resemblance to reality. prosecutors agreed. is there any credible evidence at all that chacey was poynter abused by her husband? no. there is no er visit? no 9-1-1 calls. no previous law enforcement at that address? no one else saw robert poynter even get mad. he s been described is a big teddy bear. reporter: on the other hand, they did find plenty of evidence that chacey wanted bob gone. she s fishing around for multiple men to commit this murder for her. reporter: that s right. it turned out key michael garza wasn t chacey s only lover. in the month up to the murder, she had been juggling three other boyfriends. detective burke brought them in for questioning. a lot of it was for sex. reporter: along with frequent meet up for sex, two of her lovers told police, chacey also shared the story of abuse that she claimed with suffered at the hands of robert
chacey sister did believe her abuse. she told me that he was abusive. not just mentally but physically? physically, yes. she also told police that she shared her trouble with someone who decided to take matters into his own hands, michael garza. he and he alone, argued his attorneys, killed robert poynter. it was a murder that was chacey tried to stop. i didn t want him to die. i yelled for him to stop. reporter: the defense told the jury that chases action at the scene proved her innocence. she called 9-1-1. and flagged down those officers to help her husband. what s going on? my husband! it made my blood boil. i was shaking, i think, literally, when i heard this stuff. reporter: bob s family said the defense case for no
been shot in the head. please! reporter: it was the worst crime royse city had seen in a very long time. a man shot to death on a muddy road. his wife standing close by. now she was in an ambulance. and police were trying to piece together what had happened. who their victim was. and who might have wanted him dead. i don t know, i don t know. reporter: support in his signature mustache, and a six foot four inches, 300 pound physique, could robert poynter look intimidating. to those who knew him best, he was the complete opposite. his mom, candy. he was your favorite. so they say. what do you say? possibly. probably. reporter: bob was candies middle child, between two sisters, jennifer and cheryl. he was not confrontational.
bob tried to make things right. in early september 2016, he took his family on a trip to mexico. it was a chance to reconnect. reporter: six days later, robert poynter was dead and not in a fire. detective michael berke drove out to country go 25 95 to investigate his first career homicide. i grabbed my investigation equipment, mostly at that time, a camera only. and then you get to the scene. yes sir. reporter: about halfway down the road was that truck, later identified as bobs. then another discovery. we are shining our flashlights on the path to make sure we don t fall in one of the deep routes or trip. then there was a reflection in the water, in one of the puddles. on a closer look, it showed it was a cell phone. reporter: it was chacey s
people didn t lock their doors? no. chacey and actually lost touch after high school and then reconnected win actually noticed chacey s cake business. she enjoyed doing, it she was amazing what she did. what made her so good? just for being so crafty and her imagination was everything. reporter: actually got to know chacey s young daughter and her mom helped her disagree cakes. reporter: however if an chacey absent spent time together, and chacey robert did not. what did she say about robert? he was never there. he always worked. well, he was a fire captain and he worked a lot of shifts. yes, he did. that was a problem? yes.