time and time again, when she is saying that she felt bullied by rod, she was afraid of him. the only thing she ever says in her emails is i love you, dear, i love you, over and over again. despite her denials, gottlieb said deborah had been crossed when the relationship ended. her testimony, he said, was nothing more than words of a woman scorned. so it is fair to say, yes or no? you were jealous? no, i was mad at him. i was mad at him for a lot of reasons. is it fair to say that you have a history and have admitted to be a habitual liar? that is disgusting and false. that is not true. the defense conceded rod wasn t always stand up guy. he said dad didn t make him a murderer. you may despise him, you may not even be able to look at him. you may want to convict him, to convict somebody of murder, there s got to be proof.
caroline, who was with daniel that day, this is her friend who. that one time teenage hangout is now just a memory. was at the end of the creek free? yes, it was. it all went after that. ever. the creek, still lacing through the sandy banks. but those voices of innocence are still now. ever since one lazy, happy day turned into a very bad night. one never to be forgotten or completely understood. i m natalie morale us, and this is dateline. rod colvin calls 9-1-1 and says his wife appears dead. he said that he had found her in the bathtub. i have never seen my son shell-shocked.
police made her a surprise visit. i answered all their questions, and offered to give them a copy of the games that we played, backgammon games, so they had exact times that we played. and that was it. they tell you why they were? they thought he was guilty. they said he was a really bad person, and i didn t believe them at the time. you have got to know him pretty well at this point to? right. i never saw the monster then i eventually came tunnel until later. but the monster was lurking, as debra told the court overtime, she began to see just how volatile rod could be. he had a mercurial temperate and take much to set him off. she also so terrible fights that he had with his parents. by 2012, rod and his children were living with his parents in a new york city suburb, and the fighting was constant. one time during one of these fights, rod had brought his arms back, and he shoved his father as hard as he could.
but he had a couple of talents. martial arts and backgammon. we sat down and played, he won. and he won money. two years after she married rod, shelley gave birth to baby anna. she was inseparable from anna. she was always with that child. she was an incredible mom. a second pregnancy followed, twins. but that ended in tragedy. so they were born prematurely, and they died. oh my gosh. a childbirth in one few hours how did she handle that? how did you support her? it s just an awful thing. devastating. the entire year was a nightmare for her. then in 2006, shele had a baby boy. she and rod made her son miles, but now, three years later shele was dead. and the scene inside that apartment on the upper west side with chaos.
Key players in the case of Rod Covlin, a New York man who is found guilty of murdering his wife for her $5.3 million fortune and attempting to frame his.