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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. you know, she wouldn't do anything like this. >> she was in good spirits when they left, she said. she was already planning her next party. but tom? he'd always had an awful temper, they said. >> i was always afraid he was going to hurt her. always. always. >> why? what about him? >> his temper. >> you can't go from zero to 100 and think clearly. >> i think that he was just in a fit of rage. and he shot her. >> armed with the new information, the...

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 discovered ashley asked him for joint. >> and then i was sort of taken back up by it because everything was fun that night and all of the sudden, boom, so it's like whoa! >> the neighbors had actually told her how tom got physical with her. >> she told me how she had been pushed around before. he had never hitter. but he was physical and pushing her. >> dea roark wanted the jury to hear that tom had a hot temper, t...

Television and helped reopen the case. >> i heard him saying to a cop, oh my god, what have i done, what have i done. >> nick was 15 at the time. he, said he remembered crouching down inside of his house under an open window, listening to tom speak to people in his driveway. >> you could hear one of them, i do not know who it was say what? what do you mean? and he proceeded to say, i shot my wife. >> nick said he knew it was tom. he could see him out the window. >> how certain are you that the voice you're hearing is tom fallis's voice? >> i am 100%. >> there was more. nick's mom, kathy glover...

>> this was almost a three-week trial. there's a lot of evidence. >> you thought that they were looking at coming back the next day to hear the verdict. >> but, no. less than four hours later, a verdict. >> we the jury find the defendant thomas fallis not guilty in right of the second degree and all lesser defenses signed by the jury foreperson. >> not guilty. not murder. after four long years of living under a cloud of suspicion, tom fallis was acquitted of all charges. >> he stayed straight faced to his defense attorney. he was very emotional. but ashley's parents, they left the courtroom fa...

I thought you might like it. >> so, the scratches, said the defense was because it was itchy. that's all. >> as for the so-called witnesses of defense, totally unreliable. the one changed her story on the stand. and the other? just months after the shooting, young nick glover, when capping with tom. the very man he said he heard confessed to shooting ashley fallis. >> i had no time during the camping trip with tom fallis did you ever tell anybody that you are uncomfortable being there with tom fallis? >> i do not recall. >> who had to believe? for example, wasn't one but two prosecution crime ...