investigators concluded that there were pieces of the puzzle that didn t add up. their suspicion centered not on a stranger but on dar s husband, former local hero tom foley. the funeral was held on the 13th, friday the 13th. those unlucky enough to share their grief over the woman they loved and lost poured into union city high school auditorium. no church was big enough to accommodate the more than 500 people who came to honor and remember dar. she was so full of life. she had a lot more to give. we can t bring her back. reporter: your wife has been killed. you have a 10-year-old son. what did you tell him? i told him that someone had hurt mommy.
killed his mother. and i couldn t imagine having to go back and live with the man who killed your mother. yeah, get it! tom has regained custody of heath, and said he treads very carefully when discussing that tragic day with his boy. from him, i at least want to know, why do you think i did this? i deserved that answer. all he could say is, i don t know who else it could have been. tom says he will never forget dar. i still think she s beside me. i m going to continue to raise our son the way that we wanted him to be raised. you harbor any grudge because of this? all i can say is they made a mistake. that s all i m asking, that they search and search and search until they find dee dee s killer. according to prosecutor norris at the time, there would
and he goes, is she in heaven? and i said yes. it seemed that no one in coldwater could comprehend what had happened, including steve and joanie pierce, close friends of both tom and dar who learned of the murder from tom himself. i said, the three of you were always together, and he was crying, and he said, i know, i know. i should have been there for her. and then i said, if you would have been, the three of you would be dead now instead of just dar. but just 24 hours into the investigation, detective jim carbon had almost abandoned the theory that this was a random act of violence. it appeared to me that this was a staged break and intering to hide a homicide that took place. but according to detective carbon, whoever staged the burglary didn t factor in the weather that day. it got really warm.
and i said yes. it seemed that no one in coldwater could comprehend what had happened, including steve and joanie pierce, close friends of both tom and dar who learned of the murder from tom himself. i said, the three of you were always together, and he was crying, and he said, i know, i know. i should have been there for her. and then i said, if you would have been, the three of you would be dead now instead of just dar. but just 24 hours into the investigation, detective jim carbon had almost abandoned the theory that this was a random act of violence. it appeared to me that this was a staged break and intering to hide a homicide that took place. but according to detective carbon, whoever staged the burglary didn t factor in the weather that day. it got really warm. we had a huge snow meltoff. the ground around the
i told him that someone had hurt mommy. and he goes, is she in heaven? i said yes. it seemed that no one in cold water could comprehend what had happened, including steve and joni pierce, close friends of tom and dar that learned of the murder from tom himself. i said the three of you were always together and he was crying and he said i know, i know, i should have been there for her. and then i said, if you would have been, the three of you would be dead now instead of just dar. just 24 hours into the investigation, detective jim carbon had almost abandoned the theory this was a random act of violence. it appeared to me this was a staged break and entering to try to hide a homicide that took place. but according to detective carbon, whoever staged the burglary didn t factor in the weather that day.