was a master military leader, he said. did say on destroying the marriage anywhere she could. rob taglianetti, she wanted out of her life. keith reed, she wanted to be with him. she did whatever she needed to do to accomplish both of those ends. take robs discovery of his wife s sexual emails. the defense suggested mary left that email open on purpose. why? maybe because a confrontation between the two men was for a goal. why else, he said, would she not have alerted the authorities to her husband s impending showdown with the superintendent. if you re really worried of what your husband is going to do to another individual, wouldn t you call the officials? would you call the police? she waits, literally, days to call law enforcement. mary taglianetti, a prosecution witness, says she s appalled by the defenses theory and finds it preposterous. how was killing keith reed and getting her husband thrown in his run supposed to solve any problems? i didn t do anything of that on p
getting dressed. she asked him where he was going. he said, where do you think i m going? i said you re going to go see keith? and he said, well, i guess you know me. does he take off in the car? he leaves, late. 11:00 at night. that ll happened, she said, the night before investigators suspected keith reid had been killed. i had thought, in my mind, like there is no way he is going to go all the way up there just try and beat this guy up. that s what you thought this was? confrontation, a fistfight? yeah, he d gotten in fistfights before. for the past four years, mary says, she had been concerned about her husband s tripwire anger. he would have episodes where i would be afraid of him, or the children would be afraid of him. it caused the separation to years before, and now she married her husband had lost all perspective. i hear you saying it may have been a love triangle in rob s mind. yes. that s not what was going on? no. it was more like a connective
about going on a camping trip to clear his head. at the time, it hadn t made sense to her. i didn t understand why he didn t want to take us, you know? if he s going to take a couple of weeks off, for a vacation. why wouldn t he take his family? but now, everything added up. the authorities issued a be on the lookout for anthony raab taglianetti, a manhunt was underway. we are actively looking for this individual, pick him up for questioning, and we consider him to be armed and dangerous. where were? where are the children? we were at a hotel. they were worried he was going to try and come back and look for us. as the authorities searched for rob taglianetti, keith reed s family up in new york state gathered to say their goodbyes. the church in his hometown was too small for the hundreds of mourners, all the people whose lives the educator had touched. brother kevin was a pallbearer. did you speak that day? i couldn t. my son had to hold me up. you were a wreck at tha
forensic evidence found in taglianetti s car. in a case under the driver seat lee a 3:57 revolver. it was wrapped in a print out of his wife s steamy emails. and on the gun itself we had keith s blood not only on the barrel but in the barrel. that was the gun that was pressed up against keith reed s back. and a big surprise found on s a laptop, the prosecution said. an exit strategy. hours before his arrest, rob taglianetti but a one way ticket to israel. his ultimate idea was to get out of the country. but as convincing as the prosecution s case appeared, defense attorney told the jury it was not at all what it seemed. this is a story about manipulation and exploitation. rob taglianetti, he said, was a u.s. marine with a sterling record. a devoted husband who loved his wife and wanted nothing more than to keep his family together. his wife mary on the other hand
but if he had been, he said, maybe the superintendent was the aggressor. after all he argued, it was his reputation that was at stake if the phone sex with mary was exposed. when someone s confronted with that situation, who knows what they could do. no, there were just too many unanswered questions to justify a guilty verdict, the defense told the jury during closing arguments. the prosecutor has failed to establish his case, and every element of the charge beyond a reasonable doubt. all rice. but it didn t take the jury along. just three hours to come to its decision. how does the judge jury to find the defendant? the jury finds him guilty. guilty of the second-degree murder of school superintendent keith reed. rob taglianetti received 25 years to life in prison. he is appealing his case and declined to interview with dateline . outside, kevin reed embraced his niece. our brother and father killed by the husband of a woman he