hindsight, i think he knew [sighs] probably by my body language. and just him knowin me as well as he did, that he was losin me. that night, linda felt she and tom were back on track. i remember comin upstairs and he picked me up and threw me on the bed and was, like, ticklin me. i think we both just felt like there s light at the end of this tunnel. and this is the old us. we re happy and silly and and we re gon we ll get through this, you know? the next morning tom was dead. and investigators were now learning details about his complicated personal life. a bit of a soap opera going on here. funny thing is, prior to meetin you guys, we said this is a dateline case. and here we are. [laughter] here we are. despite what they heard from linda and gil, investigators were somewhat skeptical that this love triangle really had no jealousy or resentment. d.a. investigator bill weishaupt. we had to try to determine, was there some type of relationship that we weren t
been together since tom died. phone records also proved tom and gil were indeed friendly until the end, texting each other throughout that last giants game tom watched. and gil, like tom, was well-respected around town. he works hard, and he is not interested in money, as far as i can tell. zach sklar is a patient of gil s and has always admired his generosity. does a lot of volunteer work in poor areas. did he ever say why he likes to do that? i think he s a man who cares. it s as as simple as that. i mean, he cares about his patients. and he cares that about, you know, people having access to good dental care. he was a member of the local chamber of commerce, a volunteer firefighter, voted one of the top hudson valley dentists five times, and chosen to endorse products in online ads. i m dr. gilberto nunez. i m a practitioner in kingston, new york. it was a very thriving practice. we were v we re very busy.
something liquid in his stomach that might have been coffee. we have a friend of the victim, having an affair with the wife, drives the same type of vehicle like on the video next to our victim on the day of the murder. this is now a murder investigation? 100%. they called linda down for more questions. they asked if i knew what drugs were in tom s system. they asked me about the relationship with gill. they asked me what i knew about that morning. they also decided to tell her about their suspicions, that her husband was murdered and gil was their prime suspect. i found it hard to believe, because he loved tom, he loved me. could he do that?
that gil, as a medical professional, figured out that tom s sleep apnea combined with the sedative could be a fatal combination. walk through your theory of what happened the morning of tom s death. the night before, i believe, gil and and tom had texted about meeting that morning. i think, at that point in time, gil wanted to meet up with tom because of the fact that he knew that he wasn t gettin linda. gil got out of his vehicle and entered tom s vehicle. at that point, maybe he brought him a coffee. i mean, it s early in the morning. here hey, bro. i brought you a coffee. we gotta talk. and a short time later, gil was driving away and tom was dead. but prosecutors faced a couple of obstacles. for one, the judge wouldn t let them use parts of gil s interview with the police because he had not been read his rights, so jurors never saw how gil initially denied to police he d ever heard of midazolam. so you don t keep midazolam in your office? what?
why are you so sure that there s not a darker side to gilberto nuã ez? i m not sure about anything. i think there s a darker side to all of us. people are complex. but there s absolutely no evidence that the guy committed murder. in court, gilberto was represented by two heavy hitters from new york city, evan lipton and gerald shargel who had previously defended mafia boss john gotti. they argued that the prosecution s case against their client was pure fantasy. they say that gil is such a schemer, but the plot they ve described here, it s like something out of a bad lifetime movie. the defense said if anyone was manipulating things it wasn t gil. it was linda. they read her texts to gil sent the very weekend she said she was rekindling her relationship with tom. i love you, i miss you. miss holding your hand. that soft spot scar on your face. mwah mwah mwah. can you just picture it?