Andrew berman testified, all the evidence pointed to tara taking her own life. she had a number of chronic and acute risk a factors for suicide. and the i m sorry note left on her side table? they said that was too ambiguous to call it a suicide note. but the wrapped up page found buried in the garbage, the experts said that had the hallmarks of a real suicide note. the line, i m hoping it will be happy now. is something that we sometimes see in suicide note. originally, they suspected that both notes wears forgeries. but their own handwriting expert confirmed that carole wrote both of them. so you came back with your opinion that tara wrote both of these, so-called, suicide notes. i don t know what kind of notes they are served, but they are those most. one thing to keep in mind, no expert on either side could say when those were written. that day tara died years earlier?
Handprint. it looked like a perfect handprint of a human hand. a left hand? yes. tara was right-handed. yes. was it suicide or could it be homicide? jones turned all of it over in his mind. he even handled the gun himself. you physically put a glock in your own mouth? yeah. unloaded, i hope. of course. the medical examiner, however, had ruled tera s death suicide the day after she was found. and the lid on this case might have been shut then and there. but jones hesitated. it was written as a suicide, unless i came up with something pretty contradictory to that then my job was to write it up as a suicide, closed case. why didn t you? i just couldn t do it. there was just something about it. something about it started stinking. after three weeks of investigation, instead of closing the case, jones asked
The cop, was mixed up in something very illegal. she said that leave i had some friends take it to claim the insurance, so he had the truck. taken so tara was very upfront with you that she thought the truck s disappearance was part of an insurance scam by levi yeah she told me that she was going to call the police and tell them. and, when she later saw levi, roe says she told him his wife thought he was involved in some kind of scam. well was levi s response when you told him about that she did know she was talking about would you maintain the truck was legitimately stolen yeah if terrell was telling row she thought her husband was a criminal, what might happen next i believe he was scared because she was going to turn him in and he had a lot to. lose to detective jones, that sounded like a reason for levi to want to make sure his wife disappears. and he found more evidence to suggest terral was planning to report her husband. six days before she died, the new mexico insurance fra
With levi, but also had been a client of tara, at her salon. presumably, you chatted with her the way women do with their hairstylists? yeah it was this double edged role as paramour to levi, and as it turned out, confidant to tara, that would put rose slama at the center of this investigation. lead investigators to a possible motive. the last time she saw tara, rose says, terry told you something odd about that truck that had disappeared from the family driveway. you had a conversation with terror about levi s truck being missing. we were talking and i was, like well, what s going on with the truck? have you guys heard anything about it she said income of stolen. would you mean and income stolen roe says, terry told her the story of the trump being stolen had been a lie and that she believed her husband, levi,
and i pushed her off. why don t you just leave me? because i didn t want to. but she wanted to kiss you. then, samantha said something that surprised jones. she had known all about the affair! because tara had confessed, and apologized. she was so nice and i told her and said, i m not gonna say anything until nick tells me. because that s his responsibility, as a husband. what did she say? she said she didn t want me to kill her. she didn t want me to go after her and ask. i would never do it because i understand where she was coming from. so did you believe that the two women in the love triangle had made peace. did you believe that. did you believe it was possible that nick or his wife had killed tara? absolutely. well, let me ask you a question, did you kill her? now. i really loved her. really i did. i did. that left one more question about the man in the middle. neck. where was he that weekend tara