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an intruder. >> their home so deep in the woods now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. police had suspects. >> i remember kelley not wanting to be home alone. >> they also had a problem. >> why would this guy go up and kill this woman? >> her family had questions of their own. >> something is not right here. something is wrong. >> and then someone remembered a phone call and a fib. >> i pulled out my phone. i'm like that's strange. >> a killer living two lives. >> it hurts when you thought you knew was all a lie. hello and welcome to dateline. kelley and tom clayton seemingly happy l...

when it happened. >> he said something about his kids telling him that there was a robbery. >> all they told us was there was an intruder. >> their home, so deep in the woods, now shrouded in a mystery even deeper. >> this is a real whodunnit? >> very much so. >> the police had suspects. >> i remember telling them they want to be alone. >> they also had a problem. >> why would the sky go up and kill this woman? >> her family had questions of their own. >> something is not my right here, something is wrong. >> and then, someone remembered a phone call and a fib. >> i pulled out my pho...

Wrongfully accused and police rushed to judgment and that therefore led to an incomplete investigation. >> and in fact, investigators never found evidence that tom paid beard for a hit. >> as far as time plea, and there was no conversation overheard. there was no money exchanging hands. you could not even used a confession from michael beard. so there were a lot of things you did not have. >> right, but if you look at tom's cleans conduct. he never mentioned michael beard. everybody says michael beard should be immediate suspect. he never mentioned michael beer to the police. >> as they prepar...

>> reporter: investigators also pulled surveillance footage from outside tom's business. they believed this was video proof of a conspiracy. that's beard, they say, in a red truck that tom loaned him just hours before the murder. and that's tom following in his green servepro truck. >> we also know that during that time period beard turned his phone off, turned it on, turned it off again. >> reporter: why do you think he did that? >> the inference that would be drawn from that is these guys are not that naive, they know that there's a possibility of being tracked with their phones. >> reporter...

And that therefore led to an incomplete vision. >> and in fact, investigators never found evidence nad tom paid beard for a hit. >> as far as tom clayton, there was no conversation over heard. there was no money exchanging hands. you couldn't even use the confession from mike beard. so there were a lot of things you didn't have. >> right, but if you look at thomas clayton's conduct, he never mentioned michael beard. everybody says michael beard should be an immediate suspect. he never mentioned michael beard to the police. >> as they prepared for trial, investigators kept digging. they discove...