that is in my office or anything like that. i have nothing to do with whatever was in tom s system. i had nothing to do with any of that. did you give him a polygraph, as well? we offered. did he take it? no. the next day after that interview, we were contacted by a lawyer stating that there d be no further contact with his client. meanwhile, linda was reeling from all that police had told her. from the images of the white suv in the video, to the drug in her husband s system that a dentist like gil would have access to. like investigators, she now believed her lover had killed her husband. i didn t ever want to speak to him again. but saugerties is a small place, and within days linda says she found gil waiting for her outside a chinese restaurant. he s sittin in the parkin lot and gets out of his car and starts screamin at me and we d get in a huge fight. and he s, like, they re tryin to pin this on me and they say you were involved.
these lights were not providing any illumination at all. the only thing we could observe was that the two vehicles were parked side by side for about 30-35 minutes. the mystery suv left around 5: 30am. but tom s car never moved. what does that tell you? there had to be contact between the two to meet at this point, at that hour. so we knew now that someone had met with him prior to his death. and we now have to figure out who that is. easier said than done, of course. we just pulled up here. and lo and behold, there was a white suv here beside us. there is a white suv there. there is a white suv there. once you think about it, there s a lot of white suvs. they re everywhere. they re everywhere. but thanks to the video, investigators now thought they had an important lead to help narrow their search. whoever tom was interacting with in this white suv, he was expecting him. and he
this could be medical or are you starting to think, we could have a homicide on our hands ? you can think both at that point in time because we ve had to wait for toxicology reports to come back to to come up with a cause of death. but in the meantime, we re we re thinking i would say thinking the worst. until we can disprove that it s not a homicide, we ve got to treat it as such. crime scene techs worked on tom s car and took swabs for clues. while detectives set out to learn more about his movements on the day he died. linda told police the last time she saw tom was the night before, watching football. she assumed he left for the gym the following morning around 5:30. so investigators pulled security video of the parking lot to see what that could tell them. it was dark and grainy but revealed a lot. in the video itself we were able to observe a white suv arrive in the parking lot of planet fitness, and that was about 4:30 in the morning. ten minutes later we actually
see thomas kolman s vehicle pull into the parking lot and park right next to this white suv. that s when we knew that obviously someone else was there with him that morning. the plot really thickened, i m sure, after seeing that video. yes. so this is the planet fitness right here? this is planet fitness to your right. this is where tom worked out every morning. i ll pull into tom s spot. bill weishaupt is a retired f-b-i agent and the chief investigator for the ulster county district attorney. he showed us in the light of day what s hard to see in that grainy video. this is exactly where tom was parked, right here. which is as you can see, it s a great distance away from the planet fitness where he normally worked out. and so this would not be a normal parking spot to pull into at that hour in the morning to work out in that gym. and the mystery suv pulled up where? mystery suv pulled up right here. so they were both facing which is this is north.
did you, kind of, think that this was going to be an open and shut case once you got the autopsy results? yeah. absolutely. and and that unfortunately was not not the outcome the next day. instead, the results would turn this tragedy into a tangled mystery. coming up what had happened to tom? 40-year-old men don t drop dead like that. we just couldn t believe it. why didn t you believe it? he was always in good shape. exercised and everything. if there s a death that s not a natural death. you look at the closest people first. usually the spouse. a blockbuster new clue. what did that video show? we were able to observe a white suv arrive in the parking lot. someone else was there with him that morning. when dateline continues.