did a kind of hit you later, the more emotional side of things? did you think about your life without? right. exactly. and the children without her? right. you can t even think about the magnitude of it all. shele covlin s in laws, were also in shock. their son, rod called with a new. he says, shele is dead. i don t think i ve ever made it to manhattan faster in my life. did you get any details on that first phone call? no. nothing. no, he just said chile is dead. when you arrive, what is going on? robert was sitting on the couch. he was in shock. honestly, i ve never seen my son shell-shocked and speechless in my life. the next few days were a blur. for religious reasons, the
but she said she was growing wary of his anger, and exasperated by his schemes. one day, she testified, things came to a head. we were in a car driving, and he said to me, you have to help me kill my parents. and i said i m not going to become your parents. and he asked me for five times, and finally i m not gonna help you call your parents. and even if i wanted to, which i don t, you kill me to. and he had this kind of peak repeal laugh. and he looked at me in a way, that you just now figuring this out? and he said quote, know i only want to kill the people who try to take my children away from me. did you believe, now, that rod killed shele? there was no exception in my mind that he killed her at this point. finally, rod and deborah split.
in 2014, she called investigators and told them everything she knew. now, four and a half years later, she told the jury. and she was about to get grilled by rod s defense attorneys. coming up, so it is fair to say yes, you were no, i was mad at him. i was mad at him for a lot of reasons. questions and after nine years, an answer. how faith was the first kind of this environment rob coughlin, the kind of murder in the second-degree? how hard was it waiting for the verdict? oh my gosh it was so painful. i had such butterflies. when dateline continues. i gotta good feeling about this, yeah i m with it i gotta good feeling about this yeah,
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.
his father went flying into the room, hit his head on the floor. eventually, rod s parents evicted him, and kept his kids. rod was determined to strike back. debra says he hatched bizarre plots to kill his parents. she told the court about when he dreamt up with super storm sandy struck the east coast. he said that because there was no electricity, the alarms, the alarm would not be on. he wanted to go through a window in the basement, to his parents and said his house on fire. i was, you know, just stunned! he was he wanted to go over there, kill his parents, set fire to the house and somehow get an and miles out safely. and you know, i discussed it with him for 15 minutes, and like no you re not gonna do this. and then finally i said, just how are you going to explain