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this point. they knew there were other options, but they want to take the way it is going to get somebody killed. that is just not at. they know better. >> and that put the majority of sun rays pressed and present under arrest. but the investigation was far from over. someone else they had i'd all along was still in their crosshairs. they were back to where they started, with a certain embittered young woman from texas. coming up -- >> i called his mom. and she's like, charlene, what's going on? >> josh's death. >> i hit the floor. >> really? >> what the heck is going on? like, it's all feels like a horrible, that dream. >> josh's ex, charlene -- >> you need to look at charlene. >> did you say, no, that can be done. >> i said, i pray it is not. >> what story would she tell? >> did you have anything to do
reason that charlene was divorcing him. maybe tim dean had a reason to what and josh and amber dead. maybe he could save his marriage, if he helped charlene get his kids back. one way to do that? kill their dad, josh. courts would have no choice but to return the kids to the mom in texas. >> their question, is this guy, timothy dean, our guy in the driver with a gun? >> exactly. >> is this it? >> exactly. so we try to piece it together. >> they obtained a warrant for the cell phone records. squirrel through, it found something intriguing. two days before the murders. tim dean wasn't at home in texas. he was 400 miles away in kansas. and he placed a call to 9-1-1. deputy, cory nicholette, of the line county sheriff's office. where the officer who responded to the call. >> he had called it in. that he had had a wreck. and was reporting a wreck. >> it was 4 am when the deputy came upon tim dean by the side of a dark highway.
for charlene. how many men's too many men? >> well, there's casey miller. and then we find out, there is a husband, tim dean. >> and who is tim dean? >> tim dean is a former chief of police of sun ray, texas. >> tim is your husband? casey is your boyfriend? you've got a complicated life. >> i know i do. >> when dateline continues! it has long-lasting light scent, no heavy perfumes, and no dyes. finally, a light scent that lasts all day. downy light! (rebecca) i would try and encourage anyone to quit smoking. i can't tell you what to do. but what i can tell you, is that this can happen to you. (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit-now.
story. charlene told them how surprised she had been when she found out that her ex boyfriend was dead. >> so i called his mom. and she says, charlene, yes what's going on? josh is dead. i hit the floor. >> really. >> what the hell is going on? >> yeah. >> it still feels like a horrible, bad dream. >> right. >> how could, who, why? that's what i want to know. >> could tim have been the shooter, they asked her? did heh arbor ill will against josh. >> he knew the stuff that josh had done to me. >> what do you mean? >> josh used to be the hell out of me. >> oh really? >> but. you know. tim had never really spoke to -- about him. you know.
ambers loved ones. >> he had a couple of friends that they were like you need to look at charlene. >> did you say oh no that can't be done? >> i did say. oh no it couldn't be. i said, oh no i pray it's not. >> in fact, josh's sister nicole had given police an earful about charlene early on. >> cops came into my house and told me what happened and ask me if my brother had enemies. and i said he does not have enemies but he does have charlene. >> nicole right away says it's her. >> her and josh's best friend keithe. they both said i don't think she should be her, i think it might have been her. and i said that's crazy. >> by the time of the funerals, even ambers sister who had never met charlie thought that she might be involved. >> i saw her for the first time in my life at the funeral. and, i just got cold chills. and i remember speaking at the funeral, giving my sister's eulogy. seeking her out. and in the crowd. just to make eye contact with her.
back. are not getting along. >> the truth was told that sometimes she would call the cops on him? >> all the time. and she would call me and say charlene called the cops on me again. >> josh's sister said that charlene, not the brother, was the hothead in the relationship. an instigator with 9-1-1 on speed dial. >> did anyone pull him aside? >> we've always pulled him aside and said, this is in a relationship. this is not how our relationship is supposed to be. you need to break it off. >> those two were like fire and water. they just couldn't be together. >> who got in his face? >> they were both good at it. but she like to pick up him. it was almost like she wasn't happy unless he was mad. >> doesn't sound like any way to get out a bed and go to work? >> no. >> everyone agreed that josh and charlene where better apart. and in recent years, with more than 1000 miles between them, the agreed on co-parenting apology into work. >> i have them during the school year, and he got it -- and every other christmas.
>> had you ever met him in person? >> i've been there when you come to get the kids. >> houses the meter. what is the line of the question? >> he's very quite. he doesn't say a whole lot. >> they asked him by the soon to be ex-wife, charlene. the trouble he caused with her kids. >> i did try to lose in custody? >> obviously not well. >> like anybody else, yeah? >> i mean she's never not had the kids. >> does she blame you? >> probably. >> of course one of the theories was that tim had killed him or josh to when his wife back. >> do you think it get her kids -- help you get her back? >> i know there's no getting back. there hasn't been. >> i mean, in your mind, that is a possibility. and you're the state and stuff? >> it's done. it's been done. there's no getting her back. i've accepted that. that's why i've been in a -- state of mind.
>> still, the history of tension between them put charlene in the investigators crosshairs. >> while, we were very interested in charlene. and i had asked her to calm in once she got settled. to come in, and help us figure it out who had done this to her ex, the father of her children. >> and very quickly, they were able to conclude one thing for sure. >> detective, were you able to rule out right away that she was not anywhere near the driveway that day? >> i believe, because of phone conversations that i had had with her that she was in fact, in texas on the day of the murders. >> so charlene wasn't the shooter. wasn't in new york on the day of the murder. but it turns out, she did have close ties to sodus, new york. close ties there to a local guy. >> she also mentioned during one of the phone calls, that she wanted her current boyfriend to come pick up the children. >> his name was casey. he lived in the town near sodus. josh and embers family members even remember him consoling charlene after the murders.
>> what was he thinking? >> i think he was scared for his children because he did not know what was going on. >> so josh took to get to the summer as planned. and decides to file for for custody. before the summer was over, a judge in new york ruled in his favor. that the kid should stay with him. and not go back to charlene and him in texas. this was just a few months before the murders. charlene had lost her kids, and it hit her hard. >> this is a huge setback for you though, charlene? you've lost the kids. >> yes, it is. it angers me. and frustrates me. >> is it angered of directed at the state? is it aimed at josh? is it aimed at him? who in a way got you into all of this? >> honestly. it is aimed at everybody. >> but she had a plan, convince the family courts that she was done with her husband, tim dean, divorce him. and he would no longer be an issue. problem solved. >> in august, we had our last custody hearing. we were--i told him, look, i'll divorce my husband to get my kids back. and they said, well, we're gonna leave the kids with josh for right now. when you get the divorce settled, then we'll come back and we'll look at it.
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