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Restoration business, servpro, and there she met one of his employees, a man named michael beard. tom told her to keep her distance. >> he never really wanted me around michael beard. he didn't want me like working with him. >> michael beard was no stranger to the family. >> he actually had done work at my sister's home. my sister would give his daughter charlie's hand-me-downs, clothes, toys. my sister would make lunch for him when he was there working at her home. >> while kelley was kind to beard, she told her sister she didn't always feel comfortable around him. >> i remember kelley not wa...

Delayton's would be anything enough. the prosecutor knew he couldn't use beard to testify against tom. >> even if he said i want to testify now, he had lied so many times. he lied at his own trial. >> beard changed his story so much at his own trial, that he wouldn't have been a credible witness. >> tom and his lawyer pounced on that, telling reporters that beard acted on his own. >> this is pure little mr. beard's doing. what we do know is that mr. clayton had nothing to do with the death of his wife. >> and tom's lawyer didn't stop at michael beard. he went after the investigators. he said t...

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 taking revenge? >> i didn't. because if you're disgruntled, why wouldn't you kill the person that you're disgruntled against. i mean, i'm angry at you so i'm going to go kill your wife? >> as a matter of procedure, the investigator asked beard for a dna swab and permission to look through his cellphone. >> he was very forthcoming, very willing, no problems, ...

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 was a little suspicious to me. >> did you start to come down really hard on him, like we're not buying your story? >> it wasn't hard. it was more like i was trying to say, let the truth out because he was havin...

Everything that followed in the investigation had been poisoned. >> he was simply just being wrongly accused, and police just rushed to judgment, and that, therefore, led to an incomplete investigation. >> and, in fact, investigators never found evidence that tom paid beard for a hit. >> as far as tom clayton, there was no conversation overheard, there was no money exchanging hands. you couldn't even use the confession from michael 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 michae...