building an alibi. the prosecution called the new york state medical examiner. in the autopsy, he had noticed that there are scratches on her face, and that fractured bone in her neck. my conclusion was that she had and neck compression, i classify the death as a homicide. strangulation not an accidental fall. and in another sinister twist, prosecutors believe that we re in a half years after shele s death, rod drafted an ode composed from her 12-year-old s daughter email account, pretending to be her. it s read, i lied. she did just slip. i got so mad so i pushed her. i didn t mean to hurt her! i swear! it was never sent but it did in the tabloids after it was filed with the court. what father does that? who does that to a child? who basically finds the child right. prosecutors didn t get that note admitted into trial, but
that your mom and dad are not together? oh, yeah. they re in a better place and we are. why would you say to julia if she could hear you? i would just tell her a lover. i would give her the biggest hug. that s all for this edition of dateline, i m natalie morales. thank you for watching. thank you for watching i m natalie morales, 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. it was a case tailor-made with the tabloids. we had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. he is out with other women. a failing marriage with millions at stake. he didn t have any money of his own. this is getting ugly. yes. she said she were broken,
story rod told police. that her daughter called him that morning in a panic and let him into the apartment, because he didn t have a key. i was a very suspicious. suspicions that only deepened when marc learned the medical examiner wasn t sure either. i m reading the death certificate and i saw that the cause of death was undetermined. shele s loved ones are not the only ones with growing doubts. investigators zero in on troubling clues. coming up she had bruising to her lip. chip here to have some scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. and rod said he had put shele s wet body out of the top, so, why wasn t he wet? two officers found this unusual enough to notice. how would you not get wet? when dateline continues.
apartment and killed her, like the prosecution argued, because there was no evidence he even had a key. remember, rod said little anna had brought him in that morning. there s been no evidence that mr. calvin was ever in the apartment on december 30 or december 31, before 7 am. no evidence either, gottlieb said, about one had cost shelley s injuries. he suggested one explanation, the exclamation. they used backhoes to zoom. they used shovels to get to the coffin. aaron said there was nothing she heard in court that convinced her shele s death was anything but a tragic accident. if you see those photos, doesn t it look like she just slipped and fell? it looks like someone did something to her. really, if you look at her paced if she slipped and fell and hit her face into the bathtub so did scratches come from? i mean you don t get scratches in a bathtub?
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, rotten 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 goblins 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.