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Families. corporal 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 5 and 2. >> my sister was kind of getting depressed off and on. she had had some down time. i knew that dorothy was on medication, and she was on an antidepressant. >> on the night of march 13th, 1991, corporal davis was having drinks with friends at a bar near the base. he stepped out to the lobby to call his wife around 8:00 p.m., and she sounded despondent. so, he left his friends and went home. when he entered their ...

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 indicated 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 is that dorothy was literally lying in bed as if she were sleeping. >> in the bedroom, ...

She had been having an affair with corporal davis for more than a year. >> people knew we were romantically involved. they knew that because he was very affectionate out in public, something i wasn't getting from my husband at the time. no affection, no nothing. >> apparently, chris had gotten over his grief from his wife's suicide quite quickly. >> this, however, did not implicate chris in his wife's death. in fact, chris' infidelity may have caused dorothy's depression. >> myself and everybody else, we believed she actually took her own life with her own hands. we believed it. >> i did not s...

The bar to call dorothy from a pay phone in the lobby. she said, she too went out to the lobby a short time later and chris davis wasn't there. he returned 20 minutes later. >> witness told us at this point that corporal davis was red-faced, appeared to be out of breath. he was no longer wearing a jacket that he was wearing earlier. >> so, where was chris's jacket? investigators saw it in the photos taken of the scene the night of dorothy's death, hanging on the doorknob of the couple's bedroom. >> i thought, oh, my god. look, here's the maroon jacket, but it's important. it's not thrown, it's...

Based there, part of a self-contained city that is home to thousands of military families. corporal 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 5 and 2. >> my sister was kind of getting depressed off and on. she had had some down time. i knew that dorothy was on medication and she was on an antidepressant. >> on the night of march 13th, 1991, corporal davis was having drinks with friends at a bar near the base. he stepped out to the lobby to call his wife around 8:00 p.m., and she s...