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>> it was a case tailor-made with the tabloids. >> we had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. >> he is out with other women. >> a failing marriage with millions at stake. >> he didnt have any money of his own. >> this is getting ugly. >> yes. >> she said she were broken, and she cried. >> was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace? >> we believed it was a staged accident. he was adamant about his innocence. >> the case bought me for a long time. >> ...

It was a case tailormade with the tabloids. We had this beautiful woman, a tall handsome guy, greed, infidelity. He is out with other women. A failing marriage with millions at stake. He didnt have any money of his own. This is getting ugly. Yes. She said she were broken, and she cried. Was it a fall in the tub, or husbands fall from grace . We believed it was a staged accident. He was adamant about his innocence. The case bought me for a long time. He said to me you have to help me kill my pare...

No? you were jealous? >> no, i was mad at him. i was mad at him for a lot of reasons. >> is it fair to say that you have a history and have admitted to be a habitual liar? >> that is disgusting and false. that is not true. >> the defense conceded rod wasnt always stand up guy. he said dad didnt make him a murderer. >> you may despise him, you may not even be able to look at him. you may want to convict him, to convict somebody of murder, theres got to be proof. >> there was not on, gottlieb said...

On the stand, a witness who buttons everything up with a riveting tale. >> yes -- >> in the trial of rod covlin, the closer turn out to be none other than debra oles. rods body and his former lover. taking the stand, sunglasses on. >> which was it like walking into that courtroom and seeing rod covlin in there? >> terrifying. i had to look at him one time once, just to point him out and say thats who he is. >> debra testified that she got a late night call from rod on that new years day. >> he t...

As debra told the court overtime, she began to see just how volatile rod could be. >> he had a mercurial temperate and take much to set him off. >> she also so terrible fights that he had with his parents. by 2012, rod and his children were living with his parents in a new york city suburb, and the fighting was constant. >> one time during one of these fights, rod had brought his arms back, and he shoved his father as hard as he could. his father went flying into the room, hit his head on the fl...

Talking arsenic, right boys in. >> rods that, dave, said deborahs claims were laughable. the alleged murder plots are think our force. >> ross defense attorney agreed. during a testy examination he tried to poke holes in debras testimony, starting with her story of those spots. >> were you scared? >> yes. >> did you call it? place >> yes or no? >> no. >> gottlieb says deborah stories didnt add up either. >> time and time again, when she is saying that she felt bullied by rod, she was afraid of h...

That you just now figuring this out? and he said quote, know i only want to kill the people who try to take my children away from me. >> did you believe, now, that rod killed shele? >> there was no exception in my mind that he killed her at this point. >> finally, rotten deborah split. in 2014, she called investigators and told them everything she knew. now, four and a half years later, she told the jury. and she was about to get grilled by rod goblins defense attorneys. coming up, so it is fair...

Emails. >> by late 2009, he was also deeply in debt, with virtually no income. still, even with their divorce spending, he believed he would gain control of her 5 million dollar estate, if she died. but then, rod found some emails sent just two days before her death. >> she reaches out to an attorney, and also tell several people that she wants to change -- >> the state said thats one rod snapped, and hatched his plan. the night of december 30th, a friend of melissa feel sorry and send something...

Shele covlin, 2010 began with sadness. >> sheles sister eve and her husband marc, and believe the mother of two was gone. did a kind of hit you later, the more emotional side of things? did you think about your life without? >> right. exactly. >> and the children without her? >> right. you cant even think about the magnitude of it all. >> shele -- dl endgame 1--s in laws, were also in shock. their son, rod called with a new. >> he says, shele is dead. i dont think ive ever made it to manhattan f...

Damaging to the marriage. >> she started going to the fire scrub. >> from once a week, it became much more frequent than that. >> the couple seemed to be living separate lives. in what happened to be a painful moment, shele told her sister it wasnt the backgammon or the fact that rod was it pulling his way that pushed her to separate. it was rods cheating. she >> believes that he left an email up so she would purposely see it, from another woman. and she confronted him and he said that yes, he s...