oh, we became very close. she was like a mother to me. yes, it was all just about perfect and then, who knows why these things happen exactly. they just do. and no one imagined, why would they, how this thing was going to end? about eight months into his new job, rob started traveling for work. nothing unusual about that, of course. but soon, he seemed to be staying away from home a little longer than he really had to, started snapping at her, too, candy said, about little things. not like the old rob at all. so, at this point you begin to suspect something? yeah, i start thinking, what is going on? why are you acting like this? and then one night after a late flight in from california, rob laid down beside his wife in bed and it all came tumbling out. he just started to cry. and he said, i m having an affair. and i laid my head on his chest and i said, rob, please, just
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 speaking with your husband? things were remembered after talking to my husband. in fact, later, the judge made a comment outside the
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! what happened? the prosecutor said the sequence of the shots told the story. two quick shots, a pause and then one more. our theory all along was that rob hall had executed emmett corrigan with two successive shots. turned to face his wife, attempted to commit suicide with the third sh
own. he was a that ended with gunfire in a parking lots. the showdown that left one husband dead, in the other injured. for investigators, figuring out who fired the fatal shots meant untangling the relationships at the heart of the crime. which were, complicated. he is kenneth morrison with deadly desire. look at this place now, so ordinary, but its pharmacy, grocery store, carefully tended parking lot so alike from bismark to bakersfield. but that night that cold night? a heat gathered here, sweet, terrifying. doomed. for the longest time i couldn t go anywhere because i m thinking everybody is looking at me.
i have a lot of guilt still in me. a lot. and it has to do with my kids and his kids. and it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i am the responsible one and it s something that i don t know are they ever be able to get through that? i mean, hopefully, one day i can prove to them that it was just a mistake. in the years since, ashlee has remarried and has become an author/blogger and speaker with a message to stand strong and faithful. he also thinks about his two daughters, whose lives, their graduations, triumphs, marriages, children, he will never witness. two girls, who at the ages of 18 and 14 back then, suddenly found themselves left without either parent at home. because of a final twist to this story of the trail of retribution. rob s wife candy was sent to prison herself because of the killing? no, she pleaded guilty to charges of grand theft for embezzling some $30,000 from the attorney for whom she worked before emmett corrigan. she served 18 months for t