long running mystery. who killed the veterinarian? i think the perpetrator stood there and watch him die. there were so many different leads and murmurs. i felt like it wasn t for me. jealousy? rage? revenge? it was a question of who done it. could anyone solve it? look at what it s done to our family. it was hard. i wanted justice for my brother. there was a broad swath of prairie. where the cattle outnumbered the people. and the sad summer breeze sang around the modest dwelling in the grass. this is marlene they called it the bunk house. though it was really just a single wide trailer. my husband just went down. richard. to see if he wanted to go to pasture. an honest little place out on the montana prairie. along the edges. do you know where he shot himself? okay. is he still alive? there s blood everywhere. i place a young vet could achieve while he built his business. we ll, if you can have somebody go check and see if he s s
seven in the morning until they didn t see a all saturday night, is that right? correct. and sunday, you come out to ryan s trailer right so that is the first time anybody sees you from saturday morning until sunday morning? correct. larry tonight any role in the shooting, and remember, detectives did not charge him with anything. but, the defense had made its point. it comes back to, the media discussion that mr. wright died on friday night, and so, larry was around some people friday night, but all day saturday and saturday night and sunday morning, he wasn t around anyone. then, finally, as if to twist the knife, the defense brought up one more thing, the thing that so upset dr. bryan s sister s. the fact that in the underwear he was wearing at the time of his death, there was a dna that was unidentified. so my question would be, as
that, you know, brian is a big reason that he dumped me. he was aggressively pursuing her for her to change her mind. to end that relationship with brian and come back and start over. it was just a continual spiral. the things that he was doing. the more obsessed he got with her. it was, by his own admission, purse pathetic. like when he drove an atv and head over in her farmhouse. just hoping for a glimpse of her. and was then chased off by her brothers. i just apologize to them and said i m so stupid. i can t believe i did this. and i told them you know, there is more to life. i don t deserve to live. and he said don t say that but tom had an alibi and a pretty solid one. for most of the weekend when doctor ryan was murdered except for friday night. and yes, he did admit that he
[inaudible] putting in the prairie. the young woman who had fallen was a happily married mother of three. the young man had growing sons of his own. but two decades were a mere whisper of time to the law and the historic county courthouse. where, in september of 2015, six years after the case was reopened. 19 years after the murder, tom sister and the rest of the family assembled on one side of the courtroom. it was hard seeing people that you thought were your friends, sitting on the other side of the courtroom. that would be a number of local people. along with doctor ryan s family. whose attitude, must be said, was unlike that of many victims families. i remember having a huge sinking feeling in my heart
phoned doctrine that night. so my intentions were to call him, and just tell them that, you know i didn t have any grudges against him. and i wasn t gonna interfere with him and aunts relationship. because you know, she s a really special person. he answered the phone and i just couldn t do it. i chickened out. and when was that? this was last friday. about quarter to ten. investigators have been thinking that though the medical example couldn t tell them, friday night was possibly when doctor ryan was murdered and after they heard tom story, how he didn t have an alibi for that friday night? that seemed to them to clinch it you called him up at 10:00. on friday night to say, i don t hold any grudges against you? that s right. within hours the guys dead? and then tom dug a deeper hole for himself. remember, it appeared that dr. ryan scuffled with somebody before he was shot dead well guess who told the agents that he hurt his back that very friday night, falling out o