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She was going to die. >> i just sat down and held her hand. >> reporter: but tom wasn't there to hold her hand. tom fallis was at the evans' police station, answering questions. >> i don't know what's going on. i have no idea. and that's why i'm asking to speak with you. >> reporter: it was 2:00 a.m. and tom was still wearing blood-stained clothes, the ones that a sheriff's deputy thought should have already been bagged as evidence. >> how is your relationship with your wife? >> really good. >> reporter: but tom said ashley was devastated when she miscarried the very day of her new years eve p...

>> i noticed he's wearing a white t-shirt and he's covered, i believe it was on his left side in large amount of blood. >> it was odd, brian thought, that the evans' police officers didn't take tom's clothes or bag his hands for gunshot residue. >> he still had evidence on him and he needed to be preserved. he needed to be controlled. >> reporter: he needed to be processed. >> and clothing removed, everything. >> reporter: that's not what happened. not at all. and soon after ashley was rushed off to the e.r., tom got in the back of a squad car and was driven away, but surprisingly not to the h...

Evidence. and when their work was done, weld county d.a. michael rourke decided to assemble a grand jury. >> what i wanna do is i wanna put all of that information as much as we can gather and almost use it as a test run. >> 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 trial. ashley's parents were finally optimistic. >> i believe that they will find him guilty of murdering our daughter. i believe ...

>> reporter: it can't be an easy thing for a juror, imagining a moment he or she didn't see. >> please rise for the jury. >> reporter: and deciding what must have happened. did tom fallis kill his wife ashley in a fit of violent temper, or what? >> tom fallis did not kill his wife and mother of their three children. ashley fallis committed suicide. >> reporter: remember how the prosecution talked of ashey's happy frame of mind? "that ashley was a kind of lie," said the defense. >> ashley fallis was a beautiful woman, but she had a terrible pain inside. she was mentally ill. >> reporter: the de...

Allegation was perfectly clear, tom fallis argued with his wife, and in a fit of rage, shot and killed her. >> at the conclusion of this case after you've received all of the evidence, you will be convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it is him who pulled the trigger. >> reporter: prosecution witnesses said ashley was in high spirits at her new year's eve party, not at all suicidal. >> she was happy the whole night laughing, smiling. >> she was dancing with her children, interacting with all the guests. >> tom, though? ashley's uncle john testified about tom's sudden blow up when he disco...