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>> i didn't want him to die. i yelled for him to stop. >> reporter: the defense told the jury that chases action at the scene proved her innocence. she called 9-1-1. and flagged down those officers to help her husband. >> what's going on? >> my husband! >> it made my blood boil. i was shaking, i think, literally, when i heard this stuff. >> reporter: bob's family said the defense case for no resemblance to reality. prosecutors agreed. >> is there any credible evidence at all that chacey was poynter abused by her husband? >> no. >> there is no er visit? >> no 9-1-1 calls. >> no previous law enforcement at that address? >> no one else saw robert poynter even get mad. he's been described is a big teddy bear. >> reporter: on the other hand, they did find plenty of evidence that chacey wanted bob gone. >> she's fishing around for multiple men to commit this murder for her.

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and i said, what do you have, a murder? and she said, yeah, i think so. and i was like, i've gotta go, because it doesn't happen that often. >> reporter: the last murder in these parts was years ago. >> and i got a response, i had to respond pretty rapidly to the scene of knowing what we had. >> reporter: he called for backup because the shooter or shooters remained on the loose. >> everybody was on point as far as keeping their heads on a swivel because we didn't know who or how many people were out there. >> reporter: and while meek waited for royse cities loan detective to arrive, he took chacey two paramedics who responded to the scene. >> that's all right, calm down. very slow. so, was anyone else out there with you. >> no, i was out there by myself -- >> was it your husband? >> what's his name? >> robert -- >> somewhere in all of this, she'd hit the ground with blood and mud on her. >> we were concerned for her and wanted to make sure she was taken care of and find out as

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>> reporter: that's right. it turned out key michael garza wasn't chacey's only lover. in the month up to the murder, she had been juggling three other boyfriends. detective burke brought them in for questioning. >> a lot of it was for sex. >> reporter: along with frequent meet up for sex, two of her lovers told police, chacey also shared the story of abuse that she claimed with suffered at the hands of robert poynter. >> she did tell me that he heard her a lot and that there was a lot of abuse going on. but he would never leave marks because he didn't want no trace. >> she would meet these guys, they'd be interested. and she would immediately start telling her story, right? my husband is beating me, i'm in this terrible marriage, i feel threatened. but... maybe there's something here with you and me? >> exactly, that's her mo.

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bob kept in very close touch with his mom. >> we had that report of 10 to 15 calls a day. >> 10 to 15 calls a day? >> yes, honestly. >> mama's boy? >> yeah, truly. i adored him. >> reporter: so did his fellow firefighters. bob poynter got it done. he even helped in louisiana after hurricane katrina, and he always came home unscathed, professionally speaking anyway. bob's personal life was also the story of a man who ran toward trouble. bob married young and had two kids. after 19 years, that marriage fell apart, expensive lee so. around then is when bob meant chacey mormon, who was much younger. >> i think was infatuated with her. he thought, somebody 22 years old, you know, like he was in his 40s. and, you know -- >> a flame. >> a flame, basically, yeah. >> reporter: it wasn't a flame.

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>> reporter: the defense argued, whatever lies chacey may have told police, she told the truth about this. she was a battered wife. >> it could be him describing me. he's done this to me for seven years. >> reporter: robert poynter, all six feet four inches, of him was a bowl of a man, often a raging one, implied the defense. because bob took testosterone prescribed by a doctor. >> chacey sister did believe her abuse. >> she told me that he was abusive. >> not just mentally but physically? >> physically, yes. >> she also told police that she shared her trouble with someone who decided to take matters into his own hands, michael garza. he and he alone, argued his attorneys, killed robert poynter. it was a murder that was chacey tried to stop.

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i grab night investigation equipment, and mostly at that time, it was just a camera, a flashlight. >> and off you go to the scene. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: about halfway down the road was that truck, later identified as bob's. then, another discovery -- >> flashlights on the path, to make sure we don't trip, or fall on one of the deeper it's. and it was a reflection in the water. and one of the puddles, and upon a closer look, it showed it was a cell phone. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it was chacey's cell phone. she apparently dropped it in the mud when she fell. it's why her 9-1-1 call was cut off. further down the mighty road and around the bend was chacey's jeep, with bob poynter 's body behind the wheel. burke took a close look. >> did you see rob? >> no, chase birth was still on the board of the vehicle. his personal cell phone was still in the council covered in

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permanently unfulfilled because bob poynter was no more. and chacey, the only witness, said she did not get a good look at the shooter. >> i don't see him, i don't know. i was looking at my phone, trying to call 9-1-1, and then when i was there, there was nobody there. he ran. i don't want you to think i'm crazy. >> no, i need to understand what you saw, okay? >> he is tall, tall. and dark -- that's how i describe. i didn't see any firearms. >> reporter: naturally, meek wondered about chacey's friend, michael garza. the cops looked up his facebook profile, and there he was, pulling a shotgun. good michael garza be the shooter? >> but then, she starts talking about, he's on a long haul truck driver and wasn't in town, so that kind of threw a wrench in that scenario. so then you start to think, what else could it be? >> reporter: meek was not sure.

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