Craig didnt want to believe there was a romantic relationship between them. It became painfully obvious that there was. And in the park, two young men acting strangely. They identify Colin Rideout and alexander rideout. The victims two sons . The victims two sons. Finally, a string of security videos would lay bare the bonechilling truth. A diabolical plan is forming here. It appears that way. I was stunned, absolutely stunned. I remember just holding him, crying. This is a family divided like no other. Yeah. Im lester holt. And this is dateline. Tonight, the depths of evil revealed at a place they call devils bathtub. Heres andrea canning. Reporter this is devils bathtub, a deep, dark pond formed by glaciers milenan ya a. Its hidden and secluded. But beyond the tangle and the weeds, a secret was about to be discovered. We werent ready for this. The sirens in my head, red lights going off in my head. Reporter the discovery would tell the tale of an allamerican family torn apart and a twisted loyalty hard to comprehend. It was like hitting a brick wall and life just stopped. Reporter this is the ultimate story of betrayal . Yes. Reporter pittsford, new york. A pretty suburb of rochester. Big houses, big families and topranked schools that make the people who move here want to stick around. In this community, you grow up in a bubble. This is the communitys a bubble. Reporter the rideout family lived in that happy bubble. Chelsea noyer dated the oldest rideout boy, colin. I remember one of the first times i went over to his house in high school. He was cooking me dinner. And he was i was like, oh, man, cooking dinner, thats pretty cool. Reporter very responsible . Oh, yeah. Thats one of the reasons why i fell in love with him. He loved his family. Reporter and it was a big one. Three girls, four boys. The rideout household was always bustling, family dinners, holidays. Colins parents, craig and laura embraced the chaos. This is craigs sister, robbyn drew. Clearly they liked being parents. They were enjoying this. Right. Reporter seven kids . Seven kids. Reporter dad craig worked as a Computer Programmer and spent time mentoring kids at his church. Craig is a outwardly personable person. You meet Craig Rideout, youll like him. Reporter paul tucci, better known as pj, was Craig Rideouts best friend. Pj was there when craig fell in love with laura. Laura is compassionate. Shes also really intelligent. I mean, she double majored in physics and english 4. 0. Reporter as for the rideout kids, they were smart like their parents, hard working, articulate. But while they thrived, family life took a toll on craig and lauras marriage. Laura had been on bed rest for some of her pregnancies, and money was tight. It circles back, i believe, to some financial hardships. Reporter its understandable, seven children, bills. Yeah. Reporter these are real life. Real life issues. Reporter problems. Craig and laura separated in 2014. Craig took it really hard. He sent an email to me saying, well, it looks like im getting divorced because i dont think i can talk about it without crying. Reporter p. J. Says he wasnt surprised to see the marriage dissolve. Sometimes you get a get feeling. A lot of positives that came out of that relationship but theres also a lot of negatives. Reporter oldest son colin was away at Maritime College when his parents split. I asked him if he was going to be okay. His first thought is im going to be okay. I have you. But im more concerned about making sure my siblings are okay. Reporter he decided to put family first and help out his mother. He moved back to rochester and put aside college and his goal of becoming a navy s. E. A. L. He left kind of his dream to put his siblings first. Reporter what is going to be the custody arrangements . The older kids were froe ee make their own choice. Custody got sticky with the two youngest kids. Reporter the divorce still wasnt final in the summer of 2016. And robbyn says there was tension over the shared custody of the 6 and 12yearold kids, though craig told her he was trying to make the best of a difficult situation. One of the phrases that he used most recently was that he saw light at the end of the tunnel, but it was stressing him out. Reporter and on top of that, Something Weird happened to craig that summer. Someone broke into the townhouse where he had recently moved. He thought it was no big deal, maybe one of his sons playing a prank. But his sister was worried, and she urged him to report it to police. My names Craig Rideout. What happened . I wake up at midnight with a sharp pain in my arm. I jump up. This will sound crazy. A hooded black figure not a black man was running out of the room. The reason i have to file a Police Report is my blackberry, which was taken that night. Reporter robbyn made a point to talk to her brother every day. July 19th, just a few days after the breakin was so exception. He said ill call you in the morning, check on you and the kids. Reporter but morning came and craig wasnt returning robbyns calls. If he had been in a meeting and felt his phone go off, he would have sent a response in a meeting, call you later. Reporter concerned, robbyn decided to pay a visit to craigs townhouse. And inside that house, the beginning of a dark family drama that could never be unwritten. I know something is wrong. I dont know how wrong. What was going on with Craig Rideout . When we come back, a discovery in the basement was about to provide an ominous clue. We found what appeared to be blood spatter on the walls. What they found next would change everything. This is a big moment in this case. It is. Women are amazing. We run marathons. Companies. Solve problems. How . We eat. Every. Single. Day. We eat, and we own it. T. 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You cant reach him at home . Right. Im getting no response. Reporter that breakin was fresh in robbyns mind when she decided to leave work at lunch and head to craigs townhouse. His soontobe exwife lawyer wa was there. She couldnt find him either. She says, oh, i figured it wouldnt be long before someone came looking for him. I dont know where he is. Reporter laura told robbyn it had been craigs night with the two youngest children. But that morning laura said the kids texted her to say dad wasnt there when they woke up. She sent colin over to get them. Colin was always picking up his siblings. He would drive them places. Reporter robbyn decided to look around her brothers house. She went upstairs to his bedroom. The door was locked. And i thought thats really odd. Reporter did you worry that he might be in the bedroom . I was worried that he might have reporter that something happened to him . Yes. Reporter exactly what, she didnt know. She called 911. My brother has not been answering texts or cell phone calls or emails. And i could be making a mountain out of a mole hill. Reporter deputies from the Monroe CountySheriffs Office arrived at craigs, but they stayed outside, told robbyn theyd need a warrant to search the house. After all, her brother was a grown man and this was his private property. Investigator dave bolton spoke to robbyn briefly. She called a number of times, and this made her nervous, not being able to get hold of him on email or text. Reporter laura had gone home but came back to the townhouse with the two young kids to see what was going on. Does she express she has any idea where craig might be . She didnt. She said that she had no idea where he might be. Reporter laura told the deputies craig was home when the kids were dropped off the night before. Obviously, youre a little bit concerned about him, i guess. I dont know where he is. His personality wouldnt be one where he would be hurt. Reporter then the investigator asked the kids some questions. First, the 6yearold daughter. Was he there when you woke up . No. Thats when we woke up and dad was gone. Reporter last time you saw your dad was when, honey . Yesterday. He was playing rid joe games on the computer. He went to the bathroom, then he went downstairs. And then that night he was downstairs and then he disappeared in the morning. Reporter the 12yearold son told the same story. When was the last time you saw him . Hm, 11 30 last night when he was going to bed. Then what happened this morning . He wasnt there. So i was just guessing he went to work. Reporter no one could find craig. Laura texted p. J. Tucci. She said craigs not here. I said thats weird. Reporter colin called chelsea. Were you concerned just for him . I was concerned. Nobody wants to hear somebody went missing from their family. And i just assumed he had to step outside or go on a quick trip. Reporter late that night, investigators finally had their search warrant. You go inside. We go inside. Reporter what do you find . An initial walkthrough, the house is very neat, very well put together. It doesnt appear to be any forced entry. Reporter the investigators unlock the master bedroom. It was undisturbed. No craig. They looked around, found nothing, then headed to the basement. What do you find . Theres boxes on the shelves all neatly stacked. Everything is kind of in its home. And on the other side its kind of disheveled. Reporter it was messy but nothing seemed out of the ordinary for a basement until they notice something alarming wee mother closely examine the area and found what appear to be blood spatter on the walls and the shelving unit. Reporter crime seen techs sprayed the basement floor with luminol and found even more blood, blood that someone tried to wipe away. Then a discovery inside a garbage bag. We find what appears to be a garrote. Its two handles with some cord knotted so you could hold on to both handles and use it as a ligature. Reporter a weapon used for strangulation. The evidence was telling them a story, one that wouldnt end well for Craig Rideout. We were pretty sure we had our murder scene. Reporter this is a big moment in this case. It is. Coming up a bombshell about Craig Rideouts soontobe exwife. Craig didnt want to believe that there was a romantic relationship between them. I think over time it became painfully obvious that there was. And then just off a country road, a passerby sees something that will transform the case. In the woods, theres a body under a tarp. The all new 2018 camry. Toyota. Lets go places. Unstop right there im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer. With unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. Ah, its so fresh. And its going to last from wash to. Wear for up to 12 weeks. Unstopables by downy. Your clue is a great way to start the day. For the win. Lutenfree. 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Investigators surmised it happened overnight while his Young Children slept. Who would do such a thing . Craigs sister told investigator bolton about that breakin at craigs home a few days earlier. I wake up at midnight with a sharp pain in my arm. He says that he was upstairs sleeping in his bed when, in the middle of the night, he was awoken by somebody pulling a hair from his arm. The male ran out of the bedroom and ultimately out of the house. Reporter craig told his sister he thought it was a prank. He didnt know what the make of it, nor did robbyn, but she had some other information for the investigator. Details about her brothers marriage. How long had Craig Rideout and Laura Rideout been separated for . About two years. Reporter and it hadnt been a good separation . It hadnt been. Reporter the reason . Laura had a new man in her life, and it was, well, awkward would be an understatement. Her boyfriend was craigs old buddy p. J. Tucci. Paul tucci goes from being Craig Rideouts best friend to now being Craig Rideouts estranged wifes boyfriend . Yes. Reporter so that doesnt always work out so well for a relationships. Certainly not between the two of them. Reporter craig and laura had been Close Friends with p. J. And his wife jennifer for many years. All of the kids, the tucci and the rideout kids, really grew up together. They would go out together. They had parties together. Reporter but around the same time that laura and craigs marriage was falling apart, p. J. s wife died from liver disease. P. J. Says he leaned on laura for support and laura began confiding in p. J. His best friend. His former best friend, yes. Reporter in a romantic relationship now . At first craig didnt want to believe that there was a romantic relationship going on between them, and i think over time it became painfully obvious that there was. I didnt know i was going to fall in love with laura. But that happened over time. Reporter does craig know about this . Craig sent me an email. Reporter what did it say . It says he says, i dont know if you found yourself in a damsel in distress situation and youre just helping or you have romantic feelings towards laura, either way im happy. Reporter thats big of him. I thought it was an interesting i dont know what he was trying to elicit. Reporter it was certainly interesting to the homicide detective, but before investigator bolton could run down that juicy lead, he got some news. Two counties over a shovel had been left by the side of the road and 50 feet into the woods a mans body was discovered. 911. We discovered in the woods a body under a tarp. It is near your home . Itses sits down the road. Reporter could it be craig . The victims identity wasnt obvious right away. His killer or killers had used some kind of acid to intentionally disfigure his face. That sounds like someone had a major grudge with this person. It certainly seemed like they werent interested in him being found. Reporter but even though the victim was unrecognizable, deputies were able to i. D. Him pretty quickly. The answer was found in his pocket. When the body was found, the victims phone was ringing. The person popping up on the caller i. D. . It was robbyn drew, craigs sister. As i was trying to reach him, the cell phone was ringing in his pocket. Reporter youre calling and the phones ringing in yeats county and your brother is and my brother is dead. Yeah. Reporter sounds like some really dumb criminals to leave the cell phone in the pocket when they have gone to these Great Lengths of pouring possibly acid on this man. It does seem that they overlooked a pretty obvious thing. Reporter they had a crime scene, a body and a marriage with a soap opera ending. And the next bit of evidence would lead this story to an even darker place, a place called devils bathtub. A million things must be going through your mind. And it gets stranger, quick. Coming up a chance sighting and a call to police. Saw a couple of males in the parking lot, and they saw what they believed to be garbage bags getting thrown out. 52 of my dna comes from scotland