believe. here is keith morrison with the conclusion of poison. it was the winter of the 2003, more than a year after larry was poisoned with horse tranquilizer. his admitted killer, his wife. chose her own destiny, and her alleged accomplice, sarah dutra alone faced the possibility of spending the rest of her life behind bars. you attended the trial everyday? yes, 11 1/ 2 weeks. why? why? our d.a. had talked to us about the importance of our family being represented, that my dad not being forgotten. she believed her father died at the hands of both elisa and sarah. but though sarah admitted to being there when larry died in the and days and months that followed she adamantly claimed she never went to the police because she was so afraid of elisa and of ending up just like larry. and theory that even the
own house. reporter: turned out she was also stealing from the law firm. she had ripped him off. reporter: for how much? any idea? over $100,000. reporter: larry told fred all about his troubles with elisa. and, yet, he kept her around. not like he hadn t divorced women before, but not this one. dave yanch davea didn t get tichlt he always said she has this hold over me and i never understood what that meant. reporter: larry s comments to fred about not knowing his wife? his suspicions tuned out to be true. a little research told detectives the real woman behind the name of elisa mcnabney had credit card fraud, grand theft including tcharges. she had a way of using her
as a black widow. she wanted him dead and sarah was her innocent and terrible pawn. horrible. i didn t mean to do it. not because i wanted to. not because i wanted to. really? now prosecutor testa introduced ginger miller, remember her, the other secretary who work aid long side sarah and elisa. she said in the days and weeks after larry vanished elisa and sarah seemed to feel anything but remorse. they re laughing together. they re shopping together. they re eating together. they re sleeping in the same bed together. she s living at her house. so they were not really working, were they? they were. they would get maybe two hours of work done during the day. what did they do the rest of the time? party? shop, hang out, sleep late, go flirt with boys. all the while spending the firm s money, larry s money, a lot of money. elisa got a red jaguar.
reporter: sarah dutra broke down and told detectives her side of the story. and in this version, it was elisa, not sarah, who was the cold-blooded killer. it was elisa, she said, who dosed larry was horse tranquilizer and elisa ordered her to bury in yosemite even before he was dead. elisa who was early calm when larry did final expire.
friend fred atchison. she was controlling him to the extent that she was keeping him away from his family and his former friends. reporter: did that include the relationship he had with you? no question about it. reporter: found yourself shut out? yes. reporter: so did larry s daughter davea. elisa completely cut me out of the picture and i was devastated. reporter: why was elisa keeping larry away from his family and friend? what did chef to hide? he called me up once on the phone and said, fred, i don t know who she is. i thought he meant well, we don t really know who our spouses are deep down. ed, no. i don t know if this is who she is is if her name is what she says it is or anything. reporter: by then, said fred, larry had discovered ample reason to stop trusting elisa. he couldn t keep his wallet in his pants. reporter: he told thaw? yeah. she would steal money out of his wallet. he had to hide his wallet in his