right by it. they didn t recognize the spot. he kind of laughed and joked about that. once they got there, juanita took some pictures that juanita s the camera person. she takes all the picture. as a matter of fact, she s the type of person that he called a risk taker where she would just hang on to a piece of bark and basically being over a cliff or whatever and snap some photos and types of things. he said he left juanita to go to the bathroom at the visitor s center, stopped at his car to change his shoes and his sunglasses and return to the honeymoon spot. but juanita was gone. he called for her shouting up the trail. he said because he is so deathly afraid of heights, he got down on his hands and knees, crawled to the cliff site, looked over, seen something white at the bottom, and because his wife had a white jacket on, he assumed that was her, got up and ran as fast as he could back out to the visitor center to report that his wife had fallen.
wasn t so perfect. seven years earlier, tom had an affair with another woman. you knew your parents had trouble in their marriage, your father had an affair? earlier on, yes. did your mother ever talk with any of you about divorcing your father? vows, that when she made her vows for better or worse, that is what she meant, till death do us part. and she was the one talking about trying to reconcile. and within a year, the couple did reconcile. tom had told investigators they d been happy together ever since. but detective herweyer learned otherwise. tom told people he wished he hadn t reconciled? right. so this wonderful sort of indian summer of their marriage, fantasy? major fantasy. i didn t buy it. but even if tom were unhappy, what motive could he have for killing juanita? for one thing, money.
vows for better or worse, that is what she meant, til death do us part, and she was the one talking about trying to reconcile. and within a year, the couple did reconcile. tom had told investigators they had been happy together ever since. but detective herweyer learned otherwise. tom told people he wished he hadn t reconciled? right. so this wonderful sort of indian summer of their marriage, fantasy? major fantasy. i didn t buy it. but even if tom were unhappy, what motive could he have for killing juanita? for one thing, money. we learned juanita s insurance policies would net tom nearly a quarter of a million dollars. that wouldn t make him rich, but it would free him from the pile of debt they d wracked up building that expensive new home. and a tip led investigators to another possible motive. her name, kelli brophy. she worked at a convenience store on tom s fedex route.