trouble with gil, and over several more talks with police she began revealing details that suggested their love triangle was far from tension free. in fact, linda said gil made it clear he was making long-term plans for them. in fact, he bought her a ring. we were having dinner and he proposed. and i was like, i can t. how did he take that? i know. i know. we have a lot to get through. i said yeah you re a little premature with that. it looked to investigators that gil was growing impatient. remember the anonymous texts to tom, the one telling him about gil and linda s affair. she said they came from gil and when she found out she confronted him. i just screamed at him. very devious. very. according to linda, gil cried, said he only did it because tom should know the truth. said he begged for forgiveness and threatened to harm himself. tom felt bad he felt suicidal. tom was that kind of guy. i know this is a really crazy situation we re in, but i m not going to let hi
tom s parents still weren t speaking to linda and tom s daughter, jillian, had limited contact with her while in town for the trial. i just knew i had to be there for as much of it as i could be. i needed that closure and i wanted to hear everything that i wasn t being told for all those years. gil s supporters were also there his new wife, employees and several loyal patients. zach sklar was one of them. why did you feel the need to be there? we live in a society where you re innocent until proven guilty. i saw nothing that would lead me to believe that this could possibly be true. and so i went there to support him, to show him particularly because he is dominican in a very white area, that there are people who will support him. but the prosecution s case would be difficult for gil s friends to hear. the state s theory, gil killed tom because he wanted linda all to himself. the special prosecutor summed it up on day one. ladies and gentlemen, obsession.
but tough times were still ahead for linda. at trial, prosecutors were about to reveal new details about her affair. coming up another stunning secret. he pulled out an i.d. that said the cia on top of it. it had gil s picture on it. undercover agent? when dateline continues.
kids away for the weekend. i think it was really that weekend that i realized that i just want i just wanna be with my husband. [light laughter] he s my best friend. i love him. i don t want i don t wanna do this anymore. i ve been stupid and foolish and ridiculous and it s i don t wanna do it anymore. you chose tom? i chose tom. a couple of weeks later, it was thanksgiving. still on friendly terms, gil shared the holiday with tom, linda and their family. monday, linda met with gil alone, but decided to postpone telling him their affair was over. what was that discussion like with gilberto? what did you tell him? the holidays are here. we have all these kids. like, we can t you know? after the holidays.
into their lives tom would be alive. in court, prosecutors portrayed gil, not just as a man desperately in love, but also as someone capable of outrageous lies. along with those anonymous text messages gil sent to tom about the affair, jurors also learned he sent texts to linda, posing as a woman named samantha. linda received some disturbing anonymous text messages from a person samantha telling her that tom and she, samantha, were having sex wild sex. and that wasn t the only fiction gil created. linda testified gil even told her he was in the c-i-a. he had an i.d. card and he said that he sometimes would put trackers in people s mouths? mouths. did you believe him yeah. i i didn t think that much of it, honestly.