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>> 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 romantically involved. they knew that, because he was very affectionate 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's infidelity may have caused dorothy's depression. >> myself and everybody else, we believed she actually took her ow...

He found a horrifying sight. 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's 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 was ...

>> 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 to forens...

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 ...

Smoke detectors hadn't sounded. >> the police came. the fire crew came. they took the television set out. they saw that there was an electrical malfunction in the television set and the case was closed. >> in light of dorothy's death, this fire three years earlier looked suspicious. >> things made me go, hmm. we would call that where i come from, this is a clue. things like this do not happen to a person twice in the same manner. this -- this was a clue. >> now corporal davis was officially a suspect, and the manner of his wife's death changed from suicide to undetermined. for his new girlfrie...