poisoning. cleaned out the bank account. are you trying to accuse me of something? have a brother determined to find a killer. how dare anybody do that to my little brother? it wasn t supposed to happen like this. a toxic mystery and an emotional trial. is the jury being out long a bad thing or a good thing? it was a mystery from day one. from that time, right around the end of the hockey season. it made sense of what was happening to matthew podolak, met the hockey amateur, met the hunter, the fish are, the athlete. it would make sense from the very first day that matthew podolak woke up with the pain in his back. and after what happened in the hospital a couple of months later, nothing made sense after that. [noise] the, god knows there were accusations. well yes, plenty of those. and a brother, mark, from whom the stories, the mystery became a kind of obsession. it s had quite an effect on me over the past seven years. the story of what happened to matt
eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [bleep]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, ashley fallis was in the mood to
or done there was fire in their eyes. the river that lands through all of this is with money. very much so. now it s time to find out the truth. i just kind of froze and i said, is that what i think it is? she looked at me and said. you know you can t ever leave now. right? hello and welcome to dateline! colorado ran shirt jake loved tending the land, riding his harley, and hanging out with a type group of guys. then suddenly he stopped answering calls and texts. his friends feared the worst. but years would pass before a series of clues excused a truth far darker than even they imagined. here is josh mann koen s with trouble at the 7:11 ranch! home on the range. sometimes here in western colorado it is so quiet that all you can hear is the wind. beautiful pain meadows that wave in the breeze, it s a lovely part of the valley. it is beautiful, no doubt. at the same time, that lovely lonely valley can be unforgiving place to live. it can drive some people
who had bad blood. somebody put behind bars. had it out for him. several doors were padlocked. it seemed like it was forever, but maybe a ten second silence in the courtroom. he was an fbi agent? he dealt with many criminals. he could take care of himself? at least he thought so. hello, and welcome to dateline. when special agent scott retired from the fbi, he had seemed like he had left the crime and violence behind him. then he was beaten to death outside of his own home. it was a puzzling mentally waiting for police to wonder had someone from the past resurfaced for revenge or was the killer much closer to home. here is josh mankiewicz with the house! a young man walks towards his house in the middle of the evening. he is wearing a gopro camera and to do that. now if it sounds strange for someone to start recording a video of their own actions, we ll stay tuned. this is actually one of the less weird things that you will hear about. what happens next
murdered. as the years went by, the case grew cold, until a reporter he did it up again. stayed up all night reading that file, and it was astonishing. it turns out there was a lot less to this marriage then met the eye. he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. but not every cheating part hides a killer. you could hear members of the jury gasp. hello and welcome to dateline, when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved, the victim and new mother had been forgotten by almost everyone, except a complete stranger determined to find justice. in the lore of the lone star state, texas lawmen rank pretty high, the good guys in the white hats. their badge brought prestige, their gun fights in the history books. but in the modern-day town of denton, texas, the little the outside the big the dallas deserved one texas law man with