principal and, you know, for anyone to believe that i would do this, i understand that investigators don t know the relationship between my husband and myself, but they are investigators. they should have research and known this. i m glad to go through some of the evidence in this case. her trial began on december 9th, 2019. current county prosecutors told the jury that the elementary school principal had not only killed her husband, she enrolled herself in murder one-on-one. leslie janai chance, through her actions, prepared an involved and detailed lesson plan on how to kill her husband, how to murder him. how to murder taught chance. in fact, on august 25th, 2013, that is exactly what she did. the prosecutors believe there were multiple motives. jealousy. you are going to hear, ladies and gentlemen, that those photos were sent to the
yellow, round lid visible through the white plastic bag that she is carrying. reporter: detective brewer believes that was a canister of disinfectant wife s. if you are leaving a crime scene, i know what you did with those, you re wiping the crime scene behind you. reporter: coming up i was not the kind of wife that went through my husband s phone. i was never looking for anything like that. i was scared for my relationship. reporter: todd s mystery woman revealed he really fell for her, i think, hotter than i thought he did. reporter: and that woman on camera, what is she up to now? whoever it is, has had this murder planned and very well planned. reporter: when dateline continues. continues. up to 50% of people with graves could develop a different condition called thyroid eye disease,
could not rule anything out. i can t rule that out because, maybe he s got another destination he said to that s not his father s. that he is not sharing with his wife? yes. reporter: if todd was hiding something from his wife, what was it? soon enough, taught cell phone, which police found not too far from his body in the almond grove, revealed a clue. what do you find in his phone? we find a lot of general text messages between him and his wife, and him and his children. there are normal vacation pictures, and pictures are the daughters, and near the end of the cameras, we find some very odd pictures. what were they? they appeared to be private pictures sent to a nude and partially nude female. were they s wife? they were not his wife. what does that tell you right there? things weren t so perfect in the chance household? yes. do you immediately suspect that todd is having an affair? i think it s possible at this point.
come in. yes, actually, they asked me to come into pick the car up. they say, that they are releasing the car, so i called my father and law and say, it s a stick, i don t drive it. i never drive his car. i didn t want to drive his car either. she called me and said, they re going to release todd s car, would you go with me to pick it up. take a tear house, i don t want to see it again. so i bring it over to the house, diane stayed there, and i went with her. reporter: janai and travis drove together. we walked in, and they put us in this little concrete room. we ll be with you in a few minutes, okay? i look around and go, oh, man, this looks like an interrogation room, not a waiting room. reporter: though travis and janai both sensed that something was off, they did not have much choice, so they waited. this doesn t seem like we re picking up a car. reporter: if the police did
but who was it? and where was their suspect going? reporter: investigators his widow jenea thought she might know the answer. believe that the prime suspect in todd chance s murder was caught on video his widow tonight that she might know the answer. at this point, i am thinking, oh, my gosh, she did. it reporter: she, meaning god s ex, carrie. to janai, it was the only person she could think of that might have a grudge against him. pods parents knew that there have been issues in the past. there s been an ugly breakup. things did not turn out so well for todd and carrie. i don t want to think about the. they parted ways, we don t know exactly what the circumstances were. we would ask todd, and he did not want to talk about it. reporter: but detectives needed to know. did you think that maybe this other woman that you found on todd s phone might have had something to do with the murder? absolutely, we don t rule