and i m, like, i wasn t. you did this. get away from me. he was saying that the police were saying you were involved? and i was, like, okay. you know, liar, and he was, like, i didn t, i didn t. but while both linda and the police were convinced gil was behind tom s death, investigators had no solid evidence. that grainy video didn t conclusively put him at the scene and they couldn t prove the sedative found in tom s system came from gil s office. the district attorney told his chief investigator they didn t have a case. we didn t have the evidence that i felt or that my boss felt was compelling to put before a jury. but the investigation wasn t over. detectives were hoping they would find gil s d-n-a in tom s car and link him to the crime scene. while they waited for those test results, they let tom s family know they were investigating the death as a homicide. tom s ex-wife, michele, called linda for an explanation.
not a search for a question about the drug. not how to kill with midazolam. a search that led to a wikipedia page. that search says nothing. as for the prosecution s star witness, the forensic video analyst who placed gilberto s s-u-v at the scene, the defense said his findings proved nothing. even the expert doesn t say, oh yes, i see in in the video surveillance it was tom kolman with gilberto in the car. no, he didn t even see if someone went from one car to the other car. the defense raised another possibility about who was in the white s-u-v. they reminded jurors, tom was found with his clothes disheveled and pants undone. and suggested that tom may have had some kind of liaison planned. an examination of his phone revealed that he had received an email from a hook-up website called be-naughty.com. the website that was found on his phone was benaughty.com, it was never the subject of any investigation in this case.
i didn t like the fact that here s a marriage in trouble. and there s guy s will prey on that, you know? if he s a gentleman, he says, i ll wait in the wings. and if this flies, fine. but you know, he didn t. no. apparently, nothing could keep the lovers apart. james emailed rachel, hey, my love. i miss you something awfully bad. i ve be crying on and off since sunday. i m dying inside. my heart is shattered. i love you endlessly my sweet love. no, this wasn t over. not the affair. not the marriage, either.. and not the confrontation. something was coming. watch out. 9-1-1, what s your emergency? i m calling to report a fatality. where did this occur? it s in the cameron park airpark. coming up i was in my yard and saw the
was still a mystery. but detectives now had a juicy love triangle smack in the middle of their investigation. they asked linda to come down to the station to share her side of the story. i told em everything. i didn t care anymore. at that point i wasn t hiding a thing. how did you meet gilberto nunez? i met him at my son s kindergarten orientation. he had a child in the same kindergarten class. he had a child in the same kindergarten class. right. a son? yes. that was in 2009, gil was married then. and the two couples started socializing. we all seemed to like each other and we re friendly and, they would just say, hey, wanna go out to dinner, whatever, and okay. and then, you started to get to know him better?
happened. he was a large man. but since tom s death was what police call an unattended death , there had to be an investigation. detective mike thomas and lieutenant kyle berardi both worked the case for the ulster police department. they took note of how linda, the wife, was reacting at the scene. her demeanor, was it exactly what you would expect from a wife making a discovery like this? 100%. 100%. there was nothing out of the ordinary with her reaction, her words. it was more hysteria. police escorted linda down to the station to ask her questions about tom s health. she had mentioned to us that he had hypertension. he had sleep apnea, which if you re not familiar with sleep apnea, unfortunately, they ultimately stop breathing at certain times during the night. that sounds dangerous. absolutely. he was diagnosed by his doctor as having a severe case of sleep apnea.