not really. as james white s daughter, katelyn, told us i was told that monsters don t exist. my parents always told me that. and after going through that trial and seeing what i had to see, i can tell you with absolute certainty that that is 110% false. he is a monster. reporter: and rachel s men? we weren t surprised to hear that james has his own idea of what justice might be. did you have any thought about what would happen if the justice system didn t look after todd in a way that seemed reasonable to you? he would have been dealt with. reporter: by whom? me. reporter: you know, they could have put you in prison for life. it would have been a one-way mission. he and i are both goig to go down together. i m not going to shoot him. i m going to kill him with my two bare hands. i m going to do to him what he did to rachel. reporter: tim cherrington,
and i haven t asked her to marry me yet. and reporter: did you wanna have kids? i did. i did. i did, but i just wasn t there yet, you know what i m saying? well. it s an old story, isn t it? tim was blindsided by what happened next. rachel met another man, someone who was everything tim was not. todd winkler. focused, disciplined. a former f-16 fighter pilot, who was on track to be a corporate leader. tim scrambled. and i went and bought a ring real quick to propose to her. and i did. it was too late by then, of course. rachel turned him down, and announced her engagement to todd. it was really hard, you know, because the love of my life was leaving me for some guy that had a good job and a house and a boat and a nice car. tim, to me, was rachel s soul mate. he was nothing but loving and kind to her. we were both twenty-once.
and don was a guy who d been carrying his guilt like a cross for years. i tried to lead all of my children to the love of jesus christ. there was only one major obstacle to that ever occurring in a way that that i would be happy with. and that was my hypocrisy. what do you mean? huh? your hypocrisy? my hypocrisy chasing women uh-huh. blowing my marriage. reporter: as don tells it, women found his role as an ascendant artist quite appealing. never mind he was a married father of four. and that kind of thing destroyed this - literally, destroyed my family. reporter: by the time rachel was in middle school, don s string of affairs led to a home-shattering divorce. i think that the the obliteration of the nuclear family had a profound effect on rachel. reporter: now, he feared, the apple hadn t fallen far from the tree. his daughter rachel was in the middle of an affair herself and it was putting her marriage at risk.
plane and just put her in debt for, like, $45,000. reporter: whoa. i was, like, whoa . i m all, aren t you freaking out? and she said, yeah, but we he ll take care of it. which, when he thought about it, sounded less like complaining than, maybe boasting. tim, after all, could barely qualify for credit at all. eventually, being on the outside looking in was just too hard. i couldn t take it no more. it s, you know it was getting harder and harder. so he asked her to stop calling him. he had to move on, start painting again, forget her, though as he admitted to us, he wasn t very successful. i thought, you know, maybe later on down the road, we can, you know, get together again and share life again. wishful thinking, of course. tim simply failed to understand that rachel s life with husband todd was getting more exciting by the day. when todd s company sent him to live briefly in australia, he invited rachel s dad to visit and paid his way.
the guy s an air force academy graduate. he s successful in business. he s a family man. he s you know, from the midwest. he s gotta be great. reporter: good, solid upper-middle class guy? up yeah, no. reporter: and he s got a plane and he s got planes and boats and you know, all over the place. what tim, the starving artist could offer, beyond love and loyalty, was a whole lot of nothing. todd, on the other hand. we went to orlando with them to disney world. reporter: and he was picking up the bill for this stuff? yeah. most of the time, yeah. don had no way of knowing that tim was, for a time, still in rachel s life. sort of. reporter: you didn t lose touch completely. no, we really kept in touch, and why would they do that? maybe because her marriage, rachel led tim to believe, wasn t all apple pie and ice cream . because she wanted to share with me what was going on. reporter: what did she tell you? she shared with me that todd took her cr