details. that was the worst day of my life that i found out about my mom. a loving couple. a romantic hike. a secluded spot. she was turning to look at the bird. it s like her feet just went out from under her. all of a sudden i hear yelling coming from downstream. there was mrs. muller floating face up. a wife falling to her death. her husband falling apart. he was panicking and shaking. crying. the evidence at the scene makes you believe something entirely different happened. he told me she fell 20 feet. where were the injuries? why did i not see what i expected to see? a search for truth in the woods and water. if your theory is right, it is. loo like she was being hunted. almost like a hare and a wolf. two chilling accounts of what happened to the mom they adored. one seemingly unsolve able mystery. you either believe crazy story a or crazy story b. both stories are crazy. which one do you want to go with? winding down a mountain in southwest col
day leslie died was unusual. fred, to him, showed a lack of emotion. but what really spoke volumes to the sheriff and his team was something they knew well. the terrain around cottonwood creek. as fred told them, leslie did a swan dive from up there, landing on her head and shoulders on this rock. then, she slid into the water. a horrible accident. but to local law enforcement something seemed off. the first trained rescuer on the scene noticed at first what appeared to be a major inconsistency in that story. after such a treacherous fall, leslie s body didn t look at all injured. he told me she fell 20 feet. where was the trauma? where were the injuries? why did i not see what i expected to see? reporter: one look at the dropoff and sheriff bruce was asking the same thing.
cottonwood creek and hope the water could. coming up, fred has always said that water carried leslie away. to here. where her body was found. now, investigators put that story to the test. we had to go back and try to duplicate the water flow as it was on the evening of the event. they said there was no way that her body would have ended up under that log unless it had been placed there. when dateline continues. d t. when dateline continues. you re the one that i want! nexgard® plus helps you protect your dog from fleas, ticks, heartworm disease and more.
against fred . what we learned about the defendant yesterday is that he can sell anything, but he can t sell you the impossible . from our perspective, that is what he tried to do, he tried to sell emergency responders, cbi, the jury s, quite frankly try to sell a story that was simply impossible . could this jury rise to the challenge and once and for all make sense of what happened at cottonwood creek? coming up, jurors get the case . either you believe crazy story a, she fell down that cliff, or you believe crazy story b, that fred, who has no history of violence, killed his wife. both stories are crazy. which one do you want to go with? mueller when dateline continues. teline continues. blistering rash that can last for weeks.
bring the jury to cottonwood creek, but in january, the terrain was virtually impassable with snow and ice. it was up to prosecutors to set the scene and share why they thought fred s story defied common sense and science. injuries are going to tell you a story that leslie mueller was drowned by her husband . prosecutors called michael golda, the first trained rescuer on the scene peers i m asking, what happened? tell me what happened. and he relates that she apparently had fallen off the waterfall. fred told golda the same thing he told investigators. he watched leslie swan dive off a cliff, hitting granite before sliding into the water. all of a sudden, i was struck with the fact that there was no trauma. there was no deformities, there was no blood. even leslie s clothing seemed unscathed. did you notice any markings, tears, scrapes on the jacket,