it was a small new year s eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, as
eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, ashley fallis was in the mood
you think the prosecutor, he suggested that there was a struggle when the shot was fired. i can keep blood staining from getting on to the wall, but or on to the cabinet and i can lower her continuing to bleed onto my shirt to where i get her in this position. the prosecution rested its case. and what possible defense could there be? well, for a start, this i have so much pain on the inside, i can no longer take it. a letter. and what a letter it was. coming up a troubled marriage or a troubled young woman? what kind of mental health issues did you observe ashley fallis to be going through? mood swings. impulsive behaviors. and, the verdict. when dateline continues. frustrated by skin tags? dr. scholl s has the breakthrough you ve been waiting for. the first fda-cleared at-home skin tag remover
it was their party, ashley s and tom s she invited her coworkers like andrea. it was casual but she verbally told everyone at work that you should come. they work to get that a rehabilitation hospital where ashley was a respiratory therapist. well, she was crazy, nice. crazy? just spunky. yeah. just full of energy. she was a happy person. she left a lot and joked. their friendship was new, anthea didn t know a lot about ashley but listened to her chatter about jobs and marriages and their three kids. the youngest of whom was born with the dangerous condition called hydrocephalus which causes life-threatening fluid to buildup in the brain. she talked about it a lot. yeah, did she? yeah, but i didn t get the impression that she felt burdened by it. i just felt like it was the car she was dealt. well, in fact, she embraced the challenge said ashley s mom, jenna. became a public advocate. she went to washington d. c.
murderers always move away. it was important to ashley s parents to remain close to those three kids so they fought for grandparents rights and tried, they said, to be civil with tom. but they also told anybody who listened that they believe their daughter had been murdered. like a local reporter. he said, do you mind if i start looking into this? angela and i said, no, go ahead start looking into it. and it didn t take him much. the reporter asked around, talked to neighbors. and asked the evans police department to comment on what he heard. and before you know it, the chief announced ashley s case would be reopened. i extend my sincere sympathy to the family of ashley fallis four their loss, and the revisited grieve that can accompany the grief of a difficult case such as this one. and i start crying. because it s the catalyst for opening everything up. i finally have someone who s taking it seriously.