attempt at an alibi for adam frasch. can t win with a story like that. you believe it s an alibi, but it may just be as likely he really is terrified about her. when you couple a phone call that your wife is dead with the fact you call your wife, not law enforcement, to see, hey, i m being told my wife has passed away, i have the kids, what s going on? add that to the fact that he is not supposed to have custody of the kids at all. it didn t make sense. reporter: and, you know the story adam told of that last happy day with samira? well, security camera tapes from late that night told a very different story. first at an auto repair shop. adam trying to talk to her. samira, driving, backs up the car with the door open and him in it, like she doesn t seem to
reporter: i will kill you. the words of a man who looked guilty at every turn, said the prosecutor. of course the evidence was circumstantial, disputed. but there was one more player waiting in the wings. and what a story he would tell. coming up that tale would lead investigators back to the frasch house and a dramatic discovery. bingo. yeah, bingo. i literally looked at it for a minute. i was, like, seriously? when dateline continues. betty is saving big, holiday shopping at amazon. so now, she s free to become . bear hug betty. settle in kids, you ll be there a while. ooo, where you going? facing expensive vitamin c creams with dull results? olay brightens it up with new olay vitamin c.while.
they spent several months in a cell together. they did in top bunk, bottom bunk. reporter: prosecution investigator jason newlin talked to folsom in the county lockup. we got along with each other. we re both the same age. um, and we just hit it off real good. i believe the information he provided me was credible. reporter: and here was the story folsom said he got from dr. frasch on the day she died, samira discovered her husband had been texting another woman and she, hurt and angry, lost her temper, started a fight and ended up at the bottom of the pool. reporter: now on day three of adam frasch s trial, dale folsom raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and told that story to the jury. she started a fight that night, kicked him in the back. folsom s testimony about the fight between adam and samira was vivid and rich with detail. he defended himself pretty much. he thought they were fighting,
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matches samira frasch, and the frequency of occurrence was one in 510 quintillion. reporter: and there it was. the story of samira frasch s murder, wrapped up for the jury in a tidy package, thanks to dale folsom. but, did the doctor really confess? this was, after all, still a story coming from a jailhouse snitch, and the golf club with samira s dna on it? maybe not quite so obvious after all. defense attorneys were about to take on dale folsom, and his story, and they couldn t wait. coming up the prosecution s timeline, on trial. the absence of wrinkling of fingers or toes speaks to the likelihood that she has been immersed for a relatively short period of time. testimony that samira may have died later than the prosecutor contends. the greatest probability is