reporter: a couple of weeks later, it was thanksgiving. still on friendly terms, gil shared the holiday with tom, linda and their family. monday, linda met with gil one, but decided to postpone telling him their affair was over. reporter: what was that discussion like with gilberto? what did you tell him? the holidays are here. we have all these kids. like, we can t you know? after the holidays. and he was, like, okay, i ll wait for your decision, you know? reporter: do you think he knew? hindsight, i think he knew [ sighs ] probably by my body language. and just him knowin me as well as he did, that he was losin me. reporter: that night, linda felt she and tom were back on track. i remember comin upstairs and he picked me up and threw me on the bed and was, like, ticklin me. i think we both just felt like there s light at the end of this
how moved were you at the funeral as you heard people speak about tom and all the love that was in that room? just cryin all the time. walking into the wake was probably one of the hardest things i ve ever done. i i waited for all my siblings and all four of us walked in arm in arm, faces down, just bawling bef like and we walked up to the coffin and just all almost just collapsed together and just wept. reporter: detectives discreetly sent an officer to the funeral home to observe. if tom s death was a homicide, they wanted to keep an eye on linda, but they also needed to find out if tom had any enemies. from speakin to everyone, including her, tom was just a great guy. he was a middle-class man, hard working, loved his family, would do anything for them. we couldn t find any enemies in the world that would wanna do anything against tom. you had a real mystery you had to solve here. oh, absolutely. reporter: investigators were
practice. you had a busy life, a job, husband, children, in a small town. how are you carrying on this affair? still was the wife and the mother. i was home for my kids every night after work. and i would see him lunchtime. reporter: linda thought it was a well-kept secret. but maybe, not so much. a few months into the affair, someone tipped off tom with an anonymous text message. he comes right at me with it. you know, i m getting these texts that you re with you know, that you re with gil. what the hell s goin on? it s so scandalous. and i said, this is what s been goin on. i i cleared the table. you know, i have been having an affair. it was with him. was there any part of it that felt, i don t wanna use the word good, but you got it off your chest, you weren t carrying yeah. around this secret anymore? it did. because then, because then at least i could talk to tom about it. at one point he said to me, linda, i can see he has some
the s-u-v in the video had a fog light defect, one that cast a distinct headlight pattern. what we re seeing from this vehicle is that it has this white light that is on the ground that moves in front of the vehicle. reporter: detectives tracked down gil s white s-u-v which he sold a few weeks after tom s death and placed it along the same route seen in the security footage. and sure enough, when we went out to the scene then when we did our tests, we turned the lights on and there was the pattern that was quite visible. reporter: gil s car had the same defect visible in the video. prosecutors thought it was just what they needed to place gil at the crime scene and tie all their evidence together. that was a unique feature to that vehicle. and it was still exactly the same a year later. i have yet to find another nissan pathfinder, color white, with those exact same issues. reporter: but of course, the defense was about to tell a different story and had witnesses in s
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