acts. he just said that his wife was putting him there s so much. but soon, he bounce back. a new life with a gorgeous, new fiancee. that is when it started. he felt threatened. he says, i m afraid for my life. haunted. i said, you re being melodramatic. he said, no, this is really happening. ambush from inside his million dollar dream house. suddenly, he started to scrape. shot to death. a crime of passion, said police. somebody wanted this man dead very, very badly. the question was, who? his ex? she was losing everything. or someone else? the arrest was startling. the strategy in the courtroom, that was the biggest surprise of all. he was overweight, but if shape, to that, too sick. yes. hello, welcome to dateline. a devoted father got down in his own home by someone on the stairs. it was a case that made national news because of its unusual defense. the accused argued he was simply too obese to carry out the killing. what that argum
concerned about his kids. in the midst of a nasty divorce with a bitter acts. he just said that his wife was putting him there s so much. but soon, he bounce back. a new life with a gorgeous, new field say. that is when it started. he felt threatened. he says, i m afraid for my life. haunted. i said, you re being melodramatic. he said, no, this is really happening. ambush from inside his million dollar dream house. suddenly, he started to scrape. shot to death. a crime of passion, said police. somebody wanted this man dead very, very badly. the question was, who? his ex? she was losing everything. or someone else? the arrest was startling. the strategy in the courtroom, that was the biggest surprise of all. he was overweight, but if shape, to that, too sick. yes. hello, welcome to dateline. a devoted father got down in his own home by someone on the stairs. it was a case that made national news because of its unusual defense. the accused ar
with the slanderous accusations. he was quite depressed, paul was. his name out there in the medical field was you know, no one wanted to hire him. meanwhile, stacey was on the phone constantly to her parents down in florida. the single topic? berating paul and the slow motion to force. it became official finally and january of all five. he bought her out of the house in ramsey, new jersey. the money she is to buy at nearby condo. and keep her alimony in on some. he came to him and said, i m divorce. i m like, congratulations. we went over a cocktail away went home. the celebration turned out to be a false armistice. the two had quickly entered a cold face over child custody. in court papers, he thundered that she was abusing drugs, addiction had made her an unfit mother. she loudly denied it and got a restraining order against him. trump beneath the volleys from
actually did it. they like, who? ed. at, stacey s father. michael hurts told police the same thing when he learned of paul s death. he even thought it might try to nail him next. we all wondered around wondering if we were next on the hit list. you thought there is an enemy list of friends of paul? exactly. homicide list always pose a question, who benefited from the murder? here the victims brother investment were telling the police that stacey unquestionably stood to gain from her ex s death. she would be free now to move to florida with her children and raise them with money from the million dollar trust fund paul had set up for them. and who was the shooter in this? the father, giving the daughter a monstrous and bloody gift of liberation from a man they both loathed. detective stretch a call at at his home in florida, they say the way dotty said that
for her home. john says the way his brother saw it, stacey had only one option. to move in with her parents, and and daddy in florida. the child custody arrangement would allow for that. every time stacey had the kids, my brothers concern was that they would be taken out of state. and a battle fighting through courts again. to get the kids again. behind that fear of losing his kids was an even darker threat. paul shared it with his partner, nancy, as the kids sign on the back yard. he said that earlier in the year, his heater in his pool had been cranked up to 100 degrees. he was convinced it was no accident. he says, i m afraid for my life. i remember looking at the other mom and we were frozen. i mean we really were. pretty soon, where it was getting around with his new business associates that paul