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How longs she been in here . I dont know. She was taking a bath we didnt know if it was a tragic accident or something else. Questions quickly swirled about a wifes secret. What did you eat . She did have an addiction to prescription pills. And a husbands story. She flopped on the floor. Was it an accident, or maybe murder . She said, im scared of you. The whi immediately. Youre a murderer . When youre innocent, you dont think it can happen. Just wait for the spellbinding moment in court. It is nothing i would have ever imagined in my life. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with the quiet one. Sometimes the fresh air of a small town can hide a lot of dirty laundry. Sudden true. Sometimes sudden death with lay bare every secret. She had felt like she was abusing it. What happened in this small town would tear apart a marriage, and at the same time, separate two families that were once united by love. Boone, iowa, on flat land just north of des moines, is a company townhe chains in the midwest, fairway. Its a Family Owned Company and rick beck with is a family ceo. He and his wife raised a family of five, their youngest daughter emily. The sweet but quiet one. A shrinking violet . The older sisters said she never got spanked. Me with those big brown eyes and it was over. Even though emily was from a prominent wealthy family, her friend said she never flaunted it. Everyone knew that emily was a beckwith, but i never felt less in her presence or anyone in our family. Emily was the girl everyone wanted to be friends with and every boy wanted to date. According to her friends. Could have any boyfriend. All the guys her. She was grge. Youve seen pictures of her, even in high school, she was gorgeous. But it wasnt her thing to date. By the time she was 21, emily had moved to kansas city, missouri, working in a hair salon. One night in 2001, she went to a bar and a local boy names alex spotted her from across the room. Moments, i have to go talk to that girl. After a few days, he said he knew she was the one. What did you like about her . What didnt i . She was beautiful. She was very nice. She dressed impeccably. Yeah, what didnt i . Alexs mother joann knew something was happening when her son asked if he could bring emily to sunday dinner. He said i have met someone and i would love to be able to bring her over so that y can get to know her better. And you thought, here we go . Yes, i did. Emilys family also heard about the boy. She said, i met this fellow, hes italian, and she said, youre going to love his family, theyre louder than us. She fell in love with the whole family immediately. Emilys sister amy could see they were in love. Alexs eyes sparkled when they were together. Just huge smiles on both of their faces. The girl who never dated was swept off her feet. Emily and alex married may 10, 2003. How many people . I would guess at least 400. Thats big. For an italian wedding, its maybe mid size, but the couple had a son, nick. And a year later, alex took up emilys parents on an invitation to move to boone. Wanted to come and work for fairway. Her father offered alex an opportunity as a Family Member to move way up the ranks, and at my husbands encouragement, he went. Alex took an entry level job at a fairway store near boone. The beck withs gave the couple this house, just a fiveminute drive from their own. Soon there were two more additions to the family, ricky and cocoa. Is to have a family and be a wife and a mother. It all seemed perfect until the night of january 29th, 2012. It was close to the kids bed times. Emily had gone up early to take her nightly bath, and alex was doing things his wife normally did. I was helping with laundry. I helped the kids with their bath. Alex said he heard emily start her bath, as he and the kids there was a lot of sword fighting and things like that, and music, and it was really loud. And when it got quiet, i could hear the water still running. Alex says the water was running for about 20 to 30 minutes, so he went upstairs to see what was taking so long and came upon a horrible scene. Emily was submerged in the tub unconscious. Could, to get her out of that tub, as fast as i could. She slipped out of my arms. I started screaming help. I ran to the phone to call 911. And all i could say was help. 911, what is the location of your emergency . Help whats going on . Whats going on . It was the worst seconds was my life. But there was much m come. Two lives and so many secrets would soon be put under a microscope. What had happened upstairs in that bathroom . When we come back please, help me how longs she been in here . I dont know. She was taking a bath. What did you think this was . 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As we entered the master bathroom, emily was laying on the floor, face up, and she had please help me. How longs she been in here . I dont know. She was taking a bath. Could you tell whether he was still alive . I checked for a pulse and breathing, didnt feel any, so i instantly started cpr. How long . Shes pretty cold. Blood . No blood. No blood anywhere. She did have a big bruise on her forehead. What was around . Anything . The bathtub was full of water, and there were oil droplets on top of the water, there was music playing from an ipad on the sink area. Emts loaded emily into an ambulance and raced to the hospital. When her mother cindy got the call, she went straight there. And they told me she was in emergency room and then a fellow came in and he said, shes gone. Emily was dead at the age of 32 and known new why. Night, what did you think this was . I didnt really know. Sfs suspicious death for sure. We didnt if it was a suicide or a tragic accident or something else. Around midnight, police asked alex to give a statement at pleat headquarters. I pulled her and she just flopped. You know, she just flopped on the floor. You went this, in those initial interviews, youre not represented by an attorney . No. And you talked to the police and you handed over your phone . Yes. Almos to hide . I didnt. He also told Police Something very few people knew. His wife had a dependence on prescription drugs. Alex said he was sure emilys addiction had killed her. Its really not my wife that did it, its the addiction. What did you think had happened . I didnt know if, you know, shed tack a handful of pills. I was having a hard time trying herself or if she just overdosed. You thought overdose, either deliberate or unintentional . Yeah, i thought it was a reasonable assumption. Reasonable because alex said hed been dealing with his wifes addiction for more than a year, when he discovered she had stolen pain pills from his father. Now a few months later, alexs own doctor asked a strange question during a checkup. He said, and hows your why do you ask . He said, i wanted to make sure the vicodin i prescribed you are working. I said, excuse me and i started crying. You hadnt asked for any vicodin . Correct. Vicodin is a powerful pain medication that can be highly addictive. Emily had asked for the prescription, saying it was for alex, but he said she ended up taking the pills herself. Alex said he confronted emily. Choose between your family and this medicine. I said, im not going to stay married to you if you continue down this road. And she said . She said okay. She said it and she may have meant it, but alex said, in the months before she died, emily would seem okay one day, but not the next. I could see in her eyes, they like a glaze. She and then she would be fine for a period. Two months before her death, emily reached out to her mom for help. Did she say shed become addicted to this painkiller . I dont know if she used the word addiction, but she had felt like she was abusing it. And alex was upset about it. Emilys doctors had recommended inpatient rehab. Instead, she decided to detox at saying she had mono. The reason is because they were scared of what it would do to their image. Is the reason that you put out this cover story about emily having mono, is that because sending her to rehab would have been some kind of embarrassment to your family and you didnt want your name tarnished . Absolutely not. Weve always done the best thing for our children and emilys desire to keep it from alex. Emily went cold turkey. Cindy says the first couple days, her daughter hardly left her bed, suffering from severe headaches. But after only four days, emily went home. Did you think she was clean, off drugs, that that problem was behind her . I knew that she was still tired. But no longer addicted . No. You were convinced that had been dealt with . Alex didnt find out about the detox until much later, but he said in the weeks before she died, emily still had a stash ever pain pills. How many times did you say to your wife, if you dont get off the drugs, im going to have to leave you . At least three. But she wouldnt do it . She would fall back into her old habits. She would never agree to rehab . No. She told me that all her doctors are on the same page, everything is fine. So alex was telling everyone that his wife was her own demons. But soon, new evidence would emerge that would send this case in a more sinister direction. Coming up results came back clean. So it wasnt an overdose . It wasnt an overdose. What then could have killed emily . She was scared. Alex fazeeno had lost his wife emily. Despite his grief, he still had to be strong for his children. What did you tell your kids . I remember hugging them, i remember just telling them that mommy went to heaven and that she cant come back. As two families said goodbye, alex had to come to grips with the fact that he was now a single dad with three kids under the age of 7. Its sickening to know that if emily would have got the help she needed, she could still be here for my kids, and probably for me. While emilys family tried to cope with their loss, state investigator don schnit ger was operating on the assumption that addiction. She did have a drug problem. She had an addiction to opiate medication, prescription pills. An overdose would mean no crime, just a regrettable death or even a suicide. But then, six weeks later, something that changed the entire focus of the investigation. Emilys toxicology report came back. The results came back clean. She wasnt under the influence of opiates at the time of her death. So it w it wasnt an overdose. No trace of the opiates she had been abusing. There was nothing in her system, no alcohol. So investigators had to take a look at the case, starting with the photos of bruises on her body. Police saw a bump on her head, but during the medical exam, the medical examiner found more. She had trauma to all four possible those injuries could have occurred while alex was dragging his wife out of the tub . I dont think so. And there were bruises on her neck. She had strap muscle bruising that were of concern, that maybe she was held under the water by her neck. Alex said he tried cpr, that couldnt bese who was doing cpr . Our feeling is no. How could emily have gotten those bruises . Well, i know she hit her head while i was getting her out of the bathtub. Or you would i mean, when i picked her up, i heard it hit when i was pulling her out, her head hit. The side of the tub . The floor . So hard to get her out. Would you have bruised her neck doing that . I dont know. Agent schnit ger wanted to know, what might be going on behind closed doors in the fazeeno marriage. He listened to another 911 call. And hes taking everything of mine and trying to take pills too. One week before her death, emily called 911 to complain about alex. Hes trying to take property that is not his. Emily came home inebriated the night before and id had it. And i grabbed whatever pills i could grab and i was going to flush them down the toilet. And she got angry . She got angry, she called 911. No one was arrested or charged in the incident, but it seemed to be the breaking point. The next day emily filed for divorce, then alex did the same. Both asked for custody of the and both were still living in the same house. A few nights later, emily called her father rick. The words were saying one thing, the voice was telling me something different. What were the voice telling you . She was scared. There was something wrong. They hung up around 6 00 p. M. Two hours later, emily would be dead. I will never forget that phone call. Because that was the last time i heard her voice. 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