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>> please get somebody over here. >> okay, i need you to stay on the phone with me, okay? >> tammy was dead. and there was more. someone else lay dead in that house. it was a double murder. a cold blooded crime that would look more chilling with each new detail. >> coming up -- who exactly was the friend who now lay dead inside the parkers house? >> the first question i asked was, what was his relationship with this man? he said can i talk to you in private? >> when dateline continues.

Scene photos, another small but important detail jumped out. bryans jim bag with ammunition and an empty magazine clip big visible. >> the unusual thing about it, those items were found on top of the clothing of the items in the. back >> unusual because of what they noticed on the home security video that captured bryan arriving at the house. >> if you look at the video, when bryan notch along lee through that bag over his shoulder, those items wouldve gone to the lowest point in the bag. so it ...

Ive lost a friend. i lost my best friends. it was very emotional. >> does that weigh heavy on you knowing that he will be behind bars for life? >> certainly. im an irishman. anything weighs heavily on me. but that, and especially, because ive defended many people i knew were guilty, this is one i thought was not guilty. >> tammys friends keep her memory alive, in part, through her music. in the fall of 2012, ben staples held his annual barbecue as a tribute to tammy. will it ever be the same wit...

Upstairs and she slept downstairs. >> but the partners had more problems than just bretts affairs. they called ben staples to the sand, a parker family friend. >> what did you know about the march? >> well, as the years went by, she was unhappy. she had conversations, we had conversations. brett did not believe in god, or going to church. that was important to. her >> to them, that revealed another bit of evidence about the parkers shaky marriage. this one a bombshell. >> was your relationship -...

Gambler himself was deep in debt, but he wasnt debt to an old friend hed known since he was 15. >> you werent worried about that? >> ive never been worried about brett. >> if you had called you and said look i have a problem, you wouldve written the whole thing clean for him? >> yes. >> youve never put any pressure on him? >> no sir. >> and that life insurance policy the prosecution suggested was a smoking gun? the insurance agent testified brett wasnt all that interested in a policy on tammy. >...

And offer plans as low as $30 per line. more businesses choose verizon than any other network. we are open and ready for you. >> he had declared a resounding not guilty to the murder of his wife tammy in -- from the day it happened to this day in court, he insisted that he was the innocent victims of a robbery gone bad. >> who shot your wife? >> a friend of mine, brian. >> is he still there? >> i shot him. i think i killed him. >> defense attorney david ford or said the accusation that brett plo...

A friend of threats, robert bauer says that that is just not true. he wasnt asked to tell the story in court, but says that a month before the killings, he was at the park are home and saw bryan handling one of bretts guns with ease. >> he took all the bullets out, and handed me that, he didnt hand me the revolver he had taken the bullets out, he heard his friends say that he would never hold a gun but i just saw him there. >> he had given him a gun for protection, and in a dramatic move, the de...

Tammy. and we didnt know them that well. so, we didnt think that had happened. >> we lanny gunther, an old friend and former bookie, testified that four months before the murders brett was talking about separation. >> my advice to him, if he being that it was coming up on the holidays. for him to try to go home and work out with tammy and at least get through the holidays for the kids state. and then after the first of the year, for them to try to get back together. and if separation was their o...

>> police recovered to guns from the scene. brets for ten revolver, the gun he kept on his safe and used to shoot brian. in bryants hand, police found a nine millimeter pistol that had been used to kill tammy. near bryans body was his open gym bag with animal and an empty magazine clip, clearly visible on top. to investigators, it looked like brett parker had fought for his life. shaw a man in self-defense and had just lost his beautiful wife. the big question was why. why would such a good frie...

>> what motive could he have to shoot her? >> the motive he would have to shoot her was getting the money out of the safe and having no witnesses. >> why carry out a burglary when you know the wife is home? >> youre gonna guess is as good as mine. i >> think some people just find that hard to believe. >> sure they do. people find it hard to believe that airplanes fly, but it happens. >> brett parker met directly with sheriff leon lott. he even invited the sheriff to the house to show him the cri...