my parents always told me that monsters don t exist. i can tell you with absolute certainty, that is 110% false. he is a monster. a wife and mother killed in her own home. we get a phone call from a screaming irrational call at the other and. i said is it rachel? she said what do you mean, someone came in the middle of the night and murdered her? who murdered her? police discovered, rachael had a complicated love life. she said i felt hopelessly in love with you. were you married with someone else? i wanted to get out of the marriage as soon as possible. was there a bigger secret? varied in this box? for realizing there was a former wife. we re coming around this turn. a whole side of the mountain is on fire. marriage, money and murder, some say more than one. when people say i know how you feel, you have no idea how i feel. i don t want you to know how i feel because no one should ever feel this way. the night was profoundly dark, the lowest
black. this is the place, is a conditions. that california prosecutor needed to understand. it was september 26th, 1999. one of those pitch black nights. the night mike and where the, lived through one of the strangest experiences of their life. mike and woody where it sleep in separate tents around the campfire. and at the same moment, they were suddenly startled awake. i was hearing from i-10, someone shouting from the road 100 miles away. help! help! health! my wife is dead. it s the middle of the night? it s the middle of the night. and i lay down. and i said no i did not hear that. and then i heard it again. they got up fast. and out of the black knight. some strange man comes walking to the campsite. help me, help me, my wife is dead. the stranger was emotional, distraught. told them he and his wife had been camping up a few miles in
reporter: it also seemed strange he said that by the time the campers saw todd, he displayed no evidence of an allergic reaction. of course, lisette suder and her people interviewed mike and woody too. and they told her, as they told us, that they never forgot how strangely phony todd seemed when he arrived at their campsite that night. he was kind of kinda play-sobbing, i would say, you know? it was it was some horrible acting going on. it wasn t believable. reporter: they also wondered why, on a warm southern night, was todd dressed in several layers of heavy clothing? was he protecting himself from a fall he knew he was going to cause? he had a lot of extra clothing on. but i also remember he also had a toboggan hat on. reporter: the kind you pull down over your ears. the kind yes. and i m standin there in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops. reporter: also, why did the accident happen on the one spot in the whole drive that offered
beautiful. reporter: a person can find what really matters up here, said mike hodnett and woody depew. up here so far from the raucous urban world are weekends steeped in the peace and beauty of a natural cathedral. we d ride our mountain bikes, go sit in the river, hike, go rappelling. most of the time you re just you re out there by yourself. and you make your own rules. reporter: and at night? you can go up to the top of the mountain and you can see a lot of stars you didn t know were there. reporter: but down the sides of the mountain, under a thick canopy of leaves many, many nights it s just pitch black. reporter: this is the place, these are the conditions that california prosecutor lisette suder needed to understand. it was september 26th, 1999, one of those pitch black nights, the night mike and woody lived through one of the strangest experiences of their lives. mike and woody were asleep in separate tents around a common campfire.
cathy to rush him down the mountain to a hospital. yet, when the cops asked to see the bug bite? he didn t know where the bug bite was. didn t know what bit him. didn t know where it was? no, sir. something serious enough to give him an allergic reaction that doesn t present anywhere is a bit odd. that was a big question in my mind. todd told the cops back then that he had a history of allergic reactions. always carried an epi-pen for emergencies. yet didn t take that to the wilderness that weekend. did that seem strange to you that he d go camping without an epipen if he was subject to this sort of thing? it seemed strange to me that we were spendin so much time talkin about bug bites. it was almost as if we were tryin to steer away from the real issue, which was a fatality crash involving his wife. it also seemed strange he said that by the time the campers saw todd, he displayed no evidence of an allergic reaction. of course, lisette suder and her people interviewed