is dateline. here s the person i love he s dying. her husband, a decorated military officer. shot in the dark of night. it wasn t execution. was this some sort of hit? he was in the special forces, there must have been something at work. that is what police thought to. until they learned about the secret life of this husband and wife. they were on the internet. was there a foreign affair? they were meeting for sex about four times a week. did it lead to murder? she was absolutely cold blooded. soon there would be questions for mother and daughter. it was another shock. welcome to dateline, when i respected military officer was attacked in the middle of the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets that might hold a key to murder. he is key morrison. the wind in the northern prairies sweeps across a vast flat land. scenes through sparse lot, at a military cemetery a few miles south of the canadian
there must of been something at work. that s what police thought to until they learned about the secret life of this husband and wife. we met people in an. it was their forbidden affair? they were probably meeting for sex about four times a. lead and didn t lead to murder? she is absolutely cold blooded. soon there will be questions for mother and daughter. give us another shot. welcome to dateline. when a respected military officer was attacked in the middle of the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets that might hold the key to murder. here s keith morrison. the wind in the northern prairies sweeps across the vast flatland, seen through sparse wood blocks, in the military cemetery a few miles south of the canadian border. the final resting spot for a few dozen veterans. many of whom died in combat. this is where he is resting now, major david chalian, who lost his life in 2002. his mother,, surely comes here to
at them like what? i could not believe it. was he watching me? that fire was set to throw us off. he was very calculating. years before, his wife killed herself. yes, he claimed she committed suicide days before she was due to give birth to their first child. she was extremely excited for that first baby. it made me wonder okay, is he a murderer? so, now you are trying to prove a very old mother with pretty much no evidence. is a kind of gloating that he got away with it? he is thinking well, catch me if you can. we re going to do her and her family justice. we re going to solve this murder. hello, and welcome to dateline. meg purk was a young mom to be, over the moon to be having her first child. then, just days before her due date, she died of an apparent suicide. her family struggled to understand why, but in a strange twist, a house fire sat decades later would point to a possible answer and put investigators on the trail toward the truth. here is josh m
some kind of love triangle. i started to ask questions, the couples that i met, anybody that she was involved romantically with that made her husband know about what he did know about. did she offer? anything she identified a guy by the name of jeffrey wilson. jeffrey wilson. it turns out that david actually met him first on line. jeffrey was also in the army, based at fort bragg like the major. he went by the name black stunt man. by now, the deputy a, billy west, was monitoring the investigation. the online chat friends, i think chatting about the swinging lifestyle and that sort of thing. and david actually said that you need to meet my twice and invited him to a swinging party. they all got together at the hotel, just social that first-time, no sex. there was a second swingers party that both the shannon s
something you didn t so it didn t sound surprising that liz would try to set up her mom like that. because as a child, if there was trouble, liz was usually there. but she always had to share the blame. she blamed somebody else? oh, yeah. even if she was caught red handed? absolutely. elizabeth always shared the blame. so now joan shannon s fate would be decided by a jury. da billy west told them about joan and david s swinging lifestyle. joan s affair. jeffrey wilson s claim she wanted to run away with him financed with insurance money from david s death. then there was the allegation that joan tried to poison david. and testimony from a young man who insisted joan asked elizabeth to recruit him to commit the murder and