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It could have been a stranger from the street. >> reporter: a few months later, 74-year-old joan davis, a well known community activist -- seen here at a teaneck city council meeting -- was found strangled and stabbed to death in her burning home. >> we had always believed that the person who murdered joan davis was someone that she let into the house. >> reporter: and now, rob cantor had been found dead in his burning home -- also in teaneck. >> very early on we were looking at you know, could rob cantor's killer be the same killer in teaneck with ms. davis and in palisades park with ms. alli...

Public, one private. and one -- secret. but in 2011 two new york area families had all three exposed when their lives collided in a lurid tale of sex and jealousy -- fire and murder. >> it's terrifying because then you think, "well, hey. it could happen to me." >> it could happen to any one of us. >> forever, those people -- forever their souls will be marred and torn by these events. >> it's hard to know exactly what happened that day at that door. >> reporter: that day was march 6th, 2011 -- a raw and rainy sunday in tea neck, new jersey. henry rodzen was the first to spot trouble. >> report...

How do you think he got to new jersey? >> oh, he definitely got to new jersey by car. and he definitely had help in some form. >> reporter: what's your theory? >> that particular form of help took is unknown, but there are many ways for an individual to get to new jersey without having a record of that trip made. >> reporter: the prosecutor argued that tony had plenty of time to make the 13 mile trip to teaneck and return in time to start destroying computer files. >> just hours later, as that body has been recovered from the embers of a horrible arson, mr. tung just happens to be feverishly e...

>> reporter: day after day, tony tung watched the prosecution portray him as a cold blooded killer. it wasn't a pretty picture and according to tony, it wasn't a true one, either. >> there's a lot of bad things adding up here. where he was killed. you wiping your computer hours after the murder. you going to visit him. >> yeah, but -- i didn't kill him. >> did you have someone drive you over to teaneck -- >> no. no. >> reporter: for sandra milon, the prosecution's theory that tony murdered his wife's lover out of jealousy, made no sense. >> sometimes in crimes of passion, it's -- you don't rea...

>> reporter: for more than a year rob cantor's friends had >> reporter: for more than a year rob cantor's friends had been telling detectives that rob's murder was related to his affair with a married woman. the woman's husband, tony tung. they said was the jealous type. a man who'd actually come to teaneck to confront rob. >> he had made visits to rob cantor at his home to talk about this relationship and ask him to end it.