and he did, he just felt so cold. did you just feel like this is so unfair? yeah, i just i just was, like, oh my god, this can t be happenin now. you can t leave us now. reporter: shortly after tom s friend, gil, called linda, and rushed to the scene. that s him in this dashcam video off to the right, collapsing in grief as he learns the news. meanwhile, first responders and arriving officers processed the scene. anything unusual about his body? or did he just look peaceful? his trousers were open h just a little bit. his collar was undone. his shirt was kinda pulled out. and he was reclined back in his car. and i felt like he it looked like he took a nap and didn t wake up. there was a little presumption that it may have been a heart attack or, you know, cardiac event, or something had happened. he was a large man. reporter: but since tom s death was what police call an unattended death , there had to be an investigation. detective mike thomas and
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to to 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
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the state s theory, gil killed tom because he wanted linda all to himself. the special prosecutor summed it up on day one. ladies and gentlemen, obsession. it was an obsession furthered by manipulation and deception. reporter: to show jurors just how obsessed they believed gil had become, prosecutors read emails he wrote to linda. i am not leaving you. not today, not tomorrow, not ever. i am not going to let you just walk away from me. never. reporter: linda took the stand and testified about how the affair began and lasted until right before tom s death. tom s parents couldn t believe the details they were hearing. we just assumed that it was a one-time episode between them. we didn t realize that it was ongoing for 11 months. we heard that in the courtroom. wow. that s amazing that you didn t know that.