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it was a small new year s eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearanc ....
eve party. we took off and then short later after my gut was telling my feet to run back to that house. this can t be happening. when the party ended, the mystery began. it was just crazy, i didn t understand what was happening and why. his wife, the hostess, had seemed fine the whole night. then my wife just shot herself in the head. please! help me! please help me! her death was ruled a suicide. but not everyone agreed. i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. did a fight that night lead to something much worse? i knew that ashley wouldn t take her own life. a troubled woman or a troubled marriage? that wound on the back of her head isn t one she could do it herself, tom. it is not. oh [bleep] [ bleep ]. suicide or murder? i didn t do this. i just knew that my whole world is never going to be the same again, ever. hello and welcome to dateline. it was december 31st, and by all appearances, ashley fallis was in the ....
And it was all over. so, while i was in the closet, i heard her gun cock, and i looked over and i was like what are you doing? i didn t even have the chance to finish my sentence or close to door. there was smoke. i heard it i heard it in there was just smoke. i just ran over to her and i just grabbed her head. tom told detectives that, sadly, he had been worried about this sort of thing for more than a year. because at she had threatened suicide before. what was she saying that she wanted to do so? well, just saying that she wanted to and. did you and the kids would be better off with that. and, so she had just said those words but you never acted on anything? no. and so how long never once. ....
reporter: it was odd, brian thought that the evan s police officers didn t take tom s clothes or bag his hands for gunshot residue. he still had evidence on him, and he needed to be preserved. he needed to be controlled. he needed to be processed? and clothing removed, everything. reporter: that s not what happened, not at all, and soon after ashley was rushed off to the er, tom got in the back of a squad car and was driven away, but surprisingly not to the hospital. coming up, tom tells his story. i heard her gun cock and i looked up and i was like what are you doing? but police don t seem to believe it. the wound on the back of her head isn t where she could do it herself, tom. oh, [ bleep ]. when dateline continues. ....
Weren t. i told ashley, i was like you don t need to get high. i was like if whatever happened today with the miscarriage, i was like it happened. i was like you know what? [ bleep ] your mom, [ bleep ] everybody. reporter: so there was no love lost between tom and ashley s parents. that was clear, and tom admitted that he and ashley kept arguing as they got ready for bed, and then he turned around and went to the closet, he said, and it was all over. when i was in the closet, i heard her gun cock and i looked up. i was like what are you doing? and before i even had a chance to finish my sentence or close the door. there was smoke. i heard it, and it was just smoke. i just ran over to her, and i ....