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That her uncle tom had recently fired beard. >> michael beard was fired september 17th, and then kelley was murdered like the night of the 28th, 29th, so it wasn't long at all. >> was it possible that beard was angry about losing his job and that kelley's murder was some kind of revenge? molly went through her cellphone and her facebook contacts and gave investigators beard's address. >> i gave that to them and they were just like, okay, thank you. >> the steuben county sheriff's office needed all hands on deck and called in the new york state police for the assistance. >> i was contacted by i...

Possibly could have done this? >> kelley's niece molly had an idea. >> i looked at my mom and i was like, yeah. >> molly, only 16 at the time, told police she spent the summer working for her uncle at his restoration business, surf pro, 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, toy...

It out. >> while investigator lambert was speaking with beard, he was interrupted by a colleague who had been grilling beard's wife. she mentioned a dramatic piece of information, something about a big payment beard was expecting to get from tom, $10,000. the investigators confronted beard. >> at that point he was just defeated. i had looked at him and said $10,000, is that why you killed kelley, and he looked at me and said, yes. >> this was your big moment. >> that was -- that was the win. >> michael beard was arrested for murder, and tom, already in custody, was now accused of orchestrating...

Investigator it was tom's partner who fired him, not tom, and tom was even trying to help beard find another job. >> are you getting any bad feeling from him? are you suspicious of him? >> not at all. >> so you're thinking this is going to be somebody we're going to cross off the list? >> yes, i didn't expect to see him again. >> to the investigator and those close to kelley, michael beard didn't seem like a good suspect at all. >> did you think it is possible, he was a disgruntled employee, he was taking revenge? >> i didn't. because if you're disgruntled, why wouldn't you kill the person tha...

Right off the bat as we need to go talk to michael beard again. >> he denied any type of involvement. he even denied receiving the phone call. they never talked. >> did that seem odd? >> it did can seem odd. he denied having any type of conversation. he said he didn't even remember receiving it and he wouldn't have answered a call that wasn't -- that he didn't know the number. >> and when investigators looked at beard's phone, there was no sign of a call from linda miller's cell. >> it had been erased. he explained it away that he the night before had to recycle his minutes on his phone. it wa...