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>> do you know anyone that would have a problem with you? >> 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 t...

Life. i came in and found him. >> alan and miriam helmick had been married for about two years. it was a second marriage for both. >> alan and miriam were known as being inseparable. social friends of theirs said they were always together. they were like two peas in a pod. >> miriam was convinced that alan's murder and the attempted car bombing six weeks earlier were both related. a week after alan's funeral, miriam found a greeting card under her front door mat. it was addressed to the grieving widow. >> so opened the card and it read, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and...

>> at first, it looked like robbery was a possible motive. 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 whe...

And weathered and it bore marks that are consistent with damage caused by striking sand or small stone particles. >> the bullet that killed alan helmick was also damaged as a result of impact. but the lands and grooves from both bullets were still visible. investigators compared those markings to see if both bullets came from the same weapon. >> i was able to determine that the bullet recovered from the yard corresponded with the bullet from the victim in number of land and groove impressions and their widths. i was able to determine also that the fired bullet from the yard was a right-hand tw...

His off hand, his right hand? that didn't make sense to us. >> 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...