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>> rob andrew, salt of the earth. i mean, this was a christian man, attended church all the time, loving father. just a great guy, very successful businessman as well. >> two days before thanksgiving, rob andrew left work to pick up his children. they planned to spend the holiday weekend with his parents. on the way, rob called his best friend. >> rob had called my house around 5:30, telling me how hurried he had been all day and that he was looking forward to picking the kids up and spending a long weekend with them for thanksgiving. >> rob didn't plan to stay long, so he parked his car in th...

Brother, for the benefit of the children. since the children were minors, he had to have an adult as the actual named beneficiary as the trustee of that money. >> after rob's death, police were surprised to learn that brenda was again the sole beneficiary. >> police were immediately suspicious, and they arranged for a handwriting expert, david parrett, to authenticate rob andrew's signature on the insurance policy. >> a signature is produced with style and speed. it's the thing that you probably write the most in your entire life. in my analysis, i looked at 13 years of rob andrew's handwritin...

Friends and a growing family whom he described as his source of strength. >> rob andrew, salt of the earth. i mean, this was a christian man, attended church all the time, loving father. just a great guy, very successful businessman as well. >> two days before thanksgiving, rob andrew left work to pick up his children. they planned to spend the holiday weekend with his parents. on the way, rob called his best friend. >> rob had called my house around 5:30, telling me how hurried he had been all day and that he was looking forward to picking the kids up and spending a long weekend with them for...

>> it is actually the unburned and partially burned powder and soot and hot gases that exit the barrel right behind the projectile. >> using an identical gun, investigators ran tests to recreate the gunshot residue patterns. >> my observations of those patterns and of the sweater and of her wound allowed me to conclude that she was shot at somewhere between actual contact and approximately two inches away from her arm. >> this contradicted brenda's statement that she was shot by someone 15 to 20 feet away. police now knew that brenda andrew was involved in rob's murder. but was she the killer?...

Guilty of murder in the first degree. fix his punishment at death. >> in brenda's trial, prosecutors portrayed her as a heartless sociopath. the jury saw photos of her vacationing with pavatt and the children while she was married to rob. they also heard the messages brenda left on rob's telephone answering machine in which she belittled rob for his parenting skills and other perceived slights. >> hey, it's brenda. you halfway dad. can't even return calls about your children? you ought to call me if you care one little ounce -- oh, that's right, you don't. we've been able to figure that out. >...