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>> i didn't want him to die. i yelled for him to stop. >> reporter: the defense told the jury that chases action at the scene proved her innocence. she called 9-1-1. and flagged down those officers to help her husband. >> what's going on? >> my husband! >> it made my blood boil. i was shaking, i think, literally, when i heard this stuff. >> reporter: bob's family said the defense case for no resemblance to reality. prosecutors agreed. >> is there any credible evidence at all that chacey was poynter abused by her husband? >> no. >> there is no er visit? >> no 9-1-1 calls. >> no previous law enforcement at that address? >> no one else saw robert poynter even get mad. he's been described is a big teddy bear. >> reporter: on the other hand, they did find plenty of evidence that chacey wanted bob gone. >> she's fishing around for multiple men to commit this murder for her.

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>> absolutely. >> the same day, bob was traveling home from that vacation in mexico, she texted garza. me more than anyone wants him. gone garza's reply? well, it can happen. before their trip to mexico, bob had already suspected that chacey was unfaithful. >> and you say, chase he is losing a lot of weight. but she's not doing it for me. >> really? that's not a good sign. it was when they return from the trip that bob started taking trips steps to end their marriage. he contacted his attorney via facebook. not divorce hopefully? it's looking like it. i have tried and tried but i think i want to file first and keep custody. do you think she seeing someone else? i kind of do you think so but a lot of lies lately and i'm tired of it. prosecutor said, divorce was the last thing that chacey wanted because the couple had a

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prenuptial agreement. bob had insisted on it. and so chacey believed she wouldn't get a dime if they split. >> over six figure income from university park as a way fire captain. in addition, he works a lot of side jobs. there is no way he would be able to support herself. >> so that? works >> that works. >> on the other hand, if obstinately died, chacey would be flush with cash. months before the murder, she convinced bob to make her the beneficiary of his life insurance policy. >> $680,000 in a lump sum. okay? >> you think robert essentially signed his death certificate the day he changed his insurance beneficiary? >> absolutely. >> reporter: prosecutors believe that win chacey found out that bob had made contact with his attorney, she had to move quickly. >> she had been planning to kill him.

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2495. >> you are this table length distance away. somebody taking the shotgun, and pushing it right up against your husband's head, and boom! boom! and are you telling me you see nothing? you see nothing! >> reporter: then, she admitted there was something she did see, at garza's house that evening. >> he had a camel gun. >> a camel gun. how big is this camo gun? >> a camo saga, like the one garza is holding and that facebook photo. >> her story change multiple times. >> as if she's making it up as she goes along, or she is remembering additional details. >> it went along the lines of sheer law is the story that she provided wasn't good enough, and she was gonna give a little bit more, hoping that i'd bite off on that and leave her alone. >> reporter: he did not, and after two hours, chacey spilled it. >> who killed your husband? who shot robert? >> [silence]

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>> reporter: that's right. it turned out key michael garza wasn't chacey's only lover. in the month up to the murder, she had been juggling three other boyfriends. detective burke brought them in for questioning. >> a lot of it was for sex. >> reporter: along with frequent meet up for sex, two of her lovers told police, chacey also shared the story of abuse that she claimed with suffered at the hands of robert poynter. >> she did tell me that he heard her a lot and that there was a lot of abuse going on. but he would never leave marks because he didn't want no trace. >> she would meet these guys, they'd be interested. and she would immediately start telling her story, right? my husband is beating me, i'm in this terrible marriage, i feel threatened. but... maybe there's something here with you and me? >> exactly, that's her mo.

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him a message on facebook, saying, i like your truck. >> reporter: remember, hours before bob was shot, chacey said she went to garza's home, and that was telling bob she needed space. she apparently did not tell bob there were also some other needs. >> michael and i ended up having six while i was there. >> reporter: what's more, chacey revealed that garza new chase e. and bob were supposed to be that night, and garza was jealous. >> he said, if i see him kissing, you i'm gonna come [bleep] -- >> reporter: so, did michael garza kill mike poynter, chacey had told officer meek, that by the time the murder occurred, he was driving his truck, so you couldn't have been the shooter. now, with detective burke, she seemed less sure of that. >> i don't know if he did it. i don't know that. >> reporter: she insisted she didn't see garza on county road

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much in this quickly what happened. >> reporter: and all the cops kept watching the sky because -- this is texas and the heavens were about to open. >> rainy weather can damage or completely get rid of possible evidence when the storm is moving fast. >> the race was on to uncover any clues the currency might hold. what would investigators find? >> coming up -- >> chacey's purse was still on the full board. his personal cell phone was still in the center console, loaded in blood. big blue for us, the weapon was a shotgun, a shotgun turned murder weapon. >> reporter: so, where was it? -- when dateline continues. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪breeze driftin' on by...♪ ♪...you know how i feel.♪ you don't have to take... [coughing]

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she saw a camo -- at garza's house, plus the cell phone has pinned near the crime scene the night of the murder. believed was just following his heart. >> he was infatuated with her. >> reporter: detective burke picked up on that, the night he interviewed chacey at the station. he spoke with her about it while he prepared to swab chacey's hands for gunshot residue. >> i believe he's infatuated with you, obsessed with you. i don't know what you've truly told him. >> he had talked about us, you know, trying to live together. and i kept angling him, i don't want to live with anybody. >> okay. >> and when he -- when he told me he loved me, i kept telling him, i was like -- and i was, honestly?

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>> reporter: the defense argued, whatever lies chacey may have told police, she told the truth about this. she was a battered wife. >> it could be him describing me. he's done this to me for seven years. >> reporter: robert poynter, all six feet four inches, of him was a bowl of a man, often a raging one, implied the defense. because bob took testosterone prescribed by a doctor. >> chacey sister did believe her abuse. >> she told me that he was abusive. >> not just mentally but physically? >> physically, yes. >> she also told police that she shared her trouble with someone who decided to take matters into his own hands, michael garza. he and he alone, argued his attorneys, killed robert poynter. it was a murder that was chacey tried to stop.

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to speak to him, and he did not wish to speak to me. >> reporter: a few days after garza surrendered, bob's fire company laid him to rest with full honors. chacey couldn't make it to that service. she and her lover were sitting in the hunt county jail. then a month after garza turned himself in, a local farmer made a discovery. that too was recorded on police body cameras. >> plowing his field, getting ready to grow some crops. and saw something pulled out of his fields and it ended up being a camouflage shirt, and a camouflage shotgun. >> traceable to anyone involved in the case? >> the serial number came back to michael garza's brother. >> so conceivable that that's your murder weapon? >> yes sir. >> michael garza commits the murder and ditches it as he runs away? >> yes sir. >> reporter: it would seem to support chacey's story, that garza had been the trigger man. she already told police that

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