i m not sure about anything. i think there s a darker side to all of us. people are complex. but there s absolutely no evidence that the guy committed murder. reporter: in court, gilberto was represented by two heavy hitters from new york city, evan lipton and gerald shargel who had previously defended mafia boss john gotti. they argued that the prosecution s case against their client was pure fantasy. they say that gil is such a schemer, but the plot they ve described here, it s like something out of a bad lifetime movie. reporter: the defense said if anyone was manipulating things it wasn t gil. it was linda. they read her texts to gil sent the very weekend she said she was rekindling her relationship with tom. i love you, i miss you. miss holding your hand. that soft spot scar on your face. mwah mwah mwah. can you just picture it? you re there with your
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were going through rough patches. in all honesty, you know, tom and i, we were havin some struggles in the home. what were you struggling with? i think probably the same stuff that every marriage after ten years struggles with. you know, paying the bills, workin two jobs. real-life problems. yeah, just yeah. and they were stressful. so was was gilberto a little bit of an escape for you? yes, yes. that s a really good way to put it. how does it finally get acted upon? i went and had some dental work in his office. so then you can imagine once i m there and i m in the chair and next step. did he kiss you while you were in the chair? yeah. which blew me away. the fact that this dentist, this smart guy, this, you know, smooth guy who seems to have everything,would even want to kiss me, or choose me. like, i just don t think of
reporter: if it s a good friend, though, who died, is that not possible that someone would have a very hysterical reaction to that? you do see strange reactions from em, but i believe his reaction was more than overdramatic, would i say. we kept in the back of our heads for later on. reporter: both linda and gil told police the affair was now over. but investigators weren t so sure, and began watching them closely. there was electronic surveillance in terms of constantly monitoring their phone records, their computer records. and we also had a a gps tracker on nunez s car for a while. reporter: what were you hoping to find with that? we just wanted to determine whether, in fact, they were still together, if they were together at all. reporter: it looked like gil and linda were telling the truth. after weeks of watching them, police found no signs they d been together since tom died. phone records also proved tom
like that. i have nothing to do with whatever was in tom s system. i had nothing to do with any of that. reporter: did you give him a polygraph, as well? we offered. reporter: did he take it? no. the next day after that interview, we were contacted by a lawyer stating that there d be no further contact with his client. reporter: meanwhile, linda was reeling from all that police had told her. from the images of the white s-u-v in the video, to the drug in her husband s system that a dentist like gil would have access to. like investigators, she now believed her lover had killed her husband. i didn t ever wanna speak to him again. reporter: but saugerties is a small place, and within days linda says she found gil waiting for her outside a chinese restaurant. he s sittin in the parkin lot and gets out of his car and starts screamin at me and we d get in a huge fight. and he s, like, they re tryin to pin this on me and they say you were involved. and i m, like, i was
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