turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know if the suspect is still out. there it s nerve racking. who killed your husband? oh my god. a small town murder with a big time twist. she knew somebody that she wasn t telling. yes sir. hello and welcome to dateline. at six four and nearly 300 pounds, robert poynter looked menacing. but to love once he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others but no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered only fuzzy details and yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus here is josh mankiewicz with out of the darkness . 9-1-1. this friday night sounded like trouble. it was 10:47 pm, a woman calling 9-1-1 santa desperate. calm down. what do you need? we are you at? i ma am, we are u.s.? i reporter: she was on the cell phone, somewhere on the outskirts of town. this is hunt county wit
she had mud and blood all over. her panicked, saying her husband had been shot. a woman in distress, a murder in the dead of night. i m trying. we were concerned for her. that s my husband s body. yes sir. did she say who shot her husband? that s all i saw. she said just a figure, who turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know if the suspect is still out. there it s nerve racking. who killed your husband? oh my god. a small town murder with a big time twist. she knew somebody that she wasn t telling. yes sir. hello and welcome to dateline. at six four and nearly 300 pounds, but robert poynter looked menacing. but to love once he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others but no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered only fuzzy details and yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus here is josh mankiewicz with o
bob married young and had two kids. after 19 years, that marriage fell apart, extensively so. around then is when bob met chacey, who was much younger. i think it wasn t infatuation. someone 22 years old. he s in his forties. you know? a feeling. a fling, basically, yeah. reporter: it wasn t a fling. bob married chacey. it is a fresh start for bob, with this woman born and raised in small town texas. she had a heart of gold. she loved everybody. actually mid chacey back in middle school, back when royse city was a speck on the map. there was nothing here, we had one jack-in-the-box, and a gas station. that was it. farm town? farm town, just country. quiet. very quiet.
winding up as a captain in the university park department outside dallas. and from his firehouse, from the rug, even from the fires, bob kept in very close touch with his mom. we had the report, 10 to 15 calls a day. 10 to 15 calls a day? mama s boy. i know, truly. i adored him. so these fellow firefighters, they said, he got it done. even helped in louisiana after hurricane katrina. and he always came home unscathed. professionally speaking, anyway. bob s personal life was also a story of a man who ran toward trouble. bob married young and had two kids. after 19 years, that marriage fell apart, extensively so. around then is when bob met chacey, who was much younger. i think it wasn t infatuation.