went through some difficult times as many teenagers and young adults do. tell me a little bit about what happened to austin? austin was an awesome kid. he was a mama s boy. he loved sports. he was a star soccer player and star goalie. and i can look back now and i saw the downfall before he passed away periods senior year of high school, he was kicked off of the soccer team for more than one failing grade. i don t understand why school systems do that because to some kids than we think good going is sports. well, he got kicked off of the soccer team and mind you that was his senior year and he was playing since kindergarten. he loved soccer but you know, when he was kicked off, his whole group of friends changed. so from the age of 19, he didn t last very long. he started at 19 with marijuana, alcohol. i think he was doing some xanax
they are a non confrontational. reporter: he liked helping people, maybe that s why bob became a firefighter, a well respected one. he swallowed smoke for 19 years. winding up as a captain in the university park department outside dallas. and from his firehouse, from the rug, even from the fires, bob kept in very close touch with his mom. we had the report, 10 to 15 calls a day. 10 to 15 calls a day? mama s boy. i know, truly. i adored him. so these fellow firefighters, they said, he got it done. even helped in louisiana after hurricane katrina. and he always came home unscathed. professionally speaking, anyway. bob s personal life was also a story of a man who ran toward trouble.
just horrible. it is just so eating. the whole night had have been all over again. that one sure, you know, i saw her and went to talk to her. what did you say? i thought she was an idiot. it was certainly difficult for me, it was far more difficult for the family. murray promised the family justice, spent two years putting a new case together, and just weeks before trial he got a call. it was from thompson tierney, saying his client was ready to cut the apron strings and testify against his mom. there is no way that we ever suspected that tom would have return on his mother. he was known to be a mama s boy. but a mama s boy who decided he did not want to die in prison, tom pleaded guilty to second degree murder, got 15 to life. besides helping connect the crime to his mother, tom had someone else he wanted to give up. that friend of brett schwab, the one
as law enforcement raced to find her sons killer, judge salas spent those early morning hours at robert wood johnson hospital. the loss of her only child was sinking in. daniel was your everything. he was the center of my universe, our universe, he was everything. was he a mama s boy? [laughs] the biggest moments boy. he and i had a connection that, you know, quite frankly is amazing. her disappear from daniel s death was compounded by a horrifying realization. her job as a federal judge was most likely the reason her son was gone. there is a part of me, immediately after everything happened, that i sort of said to myself, you know, did i make the right decision? but then i think about my son and how proud he was. she remembered when she was being considered for that judge ship.
winding up as a captain in the university park department outside dallas. and from his firehouse, from the rug, even from the fires, bob kept in very close touch with his mom. we had the report, 10 to 15 calls a day. 10 to 15 calls a day? mama s boy. i know, truly. i adored him. so these fellow firefighters, they said, he got it done. even helped in louisiana after hurricane katrina. and he always came home unscathed. professionally speaking, anyway. bob s personal life was also a story of a man who ran toward trouble. bob married young and had two kids. after 19 years, that marriage fell apart, extensively so. around then is when bob met chacey, who was much younger. i think it wasn t infatuation.