a mother. and now her body lay at the bottom of the basement stairs. it was devastating. reporter: if ever there was a woman who took life in big gulps, it was annamarie cochrane rintala. even as a little girl growing up amidst a big irish-italian family in springfield, mass, she d loved the limelight. pasquale martin is her uncle. the first time i had seen her take the stage and sing mambo italiano, it just knocked me out. reporter: not afraid of the spotlight, huh? nah, she loved it. reporter: she could belt it out to the rafters but was she any good? her friends t.j. donahue and mary petrone are diplomatic. she thought so. she was oh. no, i she could carry a tune. but she thought she was much better than she actually was. it didn t really matter because she it didn t. head the charia
buy for her. can you please go sat at 6a for me. i will get there about 825a with a coffee and a big kiss. mark, at the time, is a married man. he was a married man, two children. i think very clearly there was an emotional affair at a minimum that happened between mark and ann. reporter: investigators didn t think the two had a sexual relationship, but it was clear they had a financial thing going. mark opened his line of credit to ann. no small thing where ann was concerned, because her big passion was shopping. ann s friends t.j. donahue and mary petrone. i do know that ann loves jewelry. she loves nice things. gadgets, right? gadgets, cameras. i mean in high school, she was that same kind of person. so, she loved to spend money. reporter: and sometimes the spending got ahead of her. mark learned that. he co-signed, i think it was three total credit cards with her, one of which had racked up about a $7,000 balance at one point. reporter: and another thing. after
reporter: the two were on intimate texting terms. that last morning, ann texted mark asking him to go to best buy for her. can you please go sat at 6a for me. i will get there about 825a with a coffee. and a big kiss. mark, at the time, is a married man. he was a married man, two children. i think very clearly there was an emotional affair at a minimum that happened between mark and ann. reporter: investigators didn t think the two had a sexual relationship, but it was clear they had a financial thing going. mark opened his line of credit to ann. no small thing where ann was concerned, because her big passion was shopping. ann s friends t.j. donahue and mary petrone. i do know that ann loves jewelry. she loves nice things. gadgets, right? gadgets, cameras. i mean in high school, she was that same kind of person. so, she loved to spend money. reporter: and sometimes the spending got ahead of her. mark learned that. he co-signed, i think it was three total credit card
that s what i heard. reporter: annamarie cochrane rintala and to friends and family was dead. she was only 37. married. a mother. and now her body lie at the bottom of the basement stairs. it was devastating. reporter: if ever there was a woman who took life in big gulps, it was annamarie cochrane rintala. even as a little girl growing up amidst a big irish-italian family in springfield, mass, she d loved the limelight. pasquale martin is her uncle. the first time i had seen her take the stage and sing mambo italiano, it just knocked me out. reporter: not afraid of the spotlight, huh? nah, she loved it. reporter: she could belt it out to the rafters but was she any good? her friends t.j. donahue and mary petrone are diplomatic. she thought so. she was oh. no, i she could carry a tune. but she thought she was much better than she actually was.
reporter: the two were on intimate texting terms. that last morning, ann texted mark asking him to go to best buy for her. can you please go sat at 6a for me. i will get there about 825a with a coffee and a big kiss. mark, at the time, is a married man. he was a married man, two children. i think very clearly there was an emotional affair at a minimum that happened between mark and ann. reporter: investigators didn t think the two had a sexual relationship, but it was clear they had a financial thing going. mark opened his line of credit to ann. no small thing where ann was concerned, because her big passion was shopping. ann s friends t.j. donahue and mary petrone. i do know that ann loves jewelry. she loves nice things. gadgets, right? gadgets, cameras. i mean in high school, she was that same kind of person. so show she loved to spend money. reporter: and sometimes the spending got ahead of her. mark learned that. he co-signed, i think it was