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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 shotgun shells, that interested carbon the most. >> downstairs in the basement we found a dunham's bag that had in shotgun shells in it. >> okay. >> did you ever see that before? >> no. >> the foleys didn't own a shotgun as far as we...

Telling as what was left behind. expensive electronics were left untouched as was dar's purse sitting on a hallway chair. >> it just didn't make a lot of sense. >> neither did the use of a shotgun. >> it's large, potentially bulky. if you're going in to break into something, you have to carry whatever you steal out with this shotgun that you brought also. >> it wasn't until the next day that police found their first significant piece of evidence, evidence that led the investigation in a whole new direction. down in the foleys' dusty basement was a suspiciously dust-free yellow plastic bag. wha...

>> 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 fingerprint is on the bag. but for three clean sho...

>> what is it that you found in the basement? >> on the yellow dunham's bag located inside the bag was three shotgun shells. these are phone records -- >> norris also showed the jury the foleys' home phone records from around the time dar was killed. >> there were no phone calls that either came in or left. >> your wife doesn't show up somewhere, why not call and say, have you left yet? we're waiting for you. >> that's what i would do. >> according to detective carbon, tom didn't bother calling dar at home because he knew dar was already dead. then members of dar's family stepped forward to te...

Witness? >> i call tom foley to the stand. >> i didn't just 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 and look at me and hear me. >> tom started by answering still nagging questions lake how did a yellow plastic bag with shotgun shells in it get into the basement. >> did you have those bags in your home? >> yes. >> how do you explain the bag in the basement. >> they weren't ours. the bag is ours. my fingerprint is on the bag but for three clean shotgun shells to be in my basement, just doesn't mak...