then came prosecutor terri norris s turn. and she started by attacking the credibility of those witnesses who say they saw the cars. if you were to believe all of these vehicles were there, there was a party at the foley home that day, with a bunch of white cars, and a black suv. that makes no sense whatsoever. none. terri norris wanted this jury thinking only one thing. who had the motive? it s tom foley. whose fingerprint was on the bag of shells in the basement? tom foley. tom foley is guilty. and i m asking you to bring the back that verdict. the outcome of tom s second trial was far from certain. what worried you the most? just that he was such a nice guy, that you would never have guessed that he would ve done something like this. he didn t seem like murder? right. and then, at the fabled 11th hour, it was time. the jury filed in. were they looking at you, the jurors? no, they weren t. i talk a couple of deep breaths and i just
he also says he went to counseling to work on their communication problems. after those sessions, did things get better? absolutely. but then why was it so easy for tom to become intimate with marianne crandall so soon after dar s death? just three weeks after dar died, and you re in the house were dar died what am i to think of that? think that i don t care about what just happened to my wife. that s not true. if i go back and change it, i would. but i can t. this was an event that involved grief and a reaching out and it happened. do you love your wife? i love her very much. did you love her on february 7th, 2009? very much so. did you have anything to do with her death? not at all. before closing arguments, the prosecutor had one more
i think there s evil in him. prosecutor terri norris agreed. who killed dar foley? tom foley. there is nobody else. a year and a half after tom foley s conviction, both sides file back into the courthouse to one again determine tom s fate. circuit court is now in session. as before, the state opened its case with the crime scene analysts. why is it that you found? yellow dunham s bag. located in the bag was three shells. these are phone records norris also showed the jury the records from around the time dar was killed. there were no phone calls that either came in or left. your wife doesn t show up somewhere, why not call home and see, have you left yet? where are you? we re waiting for you. that s what i would do. according to detective carbon, tom did not bother calling dar at home because he
Branch County commissioners discussed administrator Bud Norman’s employment contract during an hour-long closed session Tuesday morning as part of his annual evaluation.