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Floor and surrounding surfaces. not just this one carpet stain. >> we have indications of, of, of bleeding, but the type of injury that we're talking about is going to bleed a lot, 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...

Being there with tom? >> i do not recall. >> who to believe? for example, wasn't one but two prosecution crime scene analysts. this one, you already heard, believed it was murder. but this one -- >> most people that shoot somebody in an act of rage, they don't stop with one shot. >> dan was the crime scene expert from the first investigation. using a defense attorney, about the same height of ashley, he demonstrated how difficult it would have been for someone as tall as tom to shoot her at an angle. >> is it uncomfortable? >> it is for me. >> he is six feet tall. how tall are you? >> six feet...

I heard it and it was just smoke. [ sobbing ] i just ran over to her and just grabbed her head. >> reporter: tom told detectives that sadly, he'd been worried about just this sort of thing for more than a year, because ashley had threatened suicide before. >> what was she saying that she wanted to do to herself? >> oh just that, she just wants to end it. she's like, "you and the kids will be better off without me." >> and so she just said those words but she never acted on it. >> no. >> and so how long -- >> never once, never once has she ever grabbed her gun, has she ever loaded it -- has she...

Was new. andrea didn't know a lot about ashley but had listened to her chatter about jobs and marriages and her three kids, the youngest of whom was born with a dangerous condition called hydrocephalus which causes life threatening fluid buildup in the brain. >> she talked about it a lot. >> reporter: did she? >> yeah. but i didn't get the impression that she felt burdened by it, by any means. like, i felt like she -- i mean, that was the cards that she was dealt. >> reporter: well, in fact, she embraced the challenge, said ashley's mom jenna, became a public advocate. >> she went to washingto...

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, weld county da michael rourke decided to assemble a grand jury. >> what i want to do is i want to put all of that information, as much as we can gather, and almost use it as a test run. >> reporter: and they said? >> and they indicted him. >> i got the phone call that -- that they indicted him, and i just started crying. >> reporter: tom fallis was arrested in indiana, charged with second-degree murder and brought back to colorado to stand ...