the beast, lived the good life until that strange terrible day . he found her at home, the barbell was across her throat. reporter: dead, a tragic freak accident. or was it? i m like, the weights machine? she does not lift weights. reporter: a home gym mysteriously turned death trap. a husband mysteriously turned suspect. hello and welcome to dateline. it is the case of a fit young woman, who died suddenly. her friends and family said it was a freak accident in a jam, the kind of thing that could happen to any wine. equipment does malfunction, at times, but so do relationships. here is dennis murphy, with the beauty and the beast mystery. reporter: the images are fuzzy on the old home video of the wedding reception, but anyone who was there remembers the event vividly. the bride all in whites, the groom he is the dance partner in the goofy beast costume. kind of a strange way to start a marriage, beauty and the beast, but it was a union that would and strangel
the ledger, lisa s husband, scott, had raised red flags when he declined emergency services help as he raced with his wife to the hospital. likewise, what he said about that drive in a recorded interview raised eyebrows. it s hard to drive and respect or party. i wouldn t think someone would refer to their loved one as a body when you re not even sure you re claiming she s not even dead yet. still, maybe it was just a freak accident. a first pass. look at the weight bench lisa had been on when she died, suggested an accident was plausible and did the autopsy. the medical examiner didn t find anything to explain a sudden death, nothing like a stroke or heart attack. lisa had been in good health, very healthy. thirty six year old woman who worked out. but the autopsy did provide a quite unexpected finding, something that now made the investigators very troubled. lisa had died not from a sudden crushing blow to the neck. the guillotine