days beauty and the beast until that strange terrible day. he found her at home with bruises across our throat. dead, a tragic freak accident, or was it? the weight machine she doesn t lift weights. a home gym mysteriously turned death trap, a husband mysteriously turned suspect. hello and welcome to dateline. it s the case of a fit young woman who died suddenly. her friends and family were told it was a freak accident in a gym the kind of thing that could happen to anyone. equipment does at times malfunction. but so do relationships. here is dennis murphy with the beauty mystery. claude the images are fuzzy homebody of the wedding reception. but anyone who was there remembers the event vividly. the bride own way and the groom he s the dance partner in the group goofy beast costume. kind of a strange way to begin marriage some guest murmured. but then, it was a union that would end strangely. last dance still more than ten years away that point lisa the br
wife and killed her was correct the question for the jury was why do it? the prosecutor said money wasn t a small thing for scott there s some nice trucks in that business and he was concerned he would at the split that up with lisa. then there was the business about being dropped from these insurance policy. his share, a quarter of 1 million dollar windfall. but investigators had excavated another rich mine of clues. that had to do with the other woman that scott had admitted to having an affair with. the jury heard scott claim it was all over by the time of lisa s death. to silver relationship with a female? but the prosecutor responded that it wasn t not my long shot. in the real headline grabber was that the other woman was a prominent person in the community. the former chief of staff to the mayor of a woman named stacey henderson, the wife of a local police officer. in exchange for immunity
medical examiner didn t find anything to explain a sudden death. nothing like a stroke or heart attack. lisa had been in good health. very healthy person she worked out. but the autopsy did provide a quite unexpected finding. something that made investigators very troubled. lisa had died not from a setting closing wrote to the neck but rather from a slow neck compression. as if the barbell had crossed your throat slowly and compare supply. it was a convincing thunk on the bench. you would ve seen that in the autopsy. i would ve expected it would ve been crushed, fractures, crushed bones. did not find? that no. what had happened to lisa patterson that morning? we know that her neck wasn t crushed, her spine wasn t fractured, she did have an aneurysm, a stroke, heart attack, we didn t know what we