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maybe his daughter's description of the killer was wrong. maybe it was michael beard she saw. >> this phone call, this is, like, the key. this is it. >> that's the first real connection that we had that put beard anything to do with the murder. that kind of just alerted us right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. >> he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. >> did that seem odd to you? >> that did seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn't even remember receiving it, and he wouldn't have answered a call that wasn't -- that he didn't know the number. >> and when investigators looked at beard's phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller's cell. >> it had been, uh, erased. he explained that away by saying that he, the night before, had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it was a little bit suspicious to me. >> did you start to come down really hard on him? like, i don't -- we're not buying your story? >> it wasn't hard. it was more like i was trying to say, "let the truth out, " because he was having physical -- like, his
Michael-beardBig-payment-beardAnythingCharlie-runKindMurder-for-hire-schemeKillerPhone-callDeathDescriptionShe-sawThis-is-itthey still had questions. >> for the most part, it looks pretty good for tom. >> correct. >> this alibi is pretty strong. >> absolutely. i mean, the witnesses that see him at the poker game, we know where he was all night. >> that's not the end of the story, though. >> that is not the end of the story. >> not the end of the story because there was something investigators just couldn't get around, the daughter's story. her description of the killer, it was powerful evidence they couldn't ignore. and so just hours after the murder -- >> defendant was remanded in steuben county jail without bail. >> they arrested kelley's husband tom clayton and charged him with murder. >> how can you arrest him? what are you arresting him based on? >> there -- there's a lot of suspicion. there's a lot of -- and basically we have to have probable cause to make an arrest. >> what was the probable cause? >> the biggest thing, the oldest child had made comments that it looked like daddy, it had daddy's eyes. >> and as of the end of today -- >> tanner jubenville covered the story for nbc affiliate
Tom-didn-t-attack-kelleyQuestionsStoryPoker-gamePartAlibiEndCorrectWitnessesSomethingCharlie-runMurder-for-hire-schemeidea. >> i kind of, like, looked at my mom. and i was like, "yeah." >> molly, only 16 at the time, told police she'd spent the summer working for her uncle at his restoration business, servpro. and there she met one of his employees. a man named michael beard. tom told her to keep her distance. >> he never really wanted me around michael beard. he didn't want me, like, working with him. >> michael beard was no stranger to the family. >> he actually had done work at my sister's home. my sister would give his daughter charlie's hand-me-downs, clothes, toys. my sister would make lunch for him when he was there working at her home. >> while kelley was kind to beard, she told her sister she didn't always feel comfortable around him. >> i remember kelley, you know, not wanting to be home alone if he was there. you know, he -- he was civil. he was nice. but i'd -- i don't think she wanted to be left home alone. >> now, molly told investigators that her uncle
ManNew-york-state-policeOneMollyMomIdeaEmployeesUncleServproRestoration-business16Tom-didn-t-attack-kelley>> nothing, you knew nothing. >> nothing. >> can one of you stay with him? that's the husband. >> one comfort, officers told the family that kelley's children were safe at a neighbor's house. they didn't mention what the eldest, charlie, had been through. >> she saw everything. and she saw it happen. >> steuben county sheriff jim allard interviewed the 7-year-old that night. he was astonished by her poise and bravery as she gave him the details of what had happened. >> her story begins that she was in her room playing on her tablet, and she said she heard, mommy, yelling run, charlie run, repeatedly screaming it. run, charlie, run. mommy got to her door and got the door closed. then she heard more commotion. she opened, went into the hallway, followed the commotion down the hallway to the steps and to the kitchen and observed mommy fighting with what she termed as "the robber." she got up and pantomimed for me of a
Kelley-claytonNothingFamilyNeighborCharlie-runHusbandWhite-houseChildrenOfficersShe-saw-everythingSafeEldestthe neighbor's house. >> i say, "where's your wife? " and he pointed to the kitchen area. and that is when i walked around and i located the victim on the kitchen floor. >> oh, oh. okay. >> it was tom's wife kelley. right away the deputy knew she'd been murdered. what did you see? >> the victim. there was blood, blood spatter on walls, ceiling. victim had blood pooling around her head. >> tom, where were you when this all went down? >> playing poker with my buddies. >> tom said he had just come home from a poker game to find kelley dead on the floor and his 7-year-old daughter, charlie, saying something about a break-in. >> i came home and my daughter said there was a robber in the house and she saw them. >> okay. come on out here, man. come out here. i want you to have a seat. you don't need to see that any more okay? >> his kids were home? >> kids were home when this occurred. >> where were they? >> when i got on scene, he had taken them to the neighbor. so i never saw the kids. >> what did you think about the person capable of doing this to this mother with her children at home? >> this -- it was -- it's --
Tom-didn-t-attack-kelleyWifeNeighborWhite-houseKitchen-areaVictimWife-kelleyKitchen-floorOhBlood-spatter-on-wallsAllHomehunting." >> after the robber left charlie said she rushed to hug her mother and then knew there was one more thing to do, she had to go upstairs and take care of her 3-year-old brother. >> to the sheriff, the 7-year-old's story was both chilling and heartbreaking. >> it was a memory i'll have with me the rest of my life. it's one of those that takes a little part of you with them or with it. here's a little girl who does remind me very much of my own daughter. and she's working through, "i just watched mommy brutally attacked. it could be daddy. where am i? where does this leave me? >> but could it be true? did she really just see her father kill her mother? this had been a very bloody murder. and deputy dean swan had looked tom clayton over carefully. >> did tom have any blood on him? >> i did not see any on him. no. nope. i actually checked him for any injuries, or any blood, or anything on him. and he had nothing. >> tom had told the deputy he'd
ThingRobberCharlie-runMotherHuntingOneStoryPartGirlSheriffBrotherCaretogether came to an abrupt end when she was found brutally murdered, investigators set out to uncover the truth, finding stories of betrayal and a witness who may have seen everything. the clayton's daughter, charlie. but in this case, not everything was as it seemed, here with the house in the woods is andrea canning. >> he wasn't exactly sure where the house was or what had happened there but he knew that it was bad. >> these ones are not fun to do. >> finally, he founded, down the secluded driveway, a man on the front lawn waving him in. >> what's going on. >> i'm the neighbor. >> inside the deputy could see signs of a struggle. blood on the floor. >> blood on the wall. blood on the steps. >> a broken wall. he searched the house. >> the kid's room. this one is clear. he had been a local star of sorts. kelley, she was a hometown girl raised right here in the finger lakes region of new york state. >> when you
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