you. i am not going anywhere. just tell me what happened? cheating husbands, scheming wives, suburbs are full of secrets but being unfaithful to your spouse isn t criminal. is it? that would come next. oh my god! it was like every emotion possible in one second. i went, oh my god. murder in the dark. who was behind it and who would pay? when you see him on the video, he s armed and ready. two couples, two families and this single moment that shattered it all. i knew one day that this was all going to come out. hello and welcome to dateline. i m craig melvin. candy hall was reeling from her husband rob s infidelity. then she started an affair of her own. he was a that ended with gunfire in a parking lots. the showdown that left one husband dead, in the other injured. for investigators, figuring out who fired the fatal shots meant untangling the relationships at the heart of the crime. which were, complicated. he is kenneth morrison with deadly
like, you know what, i love you. i am not going anywhere. just tell me what happened? cheating husbands, scheming wives, suburbs are full of secrets but being unfaithful to your spouse isn t criminal. is it? that would come next. oh my god! it was like every emotion possible in one second. i went, oh my god. murder in the dark. who was behind it and who would pay? when you see him on the video, he s armed and ready. two couples, two families and this single moment that shattered it all. i knew one day that this was all going to come out. hello and welcome to dateline. i m craig melvin. self-tangled in a twisted love triangle, untangling what happened in that parking lot late one evening would fall to the police. here s keith morrison. look at this place now, so ordinary, but its pharmacy, grocery store, carefully tended parking lot so alike from bismark to bakersfield. but that night that cold night? a heat gathered here, sweet, terrifying. doome
in me. a lot. and it has to do with my kids and his kids. and it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i am the responsible one and it s something that i don t know are they ever be able to get through that? i mean, hopefully, one day i can prove to them that it was just a mistake. in the years since, ashlee has remarried and has become an author/blogger and speaker with a message to stand strong and faithful. i think there s thousands of people in this country that come to those crossroads and don t know what to do. but, i think if i can tell them anything, it would be, put your family first. i guess i would like to say to rob, rob, he had five kids, couldn t this have been something you pictured as you held up the gun and targeted it at his head and his heart? once in meridian, idaho, were two happy, successful families. it wasn t quite enough for some of them and the wreckage is forever. once in meridian, idaho,
home from a date, had seen her car in that parking lot. she said, mom, why is your car at walgreens? i called dad. i go, oh, all right. okay. i ll be home in a minute. too late because now the wind was up. rob the unfaithful husband had to know, now he was the aggrieved spouse and sure enough as candy talked to her daughter. here he was in his pickup truck to come to walgreens to look for his wife. phone call from rob. he goes, are you with emmett? and i go, i took a deep breath and said, yep, i am. emmett looks over at me, he takes the phone away from me and he goes, yeah, what s up, chief? and he says, yeah, wait right there, we ll be right there. you wait right there. that s when i said, no, knock it off. we re not doing this. he s like, oh, we are doing this. there are moments in life
to get my wife. or if you went that somehow you like not taken your gun along? i think that. i do the what if game on that. and i think you know what if he would have pounded my face into the cement and not stopped? and then people would say, well, why didn t he have his gun with him? and, thus, you would encounter one of the elements of tragic almost. the thing you buy to protect yourself you use to destroy yourself. yeah. another thing to contemplate in your jail cell late at night? yeah. he also thinks about his two daughters, whose lives, their graduations, triumphs, marriages, children, he will never witness. two girls, who at the ages of 18 and 14 back then, suddenly found themselves left without either parent at home. because of a final twist to this story of the trail of retribution. rob s wife candy was sent to prison herself because of the killing? no, she pleaded guilty to charges of grand theft for embezzling some $30,000 from the attorney for whom she worked