committed suicide. did you believe that could be true? absolutely not. it was a long plane ride home do you remember what your mind was doing to you? how can this happen? why would somebody do it? those questions because none of them believed that ryan was capable of suicide. and sure enough, the autopsy revealed the bridge and s and contusions on the doctor s head. the swollen right i. clearly, there had been a struggle and he had been struck by three gunshots. two in the lower right forearm. and then a fatal shot to the chest. the conclusion? obvious. it was not suicide. it was homicide. how is it possible at first they thought it was a suicide? i can t answer that. i think you have to understand that, that county had not had a homicide and i think 19 years. it was monday when state department of criminal
clean this house. the one that brian had recently started seeing. i was almost annoyed that she even came. and she was standing in our home, and i really thought. why are you here? i was pretty irritated. and those feelings were not lost on that young lady in the middle of her own grief and confusion. i felt had a place. because i felt, you know, they did not know who i was. her name was an. she was 21 then. she had known doctor ryan just two months. madam at rusty s bar in geraldine. he was so handsome, i was like what is this guy doing in geraldine? it was surprising to me. they talked all night, she said. and in the morning. how did you feel? i was excited. i felt giddy just excited that somebody would be interested in me but complications and a live in boyfriend. tom. her high school sweetheart. they had been together four and
lack of evidence. because in fact, despite tense after test, not a single physical thing. not dna, or fingerprints, or anything else connected tom to those few square feet where it all happened. except. there was plenty of circumstantial evidence. the phone calls. the stalking. the middle of the night visits to the bunkers in the days and weeks for the murder. but most of all, there was that dog. calamity jane. who was once enough of tom s baseball cap, led them from the bunk house to a bush where they found some footprints. the theory being that tom waded to confront dr. ryan at the door. so calamity jane did her sniffing, a full ten days after the body was found. what did attorney peterson think of that? to me it was not evidence. i made a motion before the
get into call for help. that he sat there. i think the perpetrator stood there and watched brian die. and as for the location of the gun so close to doctor ryan s own hand? the killer must of blood there? correct. were there any fingerprints on the gun? no. it looked like it had been wiped off with a solvent. so investigators now thought they knew how the murder occurred but when it happened? that wasn t clear at all. friday night? saturday? it was an important question of course. but just how important, they might not have for at managing just then. but there was no clear answer, in fact the pathologist who conducted the autopsy left a space for a time of death blank. remember, dr. brian returned home from a conference on friday evening. but his body wasn t found until sunday investigators canvas nearby farms and? there was a neighbor that
yeah that was my initial impression. and all the other stuff? the hang-up phone calls. the stalking. the going into her bedroom to read her diary? not great behavior? no. it was wrong of me to do that. i wanted to see her thoughts, what she wanted to say about me. what you want to me to say about brian. some trouble? yes there s no manual on how to get over a relationship. and for me it took a while. but he swore to us, here, as he did when he stop to the investigators really back then. that he had nothing to do with the murder of dr. ryan even though it looked pretty bad for him. they told me right away that this happened on a friday night. and, i was home alone on a friday night. i had no alibi. and, sorry, i was kind of stuck. although remember, the medical examiner was unable to settle on the time of death. so despite what the deposit tactics told tom.