still, was would came after. a mysterious witness with a secret. this is a woman who essentially says, i saw the murderer. and it wasn t tom fully, when her story be the ultimate twist? hello and welcome to dateline. it is a mystery people thought they had the answer to, the murder of a well-loved teacher and a close knit town with an
to go back and live with the man that killed your mother. yeah, get it! tom regained custody of heath and said he treads very carefully when discussing that tragic day with his boy. from him, i at least want to know why do you think i did this? i deserve that answer. and all he can say is, i don t know who else it could have been. tom says he will never forget dar. i still think she s beside me. i m going to continue to raise our son the way that we wanted him to be raised. do you harbor any grudge because of this? all i can say is they made a mistake. that s all that i m asking. is that they search and search and search until they find dee dee s killer. according to prosecutor norris at the time, there would be no point to that search. you re not investigating anymore? there s no one to investigate. and there s been no new
gone wrong. the first clue: the broken glass coming from the kitchen door window. it appears that a beer bottle was used to break that particular window. according to tom, jewelry and credit cards were missing, the family desk had also been disturbed and financial documents inside were gone. and then there was the medicine cabinet. it looked like someone had gone in and scooped of a shelf off of the medicine cabinet and its contents. maybe they were looking for prescription drugs? potentially. but to detective carbon, the items missing weren t nearly as missing as what was left behind. expensive electronics were untouched, as was dar s purse, found sitting on a hallway chair. it didn t make a lot of sense. neither did the use of a shotgun. it s large, potentially bulky. if you re going into break into something, you have to carry
this is a grassroot who done it. and we thought we had shown that it was in this person who had done it. i was devastated. when this ended, i could ve walked into a wall. but just one day after tom foley s conviction, a woman stepped forward. she had new information that suddenly gave new life to tom s defense. she came forward and said i saw this white car storming out of the driveway, almost hit me. it looked like somebody was either high or running away from something. the woman with certain the driver was coming out of the heath bar farm right around the time dar was murdered. and she was equally certain the driver looked nothing like tom foley. there is the killer right there. she saw him. person leaving our property. and then like a dam breaking, two other witnesses came forward, each having seen a mysterious car of their own, either parked on the foley property or speeding away from it.