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Marty's air force career would take them to exotic destinations all around the world. she just didn't imagine that world would be unromantic air force outposts in oklahoma and alabama and florida, to finally fayetteville, north carolina. they came here in 1999. marty was captain theer by them, flew one of those huge c-130 cargo planes. all that time alone, not so easy on a marriage. as she revealed during those tape recorded interviews with psychologist dr. debby leighton. >> michelle talked about a few problems in the marriage. primarily growing apart over the years. marty was away for extend...

Having children. he wanted them, she didn't. she was worried she'd be stuck raising them by herself in a town where she was already miserable and lonely. >> fayetteville, loserville and had nobody to hang out with, nobody i could pick up the phone and call. >> that actually is about the time it started. harmless really. just a few key strokes. see what might happen. goes on all the time these days on the internet. sexy brunette seeks rendezvous man. and before long, her internet inquiry got a response. from him. the name was john, john diamond. >> john loves women. john was a lady's man. john ...

Believe that. >> how do you know that? >> because he told me. he did not want to marry her. he did not want to spend the rest of his life with her. >> according to debby, it was michelle who was obsessed with john. and never more so than when she gave debby two wedding rings to take to her brother who was by this time locked in. >> i think she was obsessed with him to the point she couldn't control him, she couldn't, you know, control the situation. >> she wanted to control it and if she gave him a wedding ring and he wore it, wouldn't that give her all kinds of reason to claim that he would d...

A little side street then walked through their yards going through the back door of her house. >> he couldn't stay away? >> going through, staying all night. >> not commonly the way widows grieve, spending the night with the person of interest in her husband's murder. michelle told psychologist dr. deb by leighton she needed support from someone, anyone. >> she felt more alienated from family and friends and more threatened by the police. the only person in her life that was willing to be there for her was john diamond. >> i was getting more and more depressed. i went to john for comfort. >> a...

>> that was the smoking gun that tied her to it. >> michelle did not testify. nor did john diamond. her attorney belittled the state's evidence as circumstantial. among those speaking for michelle, psychologist debby leighton. she was hired for the defense to interview michelle about her relationships to testify as an expert witness. those were the recorded conversations, excerpts of which you heard earlier. the doctor told the jury michelle wasn't manipulating diamond by stopping and starting their illicit romance. no, it was something else. >> when somebody's in a long-term affair, there doe...