remember. so the defense offered a theory that emmett started the fire. then the gun fell on the ground. emmett grabbed it, shot rob in the pause rob grabbed ahold and fired back in self defence. and the courtroom came to a halt. every head turned when a star witness took the stand to support that theory. would you please state and spell your name for the record? candy hall. candy, who repeated the story on the stand, that she told us of emmett pushing rob. emmett becoming enraged of hearing the two men scuffle as she walked away before she heard, but did not see, the shooting. the only problem, she told the police a very different story the night it happened. you told detective miller that night you did not see or hear a physical altercation, isn t that right? i don t know. i don t remember. in fact, candy changed her story about so many things, all helpful to rob s case. i m trying to clarify that your story has changed after
what did he say? he was angry, candy, what is this? and i said, i don t know. so he calls emmett. rob goes why are you texting my wife at this time of night? emmett s answer? two minutes later he showed up at rob s house, they talked like duelling lovers out on the sidewalk and rob came back inside. rob tossed my phone up on our bed and he said, you win. i can t compete. he s young, he s a good looking guy. he s an attorney, you make him a lot of money. what good am i? and he was just devastated. now you got yourself a pretty complicated life at this stage? yeah. of course, by february of 2011, emmett s life was
but if they believed they were hiding their obvious infatuation, their suddenly messy hair, hastily rearranged clothes, they were only fooling themselves. i noticed a significant change in her attitude went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy, you know. a spring in her step again? oh, yeah. such timing. now that rob seemed to fix their marriage. honesty took a holiday. i was living a lie, being in an affair is living one big lie. you lie about everything. yes. and she lied to herself, too. you were thinking of you and he together striding across the bow of the titanic. it s going to be it for you forever? yes. then one night ago a couple months ago the affair ticks toward their deadly conclusion. around bed time, candy received a text from emmett and couldn t hide it. the text popped up and rob read it and it said, i wish i was there with you tonight.
a seclude spot and had sex under a street light. that s where they were, tangled up in each other, when candy another phone rang. her daughter coming home from a date, had seen her car in that parking lot. she said, mom, why is your car at walgreens? i called dad. i go, oh, all right. okay. i ll be home in a minute. too late because now the wind was up. rob the unfaithful husband had to know, now he was the aggrieved spouse and sure enough as candy talked to her daughter. here he was in his pickup truck to come to walgreens to look for his wife. phone call from rob. he goes, are you with emmett? and i go, i took a deep breath and said, yep, i am. emmett looks over at me, he takes the phone away from me and he goes, yeah, what s up, chief? and he says, yeah, wait right there, we ll
this is a case of a manhunting down his wife s paramore and waiting for 17 minutes to have the opportunity to kill him. in fact, as they made their case for the jury, prosecutors portrayed rob as an angry man furious about his wife s affair. a man who called emmett s law office repeatedly, to berate candy so loudly that the whole office heard it all. statements such as, you re a whore and why are you with him? and the night of the shooting, prosecutors played those surveillance tapes from walgreens, showing rob arriving 17 minutes, walking through the aisles, looking for candy. all the while with a pistol, not the one he usually carried, but the one candy gave him, tucked in his pocket. then the jury saw emmett and candy arrive in the parking lot and 8 minutes later heard candy s 911 call after shots were fired. oh my good! oh my god! robert, robert, robert, robert! this is a case of a manhunting down his wife s paramore and waiting for 17 minutes to have the opportunit