use me. did he? or was michelle the clever user? in our interview michelle denied being a master manipulator. she denied she d stoked those sex abuse allegations. or that she engineered marc s split with his parents. for that she blamed jack and tana. i never would have walked away from my kids in the first place. i never would have. in the end they didn t walk away from their kid either. because who was pushing from day one to solve the murder? who kept pushing month after month after month? my opinion on that is their hatred toward me. it wasn t anything to do with marc. it didn t have anything to do with marc. it was all about jack despain s hatred toward me. you seriously believe that? i do. michelle, out on bail, waited for trial.
life ended all too soon. what happened to your husband, man? i believe he s he s dead. he was laying on the floor, and i got scared. i ran out of the house. a young father murdered in broad daylight. didn t look like a robbery. lots of valuables left behind. lots of secrets too. it kind of just sent chills up my back. something was tearing a family apart. i don t even know where to start. or was it someone? the most cold-blooded evil person. a family feud and an innocent man caught in the middle. you know these shows that poem watch that people see the ghosts of their loved ones? i wanted that so bad. so bad. hello and welcome to dateline. marc despain was a family man, a loving son, devoted husband,
would be the same [ bleep ] that would be in your face plotting on you. if the hit man was telling the truth detective brooks hunch had been right. someone who claimed to love marc also plotted his death. but who? coming up michelle confesses to an affair. my dad didn t know that. marc didn t. nobody knew that. and there was another surprise. there were two insurance policies, each for the amount of $500,000. when the root of all evil continues. skin if dupixent has your moderate to severe eczema or atopic dermatitis under control? hide my skin? not me. by hitting eczema where it counts, dupixent helps heal your skin from within keeping you one step ahead of eczema. hide my skin? not me. and that means long-lasting clearer skin. and fast itch relief for adults. with dupixent, you can show more skin with less eczema.
know, stepped in as a husband, like a husband should do. that s how it began, the trouble between father and son. the trouble that was going to get so much worse. marc split away from the family business. michelle helped him with bookkeeping. i was just amazed at what they were able to accomplish. and they were a good team, said michelle s mother, kathy. they both just had the ability to work together and make money. marc got into real estate investment. his first, a trailer park no one else would touch. i couldn t believe he bought that. what are you thinking? have you lost your mind? he flipped it. made about $100,000 profit. so having done it once he figured he could do it again and absolutely. and the money seemed to roll in. marc moved his family to an upscale neighborhood in the southern part of town. adrift from his own parents, he spent more and more time with
present. you know, it s very unusual because usually they just go out and buy whatever they want. not anymore. that summer 2011 jonesboro real estate was far from recovered. many of marc s rental properties were underwater. the bank was closing in. tenants were being forced out of their homes. so was anybody upset with marc? was this any of his tenants? could this have been somebody like that? and then an ugly little surprise crawled out of marc s own troubled family. marc and his parents were lobbing lawsuits at each other over some shared property. the prosecutor heard that marc s dad, jack, was a hothead. jack was very, very angry at marc for mishandling this it property that they co-owned together. yes. but it went deeper than that, went to a very dark place, as you will see. and because of it marc hadn t spoken to his parents in years. so when jack showed up at the