married, and lived in this quiet cul-de-sac with this woman, his wife, ashlee. he was just a guy that everybody wanted to be around. enthusiastic, full of energy? sometimes too much energy. but that s kind of one of the things i loved about him. just like candy and rob, ashlee and emmett met in a gym. there s was in college in utah 2003. also inseparable from that moment on. and they certainly made a striking young
who of course was also in a pick up truck with her lover emmett. here you can see rob leaving the store, looking at candy is parked bmw than strangely getting to his pick up, pulling, out and three parking on the other side of candies car. curiously, his door now just out of range of the store surveillance camera. this is why he made that phone call, the one in which candy confessed she had been with her boss and he said to rob what s up chief? and here was emits truck speeding through the parking lot. still time to stop this. if wiser heads have been in charge. but they weren t. nothing lies about what s coming. i see robbyn his truck and he has just this look on his face like oh man, and i get out of the truck. then emmett gets out. and rob gets out. walks over to us. this is just the sort of moment in which a person might have wanted to cool a heated atmosphere. control the
remember. so the defense offered a theory that emmett started the fire. then the gun fell on the ground. emmett grabbed it, shot rob in the pause rob grabbed ahold and fired back in self defence. and the courtroom came to a halt. every head turned when a star witness took the stand to support that theory. would you please state and spell your name for the record? candy hall. candy, who repeated the story on the stand, that she told us of emmett pushing rob. emmett becoming enraged of hearing the two men scuffle as she walked away before she heard, but did not see, the shooting. the only problem, she told the police a very different story the night it happened. you told detective miller that night you did not see or hear a physical altercation, isn t that right? i don t know. i don t remember. in fact, candy changed her story about so many things, all helpful to rob s case. i m trying to clarify that your story has changed after
what did he say? he was angry, candy, what is this? and i said, i don t know. so he calls emmett. rob goes why are you texting my wife at this time of night? emmett s answer? two minutes later he showed up at rob s house, they talked like duelling lovers out on the sidewalk and rob came back inside. rob tossed my phone up on our bed and he said, you win. i can t compete. he s young, he s a good looking guy. he s an attorney, you make him a lot of money. what good am i? and he was just devastated. now you got yourself a pretty complicated life at this stage? yeah. of course, by february of 2011, emmett s life was
but if they believed they were hiding their obvious infatuation, their suddenly messy hair, hastily rearranged clothes, they were only fooling themselves. i noticed a significant change in her attitude went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy, you know. a spring in her step again? oh, yeah. such timing. now that rob seemed to fix their marriage. honesty took a holiday. i was living a lie, being in an affair is living one big lie. you lie about everything. yes. and she lied to herself, too. you were thinking of you and he together striding across the bow of the titanic. it s going to be it for you forever? yes. then one night ago a couple months ago the affair ticks toward their deadly conclusion. around bed time, candy received a text from emmett and couldn t hide it. the text popped up and rob read it and it said, i wish i was there with you tonight.