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Stealing and taking money and killed kelly in the process. >> the prosecution said that was nonsense. michael beard had no reason to murder kelly unless he was sent there by the defendant, tom clayton. the state called linda miller to testify. she recounted how tom borrowed her phone and then deleted the number he dialed, never dreaming she would do her own detective work. >> you really connected the dots. >> she did good. >> you can call it good. >> finally, the prosecutor said he knew why tom wanted his wife dead. he called kelly's niece molly to the stand. >> he just told me a lot of stuff ...

Like, sleep with other women and that he was sleeping with other women. he told me that he also is getting close to divorce. he just wanted to be done. >> the prosecutor told the jury this was tom's motive. he wanted to get rid of his wife but keep everything else. >> i think he was concerned that his wife, if they went through a divorce, that she probably would get everything, and this was an opportunity to just to start anew. >> the millers listened and wondered how they could be so wrong about their old friend, tom clayton. >> we didn't obviously know until the trial of the affairs and stuf...

Slam dunk for investigators, tom clayton's would be anything but. the prosecutor knew he couldn't use beard to testify against tom. >> even if he came forward and said i want to testify now, he had lied so many times, he had lied at his own trial. >> beard had changed his story so much at his own trial that he wouldn't have been a credible witness. >> tom and his lawyer pounced on that, telling reporters that beard acted on his own. >> this is purely mr. beard's doing. what we do know is that mr. clayton had nothing to do with the death of his wife. >> and tom's lawyer didn't stop at michael b...

And he gets out on $250,000 cash bail. >> that's pretty low. >> and he has been out ever since. >> and he seemed determined to profess his innocence to anyone who would listen. >> he said i would like to tell you my side of the story. i said i really don't want to hear it. i don't want to get any more involved, and he is, like, partially crying, and he is saying, you know i wouldn't do that. >> months went by as the state prepared the case against each man. michael beard was the first to go to trial. in court he recanted his confession and changed his account of the murder, but prosecutor whea...