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Genetic propensity for suicide. >> defense argued on new year's eve, 2011, it was the miscarriage that broke her will to go on. she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol and planned further with marijuana, 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. >> the defense conceded they quarrelled that night, but insisted it never got physical. the scratches, the ones they believe were proof of a struggle, dna tests found no toefd support that. >> you did...

Which paints the president as a racist. asked about the book saturday, trump called omarosa a, quote, low life. now back to "dateline." ♪ welcome back to "dateline," i'm craig melvin. though covered in blood and suspicious scratches, tom fallis insisted he did not harm his wife, is that she was the one who pulled the trigger. ashley's parents weren't buying it. but would the police? here again is keith morrison with "after the party." >> announcer: ashley fallis, 28 years old, wife and mother of three was dead. the gunshot wound in her head unsurvivable. it was suicide, said her husband to...

Dearly, dearly love that i knew in my heart that tom had just killed their mother. >> reporter: the news of ashley's death spread quickly the morning after the party. >> i didn't understand what was happening and why because everything was fine that night. >> reporter: as much as confusing a anything. >> very confusing. she was happy. she didn't seem suicidal. >> reporter: andrea, new friend, co-worker, drinking buddy at the party, couldn't shake a feeling. >> i don't feel like she would have taken her life. tom was the only other person that was there. >> so if it wasn't her, it had to be him...

Ashley told her how tom got physical with her. >> she told me how he had pushed her around before. he had never hit her but he was physical in pushing her. >> reporter: d.a. rourke wanted the jury to hear that tom had a hot temper. that he was volatile. >> anger would've been most obvious motive. >> reporter: simply lost his temper? >> anger. >> reporter: gun near, bang. >> right. >> reporter: to prove it, the witness 'ear-witness'you could say, nick glover, the neighbor whose story was reported on television and helped reopen the case. >> i heard him saying, oh my god what have i done, oh my ...

But, yet, it was. >> reporter: inside the master 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. they're not going to spend any time doing life support stuff. >> all the way up front. >> right on time. get her on there and go. >> announcer: ashley's mom huddled with her grandchildren in a neighboring bedroom, listened to it all through a closed door. is there any way to describe what it's like fo...