and he told the jury, one more important detail. the s-u-v in the video had a fog light defect, one that cast a distinct headlight pattern. what we re seeing from this vehicle is that it has this white light that is on the ground that moves in front of the vehicle. detectives tracked down gil s white s-u-v which he sold a few weeks after tom s death and drove it along the same route seen in the security footage. sure enough, when we went out to the scene and did our tests, we turned the lights on and there was the pattern that was quite visible. gil s car had the same defect visible in the video. prosecutors thought it was just what they needed to place gil at the crime scene and tie all their evidence together. that was a unique feature to that vehicle. and it was still exactly the same a year later. i have yet to find another nissan pathfinder, color white,
the s-u-v in the video had a fog light defect, one that cast a distinct headlight pattern. what we re seeing from this vehicle is that it has this white light that is on the ground that moves in front of the vehicle. detectives tracked down gil s white s-u-v which he sold a few weeks after tom s death and drove it along the same route seen in the security footage. sure enough, when we went out to the scene and did our tests, we turned the lights on and there was the pattern that was quite visible. gil s car had the same defect visible in the video. prosecutors thought it was just what they needed to place gil at the crime scene and tie all their evidence together. that was a unique feature to that vehicle. and it was still exactly the same a year later. i have yet to find another nissan pathfinder, color white, with those exact same issues.
like that. i have nothing to do with whatever was in tom s system. i had nothing to do with any of that. reporter: did you give him a polygraph, as well? we offered. reporter: did he take it? no. the next day after that interview, we were contacted by a lawyer stating that there d be no further contact with his client. reporter: meanwhile, linda was reeling from all that police had told her. from the images of the white s-u-v in the video, to the drug in her husband s system that a dentist like gil would have access to. like investigators, she now believed her lover had killed her husband. i didn t ever wanna speak to him again. reporter: but saugerties is a small place, and within days linda says she found gil waiting for her outside a chinese restaurant. he s sittin in the parkin lot and gets out of his car and starts screamin at me and we d get in a huge fight. and he s, like, they re tryin to pin this on me and they say you were involved. and i m, like, i was
results would turn this tragedy into a tangled mystery. coming up what had thoold tom kolman. 40-year-old men don t drop dead like that. we didn t believe it. why? exercise and death. you look at the closest people first, usually the spouse. a blockbuster new clue. what did that video show? we were able to observe a white suv arrive in the parking lot. someone else was there with him that morning. when dateline continues. ( )
reporter: the mystery s-u-v left around 5:30am. but tom s car never moved. what does that tell you? there had to be contact between the two to meet at this point, at that hour. so we knew now that someone had met with him prior to his death. and we now have to figure out who that is. reporter: easier said than done, of course. we just pulled up here. and lo and behold, there was a white suv here beside us. there is a white suv there. there is a white suv there. once you think about it, there s a lot of white suvs. they re everywhere. they re everywhere. reporter: but thanks to the video, investigators now thought they had an important lead to help narrow their search. whoever tom was interacting with in this white suv, he was expecting him. and he he knew him. reporter: time for investigators to start looking at tom s inner circle. picking apart his simple suburban life.