turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know if the suspect is still out. there it s nerve racking. who killed your husband? oh my god. a small town murder with a big time twist. she knew somebody that she wasn t telling. yes sir. hello and welcome to dateline. at six four and nearly 300 pounds, robert poynter looked menacing. but to love once he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others but no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered only fuzzy details and yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus here is josh mankiewicz with out of the darkness . 9-1-1. this friday night sounded like trouble. it was 10:47 pm, a woman calling 9-1-1 santa desperate. calm down. what do you need? we are you at? i ma am, we are u.s.? i reporter: she was on the cell phone, somewhere on the outskirts of town. this is hunt county wit
she had mud and blood all over. her panicked, saying her husband had been shot. a woman in distress, a murder in the dead of night. i m trying. we were concerned for her. that s my husband s body. yes sir. did she say who shot her husband? that s all i saw. she said just a figure, who turned and ran into the darkness. we take you inside this mystery. we don t know if the suspect is still out. there it s nerve racking. who killed your husband? oh my god. a small town murder with a big time twist. she knew somebody that she wasn t telling. yes sir. hello and welcome to dateline. at six four and nearly 300 pounds, but robert poynter looked menacing. but to love once he was a gentle giant. the selfless fire captain enjoyed helping others but no one could help him when he was murdered. an eyewitness offered only fuzzy details and yet investigators piece together the clues, bringing the deadly deed into sharp focus here is josh mankiewicz with o
people didn t lock their doors? no. chacey and actually lost touch after high school and then reconnected win actually noticed chacey s cake business. she enjoyed doing, it she was amazing what she did. what made her so good? just for being so crafty and her imagination was everything. reporter: actually got to know chacey s young daughter and her mom helped her disagree cakes. reporter: however if an chacey absent spent time together, and chacey robert did not. what did she say about robert? he was never there. he always worked. well, he was a fire captain and he worked a lot of shifts. yes, he did. that was a problem? yes.
just for being so crafty and her imagination was everything. reporter: actually got to know chacey s young daughter and her mom helped her disagree cakes. reporter: however if an chacey absent spent time together, and chacey robert did not. what did she say about robert? he was never there. he always worked. well, he was a fire captain and he worked a lot of shifts. yes, he did. that was a problem? yes. bob tried to make things right. in early september 2016, he took his family on a trip to mexico. it was a chance to reconnect. reporter: six days later, robert poynter was dead and not in a fire. i detective michael berke drove
there was nothing here, we had one jack-in-the-box, and a gas station. that was it. farm town? farm town, just country. quiet. very quiet. people didn t lock their doors? no. chacey and actually lost touch after high school and then reconnected win actually noticed chacey s cake business. she enjoyed doing, it she was amazing what she did. what made her so good? just for being so crafty and her imagination was everything. i reporter: actually got to know chacey s young daughter and her mom helped her disagree cakes. reporter: however if an chacey absent spent time together, and chacey robert did