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an intruder. >> their home so deep in the woods now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. police had suspects. >> i remember kelley not wanting to be home alone. >> they also had a problem. >> why would this guy go up and kill this woman? >> her family had questions of their own. >> something is not right here. something is wrong. >> and then someone remembered a phone call and a fib. >> i pulled out my phone. im like thats strange. >> a killer living two lives. >> it hurts when you thoug...

when it happened. >> he said something about his kids telling him that there was a robbery. >> all they told us was there was an intruder. >> their home, so deep in the woods, now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. >> this is a real whodunnit? >> very much so. >> the police had suspects. >> i remember telling them they want to be alone. >> they also had a problem. >> why would the sky go up and kill this woman? >> her family had questions of their own. >> something is not my right here...

You getting any bad feeling from? him are you suspicious of him? >> not at all. >> so you are thinking this is something that were gonna close cross off their list? >> yes, i dont expect to see him. again >> to the investigator and those close to kelly, michael b or didnt seem like a good suspect after. all >> did you think it was possible, that he was a disgruntled employee, he was taking revenge? . >> i didnt. because if you are disgruntled, why wouldnt you kill the person that youre disgruntl...

>> thats pretty low. >> and hes been however sense. >> and he seemed determined to professes innocence to anyone who would listen. >> he said id like to tell you my side of the story. i said i dont want to hear. i dont want to get any more involved. and hes, like partially crying, and hes saying, you know, i wouldnt do that. >> months went by as the state prepared the case to gives each man. michael beard was the first to go to trial. in court, he recanted his confession and changed his account ...

Wrongfully accused and police rushed to judgment and that therefore led to an incomplete investigation. >> and in fact, investigators never found evidence that tom paid beard for a hit. >> as far as time plea, and there was no conversation overheard. there was no money exchanging hands. you could not even used a confession from michael beard. so there were a lot of things you did not have. >> right, but if you look at toms cleans conduct. he never mentioned michael beard. everybody says michael ...

Lindas phones records. and there was, the number tom dialed about an hour before the murder, a number they didnt recognize. investigator johnny lewis took it from there. >> so what i did was i got the number put it into actually facebook on my phone, and as soon as i put that number in the profile that pops up is michael beard. >> michael peered, the ex-employee hed been so cooperative with investigators. suddenly, he didnt seem so innocent. now police had to reconsider their theory of the crime...

Video proof of a conspiracy. thats beard. they say, in a red truck that tom loaned him. just hours before the murder. and thats tom, following, it is green truck. >> we also know that during the time period, beard turned his phone off. turned it on, turned it off. again >> why do you think he did? that >> well, the inference to be drawn from that is theyre not that naive. they know theres a possibility of being tracked with their phones. >> then, after the murder. the video shows what looks like...

But. the prosecutor knew he could not use beard to testify against tom. >> even if he came forward and said i want to testify now, he had lied so many times, he had line in his own trial. >> bearded changed his story so much of his own trial that he once have been a credible witness. >> tom and his lawyer pounced on that. telling reporters that beard acted on his own. >> this is purely mr. beards doing. what we do know is that mr. clayton had nothing to do with the death of his wife. >> and toms...

Serve pro. >> so there are some issues? theyre >> right. >> but beard was polite and cooperative with investigators knocked on his door. >> we said, hey can you give us you know a ride to the barracks. and he said yeah legislating let my wife. no >> and he already knew it was? about >> we told him that we wanted to talk about the murder of kelly clayton >> -- he said he was home, hes all four of your run. he actually kind of alibi himself at that point saying that he was at the store the night b...

Who had been grilling beards wife. she mentioned a dramatic piece of information, something about a big payment beard was expecting to get from time. $10,000. the investigators confronted beard. >> at that point, he was just defeated. i looked at him and said, 10,000 dollar, is that why you killed kelly? and he looked at me and said, yes. >> this was your big moment? >> that was the win. >> michael beard was arrested for murder. and tom, already in custody, was now accused of orchestrating the c...