before the murder, laura and p.j. are at a different walmart buying a large tarp, bungee cord and more drink cleaner. the tarp and the bunches matched up to the ones found on cracks body. and the day of the murder, here s colin buying a shovel, a shovel identical to the one left on the side of the road for craig s body was found. a diabolical plans for? here it appears that way. over a number of days? yes. there was laura on tape looking completely relaxed, a wife, a mother and now investigators believed, a killer. craig sister saw a woman who had somehow turn two sons against their own father. honest to god i don t know how that happened. what was said that could ve turned the kids against him? this is the ultimate story of betrayal? yes. what do you believe happened that night? my belief is that the two
what to think because his personality wouldn t be the one to then the investigator asked the kids some questions. first, the six-year-old daughter. we ll see there when you woke? up no. that s when he will come and dad wasn t there. the last time you saw your dad was when, honey? a, yesterday. he was playing video games on the computer. he went to the bathroom and then he went downstairs. and then that night he was downstairs and then he disappeared in the morning. the 12 year old son told the same story. when was the last time you saw him? 11:30 last night, when he was going to bed. and then what happened this morning? he wasn t there. so, i was just guessing he went to work. no one could find craig. laura texted pj the tucci she said craig s not here. i said that s weird. colin called chelsea. were you concerned just for him? yeah, i was concerned. you know? nobody wants to hear somebody
but we also know him, we know the man he is. investigator bolton did not know the rideout kids but he knew there how to be more to the story than two nice boys deciding to kill their dad. his investigation turned to their mom, laura right out, the woman who had been married to craig for more than 20 years and who had raised those sons. robin had been telling investigators about the divorce, and it wasn t pretty. there is a contentious separation and custody battle going on, where they re not really supposed to see each other even a drop off. at the same time, laura and her new significant other, craig s former best friend, the pj were preparing for a big change. their intention was to move as a family down to north carolina, and that move was supposed to happen within a couple of days. but craig had primary custody of the two youngest and wouldn t let laura take them out of state. so then how is laura rideout
front door that evening. was interest for a trip to the county jail, but that s where she was going. so i told her to get shoes, and laura loves to wear heels, and they said where a different kind of shoe. so she throws up on some nike shoes, and i watched them arrest her. and our kids are there. our kids are sitting there watching their mother get arrested. did you say anything? she said would for, the arresting officer said, you ve had to have been expecting this. and she said no what? she said if i were expecting this, i would have makeup on. boyfriend p.j. said he thought there should ve been some sort of misunderstanding, a terrible mistake. had laura said, i just wish crack was out of our lives? no, she wanted craig to have a relationship with the kids, she didn t have animosity towards craig. but when deputies searched
it had to do with his first wife jennifer who died from liver disease. he thought it was a suspicious coincidence that her death coincided with his new relationship with laura. we spoke with the district attorney s office because we said that this needs to be investigated. you learned that it would be possible to poison someone and it could look like sources of deliver? from talking with different people, that is a potential. did you think about that, maybe paul tucci poison his wife? without a doubt. both the sheriff and the district attorney wanted to exhume her body. but the medical examiner was satisfied with the original autopsy. the medical examiner wrote on the death certificate what happened, stop bringing her into this, she had nothing to do with it. the questions about jennifer tucci s death went nowhere. the prosecutor didn t pursue it. then, as the summer of 2017 approached, the craig rideout