reporter: this is now a murder investigation. yes. 100%. reporter: they called linda back down to the station for more questions. they asked me if i knew, you know, what drugs were in tom s system. they asked me, you know, more about the relationship with gil. this they asked me what i knew of that morning. reporter: they also decided to tell her about their suspicions that they believed tom was murdered and her ex-lover, gil, was their prime suspect. i found it hard to accept because in my mind, he loved us. he loved me. he loved tom. would he do that? would he do something like that? reporter: was a part of you saying, oh, he couldn t have done this ? when i first found out about the midazolan and i m in the room with the detectives and, you know, they were, like, do you think he could ve and i was, like, no. you know, i was, like, he would never do that to him. reporter: but after digesting what investigators told her, she realized there were signs of
kind of hold of you. he s like, i see it. and he did. reporter: and linda told us what detectives had found so hard to believe. how did it affect tom, the fact that it was gilberto, and he was friends with both of you? strangely enough, they still continued to be friends. that is so hard to grasp. i know it is. but they did. they cared, they cared about each other. they were, like, buddies. tom would invite him over for sunday dinners. i know it sounds nuts. yeah. i know it does. a little bit. yeah. i i know. and what are how are you handling that? i mean i m just, like, in the middle, like, what do i do? you re the object of both of their affection.
come up with a cause of death. but in the meantime, we re we re thinking i would say thinking the worst. until we can disprove that it s not a homicide, we ve got to treat it as such. reporter: crime scene techs worked on tom s car and took swabs for clues. while detectives set out to learn more about his movements on the day he died. linda told police the last time she saw tom was the night before, watching football. she assumed he left for the gym the following morning around 5:30, so investigators pulled security video of the parking lot to see what that could tell them. it was dark and grainy but revealed a lot. in the video itself we were able to observe a white suv arrive in the parking lot of planet fitness and that was about 4:30 in the morning. ten minutes later we actually see thomas kolman s vehicle pull into the parking lot and park right next to this white suv. that s when we knew that
reporter: and despite the distance, tom was very close to his oldest kids. i was a daddy s girl, definitely, no doubt about that he always made sure that whenever brad and i were in town that we would have fun. like we we wouldn t just, you know, be sitting around. we always had fun plans. reporter: jillian and her dad talked on the phone all the time. thanksgiving weekend 2011 was no exception. and i remember we hung up and we blew a kiss over the phone like we used to when i was ten and we hadn t in years and i thought that was cute. reporter: and when the weekend of family and football was over, it was monday, november 28th. and lucky for tom, the new york giants were on t-v. he stayed up and watched the football game, a giants football game. i went to bed. reporter: the next morning, as usual, he was up and out of the house before linda and the kids were even awake. he normally got up to go to
much of it, but prosecutors had another story they wanted the jury to hear a story they thought would show a darker side to gil s deceptions. it s just not a good idea. reporter: nick monaco is a retired police officer and friends with a guy who worked for gil. nick testified that the friend came to him one day saying that gil wanted to pay them to go harass and intimidate tom. he said, well, gil wants to know if you would want to accompany me to, you know, just kinda like scare the guy. and he goes, we may pretend like we re from the c.i.a. or or something like that. just as long as he he sees that, you know, you have a gun on you and and a badge. he goes, if he sees the gun he goes, you don t have to wave it around or anything or take it out. and he says, well, you know, gil was in the c.i.a. i was like, no, i i i didn t know that. he goes, oh, yeah