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>> last year at church camp i went for one of our activities. we fired shotguns, and it most resembled that sound. >> then it was time for heath to take the stand. the last time tom had seen his boy was at a hearing, also in court, almost a year earlier. >> while you're in the barn, do you hear something? >> yes. i thought it was maybe skyler kind of ran into a wall, either that or a gunshot. >> you think the boys actually were, if not eyewitnesses then earwitnesses to murder. >> earwitnesses to what happened. >> tom schafer knew if he had any hope of getting tom foley acquitted, he'd need to ...

Four days after tom foley's arrest, schaeffer and cuberstein took a trip to the farm to try and do just that. >> couple of perry mason moments. don't come very often. >> this is the frame that we found. >> right where tom said he dropped the frame, they found this tiny shard of glass. immediately they tried to match the shard with the frame tom said he dropped. >> if you take the shard and set it in one of the few remaining, intact areas of the frame, you can see it fits perfectly. >> it was compelling evidence that tom may have been telling the truth, but schaeffer would need more than a shar...

>> the murder of a well loved teacher. within hours police were on the scene. there would be an arrest. a trial. and a conviction. case closed? not on your life. because in this story, a bomb shell came in after the verdict. here's josh mankiewicz with "mystery at heath bar farm." >> 911. >> i need an ambulance now. >> reporter: february 2009, coldwater, michigan. >> what's the problem? >> my wife! >> your wife? >> yes! >> reporter: in one day, one moment -- >> is she breathing? >> no! she's gone! she's gone. >> reporter: the innocent simple life tom foley and his family once lived was gone fo...

Tom foley is guilty, and i'm asking you to bring back that verdict. >> the outcome of tom's second trial was far from certain. what worried you the most? >> just that he was such a nice guy that you would never have guessed he would have done something like that. >> he didn't seem like a murderer. >> right. >> and then at the fabled eleventh hour, it was time. the jury filed in. were they looking at you, the jurors? >> no, they weren't. >> i took a couple deep breaths and i just -- >> your honor, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. >> the waiting had paid off. >> as to count two? >> not...

>> he tried to. and it was stopped. >> who tried and who stopped? >> he tried, and we both stopped. >> you don't have a sexual relationship with somebody within two weeks after your wife's been murdered in that house. >> but the jury never heard marianne crandall's testimony because there was no indication of a romantic relationship prior to dar's murder, the judge ruled, just as he did in first trial, that her testimony was prejudicial and, therefore, inadmissible. it was a huge blow to the prosecution's case. >> it supports the position that they weren't this deeply in love couple that he ke...