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, and she cried. was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace? we believed it was a staged accident. he was adamant about his innocence. the case bought me for a long time. he said to me you have to help me kill my parents. and i can t even think about the magnitude of it all. hello and welcome to dateline. shelley and roderick covlin met and married in a matter of months. soon they had two young children in manhattan. and an estate worth millions. then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. first responders thought it was an accident. but troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. here s andrea with en
It was a case tailormade 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 didnt have any money of his own. This is getting ugly. Yes. She said she were broken, and she cried. Was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace . We believed it was a staged accident. He was adamant about his innocence. The case bought me for a long time. He said to me you have to help me kill my parents. And i cant even think about the magnitude of it all. Hello and welcome to dateline. Shelley and Roderick Covlin met and married in a matter of months. Soon they had two Young Children in manhattan. And an estate worth millions. Then on the brink of a new year, tragedy struck. First responders thought it was an accident. But troubling clues quickly surfaced, pointing to a diabolical truth that would tear to families apart. Heres andrea with endgame. If you had to pick one place that screams
there was not, gottlieb said. zero evidence that there have been foul play. no signs of a struggle. he said rod couldn t have slipped into shelley s 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
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. there was not on, gottlieb said. zero evidence that there have been foul play. no signs of a struggle. he said rod couldn t have slipped into shelley s