you don t have a sexual relationship with somebody within two weeks after your wife s been murdered in that house. but the jury never heard marianne crandall s testimony because there was no indication of a romantic relationship prior to dar s murder, the judge ruled, just as he did in first trial, that her testimony was prejudicial and, therefore, inadmissible. it was a huge blow to the prosecution s case. it supports the position that they weren t this deeply in love couple that he kept trying to present. i mean, that would have proven that. but norris still had her two key witnesses, tom s own son heath and heath s friend skyler watty, both two years older and now more certain than ever about what they saw and heard the day dar was killed. last year at church camp i went for one of our activities. we fired shotguns, and it most resembled that sound. then it was time for heath to take the stand.
or killing her for the insurance money? absolutely not. that would be stupid. she made the money. why kill the golden goose? do you think they had a good marriage? i do. everything seemed to be going really good for them. it seemed sadistic, shooting your wife at point-blank range, killing the mother of your son on the very day he was celebrating his tenth birthday. he never would have done that to his son. police continued gathering evidence. ten days after tom s arrest, police brought heath foley in for a second interview. and this time heath did recall hearing a noise that day. 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.
like heath, skyler couldn t recall anything unusual about that day either. and then suddenly yeah. when we were outside during across the barn there was like a big crash, like way in the back of the house. like what did it sound like? it sounded like breaking glass and a bunch of things falling. like a vase just it was a loud sound. yeah. detective carbon showed skyler a drawing of the foley farm and ask skyler to place an x where he believes the sound originated. like somewhere around here? skyler placed the x just outside the first floor bathroom, the same room where dar foley had been shot. it appeared to us that skyler watty may have heard the shotgun blast that killed dar foley. detective carbon was also thinking this.
from the mouths of babes. or in this case one articulate 10-year-old boy, came what seemed like a case-breaking revelation. it was like a loud, loud sound. detective carbon believed 10-year-old skyler watty was an earwitness to the shotgun blast that killed dar foley. if true, it meant dar was murdered earlier than originally thought. more significantly, it wasn t tom foley was still in the house when the murder occurred. that lead was huge. it was very, very important. but if tom foley was in that house and pulled the trigger, the question remained why. the answer, said carbon, is quite simple. murder for money. potentially, yes. money, in the form of an insurance policy. i think that he wanted out of the marriage and did whatever he needed to do to make sure that that happened.
stopped. you don t have a sexual relationship with somebody within two weeks after your wife s been murdered in that house. but the jury never heard marianne crandall s testimony because there was no indication of a romantic relationship prior to dar s murder, the judge ruled, just as he did in first trial, that her testimony was prejudicial and, therefore, inadmissible. it was a huge blow to the prosecution s case. it supports the position that they weren t this deeply in love couple that he kept trying to present. i mean, that would have proven that. but norris still had her two key witnesses, tom s own son heath and heath s friend skyler watty, both two years older and now more certain than ever about what they saw and heard the day dar was killed. last year at church camp i went for one of our activities. we fired shotguns, and it most resembled that sound.