ladies and gentlemen, obsession. it was an obsession furthered by manipulation and deception. to show jurors just how obsessed he they believed gill had become, prosecutors read emails he wrote to linda. i m not leaving you. not today. not tomorrow. not ever. i am not going to let you just walk away from me. never. linda took the stand and testified to how the affair began and lasted until right before tom s death. tom s parents couldn t believe the details they were hearing. we just assumed it was a onetime episode between them. we didn t realize it was ongoing for 11 months. we heard that in the courtroom. wow. that is amazing that you didn t know that. when you look back, you know, that first kiss. she would have slapped him in the face or kicked him in the nuts, it wouldn t have happened. you believe this affair is the reason you re son is no
This. when i first found out about it the midazolam, i m with the detectives in the room. they re like, do you think he could have? i was like, no. i would never do that to him. after digesting what digests told her, there were science with gill. she began revealing details that suggested that their love triangle was far from tension free. in fact, linda says that gilman it clear that he was making long term plans for them. he even bought her a ring. we were out having dinner. he proposed. i said, i can t. how did he take that? well, i. now i know. i know. we have a lot to get there, but, you know. yeah. you re a little premature with that. it looks investigators like ill was growing impatient. maybe eager to get tom out of the way. remember those anonymous checks to talk? the ones telling him about gill
But it did seem to me a really long time that we just didn t let go of each other. they flew to new york and a joint of the growing crowd at tom and linda s house. linda was a wreck, she needed help standing up sometimes. she was just riddled with grief. as the coal men s made a funeral arrangements, investigators met with the medical examiner to nail down the cause of tom s death. what they heard changed everything. it was undetermined pending toxicology results. the medical examiner explained there was no evidence of a heart attack, aneurysm, or any health related event. now you have an undetermined cause of death on a 40-year-old male which 40 old men just don t drop dead like that. are you still thinking that this could be medical? or are you starting to think we could have a homicide on our hands?
Unions. but was going on between the two of them that tom coleman would allow the sexual relationship to continue between him and nunez. did you have to think of a scenario that maybe him and no question. that was top on the priority list. and the first question for investigators? did lend or kill drive a white suv? detectives knew that linda didn t. but gil did. he drove a white nissan pathfinder. there are 1 million white u.s. evs out there. once you think about it and look at it, they re everywhere. absolutely. a coincidence. but as suspicious. when detectives were also remembering how gill showed up at the scene of tom s death to consult linda and his reaction struck them as odd. it was described as that he was hysterical. almost jumping up and down like a polka stick. very dramatic. not a common reaction that
Step closer to justice for tom. but tough times were still ahead for linda. a trial, prosecutors were about to reveal new details about her affair. coming up. another stunning secret. he pulled out an i.d.. it said cia on top of it. it had gilberto face on. it gilberto nunez, an agent? when dateline continues. nt when dateline continues. [ laughs ] hey, mom, have you seen m ew. because when you bundle home and auto with progressive, your home is a savings paradise. bundles progressive. your home for savings. four and a half years after tom