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The problem she was married, and so was he. I grabbed his face and was like, you know what, i love you. Im not going anywhere. Just telling me whats happening. Cheating husbands, scheming wives, suburbs are full of secrets. But being unfaithful to your spouse isnt a crime, is it . That would come next. Oh, my god oh, my god it was just like every emotion possible all in one second. I went, ah, oh, my god. Murder in the dark. Who was behind it, and who would pay . When you see him on the video, hes 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. Its a cautionary tale that started with two seemingly happy couples in suburban idaho. Then their lives collided in a twisted love triangle that ended with gunfire in a parking lot. The showdown left one husband dead and 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. Heres Keith Morrison with deadly desire. Reporter look at this place now. So ordinary with its pharmacy, its grocery store, its carefully tended parking places so alike suburban strip malls from bismarck to bakersfield. But that night, that cold night, a heat gathered here, sweet, terrifying, doomed. For the longest time, i couldnt go anywhere because im thinking everybodys looking at me. Reporter this is the story of two married couples. Now the advice they can offer others now that its too late for them. I think if i could tell them anything it would be put your family first. Reporter of course, thats not what happened. And this parking lot, there will be a body here before were done. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh my god. Reporter careful when you stir the hot pot of desire. The place is meridian, idaho, little brother to brigger than boise. This is where they got to the end of the rainbow. It was 2016, and luck was 2006, and luck office their side. They had just moved from southern california, and they were happy. They were fulfilled at work. They had two beautiful children. They had everything they ever wanted. They were rob and kandi hall, one of those charmed couples whod fallen in love at first sight in their case, first sight meant admiring each other in the gym. About i think that weekend, and then we never stopped reporter what was it about that relationship . What was it about him that was so good . We just connected instantly. Reporter by the time rob and kandi moved to idaho, theyd been together for years, had two teenage daughters. Rob landed an excellent job as a computer specialist at the aida county Sheriffs Office specializing in vehicle locators inside squad cars. He loved every minute of his job. Reporter and as if it was a sign that this is where they belonged, candies career as a paralegal took off, too. She was a natural. Could and did sell her confidence and skills to anybody who walked in the door. I it didnt hurt she was pretty. Reporter no it didnt. Ander are coworker sophia id idolized kandi. She was like a mother to me. Reporter yes, it was all just about perfect, and then who knows why these things happen exactly, they just do. And no one imagined, why would they, how this thing was going to end. Eight months into his new job, rob started traveling for network. Nothing unusually about that, of course. Soon he seemed to be staying away a little longer than he really had to, started snapping at her, too, kandi said, about little things. Not like the old rob at all. So at this point, you began to suspect something. Yeah. I start thinking, what is going on. Why are you acting like this . Reporter one night after a late flight in from california, rob lay down beside his wife in bed, and it all came tumbling out. He just started to cry. And he said, im having an affair. And i laid my head on his chest, and i said, rob, please, just fix it. Reporter you didnt yell, you didnt scream, you didnt cry, you didnt do anything . Thats what shocked him. You know, the typical response is get the hell out you throw the clothes out the window. Oh, no. The last person on this planet that you would think to have an affair would be robert. Reporter of course, it was devastating, crippling. Every day she went to work and so seea saw her and sophia saw her turn herself inside out and wither. I watched her go through misery. Reporter did she still love him . Yes, dearly. Reporter and wanted the marriage to continue in spite of the fair . Yeah, she did. She didnt want to believe in her head that he found something in this woman that wasnt in kandi. Reporter he felt bad about it agreed to go through counseling with kandi, but after he confessed and you said fix it, he didnt. He didnt know what he wanted. Reporter come on, no. He wanted to keep going with the affair . Thats what he wanted. I for sure told him to stop. Reporter stop right now or ill stamp my foot and hold my breath. Yeah. Reporter he kept doing it . Yeah. He had a void because of me. Thats what i was thinking. Reporter what do you think the void might have been . Who did you think i just was boring. Reporter boring old kandi hall, rejected, apparently unlovable, and nearly 40. And then one day at work, kandi was introduced to a recent Law School Graduate who was looking to staff his new office, a boyishly handsome, smart as a whip cocky young lawyer. His name was Emmett Corrigan. My friend, she said, emmett, youve got to meet kand i. I mean shoor, shes just as pase and aggressive as you are. She would be great for you. Reporter and something suddenly lifted in kandi hall. By the time those words had left her friends mouth, kandi knew, she just knew. Kandi hall has a decision to make, and it will have consequences she never intended. Deadly ones. Coming up three unfaithful spouses and their lies are piling up. I could hear everything he was saying because the baby monitor was on. The hard part was not a word he said was true. Was not a word he said was true. [ fizz ] joining meeting. [ coughing ] [ gasping ] skip to cold relief fast with alka seltzer plus severe power fast fizz. Dissolves quickly, instantly ready to start working. Oh, what a relief it is so fast. Wthe Natural Light is amazing. Hardwood floors. There is a bit of a clogging problem. clog dancing at least geico makes it easy to bundle our renters and car insurance. Yeah, helping us save us even more. For bundling made easy, go to geico. Com whove got their eczema under control. With less eczema, you can show more skin. 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The teams been working iaround the clock. Wire,. Weve had to rethink our whole approach. Were going to give togetherness. Logistically, its been a nightmare. Im not sure its going to work. Itll work. I didnt know you were listening. In boise, idaho, inside this law office in the fall of 2010 was a paralegal whose charmed life was falling apart. Kandi hall was an unhappy woman, her marriage was dying or dead. Her 40th birthday was bearing down like a chinese bullet train. And then one day, it got worse. Kandis boss told her she was also unemployed. My husbands had an affair, now my attorney who i work for has fired me yeah. Pretty low. Reporter such problems. And then there was him Emmett Corrigan fixed everything. He was handsome, and he thought she was gorgeous. And of course, he hired her right away for his new law office, and, well, you know what came next. Soon there were racy emails, spicy text messages. I would like to be put on that pedestal, emmett made me feel that way. It was an ego boost for me. Reporter she wasnt trying to get back at her husband, said kandi, at least not consciously. I was thinking about me and only me. It made me feel good. It made me feel like i was on top of the world. Roy sitting he r reporter sitting here now, is kandi only thinking about kaf kandi . You can be the judge of that. There were a few hitches in her n newfound fantasy life. Emmett corrigan was also married and lived in this cull detade couple of miles from kandi with this woman, his wife, ashley. He was just a guy that everybody wanted to be around. Reporter enthusiastic, full of energy . Sometimes too much energy, but thats kind of one of the things i loved about him. Reporter just like kandi and jim, they also met at a gym and made a striking young couple. They were married after just six months together, made their vows before god and the church in the lds temple and like, i think im ready to be a parent. Reporter first came twins girls followed by a son and another daughter. In the winter they went ski, sledding. In the summer they camped and swam at the lake they loved. They made memories. Ashley never thoughted this is how their life was supposed to be. She was pregnant with her fifth child when her ambitious husband opened his law was that fall of 2010. And made the fateful decision to ha hire a paralegal named kandi hall. Than he had any idea he was sealing his face. Any more than his wife ashley understood his private meetvations. Did you suspect she was involved with him . With emit . Reporter yeah. No. Reporter why . The way she described her as an older woman he looked up to in a motherly way. He said, he just believes in he, she thinks im going to be this great lawyer. Reporter you saw her and she was an older woman. She was almost 40, and i was 28. It wasnt something that i felt like a competition of i guess. Reporter but for the many reasons that plainly escape those who arent seated smack on the hot stove of desire themselves, emmett and cankandi thought otherwise. They tried to keep their hands off each other for a little while, said coworkers, but if they believed they were hiding their infatuation, the messy hair, hastily rearranged clothes, they were only fooling themselves. I noticed a significant change in her attitude. Went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy, you know reporter spring in her step again. Yeah. Reporter such timing. Now that rob seemed to want to fix their marriage, honesty funditook a holiday. I was living a lie. Having an affair is one big lie. Reporter yes. She lied to herself, too. You were thinking of you and he together striding across the bow of the titanic. This is going to be it for you forever. Yes. Reporter one night a couple of months into the affair, events ticked measurably toward their deadly conclusion. Around bedtime, kandi received a text from emmett and couldnt hide it. The text pod upped up and rod said it, it said, i wish i was there with you tonight. He was angry. Kandi, what is this . I said, i dont know. So he calls emmett. Rob goes why are you texting my wife at this time of night . Reporter emmetts answer two minutes later he showed up at robs house. They talked like dueling lovers out on the sidewalk. Then rob came back inside. Rob tossed my phone up on our bed, and he said, you win. I cant compete. Hes young, hes a goodlooking guy, hes an attorney, you make him a lot of money. What good am i . He was just devastated. Reporter now youve got yourself a pretty complicated life at this stage. Yeah. Reporter of course, that february, 2011, exmets life was complicated, too. Ashley could see how stressed he was, didnt wantunderstand it, or why he wasnt coming home. My son asked if he lived with us anymore. And later in the bedroom he was like, whats that all about . And i was like, well, we miss you. And he just kind of yelled and screamed and and left. Reporter ashley thought maybe it was her fault. She went to marriage counseling. Emmett refused to go. I had felt really pushed away and was trying to find an answer. And tried to surprise him by cleaning out his car and found a weird envelope. Reporter a weird envelope . Just an envelope that was some sort of pill. I researched on line, and one of the one of the side effects was problems with intimacy and sexuality. I thought maybe if he was doing that that that could explain why he didnt want me. Reporter did you take it personally, too, though . You want to be everything that they want. So it was hard not to take personal. Reporter especially when emmett, whod been working out more and more, announced he was going to a fitness competition in ohio on their wedding anniversary. What did that feel like . Lonely. He called and said, happy anniversary, ill call you later other but didnt call back. And the night before he came home, himy oldest son who just turned 4 was screaming one night for probably two hours, my dads going to die, my dads going to die, my dads going to die. I held him. Tried calling him, but he never answered his phone. It was a very strange weekend. Reporter strange . Strange is not a big enough word to describe what was about to happen. Coming up a secret meeting at walgreens and something will go horribly wrong. I said, no, were not doing this. Hes like, oh, we are doing this. Imagine the places well go. Together. Expedia it was the 11th of march, 2011. This was it. The big event. Dday you could say. It was early evening, cold as the sun went down in meridian. Cold and bleak. And in two homes in particular, it was very bleak indeed. Kandi hall arrived home from work to find her husband rob packing boxes to leave . What other reason could there be . I knew we were probably coming down to the wire. Reporter youre having the kind of unfair fights that married couples have all the time. They betray each other with abandon, and then wonder why it doesnt work out. Yeah. The thing that i never wanted to face was the hurt they was going to cause on so many people. I knew one day that this was all going to come out, but the way that it usually ends up now you can only look back and wish right. Reporter around the same time perhaps two miles away, Ashley Corrigan told her husband in her desperate state of worry she asked family to pray for them. He said, your family . I hate your family. I can beat your brother up. I can kill all of you. I grabbed his face like, you know what, i love you, im not going anywhere. I dont care what it is, just just tell me whats happening. And i dont know, i felt like that was the last chance. And he was he didnt take it. He didnt open up about anything. Reporter that night, though, a trusted Family Member whod agreed to help counsel the company called. And emmett answered the phone. He went back into our bedroom, and i could hear everything he was saying because the baby monitor was on. The hard part then was not a word he said was true. Reporter what was he saying . I think she might be sleeping with this person. She says im the worst father ever. And just things that i know i had never done. So when he walked out, i flipped the baby monitor off, and i said, oh, how did it go . It went good. He thinks youre as crazy as i do. I said, oh okay, well do i get a turn . He said, i dont care what you do, but youre not using my phone. Emmett said, hey, im going to run to walgreens, and ill be right back. I put the phone down and himmy was like, emmett, please do not leave. He said, no, im leaving. Reporter you must have felt like your life was flying apart and you didnt know what to do. I kind of felt like, okay, maybe this is the grand finale. Reporter but he needed a wakeup call. He did. He needed a wakeup call. Reporter careful what you wish for. Getting late, very dark. Over the house kandi had been talking to her husband, rob. Maybe he shouldnt move out, maybe they should make their marriage work somehow. And then right in the middle of that, she suddenly told him she had an errand to run, couldnt wait. Guess where i said, i need to go to walgreens. Im going to go through the drivethrough. Ill be right back. Reporter heres kandis explanation for the way the meeting with her lover was arranged. As i was pulling out of the driveway, emmett texted me, hey, what are you doing . Im going to walgreens. He goes, i was just there. Meet me there. Reporter then what happened next you can watch it yourself right here on surveillance tape. I go to walgreens, go through the driveflthrough and go to hi truck and go to fred meyer. Reporter there they are when emmett opens the rear door. He pulls out out prescriptio and i swhaaid what are you taki . He said if you dont want to grow a penis reporter they pulled off and had sex in at a street light when kandis phone rang. Her daughter coming home from a date had seen her park in the parking lot. She said, mom, why is your car at walgreens. I called dad. All right. Okay. Ill be home in a minute. Reporter too late because now the wind was up. Rob, the unfaithful husband, had to know now he was the egrieved spouse. And sure enough as kandi talked to her daughter, here he was in his pickup truck come to walgreens to look for his wife. Phone call from rob. He goes, you with emmett . And i go 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, whats up, chief . And he says, yeah, wait right there. Well be right there. You wait right there. And thats when i said, no, knock it off, were not doing this. Hes like, oh, we are doing this. Reporter there are moments in life when big choices are made. 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Mayor bill de blasio called the Collegiate Church an icon and said the city would help rebuild. Billionaire jeff bezos says that his company blue origin will take the first woman to the moon. He posted a picture of an engine test on instagram. Bezos is currently competing for a contract to supply lunar landers to nasa. Now back to dateline. Welcome back to dateline. Im craig melvin. For months, kandi hall and Emmett Corrigan had been having a steamy affair. But this latenight tryst would be their last. They were in emmetts pickup when kandis husband rob called, and her young lover grabbed the phone. Now emmett was headed to a parking lot to confront rob, and soon one of them would be dead. Once again, heres Keith Morrison with deadly desire. Reporter here at a Walgreens Drug store in meridian, idaho, just before 10 00 p. M. On a friday night in march, 20th century 2011 march, 2011, there was a man onmation as you can see. Rob parked his truck, went through the front door, roamed the beauty and cosmetic aisles. He was looking for his wife, kandi who, of course, was also in a pickup truck with her lover, emmett. Here you see rob leaving the store, looking at kandis parked bmw. Strangely, getting back into his own pickup, pulling up, and reparking it on the other side of kandis car. Curiously now his door out of range of the surveillance camera. This is when he made that phone call, the one in which kandi confessed shed been with her boss, emmett, and he said to rod, whats up, chief . And here was the car speeding through the parking lot. Still time to stop this if wiser heads prevailed, but they didnt. I see rob in his truck. He has just this look on his face like, oh, man. And i get out of the truck. Then emmett gets out, and then rob gets out and walks over to us. Reporter this is just the sort of moment in which a person might have wanted to cool the overheated atmosphere. Control the spitting anger. Might have chosen words carefully. That is not what happened. Rob was standing next to me like, what are you doing out with my wife at 10 00 at night . And emmett said, rob, she doesnt want to be with you anymore, okay. Shes done. Really, rob, what did you make last year, maybe 40,000 . Kapd kandi, what did we make last week . 27,000. Thats how much i make. You dont make anything. Reporter nasty, arrogant, like a thoughtless young buck who needed to be reminded of something. Rob said, well, what about your kids and your wife . She just had a baby theyre at home waiting for you. And youre out with my wife. And at that moment, emmetts eyes got huge. And he pushed himself off of his truck and went over to rob and pushed rob very hard on his chest. Reporter and then the climax. The confrontation that had been building for weeks. Thats when i said, enough, thats enough. You get in your car, and rob, we got to go. And as i was walking to my car, another car came biempt ay, and to stop. And at that point i hear pop, pop, pop. I didnt know what it was. I didnt know if the car just backfired i had no idea. And i stopped and went like, what was that . And all i see in my peripheral vision here is rob covered with blood. Like someone poured a can of red blood all over him. I went ah reporter frantically, kandi found the numbers 911 orb. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Rob reporter the pistol went flying somehow, no one disputes that. There it was on the pavement between two men. Both shot. One alive, one dying. And kandi hall entered that Twilight Zone where memories are made that dont ever be erased. Though as you and the Police Department and lawyers and a judge will soon see, they can certainly be amended. What do we know for sure she rushed to the prostrait body of one of the two men. I gave him a chiskiss on his cheek. Ill never forget ever, but he took that last, you know, deep it was very surreal. Just turning gray here to here to here. 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I went through a divorce and a death in one second. Reporter bizarre. And then i had to get prepared to tell my kids. And what story do you tell little kids . Well, theres been an accident, and your daddys spirits left his body. Hes not going to be on the earth with you anymore. N they stared at me like what are we supposed to do now . Reporter what now indeed . And that very moment, a few miles away, rob hall was in a hospital bed recovering from a grazing gunshot wound to his head. The result police say of a botched Suicide Attempt after rob put two bullets from his semiautomatic pistol into Emmett Corrigan. One in his heart, one in his head. And over at the Meridian Police station, kandi hall, her clothes still covered in blood, was telling the first of several different versions of what happened in the parking lot. Quite unprepared, of course, for the public torrent about to come down on her head. Suddenly, youre thrust into the public eye big time as a jezebel a woman who is at the center of a tawdry love triangle. What is that like . Its terry. For the scary. For the longest time i couldnt go to the grocery store. I couldnt go anywhere because im thinking everybodys looking at me. Everybody knows who i am. Everybody knows what i did. Yes. But it did happen, and i own it. Reporter theres Something Else that happened. Although on the night of the shooting candi rushed to kiss her dyeing lover, she rather soon was back in her husbands corner as his chief supporter. Especially when robert hall was charged with premedicated firstdegree murder. We felt that the evidence supported that he planned to go to that walgreens and do exactly what he did when he got there. Reporter this was no sudden crime of passion, said Jessica Lorello and Jason Spillman who prosecuted the case. This is a case of a man hunting down his wifes paramour and waiting 17 minutes to have the opportunity to kill him. Thank you, your honor reporter as they made their case for the jury, prosecutors portrayed rob as an angry man, furious about his wifes affair. A man who called emmetts law office repeatedly to berate kandi so loudly that others heard it all. Statements subpoena as youre a whore and why are you with him. Reporter the night of the shooting, prosecutes played the tapes from walgreens showing rob arriving 17 minutes before the confrontation, walking through the aisles looking for kandi. All the while with a pistol, not the one he usually carried, but the one kandi gave him tucked in his pocket. Then the jury saw emmett and kandi arrive in the parking lot. And eight minutes later heard the 911 call after shots were fired. [ screams ] oh, my god oh, my god robert, robert, robert, robert reporter what happened . The prosecutor said the citizens of the shots told the story. Two quick shots, a pause, and then one more. Our theory all along was that rob hall had executed Emmett Corrigan with two successive shots, turned to face his wife, attempted to commit suicide with the third shot. Reporter a theory backed up by forensics. The shots were fired from close range, two or three feet. Reseri do on one mans hands and only on one trigger guard. The dna matched that of mr. Hall. I think that rob hall went to the walgreens in order to confront Emmett Corrigan, that he took the loaded gun, and rob decided that was his opportunity to get his kandi back by killing emmett. Reporter why did he talk to emmett for eight minutes before he fired . The store was closing, said the prosecutor, people were going home. I think he waited until there were no eyewitnesses, and he executed Emmett Corrigan. Reporter a night and tidy theyre neat and tidy theory agreed the defense, but completely wrong. This fight started by Emmett Corrigan reporter rob was a nice guy, said the defense, and it was emmett who was out of control. Emmett who kept amphetamines and steroids in his pickup truck. Drugs with serious side effects, said a defense expert. He had hyperability as well as impulsiveness, explosive temper. Reporter what really happened . Rob didnt testify, a doctor backed his claim that because of his head wound he simply couldnt remember. So the defense offered a theory that emmett started the fight, then the gun fell on the ground. Emmett grabbed it, shot rob. Then during the pause, rob got hold of the gun and fired back in selfdefense. The courtroom came to a halt. Every head turned when a star witness took the stand to support that theory. Would you please state and spell your name for the record sure. Kandi hall reporter kandi who repeated the story on the stand that she told us of emmett pushing rob. Emmett becoming enraged. Hearing the two men scuffle as she walked away before she heard but did not see the shooting. The only problem she told the police a very different story the night it happened. Tell the detective that night that you did not see or hear a physical altercation, is that right . I dont know. I dont remember reporter kandi changed her story about so many things, all helpful to robs case. Im trying to clarify that your stories changed after speaking with your husband. Things were remembered after talking to my husband. Okay. Reporter in fact, later the judge made a comment outside the jurys presence he said, in all of his 30some years on the bench, hed never seen a witness so thoroughly discredited. Reporter before she left the witness stand, kandi expressed her love and sorrow for the man she cheated on yet still loved. He knew, and he still knows in his heart that ive never stopped loving him. You dont stop loving someone. Reporter and watching it all. Emmetts wife ashley. You watched as kandi testified. What was that like . Its hard to hear her stand up there and tell her husband how sorry she was and how much she loved him because ultimately it was because of them that i didnt get that chance. Reporter and rob halls version of events hes about to tell you the very first time he has spoken of this. First, its up to the jury to determine the wages. Sin. Coming up, a husband with a stunning story to tell. Last thing i remember was the gun pointed at my head. This week on the upper hands. Special guest flo challenges the hand models to show off the ease of comparing rates with progressives home quote explorer. International hand model jonjon gets personal. Your wayward pinky is grotesque. Then a high stakes pattycake Battle Royale ends in triumph. You have the upper hands its a race to the lowest rate, and so much more. Only on the upper hands. Whove got their eczema under control. With less eczema, you can show more skin. So roll up those sleeves. 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He didnt know that emmett was having an affair with kandi. In the parking lot, emmett was the aggressor, pulled him down behind from his sweatshirt. I dont think i made four steps before i was ripped off my feet. When i hit the ground, the first thing i thought was my cell phone hit the ground. It was my gun. He reached down and grabbed my gun. We struggled over it. The last thing i remember was the gun pointed at my head and the feeling of being hit upside the head with a baseball bat. And i remember seeing Everything Black and gray. And thats all i remember. Until sunday in the hospital. Reporter in that moment of extreme anger and passion, crazy things happen. And youre asking us to believe that the crazy thing that happened started when you got shot. Yeah. Reporter when he pulled the trigger. Yeah. Reporter and then, you must have taken the gun and fired two shots at him. Yeah. Reporter of course, he had holes through his heart and one in his head, which sound, for all the world when you hear that, like those were targeted shots. Is it possible you shot him and then decided you were going to shoot yourself . No. Absolutely not. I have never been suicidal. Reporter the jury did hear the defense case, of course. Just not roberts version of it. But it was enough for a verdict. Is robert dean hall guilty or not guilty of firstdegree murder . Not guilty. Reporter not guilty. Hearts rose and fell. But then, not so much. Is robert dean hall guilty or not guilty of seconddegree murder, guilty. Reporter guilty of murder. Not premeditation, per se, but of an attempt to kill, and a disregard for human life. Rob hall looked like he had been punched in the stomach. Tears sprang to his eyes. Hall was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He will be eligible for parole in the year 2028, just before his 60th birthday. As we sit here now, being convicted of intentional murder, youre not taking responsibility for that. As murder, no. Reporter youre saying, the architect of this tragedy emmett car gone than you. Absolutely. Yes. Reporter and so you, sitting in prison, for the next god knows how many years, are as much a victim as anybody else. Its devastating. I wish i had never gone there that night to get my wife. Reporter of course, you went that somehow not taking your gun along. I think that. I do the what if game on that. And then i think, what if he would have pounded my face into the cement and not stopped. And then, people would say, why didnt he have his gun with him . Reporter and thus, you encountered one of the elements of classic tragedy. The thing you buy to protect yourself is the thing you used to destroy yourself. Yeah. Reporter another thing to contemplate in your jail cell late at night. Yeah. Reporter he also thinks about his two daughters, whose lives, at 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 in the home. Because of a final twist to this story of betrayal and retribution. Robs wife, kandi, was sent to prison herself. Because of the killing . No. She pleaded guilty of grand theft, of embezzling 30,000 from the attorney before Emmett Corrigan. Before she went to prison, she talked to us about regret. I had a lot of guilt still 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 its something that i dont know. Are they ever going to be able to get through that . I mean, hopefully one day i can prove to them that it was just a mistake. Reporter in the years since, ashley has remarried and has become an author, blogger and speaker, with a message to stand strong and faithful. I think theres thousands of people in this country that come to those crossroads and dont know what to do. But i think if i could tell them anything, it would be, put your family first. I guess i would like to say to rob, rob, he had five kids. Couldnt this have been something you pictured as you held up the gun and targeted it at his head and his heart. Reporter once in meridian, idaho, were two, happy, successful families. It wasnt quite enough for some of them. And the wreckage is forever. Thats all for this edition of dateline. Im craig melvin. Thank you for watching. First up on msnbc, personal grieve vance grievances as the country hongs on the georgia runoffs. Weve never lost an election. Were winning this election. If i lost, i would say i lost. But you cant ever accept when they steal and rob. Supporters echoing his blames. 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