can you just picture it? you re there with your significant other, she s behind you texting her lover? they weren t repairing things. reporter: so gil had no reason to kill tom, the defense said because he didn t think the affair was over. reporter: reporter, james nani. linda admitted on the stand that up to the night before mr. kolman died that they had still seen each other, they had still spoken via text. i think that weakens the prosecution s narrative that there is an obsessive person that ll do anything to get this person, to get linda to go back into his arms. the defense was trying to say that you re telling tom one thing, you know, that you wanna patch things up, you re telling gilberto another, stringing him along. yeah. it was was there any truth in that, or did you feel that was unfair? no. there was some truth to it cause, you know, i i was stringin him along. we were playin his game so that
no longer with us well, yes, if he didn t come into their lives tom would be alive. reporter: 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. reporter: 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 okay. yeah.
crying that this had happened and she didn t use the word, responsible, but i know that s what she felt. reporter: tom s daughter jillian, who d been close with her step-mom, was now furious. why would you do this, how could you be so irresponsible, just mad really and confused and trying to process, it took a long time to process. i stopped talking to linda at that point. reporter: linda s sister was also finding out about the the affair for the first time. she was just very sad and very upset. and i think embarrassed or ashamed for having been in a relationship other than her marriage. reporter: what did you tell her as the protective older sister? it s not your fault. she s blamed herself from that moment on. you didn t choose this. people have affairs. millions of people every day.
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. reporter: 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 w 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. reporter: 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
professional, figured out that tom s sleep apnea combined with the sedative could be a fatal combination. walk through your theory of what happened the morning of tom s death. the night before, i believe, gil and and tom had texted about meeting that morning. i think, at that point in time, gil wanted to meet up with tom because of the fact that he knew that he wasn t gettin linda. gil got out of his vehicle and entered tom s vehicle. at that point, maybe he brought him a coffee. i mean, it s early in the morning. here hey, bro. i brought you a coffee. we gotta talk. and a short time later, gil was driving away and tom was dead. reporter: but prosecutors faced a couple of obstacles. for one, the judge wouldn t let them use parts of gil s interview with the police because he had not been read his rights, so jurors never saw how gil initially denied to police he d ever heard of midazolam. so you don t keep midazolam in your office? what? midazolam? midazolam?