and i m afraid he might use it. reporter: a story of sand, sunsets in fatal attraction. she had so much to give. she would make everyone feel special. reporter: successful at everything except love. then, she found him. she fed said she felt so good in his arms. reporter: he was handsome and crazy about her. there was talk of marriage. and then suddenly there was talk of trouble. she was frightened enough not to go home. she had fear that something would happen to her. reporter: it did. my sister s not answering her phone. reporter: how did love go so wrong? in a surprising twist, it would take not one, but two trials to discover the truth. he wasn t convicted of killing my sister anymore, all of a sudden. hello, and welcome to dateline. who who was a savvy entrepreneur. cut tom toolan his teeth in the financial world. they are connection was instant. but when they re somewhere love cooled, tempers flared and the relationship to the tragic turned. init
good in his arms. reporter: he was handsome and crazy about her. there was talk of marriage. and then suddenly there was talk of trouble. she was frightened enough not to go home. she had fear that something would happen to her. reporter: it did. my sister s not answering her phone. reporter: how did love go so wrong? in a surprising twist, it would take not one, but two trials to discover the truth. he wasn t convicted of killing my sister anymore, all of a sudden. hello, and welcome to dateline. who who was a savvy entrepreneur. cut tom toolan his teeth in the financial world. they are connection was instant. but when they re somewhere love cooled, tempers flared and the relationship to the tragic turned. initially, it seemed like an open and shut case. but there was a surprise in store. here s what with murder on nantucket island. nantucket island, a gorgeous place off the coast of cape cod. a simple inelegant place in a way this is serious money. the b
and then, she noticed the shades in beth s bedroom window had been drawn. i had a bad feeling, i had a bad feeling. she called peter again and this time she reached him. i told him that there was someone in the yard, and i think that it is beth s boyfriend and he just said to me, barbara, lock your door, don t go out, i m calling the police. 9-1-1. he s at her house now, she won t answer her cell phone. it was then that sergeant daniel with a nantucket police arrived at the cottage and with his partner made the discovery. beth lochtefeld s body on the living room floor. it was just weeks after she thought she had found the love of her life and dreamed of a new beginning. for the lochtefeld family, life would never be the same. what did you lose on that day? i would have to say i lost my best friend and confident apart from my wife, she was my closest sibling. we always got along very well. leslie got a call that same day. when you heard the news, how
together inside this man s head. the prosecutor s job was to blow that argument away, to argue that tom toolan knew exactly what he s doing when he murdered beth lochtefeld. that he was so enraged by the breakup that he planned and carried out a cold, calculated killing. we re presenting to your timeline as evidence of premeditation prosecutor told the court that on the night before the murder, security guards at new york s laguardia airport stop toolan from boarding a plane to nantucket because he was carrying a ten inch knife. when asked about the knife, toolan offered a series of stories. he said that he had forgotten that it was in their. he had to cut a birthday cake. he was having lunch with his
they wouldn t say that he didn t kill beth lochtefeld but they would argue that he shouldn t go to prison for it. he was, they said, not guilty by reason of insanity. toolan s attorney began by hinting at the tunnel that lurked in him. he had a salon and a tie. his hair slicked back, certainly but the master of the universe act was just that, he declared, an act, because tom toolan was a mess played not only by alcohol abuse but drug addiction to. his drink of choice would be absolute vodka, right out of the bottle, he was on prescriptions legally and