What happened to her last husband . Whoever did this was very evil. The hurt, the anger. It makes you question everybody. It seems alive somehow, here in the foothills of tennessees appalachians. The creeping tendrils of mountain mist that snake and swirl, like lies. Theres gold in there somewhere. So they say. The sort of place where you could strike it rich or maybe get away with murder. Very scary. Shocking. And devastating. So after that mysterious death here who could anyone trust . Dearest friends . The word betrayal come to mind . Oh, absolutely. Brothers in arms . Its beyond disturbing. Closest family . She looked at me as if she wished i was dead. Maybe no one. We were always looking over our shoulder. Might still be had it not been for him. Pretty shocking stuff. I dont think ill work anything like this again in my career just because of the different twists and turns. Yes. In that toxic swamp of secret identities, of heroes and villains. Driven by greed and lust. And power. Whoever set this up and whoever did this was very evil. Oh, so many lies. Everything that you were taught as a kid was a lie. This place, where the story begins, seems created not for lies but for love. The tranquil waters and soft sunsets of bradenton, florida. And though the local Sheriffs Office may seem an unlikely place to find love, heres where it struck a county detective named bob mcclancy. Do you have anything to say, bobby . I have a lot to say. How many hours do we have left on the tape . A funny man. Welcome to pasquales kitchen. And very kind, said his nieces. Not just to people. Hed be so excited to go over there to see like what new animal he got, or hed be like oh, i got a new bird, come over and see it. Give me a kiss. He had got us little turtles as kids. He was a real animal guy. He was. Loved animals. Say hi, kristen. Loved his nieces too. He used to take us out on the boat. He just always took care of us. Just like he took care of his sister kathy when they were kids. It was always like the two of us doing everything. Causing havoc. As a sheriffs deputy, said his sister kathy, he once faced down a violent gang. They had knocked him to the ground and took his gun and everything and beat him up. As a matter of fact, i believe that they fired a shot. But it missed. So he barely made it through that one. Yeah. His marriage couldnt take it. And bob mcclancy sought love elsewhere. And then a Southern Belle at the Sheriffs Department, an aloof secretary known as the office wiz, caught his eye. Her name was martha ann. Was he crazy about martha ann . Yes, he was. He was really smitten . Yeah. How close were the two of them . Could you tell that . Very. They seemed very close. Very much in love. As much as we knew them, they were they always looked out for each other. It was a real love match. Yes. Martha ann had two sons. I always respected my mom. She was very charming. Highly intelligent. Shawn was adopted as a baby, met jen as a teenager, and she became his wife. Where shawn was from was not discussed at home. But then he had martha ann, the only mother hed ever known. A mother is the sun and the moon and the stars to a little kid. Did it feel like she was . I was always told since a young age that the only people you can trust completely are your parents. In the mid 90s shawns mom, martha ann, was going through a painful divorce. And then fell for the detective, bob. Bob was very down to earth, and he taught me a lot of things. Like what . How to be a man. How to be a real person. It sounds like you liked bob. I liked bob a lot. In 1995 bob and martha ann got married. And on holidays bobs sister kathy got closer to martha ann. Wed go out shopping. That was our big thanksgiving. You know, bobby would stay home and the girls would just take off and go shopping. Bob and martha ann retired in the late 90s, left florida, and bought a big secluded hillside cabin in coker creek, eastern tennessee, in the shadow of the smoky mountains, not far from where martha ann grew up. A place where a man could forget about being a cop and all that violence. By then shawn and jen had their own family and visited from time to time. Bob especially would oh, yeah. Treat our kids great. He was fond of them. He was the real deal. Martha ann went back to work, accounting job. She loved numbers. And they made time for friends too like Debbie Hartman. We met in church. Bob and martha ann just became very dear friends. Ain Martha Ann Debbie found her soulmate. She was what i would refer to as the quintessential southern lady. She was like a sister to me. We had the same type of upbringing, the same type of morals. We had fun together. We enjoyed sharing recipes together. She had two boys. I had two girls. Wed talk about our children. We just were very, very close. Over the years they shared cookouts, road trips, church events. Just like two peas from the same pod. And you could just see, said debbie, how much bob and martha ann loved each other. Never once did i hear them argue or have a sour word against one another. Never. Just very loving. The perfect couple. And then, may 2006, when martha ann was at work a family friend stopped by to see bob at home. And in front of him, well, he called 911. 911 what is your emergency . He appears to be cold to the touch. Martha ann got home, then called for her friend, debbie. And shes screaming and shes saying bobs dead. And im like, bobs dead . Coming up what happened to bob mcclancy . I cried for ten hours. I couldnt believe we lost such a great man. Shocking. The two of us just cried our eyes out. Next thing you know the sheriff comes out. And im like what in the worlds going on . And shes like, i dont know. When dateline continues. Tis another bundle in the books. Got to hand it to you, jamie. 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Bob mcclancy, 56 years old, was lying in his favorite recliner. The caller, a family friend, said the body was already cold. Were on the way out there. Okay . Thanks. The friend hung up and waited for first responders. I was a detective, had been a detective for almost a year. Travis jones, then a detective with the Monroe CountySheriffs Department, was one of the first to go into the house. What did you see when you got there . I found Robert Mcclancy in a recliner. Had a pistol in one hand, empty bottle of pills in the other hand. Have you ever seen such a thing before . No. The gun hadnt been fired. But there were pills strewn all over bob mcclancys body. A white foam around his mouth. Pointed to an overdose. And a do not resuscitate order signed by bob mcclancy and left in the kitchen said he wanted to die. Did you see this not resuscitate order . I did. It looked like suicide. And martha ann had to spread the dreadful news to bobs sister and nieces in florida. When you got the call, what does it do to you to hear that about somebody youre so close to . Were just like in disbelief. Its like a nightmare. Yeah. Shocking. Cant imagine. When she told me he took an overdose and killed himself. Do you still remember that moment . Yes, i do. It affected me quite a while. Shawn too was griefstricken when he heard about his stepdads death. Must have come as a shock. I think i cried for ten hours driving from florida to tennessee. I couldnt believe we lost such a great man. But shocking as it was, to those who knew bob intimately it was not a complete surprise. Why . Four letters. Ptsd. Posttraumatic stress disorder. Back when the vietnam war was sinking into its bloody depths bob volunteered to go as a marine. It took its toll. As did lifethreatening incidents during his police career. Bob had been on heavy medications but still suffered flashbacks, nightmares, depression. He said to me one day, im kind of having a rough time at the moment. Ive not been sleeping real well. And he said so ill give up and sit in the chair in the hallway. And what worries me is if i fall asleep in the chair and maybe martha ann will get up to go to the restroom maybe ill attack her. He said, you know, im having issues. And he said it kind of worries me. Martha ann told debbie she was very troubled. She said im trying but when im at work hell get into spells. She said bob is abusing it. Bobs sister kathy had also seen warning signs. How did you become aware that ptsd was really beginning to become a factor in his life that had to be dealt with . We had been up for thanksgiving and he had explained to me that right after the holidays that there was a program and he was going to enter it. When that came up that he was going to enter that program i found it shocking. Shocking . Yeah. He never because he never seemed like that at all. He never seemed like that. He never seemed like anything bothered him. Bobs new Year Resolution for 2006 was to finally beat ptsd. And in january he set off to nashville for an intensive sixweek program run by the v. A. Soon after he got there he called his sister kathy with hope in his voice. Hed made a new friend. His roommate, charles kizmarzik. Went by chuck. He had told me that he finally found somebody to talk to that understood what he went through in vietnam because chuck was there. Yeah, you kind of need somebody whos been through the same thing i guess. Yeah, right. So he was happy. Bobs new veteran friend chuck was no average grunt. He was the very model of a war hero. Special forces air man. Citations for valor. Earned in the most daring operations. And such a big shot he was invited to the president ial inauguration. Do solemnly swear. Chuck was a sort of tonic bob seemed to need. This relationship continued after the program was over, right . Yes. After they got out of the program in february, bob spent most of his time with chuck. He lived not far away in knoxville. As they did handyman jobs at each others homes. Bob had kind of replaced everybody else with chuck. You know, chuck was everything. But bobs ptsd persisted. Martha ann did what she could to pick up bobs spirits, though that seemed to backfire when she got a makeover. She had had her hair cut short and blond. Big change. Big change. And im like oh, my god, you look beautiful. And she says, well, im certainly glad you like it. She said, because bob doesnt like it at all. He had a fit that i cut my hair off. I said, but a lot of men like ladies with long hair, so you know, give him time, hell come around. When martha ann was at work, chuck kept an eye on bob. Chuck was right there. But bob was in a downward spiral. Martha ann complained that bob was abusing his antidepressants. And martha ann and chuck found themselves managing one painful scare after another. In one episode they rushed bob to the va hospital more than three hours away passed out in the car. Out of it. Out of it. I understand they had to stop the car because they thought they were going to have to do cpr on him. Bob was stabilized and after he was deemed well enough sent home. Two days later on that monday in may martha ann got up early and went to work as usual. Shed arranged for chuck to check in on bob that afternoon. It was he who found bob and called 911. Debbie arrived later to find police cars and ambulances and a frantic martha ann. And so the two of us just sat there and just hugged each other and bawled. And you know, just cried our eyes out. It was horrible. Bob was dead. Next thing you know, the sheriff comes out with chuck in a z shirt. And im like what in the worlds going on . And shes like, i dont know. So they drove off with chuck. Coming up police have some questions for chuck. To come in, find your friend dead. He wasnt rushing around at all upset . 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Debbie dried in vain to ease martha anns grief. I would bring up, you know, fun things that we had done with bob. Have a cry about it. It would be like, and now were not going to have that anymore. You know, and then id start bawling. And of course shed start bawling with me. And to make it even worse, bobs best friend chuck had been taken away by sheriffs deputies. And so debbie watched as martha ann tried to cope with her own sorrow. As she planned her husbands funeral. Anxious at the same time for her friend, that those small town cops had the wrong idea about chuck. And i thought okay, this was bobs best buddy now. You know, youre grieving for bob and now youve got to take care of chuck. Tough situation for her. Tough situation. Which was about to get tougher. Courtesy of that smalltown sheriffs Deputy Travis jones. Something strange here, he thought. He and the other detectives. So they held chuck for questioning. For one thing, why was he so cool . His best buddy was lying there dead. He wasnt kind of rushing around at all upset or anything like that . No. Calm . He was calm. Which was kind of suspicious in itself. To come in, find your friend dead and he was calm. As he had been calm and kind of strange on the 911 call. Mr. Mcclancy appears to be expired. The operator suggested chuck might try to revive bob. If you want to try to do some type of cpr on him i can give you instructions im cpr qualified we do have a do not resuscitate order on him. Chuck didnt seem to want to save his own best friend. And to the detective that do not resuscitate order seemed maybe just a little too convenient. Maybe youve got a crime here. Yes. Travis jones wasnt alone. Bobs sister kathy had her doubts too. Kathy knew bob suffered from ptsd and took medication. But she refused to believe her brother would kill himself. He could have part of his finger hanging off, he would duct tape it up and keep going. You know. Thats the kind of guy you saw too . Yeah. So a pillpopping brother didnt make any sense to you. No. Did not. Suspicions deepened. A week later when they traveled to bobs funeral in eastern tennessee. Deep in their grief, they met the friend whod reported bobs death to the police. And who was back in the community. As police continued to look into him. His name was chuck kazmarzik. How would you describe the guy is this. He was very creepy. There was just something about him like when he looked at you it was almost like he could just stare through you. Shawn and jen saw the same. He seemed like a tough military guy. There was a look about him. The cold stare. Yeah. Then kathy got a copy of the 911 call. And what she heard sounded like the verbal equivalent of a thousandyard stare. Mr. Mcclancy appears to be expired. And i played the tape. I played it over and over and wrote it word for word, what was in the tape. And it didnt make sense, a couple of things. First he said he didnt touch the body. Then he told the 911 operator when he asked about cpr, he said he didnt need it, he was already gone. Now, if he didnt touch the body, how would you know he was gone . How do you go on after that when youre full of these doubts and suspicions . You go on. You dont have a choice. You know. But i knew i would not let it drop. But in the end even though chuck was questioned at length everything he did put under a microscope, the suspicion appeared to be unfounded. The coroner actually ruled it a suicide. And then in the weeks and months after bobs death as suspicions dissipated like the mist on the surrounding hills, chuck could once again walk with his head held high. When we did the veterans parade in knoxville they put him on the top because he was the most highly decorated. After the awful tragedy of bobs death chuck got on with his life again, said g