skyler talks about hearing this unusual sound. do you remember anything like that? our neighbors, like, shoot guns. like maybe a gunshot or maybe like glass broke. i don t know. it was one of those two things maybe. according to tom, the sound he heard was nothing more than glass breaking. they re old barn windows that i was trying to clean up and i went to grab them and one of them slipped out of my grip and it smashed on our back porch steps. and made a lot of noise. yeah, it did. yep. but detective carbon wasn t buying tom s explanation. the boys were playing over by this barn? yes. and how far is that to the house? it s approximately 75 yards. mr. foley claimed he with was dropping a window. would that sound have penetrated that far? in my opinion, that couldn t have happened. police also say they carefully searched that area around the back porch.
midway through tom foley s trial the talk around coldwater focused on the damaging testimony from skyler watty and tom s own son heath. what did you think was the strongest part of your case? the boys. the testimony of the boys. they heard the gunshot. but the defense was about to argue that over time both boys testimony had changed and in significant ways. heath is now stating that it sounds like a gunshot? it s something that he didn t say in the first interview. the same thing with skyler. heath s courtroom testimony left tom furious, not at his son but at his accusers, the people who had cared for heath while tom was incarcerated. that s somebody coaching him or encouraging him? i believe so. coached or not, tom foley s defense team knew from day one that they needed to prove the sound those boys heard was tom dropping a window frame on the back porch and not the fatal gun blast.
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wondering who killed my wife was on my mind. they don t know the things that i ve been through. maybe so, but detective carbon was with keeping a very watchful eye on tom foley. he decided to interview the other foley who was at the farm the day dar was killed, tom and dar s son, heath. heath, like i told you, i m detective sergeant carbon. on that day, heath and his friend skyler watty were inside the house playing video games, waiting to be driven to heath s birthday celebration. did you see anything different or out of the ordinary or anybody walking around, anybody come up to the door, anything that you could think of? not really. okay. the detective also interviewed skyler watty who said right before leaving for the party tom sent the two boys outside to go start up the truck. he said that he ll be out there in a little bit. okay. i don t know what he was doing in there, taking a shower or what.
to say that it works in 3 days really is a big deal. midway through tom foley s trial the talk around coldwater focused on the damaging testimony from skyler watty and tom s own son heath. what did you think was the strongest part of your case? the boys.