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Fired him. >> why did tom fire him? >> stealing from jobs and drinking, i think, on the job, and he fired him on the 17th because there were maybe some complaints from other employees at servpro. >> so there were issues there? >> right. >> but beard was polite and cooperative when the investigator knocked on his door. >> we said, hey, can you take a ride with us up to the barracks. he said yeah, let me let my wife knew. >> he already knew what it was about? >> we told him we wanted to talk about the homicide of kelley clayton. >> the investigator asked beard where he was the night of kelley's ...

Feelings towards his former boss. said he and tom were still friends. in fact, he told the investigator it was tom's partner who fired him, not tom, and tom was even trying to help beard find another job. >> are you getting any bad feeling from him? are you suspicious of him? >> not at all. >> so you're thinking this is going to be somebody we're going to cross off the list? >> yes, i didn't expect to see him again. >> to the investigator and those close to kelley, michael beard didn't seem like a good suspect at all. >> did you think it is possible, he was a disgruntled employee, he was takin...

Nice, but i don't think she wanted to be left home alone. >> now molly told investigators that her uncle tom had recently fired beard. >> michael beard was fired september 17th, and then kelley was murdered like the night of the 28th, 29th, so it wasn't long at all. >> was it possible that beard was angry about losing his job and that kelley's murder was some kind of revenge? molly went through her cellphone and her facebook contacts and gave investigators beard's address. >> i gave that to them and they were just like, okay, thank you. >> the steuben county sheriff's office needed all hands o...

Right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. >> he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. >> did that seem odd? >> it did can seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn't even remember receiving it and he wouldn't have answered a call that wasn't -- that he didn't know the number. >> and when investigators looked at beard's phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller's cell. >> it had been erased. he explained it away that he the night before had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it wa...

>> reporter: investigators also pulled surveillance footage from outside tom's business. they believed this was video proof of a conspiracy. that's beard, they say, in a red truck that tom loaned him just hours before the murder. and that's tom following in his green servepro truck. >> we also know that during that time period beard turned his phone off, turned it on, turned it off again. >> reporter: why do you think he did that? >> the inference that would be drawn from that is these guys are not that naive, they know that there's a possibility of being tracked with their phones. >> reporter...