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Restoration business, servpro, and there she met one of his employees, a man named michael beard. tom told her to keep her distance. >> he never really wanted me around michael beard. he didn't want me like working with him. >> michael beard was no stranger to the family. >> he actually had done work at my sister's home. my sister would give his daughter charlie's hand-me-downs, clothes, toys. my sister would make lunch for him when he was there working at her home. >> while kelley was kind to beard, she told her sister she didn't always feel comfortable around him. >> i remember kelley not wa...

Could go to prison for life, depending on and what they're about to say. >> and then they said it, guilty of first degree murder. much outside the courthouse, there were tears. lots of them. >> thank you. i believe justice was done here today. i do. >> tom clayton and michael beard really both sentenced to life in prison. tom's attorney has filed al appeal. it seems snoem town want to honor kelly, even that you mean's old who can team. the elmyra jackals held a tribute for her and victims of family violence. kelly dropped the ceremonial puck to start the game. >> i'm telling it you kelli is wi...

Door. >> we said, hey, can you take a ride with us up to the barracks. he said yeah, let me let my wife knew. >> he already knew what it was about? >> we told him we wanted to talk about the homicide of kelley clayton. >> the investigator asked beard where he was the night of kelley's murder. he said he was home except for a beer run. >> he actually kind of alibied himself at that point saying he was at the store the night before and it was the same clerk working, that she could prove he was in the store the night before. >> did he express he knew anything about kelley's murder? >> no, he didn...

Into and he's been out ever since. >> and he seemed determined to profess his innocence to anyone who would listen. >> he said i'd like to tell you my side of the story. i said i don't want to hear it or get any more involved. and he's like partially crying and he's saying you know i wouldn't do that. >> months went by as the state prepared the case against each man. michael beard was the first to go to trial. in court, he recanted had his confession and changed his account of the murder. but prosecutor when the more said evidence put beard at the crime scene. >> his dn a was found where she w...

Delayton's would be anything enough. the prosecutor knew he couldn't use beard to testify against tom. >> even if he said i want to testify now, he had lied so many times. he lied at his own trial. >> beard changed his story so much at his own trial, that he wouldn't have been a credible witness. >> tom and his lawyer pounced on that, telling reporters that beard acted on his own. >> this is pure little mr. beard's doing. what we do know is that mr. clayton had nothing to do with the death of his wife. >> and tom's lawyer didn't stop at michael beard. he went after the investigators. he said t...