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the house. >> what did it sound like? >> it sounded like breaking glass or a bunch of things falling. like a vase -- >> it was a loud sound? >> yes. >> detective carbon showed skyler a drawing of the foley farm and asked skyler to place an x where he believed the sound originated. >> like, somewhere around here. >> skyler placed the x just outside the first floor bathroom, the same room where dar foley had been shot. >> it appeared to us that skyler may have heard the shotgun blast that killed dar foley. >> detective carbon was also thinking this, the one other person in that house at that time was tom foley. >> coming up. >> he wanted the house, he wanted her money, and if he

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glass was broken and the glass was all over the kitchen floor, so i look through the rest of the house for her. i ended up finding her in the bathroom. >> it was a gruesome scene, dar lying in the shower stall. she had been shot in the head with a shot gun at point blank range. tom immediately called for help. >> what's the problem? >> my wife was in the shower. she's just laying there in her blood. >> first responders rushed to the folly farm. when michigan state police detective arrived at the scene, he knew he was in for a long night. >> we don't have a lot of homicides that happen around here and because of her position as a schoolteacher, just from the number of people who knew her, it put her in a much more serious type investigation. >> detective carbon and his team of trooper scoured the crime scene, taking pictures and seizing evidence of what appeared to be a home burglary

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>> it seemed like no one in coldwater could comprehend what had happened, including steve and joni pierce, close friends of both tom and dar who heard from the murder from tom himself. >> i said the three of you were always together and he was crying and said i know, i know, i should've been her for her. and then i said, if you would've been the three of you, maybe you would've all been dead instead of just dar. >> just 24 hours into the investigation, detective jim carbon had almost abandoned the theory that this was a random act of violence. >> it appeared to me that this was a staged breaking and entering to try to hide a homicide that took place. >> but according to detective carbon, whoever staged the burglary didn't factor in the weather that day. >> it got really warm and there was a huge slow melt off.

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gone wrong. the first clue: the broken glass coming from the kitchen door window. >> it appears that a beer bottle was used to break that particular window. according to tom, jewelry and credit cards were missing, the family desk had also been disturbed and financial documents inside were gone. and then there was the medicine cabinet. >> it looked like someone had gone in and scooped of a shelf off of the medicine cabinet and its contents. >> maybe they were looking for prescription drugs? >> potentially. >> but to detective carbon, the items missing weren't nearly as missing as what was left behind. expensive electronics were untouched, as was dar's purse, found sitting on a hallway chair. >> it didn't make a lot of sense. >> neither did the use of a shotgun. >> it's large, potentially bulky. if you're going into break into something, you have to carry

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would seem to be a case breaking revelation. >> it was a loud loud sound. >> detective carbon believed that ten-year-old skylar was an eyewitness to the shotgun blast that killed dar. if it is true it means that she was killed earlier than -- it meant that tom foley was still in the house when the murder occurred. >> it was huge, it was very very important. >> but if tom foley was in that house and pull the trigger, the question remained, why? the answer, said detective carbon was quite simple. murder for money? >> potentially, yes. >> money, in the form of an insurance policy. >> i think that he wanted out of the marriage and did whatever he needed to do to make sure that that happened. >> and if he got $310,000 in insurance money and got out of the marriage, so much the better? >> yes. >> the evidence against tom

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>> neither did dar's sister lynn, in whom dar once confided. >> she said that tom doesn't love me anymore, he's going through his change of life -- >> his midlife crisis? >> yes. >> dar's sisters were becoming increasingly suspicious, especially they said after watching tom's behavior at dar 's funeral. >> it's almost like he was relieved. >> there were a number of people that came up to me after the service that were really offended by his demeanor, his joyfulness. >> these were things that i have heard, and it is ridiculous. i mean taking care of heath was on my mind, wondering who killed my wife was on my mind. they don't know the things that i have been through. >> maybe so, but detective carbon was keeping a very watchful eye on tom foley. he decided to interview the other fully he was at the farm

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>> i think there's evil in him. >> prosecutor terri norris agreed. >> who killed dar foley? >> tom foley. there is nobody else. >> a year and a half after tom foley's conviction, both sides file back into the courthouse to one again determine tom's fate. >> circuit court is now in session. >> as before, the state opened its case with the crime scene analysts. >> why is it that you found? >> yellow dunham's bag. >> located in the bag was three shells. these are phone records -- >> norris also showed the jury the records from around the time dar was killed. >> there were no phone calls that either came in or left. >> your wife doesn't show up somewhere, why not call home and see, have you left yet? where are you? we're waiting for you. >> that's what i would do. >> according to detective carbon, tom did not bother calling dar at home because he

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>> the ground around the farmhouse was unusually wet and muddy. >> so you would expect there to be muddy footprints from inside the residence from somewhat come through that door? >> absolutely. >> and was there anything? >> there was nothing. >> but it was the yellow bag found in the basement, the bad containing shotgun shells, that interested carbon in the most. >> downstairs in the basement, okay, we found a dunham's bag that had some shotgun shells in it. >> okay. >> have you ever seen that before? >> no. >> the foleys didn't own a shotgun, as far as we know? >> that is correct. >> carbon sent the bag to the lab for analysis. and what technicians found on the bag surprised even this veteran detective. tom's fingerprints were on the bag? >> yes. >> suddenly, detective carbon felt like he needed to take a closer look at tom folly and his seemingly picture perfect marriage. >> i think they did a lot of things together, however, i don't consider them the picture perfect couple.

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>> it was a gruesome scene, dar lying in the shower, she had been shot in the head with a shot gun at point blank range. tom immediately called for help. >> what's the problem? >> my wife was in the shower. there is blood. >> first responders rushed to the fully farm. when michigan state police detective arrived at the scene, he knew he was in for a long night. >> we don't have a lot of homicides around here and because of her position as a schoolteacher, just from the number of people who knew her, it put her in a much more serious type investigation. >> detective carbon and his team of trooper scoured the crime scene, taking pictures and seizing evidence of what appeared to be a home burglary gone wrong. the first clue, the broken glass coming from the kitchen

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>> detective carbon showed skyler a drawing of the fully farm and asked skyler to place an x where he believed the sound originated. >> like, somewhere around here. >> skyler placed the ex just outside the first floor bathroom, the same room where dar fully had been shot. it >> appeared to us that skyler may have heard the shotgun blast that kills dar foley. detective carbon was also thinking this, the one other person in that house at that time was tom foley. >> coming up. >> he wanted the house, he wanted her money, if he divorced or he would lose everything. >> was that a motive and was tom foley the killer? when dateline continues. ntinues. -okay, and one more. -i think we got it. -yeah, let's focus on the rv. -rv?

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