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marty was gonna try to come take a. >> his own father? >> i don't think he ever called him father, i don't think anyone really did. he was just afraid of marty. >> val had a newborn of her own to, go along with those extra responsibilities. and, an overwhelming sadness that sneaked into her bed, her kitchen, her life and unwelcome houseguest that simply refused to leave. >> my son was four months old, when susie was taken from us. i don't remember. i don't remember him walking. i don't remember these moments i should remember as a mother. >> meanwhile the investigation was stuck in the weeds. >> i was thinking a couple of
over the next three hours. his cell phone pinning in glendale have just before 4:30 am. then by his own admission, marty parked right around the corner from susie's apartment building next to the bank. and that's when the banks atm started telling a story like nothing else could. for 20 7 am, prosecutors argued this figure is marty walking towards susie's apartment. >> our theory was, he got to susie's apartment before brad, before she returned, and there's a little concave, a little store front and we believe that's where he was standing. >> that said the prosecutor is when he left that footprint found in the dust in the alcove of the buildings next to susie 's. then the tape showed at 4:52 am, brad and susie pulled out in brats truck. 5:19 am, the light came on, susie opened the door got out, just steps from her apartment. >> when she stepped out of brett car after he had stood in that concave for 15 to 20 minutes as they are in the car doing whatever they were doing. i think he was extremely angry and when he saw her, i think he confronted her, i think she
months and we're gonna have unrest. and we just didn't have the pieces at that time that we needed. >> 2008, ted kept himself, marty moved, left buildings and went to phoenix got a job. and at home in glendale have, susie's brother, valves husband rusty was having trouble with the rage. >> susie's death consumed him, he wouldn't sleep much as night and he told me one night that he just wanted to stop feeling. i think it just haunted him that he felt like he could've done something. >> and by the time representative met with the family room, many felt they were teetering on the edge of insanity. still wondering, marty or ted? what was the holdup? >> that day i asked if she could tell us as a family, that ted was no longer a suspect.
yes. >> on the night susie disappeared, phone records revealed that she an marti last spoke at 9:51 pm. by then susie was aware that marty had been trying to sabotage her relationship with brad. after the phone call susie called her daughter, marya, with a question. >> she wanted to know how to restrict the number. >> okay. >> and i storewide, and she told me -- because marty was calling. he was calling ted and was saying stuff about my mom. >> the phone records show that susie stopped crying is calls, that's why at 1:39 am, marty was caught on that surveillance camera, leaving buildings to head towards glendive. >> i think when he left buildings it was not his intent to kill her, i think he wanted to confront her. to find her and confront are about what is going on. >> please call me. >> the jury heard that marty left 22 voice mails as he drove
confronted him right back. >> i think when she told him that she was going to continue our relationship with brad and that margin her were done i think he was a no one is gonna have susie. >> in that little alley there, i think that's where he strangled her. >> strangled her. prosecutors argued, but not before susie left those tale tells scratch marks found on marty's back. the state's theory -- that marty dragged her body across the alley, leaving those drag marks near the dumpster. then, at 5:38 am a figure walked back towards marty's mini van. >> after he walks back, the next thing you see is that silver van pulled back in front of susan's. there is about a five minute wait, i believe he's putting the ball in the into the back of the van and then you see the van pull-aside. >> that said prosecutors is when marti started driving back to billing. >> you have a body in your van, i think the river was the fastest and easiest way for him
don't -- you don't need to get the why and get in trouble like that. >> and she promised to call him back later. >> i said, if i'm sleeping, don't worry about it, it's okay. wake me up. >> after all, said marty, they were couple again. it was his business to worry about her. and when she didn't call. >> i called her 12:30 because i hadn't heard from her. and i thought, you know, is everything ok? >> if you don't call me back at 1:00 -- i didn't know whether she'd gotten arrested, or what was going on. and then i thought, i'm gonna go up there. i'm gonna see if she's okay. make sure that she got home. make sure everything is okay. >> what time did you leave billings? do you recall? >> 1:30-ish. >> and sure enough, when police pull video at the gas stop, time stamp said 1:39 am. and so he drove he said, calling and leaving voice messages for susie, during the entire 220 mile trip. >> i just need to hear from you,
i know what i did and i know i was. >> listen, you put yourself there, that is the point, you put yourself in the crime scene. >> i put myself in a position for them to look at me. >> right, you had the opportunity, you had the motive. >> if you just being in the vicinity -- >> you could have, in other words? >> within that timeframe, yes. >> do you see how that looks? >> yes, i can. i can. >> there are lot of things i don't understand myself why do. i don't understand, especially now, why couldn't of just stayed home tried to contact her few times and i guess in my head i thought i had some thought that i could do something to help if needed help. >> sometimes with a girl like susie, the thing you can do to help is to walk away? >> yes probably, probably would've been best. at least for me. >> marty larsson's jury was out for about as long as it took marty to drive from buildings to glendive. three hours. the verdict? guilty. what was it like to hear that guilty verdict? >> everybody hollered, hugged. it was just like a big weight lifted off you. >> there is something hugely
out that her ex husband had been in glendive, reactions were quick into the point. >> if i knew this ten years old early i would've taken him for a ride. >> meaning, you know, here's would most of them thought right away. >> it just didn't add up that it was broad, and it didn't add up that it was ted. >> but marty perhaps? there were signs, like those obsessive voice mails. >> please call me. >> and the bank video. his own admission that he hoped to reunite with susie. the probability he saucily canoodling with brad, the mini van washed fairly well on his return home. and yet, marty larsson was not arrested.
little bit different than you thought. >> the whole family accepted it because it was susie's choice. >> before long, susie give birth to a little bird named mariah. followed by a son but again no real surprise. the marriage didn't last. >> she really loved her kids. they were really a big part of her life. and then when her and marty split, they were really everything in her life. >> so, late 90s now, susie was working as a medical transcriptionist in a place called glendive. that's where she met ted casey. he was the real deal. a grown-up this time. a ranch or 14 years older than susie. >> he had horses and that was just right for her. >> wedding number two. this was 1998. the kids, shea and mariah called ted dad. then there were two more kids. girls.
out and prove it. >> but when marty walked in, the court room gasped. >> he didn't look like the picture that i was shown of him. >> he'd lost like 77 pounds. so he looked like a different person altogether. i think there was a little bit of shock and everybody's mind. >> wait, was it intentional? more on that in a minute. first prosecutor listed what he thought were modus for marti killing susie. jealousy, pride, rage. >> i think marty was absolutely convinced that they were going to get back together and i think that he thought that that was going to happen.