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Fit of rage and he shot her. >> reporter: armed with that new information the detective went back to talk to tom and zeroed in on those scratches. officers had given him something clean to wear so they could collect his bloody clothing. >> you have scratches on your body. >> okay. you see this? this is a shaved chest. do you know how bad this hurt and itches? so when im sitting there i do this all fricking day. this is actually her blood. it comes off. see? oh, my gosh. its coming off. its her f...

Now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline." im craig melvin. though covered in blood and suspicious scratches, tom fallis insisted he did not harm his wife, that she was the one who pulled the trigger. ashleys parents werent buying it. but would the police? here again is keith morrison with "after the party." >> reporter: ashley fallis. 28 years old. wife and mother of three. was dead. the gunshot wound in her head unsurvivable. it was suicide, said her husband, tom. >> i didnt shoot m...

The three other cases of the variant strain were identified in southern california where hospitals are on the brink. >> we are admitting patients faster than we discharged them. in this battle, we are so outnumbered. >> reporter: in san diego county, which is now reporting a record number of covid deaths, one patient suspected of having the viruss mutation is hospitalized in a region short on beds. >> were at this stage now beyond just describing this as waves or surges or even surges on top of ...

>> reporter: what would the police believe? toms story that the shooting was a suicide or ashleys parents story that hed shot their daughter in a fit of rage? >> coming up -- ashleys family is outraged by the investigations final report. >> it was incomplete. it was inconsistent. no follow-up. it was unbelievable. >> when "dateline" continues. with our almond trees in our blue diamond orchard in california. my parents job is to look after them. and its my job to test the product. the best almond...

Suicide. but not everyone agreed.id >> i always was afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. >> did a fight that night lead to something much worse? >> i knew that ashley wouldnt take her own life. >> a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? >> that wound on the back of her head isnt where she could do ia herself, tom. it is not. >> oh, [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> suicide or murder? >> i didnt do this. >> i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again ever. hello and ...

It cant be an easy thing for a juror, imagining a moment he or she didnt see. >> please rise for the jury. >> reporter: and deciding what must have happened. did tom fallis kill his wife ashley in a fit of violent temper or what? >> tom fallis did not kill his wife and mother of their three children. ashley fallis committed suicide. >> reporter: remember how the prosecution talked of ashleys happy frame of mind? that ashley was a kind of lie, said the defense. >> ashley fallis was a beautiful wo...

But two prosecution crime scene analysts. this one youve already heard believed it was murder. but this one? >> most people that shoot somebody in an act of rage, they dont stop with one shot. >> reporter: dan gilliam was the crime scene expert from the first investigation of ashleys death. using a defense attorney about the same height as ashley, he demonstrated how difficult it would have been for someone as tall as tom to have shot ashley at an angle that matched the bullets trajectory. >> fi...

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An fbi dive team out of miami was soon on the scene. the water was gin-clear that day, and divers found forensic sunken treasure. there on the bottom -- rusted, covered with seaweed, and encrusted with barnacles -- were the pieces of a handgun. the parts were rushed to the fbi crime lab in quantico, virginia. "dateline" was given rare access to the fbis world renowned crime lab. in his first ever interview, firearms expert brett mills told us how he examined and reconstructed the weapon. first, ...

There are still compressed layers underneath that still has that impression of the serial number. using acid, we can restore that number. >> reporter: he demonstrated the process on a gun from the fbi collection. >> once youve polished it, you go in, and you literally start peeling the layers back with the acid until the number actually is visible. >> its amazing how it just reappears, the serial number. >> sometimes it does. other times, you might not be able to restore any type of number at al...