handsome police officer, a young, beautiful life. somebody that i talked to almost every day is gone. it doesn t make sense. when you hear suicide? no. things started stinking. she met another man? yes, it is a big messy triangle. how many other women besides you was he having an affair with? 10. 10? she had told her boss that she had done something bad. i think the last statement, within her diary said it all. we knew we would get here, we just had a lot of hurdles to get over. i will never forgive myself, never. the life of a police officer. full of danger. and stress. they have rough days at work, and if they end up holding it in. they are our first responders. it is hard. it is hard work. the one call you don t know what is going to happen. but our story is about what happened, and the first responder had to face a crisis in his own home. maybe, please wake up. a cop, pleading for help from his fellow men and women in. tell
nothing in this case makes sense. they say doctors make the worst patients, no matter how sick. but, this dr. was not just sick. he was dying. no one knew exactly what it was. and then, they found the crystals. but solving the medical mystery did not solve the main mystery, who poison them? he took a drink of it and said there is something wrong with this. was many the motive, or was there another reason? everything about this case is nuts. turns out this busy doctor also had a busy love life at home and at work. she loved him. who wanted the doctor dead? who has motive? it is the person who is not getting what they want. hello, and welcome to dateline. the top doctor known for saving lives found himself fighting for his own after he was poisoned. cops immediately started looking into the women in his life and they uncovered more than one relationship, so investigators wanted to know which one was toxic. there is a place in houston, texas they call the
i lost it. we could not understand how anybody would want to murder him. he looked like he was sleeping, except for the bullet hole. he was in bed. his head was waon the pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. the first guess was suicide. there s no gun on the season. hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. this was a man who had everything to live for. eric loved life. he loved his family. and women too. many women. did one of them love him too much? no shortage of lovers to question. i knew he was a ladies man. i m not stupid. no sign of a break in either. it must have been somebody he trusted or maybe someone who didn t trust him. inside the safe was a .380 handgun. that s the same kind of gun that killed eric. everybody loved him so who killed him? we knew in our hearts that this murder was going to be solved. we believed that justice was going to be served for eric. hello and welcome to dateline. it was a crime scene that offered little
my mom found her and said she might have slipped in the shower. she was in the fetal position in this bathtub. you could see marks on jessica s neck. police said we re going to rule this as a homicide. reporter: detectives using new technology to view this crime scene in extreme detail. there is no forced entry, no tool marks. there was blood on the couch. who could have done this? they said usually it is someone close. an investigation focusing on friends and family. they brought up the association with the motorcycle gang. we came off as kind of a tough guy. we fool around a little bit. and he threatened to take out my whole entire family to get custody of our kids. wow. reporter: a chilling story of danger and duplicity. we would try to figure out who did this. he knew the whole time. this is the ultimate betrayal. hello and welcome to dateline. jessica nelson was a hard working single mom who kept her loved ones close. and then one morn
for a second, and never entered my mind that we would be in danger. it s hard to even imagine that someone could be so evil. at last, his dream had come true. new wife, stepdaughter, a whole new start. almost an instant family for him. it seemed perfect. that s what made what happily so baffling. an otherwise healthy 40-year- old man usually does not drop dead. could this be murder? there were suspicions from the start, and they came from his wife. you believe there s a possibility that your husband was poisoned. yes, sir. who could have wanted him dead? elise zeroed in on someone at work. he was initially very angry at that. angry enough to kill him? was his new wife in danger, too? brace yourself, because this killer was stone cold evil. this has got me shaking. sh welcome to dateline. frank rodriguez was a man of faith and a navy that who dedicated himself to helping needy children. not exactly the kind of guy who had many enemies. so investigator