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is the reason that your son is 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.
ladies and gentlemen, obsession. it was an obsession furthered by manipulation and deception. reporter: to show jurors just how obsessed they believed gil had become, prosecutors read emails he wrote to linda. i am not leaving you. not today, not tomorrow, not ever. i am not going to let you just walk away from me. never. reporter: linda took the stand and testified about how the affair began and lasted until right before tom s death. tom s parents couldn t believe the details they were hearing. we just assumed that it was a one-time episode between them. we didn t realize that it was ongoing for 11 months. we heard that in the courtroom. wow. that s amazing that you didn t know that. when you look back, you know, that first kiss, if she would ve slapped him in the face or kicked him in the nuts, it it wouldn t happen. you believe that this affair
i didn t send text messages to them to try to break them up. reporter: for nearly seven hours, investigators tried to rattle gil. [ bleep ] you. you re so full of [ bleep ]. telling me you didn t drive the car down the road. right there we stop. right there we stop. right there we stop, because your car was on the road, and you were driving it. everything else you said back there is bull [ bleep ]. reporter: through it all, gil stayed calm. and never asked for an attorney. i have nothing to hide. i have nothing with anything that is in my office or anything like that. i have nothing to do with whatever was in tom s system. i had nothing to do with any of that. reporter: did you give him a polygraph, as well? we offered. reporter: did he take it? no. the next day after that interview, we were contacted by a lawyer stating that there d be no further contact with his client. reporter: meanwhile, linda was reeling from all that police had told her. from the images of th
yeah. and i loved them both. we d say, well, you know, we don t have to decide tomorrow. we have to just take some time and figure this out, you know? reporter: linda says tom didn t pressure her to end the affair. to the contrary, he gave her the time and freedom to continue seeing gil and sort out her feelings. you re just living in almost two different lives. yeah. but they ve intersected. i had a real life and then i had fantasy life, basically. reporter: but everyone in the triangle knew it couldn t last. linda had to make a choice, gil or tom. and a few weeks before tom s death, she did. coming up. her husband or her lover? he threw me on the bed. who would linda choose? had she and gil been telling