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>> 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 a sheriff's deputy thought said should already have 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 party. >> it was hard for ashley, it was hard for me, but i did...

>> reporter: 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, tom. >> i didn't shoot my wife. i didn't. i didn't do this. >> reporter: "it was murder," said her parents. >> i had three grandkids that i 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 ater the party. >> i didn't understand what was happening and why and what -- because everything was fine that -- that night. >> as much confusing as ...

>> yeah. yeah! she did. i'm not lying to you. >> reporter: and when the detective gave a description about the gunshot wound. a description that turned out to be inaccurate. that really set tom off. >> that wound on the back of her head isn't where she could do it herself, tom. it is not. >> oh [ bleep ] >> it is not >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> reporter: and then, quite suddenly, in the middle of it all, completely out of nowhere, the detective made an abrupt declaration. >> and i have to let you know that your wife did not make it. your wife did not make it. she was breathing when i w...

Little house in west evans, colorado, it was already the worst year ever. >> 911 what's the address of your emergency? >> my wife just shot herself in the head, please help me, please help me! >> reporter: the man on the phone was tom fallis, begging for help, and willing his wife to live. >> no! >> sir? >> you're staying here! >> sir? >> you're staying here! >> reporter: tom told the dispatcher 'she shot herself, then he put the phone down.. he was holding his hand to her head trying in vain to stop the bleeding. so he had his 9-year-old daughter pick up the phone. >> honey are you there? >> ...

Scene investigator issued reports concluding ashley's death was indeed suicide. and remember, tom told the police she had expressed suicidal thoughts before. she had two close relatives who'd taken their own lives. investigators found prescription psychotropic drugs in ashley's purse and nightstand, which tom told them she quit cold turkey without medical supervision when she learned she was pregnant. two months after ashley's death, her parents got the news they feared. police ruled her death a suicide. case closed. >> it made me angry. [ sighs ] it made me angry. because i knew -- i knew tha...