immediate connection. there was zero stress talking. no uncomfortable-ness. their romance blossomed and she eventually moved in with paul and his kids. do they look up to him? they worship him. they completely worship him. he s always up with them, checking homework. we do a lot of things as a family. is it a nice life? yes, we were really happy. really, really happy. and then? you get a knock at the door. yes. yeah, that was a tough day. it was an early morning in september, 2012. four years after catherine s death. i was asleep. i had just got off of work. i worked 12 hours at the hospital. and i remember my girlfriend comes in and she goes there s something fishy going on outside. there s two police detectives outside and they want to talk to you about your car being involved in a hit and run. but when he arrived at the police station, he saw a
the details of how he killed his wife. he told me that they were fighting and that they were rolling around on the basement floor for about 45 minutes. and that s why he was so late. and she was screaming and begging for her life. and the jury didn t have to just take her word for it, prosecutors called scott sherwood, paul s partner from work to the stand. they told the jury he had been interrogated by police and showed them the tape. let s go from the beginning. you meet paul where? i met paul at his house in glen cove. jurors heard him tell police his version of what happened the night of the murder. so he gets in your red blazer. who s driving? i was driving. we were driving up towards where his residence was, where s catherine lived. sherwood said paul told him to part about a mile away from catherine s house and wait in the car.
asking questions. choosing instead to accept they might never know what really happened to her. to take catherine s perspective, she would look for the positive side, the good things. and she would want us to move on. and that s what we try to do. we made our peace with it. and we went on living. but as time went by, in the last little town of narrowsburg, dark suspicions were whispered from neighbor to neighbor. and one name kept coming up, catherine s estranged husband paul novak. her close friend, sue muller. i was angry as time went on, and as i thought more and more about it, and i thought paul might be involved. as she looked back, she was particularly haunted by the way paul acted the day of catherine s memorial service. the whole congregation was sobbing so loud. i mean, the pastor couldn t even finish her sermon. i went up to him and i held him and was struck by how he didn t
system symptoms can be more severe. rsv can lead to bronchiolitis and infection that causes airways to become inflamed. and leave kids difficult to breathe. back to dateline. ds difficult t breathe. back to dateline welcome back to dateline, after the mysterious death of his wife catherine, paul novak was trying to move on. he relocated to florida, and had a new girlfriend. but then came that knock on the door and detectives placed paul under arrest. soon, he would learn that someone was claiming they had disturbing new details about the night of the fire. paul s world was about to turn upside down. once again, here s andrea canning with secrets and lies. katherine novak s death had been a cold case for more than three years. went out of nowhere a witness
you may not be able to say you have a fingerprint, or we have dna, but that s pretty damning evidence. the last piece of prosecution needed was motive. why would paul want to kill his wife, catherine. ? simple, they said, money. when catherine died paul cashed in on her life insurance policy and homeowners insurance. it all totaled around $700,000. the defendant said he would kill catherine and burn up the evidence. and he did just that. now it was the defenses turn to attack. jurors would hear more about the checkered pasts of the witnesses at the very heart of the case. coming up and what a very checkered past some of those witnesses had. i think i slept with half the town. when dateline continues.