And im natalie morales. And this is dateline. I got a call from allison she told me that he was missing i asked would anyone want to hurt him i knew that my dad had been on match. Com. This is not going to end well. This is a crime scene. Miles of nothing up here, its an easy place for a man to go missing. I said, what do you mean they cant find my brother . He was the School Superintendent, not the type to play hooky. He really loved teaching and working with kids. Turns out he wasnt missing, he was dead. So your missing person case has become a homicide. That solved one mystery, but left another. Why would anyone want to kill him . Maybe it had something to do with a woman in his life. He had broken off his engagement with one. I just found out he was dead this morning, and now i feel like im a suspect. And there was somebody else nobody knew about. I was lonely, just needed someone to talk to. Did it also get a little steamy, mary . Yes. Passion and a secret the wrong person discove
he says, it s this little school out in chautauqua county called clymer. i don t know whether i should apply there. i said, you know, apply. you might think a close knit community like clymer would be standoffish to newcomers. but parents and students quickly embraced a hands on mr. reed. his eldest daughter katelynn. he greeted the kids in the morning, coming off the bus. he talked to them during the day. he was in the hallways. he really loved teaching and working with kids and he was wonderful at it. the new superintendent had three grown daughters and a painful divorce behind it. but he never let lives difficulties distract from his primary role, dad. megan is the middle child. he loved to have fun. he would always dance crazy with us like pick us up in the air and slide as between his legs and throw us up. and the old family snapshots, hiking in hawaii, disney world, all the christmases, seemed to
superintendent. if you re really worried of what your husband is going to do to another individual, wouldn t you call the officials? would you call the police? she waits, literally, days to call law enforcement. mary taglianetti, a prosecution witness, says she s appalled by the defenses theory and finds it preposterous. how was killing keith reed and getting her husband thrown in his run supposed to solve any problems? i didn t do anything of that on purpose. did you willing lee provoke him, as the attorney suggests? even leaving opened that email? no, no, i wish they would ve never left that email open. because that s the story the jury is hearing about you. that you are driving the events. yeah, that s not true at all. but the defense attorney went even further. maybe those blistering emails from taglianetti two reed, had really been written by mary. while she denies it, he implied a could be a way from her to free her husband. to show that he left the house with mur
sheriff s office as a missing person. the school superintendent that everybody loved. the kids loved him. he was there every morning greeting them as they get off the bus. keith s last known whereabouts was dinner with a friend on friday night. a security camera caught him leaving the restaurant around 8:30 pm. the next day, he was a no-show at a big state educators conference across the state. his brother kevin reed, a former fbi agent, had a bad feeling about things when he arrived at his brothers house sunday night. i went right into fbi mode. i didn t have time to get emotional. his brother, grounded, stable, reliable, was no one s candidate to just one day go missing. especially not then. just a few weeks before, he had had the moment every dad lives for. walking his eldest daughter, katelynn, down the aisle. it was one of the most momentous days of his life. i ve never seen him that happy. at the reception, he even busted out his signature dance moves. he lived it u
but it didn t take the jury along. just three hours to come to its decision. how does the judge jury to find the defendant? the jury finds him guilty. guilty of the second-degree murder of school superintendent keith reed. rob taglianetti received 25 years to life in prison. he is appealing his case and declined to interview with dateline . outside, kevin reed embraced his niece. our brother and father killed by the husband of a woman he had dinner one time in his life. a woman there convince keith believed to be single. so overwhelming. i thought i would feel relief or happy, but it just wasn t it was tough. among those thinking about keith reed s family is mary taglianetti. my heart goes out to them almost every day. and it s just it s a tragedy. my heart breaks. the reade reed family is far