investigation of michael reese, detectives had questions for his wife cindy. things that she told them we re not adding up. beginning with the 9-1-1 call when she said that she could not find her husband. stuff has been dumped around in the house, and i can t find my husband. what was strange to me is, as soon as i walked in the house, i could see the victim lying in the back door. which was standing wide open. it would ve been hard for her to be looking for her husband, and not have seen him laying there. and her description of the possible burglary gone wrong? on closer expectation, the detectives were not so sure. was the burglary theory making some sense? while the first thing that i notice was there was no forced entry to the residents. and as for the construction worker who had access to the house? he had a solid alibi. his alibi was that he was actually in church.
i don t know. i really don t know. there had been a contractor at the house, she said, building the extension. she doubted it was him, but it was a potential lead for detectives to run down. and there was somebody else that detective streak needed to ask cindy about. they heard rumors, gossip, people had seen things. things that might reveal the motive for michael s murder. he was a pastor at sardis baptist. coming up! ugly rumors about cindy. she told me that none of it was true. i believed her. this is a woman that is in charge of the choir at church. it was the kind of gossip that that spreads fast. especially in a small town. we had some complaints that people were having sex in the parking deck. when dateline continues! caused my lung cancer. they put this in me to drain the fluid. every day i prayed that they would remove it. my tip is be careful what you wish for. that chest tube hurt a lot more coming out. then it did going in. (announcer) you can quit. for fr
that 9-1-1 call start recording as soon as the ring starts. and you can see her talking to jeff. cell phones is almost dead. and it is a very calm, my phones about today, right before she s acting hysterical to 9-1-1. so while the phone is ringing to 9-1-1, it is recording? yes. i had no idea! well prosecutors were able to gather a wealth of information from the cell phone records. they could not tell who actually shot michael. they could tell, however, contrary to his alibi. jeff was not 50 miles away. it s not specific enough to say that it was inside of the reece house. but it was specific enough to say that within hundreds of feet. since they had no evidence placing jeff at the house. the best guess? cindy was the shooter. most likely, he was laying in wait. either around the corner. or close on a nearby street. because the takeout dinner had not been touched, they believe the murder happened as soon as michael and cindy came home. michael headed to the back of
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the house to let their dog in. and that s when they think that cindy shot him in the back of the head. and even though they could improve who pulled the trigger. they were not worried. under alabama law, it does not matter. if you are involved and take substantial steps in the process, you are in for the whole deal. it does not matter who pull the trigger. it was now time to get these disgraced lovers behind bars. the detectives arrested them at the same time. outside of cindy s office. they had just come back from lunch together. did you hope at this point that one of them would turn on the other? we were counting on it. absolutely. with a trial on the horizon. two lovers stay tightlipped. but what they remain in lockstep? coming up there is no reason to believe that it s going to end that way. it doesn t sound like anybody is going to squeal. she looked me in the eyes. dead in the eyes and said, my lawyer says i have nothing to worry about. they cannot prove a thi