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Sit right with the lead detective either. while he felt her death could have been an accident, details of that scene bothered him. the week that cabinet door had been yanked down. the blood in the tub. the marks on shele's body. >> she had bruising to her lip. she appeared to have strapped scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. >> and what the detective would learn later cast suspicion directly on rod. rod tooled an officer that he had to pull shele's wet falling out of the tub. yet his clothes bone dry. new york post reporter, rebecca rosenberg. >> two officers found this unus...

And in another sinister twist, prosecutors believe that we're in a half years after shele's death, rod drafted an ode composed from her 12-year-old's daughter email account, pretending to be her. it's read, i lied. she did just slip. i got so mad so i pushed her. i didn't mean to hurt her! i swear! it was never sent but it did in the tabloids after it was filed with the court. >> what father does that? >> who does that to a child? who basically finds the child -- >> right. >> prosecutors didn't get that note admitted into trial, but they were about to bring forward a star witness, whose explos...

Certificate and i saw that the cause of death was undetermined. >> shele's loved ones are not the only ones with growing doubts. investigators zero in on troubling clues. coming up -- >> she had bruising to her lip. chip here to have some scratch marks. and she had bruising to her right hand. >> and rod said he had put shele's wet body out of the top, so, why wasn't he wet? >> two officers found this unusual enough to notice. how would you not get wet? >> when "dateline" continues. - i can't believe you got me this! - yes, verizon is giving one to everyone when they trade in their old or damag...

>> one thing marc and eve said came between the couple was rod's dramatic mood swings. >> rod has and has always had a violent, explosive temper. he could be sitting very calmly in each year, and something can set him off and in seconds, he will literally explode. >> shele also complained about rod's growing obsession with back backgammon. >> it became a passion and then an obsession. for him. >> did he ever say why? >> i think he had forged relationships in the backgammon community, that he really liked. >> even rod's parents felt their son was spending too much time on the game. >> i told hi...

With rage in their custody battle. shele's diverse attorney lance myers took the stand to say how rod had even used his son as a weapon. >> rod coughlin took the children, and accused shelley of abusing miles. >> it turns out that he took them to the hospital, and made allegations that shele had sexually abuse their son. >> so this is getting ugly. >> yes. >> prosecutors said those disturbing and false accusations were just one example of how rod was becoming unhinged. he was also excessively tracking shele's every move with secretly installed software on her computer. rod told this coworker t...