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Sit right with the lead detective either. while he felt her death could have been an accident, details of that scene bothered him. the week that cabinet door had been yanked down. the blood in the tub. the marks on sheles body. >> she had bruising to her lip. she appeared to have strapped scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. >> and what the detective would learn later cast suspicion directly on rod. rod tooled an officer that he had to pull sheles wet falling out of the tub. ye...

And in another sinister twist, prosecutors believe that were in a half years after sheles death, rod drafted an ode composed from her 12-year-olds daughter email account, pretending to be her. its read, i lied. she did just slip. i got so mad so i pushed her. i didnt mean to hurt her! i swear! it was never sent but it did in the tabloids after it was filed with the court. >> what father does that? >> who does that to a child? who basically finds the child -- >> right. >> prosecutors didnt get th...

Certificate and i saw that the cause of death was undetermined. >> sheles loved ones are not the only ones with growing doubts. investigators zero in on troubling clues. coming up -- >> she had bruising to her lip. chip here to have some scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. >> and rod said he had put sheles wet body out of the top, so, why wasnt he wet? >> two officers found this unusual enough to notice. how would you not get wet? >> when "dateline" continues. - i cant believe...

>> one thing marc and eve said came between the couple was rods dramatic mood swings. >> rod has and has always had a violent, explosive temper. he could be sitting very calmly in each year, and something can set him off and in seconds, he will literally explode. >> shele also complained about rods growing obsession with back backgammon. >> it became a passion and then an obsession. for him. >> did he ever say why? >> i think he had forged relationships in the backgammon community, that he reall...

With rage in their custody battle. sheles diverse attorney lance myers took the stand to say how rod had even used his son as a weapon. >> rod coughlin took the children, and accused shelley of abusing miles. >> it turns out that he took them to the hospital, and made allegations that shele had sexually abuse their son. >> so this is getting ugly. >> yes. >> prosecutors said those disturbing and false accusations were just one example of how rod was becoming unhinged. he was also excessively tra...

Him, but that didnt seem to matter. his parents, david carroll, said they adored her right from the start. >> he told us he had a girlfriend, and we have to meet her. and i said okay, theyre coming up we dont have time for that -- now >> know you have to meet. her >> a brunette back then, shelley mary brought six months later. and as reality settled, -- it wasnt exactly blessed, because while he was a stunning overachiever, rod was well not in the same league. he was a stock trader of middling s...