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alone. reporter: that s a big step. did you feel safer? yeah. reporter: but then tom, all of 23 years old barged into bryan rein s place middle of the night when she was there, demanding to know the 31-year-old doctor s intentions. what did bryan think of this? he thought he was a stupid kid. reporter: well, he was being a stupid kid. you d have to agree with that. yeah, because i asked him, should i file a restraining order? should i do something? and he said, no, he s just a stupid kid. he ll get over it. just give him time to get it out of his system. reporter: but he didn t get over it. and one night when nobody was home he went into ann s house, into her bedroom. and he said he found my journal and read it. reporter: what did it feel like to have your personal journal read like that by him? it just felt like i d been violated. reporter: how did ann learn about it? tom told her. and quoted from her journal. at the end i said and it
hands and boom, boom. it could ve been, absolutely. but that holster being out there, there s just no other reason why that holster would be out there. reporter: that was agent thompson s theory anyway. was tom jaraczeski capable of such a thing? well, he already admitted he sneaked into ann s house when it was empty. and so, thought agent thompson, he must have been perfectly capable of walking into dr. rein s place too and stealing that gun. he had plenty of opportunity to get the gun. i mean, the trailer was never locked. reporter: but why would he get bryan s gun? he could get a gun anywhere. it s montana, for god s sake, everybody s got a gun. he certainly had the ability to go over there undetected and walk into that trailer. ample time to look around, to grab the gun. reporter: so that became the leading theory. larry hagenbuch, the doctor s troubled friend, if that s truly what he was, remained a person of interest, but the primary
reporter: but ann was done. she moved back to the family farm outside geraldine. and tom begged her to come back. promised to do better. he told me that bryan would, you know, when he got tired of me, he d dump me. an then i d see. reporter: and then the phone calls started. over and over again. i asked him to leave me alone. i said i needed time, i needed space. reporter: and he wasn t giving you any? no. reporter: one day ann agreed to go for a ride in tom s new pickup truck so they could have the talk. big mistake. tom drove out of town kept on driving. wouldn t let her get out of the truck. so i was like, okay, i started looking at the ditch thinking, i can land in that grass. i ll be okay. so i opened the door, and i was going to jump out. and he grabbed my arm. he s like, what the hell are you doing? reporter: how did it eventually end? he finally took me back. reporter: did you go home that night? no. my brother was out of town so i asked bryan if i could
if somebody s there. reporter: according to ann, that was about 10:40 p.m. i think bryan then heard him, went to the back door. and i think at that point when there s thomas jaraczeski sitting on that back porch, has a gun, i think immediately bryan knew what was going on and the fight was on. and i think it was a struggle. i think he shot him twice in the arm. i think he then bryan struggled back to try to get to the phone and thomas shot him in the chest. left the weapon. got on that atv. reporter: and took off? took off. and then he had hurt his back, so the next day he had to go to the hospital, and there you go. reporter: and that was the prosecution s case. all circumstantial. no physical evidence was ever found to link tom to the murder scene. but the pieces, said the prosecution, fit together to