month later, monday morning, september 24th, keith reed had vanished. the sheriff s people were dispatched again to do a daylight search of the grounds. it wasn t long before a canine handler reported back. keith reed, his body, had been found. immediately the dog found the body in the shrubs. keith s girlfriend kimberly was driving to a new job that morning when she got the news. she couldn t believe what she was hearing. he s dead. they found him. i just started crying and i said, no, that s not possible. but tucked into the hedge row about 50 feet from his driveway lee keith s body. he had been shot three times, twice in the back, once in the chest. all at close range. it was like, wow. how could this happen? who could ve done this? why would they do it? those same questions were soon roaring through the halls at keith school. principal ed bailey had gotten the news from the sheriff s office. i just about dropped the phone. i just couldn t believe it. we re talking a
yes. that s him? yes. mary i d advise those stills as being her husband, so we know it s him in the school. now authorities had a suspect. but where was he? mary said a few days after her husband returned, he told her he got a new job and quit his position as a historian at the marine base in quantico. robert, she said, also packed up some things and taken off. leaving behind a cryptic note about going on a camping trip to clear his head. at the time, it hadn t made sense to her. i didn t understand why he didn t want to take us, you know? if he s going to take a couple of weeks off, for a vacation. why wouldn t he take his family? but now, everything added up. the authorities issued a be on the lookout for anthony rob taglianetti, a manhunt was underway. we are actively looking for this individual, pick him up for questioning, and we consider him to be armed and dangerous. where were? where are the children? we were at a hotel. they
along with a shock in the community, came an unnerving question. given the national climate of school related shootings, could keith reed have been targeted because of his work leading the district? an angry student, a disgruntled parent. was any of that even remotely possible? i m thinking and going back through. did he have any enemies. who possibly could have been upset enough crazy enough to do something like this? you know? did you come out with any possibilities? there was one incident that i know of that the family was very upset with him. school related beef of some kind? school related. but, you know, nothing out of the ordinary. nothing that should have ever rose to this level.
over your school. the superintendent responded simply and directly. back off, stay away from me, or i will take action and tell your wife the same. that should have been the end of things? it should have been the end of things. but it wasn t? no. i have to read and keep this email, mary said rob started getting dressed. she asked him where he was going. he said, where do you think i m going? i said you re going to go see keith? and he said, well, i guess you know me. does he take off in the car? he leaves, late. 11:00 at night. that ll happened, she said, the night before investigators suspected keith reid had been killed. i had thought, in my mind, like there is no way he is going to go all the way up there just try and beat this guy up.
keith reed, rob taglianetti went on trial for second degree murder. he pleaded not guilty. ladies and gentlemen of the jury. the prosecutors told the jury that this case was about an explicit email that provoked a husband to kill. he sought out keith reed and shot him to death. the prosecutor laid out his case. taglianetti caught here on tape at the superintendents school, the day of the murder. a gold buick like taglianetti s spotted in reed s driveway that afternoon. and that piece of paper phone on s lawn, it was a atm receipt linked to rob s bank account. what a detail? wonderful. there were more incendiary details to, a flurry of them, prosecutors said, sent to keith the night before the murder. capital letters stuff. exclamation points. i m going to get you. i m going to take care of you. you don t mess with me and my family. and all but say goodnight forensic evidence found in taglianetti s car. in a case