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Imagining a moment he or she didn't see. >> please, rise for the jury. >> reporter: and deciding what must have happened. did tom kill his wife, ashley, in a fit of violent temper. or what? >> tom did not kill his wife and mother of their three children. ashley committed suicide. >> reporter: remember how the prosecution talked of ashley's happy frame of mind? that ashley was a kind of lie, said the defense. >> ashley was a beautiful woman. but she had a terrible pain inside. she was mentally ill. >> reporter: the defense put one of ashley's close friends on the stand. >> what did you know of ...

Was the miscarriage. that she spent the night masking her night with alcohol. she meant to dull it further with children after the party. that's why tom was upset. >> she was vulnerable. he was concerned about her. he didn't want her to add marijuana to this toxic system that was developing inside ashley fallis. the defense conceded ashley and tom quarrelled that night but insisted it never got physical. the scratches on tom's test, the one that prosecutors believed was proof of a struggle. dna tests did not match any of that. >> you did not find any of ashley's dna material from tom's chest, ...

Mr. fallis gave was consist penalty with the testimony given. what happened in that moment after midnight? >> you will inform the bailiff who will inform me. >> reporter: they settled in for a wait. >> this is a three-week trial. you thought you were coming back the next day to hear the verdict. >> reporter: but no. less than four hours later, a verdict. >> we, the jinjury, find thomas fallis, not guilty of murder. >> reporter: not guilty. not murder, after four long years of living under a cloud of suspicion, tom fallis was acq t acquitted of all charges. >> reporter: he stayed straight-fence...

Bedroom, ashley was alive but the wounds to her head were catastrophic. the police body camera shows officers kneeling on the floor trying to stabilize her condition. >> paramedics went in and they made a decision to do what we call a load and go, which means they're not going to spend any time doing life support stuff. >> reporter: ashley's mom jenna huddled with her grandchildren in a neighbors bedroom, listening to it all through a closed door. >> is there any way to describe what it's like for a mother to be in that situation? >> no. your brain does funny things. i just knew that my whole ...

And that's not the kind of stain i would expect to see if that's what was occurring. something is keeping that blood from reaching that area. >> reporter: and he believed that something was tom fallis. remember, his clothing was drenched with blood and so priest concluded tom and ashley must have been in close contact when the gun went off. using the prosecutor, he suggested there was a struggle when the shot was fired. >> i can keep bloodstaining from getting onto the wall or onto the cabinet, and i can lower her continuing to bleed onto my shirt to where i get her in this position. >> report...