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>> hello, and welcome to dateline. who who -- was a savvy entrepreneur. cut tom toolan his teeth in the financial world. they are connection was instant. but when they're somewhere love cooled, tempers flared and the relationship to the tragic turned. initially, it seemed like an open and shut case. but there was a surprise in store. here's what -- with murder on nantucket island. >> nantucket island, a gorgeous place off the coast of cape cod. a simple inelegant place in a way this is serious money. the beaches are pristine, the food phenomenal, and the shopping? pack your credit cards. as a setting for romance with its surf, sunsets and see braces, nantucket is 50 shades of fabulous. but then, the fog rolls in. dense, mysterious and everything changes. suddenly, it seems, anything is possible in this movie place. maybe even sinister things. >> 9-1-1. state your emergency. >> we have an emergency -- my sister, she's not answering her phone. >> reporter: it was october 25th, monday, 2004.
good in his arms. >> reporter: he was handsome and crazy about her. there was talk of marriage. and then suddenly there was talk of trouble. she was frightened enough not to go home. >> she had fear that something would happen to her. >> reporter: it did. >> my sister's not answering her phone. >> reporter: how did love go so wrong? in a surprising twist, it would take not one, but two trials to discover the truth. >> he wasn't convicted of killing my sister anymore, all of a sudden. >> hello, and welcome to dateline. who who -- was a savvy entrepreneur. cut tom toolan his teeth in the financial world. they are connection was instant.
and he followed her and said, they got to the metropolitan, and she said, i was standing there, in front of this painting, this dark painting, saying that this painting reminds me of tom toolan. >> reporter: that was the moment, beth later told leslie, that tom toolan i picked to propose to her. he chose a gallery in this world famous museum, the metropolitan museum of art. he proposed to beth before but never like this. >> he pulls this run out, gets on his knees, proposes to her again. and she says, i was not -- she didn't feel safe enough to say no. she knew she was in a dangerous situation. so she said to him, i need more time. >> she was so upset. because he said, it's now or never. >> and her response to him was? >> then it has to be never. >> and these are words right out of best mouth. >> reporter: beth rushed out of
the jury, tom toolan was criminally responsible when he stabbed beth lochtefeld to death. the testimony took nine days in all. as the summer arrived on nantucket, the surf and see beguiling visitors, the stores beckoning shoppers, inside the nantucket superior court, the jury in toolan the's murder trial got the case. >> coming up. the end of a trial. >> is the defendant guilty or not? >> but not the end of the story. when dateline continues. continues. with voltaren arthritis pain gel. my husband's got his moves back. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel for powerful arthritis pain relief. voltaren, the joy of movement. we're carvana, the company
living room floor. it was just weeks after she thought she had found the love of her life and dreamed of a new beginning. for the lochtefeld family, life would never be the same. what did you lose on that day? >> i would have to say i lost my best friend and confident apart from my wife, she was my closest sibling. we always got along very well. >> leslie got a call that same day. when you heard the news, how was a tool to you? >> he killed her. and i just remember being in shock. i didn't see it coming, i didn't know it was coming, it was shocking. >> you knew exactly who he was. >> oh yeah. yeah. i did. >> tom toolan was arrested, picked up in rhode island, with bottles of beer and vodka in
's apartment when she got their, beth stayed. and leslie says that beth later told her that things went from bad to terrible. >> he got very violent with her that night. he sexually assaulted her. and i think that beth was probably, sort of in a state of -- it's a confusing thing when it is somebody that you are supposedly close to. who violates you. my guess is that she was probably just in the state of shock. and why she didn't leave that next day, i'm not exactly sure. >> reporter: by friday, october 22nd, two days after the dinner with her brother, beth decided to leave new york. friends and family say it was clear that she intended to call it quits with toolan, and she had even left her weather a message, saying she was coming to spend the night. but by now, something else was becoming clear. tom toolan was not going to let death go. >> he wouldn't leave her.
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be the guy, absolutely. it >> reporter: was labor day weekend, a sunny day on nantucket. burnett called her friend beth. >> i said, hi, i think i'm looking at your future husband right now. and she said, really? and i said, yeah. and she said, i'll be right over. >> reporter: bernie death had only known bat for a few months. not long but long enough. she >> told me that she had been successful in all parts of her life except love. >> reporter: so in burnett's old friend tom toolan came, she introduced him to beth. >> it was electric, the minute she walked in, it was like, whoa. >> reporter: beth had finally met mr. wright. but people aren't always what they seem to be. or pretend to be. >> there was a lot to like about beth's new boyfriend. but there was also something a little troubling. especially after he met beth's friends. >> reporter: coming up --
"beth" lochtefeld went to new york to be with her boyfriend, tom toolan. by then, the two had been dating for six weeks. but the relationship was fraying. beth was beginning to see a troubling side of this new guy. and she started to give him ultimatums. >> he would start drinking and then he would get really ugly. she would say, you are a good guy but when you are drinking you are an idiot. and you need to decide between alcohol and me. and he would apologize and say, i choose you and i want you. i don't want the alcohol. >> reporter: that week, beth invited her brother to meet her boyfriend. perhaps, she wanted his take on. tom first impression? you see him walk in. >> he had long-ish, blond hair, sort of combed back in a double
the car with him, his bloody clothes in a bag on the back seat. the road island state police videotaped his arrest and recorded his voice in the cruiser. >> can i be told why this -- why am i in the situation, sir? >> he was held without bail and arrange a month later. burnett finney was in the courtroom, she could barely contain herself. >> it was the reality hating me, sitting there that this happened. this really happened. and he walked in and it was like they were bringing in, you know king kong like a monster. i felt, you know, like it was my fault. she's gone. >> toolan was charged with first degree murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, he pleaded not guilty. ahead lay a trial and explosive