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Successful land developer, alan helmick, and his wife, miriam, were going through difficult times. professionally, alans real estate ventures werent what they once were. on a personal level, someone had recently tried to take alans life. >> while alan is waiting for miriam, he notices smoke coming out the back end of his car. >> it was right in the middle of a parking lot in broad daylight. >> apparently, someone had placed a lit fuse in the gas tank. fortunately, alan saw the smoke and got out ...

Not ask another human being. >> and investigators soon learned that miriam had been searching the internet for all sorts of interesting information, especially about the prescription drugs alan had been taking. >> i recovered approximately 180 online medical searches for things such as viagra overdose. ambien overdose, lisinopril overdose, a combination of those three drugs mixed together, pain killing overdoses. >> i think she was looking at various ways to kill alan. >> investigators also lear...

Set up her alibi. she left a message on alans voicemail asking where he was. >> hey, alan, this isnt funny anymore. ive been sitting here in front of the chinese dragon or the chinese place for 15 minutes and youre never late. >> no one knows where she disposed of the murder weapon and her clothes. but presumably, she did so on her way to or from the chinese restaurant. when miriam returned home, she called 911, saying she had just found alans body in a pool of blood. >> my husband is dead! it l...

I feel like im just missing my life. i came in and found him. >> alan and miriam helmick had been married for about two years. it was a second marriage for both. >> alan and miriam were known as being inseparable. social friends of theirs said they were always together. they were like two peas in a pod. >> miriam was convinced that alans murder and the attempted car bombing six weeks earlier were both related. a week after alans funeral, miriam found a greeting card under her front door mat. it ...

Prosecutors believed miriam was systematically stealing money from alans business accounts, and that, at some point, alan found out about it. thinking their relationship was soon to end, prosecutors believe miriam tried to kill alan, first by giving him an overdose of his prescription medicines. when that didnt work, prosecutors believed miriam placed a lighted wick in the gas tank of the car while alan waited for her in a shopping center parking lot. but prosecutors believe miriam knew about th...

>> do you know anyone that would have a problem with you? >> there are two people that have had a problem with me. >> okay. who are those two people? >> or two entities. one was the state bank, the president and vice president were trying to accuse me of an illegal loan which i didnt make. they made. >> i had the sense, and i think the investigators had a sense that this was going to be a drawn out deal. >> did a business deal go bad? there were some sales of some properties that involved variou...

Life. i came in and found him. >> alan and miriam helmick had been married for about two years. it was a second marriage for both. >> alan and miriam were known as being inseparable. social friends of theirs said they were always together. they were like two peas in a pod. >> miriam was convinced that alans murder and the attempted car bombing six weeks earlier were both related. a week after alans funeral, miriam found a greeting card under her front door mat. it was addressed to the grieving w...

>> at first, it looked like robbery was a possible motive. several drawers were pulled out, and the jewelry box was empty. but there was no forced entry. so that theory was quickly ruled out. >> it was not consistent with other burglary cases that i have worked. the rest of the house was not ransacked as you would expect to find in most of the burglary cases that weve worked. >> since miriam helmick found the body, she was automatically considered a suspect, but she willingly agreed to take a gu...

And weathered and it bore marks that are consistent with damage caused by striking sand or small stone particles. >> the bullet that killed alan helmick was also damaged as a result of impact. but the lands and grooves from both bullets were still visible. investigators compared those markings to see if both bullets came from the same weapon. >> i was able to determine that the bullet recovered from the yard corresponded with the bullet from the victim in number of land and groove impressions an...

His off hand, his right hand? that didnt make sense to us. >> also strange was miriams explanation as to why jack committed suicide. >> she said yes, he was very depressed because of her daughter, amy who had supposedly overdosed. miriam changed that story when she told it to me quite a few times. it was overdose once and one time it was some sort of physical ailment. >> records showed miriam was the beneficiary of jack giles $100,000 life insurance policy. while trying to solve the murder of mi...