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i noticed a significant change in her attitude. went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy. reporter: spring in her step again. oh, yeah. reporter: that s timing. now that rob wanted to seem to fix their marriage, kandi became a study in pretense. honesty took a holiday. i was living a lie. being in an affair is being in one big lie. you lie about everything. reporter: yes. and she lied to herself too. you were thinking of you and he together, striding across the bow of the titanic. this is going to be it for you forever. yes. reporter: and one night a couple of months into the affair, events ticked measurably toward the deadly conclusion. around bedtime, kandi received a text from emmett and couldn t hide it. the text popped up and rob read it, and it said i wish i was there with you tonight.
me. reporter: it was all just about he just started to cry. and he said i m having an affair. and i laid my head on his chest and i said, rob, please, just fix it. reporter: you didn t get upset, didn t yell, scream, cry, do anything? that s what shocked him. you know, the typical response is get the hell out. reporter: throw the clothes out the window. and then late one night, rob lay down beside his wife in bed and it all came tumbling out. he just started to cry and he said, i m having an affair. and i laid my head on his chest
lover, emmett. here, you can see rob leaving the store, looking at kandi s parked bmw and strangely, getting back into his own pickup truck, pulling out and then reparking it on the other side of kandi s car. curiously, his door now just out of range of the store surveillance camera. this is when he made that phone call. the one in which kandi confessed she had been with her boss, emmett corrigan. and he said what s up, chief? and here is emmett s truck speeding through the parking lot. still time to stop this if wiser heads had been in charge. but they weren t. nothing wise about what s coming. i see rob in his truck, and he has just this look on his face, like, oh, man. and i get out of truck, then emmett gets out and then rob gets out. walks over to us. reporter: this is just the