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>> while investigator lambert was speaking with beard, he was interrupted by a colleague who had been grilling beard's wife. she mentioned a dramatic piece of information, something about a big payment beard was expecting to get from tom, $10,000. the investigators confronted beard. >> at that point he was just defeated. i had looked at him and said $10,000, is that why you killed kelley, and he looked at me and said, yes. >> this was your big moment. >> that was -- that was the win. >> michael beard was arrested for murder, and tom, already in custody, was now accused of orchestrating the cri...

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 on deck and called in the new york state police for the assistance. >> i was contacted by investigators the day of the homicide. >> investigator matt lambert was assigned to run down the michael beard lead. >> what did you kno...

Truck that tom loaned him just hours before the murder and that's tom following in his green serv proposal truck. >> we also know during that time period beard turned his phone off, turned it on, turned it off again. >> why. >> the inference to be down is these guy are not naive. they know there's a possibility of being tracked with their phones. >> then after the murder, the video shows what looks like beard returning to tom's business to drop off the truck. there are tats headlights entering the lot and investigators believe that's beard getting on the bike tom gave him pedaling away under t...

And that therefore led to an incomplete vision. >> and in fact, investigators never found evidence nad tom paid beard for a hit. >> as far as tom clayton, there was no conversation over heard. there was no money exchanging hands. you couldn't even use the confession from mike beard. so there were a lot of things you didn't have. >> right, but if you look at thomas clayton's conduct, he never mentioned michael beard. everybody says michael beard should be an immediate suspect. he never mentioned michael beard to the police. >> as they prepared for trial, investigators kept digging. they discove...

Of information, something about a big payment beard was expecting to get from tom, $10,000. the investigators confronted beard. >> at that point he was just defeated. i had looked at him and said $10,000, is that why you killed kelley, and he looked at me and said, yes. >> this was your big moment. >> that was -- that was the win. >> michael beard was arrested for murder, and tom, already in custody, was now accused of orchestrating the crime. but tom's newly-hired defense attorney wasn't having it. >> he wants to be reunited with his children. he, frankly, is grieving the loss of his wife. >>...