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
with me. okay. i grabbed my shotgun. reporter: as emts took over, trying to save debbie, lars went with police down to the station. they urgently needed more details. reporter: where were the intruders? were they armed? what did lars know? what exactly did he do? sitting in the interview room, wrapped in cody s dog blanket, lars took them through what happened, step-by-step. he said he was awakened around 4:00 a.m. by strange noises in the house. i hear the front door or the door squeaking, and i hear the grumbling, and i hear the dog growling. reporter: he said he d never heard cody growl before, so he was instantly on alert. did you think they were male voices or female voices or i believe they were male. lars says he moved towards the sound that he heard, with his shotgun in hand. he reached this tiny hallway where he says he saw a silhouette standing in front of him about three feet away. he says he made a split second