investigation upside down. the sheriff was in a closed door meeting when a secretary interrupted. her face looked like she had seen a ghost. a panic struck when was on the phone. she needed to talk to the sheriff immediately. the sheriff returned to his office so he could take the phone call. i don t know. okay, just relax. her name was mary taglianetti. she was calling from robert virginia. no one in keith s life including his daughter meghan, had never heard of her. that mean anything to? this mary woman? not at all. anyone in the family? to the ring a bell? no. didn t know the name either. but would soon realize that this mary was a man that he had taken to dinner during an off period with kimberly. i remember him saying he was going through an off period, but no, nothing ever came from it. but now, this mary was on the phone. she was very, very upset.
good-looking. but we started talking and re-had some things in common. and then he asked if he could call me. they talked enough for a couple of months, she says. keith, who always had a soft spot for someone in need, provided emotional support as she struggled to find her footing as a newly-separated woman. i kind of felt lost. you know? i didn t know what to do or where to go next. and he was great. he was really encouraging. it was sometime in the summer of 2010, she told the detectives, that she met her online match for their one and only date. he took me to dinner and we had a night together. it was a little more than a one night stand. mary says she decided to try to make things work with her husband. keith reconciled with his girlfriend. we both just kind of said good luck to each other. so, it was like a handshake and goodbye.? pretty much, yeah. but a couple of years later,
was going. he said, where do you think i m going? i said you re going to go see keith? and he said, well, i guess you know me. does he take off in the car? he leaves, late. 11:00 at night. that all happened, he said, the night before investigators suspected keith reid had been killed. i had thought, in my mind, like, there is no way he is going to go all the way up there just try and beat this guy up. that s what you thought this was? confrontation, a fistfight? oh, yeah, he had gotten in fistfights before. for the past four years, mary says, she had been concerned about her husband s tripwire anger. he would have episodes where i would be afraid of him, or the children would be afraid of him. it had caused their separation two years before. and now she worried her husband had lost all perspective. i hear you saying, it may have been a love triangle only in rob s mind. yes. that s not what was going on? no. it was more like a connective friendship, and it
mary, who struggled through the pain of separation wants once now decided to try to keep her family together. i was thinking about the kids. and i just thought they deserved to be in their home with their father and mother. but her husband was adamant, she says. if he was going to stay, there was a condition attached. she d have to hand over her passwords. mary told the detectives he later logged onto her email account and fired off a blistering message to reed. it was this long thing about don t you dare contact my wife ever again. and if you do, you are going to be sorry because i have emails and i will post it all over your school. the superintendent responded simply and directly, back off, stay away from me, or i will take action and tell your wife the same. that should have been the end of things? it should have been the end of things. but it wasn t? no. after eating keith s email, mary said rob started getting dressed. she asked him where he
though, did find the strength to speak. years before they had almost lost their father and a motorcycle accident. he persevered. now they were determined to make him proud. i knew that he wouldn t want us to be sad and depressed. i knew he would want it to be a celebration of his life. it was the same afternoon that taglianetti s gold buick was spotted speeding down a road near a national park in virginia. make the plate, pull it over, and take him into custody without incident. anthony rob taglianetti was charged with a second degree murder of keith reid. to the prosecutor, the theory of a jealous husband killing his perceived rival connected all the dots. but wait, the defense said, the real story of who is to blame had yet to be heard. rob taglianetti was merely the puppet, the defense would argue. it was his wife, mary, a cunning and manipulative woman who pulled the strings. all she wanted was to be