this is dateline. the first time i saw her, i thought she was beautiful. we just loved being together, we were always together. our kitchen back door was opened and the glass was broken. i need an ambulance now. my wife, oh my god. it was him who found her. i said i don t know how to handle that. i wish i could ve been there to protect her. a wife murdered, and later, a husband under suspicion. he was such a nice guy that you would ve never guess that he would ve done something like that. you think he faked that burglary and killed his wife? yes. he wanted the house, he wanted her money, and if he divorced her, he would lose everything. in court, a stunning verdict. this could not be happening, i did not kill my wife. but more stunning still was what came after, a mysterious witness with a secret. this is a woman who essentially says i saw the murderer. and it wasn t tom folly. would her story be the ultimate twist? hello and welcome to dateline.
we were always together. our kitchen that door was open. glass was broken. i need an ambulance now. my wife. oh my god. it was him who found her. i don t know how to handle that. i wish i could ve been there to protect her. a wife murdered, and later, a husband under suspicion. he was such a nice guy, that you would ve never guess that he would ve done something like that. you think you fake that burglary and killed his wife? yes. he wanted the house, he wanted her money and if he divorced or he would lose everything. in court, a stunning verdict. this could not be happening, i did not kill my wife. but more stunning still, was would came after. a mysterious witness with a secret. this is a woman who essentially says, i saw the murderer. and it wasn t tom fully, when her story be the ultimate twist? hello and welcome to dateline. it is a mystery people thought they had the answer to, the murder of a well-loved teacher and a close knit town with an
this is a grassroot who done it. and we thought we had shown that it was in this person who had done it. i was devastated. when this ended, i could ve walked into a wall. but just one day after tom foley s conviction, a woman stepped forward. she had new information that suddenly gave new life to tom s defense. she came forward and said i saw this white car storming out of the driveway, almost hit me. it looked like somebody was either high or running away from something. the woman with certain the driver was coming out of the heath bar farm right around the time dar was murdered. and she was equally certain the driver looked nothing like tom foley. there is the killer right there. she saw him. person leaving our property. and then like a dam breaking, two other witnesses came forward, each having seen a mysterious car of their own, either parked on the foley property or speeding away from it.
god forgive me, and i truly mean that in my heart, that i didn t come forward sooner. if i hadn t been so darn scared. what followed was a succession of other witnesses, each claiming they too saw a mysterious cars, either on or leaving that heath bar farm, right around the time of the murder. i call a glance of a ford, black ford, suv, crossover vehicle. it could ve been a white car, green car, i don t know. it was just a light colored car. whoever killed dar foley was either in one of those cars, or all three of them participated in this murder in some fashion. but tom foley knew if he had any hope of acquittal, the jury would need to hear from one more witness. i call tom foley to the stand, your honor. i just didn t want to convince the 12 jurors. i wanted to convince the
we were always together. and so the three foleys lived on the outskirts of coldwater in an old farmhouse they called the heath bar farm, a picture perfect family until that winter day back in 2009. what was the last thing you said to her? i said i love you. and i will see you later. on that day the foleys were preparing to celebrate keith s tenth birthday out of friends house just down the road. dar needed to shower so tom, heath and a friend of heath s left without her. the plan was for david to follow in her own car and meet them all at the party later that afternoon. but dar never arrived. that gave you some kind of sixth sense the something s wrong? yes. she was always on time or early to events. so tom left the party and headed back home in search of his wife. our kitchen back door was opened and i noticed that the