marriage to her police officer husband. he told me, she may have tried to clean my gun, and it may have accidentally got off. police are suspicious, the victims own mother wasn t. she was so opposed to anybody even exploring the idea that her only daughter had been murdered. as the years went by, the case grew cold. until a reporter heated it up again. it was [inaudible] reading that file. it was astonishing. it turned out there was a lot less to the marriage than meets the eye. he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. but not every cheating heart hides a killer. you could hear members of the jury gasp. hello, and welcome to dateline. when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved. the victim a new mother had been forgotten about everyone. except a complete stranger determined to find justice. in the lawyer of
anniversary gift. i need an emergency ambulance, my wife has a gunshot. a fatal gunshot, just hours after celebrating 16 years of marriage to her police officer husband. he told me, she may have tried to clean my gun, and it may have accidentally got off. police are suspicious, the victims own mother wasn t. she was so opposed to anybody even exploring the idea that her only daughter had been murdered. as the years went by, the case grew cold. until a reporter heated it up again. stayed up all night reading that file. it was astonishing. it turned out there was a lot less to the marriage than meets the eye. he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. but not every cheating heart hides a killer. you could hear members of the jury gasp. hello, and welcome to dateline. when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved.
murdered. as the years went by, the case grew cold, until a reporter he did it up again. stayed up all night reading that file, and it was astonishing. it turns out there was a lot less to this marriage then met the eye. he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. but not every cheating part hides a killer. you could hear members of the jury gasp. hello and welcome to dateline, when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved, the victim and new mother had been forgotten by almost everyone, except a complete stranger determined to find justice. in the lore of the lone star state, texas lawmen rank pretty high, the good guys in the white hats. their badge brought prestige, their gun fights in the history books. but in the modern-day town of denton, texas, the little the outside the big the dallas deserved one texas law man with
i m going to show you. and the next day his wife was dead. for prosecutors, there was one other detail that they were about to drop. those life insurance policies. bobby had more than 1 million dollars in insurance of vicky. a fact that they hoped would make those crime scene photos even uglier to the jury. there was the gun near vicky s hand, and the gun cleaning kit not far away. but, it was vicky s wound, right in the middle of her chest, at a strange angle. that carry wanted jurors to question. for her to shoot herself, she has to do this. and you can barely do it, i can barely hold that. to squeeze the trigger and get this angle. you wouldn t hold it that way to clean a gun either, so the experts. then, there was the matter of the bullet casing. just, where had that gone? it turns out, it was lying underneath the gun cleaning kit. another problem of physics, it
questions swirled as richard approach the sergeant outside of bobby s house. i said what happened, he says, well bobby said he came home and found vicky in the bed. and she has a gunshot wound to her chest. inside, bobby was waiting for his old friend. tense, it s a. but at the ready with the details of the terrible preamble. what lay on the bed. bobby told richard that he left home, only briefly, to come back to find vicky shot. his gun cleaning kit lay right beside her. he said before he left he took his gun out and he was going to clean that because vicky and him were going to go to the range the next day. he told, made she must ve been trying to clean my gun because how she likes to tinker with stuff, and she may have been trying to clean my gun and it accidentally went off. police photos showed the grisly result. her wound was she was gone. her mother arrived that evening to a crowd of investigators.