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Several drawers were pulled out, and the jewelry box was empty. but there was no forced entry. so that theory was quickly ruled out. >> it was not consistent with other burglary cases that i have worked. the rest of the house was not ransacked as you would expect to find in most of the burglary cases that we've worked. >> since miriam helmick found the body, she was automatically considered a suspect, but she willingly agreed to take a gunshot residue test. anyone who fires a gun usually comes into contact with the gases discharged when the bullet is fired. detectives swabbed marian's hands, a...

Was delivered. it was a cash purchase at a store 13 miles from the helmicks' house. detectives asked to see the store's surveillance tapes. >> lo and behold, who is purchasing the greeting card? it's miriam helmick. >> based on her haircut, her glasse the way she walked, her body shape, there's no doubt in our mind that it was miriam helmick. >> miriam was confronted with the surveillance image. >> she did admit to placing the card at her house. her explanation was to get law enforcement to refocus on the investigation and be more active. >> now, suspicious investigators searched miriam and al...

>> also strange was miriam's explanation as to why jack committed suicide. >> she said yes, he was very depressed because of her daughter, amy who had supposedly overdosed. miriam changed that story when she told it to me quite a few times. it was overdose once and one time it was some sort of physical ailment. >> records showed miriam was the beneficiary of jack giles' $100,000 life insurance policy. while trying to solve the murder of miriam's second husband, alan helmick, investigators found a series of checks totaling $40,000 made out to miriam. the checks were signed by alan.

>> there are two people that have had a problem with me. >> okay. who are those two people? >> or two entities. one was the state bank, the president and vice president were trying to accuse me of an illegal loan which i didn't make. they made. >> i had the sense, and i think the investigators had a sense that this was going to be a drawn out deal. >> did a business deal go bad? there were some sales of some properties that involved various people. were one of those people angry and took it out on alan in a different way maybe because they lost money? >> six weeks later, alan missed a schedule...

We checked their cable billing statements, and sure enough, they had rented that movie four days before this attempted car fire in delta, colorado. >> police had a wealth of circumstantial evidence, their surveillance image in the card store, the check forgeries, the attempted car bombing, and the computer searches. >> there are so many components. and if you look at the totality of all the components, it's very clear what happened in this case. >> the only thing they didn't have was the murder weapon, a .25-caliber handgun. alan's daughter told police her father did own a .25-caliber gun that...