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
there s no possible way he could do this on purpose. and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. she was crying and crying. i said, what s wrong? and she says, that he s dead. we all wanted to believe that it was an accident. a dark house, a husband with 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 a grumbling. and i hear the dog rolling. how could you not tell that s your wife? it was dark. i did he just kept seeing it was an accident and he didn t do anything wrong. others disagreed. we never for a second believed that he didn t know who that was that he was threatening. was it a tragic mistake? he was broken. or cold-blooded murder? he has fits of emotion, they re only down in front of the detective. a room too dark to see. turn the light off. or a story too hard to believe?
bed. i got to the door. i seen a flash of light coming from the front of the house. reporter: and lars added various new details to his story. i seen people right here so i told her to wait here. i seen people running. i heard the dog growling. reporter: in his interview down at the station, lars revised his story again. that s when he said he woke to the front door squeaking, and offered, for the first time, this description of how he realized he d shot debbie. i heard this groaning and i knew it was my wife. reporter: during those interviews, lars appeared heartbroken, at times falling apart. he was described as pacing in the blanket. he was mumbling, he was moaning. at various times, yes. is that not what a husband should do after something like that?
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.
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