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>> you believe that this affair is the reason that your son is no longer with us -- >> well, yes, if he didn't come into their lives -- tom would be alive. >> in court, prosecutors portrayed gil, not just as a man desperately in love, but also as someone capable of outrageous lies. along with those anonymous text messages gil sent to tom about the affair, jurors also learned he sent texts to linda, posing as a woman named samantha. >> linda received some disturbing anonymous text messages from a person samantha telling her that tom and she, samantha, were having sex -- wild sex. >> and that wa...

First marriage lived in colorado, brad and daughter jillian. >> i grew up knowing that my step-siblings were my siblings. it never felt not normal, you know? it felt like at dad's house, that was my house. >> and despite the distance, tom was very close to his oldest kids. >> i was a daddy's girl, definitely, no doubt about that he always made sure that whenever brad and i were in town that we would have fun. like we -- we wouldn't just, you know, be sitting around. we always had fun plans. >> jillian and her dad talked on the phone all the time. thanksgiving weekend 2011 was no exception. >> ...

>> well, it was unusual, you know, walking through a casino and someone's got a wedding gown on. >> the only guests were linda's parents and tom's mom and dad, marie and tom senior. >> did they seem like a good match? >> they fit. i think they fit, yeah. >> both had kids from a previous marriages, but a few years later, they welcomed a child of their own, ryan. >> he would say all along through the pregnancy, "i don't care if the girl or boy, i'll love it either way." you know, but i kinda knew deep down he wanted a boy. and so when he was delivered and he saw it was a boy, he cried. he was so...

Long island, new jersey, virginia, even from california. >> how moved were you at the funeral as you heard people speak about tom and all the love that was in that room? >> just cryin'all the time. >> walking into the wake was probably one of the hardest things i've ever done. i -- i waited for all my siblings and all four of us walked in arm in arm, faces down, just bawling bef -- like and we walked up to the coffin and just all almost just collapsed together and just wept. >> detectives discreetly sent an officer to the funeral home to observe. if tom's death was a homicide, they wanted to k...

You all deserve to be a part of this. i want to thank everybody on this stage. joe mentioned the extraordinary work that each and every one of the leaders, both advocates and legislators. >> you left out the congressman. >> there you go. give tom a hand. >> everybody on the stage works extraordinarily hard. most of all though this is your day. this is the day of the advocates and survivors. this is your victory. i love you back. and this victory shows that when the american people make their voices heard, washington listens. so i want to join joe and thank