feelings towards his former boss. said he and tom were still friends. in fact, he told the investigator it was tom s partner who fired him, not tom, and tom was even trying to help beard find another job. are you getting any bad feeling from him? are you suspicious of him? not at all. so you re thinking this is going to be somebody we re going to cross off the list? yes, i didn t expect to see him again. to the investigator and those close to kelley, michael beard didn t seem like a good suspect at all. did you think it is possible, he was a disgruntled employee, he was taking revenge? i didn t. because if you re disgruntled, why wouldn t you kill the person that you re disgruntled against. i mean, i m angry at you so i m going to go kill your wife? as a matter of procedure, the investigator asked beard for a dna swab and permission to look through his cellphone. he was very forthcoming, very willing, no problems, just very cooperative. le the state inves was checking