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Warning signs. >> remember, detectives had learned years before that actually had a family history of suicide. both her maternal uncle and her grandmother took their own lives. that, said doctor allen, put ashley at a higher risk for doing the same thing. >> two close family members who had died by suicide would suggest a genetic propensity for suicide. >> the defense argued that on new year's eve 2011, it was the miscarriage that broke her will to go on. that she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol. that she planned to dull it further marijuana after the party. and that is why tom w...

And it was all over. >> so, while i was in the closet, i heard her gun cock, and i looked over and i was like what are you doing? i didn't even have the chance to finish my sentence or close to door. there was smoke. i heard it -- i heard it in there was just smoke. i just ran over to her and i just grabbed her head. >> tom told detectives that, sadly, he had been worried about this sort of thing for more than a year. because at she had threatened suicide before. >> what was she saying that she wanted to do so? >> well, just saying that she wanted to and. did you and the kids would be better o...

Wrote this letter to tom. >> i have so much pain on the inside i can no longer take it. i am sorry to do this to you and the kids but i find myself not even liking my children. >> every day is a chore with them and you. i have to pretend to be happy. i have to pretend to be someone i am not. please make sure you raise the kids to continue to go to the school we have chosen. i do love them. i just can't take this life any longer. please make sure you let them know every day that i do love them and this is not their fault. suicide expert, doctor michael allen studied the letter as well as ashley...

>> denver's fox 31 aired the startling discovery that prompted -- the investigation. in particular, a neighbor who was only 15 at the time said that he heard tom admit to shooting ashli. >> it's pretty hard to forget hearing someone confessed their murder and then getting away with it. >> to prevent any suggestion of taint or cover-up, the case was turned over to the nearby fort collins police department. for the next seven months, officers talked to witnesses both old and new and hired experts to re-examine forensic evidence. and when their work was done, well county d. a., michael roark, dec...

Ashley fallis. >> the defense conceded ashley and tom quarreled that night, but insisted it never got physical. those scratches on tom's chest, the ones the prosecutors believed were proof of a struggle, dna tests never found any evidence to support it. >> you did not find any of ashley fallis's dna, cellular material on those swabs from tom's chest, correct? >> that is correct. >> the defense reminded them that tom told the police why he had those scratches. that he had done a little man scaping to spice up his marriage. he had texted some photos to prove it. >> there is tom fallis when he ha...