information. probably within an hour of being on the scene. i got text and phone calls from her. nick wants to know what? i wasn t sure it first. he was asking questions about what was going, on if i knew anything. wasn t it concerned about keeping his affair with terror under wraps? or something else? melanie told the detectives that tara had broken things off with nick before she died. and told melanie that it had not ended well. she just told him, it s not right. were both married. what we are doing is not a good thing. her conscience? yes. he did not want to let her go? did not sound like it. now, jones sought nick could be another suspect. so he visited next home, and did not tell him the conversation was being recorded. nick quickly admitted the affair. the wife was there to hear everything. there s gonna be some things
alone and heard the dark talk. she looked outside, and the truck was gone. she said hey, levi s truck got stolen. and i said hey, what happened, is levi home? she said no he was at work last night. that made melanie wary, and it turns out, there was plenty to worry about. two weeks later on a sunday, the kids wear away visiting levi chavez dad. levi himself had a quiet weekend on patrol. but when he stopped to check on tara, and saw what was in front of him, this police officer found himself on the other end of an anguished call to 9-1-1. please have somebody come here right away. please. coming up! the distraught husband, overcome by guilt. i will never forget myself. never. when dateline continues! when dateline continues [ dinosaur snarls ] flo: it s a good thing you bundled your home, auto, and rv insurance with progressive.
tara s friend, melanie, says that kind of thing had been going on ever since high school. it wasn t just one girl, two girls, it was numerous girls. so you never really stopped? no. detective jones tracked down this woman, rose slaw, a married mother of three. rose says, at the time of terry s death, she and levi had been sleeping together for two years by the time i came around, i was shocked to be number three. number three? he was a third affair? no, when he opened his phone, i was number three on his phone speed dial. leave i was open with you, not just that he was married, but in addition to being married, an addition to having an affair with you, and another girlfriend, someone who, was well, a little higher up in the hierarchy than you were, and you are okay with? that yeah. juggling multiple mistresses while married was apparently nothing new for levi. rose said, levi s multitasking skills made it all possible.
i knew tara. but, what about the depressed person who emerges from that diary that police found at the scene? karen s family points out, many of the darker passages in that journal world several years old. her journal, i think, was an outlet for her to vent sometimes. geno cordova, terry sister-in-law. i mean, i m married. i have kids. sometimes, i just want to disappear. it doesn t mean that i m going to harm myself in any way. the very last entry, three months before her death, suggests tara was, in fact, the opposite of the price. terrell wrote, goodbye to the person i used to be. welcome new day, happiness. i think the last statement within her diary said it all. happiness. her family says she had lots to be happy about. tara was finally making plans to open that new hair salon she had long dreamed of.
debra romero that night [00:46:50] slama. and only found her dead when he returned home to check on her slama. this story that roe says it s quite different. you know you re the only person that tells that story yes you sure that s what he said to i m absolutely positively sure. this new story was puzzling to jones but it did match one thing the detective recalled seeing at the scene, a wet towel. rose had even more to reveal in your deposition. remember, she d been sleeping with levi, but also had been a client of tara, at her salon. presumably, you chatted with her the way women do with their hairstylists? yeah it was this double edged role as paramour to levi, and as it turned out, confidant to tara, that would put rose slama at the center of this investigation. lead investigators to a possible motive. the last time she saw tara, rose says, terry told you something odd about that truck