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Smoke. there was a fire burning in the living room. for some unexplained reason, the smoke detectors hadn't sounded. >> the police came. the fire crew came. they took the television set out and they saw there was a malfunction in the television set and the case was closed. >> in light of dorothy's death, this fire three years earlier looked suspicious. >> things make you go hmm. this is what i call 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 ...

Finds their wife lying there, perhaps mortally wounded is not going to take his jacket off nice and neat and hang it up on the doorknob. >> was it possible that chris davis never called his wife? but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy and 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 comfort 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....

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 five and two. >> my sister was kind of getting depressed off and on, she had had tom 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 with friends a it 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 hi...

F, when it went in a clockwise motion instead of a counter clockwise motion as we are taught. there were many letters in and of themselves that were consistent between the known and questioned writing and there were no differences that would suggest that it was written by a different writer. >> sandra homewood concluded that dorothy had indeed written the notes. >> when the lab report came back and said that dorothy had actually authored all of the letters, the investigators concluded at that time the investigators did, that perhaps what they were looking at is in fact a suicide. >> but in the...

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 husband at the time. no affection, no nothing. >> 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 we believe that she actually took her own life with h...