a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentine s day! yuck my wife my wife i think my wife is just, debt. she had enemies. there were calls that were made to scare her. so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. he just couldn t have done it. sure they ve had their problems. there was a huge number. and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic, i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was did he love her to death. the motive was love lost. hello and welcome to dateline. if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well, that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in a cas
and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was didi lover to death. the motive was laws lost. hello and welcome to dateline if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in the case full of surprises. here is dennis murphy with the valentine s day mystery. a dozen roses check. how about a candle lit dinner and a champagne toast to love? isn t that what s valentine s day is supposed to be about? we all know red is for the ribbon on the box of chocolates, not for the pool of blood in the master back. maybe chicago gangsters get killed on the scene val
that didn t suit the neighborhood. the lady is laying on the floor blood all over the floor. right away detectives started asking who could be responsible. now keep in mind, john hamilton was a doctor who provided abortions. his wife susan worked at the abortion clinic two days a week. is it possible that here in conservative oklahoma should be murdered by an antiabortion zealot. just a week before susan was murdered, this wanted poster have enough for doctor. a reward in heaven will be bestowed on anyone contributing to bringing this murderer to justice. and both john and susan had received threatening phone calls that week. i received phone calls there were things done, but people trying to set fire to his clinic, people vandalizing his home, putting rushers all over the neighborhood and his in his kids school, that he was wanted
dead or alive. what s more, only the days before the murder, another antiabortion group had applied for a permit to stage a protest in front of hamilton s house. every avenue was checked. we checked every avenue of any burglary similar remotely close to the neighborhood. as is routine in domestic murders, the detective would look at this by was john hamilton himself. in this case though, the spouse had an alibi and a good one. he had been up at dawn for 7 am surgery at a clinic. it was over an eight and afterwards john stopped by the hospital where he had another prestigious scheduled for that morning. at about 8:30 he bumped into his former medical partner, dr. karen reising. i had gone into the doctors allows to dictate the procedure and he was in there. he was talking on the phone, sounded like he was talking to susan, just, you know, a very lighthearted conversation. afterwards, the doctor decided to swing back home. he has time to get back by the house.
theory of just what happened between husband and wife. something maybe grimly fitting for valentine s day. she was talking about leaving him. and so, the motive was love lost. the state of oklahoma charged dr. john hamilton with just loving his wife to death. coming up the prosecutor had seemed to have his work cut out for him. i ve never ever one second not one moment in time ever thought that he was guilty, ever. when dateline continues.