calling and hanging up. i was like, bryan, i'm not hanging up. he just ha-haed it off. he was like, it's not a big deal, teresa. it's not a big deal. >> reporter: but was it? on july 10th, 1996, dr. bryan rein drove to bozeman, three hours away, to attend a conference. he returned home friday evening, the 12th. no one saw him on saturday. and then on sunday, the 14th, marlene's husband drove over to bryan's bunkhouse. >> it was about, i don't know, five, ten minutes later, he came back and walked in the door and was very distraught, crying. >> reporter: such a shock, which is maybe why her husband got the mistaken idea that dr. rein committed suicide. but later that same day when marlene heard an undersheriff repeat the mistake to bryan's grandparents, here's what happened. >> verna mae jumped up and she said, no way in hell would my