yes, but it wasn t bad. thank goodness. that s a great story. one time it happened at the white house. it was an email instead of sending it to dana perino they sent it to dana at the washington post. people at home don t know who the other dana is. our producer, megan, do you remember the text message i sent by mistake? [laughing]. did you think if i spell checked it too? wow, it must be be bad. the producers told brian he is not to tell that story. absolutely not. lisa? when i was working on capitol
dishes, clean the computers. reporter: for months investigators searched for evidence that tony had crossed the river from his home in manhattan to new jersey that night. they checked cameras at all the bridge and tunnel crossings. they poured over bus schedules, taxi and limo records. but in the end, they came up empty. you had no bridge video, you had no taxi receipts, you had no witnesses. you had nothing actually physically placing tony tung in teaneck. you re right. we didn t have him at the george washington bridge. we didn t. reporter: still, the investigators kept digging. remember those anonymous emails that had been sent to rob, suggesting that he was being watched? turns out they all traced back to tony tung. he created all of these on the same day, which was the same day that he learned about the affair. he used these email addresses to start contacting mr. cantor at some level just try to shame him into stop having an affair with his wife. reporter: that wasn
do that right away. reporter: former bergen county prosecutor, john molinelli was on the scene in those pre-dawn hours. unlike district attorney s office nationwide, in new jersey a county prosecutor is not just the chief law enforcement officer of the county, but also directly oversees the investigation of all major crimes. reporter: molinelli says from the first time he laid eyes on rob cantor s body, something didn t look right. so he asked the medical examiner to fast track an autopsy. you could see some indication that this wasn t just somebody who was just smoking in his bed and then the bed lit fire. reporter: what was your gut telling you as to what this could be? what you re looking at? the first thought was, well, whoever did this act lit the crime scene in an effort to to frustrate law enforcement
reporter: by the time he got there the victim s body had been taken outside. the body had suffered severe burns on the front of the body, more so than the back, which wasn t bad as badly burned. reporter: they would soon learn that the victim was the owner of the house, a 59-year-old man named rob cantor. his body had been found in a basement bedroom the same place where henry rodzen spotted the fire. lawler thought it strange that cantor had died so close to where the fire started. usually, you see healthy, middle-aged males and they re tryin to get away from the fire. so, maybe they re overcome by smoke. reporter: lawler wanted to look around the basement where the body was found, but it was flooded. we had to wait and have the fire department pump some of the water out so we could enter the basement and conduct our investigate. reporter: that job would take several hours giving detectives from the bergen county major crimes unit, time to question neighbors.
ex-wife. reporter: not only that, rob s friends told investigators that he had a younger lady in his life. a french woman named sophie meneut who lived across the river in manhattan. was this divorce because of the other woman? no, it definitely wasn t because of the other woman. they had been talking about divorce before, uh, sophie. reporter: the detectives had a lot of questions for the women in rob s life. coming up the estranged wife. we did bring her in and speak to her. [birds chirping] [brakes squealing] accidents can happen anytime that s why geico is here 24 hours a day everyday. geico, fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more