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>> it was getting late on a frigid february night. the deputies put the son and mother in a patrol car. >> they asked him where the shotgun was. there was some mention of it being in the garage. >> reporter: after securing the weapon, they made their way to the second floor. in the home office they found the victim. >> the father is behind the desk? >> spent shotgun shells are right there in that doorway area. >> the detective would quickly learn more about jim tan, father, husband and businessman. >> he owned his own company. they had lived in canada and moved to the united states some years ...

What for? they gave you a new trial. i said, what? >> news of a new trial didn't change the minds of dar's family. they remained convinced not only did tom kill dar, he did so on the day of his son's tenth birthday celebration. you think tom's cold-blooded enough to do something like that to his kid? >> yes. >> yes. >> i think there's evil in him. >> prosecutor terri norris agreed. who killed dar foley? >> tom foley. there is nobody else. >> a year and a half after tom foley's conviction, both sides filed back into the courthouse to once again determine tom's fate. >> circuit court is again in...

>> i call tom foley to the stand, your honor. >> i just didn't want to convince the 12 jurors. i wanted to convince the prosecutor. i wanted to convince the police. i wanted to convince my wife's family. i wanted them to know and look at me and hear me. >> tom started by answering some still-nagging questions, like, how did a yellow plastic bag with shotgun shells in it get into tom's basement? >> did you have dunham's bags in your home? >> yes. >> how do you explain the bag in the basement with the shotgun shells in the basement? >> they weren't ours. the bag is probably ours. i mean, my fing...

>> it appeared to me that this was a staged break and intering to hide a homicide that took place. >> but according to detective carbon, whoever staged the burglary didn't factor in the weather that day. >> it got really warm. we had a huge snow meltoff. >> the ground around the farmhouse was unusually wet and muddy. so you would expect that there would be muddy footprints from inside the residence where somebody would come through that door? >> absolutely. >> was there any footprints, anything? >> there was nothing. >> but it was the yellow bag found in the basement, the bag containing shotgu...

Head. clearly an execution. >> reporter: close up. >> close up. and the female victim was along the side of the bed holding a phone in her hand, and she had been shot in the eye at close range. >> reporter: investigators found out pretty quickly how the stocks' killer or killers who entered the house. a screen had been lifted, a window appeared to have been forced open leading into the laundry room. from there it appeared the killer's route might have gone past the now empty easter basket sharmon had made, through the well kept kitchen, then up the stairs to where the stocks lay sleeping. four...