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hands and boom, boom. it could ve been, absolutely. but that holster being out there, there s just no other reason why that holster would be out there. reporter: that was agent thompson s theory anyway. was tom jaraczeski capable of such a thing? well, he already admitted he sneaked into ann s house when it was empty. and so, thought agent thompson, he must have been perfectly capable of walking into dr. rein s place too and stealing that gun. he had plenty of opportunity to get the gun. i mean, the trailer was never locked. reporter: but why would he get bryan s gun? he could get a gun anywhere. it s montana, for god s sake, everybody s got a gun. he certainly had the ability to go over there undetected and walk into that trailer. ample time to look around, to grab the gun. reporter: so that became the leading theory. larry hagenbuch, the doctor s troubled friend, if that s truly what he was, remained a person of interest, but the primary
and tomatoes. reporter: and in the bunkhouse? egg shells in the garbage. dirty dishes in the sink. as if he d made breakfast. although dr. rein s sister testified that it was bryan s habit to stay up late, make eggs and work late into the night, the defense said the evidence pointed to dr. rein being killed not friday night but some time saturday. and there was a certain someone who had no alibi for saturday. someone you ve already met. remember him? larry hagenbuch was about to take the witness stand. and it s your statement that you then just went home. is that right? correct. and you were home alone that night? that s right. reporter: no question what the defense was about to imply, that the killer could have been him. coming up he told this woman that mr. rein was shot with his own gun.
he wants either more pills from mr. rein. mr. rein refuses. and larry goes for the gun. reporter: thing is, the day bryan s body was discovered, larry admitted he had gone over to the bunkhouse. and the morning after, larry broke down crying in the waiting room of a counselor s office. and while people around him listened, he described things only someone with intimate knowledge of the crime scene would know about. he started describing things you wouldn t know unless you had been there. that mr. rein was laying on his back with his feet crossed, blood all over. but the one fact that i think that s the most important that stood out to me was that he told this woman on monday morning that mr. rein was shot with his own gun.
and by the time he got to the doctor s bunkhouse, the locals had been gone, the scene left unguarded for more than 24 hours. montana s a remote state. sometimes you ll drive eight hours to get to the crime scene. so it s not like a big city where you can roll in and everything s pristine. reporter: no, not even close. in fact, the deputies and local coroner had spent just a few hours tromping around bryan s kitchen, had taken about a dozen photos. and in the process, had done things that couldn t be undone. like cleaning up blood on the floor under the victim s upper body. and tossing into the garbage a telephone handset found under dr. rein s head without swabbing for dna or dusting for fingerprints. those discarded materials were beyond recovery by the time investigator thompson arrived. the local deputies did tell him they found a water shoe on the bunkhouse doorstep. it appeared to have been knocked off in the struggle.