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>> you could say he was your wing man. he covered for you, you covered for him. >> yers, indeed. >> golden oldies were the band's bread and butter. lead singer al holland used to perform with the platters. he said that whenever buck naked played, people would dance. >> we would pack the place every single friday and saturday night, and it would just be one very big party. >> it must have been fun to be part of the big band in town. >> it was. >> oh, yeah, it was. >> the band was so hot, in fact, that jim huden eventually turned over the computer store to his top assistant jean spender so he co...

Stairway of the house and cause her death? >> no. no. no. ♪ >> reporter: let's go back to the night early december 2001, and stroll up the driveway of the gracious, rambling house in one of durham's better neighborhoods. michael and his wife kathleen are out back by the pool, as the story goes, finishing off a bottle of wine. in the living room, the christmas tree is already up, the grown peterson children expected home for the holiday. christmas was big for kathleen. >> oh, good lord. yes. and valentine's day and halloween -- she made a celebration out of everything, everything. >> reporter...

Could concentrate on music. >> i kind of pushed him towards doing that because i knew that was his love and that's where he was most happy. >> were you in love with him? very much so. i loved that man very much. >> so much so that in december 2001, after six years of living together, jean and jim got married in las vegas. >> and i was asked by jean if i would walk her down the aisle. >> was she happy? >> oh, yeah. all smiles. both of them were all smiles. >> but the smiles did not last long. in june 2002 jim huden returned here to washington state for the funeral of an old friend, and it was h...

>> reporter: there's even a theory about an owl. >> whooo done it, huh? >> oh, it's just awful >> reporter: we're going to need some time here it's both complicated, and a simple question -- so if i were to ask you, as i do right now, did you bludgeon kathleen that night on the stairway of the house and cause her death? >> no. no no ♪ >> reporter: let's go back to the night early december 2001, and stroll up the driveway of the gracious, rambling house in one of durham's better neighborhoods. michael and his wife kathleen are out back by the pool, as the story goes, finishing off a bottle of...

South carolina senator, lindsey graham, a deal that could put an end to the government shutdown in its tenth day. a woman killed at a zoo, only interning there a few weeks. it left its enclosure during a cleaning and shot and killed by sheriff's deputies. back to "dateline." back to "dateline. in winter, the skies over northwest indiana, where dr. mark weinberger practiced medicine usually have all the luster of wet cotton. for weinberger and his wife, michelle, late december 2001 was just another blue skied caribbean holiday. >> it's a beautiful day here at parakay. >> it's perhaps good t...