eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [bleep]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, ashley fallis was in the mood to
the one changed her story on the stand. and the other? just months after the shooting, young iris eytan nick glover, when capping with tom. the very man he said he heard confessed to shooting ashli fallis. i had no time during the camping trip with tom fallis did you ever tell anybody that you are uncomfortable being there with tom fallis? i do not recall. who had to believe. for example, wasn t one but two prosecution crime scene analysts. this one, you ve already heard, believed it was murder. but this one? most people that should somebody and in an act of rage, they don t stop with one shot. dan galen was the crime scene expert from the first investigation of ashley s death. using a defense attorney, about the same headed ashley, he demonstrated how difficult it would ve been for someone as tall as tom who could ve shot ashli at an angle that match
remember how the prosecution talked of ashley s happy friend of mine. that friend was a kind of lies said the defense. ashley fallis was a beautiful woman but she had a terrible pain inside. she was mentally ill. the defense put one of ashley s close friends on the stand. what did you know of ashley have been a mental illness? i knew that she was on medications. we spoke pretty in-depth about that. but even with the medications, the friend testified, ashley had trouble controlling her emotions. what kind of mental health issues did you observe ashli fallis to be going through? depression, mood swings, impulsive behaviors. in fact, the defense argued, ashley was so depressed the summer before she died she
coming up a troubled marriage or a troubled young woman? what kind of mental health issues did you observe ashli fallis to be going through? mood swings. impulsive behaviors. and, the verdict. when dateline continues. when dateline continues.