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>> a deputy was sent to the house and noticed jean tan, the wife, was clearly rattled. reporter john hand. >> they found that jean was still upset. she had some red marks on her neck, but there wasn't enough there to charge jim tan with a crime. >> so incident over? >> that night. >> he tried to kill me, but nothing results in charges or makes it into the paperwork. >> right. >> so a history of abuse, it appeared. if that were the case, charlie had told no one in his circle at cornell university. the coach hadn't heard from charlie in days, and now his phone rang. >> campus police called me up...

And the judge said we have to address the motion for dismissal by the defense, it's still pending. >> that's a common motion made by most defense attorneys when they ask a judge to throw out a case, especially due to a lack of evidence. >> you always do it. it's, frankly, malpractice not to. >> everyone thought this would be an order of business, quickly dispatched. >> then he talks about the lack of evidence, that the fingerprints were found on the shells upstairs, but that didn't indicate that he'd ever shot it. i looked at another reporter who i know and i said what's going on here? >> char...

>> it's a murder charge, not a petty larceny charge. with a hung jury where you walk away from it. we understand that the d.a.'s office is not going to walk away from a homicide. >> how will it look differently? >> better for me. that's how it will look differently. >> unfortunately for charlie's attorneys, they'd already played their surprise defense, mom really did it. there would be no shock value in a second trial. >> frankly, we've got to face this like a brand-new case starting today. hung juries are a case in which you have to reinvent the wheel. >> in november of 2015, weeks after the ...

>> it was getting late on a frigid february night. the deputies put the son and mother in a patrol car. >> they asked him where the shotgun was. there was some mention of it being in the garage. >> reporter: after securing the weapon, they made their way to the second floor. in the home office they found the victim. >> the father is behind the desk? >> spent shotgun shells are right there in that doorway area. >> the detective would quickly learn more about jim tan, father, husband and businessman. >> he owned his own company. they had lived in canada and moved to the united states some years ...

Everyone was doing it. >> how much money did you raise? >> around $50,000, yeah. >> why did people come out of the wood work to support charlie? >> he has been one of the nicest guys ever, and everybody knew that and they wanted to do anything they could to give back to him. charlie would give everything to other people. if somebody needed anything, he would be the one to give it to them. >> reporter john hand was working on one of the biggest stories they had seen in years. so now it's an investigation for you, news story. great ivy league kid blows away his father in this nice neighborhood. ...