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Doorknob. >> was it possible that chris davis never called his wife, but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy, then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police recreation showed it was possible. average time, 17 minutes. so, even though we were locked into that 20 minutes by our witness, we felt pretty comfortable it was still possible for him to have gone off, committed that crime, staged the scene and got back to the nco club within that time frame. >> but if this were true, what about the suicide notes? was it possible they had been forged? investigators sent these notes...

Dorothy was dead, a ..22-caliber pistol in her hand. >> mrs. davis is lying on their bed with the covers up to her abdomen. she appears to have a gunshot wound to her right temple. >> police video taken at the scene indicates there was no forced entry into the house. the davis' children were asleep in their bedroom. whatever happened didn't awaken them. there was no evidence of an argument or an altercation. >> dorothy herself had no signs of physical trauma or any type of defense wounds. what it looked like was dorothy was literally lying in bed as if she were sleeping. >> in the bedroom, inv...

Chris, was arrested and charged with her murder. >> when i heard chris was arrested it was like, yay. thank you, lord, thank you. they finally got him. >> prosecutors believe that chris davis tried to kill dorothy three years earlier by disconnecting the smoke detectors and setting the house on fire before leaving with his daughter for a car ride. that attempt failed. >> then, chris found dorothy's journal and the suicide notes she had written earlier. this provided his cover story. >> he had suicide notes. what better way to mislead investigators than suicide notes obviously authored by the v...

Or to take care of his children. >> everyone on base knew this woman was more than a nanny. she had been having an affair with corporal davis for more than a year. >> people knew we were -- knew we were romantically involved, because he was very loving in public. something i was getting from my relationship at the time. >> apparently he got over his grief quite quickly. >> this however did not implicate him in his wife's death. in fact, chris' infidelity may have caused dorothy's depression. >> myself and everybody else believe that she took her own life with other own hand. we believed it. >>...

Contained city that is home to thousands of military families. chris davis, a communications specialist loved military life. his wife, dorothy, did not. the couple had been married ten years and had two daughters, ages five and two. >> my sister was kind of getting depressed off and on, she had had down times. i knew that dorothy was on medication and she was on an anti-depressant. >> on the night of march 13th, 1991, corporal davis was having drinks at a bar with his friends. he called his wife and she sounded despondent, so he left his friends and went home.