welcome back. i m craig melvin. john diamonds of the prime suspect in the murder of marty fear. he was having ab affair with michelle and was arrest eed admitting he brought a weapon on to the military base. but investigators wondered if he was the shooter, could someone else have been the master mind behind the crime. here again is keith morrison. a few weeks after the murder of captain marty theer, well, police chased more earthbound clues. a fayetteville police detective named c.t. williams was asked to have a look at a couple of computers seized from michelle theer s home. see if they might contain any clues.
marty fear. where was michelle? the d.a. figures she must have conspired with him to kill her husband. she was the brains, he was the brawn, or in this case the shooter, though it was all circumstantial, said greg butler. it was persuasive. there was an amount of evidence. there s no question who was involved, diamond and her. the evidence, the life insurance, the affair, the emails, the coverup. taken together, it was enough to convince a grand jury. finally 18 months after her husband s murder, michelle theer was indicted. arrested? no. there was a tip-off that she was indicted because she seemed
he was very adoring. yeah, it was great. what made her so desirable to him? i think it was just the sex. that was what he was obsessed with. he was submitting with having sex with her. it was more lust than love. she felt that the affair did not take away from the fact that she loved marty. she said he was the love of her life and that she never loved john diamond. and marty, he was in the dark, of course. when michelle told them their marriage was in crisis and they needed to see a counselor he wouldn t go to counseling and i moved out. he was shocked. michelle got her own place and spent much of that steamy fayetteville summer with john diamond. he was so attentive. he would rub my feet for five hours if i wanted. diamonds was apparently nuts about michelle. never met anyone like her before. she challenged him in ways he
within minutes police and paramedics arrived and they found michelle cradling her husband in a pool of blood. but it was too late. marty fear was dead. he was just 31. because marty was an air force captain military investigators were soon on the scene as well as police making this a joint investigation with the fayetteville pd. both teams were eager to speak to the only known witness, michelle fear. she said she heard what sounded to her like three bangs of a car backfiring. did she tell you what she did at that point? she then opened the door and noticed that her husband was laying at the bottom of the stairs. she told them she thought she
endless honey moon in which his career would take them to exotic destinations all around the world. she just didn t imagine that world would be unromantic air force outposts in oklahoma and alabama and florida and finally fayetteville, north carolina. they came here in 1999. marty was captain fear by then. flew one of those c 130 cargo planes. all that time alone, not so easy on a marriage as she revealed with those tape recorded interviews with her psychologist. michelle talked about a few problems in the marriage, primarily growing apart over the years. marty was away for extended periods of time. she had a hard time with that, was getting more difficult for her. she was lonely. sometimes he was gone for months and when he finally did come home, military families have come to know that