it was a case tailor-made with the tabloids. we had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. he is out with other women. a failing marriage with millions at stake. he didn t have any money of his own. this is getting ugly. yes. she said she were broken, and she cried. was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace? we believed it was a staged accident. he was adamant about his innocence. the case bought me for a long time. he said to me you have to help me kill my parents. and i can t even think about the magnitude of it all. hello and welcome to dateline. shelley and roderick covlin met and married in a matter of months. soon they had two young children in manhattan. and an estate worth millions. then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. first responders thought it was an accident. but troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. here s andrea with en
It was a case tailormade with the tabloids. We had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. He is out with other women. A failing marriage with millions at stake. He didnt have any money of his own. This is getting ugly. Yes. She said she were broken, and she cried. Was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace . We believed it was a staged accident. He was adamant about his innocence. The case bought me for a long time. He said to me you have to help me kill my parents. And i cant even think about the magnitude of it all. Hello and welcome to dateline. Shelley and Roderick Covlin met and married in a matter of months. Soon they had two Young Children in manhattan. And an estate worth millions. Then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. First responders thought it was an accident. But troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. Heres andrea with endgame. If you had to pick one place that screams
for the tabloids. you have this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy. greed, infidelity. he s sleeping around with other women. a failing marriage with millions at stake. he didn t have anybody of his own. this is getting ugly. yes. she said we re broken, and she cried. was it a fall on the top or a husband s fall from grace? we believe it was a staged accident. he was adamant about his innocence. the case bothered me for a long time. he said to me, you have to help me kill my parents. you can t even think of the magnitude of it all. hello and welcome to dateline. shelly and rod coveland met and married in a matter of months. soon they had two young children, a nest egg worth millions. and then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear two families apart. here is endgame. normally full of lights with people rushing somewhere or nowhere. take a short walk uptown maybe, 25 minutes on foot. i started
in each year, and something can set him off and in seconds, he will literally explode. shele also complained about rod s growing obsession with back backgammon. it became a passion and then an obsession. for him. did he ever say why? i think he had forged relationships in the backgammon community, that he really liked. even rod s parents felt their son was spending too much time on the game. i told him that he was being a little ridiculous with the backgammon. going to backgammon too much. i said, you ve got a family. the colvin said they saw sheen changes in shele, to. once they thought were equally damaging to the marriage. she started going to the fire scrub. from once a week, it became much more frequent than that. the couple seemed to be living separate lives. in what happened to be a
there was not, gottlieb said. zero evidence that there have been foul play. no signs of a struggle. he said rod couldn t have slipped into shelley s apartment and killed her, like the prosecution argued, because there was no evidence he even had a key. remember, rod said little anna had brought him in that morning. there s been no evidence that mr. calvin was ever in the apartment on december 30 or december 31, before 7 am. no evidence either, gottlieb said, about one had cost shelley s injuries. he suggested one explanation, the exclamation. they used backhoes to zoom. they used shovels to get to the coffin. aaron said there was nothing she heard in court that convinced her shele s death was anything but a tragic accident. if you see those photos, doesn t it look like she just slipped and fell? it looks like someone did