going on in the neighborhood. and another witness testified that he told police at the time, he saw a truck matching the one that becky described, driving near the bryan s the night of the shooting. that was the key to the case. he had a person in a matching truck speeding, driving a radically. that had come up on him and almost hit a vehicle. all within blocks. but the statements that witness gave investigators only surface a few weeks before trial. they didn t follow up on it. there were cameras at two different businesses right there at that intersection. and one additional detail that contradicted the prosecution s case. becky s brother, david, testified that there was an innocent explanation for the inheritance that she mentioned to her ex lover. she wasn t talking about life insurance. becky was about to inherit a diamond ring. it was my answering.
so, i met him at the gas station. i gave him $15. if cindy was claiming that she was trying to make her marriage work, detectives wondered why she was meeting up with her ex lover to give him money. the wheels must be spinning now. as these stories are not completely adding up. right. with a warrant in hand, they searched s in these office. we walked in and the first thing that i saw was a picture of her and michael reese. and then eight by ten frame. and underneath it was an eight by ten frame with her and jeff brown. she s basically laying out the love triangle right there in her office? that is correct. and detectives found more. there was a file that was labeled, jeff brown, and inside of it was the least for the apartment that she had rented for him. the car note. and she is paying for everything? she is paying for everything. that is correct. throughout the investigation, detectives were giving
network tv when cheers featured a broadway icon, harvey firestein and happened to include the fact that overlaps in real life that he was an openly gay man. this was in 92. somebody stole my car. oh, i been there. yeah, really? yeah, my ex lover. first he stole my heart. then he stole my car. he? aren t you supposed to be rebecca s old flame. well, i m not that old. by 1998, nbc had will and grace in living rooms around the nation. it was the first u.s. show to start an openly guy set of lead characters. are you hungry? i m gay. what? are you hungry? i m guy. what? i m
back. it is not gonna bring trent back. but still it s why did this happen? you re four years in, five years in, and really no closer to solving it. your first case and it day one. that will make you doubt yourself. and then one day a particular woman happened to see an anniversary story about the unsolved murder of the football player back in kentucky. a woman who d once sat in a bar in a fog of love. and who now was quite terrified. a break in the case from out of the blue. an ex-lover reveals all, including a motive for murder almost too absurd to believe. coming up this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed, is because it was something this weird. when dateline continues.
that paul orchestrated this murder down to the last detail. he was planning this for a period of weeks, maybe more in his own mind. on how to rid himself of catherine. he s a murderer. he s a sociopath. he planned, he executed, and he killed catherine novak in cold blood. their star witness was paul s ex lover, michelle lafrance. the jury heard every minute of those police interrogation tapes of michelle describing the details of how he killed his wife. he told me that they were fighting and that they were rolling around on the basement floor for about 45 minutes. and that s why he was so late. and she was screaming and begging for her life. and the jury didn t have to just take her word for it, prosecutors called scott sherwood, paul s partner from work to the stand. they told the jury he had been interrogated by police and showed them the tape. let s go from the beginning.