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Your chest. what is that? >> what? >> you have, you have a long red scratch. what is that? >> oh, probably i've been doing this all freaking night. and then -- >> okay. this one was going straight across here. >> oh. i don't know it's just me. it's not -- >> okay, okay. so it isn't. i just had to ask. >> reporter: the detective left the room and spoke with ashley's parents who'd arrived with the purpose of telling officers just one thing. their daughter did not shoot herself. >> we had just seen her seven minutes before this. she was completely fine. she wouldn't do anything like this. >> repo...

Ashley had just gone through something kind of awful. >> she found out that she had a miscarriage that day. i said, "oh, i'm sorry. like, are you okay?" and, "oh, yeah, it's fine." >> reporter: did that strike you as odd? >> no. i didn't think that it was odd. >> reporter: was she unhappy about the miscarriage? >> my impression of it is she already has her beautiful family it seemed like her life was already complete. so i don't think that she was devastated that she had found out that she had a miscarriage. >> reporter: no tears, andrea said, just a quick, casual, mention and then the convers...

Hour. >> reporter: then a ne welcome back to dateline. here again, after the party. ashley fallis, 28 years old. wife and mother of three, was dead. the gunshot wound, unsurvivable. it was suicide said her husband tom. >> i didn't shoot my wife. i didn't. i didn't do that. >> 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

Happened, former deputy brian spencer saw tom roaming around freely with blood and other potential evidence all over him. >> police 101, a very basic thing. any scene that you respond to, you wanna treat it as the highest level of what it could possibly be. >> sure, so he would be a suspect. >> he needed to be preserved. he needed to be controlled. >> reporter: but none of that was done at the scene. pretty soon, ashley's parents began to suspect there was a cover-up to protect tom, perhaps the so called "blue wall of silence" looking out for a fellow law-enforcement officer. >> it's a hell of...

Believe the shooting was murder. >> i believe that the story that mr. fallis gave is consistent with the evidence found at the scene. >> reporter: in other words, he thought it was suicide. so, what happened in that moment after midnight? how would a juror decide? >> upon reaching a verdict, you will inform the bailiff, who will in turn notify me. >> reporter: kusa's dan grossman settled in for a bit of a wait. >> this is almost a three-week trial. there's a lot of evidence. you thought that you were looking at coming back the next day to hear the verdict. >> reporter: but, no. less than four ...