it was dusk that monday in montana after the weekend murder of dr. bryan rein when investigators drove out to a farm 11 miles east of geraldine. here agent ken thompson and the local undersheriff intended to confront 23-year-old tom jaraczeski, the young man who d lost in love and didn t take it well. when you arrived, what was his demeanor? oh, i think his demeanor was to be helpful. he was welcoming, very polite. when my mom told me about bryan, one of the first things i thought of, oh, everybody s going to suspect me, the ex-boyfriend, but that is not the case at all. reporter: tom jaraczeski admitted loving ann and being upset when he heard another man, dr. rein, leave a phone message for his live-in girlfriend. so what i did is i called ann right away and i said, oh, you got a call here from bryan, and she didn t say anything. and i said, so what the hell s going on?
stranger to sudden, violent death. history is littered with it. but for the people living the history in july 1996 after the murder of the town veterinarian, bryan rein, it was all very, very hard. mom, for probably the next five years, crawled into a hole and didn t come out. and ann, that young woman in the middle? i was devastated. i just thought, here i d met somebody that treats me nice and treats me like an equal. somebody you felt special when you were with him? yes, and to have that ripped away and not even know nothing may have ever came of it, but i didn t get the chance to find out. but what was worse, ann felt
beat your head over. but tom had an alibi, and a pretty solid one, for most of the weekend when dr. rein was murdered. except for friday night. oh and yes, he did admit, he phoned dr. rein that night. so my intentions were to just call him and just tell him that i didn t have any grudges against him. and that wasn t going to interfere with him and ann s relationship. and i hope you take good care of ann because she s a really special person. he answered the phone and he said hello twice and i just couldn t do it. i chickened out. and so i and when was that? this was this last friday, about quarter to ten. investigators had been thinking it, though the medical examiner couldn t tell them, friday night was possibly when dr. rein was murdered. and after they heard tom s story, how he didn t have an alibi for friday night, that seemed to them to clinch it. you called him up at 10:00 on friday night. yeah. to say, i don t hold any grudges against you? that s right.
live-in girlfriend. so what i did is i called ann right away and i said, oh, you got a call here from bryan, and she didn t say anything. and i said, so what the hell s going on? she didn t say anything again and i said, you tramp. because i knew right then she must have cheated on me. tom did not deny that he behaved badly then. he freely admitted that he phoned ann s family and her friends. he even called some of bryan s former girlfriends. what did that say to you, that behavior? he was literally doing his own investigation on bryan. he was calling ann s friends trying to get all the dirt he could on bryan so that he could turn around and give it to ann. give it to ann and say, you need to end this relationship. this is a bad guy. he s just using you and you need to come back and be with me. in fact, tom admitted nearly all the strange behaviors ann described. the constant hang-up calls. showing up at bryan s place in the middle of the night. sneaking into ann s empty
the implication, of course, that he was seeing and having sex with someone in addition to ann. another potential suspect added to the pot. we re just saying tom may not be the only ex-boyfriend out there who would have been upset with mr. rein. that, in essence, was tom jaraczeski s defense. anyone but tom. did you kill him? no, i didn t. do you think larry hagenbuch did kill the doctor? you know, i have no idea who killed bryan. i know what it s like to be an innocent person, wrongly accused. and i m not going to sit here and accuse somebody else. the end was coming very soon. coming up tom jaraczeski was the only person with the opportunity, the only person with the motive to