him, but that didn t seem to matter. his parents, david carroll, said they adored her right from the start. he told us he had a girlfriend, and we have to meet her. and i said okay, they re coming up we don t have time for that now know you have to meet. her a brunette back then, shelley mary brought six months later. and as reality settled, it wasn t exactly blessed, because while he was a stunning overachiever, rod was well not in the same league. he was a stock trader of middling success. when it did seem was a guy that really had a lot of big ideas, and was unable to execute on any of them. 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
open marriage. most women don t want to go along with the open marriage concept. she was one of those who said, absolutely, no. by june, rod had moved out, and he didn t go far. shele arranged for him to live for free in an apartment across the whole, to make it easy for the kids. her close friend stephanie goldman wasn t happy with the arrangement. when shele told me that he was going to be living across the hall, my first instinct was, my goodness, i don t think this is a good idea. nevertheless, shele was moving on. and so was rod. he was very charming, intelligent, funny and in a quirky sort of way. and i really enjoyed playing backgammon with him. debra oles met rod at a backgammon tournament. months later, their relationship became romantic. i was looking for any sort of relationship. and he was pretty aggressive. i think i was naive in the fact that, i m considerably older than rod.
example of how rod was becoming unhinged. he was also excessively tracking shele s every move with secretly installed software on her computer. rod told this coworker that it enabled him to read her emails. he was reading through her emails, and was upset with a number of people that she was talking to. and he was upset about the way he was being portrayed in her emails. by late 2009, he was also deeply in debt, with virtually no income. still, even with their divorce spending, he believed he would gain control of her 5 million dollar estate, if she died. but then, rod found some emails sent just two days before her death. she reaches out to an attorney, and also tell several people that she wants to change the state said that s one rod snapped, and hatched his plan. the night of december 30th, a friend of melissa feel sorry
the prosecution s case against rod covlin ended with a bombshell. on the stand, as former level debra oles described in chilling detail how after his wife shele died, rod planned to kill his parents in order to regain custody of his children. his alleged targets where in the courtroom, hanging on every word. now the defense was about to dissect deborah story. here s andrea canning with the conclusion of endgame . carol cullen sat behind her son during the long weeks of trial. why was it so important for you to be? there it s my son. and i think any mother would be there for their child. you have to listen to your son being called a philanderer, and abuse are, and a killer. how did you handle? that i really wanted to get
up and scream at them and call them liars, but she can t. one of the most explosive pieces of testimony was debra oles alleging that rod had wanted to kill you. and in grand fashion, we re talking arsenic, right boys in. rods that, dave, said deborah s claims were laughable. the alleged murder plots are think our force. ross defense attorney agreed. during a testy examination he tried to poke holes in debra s testimony, starting with her story of those spots. were you scared? yes. did you call it? place yes or no? no. gottlieb says deborah stories didn t add up either. 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