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He couldn't see what he was shooting at. he thought their lives were in danger. >> i had seen the movement in front of me and i had pulled the trigger at that time. >> he said he was a good man who made a horrible mistake. >> did you -- at any time? >> no, she was the love of my life. >> a mistake he said he would regret forever. >> she was hurt pretty bad. she would have -- >> on cross-examination prosecutor carl alexander challenged lars' key claim, that in the kadark he simply couldn' distinguish debbie from an intruder. >> you know debbie's shape? >> i know her shape. >> the love of your l...

The company was found guilty for putting a carsgenic agent in its products. now back to "dateline." >> reporter: as 2015 gave way to 2016, investigators weren't so sure debbie kelly had been happy in her marriage to lars itzo and they took a closer look at the circumstances of her death. >> reporter: they pulled all those recordings from the day of the shooting, examined lars's behavior, his turns of phrase, even things he didn't do. starting with the 911 call. >> reporter: this is lars in the first moments of that call. >> had gun shot. i had thought somebody was in the house -- uh, my wife. ...

Story. >> i seen people right here so i told her to wait here. >> i seen people running. i heard the dog growling. >> reporter: in his interview down at the statement, lars revised his story again. that's when he said he woke to the front door squeaking, and offered, for the first time, this description of how he realized he'd shot debbie. >> i heard this groaning and i knew it was my wife. >> reporter: during those interviews, lars appeared heartbroken, at times falling apart. >> he was described as pacing in the blanket. he was mumbling, he was moaning. >> at various times, yes. >> is that n...

The shooting, lars headed back to the station and sat down for a polygraph test. >> he volunteered to go do it. he's like, i'll take a polygraph. >> 'cause he said he didn't do anything wrong. >> yeah. >> reporter: but the polygraph indicated lars was deceptive in some of his answers. his brother and sister said it was perfectly understandable. >> well, he's nervous. he's in shock, you know? >> he couldn't even get his name right, his birth date, where he was born. >> reporter: maybe so but his performance on the polygraph was enough for detectives to grill him relentlessly. >> how could you n...

It soon became clear they wanted to hold lars accountable. >> for a term of 15 years. >> 15 years, just a few years shy of the maximum sentence. i spoke with lars at the state penitentiary in beeville, texas, where he said he carries a photo of debbie in the pocket of his prison uniform. >> i kiss her picture every morning, every night. >> i asked him to skdescribe on again what happened the morning he shot debbie. >> i woke in the middle of the night. >> the story sounded familiar, but then -- >> and i seen the door closing very, very, very slowly. >> he had seen the door closing? as he had b...