1 00:00:16,216 --> 00:00:17,517 >> THE SCHOOL WAS CALLING HER 2 00:00:17,517 --> 00:00:19,886 AND SHE DIDN'T PICK UP >> DENVER 911. 3 00:00:19,886 --> 00:00:22,188 >> PLEASE, MY WIFE'S NOT BREATHING. 4 00:00:22,188 --> 00:00:26,259 PLEASE >> HE SAID, "STACY'S DEAD. 5 00:00:26,259 --> 00:00:28,294 I SAID, "WHAT? >> IT APPEARS SHE HAD FALLEN IN 6 00:00:28,294 --> 00:00:31,531 THE SHOWER AND SOMEHOW DROWNED >> NONE OF US ARE SEEING 7 00:00:31,531 --> 00:00:34,200 ANYTHING THAT SAYS, "THIS LOOKS LIKE A MURDER. 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,903 >> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE AUTOPSY CAME BACK? 9 00:00:36,903 --> 00:00:39,606 >> UNDETERMINED DEATH. SHE WAS 44 YEARS OLD, YOUNG AND 10 00:00:39,606 --> 00:00:42,876 HEALTHY. YOU DON'T JUST DIE 11 00:00:42,876 --> 00:00:45,011 YOU HAVE TO DIE FOR A REASON >> DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO 12 00:00:45,011 --> 00:00:47,681 WITH IT? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. 13 00:00:47,681 --> 00:00:50,383 I LOVE MY WIFE DEARLY. >> THERE WERE RED FLAGS. 14 00:00:50,383 --> 00:00:54,154 THERE WAS A DATING SITE OPEN ON THE COMPUTER 15 00:00:54,154 --> 00:00:56,289 >> PEOPLE SHOWER WITH A WATCH ON 16 00:00:56,289 --> 00:01:00,060 BUT I WOULDN'T THINK THIS TYPE OF WATCH 17 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:06,066 >> I WAS SITTING AT THE GRAVE, AND I HAD A CHILL COME OVER ME 18 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:12,939 AND SHE SAID TO ME, "SUSAN, SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT. 19 00:01:12,939 --> 00:01:16,176 COULD I HAVE DONE SOMETHING? COULD I HAVE SAID SOMETHING? 20 00:01:16,176 --> 00:01:21,114 I WAS NOT GONNA STOP UNTIL I GOT JUSTICE FOR STACY. 21 00:01:21,114 --> 00:01:25,218 >> GET READY TO LEARN ABOUT A MURDER THAT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE ONE 22 00:01:25,218 --> 00:01:28,088 UNTIL SOMEONE TOOK A CLOSER LOOK 23 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:40,433 I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS "DATELINE. 24 00:01:40,433 --> 00:01:47,474 HERE'S KEITH MORRISON WITH "THE SISTERHOOD. 25 00:01:47,474 --> 00:01:49,642 >> Reporter: SOME CASES COME TOGETHER SO QUICKLY. 26 00:01:49,642 --> 00:01:53,413 THE PUZZLE PIECES JUST SNAP INTO PLACE. 27 00:01:53,413 --> 00:02:01,454 THE FINGERPRINTS, THE BLOOD SPATTER, THE DNA 28 00:02:01,454 --> 00:02:06,860 THAT IS NOT THIS STORY >> AT THIS POINT, IT FEELS LIKE 29 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:09,729 A BAD DREAM THAT I CAN'T WAKE UP FROM 30 00:02:09,729 --> 00:02:13,333 IT'S BEEN A JOURNEY. >> Reporter: YES, A LONG 31 00:02:13,333 --> 00:02:17,103 JOURNEY. BUT MORE THAN THAT, A FIGHT FOR 32 00:02:17,103 --> 00:02:21,408 ANSWERS, FOR THE TRUTH >> THERE'S NO WAY A 44-YEAR-OLD 33 00:02:21,408 --> 00:02:25,178 WOMAN WHO'S OTHERWISE HEALTHY -- DIE FOR NO REASON. 34 00:02:25,178 --> 00:02:27,847 SO THEN IT WAS LIKE, "OKAY, SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT." 35 00:02:27,847 --> 00:02:32,686 >> THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. 36 00:02:32,686 --> 00:02:37,090 >> Reporter: IT WOULD TAKE SEVEN YEARS AND A CHORUS OF VOICES, 37 00:02:37,090 --> 00:02:42,929 WOMEN, FRIENDS, FAMILY, EVEN STRANGERS STEPPING UP. 38 00:02:42,929 --> 00:02:47,767 A SISTERHOOD BOUND BY ONE GOAL -- TO ANSWER THE DREADFUL 39 00:02:47,767 --> 00:02:52,105 QUESTION, "WHAT KILLED STACY FELDMAN? 40 00:02:52,105 --> 00:02:57,977 >> I KNEW IMMEDIATELY WHEN I SAW THE DATE THAT THAT WAS THE 41 00:02:57,977 --> 00:03:03,883 REASON SHE WAS DEAD. >> Reporter: SHE GREW UP 42 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:07,153 STACY MALMAN IN MUNCIE, INDIANA, THE YOUNGEST OF THREE SISTERS. 43 00:03:07,153 --> 00:03:09,789 IN THE MIDDLE WAS SUSAN. >> THE THREE OF US WERE VERY 44 00:03:09,789 --> 00:03:12,959 CLOSE. >> Reporter: AND SHE WAS THE 45 00:03:12,959 --> 00:03:15,195 BABY >> AND SHE WAS THE BABY OF THE 46 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:18,965 FAMILY, DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL. >> Reporter: SHE WAS GIRLY, 47 00:03:18,965 --> 00:03:22,736 REVELED IN IT, LOVED THE COLOR PINK AND LOVED TO HAVE FUN 48 00:03:22,736 --> 00:03:25,972 WHAT WAS SHE LIKE? >> THE LIFE OF THE PARTY, 49 00:03:25,972 --> 00:03:30,810 GIVING, LOVING I MEAN, JUST FUN 50 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:35,115 >> Reporter: STACY SPENT HER MID-20s IN CHICAGO WHERE SHE MET 51 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:42,622 JAN GOLDENBERG A MUTUAL FRIEND INTRODUCED THEM. 52 00:03:42,622 --> 00:03:45,325 >> SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND WAS SO WARM AND WELCOMING THAT I 53 00:03:45,325 --> 00:03:48,094 INSTANTLY FELT COMFORTABLE AND I COULD SAY THAT, PROBABLY 54 00:03:48,094 --> 00:03:52,866 FROM THAT DAY ON, WE WERE INSEPARABLE. 55 00:03:52,866 --> 00:03:56,102 >> Reporter: IN 1998, STACY MOVED TO BOSTON TO HELP OUT HER 56 00:03:56,102 --> 00:04:00,407 SISTER SUSAN ALTMAN WHO HAD JUST GIVEN BIRTH TO HER FIRST CHILD 57 00:04:00,407 --> 00:04:05,779 >> AND SHE WAS OUR NANNY FOR SIX MONTHS 58 00:04:05,779 --> 00:04:09,049 >> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TO CHILDREN, STACY WAS A NATURAL. 59 00:04:09,049 --> 00:04:11,718 AND AS SHE ENTERED HER 30s, SHE WAS ITCHING FOR A FAMILY OF HER 60 00:04:11,718 --> 00:04:16,056 OWN. SHE WANTED, MORE THAN ANYTHING, 61 00:04:16,056 --> 00:04:18,692 TO BE A MOM. SO WAS SHE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR 62 00:04:18,692 --> 00:04:21,361 A MATE >> SHE WAS 63 00:04:21,361 --> 00:04:24,597 SHE WAS. YOU KNOW, HER FRIENDS WERE 64 00:04:24,597 --> 00:04:28,368 GETTING MARRIED. THEY WERE HAVING CHILDREN. 65 00:04:28,368 --> 00:04:31,571 AND THE TIME WAS TICKING FOR HER. 66 00:04:31,571 --> 00:04:34,808 >> Reporter: IT JUST SO HAPPENED A FRIEND OF JAN GOLDENBERG WAS 67 00:04:34,808 --> 00:04:38,545 EAGER TO PLAY MATCHMAKER BECAUSE, AS I SAID, EVERYONE 68 00:04:38,545 --> 00:04:42,315 LOVED STACY. AND SHE LIT UP A ROOM WITH HER 69 00:04:42,315 --> 00:04:46,586 BRIGHT BLUE EYES AND HER BLONDE HAIR AND HER SMILE 70 00:04:46,586 --> 00:04:49,289 STACY AGREED TO THE SET UP WITH A MAN NAMED BOB FELDMAN. 71 00:04:49,289 --> 00:04:51,458 >> AFTER SHE WENT ON HER FIRST DATE WITH HIM, SHE CAME HOME AND 72 00:04:51,458 --> 00:04:54,160 SHE WAS VERY ENAMORED OF HIM >> HE WAS CHARISMATIC. 73 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,296 YEAH, HE MADE HIS WAY INTO HER HEART. 74 00:04:56,296 --> 00:05:00,633 >> Reporter: THEY GOT MARRIED AT THE RITZ IN MONTREAL 75 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:06,740 IT WAS LIKE A FAIRY TALE >> SHE HAD A CROWN AS PART OF 76 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:11,378 HER -- HER VEIL. SHE REALLY WANTED THAT 77 00:05:11,378 --> 00:05:15,148 >> Reporter: AND, OF COURSE, SHE WANTED CHILDREN. 78 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:17,817 A YEAR LATER, SHE GOT HER WISH, A GIRL, FOLLOWED BY A BOY. 79 00:05:17,817 --> 00:05:21,054 BY THEN THE FAMILY HAD SETTLED IN THE SUBURBS 80 00:05:21,054 --> 00:05:26,426 THE DENVER, COLORADO SUBURBS WHERE STACY, AS USUAL, MADE NEW 81 00:05:26,426 --> 00:05:30,697 FRIENDS, LIKE LINDA BLAUSTEIN. >> WE WERE PART OF THIS JEWISH 82 00:05:30,697 --> 00:05:35,068 BABY UNIVERSITY THAT THEY HAVE THERE, WHICH IS BASICALLY JUST, 83 00:05:35,068 --> 00:05:38,238 YOU KNOW, YOUR CHILDBIRTH CLASS PLUS A LITTLE BIT OF, LIKE, 84 00:05:38,238 --> 00:05:41,408 JEWISH, I GUESS, EDUCATION, YOU KNOW, FOR PARENTS THROWN IN. 85 00:05:41,408 --> 00:05:44,644 AND WE HIT IT OFF RIGHT AWAY >> Reporter: STACY AND LINDA 86 00:05:44,644 --> 00:05:46,780 JOINED A MUSIC CLASS WITH THEIR NEW BABIES 87 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:49,983 BRENDA CASE WAS THERE TOO. >> WHEN I MET STACY AT OUR BABY 88 00:05:49,983 --> 00:05:54,287 MUSIC CLASS, YOU KNOW, WE ALL JUST HAD BABIES, SO YOU COULDN'T 89 00:05:54,287 --> 00:05:57,524 FIT IN CLOTHES ANYMORE >> Reporter: STACY SAID SHE 90 00:05:57,524 --> 00:05:59,659 NEEDED A DRESS FOR AN EVENT. >> AND I SAID, "I'VE GOT THIS 91 00:05:59,659 --> 00:06:01,795 DRESS. IT'S, LIKE, AN AMAZING DRESS 92 00:06:01,795 --> 00:06:04,030 YOU CAN WEAR IT IF YOU'RE SIZE SIX OR, LIKE, A SIZE 14. 93 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:06,633 IT DOESN'T MATTER. AND I SAID, "COME OVER TO MY 94 00:06:06,633 --> 00:06:08,802 HOUSE AND TRY IT ON. SO WE JUST KINDA CONNECTED 95 00:06:08,802 --> 00:06:11,471 >> Reporter: THEIR VERY OWN SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING 96 00:06:11,471 --> 00:06:14,174 DRESS. >> SO SHE BORROWED IT MULTIPLE 97 00:06:14,174 --> 00:06:16,843 TIMES THROUGHOUT, YOU KNOW, OUR FRIENDSHIP 98 00:06:16,843 --> 00:06:19,546 >> Reporter: THE FELDMANS DOTED ON THEIR CHILDREN. 99 00:06:19,546 --> 00:06:22,215 BOB WAS A SOCCER COACH FOR HIS SON. 100 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:24,884 STACY, PRESIDENT OF THE PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION AT 101 00:06:24,884 --> 00:06:28,621 THEIR SCHOOL >> I WOULD ALWAYS SAY, "I WISH 102 00:06:28,621 --> 00:06:31,858 STACY WAS MY MOM." I MEAN, SHE WAS JUST GOOD AT IT 103 00:06:31,858 --> 00:06:35,128 ALL. >> Reporter: STACY DID STRUGGLE 104 00:06:35,128 --> 00:06:38,331 WITH SOME MEDICAL ISSUES LIKE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND CHRONIC 105 00:06:38,331 --> 00:06:42,635 NECK PAIN. >> SHE WAS A SOLDIER 106 00:06:42,635 --> 00:06:45,338 YOU KNOW, SHE MARCHED AHEAD. >> Reporter: WHEN IT CAME TO HER 107 00:06:45,338 --> 00:06:47,540 KIDS AND HER COMMUNITY, STACY WAS ALL- IN. 108 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:50,176 >> OR YOU'RE HAVING A SURGERY? "I'M GONNA COOK FOR YOU. 109 00:06:50,176 --> 00:06:53,880 I'LL COME OVER I'LL HANG OUT. 110 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,583 WE'LL WATCH MOVIE. YOU KNOW, SHE JUST WANTED TO 111 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:59,285 JUST DO THINGS FOR PEOPLE. >> Reporter: A BACKYARD POOL 112 00:06:59,285 --> 00:07:02,222 HAPPENS TO BE A BIT OF A RARITY IN DENVER. 113 00:07:02,222 --> 00:07:04,624 BUT BOB AND STACY WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE ONE OF THEIR OWN, 114 00:07:04,624 --> 00:07:07,360 A SECLUDED OASIS SURROUNDED BY TALL TREES 115 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,597 >> THEIR POOL, I MEAN, IT WAS JUST A REVOLVING DOOR OF FRIENDS 116 00:07:10,597 --> 00:07:13,266 AND FAMILY COMING OVER >> STACY LOVED HOLIDAYS. 117 00:07:13,266 --> 00:07:19,205 >> Reporter: DOESN'T MATTER WHICH ONE? 118 00:07:19,205 --> 00:07:23,043 >> DOESN'T MATTER WHICH ONE. ANY REASON TO CELEBRATE AND COOK 119 00:07:23,043 --> 00:07:25,111 AND ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY, SHE WOULD MAKE THE MOST OUT OF 120 00:07:25,111 --> 00:07:28,615 EVERY HOLIDAY. >> Reporter: THE CELEBRATION OF 121 00:07:28,615 --> 00:07:30,550 PURIM IS ONE OF THE MOST FESTIVE JEWISH HOLIDAYS. 122 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:32,886 IT'S AN EXTRA SPECIAL ONE FOR KIDS, MARKED BY COSTUMES, 123 00:07:32,886 --> 00:07:36,423 CARNIVALS, SPECIAL DESSERT TREATS CALLED HAMANTASCHEN." 124 00:07:36,423 --> 00:07:40,226 MARCH 1st, 2015, WAS A BIG DAY THE PURIM CARNIVAL AT THE 125 00:07:40,226 --> 00:07:42,962 FELDMAN'S SYNAGOGUE. BOB SAID HE DROPPED THE KIDS OFF 126 00:07:42,962 --> 00:07:48,835 FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOOL AT 8:30 THAT MORNING. 127 00:07:48,835 --> 00:07:51,538 AND THEN THE PLAN WAS FOR STACY TO PICK THEM UP AT NOON AND TAKE 128 00:07:51,538 --> 00:07:55,275 THEM TO THE CARNIVAL BUT PICK-UP TIME CAME AND WENT 129 00:07:55,275 --> 00:07:59,579 >> AND SHE DIDN'T ARRIVE, AND SO THE SCHOOL WAS CALLING HER 130 00:07:59,579 --> 00:08:05,318 AND SHE DIDN'T PICK UP >> Reporter: SO THEY CALLED BOB, 131 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:07,587 AND HE FETCHED THE KIDS AND TOOK THEM TO THE CARNIVAL 132 00:08:07,587 --> 00:08:13,026 HE SAID THEY ALL GOT HOME AROUND 3:00 P.M 133 00:08:13,026 --> 00:08:16,129 THE SHOWER IN THE MASTER BATHROOM WAS RUNNING 134 00:08:16,129 --> 00:08:18,832 BOB WENT UPSTAIRS. >> AND THEN HE SAYS THAT'S WHEN 135 00:08:18,832 --> 00:08:20,467 HE FOUND HER >> WHAT DO I DO? 136 00:08:20,467 --> 00:08:23,169 PLEASE, HELP ME! >> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENED TO 137 00:08:23,169 --> 00:08:28,041 STACY FELDMAN? >>> HELP ARRIVES WITHIN MINUTES. 138 00:08:28,041 --> 00:08:31,044 AND SOON SO DOES A DETECTIVE WHEN WE COME BACK -- 139 00:08:31,044 --> 00:08:39,819 >> NONE OF US ARE SEEING ANYTHING THAT SAYS, "THIS LOOKS 140 00:08:39,819 --> 00:08:40,754 LIKE A MURDER. >> BUT THIS WAS ODD. 141 00:08:40,754 --> 00:09:04,210 >> IT'S GOLD AND SILVER, A DRESS MARCH 1st, 2015. 142 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,913 >> OH, MY GOD, I NEED HELP PLEASE HELP ME, PLEASE 143 00:09:06,913 --> 00:09:11,284 >> Reporter: THE MAN ON THE PHONE, DESPERATE, PANICKED, WAS 144 00:09:11,284 --> 00:09:13,887 BOB FELDMAN. >> PLEASE, MY WIFE'S NOT 145 00:09:13,887 --> 00:09:17,123 BREATHING, PLEASE! >> Reporter: WHO TOLD THE 146 00:09:17,123 --> 00:09:19,826 911 OPERATOR HE'D FOUND HIS WIFE, STACY, COLLAPSED IN THE 147 00:09:19,826 --> 00:09:22,495 SHOWER >> COUNT OUT LOUD SO I CAN COUNT 148 00:09:22,495 --> 00:09:29,402 WITH YOU >> Reporter: OVER THE PHONE, THE 149 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:33,206 OPERATOR INSTRUCTED BOB IN CPR >> ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, 150 00:09:33,206 --> 00:09:36,409 SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE. OH, PLEASE HELP ME, PLEASE 151 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:40,180 >> HELP IS ON THE WAY, SIR KEEP PUMPING 152 00:09:40,180 --> 00:09:43,950 YOU'RE DOING GOOD. >> Reporter: FIRE AND PARAMEDICS 153 00:09:43,950 --> 00:09:47,153 ARRIVED WITHIN MINUTES THEY FOUND STACY ON THE BATHROOM 154 00:09:47,153 --> 00:09:50,890 FLOOR, UNRESPONSIVE. THEY ATTEMPTED EVERY LIFESAVING 155 00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:53,593 MEASURE, TO NO AVAIL >> THERE WAS NO SIGNS OF LIFE. 156 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:58,398 >> Reporter: NOT FROM THE GET-GO 157 00:09:58,398 --> 00:10:01,101 >> NO. >> Reporter: THIS MAN IS 158 00:10:01,101 --> 00:10:03,203 RANDY DENISON. HE HURRIED OVER THERE PRETTY 159 00:10:03,203 --> 00:10:05,338 QUICKLY WHEN HE HEARD. >> THIS IS REPORTED AT INITIALLY 160 00:10:05,338 --> 00:10:08,541 IS -- SOME TYPE OF MEDICAL EVENT, THAT SHE HAD FALLEN IN 161 00:10:08,541 --> 00:10:11,211 THE SHOWER AND -- AND SOMEHOW DROWNED. 162 00:10:11,211 --> 00:10:14,948 >> Reporter: NOT THE SORT OF CASE HE'D HEAR ABOUT IN THE 163 00:10:14,948 --> 00:10:19,219 NORMAL RUN OF THINGS, GIVEN THAT RANDY DENISON WAS A VETERAN 164 00:10:19,219 --> 00:10:24,424 DENVER POLICE HOMICIDE DETECTIVE. 165 00:10:24,424 --> 00:10:26,793 BUT SOMETHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THIS MEDICAL EVENT -- 166 00:10:26,793 --> 00:10:30,897 >> JUST THE FACT THAT SHE WAS ONLY 44 WHEN SHE DIED AND 167 00:10:30,897 --> 00:10:33,266 THAT -- AND SHE WAS REPORTEDLY FOUND IN THE BATHTUB 168 00:10:33,266 --> 00:10:35,902 >> Reporter: DENISON ARRIVED AT THE FELDMAN HOME AN HOUR AND A 169 00:10:35,902 --> 00:10:40,774 HALF AFTER THE 911 CALL. >> I MET WITH OUR OFFICERS THAT 170 00:10:40,774 --> 00:10:44,511 WERE ON THE SCENE AND WAS BRIEFED BY THEM. 171 00:10:44,511 --> 00:10:48,782 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE DENISON FOUND BOB DOWNSTAIRS, SURROUNDED 172 00:10:48,782 --> 00:10:51,451 BY RELATIVES AND CLERGY MEMBERS. SO HE PULLED BOB ASIDE, ASKED 173 00:10:51,451 --> 00:10:55,188 HIM WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY >> BOB, STILL UPSET, TOLD WHAT 174 00:10:55,188 --> 00:10:58,391 HE COULD REMEMBER. THAT HE DROVE THE KIDS TO 175 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:02,162 RELIGIOUS SCHOOL THAT WHEN STACY FAILED TO PICK 176 00:11:02,162 --> 00:11:06,466 THEM UP, HE DID. THEN TOOK THEM TO THE CARNIVAL 177 00:11:06,466 --> 00:11:09,669 >> Reporter: HE TOLD YOU THAT HE LEFT AT 8:30 THAT MORNING. 178 00:11:09,669 --> 00:11:12,772 >> YES >> Reporter: AND DIDN'T COME 179 00:11:12,772 --> 00:11:16,109 BACK UNTIL 3:00 OR SO IN THE AFTERNOON? 180 00:11:16,109 --> 00:11:18,244 >> RIGHT AND RETURNED HOME TO -- FIND HER 181 00:11:18,244 --> 00:11:22,549 UNRESPONSIVE IN THE SHOWER WITH THE WATER RUNNING, AND THE WATER 182 00:11:22,549 --> 00:11:25,218 WAS COLD >> Reporter: BOB SAID HE PULLED 183 00:11:25,218 --> 00:11:27,387 STACY OUT OF THE TUB AND CALLED 911. 184 00:11:27,387 --> 00:11:29,522 BUT FOG OF PANIC MAYBE DETAILS WERE FUZZY 185 00:11:29,522 --> 00:11:31,825 >> HE TOLD ME HE COULDN'T REMEMBER IF SHE WAS FACE-UP OR 186 00:11:31,825 --> 00:11:34,894 FACE-DOWN. >> Reporter: BOB TOLD DENISON HE 187 00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:40,266 AND STACY HAD ATTENDED A PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE AND SHE'D TAKEN 188 00:11:40,266 --> 00:11:47,140 SOME MARIJUANA EDIBLES >> THAT WAS ABOUT THE TIME TOO 189 00:11:47,140 --> 00:11:48,808 THAT MARIJUANA WAS LEGALIZED IN COLORADO 190 00:11:48,808 --> 00:11:51,177 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH IT ORIGINALLY BECAUSE 191 00:11:51,177 --> 00:11:53,113 PEOPLE WERE CONSUMING TOO MUCH AND HAVING ISSUES. 192 00:11:53,113 --> 00:11:55,215 >> Reporter: OR, BOB SUGGESTED, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOMETHING 193 00:11:55,215 --> 00:11:57,384 DEEPER AFTER ALL, STACY HAD A LAUNDRY 194 00:11:57,384 --> 00:12:01,721 LIST OF MEDICAL PROBLEMS AND TOOK SEVERAL PRESCRIPTION 195 00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:08,128 MEDICATIONS. >> HE SAID THAT SHE HAD 196 00:12:08,128 --> 00:12:13,166 RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND THAT SHE HAD RECENTLY HAD SOME 197 00:12:13,166 --> 00:12:16,169 INJECTIONS IN HER CERVICAL SPINE FOR NERVE PAIN 198 00:12:16,169 --> 00:12:19,406 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE DENISON LISTENED AND THEN ASKED IF HE 199 00:12:19,406 --> 00:12:22,609 COULD LOOK AROUND. BUT THERE WASN'T MUCH OF A 200 00:12:22,609 --> 00:12:25,812 SUSPICIOUS NATURE TO SEE >> THERE WAS NOTHING TO INDICATE 201 00:12:25,812 --> 00:12:29,082 THAT SOME INTRUDER HAD BROKEN IN AND DONE THIS. 202 00:12:29,082 --> 00:12:32,285 OR THERE WAS NO AREA WHERE YOU SAW A FIGHT AND BLOOD SPATTER 203 00:12:32,285 --> 00:12:34,954 OR, YOU KNOW, THINGS KNOCKED OVER, ANYTHING LIKE THAT 204 00:12:34,954 --> 00:12:38,725 >> Reporter: SO HE WENT TO THE MASTER BATHROOM, WHERE BOB SAID 205 00:12:38,725 --> 00:12:42,128 HE'D PULLED HIS WIFE OUT OF THE TUB. 206 00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:45,165 THE FLOOR WAS DRY BY THE TIME DENISON SAW IT 207 00:12:45,165 --> 00:12:48,935 IN THE TUB, A DAMP WASHCLOTH WAS CRUMPLED ON THE DRAIN. 208 00:12:48,935 --> 00:12:53,273 A METAL SHOWER CADDY SHELF HAD FALLEN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TUB 209 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:56,476 AND SOME SHAMPOO BOTTLES WERE SCATTERED ABOUT. 210 00:12:56,476 --> 00:12:59,713 THEN HE WENT INTO THE BEDROOM, WHERE FIRST RESPONDERS HAD TRIED 211 00:12:59,713 --> 00:13:02,949 AND FAILED TO REVIVE STACY HER BODY WAS STILL THERE 212 00:13:02,949 --> 00:13:08,888 AND RIGHT AWAY, HE WAS STRUCK BY HER INJURIES 213 00:13:08,888 --> 00:13:14,260 WHAT KIND OF INJURIES? >> MOSTLY BRUISES AND ABRASIONS. 214 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:19,065 JUST REALLY ALL OVER HER BODY. HER FACE, HER NOSE, HER 215 00:13:19,065 --> 00:13:24,304 FOREHEAD,. HER ARMS, UNDER HER BICEPS, 216 00:13:24,304 --> 00:13:26,639 TRICEPS AREA AND THEN ABRASIONS ALONG HER 217 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:29,843 ABDOMEN AREA SO THERE -- THERE WAS QUITE A 218 00:13:29,843 --> 00:13:32,579 BIT. >> Reporter: BOB DID SAY HE HAD 219 00:13:32,579 --> 00:13:36,282 TO PULL STACY OUT OF THE TUB >> AND SHE HAD SOME ABRASIONS ON 220 00:13:36,282 --> 00:13:40,086 HER BODY THAT COULD BE CONSISTENT WITH BEING DRUG 221 00:13:40,086 --> 00:13:43,223 ACROSS THE RAIL OR THE FRAME FROM THE SHOWER DOORS. 222 00:13:43,223 --> 00:13:45,925 >> Reporter: AND THEN HE SPOTTED THEM 223 00:13:45,925 --> 00:13:50,230 STUCK ON STACY'S BODY. MIGHT EXPLAIN EVERYTHING 224 00:13:50,230 --> 00:13:55,135 >> SHE HAD TWO TRANSDERMAL FENTANYL PATCHES ON HER. 225 00:13:55,135 --> 00:13:58,338 >> Reporter: FENTANYL? A VALUABLE PAINKILLER, YES 226 00:13:58,338 --> 00:14:01,508 AND PERHAPS THESE WERE TREATING STACY'S NERVE PAIN, THE ISSUE 227 00:14:01,508 --> 00:14:04,244 BOB TOLD HIM ABOUT BUT WHY TWO? 228 00:14:04,244 --> 00:14:07,947 >> I THOUGHT, "WELL, MAYBE WE HAVE AN ACCIDENTAL DRUG OVERDOSE 229 00:14:07,947 --> 00:14:11,484 HERE MAYBE SHE PUT TWO FENTANYL 230 00:14:11,484 --> 00:14:14,454 PATCHES ON, AND SHE SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD THAT MUCH." 231 00:14:14,454 --> 00:14:17,657 >> Reporter: SO MAYBE THIS WASN'T A CASE FOR HIM AFTER ALL. 232 00:14:17,657 --> 00:14:21,428 HE DIDN'T SEE ANY REASON TO TREAT THIS AS A CRIME SCENE. 233 00:14:21,428 --> 00:14:26,266 SEAL THE HOUSE, START RECORDING INTERVIEWS 234 00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:30,470 NOTHING LIKE THAT. >> NONE OF US ARE SEEING 235 00:14:30,470 --> 00:14:32,238 ANYTHING THAT SAYS, "THIS LOOKS LIKE A MURDER RIGHT NOW. 236 00:14:32,238 --> 00:14:35,842 >> Reporter: AND THEN SOMETHING QUITE ODD CAUGHT DETECTIVE 237 00:14:35,842 --> 00:14:38,144 DENISON'S EYE. STACY HAD BEEN WEARING A WATCH 238 00:14:38,144 --> 00:14:40,847 IN THE SHOWER. MUST HAVE BEEN, IT WAS STILL ON 239 00:14:40,847 --> 00:14:43,516 HER WRIST. AND NOT JUST ANY KIND OF WATCH, 240 00:14:43,516 --> 00:14:46,853 EITHER >> IT'S GOLD AND SILVER, A DRESS 241 00:14:46,853 --> 00:14:49,956 WATCH. AND -- AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT 242 00:14:49,956 --> 00:14:54,294 SHOWER WITH A WATCH ON BUT I WOULDN'T THINK THIS TYPE 243 00:14:54,294 --> 00:14:58,098 OF WATCH >> Reporter: SO DRUG OVERDOSE? 244 00:14:58,098 --> 00:15:01,801 ACCIDENT MEDICAL ISSUE? 245 00:15:01,801 --> 00:15:05,572 OR SOMETHING ELSE ALTOGETHER DETECTIVE DENISON NEEDED TO SEND 246 00:15:05,572 --> 00:15:10,343 THIS BODY TO AUTOPSY A MEDICAL EXAMINER COULD GET TO 247 00:15:10,343 --> 00:15:14,180 THE BOTTOM OF THINGS MAYBE. 248 00:15:14,180 --> 00:15:17,917 >>> COMING UP -- >> I WAS SITTING AT THE GRAVE, 249 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:21,654 CRYING AND I HAD A CHILL COME OVER ME 250 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:24,391 >> A MESSAGE FROM STACY? >> AND SHE SAID TO ME, "SUSAN, 251 00:15:24,391 --> 00:15:27,060 SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT. AND YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING 252 00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:44,477 ABOUT THIS." >> Reporter: STACY FELDMAN'S 253 00:15:44,477 --> 00:15:47,647 SISTER, SUSAN ALTMAN, WAS AT HOME OUTSIDE BOSTON WHEN THE 254 00:15:47,647 --> 00:15:52,919 PHONE RANG IT WAS HER FATHER AND THE NEWS 255 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:57,857 WAS UNTHINKABLE. >> HE SAID, "STACY'S DEAD. 256 00:15:57,857 --> 00:16:01,094 AND I SAID, "WHAT? AND HE SAID, "STACY'S DEAD." 257 00:16:01,094 --> 00:16:04,330 AND I WAS WAITING FOR HIM TO SAY SHE WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT. 258 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:09,402 BECAUSE I HAD JUST TALKED TO HER THE DAY BEFORE 259 00:16:09,402 --> 00:16:11,838 SHE WAS GOIN' TO A PARTY SHE WAS FEELING GOOD 260 00:16:11,838 --> 00:16:15,608 AND HE SAID, "I DON'T KNOW." AND I HUNG UP THE PHONE AND WAS 261 00:16:15,608 --> 00:16:19,412 HYSTERICAL >> Reporter: IN DENVER, STACY'S 262 00:16:19,412 --> 00:16:23,149 FRIENDS TRADED MESSAGES OF SHOCK AND GRIEF THAT, WITHIN A FEW 263 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:26,886 MINUTES, HAD MORPHED INTO A PLAN TO DO FOR STACY'S FAMILY WHAT 264 00:16:26,886 --> 00:16:29,589 SHE HAD SO GENEROUSLY DONE FOR THEM 265 00:16:29,589 --> 00:16:31,725 >> I THOUGHT, "OKAY, WHAT DO WE DO 266 00:16:31,725 --> 00:16:34,961 HOW DO WE HELP BOB HOW DO WE HELP THE KIDS? 267 00:16:34,961 --> 00:16:38,565 SO EVERYBODY JUST -- ALL HANDS ON DECK. 268 00:16:38,565 --> 00:16:40,934 LIKE, "WHAT CAN WE DO? IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE. 269 00:16:40,934 --> 00:16:43,670 BECAUSE THERE WASN'T REALLY AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAPPENED 270 00:16:43,670 --> 00:16:48,508 >> Reporter: IT SEEMED STRANGE, SOMEHOW. 271 00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:51,711 ANNOUNCEMENTS OF SUDDEN DEATH OFTEN INCLUDE A REFERENCE TO 272 00:16:51,711 --> 00:16:55,482 CAUSE. HEART ATTACK, STROKE, OVERDOSE 273 00:16:55,482 --> 00:17:04,090 BUT NOT THE SUDDEN DEATH OF STACY FELDMAN. 274 00:17:04,090 --> 00:17:07,293 CAUSE UNKNOWN AS HER SISTER AND FAMILY RACED TO DENVER AND 275 00:17:07,293 --> 00:17:10,530 STRUGGLED TO MAKE SENSE OF IT. >> HER HEALTH WASN'T THE BEST. 276 00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:14,234 AND SHE SPENT THE LAST YEAR NOT FEELING SO GREAT 277 00:17:14,234 --> 00:17:17,537 SHE HAD A SKI ACCIDENT AND HURT SOMETHING. 278 00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:21,274 AND SHE FELL OFF A LADDER AT THE SCHOOL AND, YOU KNOW, BROKE SOME 279 00:17:21,274 --> 00:17:25,045 RIBS >> Reporter: AND THE 280 00:17:25,045 --> 00:17:28,782 INVESTIGATORS FOUND THOSE TWO FENTANYL PATCHES ON HER SKIN 281 00:17:28,782 --> 00:17:32,052 SO MAYBE, WITHOUT INTENDING TO, SHE'D OVERDOSED. 282 00:17:32,052 --> 00:17:35,722 OR MAYBE HER DEATH WAS JUST A PURE ACCIDENT. 283 00:17:35,722 --> 00:17:39,225 FALLS IN THE SHOWER ARE NOT UNCOMMON 284 00:17:39,225 --> 00:17:41,094 SISTER SUSAN HEARD STACY HAD SLIPPED ON THE ICE THE NIGHT 285 00:17:41,094 --> 00:17:43,797 BEFORE MAYBE SHE'D HIT HER HEAD 286 00:17:43,797 --> 00:17:47,067 >> YOU KNOW, A BRAIN INJURY THAT YOU DON'T GO TO THE HOSPITAL, 287 00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:50,770 BUT IT KILLS YOU >> Reporter: THE LIST OF 288 00:17:50,770 --> 00:17:54,107 POSSIBILITIES WAS DEPRESSINGLY LONG 289 00:17:54,107 --> 00:17:57,744 DETECTIVE RANDY DENISON HOPED THE MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE 290 00:17:57,744 --> 00:18:00,447 COULD PROVIDE THE ANSWER >> I ATTENDED THE AUTOPSY. 291 00:18:00,447 --> 00:18:03,383 THE FOLLOWING DAY THEY'RE EXAMINING THE BODY AND LOOKING 292 00:18:03,383 --> 00:18:06,319 AT EVERYTHING REALLY CAREFULLY >> Reporter: BUT THEY'D HAVE TO 293 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:11,091 WAIT FOR THE FINAL AUTOPSY REPORT 294 00:18:11,091 --> 00:18:15,428 AND MEANWHILE, STACY'S FAMILY MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR HER 295 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:19,733 FUNERAL AND GATHERED IN DENVER TO SAY GOOD-BYE. 296 00:18:19,733 --> 00:18:25,405 >> WE ARE SPINNING FROM THE SHOCK OF HER SUDDEN AND TRAGIC 297 00:18:25,405 --> 00:18:27,774 DEATH. >> Reporter: THIS IS AUDIO FROM 298 00:18:27,774 --> 00:18:31,811 THE FUNERAL SERVICE WHERE THE RABBI SOUNDED AS LOST AS FRIENDS 299 00:18:31,811 --> 00:18:35,482 AND FAMILY >> THERE ARE NO EXPLANATIONS 300 00:18:35,482 --> 00:18:38,551 THERE IS ONLY A NUMB SILENCE >> Reporter: TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, 301 00:18:38,551 --> 00:18:42,288 NOW MOTHERLESS, SAT BESIDE THEIR FATHER 302 00:18:42,288 --> 00:18:44,958 >> AND TO YOU, BOB, THESE MOMENTS ARE NOT FAIR 303 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:48,695 MAY ALL THAT YOU HAVE HAD WITH HER, ALL THOSE MEMORIES, MAY 304 00:18:48,695 --> 00:18:53,066 THEY BRING YOU STRENGTH IN DAYS TO COME. 305 00:18:53,066 --> 00:18:56,736 >> Reporter: ALL THOSE PEOPLE STACY TOUCHED FILLED THE ROOM TO 306 00:18:56,736 --> 00:19:03,176 PAY THEIR RESPECTS >> I WAS WEARING THE DRESS FOR 307 00:19:03,176 --> 00:19:06,413 HER FUNERAL. >> Reporter: THE DRESS, THE ONE 308 00:19:06,413 --> 00:19:10,150 THEY SHARED FOR SO MANY HAPPY OCCASIONS. 309 00:19:10,150 --> 00:19:13,887 >> OVER THE YEARS, WE WOULD ALWAYS DO THESE AMAZING THINGS 310 00:19:13,887 --> 00:19:17,857 AND WEAR IT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I COULDN'T 311 00:19:17,857 --> 00:19:19,225 BELIEVE IT, BUT I WAS GONNA WEAR IT THE DAY THAT WE BURIED HER. 312 00:19:19,225 --> 00:19:21,895 >> I COULDN'T OWN WHAT WAS HAPPENING. 313 00:19:21,895 --> 00:19:25,665 IT WAS WATCHING HER FAMILY AND HER LITTLE KIDS. 314 00:19:25,665 --> 00:19:28,902 NOBODY SHOULD GO THROUGH THAT. >> Reporter: SUSAN STAYED IN 315 00:19:28,902 --> 00:19:32,439 DENVER FOR TWO WEEKS THE DAY BEFORE SHE LEFT, SHE 316 00:19:32,439 --> 00:19:35,875 VISITED STACY'S GRAVE WITH ONE OF HER AUNTS 317 00:19:35,875 --> 00:19:42,882 ONE LAST CHANCE TO SAY GOOD-BYE. >> AND I WAS SITTING AT THE 318 00:19:42,882 --> 00:19:46,653 GRAVE AND CRYING AND I HAD A CHILL COME OVER ME 319 00:19:46,653 --> 00:19:50,423 >> Reporter: SHE FELT LIKE HER BABY SISTER WANTED TO TELL HER 320 00:19:50,423 --> 00:19:54,160 SOMETHING, ALMOST AS IF SHE COULD HEAR STACY'S VOICE 321 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,863 >> AND SHE SAID TO ME, "SUSAN, SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT. 322 00:19:56,863 --> 00:20:00,633 AND YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS." 323 00:20:00,633 --> 00:20:03,837 >>> COMING UP -- >> WE WERE QUITE SURPRISED TO 324 00:20:03,837 --> 00:20:06,506 SEE THAT THERE WAS A DATING SITE OPEN ON THE COMPUTER 325 00:20:06,506 --> 00:20:10,243 >> A MARRIAGE IN TROUBLE SOMEBODY WAS STEPPING OUT. 326 00:20:10,243 --> 00:20:14,114 >> IT WAS AN UGLY, UGLY SITUATION. 327 00:20:38,605 --> 00:20:42,342 >> Reporter: SUSAN ALTMAN SAT AT HER SISTER STACY'S GRAVE AND 328 00:20:42,342 --> 00:20:44,477 THOUGHT ABOUT THINGS THINGS THAT NEVER DID FEEL 329 00:20:44,477 --> 00:20:46,980 RIGHT. EVER SINCE STACY MARRIED 330 00:20:46,980 --> 00:20:49,349 BOB FELDMAN. IT WAS ALWAYS A STRUGGLE FOR 331 00:20:49,349 --> 00:20:52,018 HER? >> IT WAS ALWAYS A STRUGGLE. 332 00:20:52,018 --> 00:20:54,721 >> Reporter: MIND YOU, OPPOSITES SOMETIMES ATTRACT. 333 00:20:54,721 --> 00:20:57,390 AND BOB WAS A DEVOTED FATHER BUT, WHEN SHE THOUGHT ABOUT HARD 334 00:20:57,390 --> 00:21:01,695 WORKING, COMMUNITY MINDED STACY. AND THEN HIM 335 00:21:01,695 --> 00:21:04,364 WHAT WAS HIS LEVEL OF AMBITION IN LIFE, AS FAR AS YOU COULD 336 00:21:04,364 --> 00:21:09,836 TELL >> HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY. 337 00:21:09,836 --> 00:21:13,506 I MEAN, HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO GET A FREE BUCK. 338 00:21:13,506 --> 00:21:16,710 >> Reporter: LITTLE STORIES STACY HAD TOLD HER, LIKE HOW BOB 339 00:21:16,710 --> 00:21:20,447 WOULD SOMETIMES BRING A BROKEN SUITCASE TO THE AIRPORT. 340 00:21:20,447 --> 00:21:24,184 >> AND THEN TAKE THE -- THE SUITCASE OFF THE CAROUSEL. 341 00:21:24,184 --> 00:21:26,953 AND THEN HE WOULD TAKE IT TO THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SAY, "YOU 342 00:21:26,953 --> 00:21:29,556 BROKE MY SUITCASE AND I WANT A NEW ONE. 343 00:21:29,556 --> 00:21:32,759 AND BECAUSE OF MY PAIN AND SUFFERING, I WANT A MORE 344 00:21:32,759 --> 00:21:34,961 EXPENSIVE ONE. >> Reporter: WOULD HE GET THEM 345 00:21:34,961 --> 00:21:37,997 >> ALL THE TIME. >> Reporter: WOW 346 00:21:37,997 --> 00:21:40,300 >> ALL THE TIME. >> Reporter: WHAT DID SHE THINK 347 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:42,969 ABOUT IT AS SHE REALIZED WHAT HE WAS DOING? 348 00:21:42,969 --> 00:21:46,206 >> SHE -- SHE PUT UP BLINDERS. SHE WANTED THOSE CHILDREN SO 349 00:21:46,206 --> 00:21:49,442 BADLY AND SHE WAS GETTING OLDER. AND SHE JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT 350 00:21:49,442 --> 00:21:53,446 WORK SO BADLY. >> Reporter: BOB WORKED FOR A 351 00:21:53,446 --> 00:21:57,484 WHOLESALE MEAT DISTRIBUTOR, BUT THE COUPLE STRUGGLED 352 00:21:57,484 --> 00:22:02,288 FINANCIALLY. >> SUPPOSEDLY, HE WAS A 353 00:22:02,288 --> 00:22:05,492 SALESMAN, BUT HE NEVER MADE ENOUGH MONEY 354 00:22:05,492 --> 00:22:09,796 >> Reporter: SO, STACY WENT BACK TO WORK FOR A CHARITABLE 355 00:22:09,796 --> 00:22:13,066 ORGANIZATION >> SHE STOPPED BEING A 356 00:22:13,066 --> 00:22:15,735 STAY-AT-HOME MOM SHE GOT HERSELF A JOB. 357 00:22:15,735 --> 00:22:18,738 >> Reporter: HOW DID SHE FEEL ABOUT THAT 358 00:22:18,738 --> 00:22:21,675 >> SHE DID WHAT SHE HAD TO DO. >> Reporter: STACY'S COMMITMENT 359 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:24,878 TO BOB, TO THE KIDS, WAS NEVER IN DOUBT 360 00:22:24,878 --> 00:22:27,547 BUT, BOB, ON THE OTHER HAND? >> A FEW YEARS INTO THEIR 361 00:22:27,547 --> 00:22:30,750 MARRIAGE, IT WAS A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY OF MINE 362 00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:34,087 AND ANOTHER GIRLFRIEND FROM CHICAGO AND I FLEW OUT TO DENVER 363 00:22:34,087 --> 00:22:37,290 TO CELEBRATE >> Reporter: JAN AND HER FRIEND 364 00:22:37,290 --> 00:22:40,493 DECIDED TO CHECK THE DATING WEBSITE THEY'D BEEN USING. 365 00:22:40,493 --> 00:22:43,196 SO, THEY BORROWED BOB AND STACY'S COMPUTER 366 00:22:43,196 --> 00:22:45,865 >> AND WE WERE QUITE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THERE WAS A DATING 367 00:22:45,865 --> 00:22:48,535 SITE OPEN ON THE COMPUTER WITH HIS PROFILE. 368 00:22:48,535 --> 00:22:50,170 >> Reporter: HIS PROFILE AS SOMEBODY ACTIVELY USING A 369 00:22:50,170 --> 00:22:52,505 DATING - >> ACTIVELY USING IT 370 00:22:52,505 --> 00:22:54,474 >> Reporter: -- SITE >> IN FACT, HE HAD -- A DATE 371 00:22:54,474 --> 00:22:57,143 THAT EVENING >> Reporter: WAIT A MINUTE 372 00:22:57,143 --> 00:22:59,679 HE'S MARRIED TO YOUR FRIEND. >> I WAS SHOCKED 373 00:22:59,679 --> 00:23:00,914 AS MUCH AS I HAD CONCERNS, MY CONCERNS WERE MORE - 374 00:23:00,914 --> 00:23:03,083 HE'S NOT HOLDING UP HIS END OF THE BARGAIN HERE, IN THE 375 00:23:03,083 --> 00:23:05,218 RELATIONSHIP HE'S NOT WORKING 376 00:23:05,218 --> 00:23:07,354 HE'S NOT - >> Reporter: HE'S GOING ON A 377 00:23:07,354 --> 00:23:09,589 DATE - >> -- SUPPORTING HIS - 378 00:23:09,589 --> 00:23:12,192 >> Reporter: -- FOR GOD'S SAKE >> WELL, AND SO THAT TOOK IT TO 379 00:23:12,192 --> 00:23:14,928 A DIFFERENT LEVEL. >> Reporter: SURE. 380 00:23:14,928 --> 00:23:17,597 DID YOU TELL HER >> WE DID NOT. 381 00:23:17,597 --> 00:23:20,834 WE DISCUSSED IT. WE DISCUSSED IT WITH OTHERS WHO 382 00:23:20,834 --> 00:23:23,069 WERE CLOSE TO HER AND DECIDED THAT, "LET'S WAIT. 383 00:23:23,069 --> 00:23:26,773 LET'S PLAY THIS OUT. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS." 384 00:23:26,773 --> 00:23:29,175 >> Reporter: OH, IT DID PLAY OUT. 385 00:23:29,175 --> 00:23:32,145 ACCORDING TO JAN, STACY SAID ONE DAY, A WOMAN SHOWED UP ON HER 386 00:23:32,145 --> 00:23:35,415 DOORSTEP AND TOLD HER BOB HAD BEEN GIVING HER MONEY. 387 00:23:35,415 --> 00:23:38,084 >> AND OF COURSE, HAVING BEEN WITH HER SEXUALLY. 388 00:23:38,084 --> 00:23:40,253 IT WAS AN UGLY, UGLY SITUATION >> Reporter: SHE MUST HAVE 389 00:23:40,253 --> 00:23:42,389 BEEN -- LIKE, COMPLETELY -- WHAT IS IT THEY SAY - 390 00:23:42,389 --> 00:23:45,091 GOB SMACKED. SHE HAD NO IDEA. 391 00:23:45,091 --> 00:23:48,595 >> BLINDSIDED. DISGUSTED. 392 00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:52,098 ACTUALLY DISGUSTED >> Reporter: STACY TOLD FRIENDS 393 00:23:52,098 --> 00:23:55,301 SHE THOUGHT ABOUT LEAVING HIM. THEY SEPARATED A FEW TIMES 394 00:23:55,301 --> 00:23:57,504 SHE EVEN SAW A DIVORCE ATTORNEY AT ONE POINT 395 00:23:57,504 --> 00:24:00,173 >> HE ALWAYS LURED HER BACK. HE WOULD SAY, "I'M GONNA 396 00:24:00,173 --> 00:24:02,876 CHANGE," AND, "WE'RE GONNA GO TO THERAPY. 397 00:24:02,876 --> 00:24:06,146 AND YOU KNOW, "WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE LIFE THAT YOU ALWAYS 398 00:24:06,146 --> 00:24:08,948 WANTED." >> Reporter: HE'D KEEP DANGLING 399 00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:12,052 THE THING IN FRONT OF HER. >> YEAH, I'M GONNA CHANGE -- 400 00:24:12,052 --> 00:24:14,220 >> Reporter: THAT SHE WANTED >> I'M GONNA CHANGE. 401 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:17,424 >> Reporter: BUT HE DIDN'T >> THEIR HOUSE WAS ONLY IN HIS 402 00:24:17,424 --> 00:24:20,060 NAME THEIR CREDIT CARD WOULD SAY 403 00:24:20,060 --> 00:24:22,729 ROBERT STACY FELDMAN INSTEAD OF ROBERT AND STACY FELDMAN 404 00:24:22,729 --> 00:24:25,432 >> Reporter: WELL, WELL, WELL. >> HE CONTROLLED HER 405 00:24:25,432 --> 00:24:29,736 FINANCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND JUST HAD THAT POWER OVER HER 406 00:24:29,736 --> 00:24:32,972 >> Reporter: SHE TOLD HER FRIENDS SHE WAS TOO SCARED TO 407 00:24:32,972 --> 00:24:35,108 LEAVE HIM. >> HE TOLD HER THAT HE WOULD 408 00:24:35,108 --> 00:24:38,311 LEAVE HER WITH NOTHING AND TAKE THE KIDS 409 00:24:38,311 --> 00:24:40,380 HE THREATENED HER IN A WAY THAT REALLY SCARED HER. 410 00:24:40,380 --> 00:24:43,149 SHE WAS AFRAID >> Reporter: THE THREATS WERE 411 00:24:43,149 --> 00:24:47,620 NEVER PHYSICAL, FAR AS ANYBODY KNEW 412 00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:50,690 BUT IN HINDSIGHT, STACY'S SISTER AND FRIENDS BELIEVE SHE WAS 413 00:24:50,690 --> 00:24:53,960 BEING EMOTIONALLY ABUSED >> SHE NEEDED THOSE CHILDREN TO 414 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:59,332 LIVE IN A WARM, LOVING HOME. SO, SHE JUST KEPT IT AT BAY. 415 00:24:59,332 --> 00:25:03,103 AND AGAIN, HOPING HE WOULD CHANGE, HOPING THINGS WOULD GET 416 00:25:03,103 --> 00:25:09,042 BETTER HOPING FOR A NEW LEASE ON LIFE, 417 00:25:09,042 --> 00:25:13,847 I GUESS. >> Reporter: AND NOW, STACY WAS 418 00:25:13,847 --> 00:25:17,584 GONE SUSAN SAT AT STACY'S GRAVE AND 419 00:25:17,584 --> 00:25:19,919 THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS AND KNEW SHE HAD TO DO 420 00:25:19,919 --> 00:25:24,057 SOMETHING. THE FEELING SHE'D HAD FOR YEARS 421 00:25:24,057 --> 00:25:26,192 WAS TOO STRONG TO IGNORE ANY LONGER 422 00:25:26,192 --> 00:25:29,929 >> AND I GOT IN THE CAR WITH MY AUNT AND I TOLD MY AUNT. 423 00:25:29,929 --> 00:25:32,632 AND SHE SAID, "YOU NEED TO CALL THE HOMICIDE DEPARTMENT RIGHT 424 00:25:32,632 --> 00:25:36,436 NOW. >> Reporter: SHE PHONED 425 00:25:36,436 --> 00:25:39,673 DETECTIVE RANDY DENISON. >> I TALKED TO HIM FOR AN HOUR 426 00:25:39,673 --> 00:25:42,909 AND A HALF AND I TOLD HIM WHY I THOUGHT BOB 427 00:25:42,909 --> 00:25:47,247 KILLED HER AND HE PROBABLY THOUGHT I WAS A 428 00:25:47,247 --> 00:25:50,116 GRIEVING SISTER. >> Reporter: MAYBE 429 00:25:50,116 --> 00:25:52,686 BUT A FEW THINGS HAD BEEN TROUBLING DENISON EVER SINCE HE 430 00:25:52,686 --> 00:25:55,889 SAW THAT BATHTUB NOT EXACTLY SUSPICIOUS 431 00:25:55,889 --> 00:25:59,659 JUST ODD IT JUST DIDN'T LOOK THE WAY HE 432 00:25:59,659 --> 00:26:02,896 THOUGHT IT WOULD IF AN ADULT HAD TAKEN A TUMBLE IN THERE. 433 00:26:02,896 --> 00:26:06,666 SURE, THAT METAL SHELF AND SHAMPOO BOTTLES APPARENTLY WENT 434 00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:09,402 FLYING BUT -- EVERYTHING ELSE WAS 435 00:26:09,402 --> 00:26:12,639 NEATLY IN ITS PLACE. >> AND THERE WAS A TOWEL REALLY 436 00:26:12,639 --> 00:26:15,308 NEATLY HUNG THERE. AND THEN ON THE INSIDE RAILING 437 00:26:15,308 --> 00:26:17,477 DOOR, THERE WAS SOME SHAMPOO AND PRODUCT STILL ON THERE 438 00:26:17,477 --> 00:26:20,680 AND, YOU KNOW, MY THOUGHT WAS IT'S FUNNY THAT THESE THINGS 439 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:25,051 WEREN'T DISTURBED. >> Reporter: ALSO, IF BOB DID 440 00:26:25,051 --> 00:26:28,755 PULL HIS WIFE OUT OF THE TUB, WOULDN'T THE FLOOR BE WET? 441 00:26:28,755 --> 00:26:32,492 >> THERE WASN'T WATER ON THE FLOOR THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT. 442 00:26:32,492 --> 00:26:36,229 >> Reporter: AND THAT WASHCLOTH SITTING ON THE DRAIN 443 00:26:36,229 --> 00:26:39,466 >> IF THIS TUB HAD BEEN FULL OF WATER, YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT TO 444 00:26:39,466 --> 00:26:43,236 BE TOTALLY SATURATED AND IT WASN'T. 445 00:26:43,236 --> 00:26:45,905 >> Reporter: MIND YOU, HE HAD ARRIVED AN HOUR AND A HALF AFTER 446 00:26:45,905 --> 00:26:50,176 BOB CALLED 9-1-1 STILL. 447 00:26:50,176 --> 00:26:55,882 THE SCENE. ALL THOSE INJURIES ON HER BODY 448 00:26:55,882 --> 00:26:58,251 CURIOUS. THIS IS KIND OF A -- ALL KIND OF 449 00:26:58,251 --> 00:27:02,022 GRAY AREA STUFF, RIGHT LIKE, MAYBE SUSPICIOUS, MAYBE 450 00:27:02,022 --> 00:27:05,225 NOT. >> RIGHT 451 00:27:05,225 --> 00:27:07,927 IT STILL COULD BE MEDICAL. SO WE HAVE TO REALLY WAIT TILL 452 00:27:07,927 --> 00:27:12,799 THE AUTOPSY REPORT COMES OUT >> Reporter: AND THEN TWO MONTHS 453 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:17,137 LATER, IT CERTAINLY DID. >>> COMING UP -- 454 00:27:17,137 --> 00:27:40,260 STACY'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY GROW >> Reporter: SUSAN ALTMAN 455 00:27:40,260 --> 00:27:44,064 SUSPECTED HER BROTHER-IN-LAW BOB FELDMAN HAD SOMETHING TO DO 456 00:27:44,064 --> 00:27:46,166 WITH HER SISTER STACY'S DEATH. SHE THOUGHT STACY'S AUTOPSY 457 00:27:46,166 --> 00:27:50,437 WOULD PROVE IT AND THEN - 458 00:27:50,437 --> 00:27:56,376 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE AUTOPSY CAME BACK? 459 00:27:56,376 --> 00:27:59,779 >> UNDETERMINED DEATH. >> Reporter: SUSAN COULDN'T 460 00:27:59,779 --> 00:28:02,315 BELIEVE IT, DIDN'T BELIEVE IT. >> SHE WAS 44 YEARS OLD, YOUNG 461 00:28:02,315 --> 00:28:06,219 AND HEALTHY, THE DAY BEFORE. PEOPLE YOU DON'T JUST DIE. 462 00:28:06,219 --> 00:28:10,323 YOU HAVE TO DIE FOR A REASON >> Reporter: THE FORENSIC 463 00:28:10,323 --> 00:28:13,693 PATHOLOGIST WHO CONDUCTED THE AUTOPSY FOUND DOZENS OF SCRAPES 464 00:28:13,693 --> 00:28:16,262 AND BRUISES ON STACY'S BODY BUT DETERMINED NONE OF THEM WOULD 465 00:28:16,262 --> 00:28:21,634 HAVE CAUSED HER DEATH. THE AUTOPSY DID REVEAL STACY HAD 466 00:28:21,634 --> 00:28:23,803 YET ANOTHER UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITION THAT MIGHT, OR MIGHT 467 00:28:23,803 --> 00:28:28,108 NOT, HAVE EXPLAINED WHAT HAPPENED 468 00:28:28,108 --> 00:28:32,379 STACY HAD A MILD CASE OF HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES. 469 00:28:32,379 --> 00:28:36,149 >> THERE'S A SOMEWHAT ENLARGED HEART. 470 00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:38,284 I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY MEDICAL OPINION THAT -- THAT SHE 471 00:28:38,284 --> 00:28:41,488 WAS IN GRAVE DANGER OF HEART FAILURE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 472 00:28:41,488 --> 00:28:43,623 >> Reporter: THERE WERE ALSO CURIOUS FINDINGS IN THE 473 00:28:43,623 --> 00:28:46,393 TOXICOLOGY REPORT. BOB SAID STACY HAD TAKEN A 474 00:28:46,393 --> 00:28:49,062 CANNABIS EDIBLE THE NIGHT BEFORE SHE DIED 475 00:28:49,062 --> 00:28:51,698 BUT THERE WAS NO TRACE OF IT AND THE FENTANYL PATCHES FOUND 476 00:28:51,698 --> 00:28:54,367 ON HER BODY -- >> SHE HAD NO FENTANYL IN HER 477 00:28:54,367 --> 00:28:58,138 SYSTEM SO CERTAINLY WASN'T CAUSED BY 478 00:28:58,138 --> 00:29:01,908 THAT, AN OVERDOSE OF FENTANYL. >> Reporter: A SUPERVISOR AT THE 479 00:29:01,908 --> 00:29:06,746 MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE REVIEWED THE AUTOPSY REPORT AND 480 00:29:06,746 --> 00:29:13,720 AGREED THE CAUSE OF STACY'S DEATH COULD NOT BE DETERMINED. 481 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,923 AS A DETECTIVE, WHEN YOU GET A RESULT LIKE THAT, WHAT DOES THAT 482 00:29:16,923 --> 00:29:20,160 DO TO YOUR INVESTIGATION >> WELL, IT -- IT KINDA HALTS 483 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,030 IT YOU KNOW YOU'RE GONNA NEED MORE. 484 00:29:24,030 --> 00:29:27,133 >> Reporter: WHAT COULD HE DO? WELL, FOR ONE THING, TALK TO BOB 485 00:29:27,133 --> 00:29:30,270 AGAIN, SEE IF HIS STORY HELD UP. >> SO I HAD CALLED HIM A COUPLE 486 00:29:30,270 --> 00:29:32,639 TIMES. AND HE RETURNED MY CALL AND -- 487 00:29:32,639 --> 00:29:35,608 STARTED RECORDING THE CONVERSATION 488 00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:37,844 DID YOU COME -- WERE YOU BACK AT ALL DURING THE DAY 489 00:29:37,844 --> 00:29:41,348 >> I WENT -- >> ON, I MEAN, TILL YOU FOUND 490 00:29:41,348 --> 00:29:44,284 YOUR WIFE. >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE ASKED 491 00:29:44,284 --> 00:29:48,054 BOB TO GO OVER THAT DAY AGAIN, BEGINNING WITH TAKING THE KIDS 492 00:29:48,054 --> 00:29:52,292 TO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL AT THE TEMPLE 493 00:29:52,292 --> 00:29:55,528 THE FIRST STORY WAS HE'D LEFT AT 8:30 494 00:29:55,528 --> 00:29:59,065 HE DIDN'T COME BACK TILL 3:00. >> YES 495 00:29:59,065 --> 00:30:01,501 >> Reporter: BUT NOW IN THIS CALL, HE ADDED A STOP OR TWO 496 00:30:01,501 --> 00:30:04,704 >> WHAT TIME DO YOU THINK IT WAS ABOUT THAT YOU WERE HOME 497 00:30:04,704 --> 00:30:07,374 >> IT WAS PROBABLY AROUND NOON >> MM-KAY. 498 00:30:07,374 --> 00:30:09,576 >> I ACTUALLY CLEANED OUT THE GARAGE 499 00:30:09,576 --> 00:30:14,914 THERE WAS A SHELF THAT FELL. I FIXED THAT 500 00:30:14,914 --> 00:30:20,286 >> ACCORDING TO FRIENDS, THAT GARAGE WAS PRETTY MUCH A MESS, I 501 00:30:20,286 --> 00:30:24,024 GUESS, ALL THE TIME. AND WHEN I SAW IT LATER, IT, 502 00:30:24,024 --> 00:30:27,260 YEAH, DIDN'T LOOK VERY ORDERLY >> Reporter: SO THE IDEA THAT 503 00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:30,930 HE'D STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS DAY TO CLEAN IT UP DIDN'T MAKE 504 00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:33,233 ANY SENSE. >> NO, DIDN'T. 505 00:30:33,233 --> 00:30:35,902 IT DID NOT >> Reporter: BOB SAID AFTER HE 506 00:30:35,902 --> 00:30:38,571 CLEANED THE GARAGE, HE WENT TO THE PARK TO WORK OUT 507 00:30:38,571 --> 00:30:40,740 EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A VERY COLD DAY, THERE WAS STILL SNOW ON THE 508 00:30:40,740 --> 00:30:43,410 GROUND >> SOME JOGGING AND WALKING AND 509 00:30:43,410 --> 00:30:50,417 IN BETWEEN, LIKE, THE BENCHES I'LL LAY DOWN AND DO PUSHUPS AND 510 00:30:50,417 --> 00:30:52,852 THINGS >> Reporter: WAS THAT A REGULAR 511 00:30:52,852 --> 00:30:54,988 ACTIVITY OF HIS? >> NO. 512 00:30:54,988 --> 00:30:57,657 WE FOUND OUT IN -- IN LATER INTERVIEWING FRIENDS AND 513 00:30:57,657 --> 00:31:04,064 NEIGHBORS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNUSUAL. 514 00:31:04,064 --> 00:31:08,868 >> Reporter: DENISON ALSO TALKED TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE RELIGIOUS 515 00:31:08,868 --> 00:31:11,571 SCHOOL WHO SAID THAT WHEN STACY FAILED TO PICK UP HER KIDS AS 516 00:31:11,571 --> 00:31:14,341 ARRANGED, ONE OF THEM CALLED BOB. 517 00:31:14,341 --> 00:31:18,078 >> AND SHE TELLS THE SCHOOL, "I TALKED TO MY DAD AND HE'LL BE 518 00:31:18,078 --> 00:31:20,647 RIGHT HERE TO GET US." >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO BOB, 519 00:31:20,647 --> 00:31:22,816 HE WOULD HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE GARAGE AT HOME OR EXERCISING 520 00:31:22,816 --> 00:31:24,951 IN A NEARBY PARK AROUND THAT TIME 521 00:31:24,951 --> 00:31:27,087 BUT ALMOST AN HOUR PASSED BEFORE HE SHOWED UP AT THE KIDS' 522 00:31:27,087 --> 00:31:29,789 SCHOOL IS THE HOUSE A LONG, LONG WAY 523 00:31:29,789 --> 00:31:31,925 FROM THE SCHOOL? >> OH, NO, IT'S ONLY ABOUT A 524 00:31:31,925 --> 00:31:34,094 MILE AND A HALF. >> Reporter: CERTAINLY ISN'T AN 525 00:31:34,094 --> 00:31:36,229 HOUR LONG DRIVE? >> NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT. 526 00:31:36,229 --> 00:31:38,898 >> Reporter: BOB HAD ALSO TOLD HIM THAT EARLIER IN THE DAY, 527 00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:41,101 AFTER HE'D DROPPED THE KIDS OFF AT SCHOOL, HE'D HUNG AROUND TO 528 00:31:41,101 --> 00:31:43,770 ATTEND A CEREMONY THERE. SO THE DETECTIVE CHECKED THAT 529 00:31:43,770 --> 00:31:47,240 OUT TOO. THERE WASN'T A SERVICE EVEN 530 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,642 THOUGH HE SAID THERE WAS >> RIGHT 531 00:31:49,642 --> 00:31:51,911 >> Reporter: SO RIGHT THERE IS A LIE. 532 00:31:51,911 --> 00:31:54,514 >> YES >> Reporter: DENISON WONDERED, 533 00:31:54,514 --> 00:31:57,717 WHY THE SHIFTING STORY AND WHY, WHEN STACY FAILED TO 534 00:31:57,717 --> 00:32:00,420 PICK UP THE KIDS AT SCHOOL - >> WHY DON'T YOU GO HOME AND -- 535 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:03,123 AND CHECK ON YOUR WIFE THAT'S MY THOUGHT. 536 00:32:03,123 --> 00:32:06,559 AND EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT HER, WOULDN'T -- YOU MIGHT 537 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:09,062 BE UPSET LIKE, "HEY, YOU MESSED UP OUR 538 00:32:09,062 --> 00:32:11,731 DAY HERE." >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE HAD 539 00:32:11,731 --> 00:32:14,968 TO PUT THE QUESTION TO BOB DID HE KNOW MORE ABOUT HIS 540 00:32:14,968 --> 00:32:16,536 WIFE'S DEATH THAN HE WAS LETTING ON 541 00:32:16,536 --> 00:32:18,738 >> WELL, LET ME JUST ASK YOU HERE, BOB. 542 00:32:18,738 --> 00:32:21,841 DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT 543 00:32:21,841 --> 00:32:22,509 >> NO. I DID NOT. 544 00:32:22,509 --> 00:32:25,145 ABSOLUTELY NOT >> OKAY. 545 00:32:25,145 --> 00:32:28,148 >> I LOVE MY WIFE DEARLY >> Reporter: DETECTIVE DENISON 546 00:32:28,148 --> 00:32:30,550 WASN'T SO SURE BEFORE HE GOT BOB ON THE PHONE, 547 00:32:30,550 --> 00:32:33,253 HE HAD SPOKEN WITH FIRST RESPONDERS WHO SAID -- 548 00:32:33,253 --> 00:32:35,889 >> IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS OVERACTING 549 00:32:35,889 --> 00:32:39,125 THEY'RE CONSTANTLY AROUND FAMILIES THAT HAVE JUST LOST A 550 00:32:39,125 --> 00:32:41,828 LOVED ONE, AND THEY'RE EXPRESSING THE SAME THING, LIKE 551 00:32:41,828 --> 00:32:44,497 IT WAS AN ACT. >> Reporter: ALL VERY 552 00:32:44,497 --> 00:32:48,268 INTERESTING AND SUSPICIOUS BUT DENISON WAS A HOMICIDE 553 00:32:48,268 --> 00:32:52,539 DETECTIVE WITHOUT A HOMICIDE THE AUTOPSY STILL SAID THE CAUSE 554 00:32:52,539 --> 00:32:56,843 OF DEATH CANNOT BE DETERMINED. STACY'S SISTER SHARED HIS 555 00:32:56,843 --> 00:33:01,715 FRUSTRATION. >> I BECAME KIND OF OBSESSED 556 00:33:01,715 --> 00:33:05,952 WITH WATCHING MURDER MYSTERIES AND I WOULD CALL HIM IN THE 557 00:33:05,952 --> 00:33:08,621 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, "PLEASE WATCH 558 00:33:08,621 --> 00:33:11,257 EPISODE SO-AND-SO BECAUSE MAYBE IT'S THIS, OR MAYBE IT'S THAT. 559 00:33:11,257 --> 00:33:12,959 >> Reporter: HOW OFTEN DID YOU CALL THAT DETECTIVE? 560 00:33:12,959 --> 00:33:15,128 >> ABOUT ONCE A WEEK, ON FRIDAY USUALLY. 561 00:33:15,128 --> 00:33:17,297 >> Reporter: YEAH. HE ALWAYS TOOK YOUR CALL 562 00:33:17,297 --> 00:33:20,166 >> UH-HUH. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE DENISON 563 00:33:20,166 --> 00:33:23,203 WAS GOOD ABOUT THAT TAKING CALLS. 564 00:33:23,203 --> 00:33:26,439 JUST AS WELL AFTER ALL, HOW ELSE COULD HE 565 00:33:26,439 --> 00:33:33,980 KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER WOMAN AND WHAT SHE WAS GOING TO TELL HIM 566 00:33:33,980 --> 00:33:38,284 >>> COMING UP -- >> HE JUST GRABBED ME AND KISSED 567 00:33:38,284 --> 00:33:42,589 ME REALLY AGGRESSIVELY AND IT JUST SHOCKED ME 568 00:33:42,589 --> 00:33:46,860 I PUSHED HIM BACK. >> A MATCH MADE ONLINE 569 00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:50,563 WHAT WAS THE CONNECTION TO STACY'S DEATH? 570 00:33:50,563 --> 00:34:09,683 >> I KNEW IMMEDIATELY WHEN I SAW THE DATE THAT THAT WAS THE 571 00:34:09,683 --> 00:34:12,352 >> Reporter: DETECTIVE DENISON WASN'T EXPECTING IT, A MESSAGE 572 00:34:12,352 --> 00:34:14,487 LEFT AT THE OFFICE FROM A STRANGER 573 00:34:14,487 --> 00:34:18,258 A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE AN URGENT STORY TO TELL ABOUT 574 00:34:18,258 --> 00:34:23,663 BOB FELDMAN AND THE DAY HIS WIFE STACY DIED 575 00:34:23,663 --> 00:34:26,866 INFORMATION THAT COULD SHED A WHOLE NEW LIGHT ON THE CASE. 576 00:34:26,866 --> 00:34:30,136 >> AND I CALLED THE PERSON, SUSAN McBRIDE. 577 00:34:30,136 --> 00:34:33,340 >> Reporter: SUSAN McBRIDE BACK IN FEBRUARY 2015, SUSAN WAS 578 00:34:33,340 --> 00:34:38,345 SINGLE, LIVED IN DENVER. SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD JUST MET A 579 00:34:38,345 --> 00:34:41,915 GREAT GUY ON TINDER. HIS NAME WAS BOB 580 00:34:41,915 --> 00:34:47,821 >> THERE WAS A NICE PICTURE OF HIM WITH A BIG SMILE AND, AS I 581 00:34:47,821 --> 00:34:51,658 RECALL, A GREEN POLO SHIRT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS BARBECUING. 582 00:34:51,658 --> 00:34:55,362 >> Reporter: THEY SWIPED RIGHT ON EACH OTHER AND HOURS LATER 583 00:34:55,362 --> 00:34:58,598 WERE KNEE- TO-KNEE IN A CROWDED COFFEE SHOP. 584 00:34:58,598 --> 00:35:02,869 >> HE WAS VERY PERSONABLE AND LIKABLE, AND HE SMILED A LOT AND 585 00:35:02,869 --> 00:35:05,038 LAUGHED A LOT. >> Reporter: BEFORE YOU MET, DID 586 00:35:05,038 --> 00:35:07,207 HE EXPLAIN MUCH ABOUT HIS CIRCUMSTANCES? 587 00:35:07,207 --> 00:35:12,746 >> NO. I DIDN'T FIND OUT UNTIL WE MET 588 00:35:12,746 --> 00:35:15,248 FOR COFFEE THAT HE HAD BEEN SEPARATED FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS 589 00:35:15,248 --> 00:35:20,620 AND WAS PLANNING TO FILE FOR DIVORCE. 590 00:35:20,620 --> 00:35:24,491 >> Reporter: BEFORE SHE KNEW IT, AN HOUR-PLUS SLIPPED BY. 591 00:35:24,491 --> 00:35:28,695 THEY AGREED ON ANOTHER DATE. >> WE WALKED OUTSIDE TO THE 592 00:35:28,695 --> 00:35:32,966 FRONT OF THE COFFEE SHOP, AND HE JUST GRABBED ME AND KISSED ME 593 00:35:32,966 --> 00:35:36,169 REALLY AGGRESSIVELY. AND IT JUST SHOCKED ME 594 00:35:36,169 --> 00:35:40,740 I PUSHED HIM BACK. >> Reporter: BUT SHE DECIDED TO 595 00:35:40,740 --> 00:35:43,743 GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. 596 00:35:43,743 --> 00:35:45,311 >> AND I THOUGHT, "WELL, I'LL JUST, YOU KNOW, SEE HOW A NEXT 597 00:35:45,311 --> 00:35:49,082 DATE GOES. BECAUSE I -- I REALLY DID LIKE 598 00:35:49,082 --> 00:35:52,285 HIM. >> Reporter: LATER HE EMAILED 599 00:35:52,285 --> 00:35:54,988 HER, GUSHING >> "I THINK I'M SUPPOSED TO WAIT 600 00:35:54,988 --> 00:35:58,725 THREE DAYS BEFORE I SAY SOMETHING. 601 00:35:58,725 --> 00:36:03,029 I DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES WOW, YOU'RE WONDERFUL. 602 00:36:03,029 --> 00:36:05,699 >> Reporter: HE OFFERED TO BRING WINE TO HER PLACE THAT NIGHT 603 00:36:05,699 --> 00:36:08,935 SHE SAID NO. >> I BASICALLY THOUGHT, "THERE'S 604 00:36:08,935 --> 00:36:11,905 NO WAY I'M LETTING THIS GUY COME OVER UNTIL I KNOW HIS LAST 605 00:36:11,905 --> 00:36:14,307 NAME." AND SO AT SOME POINT IN THE 606 00:36:14,307 --> 00:36:19,612 EMAIL CONVERSATION, I SAID, "SO WHAT'S YOUR LAST NAME? 607 00:36:19,612 --> 00:36:23,616 >> Reporter: IT TOOK ALL DAY FOR HIM TO ANSWER. 608 00:36:23,616 --> 00:36:26,720 ONE WORD -- WOLFE. BOB WOLFE. 609 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:30,724 SHE GOOGLED HIM EXHAUSTIVELY SHE DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING WITH 610 00:36:30,724 --> 00:36:33,660 THAT NAME. BUT EVENTUALLY SHE LANDED ON 611 00:36:33,660 --> 00:36:36,896 SOMETHING. >> A LINKEDIN PROFILE CAME UP 612 00:36:36,896 --> 00:36:40,633 FOR A ROBERT W. FELDMAN, AND HIS PICTURE WAS ON THE LINKEDIN 613 00:36:40,633 --> 00:36:43,370 PROFILE. >> Reporter: AND BINGO, THAT WAS 614 00:36:43,370 --> 00:36:47,240 HIM. >> YEAH. 615 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,377 THAT'S WHEN I DISCOVERED HIS LAST NAME WAS FELDMAN. 616 00:36:50,377 --> 00:36:54,147 >> Reporter: SHE ALSO FOUND THE NAME OF HIS WIFE, STACY. 617 00:36:54,147 --> 00:36:56,850 THEY SEEMED TO STILL BE TOGETHER 618 00:36:56,850 --> 00:36:59,085 >> I SENT HIM A MESSAGE SAYING, "YOU'RE A LYING -- BOB FELDMAN 619 00:36:59,085 --> 00:37:02,355 DON'T CONTACT ME AGAIN." >> Reporter: WELL, THAT'S 620 00:37:02,355 --> 00:37:06,026 DIRECT >> YEAH, I FELT IT WAS DESERVED. 621 00:37:06,026 --> 00:37:09,763 IT WAS WARRANTED >> Reporter: BOB DID NOT 622 00:37:09,763 --> 00:37:13,033 HE LIT UP HER PHONE. >> AFTER MANY RINGS, I FINALLY 623 00:37:13,033 --> 00:37:16,236 PICKED UP AND I SAID, "WHAT? AND HE SAID, "PLEASE LET ME 624 00:37:16,236 --> 00:37:20,774 EXPLAIN. >> Reporter: IT WAS A SCARY 625 00:37:20,774 --> 00:37:23,710 STORY. HE HAD A STALKER AT ONE POINT, 626 00:37:23,710 --> 00:37:28,048 HE TOLD HER, THAT MADE HIM LEERY OF SHARING HIS FULL NAME 627 00:37:28,048 --> 00:37:31,317 HE WANTED TO TELL SUSAN MORE, HE SAID, SO MAYBE OVER DINNER 628 00:37:31,317 --> 00:37:35,655 HE CAME TO HER PLACE >> HE BROUGHT ME A SALAD AND A 629 00:37:35,655 --> 00:37:39,426 HALF-DRUNK BOTTLE OF WINE. AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY 630 00:37:39,426 --> 00:37:42,095 CHEESY ANYWAY, WE TALKED FOR A LONG 631 00:37:42,095 --> 00:37:45,865 TIME HE TOLD ME THAT HIS WIFE WAS AN 632 00:37:45,865 --> 00:37:51,771 ABSENTEE MOTHER AND SHE JUST KINDA DID HER OWN THING. 633 00:37:51,771 --> 00:37:54,274 >> Reporter: "ABSENTEE MOTHER," SOMETHIN' YOU DON'T OFTEN -- 634 00:37:54,274 --> 00:37:56,609 >> THAT'S -- >> Reporter: -- HEAR, THAT 635 00:37:56,609 --> 00:37:59,112 PHRASE >> THAT'S WHAT HE CALLED - 636 00:37:59,112 --> 00:38:04,084 >> Reporter: IS THAT THE PHRASE HE USED? 637 00:38:04,084 --> 00:38:08,321 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: BOB INSISTED THEY 638 00:38:08,321 --> 00:38:12,625 WERE SEPARATED THEY TOOK TURNS SPENDING TIME IN 639 00:38:12,625 --> 00:38:15,295 THE HOUSE WITH THE KIDS. SUSAN FELT HE WAS POURING HIS 640 00:38:15,295 --> 00:38:17,797 HEART OUT. HER ANGER MELTED 641 00:38:17,797 --> 00:38:20,100 >> HE MADE ME BELIEVE THAT HE WAS A VERY CAUTIOUS PERSON, THAT 642 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:22,769 HE REALLY WANTED A RELATIONSHIP. >> Reporter: THEY SLEPT TOGETHER 643 00:38:22,769 --> 00:38:27,040 THAT NIGHT AND MADE PLANS FOR THE COMING WEEKEND 644 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,209 BUT WHEN SATURDAY ROLLED AROUND, BOB ABRUPTLY SAID HE COULDN'T 645 00:38:29,209 --> 00:38:31,378 MAKE IT. >> IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED, "TO BE 646 00:38:31,378 --> 00:38:33,646 HONEST, BOB, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU WERE JUST LOOKING FOR A HOOKUP 647 00:38:33,646 --> 00:38:35,682 AND AS I INDICATED I WAS NOT, I THINK WE BETTER JUST MOVE ON 648 00:38:35,682 --> 00:38:38,385 YOUR LIFE SEEMS WAY TOO COMPLICATED RIGHT NOW ANYWAY 649 00:38:38,385 --> 00:38:40,487 GOOD LUCK. AND NO RESPONSE WHATSOEVER FROM 650 00:38:40,487 --> 00:38:44,791 HIM. >> Reporter: ALL HER DOUBTS 651 00:38:44,791 --> 00:38:48,061 ABOUT BOB CAME FLOODING BACK SHE WENT ONLINE AGAIN, THIS TIME 652 00:38:48,061 --> 00:38:56,102 TO CHECK OUT HIS STORIES ABOUT STACY. 653 00:38:56,102 --> 00:39:01,274 >> I FOUND THEN THAT SHE WAS ACTUALLY THE PRESIDENT OF THE 654 00:39:01,274 --> 00:39:04,744 PTO OF THE GRADE SCHOOL. >> Reporter: I SEE 655 00:39:04,744 --> 00:39:08,014 THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE AN ABSENTEE MOTHER TO ME. 656 00:39:08,014 --> 00:39:10,483 >> NO. IT JUST REALLY MADE ME ANGRY 657 00:39:10,483 --> 00:39:12,786 THAT HE WOULD SAY THAT ABOUT HER. 658 00:39:12,786 --> 00:39:15,488 AND I THOUGHT, "SHOULD I TELL HER? 659 00:39:15,488 --> 00:39:19,826 SHOULD I NOT TELL HER? >> Reporter: SHE DID, IN AN 660 00:39:19,826 --> 00:39:23,029 EMAIL. >> I SAID, "MY NAME'S 661 00:39:23,029 --> 00:39:25,699 SUSAN McBRIDE. YOU DON'T KNOW ME, BUT I MET 662 00:39:25,699 --> 00:39:28,368 YOUR HUSBAND ON A DATING SITE CALLED TINDER. 663 00:39:28,368 --> 00:39:34,240 HE TOLD ME YOU HAD BEEN SEPARATED FOR QUITE SOME TIME. 664 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:38,078 IF YOU'RE NOT SEPARATED, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT HE'S CHEATING 665 00:39:38,078 --> 00:39:40,246 ON YOU." >> Reporter: OH, BOY 666 00:39:40,246 --> 00:39:44,050 >> SHE WROTE BACK AND SHE SAID, "NO, WE ARE NOT SEPARATED. 667 00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:47,220 AND I WROTE BACK AND I SAID, "I'M SO SORRY, STACY 668 00:39:47,220 --> 00:39:50,457 HERE'S MY NUMBER IF YOU'D LIKE TO CALL ME." 669 00:39:50,457 --> 00:39:54,227 >> Reporter: WITHIN MINUTES, STACY WAS ON THE PHONE TO SUSAN. 670 00:39:54,227 --> 00:39:56,930 WHAT WAS SHE LIKE ON THE PHONE >> SHE WAS SO SWEET AND KIND 671 00:39:56,930 --> 00:40:00,700 AND SHE WASN'T ANGRY SHE SAID, "I'M SO SORRY HE DID 672 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:04,104 THAT TO YOU. >> Reporter: THAT SOUNDS ALMOST 673 00:40:04,104 --> 00:40:06,072 MORE LIKE SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS THAT'S HAPPENED BEFORE AND THIS 674 00:40:06,072 --> 00:40:08,742 ISN'T THE FIRST TIME SHE'S HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS 675 00:40:08,742 --> 00:40:11,411 >> RIGHT AND SHE SAID, "I'M DONE WITH 676 00:40:11,411 --> 00:40:14,314 HIM. >> Reporter: I'M SORRY 677 00:40:14,314 --> 00:40:16,216 WHAT DID SHE SAY TO YOU? >> SHE SAID, "I'M DONE WITH 678 00:40:16,216 --> 00:40:18,918 HIM. >> Reporter: AND THAT WAS THAT 679 00:40:18,918 --> 00:40:22,689 SUSAN DIDN'T COMMUNICATE WITH STACY OR BOB AGAIN 680 00:40:22,689 --> 00:40:25,925 AND THEN, ONE SLEEPLESS NIGHT, MONTHS LATER, SHE GOT INTO 681 00:40:25,925 --> 00:40:29,162 GOOGLE, JUST CURIOUS, AND FOUND STACY'S OBITUARY 682 00:40:29,162 --> 00:40:33,466 IT HIT HER LIKE A BOMB STACY DIED ON MARCH 1st, 2015, 683 00:40:33,466 --> 00:40:37,203 THE VERY DAY THEY HAD TALKED >> I GOT PHYSICALLY ILL. 684 00:40:37,203 --> 00:40:44,711 PHYSICALLY ILL IT WAS JUST -- IT WAS LIKE 685 00:40:44,711 --> 00:40:48,281 SOMETHIN' OUT OF A MOVIE >> Reporter: I MEAN, YOU DIDN'T 686 00:40:48,281 --> 00:40:50,650 CAUSE IT, BUT DID YOU THINK SOMEHOW THAT MAYBE YOU'D DONE 687 00:40:50,650 --> 00:40:54,387 SOMETHING THAT - >> ABSOLUTELY. 688 00:40:54,387 --> 00:40:57,057 I -- I -- I KNEW IMMEDIATELY WHEN I SAW THE DATE THAT THAT 689 00:40:57,057 --> 00:41:00,293 WAS THE REASON SHE WAS DEAD. AND -- AND I -- I DIDN'T KNOW IF 690 00:41:00,293 --> 00:41:03,496 SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE OR SOMETHING OR IF SOMETHING ELSE 691 00:41:03,496 --> 00:41:06,433 HAPPENED OR HE KILLED HER. I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW 692 00:41:06,433 --> 00:41:07,801 >> Reporter: SHE CALLED CRIMESTOPPERS, SPOKE WITH 693 00:41:07,801 --> 00:41:11,838 DETECTIVE DENISON, TOLD HER STORY. 694 00:41:11,838 --> 00:41:13,673 IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY SUDDENLY OPENED THE CURTAINS AND LET THE 695 00:41:13,673 --> 00:41:16,409 LIGHT IN NOW YOU CAN SEE WHAT MAYBE 696 00:41:16,409 --> 00:41:19,179 HAPPENED HERE. >> YEAH, HE'D CERTAINLY HAVE A 697 00:41:19,179 --> 00:41:22,515 MOTIVE >> Reporter: HE ALSO FOUND OUT 698 00:41:22,515 --> 00:41:25,085 THAT BOB COLLECTED ON A $750,000 LIFE INSURANCE POLICY 699 00:41:25,085 --> 00:41:28,221 AFTER STACY'S DEATH. BOB WAS LIVING OFF OF THE MONEY 700 00:41:28,221 --> 00:41:32,092 AND SEEMED TO BE ENJOYING HIMSELF TOO. 701 00:41:32,092 --> 00:41:36,262 >> ALL STACY WANTED WAS TO TAKE HER KIDS TO DISNEY WORLD 702 00:41:36,262 --> 00:41:39,466 SHE NEVER HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO TAKE HER KIDS TO DISNEY WORLD. 703 00:41:39,466 --> 00:41:43,870 >> Reporter: AND THEN HE WENT? >> AND THEN HE TOOK 'EM. 704 00:41:43,870 --> 00:41:49,142 AND NOT ONLY DID HE TAKE 'EM TO DISNEY WORLD, IT WAS, LIKE, 705 00:41:49,142 --> 00:41:52,912 FIRST-CLASS DISNEY WORLD, THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOTEL, THE GUIDE 706 00:41:52,912 --> 00:41:55,582 THAT TAKES YOU TO THE FRONT OF EVERY LINE 707 00:41:55,582 --> 00:41:58,251 >> Reporter: SO NOW DENISON KNEW THAT BOB WAS A CONFIRMED CHEATER 708 00:41:58,251 --> 00:42:01,488 WHO SPENT EXTRAVAGANTLY AFTER HIS WIFE'S SUDDEN DEATH. 709 00:42:01,488 --> 00:42:03,656 SO MAYBE HE COULD PROVE THE GUY WAS A CREEP. 710 00:42:03,656 --> 00:42:06,359 BUT THAT DIDN'T MAKE HIM A KILLER 711 00:42:06,359 --> 00:42:11,197 AND THEN ANOTHER WOMAN CAME FORWARD. 712 00:42:11,197 --> 00:42:17,103 AND HER STORY? CREEPY WOULD BE THE LEAST OF IT. 713 00:42:17,103 --> 00:42:19,939 >>> COMING UP -- >> HE SAYS, "BECAUSE MY HOUSE IS 714 00:42:19,939 --> 00:42:22,475 SO SECLUDED, YOU COULD SCREAM AS LOUD AS YOU WOULD WANT AND 715 00:42:22,475 --> 00:42:26,746 NOBODY WOULD HEAR YOU. >> ALARMING WORDS. 716 00:42:26,746 --> 00:42:29,482 AND SHE SAYS WORSE >> AT THAT POINT, I WENT INTO 717 00:42:29,482 --> 00:42:51,871 SURVIVAL MODE. BROUGHT STEPHANIE GALVAN INTO 718 00:42:51,871 --> 00:42:56,710 THIS STORY, A TRAGEDY IN HER LIFE 719 00:42:56,710 --> 00:43:00,480 >> IN 2012, MY STEPSON TOOK HIS LIFE 720 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,683 AND HE WAS 13 WHEN HE PASSED AWAY 721 00:43:03,683 --> 00:43:06,920 >> Reporter: AND AFTER, STEPHANIE AND HER HUSBAND 722 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,556 SEPARATED. AND HER YOUNG DAUGHTERS WERE 723 00:43:09,556 --> 00:43:12,792 STRUGGLING THE COUNSELORS AT SCHOOL 724 00:43:12,792 --> 00:43:16,062 RECOMMENDED A CENTER THAT OFFERED GRIEF COUNSELING 725 00:43:16,062 --> 00:43:19,065 CLASSES. AND THAT'S WHERE STEPHANIE MET A 726 00:43:19,065 --> 00:43:20,834 FATHER WHO WAS THERE WITH HIS OWN TWO KIDS 727 00:43:20,834 --> 00:43:23,536 HIS NAME, AS YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED, WAS ROBERT FELDMAN. 728 00:43:23,536 --> 00:43:25,672 >> HE WAS VERY KIND, AND HE WAS VERY INTERESTED IN HAVING A 729 00:43:25,672 --> 00:43:33,747 CONVERSATION WITH ME HE SEEMED PLEASANT WITH HIS 730 00:43:33,747 --> 00:43:39,686 KIDS >> Reporter: SO WHEN BOB ASKED 731 00:43:39,686 --> 00:43:42,255 FOR HER PHONE NUMBER, SHE SAID YES. 732 00:43:42,255 --> 00:43:44,891 EXCEPT HE DIDN'T CALL UNTIL SEVERAL MONTHS LATER, LONG AFTER 733 00:43:44,891 --> 00:43:48,128 THE CLASS ENDED. >> OUT OF THE BLUE, HE CALLS AND 734 00:43:48,128 --> 00:43:52,966 SAYS, "HEY, MY KIDS ARE GONNA BE AT SUMMER CAMP FOR ABOUT THREE 735 00:43:52,966 --> 00:43:56,169 WEEKS. AND I THOUGHT IT'D BE NICE IF I 736 00:43:56,169 --> 00:43:59,406 TOOK YOU TO DINNER AND THEN, THE COMMUNITY THAT I 737 00:43:59,406 --> 00:44:02,542 LIVE IN, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY POOL THAT EVERYONE GOES TO 738 00:44:02,542 --> 00:44:05,879 SO WE COULD GO SWIMMING AND THEN GO TO DINNER." 739 00:44:05,879 --> 00:44:08,548 >> Reporter: A SWIMMING DATE >> YEAH, GUESS SO. 740 00:44:08,548 --> 00:44:14,454 >> Reporter: LITTLE UNUSUAL. >> IT WAS SUMMERTIME THOUGH, SO. 741 00:44:14,454 --> 00:44:17,924 >> Reporter: STEPHANIE WAS GAME. >> I HAD THE NORMAL JITTERS OF 742 00:44:17,924 --> 00:44:20,894 THIS -- YOU KNOW, THIS IS EXCITING 743 00:44:20,894 --> 00:44:27,901 IT SHOULD BE FUN >> Reporter: BUT THEN SHE WALKED 744 00:44:27,901 --> 00:44:32,238 IN THE DOOR. >> AND ALMOST INSTANTLY, I FELT 745 00:44:32,238 --> 00:44:36,543 SOMETHING WAS OFF. >> Reporter: FOR ONE THING, THIS 746 00:44:36,543 --> 00:44:40,947 WASN'T A COMMUNITY POOL. IT WAS BOB'S PRIVATE BACKYARD 747 00:44:40,947 --> 00:44:45,618 POOL >> AND SO I'M THINKING, "OH, I'M 748 00:44:45,618 --> 00:44:49,356 OVERREACTING THE -- I -- I DON'T KNOW HIM SO 749 00:44:49,356 --> 00:44:53,159 EVERYTHING'S, YOU KNOW, FINE GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE 750 00:44:53,159 --> 00:44:56,896 DOUBT. >> Reporter: THEY MADE THEIR WAY 751 00:44:56,896 --> 00:45:00,667 TO THE BACKYARD PATIO WHERE, SHE SAID, HE TOLD HER HIS STORY. 752 00:45:00,667 --> 00:45:05,538 >> HE HAD TOLD ME THAT HIS WIFE HAD SUDDENLY PASSED AWAY FROM 753 00:45:05,538 --> 00:45:09,342 CANCER >> Reporter: WHICH WASN'T TRUE, 754 00:45:09,342 --> 00:45:12,045 OF COURSE. BUT STEPHANIE DIDN'T KNOW THAT 755 00:45:12,045 --> 00:45:14,681 >> HE WAS LIKE, "YOU WANNA GO SWIMMING?" 756 00:45:14,681 --> 00:45:17,384 AND SO I WAS LIKE, "OKAY." AT THIS POINT, I'M STILL VERY 757 00:45:17,384 --> 00:45:20,053 NERVOUS. AND I HONESTLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 758 00:45:20,053 --> 00:45:23,256 TO DO. >> Reporter: YOU'RE QUESTIONING 759 00:45:23,256 --> 00:45:25,925 YOURSELF MORE THAN YOU ARE HIM AT THIS POINT? 760 00:45:25,925 --> 00:45:29,195 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: AND SO SHE PUSHED 761 00:45:29,195 --> 00:45:31,898 ASIDE HER DISCOMFORT AND HAD AN AWKWARD SWIM WITH BOB FELDMAN. 762 00:45:31,898 --> 00:45:35,669 THEY SAT ON THE PATIO AGAIN AFTERWARDS 763 00:45:35,669 --> 00:45:38,905 >> AND I NOTICED IT WAS GETTING KINDA LATE 764 00:45:38,905 --> 00:45:42,142 IT WAS AROUND DINNERTIME AND HE STILL HADN'T MENTIONED 765 00:45:42,142 --> 00:45:45,679 ANYTHING ABOUT GOING TO DINNER AT THAT POINT, MY CONCERN 766 00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:48,081 STARTED TO GROW. >> Reporter: EVENTUALLY THEY 767 00:45:48,081 --> 00:45:53,920 WENT BACK INSIDE AND STEPHANIE CHANGED OUT OF HER SWIMSUIT IN 768 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:58,758 THE MASTER BATHROOM. NO WAY FOR HER TO KNOW IT WAS 769 00:45:58,758 --> 00:46:00,927 THE SAME ROOM WHERE FIRST RESPONDERS FOUND STACY, DEAD, 770 00:46:00,927 --> 00:46:03,630 MORE THAN TWO YEARS BEFORE >> AND THEN WHEN I HAD COME OUT, 771 00:46:03,630 --> 00:46:06,266 HE WAS IN THE ROOM AND HE STARTED TO KISS ME. 772 00:46:06,266 --> 00:46:11,104 AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, THAT'S A BIT FAST." 773 00:46:11,104 --> 00:46:13,773 BUT -- >> Reporter: THIS WAS 774 00:46:13,773 --> 00:46:17,043 UNEXPECTED >> IT WAS A LITTLE UNEXPECTED. 775 00:46:17,043 --> 00:46:20,246 >> Reporter: AND YOU'RE IN HIS BEDROOM? 776 00:46:20,246 --> 00:46:22,949 >> I'M IN HIS BEDROOM. HE HAD WRAPPED HIS ARMS AROUND 777 00:46:22,949 --> 00:46:26,152 ME AND HAD SQUEEZED MY SHOULDERS TIGHT. 778 00:46:26,152 --> 00:46:29,389 AND AT THAT POINT, I WENT INTO SURVIVAL MODE. 779 00:46:29,389 --> 00:46:32,625 AND I KNEW, OKAY, THERE WAS NO DINNER 780 00:46:32,625 --> 00:46:35,829 THIS WAS HIS INTENTIONS ALL ALONG. 781 00:46:35,829 --> 00:46:38,665 AND NOW I HAVE TO DO WHAT I CAN TO PLAY CALM AND JUST ACT LIKE 782 00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:41,267 I'M OKAY SO IT HAPPENED 783 00:46:41,267 --> 00:46:44,504 >> Reporter: BOB RAPED HER, SHE SAID 784 00:46:44,504 --> 00:46:48,842 >> I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET HIM OFF IF I HAD TRIED 785 00:46:48,842 --> 00:46:52,612 'CAUSE HE PUT A LOT OF WEIGHT ON ME 786 00:46:52,612 --> 00:46:54,781 >> Reporter: WERE YOU AFRAID WERE YOU TERRIFIED 787 00:46:54,781 --> 00:46:59,085 >> I WASN'T TERRIFIED AT THAT POINT. 788 00:46:59,085 --> 00:47:02,856 I WAS AFRAID AND I FELT LIKE A COWARD 789 00:47:02,856 --> 00:47:07,694 I WAS LIKE, "I SHOULD HAVE LEFT WHEN I FIRST FELT SOMETHING WAS 790 00:47:07,694 --> 00:47:11,431 OFF. >> Reporter: WHEN IT WAS ALL 791 00:47:11,431 --> 00:47:14,100 OVER, SHE SAID HE ASKED HER TO LOOK OUT ON HIS PATIO. 792 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,037 >> AND HE SAYS, "SEE ALL THESE HOUSES AND EVERYTHING AROUND 793 00:47:17,037 --> 00:47:19,472 HERE BECAUSE MY HOUSE IS SO SECLUDED, 794 00:47:19,472 --> 00:47:22,742 YOU COULD SCREAM AS LOUD AS YOU WOULD WANT AND NOBODY WOULD HEAR 795 00:47:22,742 --> 00:47:26,479 YOU. >> Reporter: WELL, THERE'S A 796 00:47:26,479 --> 00:47:29,649 MESSAGE. >> YES 797 00:47:29,649 --> 00:47:33,486 FROM THAT POINT ON, IT WAS, "I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE. 798 00:47:33,486 --> 00:47:35,588 AND MY WAY OUT WAS HE HAD MADE A COMMENT OF, "OH, I'M SUPPOSED TO 799 00:47:35,588 --> 00:47:38,058 MEET WITH SOME FRIENDS TONIGHT AT THE BAR, BUT I'M HAVING SUCH 800 00:47:38,058 --> 00:47:39,959 A GOOD TIME WITH YOU, I DON'T WANNA LEAVE. 801 00:47:39,959 --> 00:47:42,662 AND THEN I SAID, "WELL, I DO HAVE OTHER THINGS PLANNED FOR 802 00:47:42,662 --> 00:47:44,798 TONIGHT. SO YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND GO WITH 803 00:47:44,798 --> 00:47:46,933 YOUR FRIENDS IT'S FINE. 804 00:47:46,933 --> 00:47:49,102 I SHOULD PROBABLY GET GOING. AND WALKED OUT AND NEVER LOOKED 805 00:47:49,102 --> 00:47:51,771 BACK >> Reporter: THREE WEEKS AFTER 806 00:47:51,771 --> 00:47:55,075 THE INCIDENT, STEPHANIE THOUGHT SHE WAS GETTING AN INFECTION 807 00:47:55,075 --> 00:47:57,143 ACCORDING TO MEDICAL RECORDS SHE PROVIDED TO "DATELINE," HER 808 00:47:57,143 --> 00:48:00,413 DOCTOR PRESCRIBED DRUGS TO PROTECT AGAINST SEXUALLY 809 00:48:00,413 --> 00:48:03,116 TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS THE NEXT DAY SHE BEGAN TO FEEL 810 00:48:03,116 --> 00:48:10,590 SICK AND WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, WHERE SHE REPORTED 811 00:48:10,590 --> 00:48:14,361 INTERCOURSE AGAINST HER WILL >> THEY HAVE TO REPORT ANY KIND 812 00:48:14,361 --> 00:48:19,099 OF RAPE, OBVIOUSLY, OR SEXUAL ASSAULT. 813 00:48:19,099 --> 00:48:22,268 >> Reporter: SO THE POLICE CAME TO ASK THEIR QUESTIONS AND TELL 814 00:48:22,268 --> 00:48:25,705 HER SOMETHING THAT SHOCKED HER >> AND THEN ONE OF THE OFFICERS 815 00:48:25,705 --> 00:48:31,644 HAD TOLD ME THAT THEY HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING HIM FOR A MURDER 816 00:48:31,644 --> 00:48:35,382 I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THAT >> Reporter: THROUGH HIS 817 00:48:35,382 --> 00:48:39,185 ATTORNEY, BOB FELDMAN DENIED SEXUALLY ASSAULTING STEPHANIE. 818 00:48:39,185 --> 00:48:44,057 SHE DECIDED NOT TO PRESS CHARGES AGAINST HIM. 819 00:48:44,057 --> 00:48:47,227 AS FOR THE MURDER INVESTIGATION? IT WAS STALLED 820 00:48:47,227 --> 00:48:52,065 LACK OF EVIDENCE -- EVIDENCE THAT JUST MIGHT BE HIDING IN 821 00:48:52,065 --> 00:48:56,903 PLAIN SIGHT. >>> COMING UP -- 822 00:48:56,903 --> 00:48:59,572 WERE STACY'S INJURIES CAUSED BY THE EFFORT TO SAVE HER 823 00:48:59,572 --> 00:49:04,310 OR WAS IT SOMETHING MORE SINISTER 824 00:49:04,310 --> 00:49:08,048 >> THIS WAS A PROLONGED ASSAULT WITH MULTIPLE BLOWS, MULTIPLE 825 00:49:08,048 --> 00:49:08,581 WITH MULTIPLE BLOWS, MULTIPLE IMPACTS OVER HER ENTIRE BODY 826 00:49:28,068 --> 00:49:31,871 YEARS, IT ATE AT STACY'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THAT AUTOPSY THAT 827 00:49:31,871 --> 00:49:37,243 LABELED HER DEATH UNDETERMINED >> I'VE BEEN TALKIN' ABOUT THIS 828 00:49:37,243 --> 00:49:41,047 AND, YOU KNOW, THE POSSIBILITY OF BOB KILLING HER FOR YEARS 829 00:49:41,047 --> 00:49:45,051 BUT THIS ONE PARTICULAR RELATIVE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT IT. 830 00:49:45,051 --> 00:49:49,055 >> Reporter: THE RELATIVE HAPPENED TO BE A CLINICAL 831 00:49:49,055 --> 00:49:52,425 PSYCHOLOGIST >> AND SHE SAID IT SOUNDS LIKE 832 00:49:52,425 --> 00:49:54,961 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY WHERE MY FRIEND 833 00:49:54,961 --> 00:49:58,198 WORKS SHOULD TALK TO YOU >> Reporter: WHERE HER FRIEND 834 00:49:58,198 --> 00:50:03,069 WORKS IS AN ORGANIZATION CALLED THE TRAINING INSTITUTE ON 835 00:50:03,069 --> 00:50:06,306 STRANGULATION PREVENTION ATTORNEYS GAEL STRACK AND 836 00:50:06,306 --> 00:50:10,043 CASEY GWINN ARE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE INSTITUTE, AND THEY TOLD US 837 00:50:10,043 --> 00:50:15,382 STRANGULATION IS A CRIME OFTEN MISSED 838 00:50:15,382 --> 00:50:20,253 >> YOU CAN STRANGLE SOMEONE TO DEATH AND HAVE NO EXTERNAL MARKS 839 00:50:20,253 --> 00:50:24,591 ON THE VICTIM'S BODY IF YOU WANNA KILL SOMEBODY, 840 00:50:24,591 --> 00:50:27,227 SHOOTING THEM OR STABBING THEM IS A BAD IDEA. 841 00:50:27,227 --> 00:50:30,497 BUT YOU WANNA KILL SOMEBODY AND NOBODY KNOWS HOW IT HAPPENED, 842 00:50:30,497 --> 00:50:33,733 STRANGULATION AND SUFFOCATION ARE GREAT GO-TOS FOR A KILLER. 843 00:50:33,733 --> 00:50:35,902 AND THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY WE MISS STRANGULATION. 844 00:50:35,902 --> 00:50:39,873 WE HAD NO TRAINING, NO LAWS, NO PROTOCOLS. 845 00:50:39,873 --> 00:50:41,841 IT WASN'T ON OUR RADAR SCREEN. >> Reporter: THAT'S WHY THE 846 00:50:41,841 --> 00:50:45,045 INSTITUTE PUTS ON TRAINING WORKSHOPS THAT INCLUDE STAGED 847 00:50:45,045 --> 00:50:48,815 CRIME SCENES LIKE THIS TO TEACH MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS AND LAW 848 00:50:48,815 --> 00:50:56,322 ENFORCEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY >> I WAS WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, 849 00:50:56,322 --> 00:50:58,625 LET THEM BE INVOLVED >> Reporter: SURE, AND THE MORE 850 00:50:58,625 --> 00:51:00,627 TIME GOES BY, THE LESS LIKELY IT IS - 851 00:51:00,627 --> 00:51:02,228 >> RIGHT >> -- YOU'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO 852 00:51:02,228 --> 00:51:04,397 SOLVE IT >> RIGHT 853 00:51:04,397 --> 00:51:07,100 >> Reporter: SHE ALSO ALERTED HER PAL DETECTIVE RANDY DENISON. 854 00:51:07,100 --> 00:51:09,369 >> STRANGLED UNCONSCIOUS >> Reporter: HE AND A DENVER 855 00:51:09,369 --> 00:51:13,073 PROSECUTOR SET UP A MEETING WITH THE INSTITUTE'S MEDICAL EXPERT, 856 00:51:13,073 --> 00:51:18,445 A GUY NAMED BILL SMOCK >> A SCARF WAS PUT AROUND HER 857 00:51:18,445 --> 00:51:22,182 NECK AND SHE WAS DRAGGED UP -- >> Reporter: SMOCK IS A DOCTOR 858 00:51:22,182 --> 00:51:24,918 OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE WITH A FELLOWSHIP IN FORENSICS. 859 00:51:24,918 --> 00:51:29,122 HE'S PARTICIPATED IN THOUSANDS OF AUTOPSIES, CRIME AND ACCIDENT 860 00:51:29,122 --> 00:51:32,359 SCENES HE'S TRAINED POLICE AND 861 00:51:32,359 --> 00:51:35,528 PATHOLOGISTS ALIKE >> WHERE DO WE SEE PRESSURE 862 00:51:35,528 --> 00:51:37,764 BEING APPLIED? >> Reporter: LAST YEAR, 863 00:51:37,764 --> 00:51:40,467 DR. SMOCK TESTIFIED FOR THE PROSECUTION IN THE TRIAL OF 864 00:51:40,467 --> 00:51:43,737 DEREK CHAUVIN, CONVICTED OF THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD 865 00:51:43,737 --> 00:51:47,507 DR. SMOCK AGREED TO REVIEW STACY'S CASE WHICH MEANT 866 00:51:47,507 --> 00:51:51,311 EXAMINING, IN GRANULAR DETAIL, THE CRIME SCENE AND AUTOPSY 867 00:51:51,311 --> 00:51:55,148 PHOTOS >> I ZOOM IN TO SEE IF THERE ARE 868 00:51:55,148 --> 00:51:59,386 ANY INJURIES THAT WERE MISSED OR MISDIAGNOSED OR MISDESCRIBED BY 869 00:51:59,386 --> 00:52:04,090 THAT FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST. >> Reporter: FOR EXAMPLE, THE 870 00:52:04,090 --> 00:52:06,359 TRAUMA TO STACY'S FACE >> SHE HAD A CHIPPED TOOTH 871 00:52:06,359 --> 00:52:10,130 >> Reporter: WHAT -- WHAT'S A CHIPPED TOOTH HAVE TO DO WITH 872 00:52:10,130 --> 00:52:13,366 THIS >> SO SOMETHING HAPPENED TO 873 00:52:13,366 --> 00:52:18,805 STACY FELDMAN THE DAY SHE DIED THAT THERE WAS FRICTION TO HER 874 00:52:18,805 --> 00:52:23,109 NOSE, TRAUMA TO HER MOUTH, INSIDE AND THE OUTSIDE 875 00:52:23,109 --> 00:52:27,414 >> Reporter: THE INJURIES SPOKE VOLUMES TO DR. SMOCK 876 00:52:27,414 --> 00:52:31,184 THAT CHIPPED TOOTH, HE SAID, WAS CAUSED BY A BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA 877 00:52:31,184 --> 00:52:35,488 HE BELIEVED SOMEONE HAD PRESSED AGAINST STACY'S NOSE AND MOUTH, 878 00:52:35,488 --> 00:52:38,692 TRYING TO SUFFOCATE HER. HE ALSO NOTICED THE TELLTALE 879 00:52:38,692 --> 00:52:42,429 SIGN OF STRANGULATION IN SOMETHING CALLED PETECHIAL 880 00:52:42,429 --> 00:52:45,699 HEMORRHAGES, LITTLE RED DOTS FROM BURST CAPILLARIES, IN HER 881 00:52:45,699 --> 00:52:48,368 EYES WHY WOULDN'T THE PATHOLOGIST SEE 882 00:52:48,368 --> 00:52:51,604 THAT >> OH, THE PATHOLOGIST SAW THEM 883 00:52:51,604 --> 00:52:55,342 BUT CALLED THEM RARE I DON'T CONSIDER MORE THAN 884 00:52:55,342 --> 00:52:59,112 100 PETECHIAL HEMORRHAGES RARE >> Reporter: AND HE SAID STACY 885 00:52:59,112 --> 00:53:02,849 HAD VENOUS CONGESTION CAUSED BY PRESSURE TO HER CHEST AND NECK 886 00:53:02,849 --> 00:53:08,221 BLOCKING BLOOD FLOW BACK TO THE HEART. 887 00:53:08,221 --> 00:53:11,424 >> THE BLOOD POOLS IN THE SKIN AND YOUR SKIN WILL BECOME RED. 888 00:53:11,424 --> 00:53:14,661 >> Reporter: AND REMEMBER ALL OF THOSE THE BRUISES AND ABRASIONS 889 00:53:14,661 --> 00:53:17,364 THAT THE PATHOLOGIST IDENTIFIED? MOST WERE INFLICTED WHILE SHE 890 00:53:17,364 --> 00:53:22,702 WAS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE, SAID DR. SMOCK. 891 00:53:22,702 --> 00:53:25,972 AND YOU FOUND LOTS AND LOTS OF INJURIES 892 00:53:25,972 --> 00:53:28,141 >> FOUND A MULTITUDE OF INJURIES, ACTUALLY MORE THAN 893 00:53:28,141 --> 00:53:32,979 80 SEPARATE INJURIES >> Reporter: THE PATHOLOGIST 894 00:53:32,979 --> 00:53:36,783 BELIEVED SOME OF THESE INJURIES WERE PROBABLY THE RESULT OF 895 00:53:36,783 --> 00:53:39,519 EFFORTS TO RESUSCITATE STACY OR MOVE HER BODY OUT OF THE TUB 896 00:53:39,519 --> 00:53:42,722 BUT DR. SMOCK HAD A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION 897 00:53:42,722 --> 00:53:45,425 >> SO SHE HAD SO MANY BLOWS TO HER HEAD 898 00:53:45,425 --> 00:53:48,661 SHE HAD BLEEDING UNDERNEATH THE SCALP. 899 00:53:48,661 --> 00:53:51,364 THIS WAS A PROLONGED ASSAULT WITH MULTIPLE BLOWS, MULTIPLE 900 00:53:51,364 --> 00:53:55,702 IMPACTS OVER HER ENTIRE BODY >> Reporter: SHE TOOK A TERRIBLE 901 00:53:55,702 --> 00:54:00,540 BEATING, SAID DR. SMOCK, AND EVIDENCE ON HER BODY SAID SHE 902 00:54:00,540 --> 00:54:04,277 FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE. >> ON THE BACK OF BOTH STACY'S 903 00:54:04,277 --> 00:54:09,115 RIGHT AND LEFT HANDS WERE MULTIPLE BRUISES, ABRASIONS. 904 00:54:09,115 --> 00:54:12,318 THIS IS WHAT YOU TYPICALLY SEE AS A DEFENSIVE INJURY. 905 00:54:12,318 --> 00:54:14,754 HOW ELSE DID YOU GET BRUISES IN THIS CASE? 906 00:54:14,754 --> 00:54:17,190 >> Reporter: SOMEBODY'S STILL HITTING YOU AND HITTING YOU AND 907 00:54:17,190 --> 00:54:20,460 HITTING YOU. >> SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HIT YOU 908 00:54:20,460 --> 00:54:24,731 AND YOU'RE TRYING TO PROTECT YOURSELF 909 00:54:24,731 --> 00:54:29,069 >> Reporter: DR. SMOCK NOTICED MORE DETAILS HE BELIEVED TOLD A 910 00:54:29,069 --> 00:54:32,238 STORY, MARKS FROM A BRA STRAP ON STACY'S SHOULDER AND WHAT HE 911 00:54:32,238 --> 00:54:35,975 CALLED "PATTERN IMPRINTS" ON HER SKIN 912 00:54:35,975 --> 00:54:40,280 >> WHICH IS WHEN YOU HAVE AN OBJECT THAT IS PRESSED SO HARD 913 00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,883 INTO THE SKIN IT LEAVES A MIRROR IMAGE OF THAT OBJECT, IN THIS 914 00:54:43,883 --> 00:54:47,787 CASE STITCHING OR A WEAVE OF CLOTHING, ON THE SKIN. 915 00:54:47,787 --> 00:54:52,559 >> Reporter: HIS CONCLUSION -- STACY WAS STILL DRESSED WHEN SHE 916 00:54:52,559 --> 00:54:56,863 DIED ONLY AFTERWARD, ACCORDING TO 917 00:54:56,863 --> 00:55:00,100 SMOCK, DID THE KILLER REMOVE STACY'S CLOTHING AND PLACE HER 918 00:55:00,100 --> 00:55:03,336 BODY IN THE TUB ON TOP OF THAT COLLAPSED SHELF. 919 00:55:03,336 --> 00:55:06,072 >> ON HER RIGHT LATERAL CHEST WAS THE IMPRINT OF A CADDY, A 920 00:55:06,072 --> 00:55:09,275 METAL SHELF. BUT WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS 921 00:55:09,275 --> 00:55:12,212 IMPRINT IS THERE IS NO BRUISING OR ABRASION ASSOCIATED WITH IT, 922 00:55:12,212 --> 00:55:15,749 WHICH TELLS YOU IT WAS A POSTMORTEM IMPRINT 923 00:55:15,749 --> 00:55:19,052 >> Reporter: SMOCK STUDIED THE AUTOPSY MATERIALS FOR TWO MONTHS 924 00:55:19,052 --> 00:55:24,357 AND AT THE END CAME TO A VERY DIFFERENT CONCLUSION THAN THE 925 00:55:24,357 --> 00:55:28,795 MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE. >> THE CAUSE OF DEATH IS GOING 926 00:55:28,795 --> 00:55:32,399 TO BE ASPHYXIA, WHICH MEANS THE BODY WAS DEPRIVED OF OXYGEN FROM 927 00:55:32,399 --> 00:55:35,602 A COMBINATION OF SUFFOCATION AND STRANGULATION. 928 00:55:35,602 --> 00:55:38,805 IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, MURDER. >>> COMING UP -- 929 00:55:38,805 --> 00:55:41,541 WOULD THE D.A. SEE IT THE SAME WAY? 930 00:55:41,541 --> 00:55:44,744 >> I DON'T THINK MANY PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS 931 00:55:44,744 --> 00:56:03,530 EVER GONNA >> Reporter: IT WAS THE ANSWER 932 00:56:03,530 --> 00:56:07,267 STACY FELDMAN'S FAMILY HAD BEEN WAITING FOR. 933 00:56:07,267 --> 00:56:10,036 DR. BILL SMOCK CALLED HER DEATH A CASE OF STRANGULATION AND 934 00:56:10,036 --> 00:56:13,173 SUFFOCATION. THAT COULD ONLY MEAN ONE 935 00:56:13,173 --> 00:56:19,045 THING -- STACY'S HUSBAND, BOB, KILLED HER 936 00:56:19,045 --> 00:56:21,715 DETECTIVE DENISON TOOK DR. SMOCK'S REPORT TO THE D.A. 937 00:56:21,715 --> 00:56:25,485 DID THAT FINALLY GIVE YOU ENOUGH FOR THE ARREST 938 00:56:25,485 --> 00:56:28,688 >> YEAH. AFTER REVIEWING THE DR. SMOCK'S 939 00:56:28,688 --> 00:56:31,891 REPORT, THEY SAID, "WE WILL PROSECUTE. 940 00:56:31,891 --> 00:56:34,594 AND WE GOT AN ARREST WARRANT FOR MR 941 00:56:34,594 --> 00:56:37,597 >> Reporter: WOW BIG MOMENT AFTER ALL THAT TIME 942 00:56:37,597 --> 00:56:39,432 >> IT SEEMED LIKE A LONG TIME COMING 943 00:56:39,432 --> 00:56:42,068 >> WE HAD A PLAN THAT THEY WERE GONNA LET US KNOW THAT HE WAS 944 00:56:42,068 --> 00:56:45,305 GONNA BE ARRESTED SO THAT WE COULD BE THERE FOR THE CHILDREN. 945 00:56:45,305 --> 00:56:47,974 >> Reporter: AND SO YOU GOT THAT CALL 946 00:56:47,974 --> 00:56:50,677 >> SO I GOT THAT CALL. >> Reporter: WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? 947 00:56:50,677 --> 00:56:53,980 >> THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE >> Reporter: IT WAS 948 00:56:53,980 --> 00:56:56,082 FEBRUARY 13th, 2018, 2 YEARS AND 11 MONTHS AFTER STACY DIED 949 00:56:56,082 --> 00:56:59,719 >> DENVER POLICE HAVE MADE AN ARREST IN A MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF 950 00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:00,920 A 44-YEAR- OLD WOMAN WHO DIED 3 YEARS AGO. 951 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:05,725 >> Reporter: A FEW DAYS LATER, BOB FELDMAN WAS CHARGED WITH 952 00:57:05,725 --> 00:57:08,395 FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. FOR STACY'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY, 953 00:57:08,395 --> 00:57:12,165 IT WASN'T JUST ABOUT SEEING BOB IN HANDCUFFS 954 00:57:12,165 --> 00:57:14,868 IT WAS ALSO ABOUT THE CHILDREN SINCE STACY'S DEATH, BOB HAD 955 00:57:14,868 --> 00:57:17,037 KEPT THEM AWAY FROM STACY'S LOVED ONES 956 00:57:17,037 --> 00:57:19,139 HE SAW YOU AS THE ENEMY? >> OH, YEAH. 957 00:57:19,139 --> 00:57:21,274 I WAS THE ENEMY. >> Reporter: THE CHILDREN WERE 958 00:57:21,274 --> 00:57:24,044 10 AND 11 WHEN THEIR FATHER WAS ARRESTED 959 00:57:24,044 --> 00:57:30,450 AFTER THE ARREST, THEY WENT TO LIVE WITH STACY'S FAMILY 960 00:57:30,450 --> 00:57:34,220 WAS IT A RELIEF? >> YEAH, YOU KNOW, THE KIDS ALSO 961 00:57:34,220 --> 00:57:38,058 HADN'T REALLY BEEN IN TOUCH WITH HER FAMILY MUCH OVER THE YEARS 962 00:57:38,058 --> 00:57:41,194 SO IT WAS EMOTIONAL TO HAVE THE KIDS 963 00:57:41,194 --> 00:57:44,964 IT WAS HUGE. IT WAS A LONG TIME COMING. 964 00:57:44,964 --> 00:57:49,969 >> I DON'T THINK MANY PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS 965 00:57:49,969 --> 00:57:54,441 EVER GONNA HAPPEN, YOU KNOW. A LOT OF TIME HAD GONE BY. 966 00:57:54,441 --> 00:57:58,411 AND BOB WAS A SNEAKY GUY >> Reporter: THEIR SENSE OF 967 00:57:58,411 --> 00:58:01,614 RELIEF DID NOT LAST VERY LONG. THE JUDGE INITIALLY ORDERED BOB 968 00:58:01,614 --> 00:58:04,818 TO BE HELD WITHOUT BAIL. BUT THEN CAME THE PRELIMINARY 969 00:58:04,818 --> 00:58:08,021 HEARING WHERE THE PROSECUTION HAD TO SHOW ITS EVIDENCE 970 00:58:08,021 --> 00:58:13,893 >> THERE'S NOTHING OTHER THAN PROOF THAT THIS GUY'S A 971 00:58:13,893 --> 00:58:18,198 PHILANDERER, A NO- GOOD GUY WHO DESERVES NO RESPECT. 972 00:58:18,198 --> 00:58:22,502 BUT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE'S A KILLER 973 00:58:22,502 --> 00:58:25,705 >> Reporter: ROBERT GOTTLIEB WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THIS CASE. 974 00:58:25,705 --> 00:58:29,075 BUT HE IS A SEASONED DEFENSE LAWYER WHO TRIED A VERY SIMILAR 975 00:58:29,075 --> 00:58:31,077 CASE ABOUT A WOMAN SUPPOSEDLY DROWNED IN A BATHTUB, A CASE 976 00:58:31,077 --> 00:58:36,616 "DATELINE" COVERED THIS IS HIM AT THAT TRIAL. 977 00:58:36,616 --> 00:58:41,821 >> HE SEES HIS WIFE IN THE BATHTUB, AND HE PULLS HIS WIFE 978 00:58:41,821 --> 00:58:46,159 OUT OF THE TUB AND HE CALLS 911 979 00:58:46,159 --> 00:58:49,896 AND HE APPLIES CPR >> Reporter: GOTTLIEB SAID, IN 980 00:58:49,896 --> 00:58:54,200 STACY FELDMAN'S CASE, THERE WAS NOT VERY MUCH EVIDENCE BOB 981 00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:57,971 KILLED HER BUT PLENTY OF EVIDENCE SOMETHING ELSE DID. 982 00:58:57,971 --> 00:59:01,174 >> YOU KNOW SHE HAS AN ENLARGED HEART. 983 00:59:01,174 --> 00:59:04,411 YOU KNOW SHE HAS HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES 984 00:59:04,411 --> 00:59:08,181 YOU KNOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN SICK. SO IT MAKES SENSE, AND IT'S NOT 985 00:59:08,181 --> 00:59:11,785 BEYOND REASON TO THINK THAT SHE COULD HAVE BEEN TAKING A SHOWER 986 00:59:11,785 --> 00:59:15,355 AND SLIPPED. >> Reporter: AT THE END OF THE 987 00:59:15,355 --> 00:59:17,891 PRELIMINARY HEARING, THE JUDGE AGREED 988 00:59:17,891 --> 00:59:20,593 HE RULED THAT THE PROSECUTION DIDN'T HAVE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE 989 00:59:20,593 --> 00:59:24,864 TO JUSTIFY HOLDING BOB WITHOUT BAIL 990 00:59:24,864 --> 00:59:28,134 HE DID SET A HIGH BAIL, $2 MILLION, WHICH HE LATER 991 00:59:28,134 --> 00:59:31,371 LOWERED TO $1 MILLION. AND BOB USED A BAIL BONDSMAN TO 992 00:59:31,371 --> 00:59:34,574 POST BAIL AND WALKED OUT OF JAIL 993 00:59:34,574 --> 00:59:38,244 BACK TO THE HOUSE WITH THE SWIMMING POOL. 994 00:59:38,244 --> 00:59:40,480 WHAT WAS IT LIKE WHEN YOU FOUND OUT? 995 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,216 >> DEVASTATING >> Reporter: COURT DOCUMENTS 996 00:59:43,216 --> 00:59:46,920 REVEALED BOB WAS ALSO USING STACY'S INSURANCE MONEY TO PAY 997 00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:51,224 FOR HIS CRIMINAL DEFENSE STACY'S FAMILY SUED. 998 00:59:51,224 --> 00:59:54,961 >> THERE IS A COLORADO LAW CALLED THE SLAYER STATUTE THAT 999 00:59:54,961 --> 00:59:58,198 KEEPS A KILLER FROM PROFITING ON THEIR CRIME. 1000 00:59:58,198 --> 01:00:01,968 >> Reporter: NICOLE VAP COVERED THE CASE AS AN INVESTIGATIVE 1001 01:00:01,968 --> 01:00:05,205 PRODUCER FOR NBC AFFILIATE 9NEWS IN DENVER. 1002 01:00:05,205 --> 01:00:08,842 >> A JUDGE ORIGINALLY RULED IN THE FAMILY'S FAVOR AND FROZE ALL 1003 01:00:08,842 --> 01:00:13,880 OF THE LIFE INSURANCE MONEY. >> Reporter: BUT BOB APPEALED. 1004 01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:17,650 AND IN 2019 -- >> A COLORADO SUPREME COURT 1005 01:00:17,650 --> 01:00:22,989 DECISION TODAY HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE ANGRY AND ASKING WHY. 1006 01:00:22,989 --> 01:00:25,158 >> Reporter: -- HE WON >> THE COURT RULED THAT ROBERT 1007 01:00:25,158 --> 01:00:28,361 FELDMAN, A MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE, CAN USE MONEY 1008 01:00:28,361 --> 01:00:32,632 FROM HER LIFE INSURANCE POLICY TO FUND HIS DEFENSE. 1009 01:00:32,632 --> 01:00:36,136 >> Reporter: FREE ON BAIL, BOB WAS IN NO HURRY TO STAND TRIAL 1010 01:00:36,136 --> 01:00:39,639 >> THIS CASE HAD SO MANY DELAYS. EVERY TIME WE WENT TO COURT, IT 1011 01:00:39,639 --> 01:00:42,342 SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS ANOTHER DELAY. 1012 01:00:42,342 --> 01:00:45,045 >> Reporter: AT TIMES IT SEEMED THE WHOLE WORLD WAS CONSPIRING 1013 01:00:45,045 --> 01:00:48,815 TO SLOW THINGS DOWN. >> TODAY ROBERT FELDMAN'S TRIAL 1014 01:00:48,815 --> 01:00:55,188 WAS PUSHED BACK FOR A FIFTH TIME DUE TO CONCERNS ABOUT COVID-19 1015 01:00:55,188 --> 01:00:58,391 >> Reporter: THERE WAS ANOTHER DELAY WHEN KEY WITNESS 1016 01:00:58,391 --> 01:01:03,063 SUSAN McBRIDE MOVED TO ITALY AND APPLIED FOR CITIZENSHIP. 1017 01:01:03,063 --> 01:01:08,068 >> BAGNONE IS THE NAME OF THE TOWN 1018 01:01:08,068 --> 01:01:11,771 THE PEOPLE WERE SO WARM AND WELCOMING, AND I HAVE VERY GOOD 1019 01:01:11,771 --> 01:01:15,542 FRIENDS THERE. >> Reporter: SO MANY YEARS SINCE 1020 01:01:15,542 --> 01:01:20,880 SUSAN ALTMAN FIRST SAT BY STACY'S GRAVE AND RESOLVED TO 1021 01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:24,651 FIND THE TRUTH SO MANY STOPS AND STARTS IN HER 1022 01:01:24,651 --> 01:01:27,854 LONG FIGHT FOR JUSTICE YOU TO HAVE TO WAIT ALL THIS 1023 01:01:27,854 --> 01:01:32,125 TIME >> IT'S BEEN REALLY, REALLY 1024 01:01:32,125 --> 01:01:35,362 HARD I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO BREATHE 1025 01:01:35,362 --> 01:01:39,099 DEEPLY OR SLEEP WELL AT NIGHT OR BE A GOOD FRIEND OR A GOOD 1026 01:01:39,099 --> 01:01:43,336 FAMILY MEMBER. CERTAINLY MY KIDS HAVE SUFFERED 1027 01:01:43,336 --> 01:01:48,208 FROM ME BEING ABSENT EVERY TIME WE WOULD GET A NOTICE 1028 01:01:48,208 --> 01:01:52,545 THAT THE TRIAL WAS GONNA HAPPEN, I WOULD GET MY HOPES UP. 1029 01:01:52,545 --> 01:01:56,816 >> Reporter: THE WHOLE TIME, REMEMBER, BOB WAS AT HOME, NOT 1030 01:01:56,816 --> 01:02:00,587 IN JAIL. ALTHOUGH THE JUDGE HAD MADE VERY 1031 01:02:00,587 --> 01:02:04,290 STRICT RULES >> HE HAD AN ANKLE BRACELET. 1032 01:02:04,290 --> 01:02:06,960 HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE HIS HOUSE UNLESS HE HAD A MEDICAL 1033 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:10,096 APPOINTMENT. HE COULD MEET WITH HIS LAWYERS 1034 01:02:10,096 --> 01:02:12,866 HE COULD ALSO GO TO THE GROCERY STORE. 1035 01:02:12,866 --> 01:02:16,069 BUT THAT WAS IT. >> Reporter: OR WAS IT 1036 01:02:16,069 --> 01:02:18,772 >>> COMING UP -- >> THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE 1037 01:02:18,772 --> 01:02:22,075 WEIRDER NEWS TIPS WE RECEIVED. >> A POOL PARTY HOSTED BY AN 1038 01:02:22,075 --> 01:02:24,144 ACCUSED KILLER >> ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS REACHED 1039 01:02:24,144 --> 01:02:46,166 OUT TO US AND SAID, "THERE A >> Reporter: 2020. 1040 01:02:46,166 --> 01:02:49,936 SUMMER RETURNED TO DENVER. AND WITH IT, AFTER MONTHS OF 1041 01:02:49,936 --> 01:02:53,139 COVID LOCKDOWN, A BREATH OF OUTDOOR FREEDOM. 1042 01:02:53,139 --> 01:02:57,944 ROBERT FELDMAN, BY THEN 56 YEARS OLD, WAS STILL UNDER A KIND OF 1043 01:02:57,944 --> 01:03:01,181 LOCKDOWN, OF COURSE, MONITORED BY AN ANKLE BRACELET WHILE HE 1044 01:03:01,181 --> 01:03:06,519 AWAITED TRIAL AT HOME. EXCEPT MAYBE MR. FELDMAN WAS 1045 01:03:06,519 --> 01:03:10,824 ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS TOO. >> A MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS 1046 01:03:10,824 --> 01:03:14,728 WIFE IS NOW IN TROUBLE FOR POOL PARTIES. 1047 01:03:14,728 --> 01:03:16,730 >> THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE WEIRDER NEWS TIPS WE RECEIVED. 1048 01:03:16,730 --> 01:03:23,737 >> Reporter: 9NEWS PRODUCER NICOLE VAP GOT A CURIOUS CALL 1049 01:03:23,737 --> 01:03:26,406 ABOUT SOME SPLASHY ACTIVITY AT THE FELDMAN HOME 1050 01:03:26,406 --> 01:03:29,075 >> ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS REACHED OUT TO US AND SAID, "THERE ARE 1051 01:03:29,075 --> 01:03:33,880 PEOPLE IN HIS SWIMMING POOL. I'M LIKE, "WHAT PEOPLE?" 1052 01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:37,350 AND WE DID A GOOGLE AND WE FOUND THAT ADDRESS ON AN APP THAT WAS 1053 01:03:37,350 --> 01:03:40,854 USED DURING THE PANDEMIC TO RENT OUT SWIMMING POOLS 1054 01:03:40,854 --> 01:03:44,624 >> Reporter: STACY'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY KNEW THAT POOL, HAD BEEN 1055 01:03:44,624 --> 01:03:48,595 THERE OFTEN. AND NOW THE MAN ACCUSED OF 1056 01:03:48,595 --> 01:03:52,098 KILLING HER WAS USING IT TO MAKE MONEY? 1057 01:03:52,098 --> 01:03:54,300 HAVING POOL PARTIES. >> NOT SO MUCH JUSTICE THERE 1058 01:03:54,300 --> 01:03:58,471 THAT'S NOT HOW IT SHOULD BE WHILE THEY'RE STILL SUFFERING 1059 01:03:58,471 --> 01:04:01,775 WITHOUT CLOSURE. >> Reporter: OH, BUT THAT WAS 1060 01:04:01,775 --> 01:04:05,045 NOT ALL BOB WAS UP TO. NOT EVEN CLOSE 1061 01:04:05,045 --> 01:04:10,250 THIS WOMAN IS TRACY FAIGIN >> I'VE BEEN DIVORCED, LIKE, 1062 01:04:10,250 --> 01:04:14,087 SEVERAL YEARS AND WENT ON A JEWISH DATING SITE TO, YOU KNOW, 1063 01:04:14,087 --> 01:04:17,290 JUST MEET SOMEONE TO GO ON A SIMPLE DATE WITH 1064 01:04:17,290 --> 01:04:20,527 AND, UM, HE PINGED ME RIGHT AWAY 1065 01:04:20,527 --> 01:04:24,397 >> Reporter: TRACY AND BOB MET UP AT A LOCAL PARK 1066 01:04:24,397 --> 01:04:28,068 HE'D BEEN IN THE NEWS PLENTY BY THEN, BUT SHE HADN'T SEEN IT 1067 01:04:28,068 --> 01:04:31,271 >> HE SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL, REGULAR GUY. 1068 01:04:31,271 --> 01:04:35,508 YOU KNOW, SHOWED UP ON HIS BIKE FOR THE DATE, WHICH AGAIN, IN 1069 01:04:35,508 --> 01:04:40,347 COLORADO, IS COMPLETELY NORMAL >> Reporter: BOB'S PROFILE NOTED 1070 01:04:40,347 --> 01:04:45,752 THAT HE WAS A WIDOWER, SO SHE WAS CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT SHE SAID. 1071 01:04:45,752 --> 01:04:49,756 AND THEN, WHILE THEY WERE WALKING AND TALKING, BOB ADDED 1072 01:04:49,756 --> 01:04:53,259 THAT HE HAD TWO KIDS TOO >> AND THEY LIVE IN CONNECTICUT. 1073 01:04:53,259 --> 01:04:56,496 AND I THOUGHT, "THAT SEEMS KIND OF ODD." 1074 01:04:56,496 --> 01:04:59,699 >> Reporter: STILL, SHE DECIDED TO SEE HIM A SECOND TIME 1075 01:04:59,699 --> 01:05:05,071 >> HE CALLED ME AND SAID, "CAN YOU COME TO MY HOUSE TONIGHT?" 1076 01:05:05,071 --> 01:05:08,441 I THOUGHT, "GREAT, THIS GUY DOESN'T HAVE A CAR" OR 1077 01:05:08,441 --> 01:05:11,478 SOMETHING. AND HE SAID, "WELL, NO, I HAVE 1078 01:05:11,478 --> 01:05:14,047 SOME LEGAL TROUBLES AND I CAN'T LEAVE THE HOUSE. 1079 01:05:14,047 --> 01:05:17,717 AND HE SAID, "WELL, I CAN EXPLAIN IT TO YOU WHEN YOU COME 1080 01:05:17,717 --> 01:05:22,822 OVER WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT 1081 01:05:22,822 --> 01:05:25,925 WE CAN SIT UP BY THE POOL. >> Reporter: POOL OR NO POOL, 1082 01:05:25,925 --> 01:05:29,662 LEGAL TROUBLE WAS ONE STRIKE TOO MANY FOR TRACY 1083 01:05:29,662 --> 01:05:33,967 BOB WAS OUT. >> AND I WAS LIKE, "YEAH, NO, 1084 01:05:33,967 --> 01:05:36,136 I'M NOT" -- I JUST SAID I'M NOT COMFORTABLE COMING OVER TO YOUR 1085 01:05:36,136 --> 01:05:38,271 HOUSE. >> Reporter: BUT THEN BOB DIDN'T 1086 01:05:38,271 --> 01:05:41,841 STAY AT HOME EITHER, AS NICOLE VAP AND HER COLLEAGUES 1087 01:05:41,841 --> 01:05:44,711 LEARNED, EVEN THOUGH STAYING HOME WAS A CONDITION OF BAIL 1088 01:05:44,711 --> 01:05:49,582 >> BOB FELDMAN IS CHARGED WITH MURDERING HIS WIFE STACY 1089 01:05:49,582 --> 01:05:53,853 STILL, 9WANTSTOKNOW FINDS OUT HE GETS OUT OFTEN 1090 01:05:53,853 --> 01:05:56,523 >> THIS ANONYMOUS NEIGHBOR REACHED OUT TO US AND SAID THAT 1091 01:05:56,523 --> 01:05:59,626 BOB HAS BEEN OUT ON HIS BIKE HE RIDES 1092 01:05:59,626 --> 01:06:02,429 HE'LL GO AWAY FOR HOURS AND NOT COME BACK. 1093 01:06:02,429 --> 01:06:07,233 HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THAT AS PART OF HIS BOND 1094 01:06:07,233 --> 01:06:12,572 >> Reporter: STACY'S FRIEND JAN GOLDENBERG WENT ON TV TO EXPRESS 1095 01:06:12,572 --> 01:06:15,809 HER OUTRAGE AT BOB'S ESCAPADES >> WHY ISN'T SOMEONE STOPPING 1096 01:06:15,809 --> 01:06:19,045 IT >> Reporter: A FEW DAYS LATER, 1097 01:06:19,045 --> 01:06:24,918 SHE SAID THERE WAS A CALL ON HER LANDLINE FROM BOB. 1098 01:06:24,918 --> 01:06:27,620 >> I SAW THE AREA CODE BUT IT WAS TOO QUICK FOR ME TO 1099 01:06:27,620 --> 01:06:31,925 PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER AND I ANSWERED 1100 01:06:31,925 --> 01:06:37,330 HE SAID, "DON'T YOU THINK THAT MY CHILDREN WATCH THE NEWS?" 1101 01:06:37,330 --> 01:06:41,768 AND I JUST HUNG UP SO I PRESUME HE WAS SLIGHTLY 1102 01:06:41,768 --> 01:06:44,337 AGITATED, WHICH IS FINE. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AGITATED BY HIS 1103 01:06:44,337 --> 01:06:48,641 ACTIONS FOR MANY YEARS >> Reporter: THE COURT INCREASED 1104 01:06:48,641 --> 01:06:52,412 ITS SCRUTINY OF BOB'S BEHAVIOR ON BAIL. 1105 01:06:52,412 --> 01:06:54,547 BUT BY THE SPRING OF 2022, MORE THAN 7 YEARS AFTER STACY'S 1106 01:06:54,547 --> 01:06:57,250 DEATH, THE FOCUS SHIFTED TO HIS MURDER TRIAL, WHICH WAS FINALLY 1107 01:06:57,250 --> 01:07:01,021 SET TO BEGIN >>> COMING UP -- 1108 01:07:01,021 --> 01:07:05,358 >> THE EVIDENCE IS -- IS CLEAR THE INJURIES THAT STACY HAD ARE 1109 01:07:05,358 --> 01:07:08,028 THE RESULT OF ASSAULT THAT RESULTED IN HOMICIDE 1110 01:07:08,028 --> 01:07:12,265 >> AND IN THE COURTROOM, SUSAN, STILL FIGHTING TO GET JUSTICE 1111 01:07:12,265 --> 01:07:13,933 FOR HER SISTER >> I WANTED HER TO KNOW THAT I 1112 01:07:13,933 --> 01:07:33,353 WAS STILL THERE WITH HER >> 1113 01:07:33,353 --> 01:07:37,123 >> Reporter: PINK FLAGS SPRANG UP OVERNIGHT IN THE PARK NEAR 1114 01:07:37,123 --> 01:07:41,928 BOB FELDMAN'S HOUSE, GREETINGS AS HE WENT ON TRIAL FOR FIRST 1115 01:07:41,928 --> 01:07:46,733 DEGREE MURDER. STACY'S FAVORITE COLOR, THE 1116 01:07:46,733 --> 01:07:50,470 FLAGS A SHOW OF SUPPORT FROM HER FRIENDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 1117 01:07:50,470 --> 01:07:55,141 NO DOUBT WHERE SUSAN ALTMAN HAD STOOD ALL ALONG -- THAT HER 1118 01:07:55,141 --> 01:07:57,977 SISTER STACY DIDN'T DIE ACCIDENTALLY, THAT BOB KILLED 1119 01:07:57,977 --> 01:08:03,350 HER, AND THAT HE HAD TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. 1120 01:08:03,350 --> 01:08:07,120 >> NOBODY THOUGHT IT WOULD COME TO THIS. 1121 01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:10,857 BUT I KNEW DEEP DOWN IN MY HEART THAT IT WAS. 1122 01:08:10,857 --> 01:08:13,593 AND I NEVER FOR A MINUTE WAVERED FROM THAT. 1123 01:08:13,593 --> 01:08:16,563 >> Reporter: BUT THOUGH SUSAN AND STACY'S FRIENDS WERE 1124 01:08:16,563 --> 01:08:19,032 CONVINCED, A JURY WAS ANOTHER MATTER 1125 01:08:19,032 --> 01:08:21,101 PROVING STACY'S DEATH WAS MURDER AND THAT BOB DID IT MIGHT NOT BE 1126 01:08:21,101 --> 01:08:23,303 SO EASY. FORMER DENVER PROSECUTOR 1127 01:08:23,303 --> 01:08:25,472 GEORGE BRAUCHLER DIDN'T WORK ON THE CASE BUT FOLLOWED IT FOR 1128 01:08:25,472 --> 01:08:27,607 "DATELINE. HE SAID BOB'S PROSECUTORS FACED 1129 01:08:27,607 --> 01:08:30,310 A SIGNIFICANT HURDLE BECAUSE THE INVESTIGATION WAS NOT TREATED AS 1130 01:08:30,310 --> 01:08:33,480 A HOMICIDE AT FIRST. >> WHEN YOU'RE IN THE BUSINESS 1131 01:08:33,480 --> 01:08:36,216 OF NEEDING TO PROVE SOMEBODY'S GUILT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, 1132 01:08:36,216 --> 01:08:38,852 IF YOU DON'T GET IT RIGHT EARLY ON, THE RISK YOU RUN IS YOU 1133 01:08:38,852 --> 01:08:42,122 AREN'T GONNA GET IT RIGHT ANYWHERE 1134 01:08:42,122 --> 01:08:45,892 >> Reporter: AFTER ALL, THIS WAS A CASE WITH NO DAMNING DNA, NO 1135 01:08:45,892 --> 01:08:49,662 OBVIOUS MURDER WEAPON, NO EYEWITNESSES 1136 01:08:49,662 --> 01:08:54,501 SO PROSECUTORS LEANED HARD ON BOB'S SHIFTING STORIES AND HIS 1137 01:08:54,501 --> 01:09:01,007 BEHAVIOR THE DAY STACY DIED, >> HELP ME 1138 01:09:01,007 --> 01:09:04,177 HELP ME! >> IF YOU LISTEN TO HIS WORDS, 1139 01:09:04,177 --> 01:09:07,380 HIS WORDS ARE NOT ABOUT HIS WIFE AS MUCH AS THEY ARE ABOUT HIM. 1140 01:09:07,380 --> 01:09:12,085 "HELP ME, HELP ME," NOT, "HELP HER. 1141 01:09:12,085 --> 01:09:15,488 I THINK THAT COULD BE TELLING. >> Reporter: THE 911 OPERATOR 1142 01:09:15,488 --> 01:09:18,725 TESTIFIED THAT BOB DIDN'T SOUND OUT OF BREATH WHILE HE CLAIMED 1143 01:09:18,725 --> 01:09:22,028 TO BE PERFORMING CPR >> PLEASE, STACY 1144 01:09:22,028 --> 01:09:25,198 PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE 1145 01:09:25,198 --> 01:09:28,435 >> SIR, ARE YOU PUMPING HER CHEST? 1146 01:09:28,435 --> 01:09:31,671 >> Reporter: SO IN OTHER WORDS, HE WASN'T OUT OF BREATH. 1147 01:09:31,671 --> 01:09:34,507 HE WASN'T TRYING TO DO CPR, AS FAR AS THE PERSON LISTENING TO 1148 01:09:34,507 --> 01:09:37,577 THE CALL COULD DETERMINE >> THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYIN'. 1149 01:09:37,577 --> 01:09:43,817 AND I THINK, TOO, THE ABSENCE OF HIM ENGAGING IN THAT ACT OF CPR 1150 01:09:43,817 --> 01:09:47,821 AS HE'S BEING TALKED THROUGH IT BY THE DISPATCHER SUGGESTS THAT 1151 01:09:47,821 --> 01:09:53,760 HE KNOWS SHE'S ALREADY DEAD. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE DENISON 1152 01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:55,895 TOLD JURORS BOB SEEMED DISINTERESTED IN HOW HIS WIFE 1153 01:09:55,895 --> 01:09:59,165 DIED >> HE SAID, "I DON'T THINK WE 1154 01:09:59,165 --> 01:10:02,402 WANT AN AUTOPSY. >> Reporter: HE VOLUNTEERED 1155 01:10:02,402 --> 01:10:06,139 THAT >> YEAH, IT SEEMED KINDA ODD 1156 01:10:06,139 --> 01:10:09,409 >> Reporter: AND THE FACT THAT BOB LATER CHANGED HIS STORY 1157 01:10:09,409 --> 01:10:12,612 ABOUT THAT DAY WHAT WAS THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT 1158 01:10:12,612 --> 01:10:15,882 FOR A PROSECUTOR >> LISTEN, THE STATEMENT THAT 1159 01:10:15,882 --> 01:10:19,652 YOU GIVE DURING THIS TRAUMATIC EVENT, THE MOMENT AFTER IT 1160 01:10:19,652 --> 01:10:23,390 HAPPENS, YOU WOULD EXPECT THAT ONE TO BE THE MOST CREDIBLE. 1161 01:10:23,390 --> 01:10:26,926 AND THEN TO, AT A LATER DATE, DURING A FORMAL INTERROGATION, 1162 01:10:26,926 --> 01:10:28,228 TO CHANGE UP THE FACTS OF THAT INCREDIBLY SUSPICIOUS. 1163 01:10:28,228 --> 01:10:31,664 >> Reporter: STEPHANIE GALVAN, WHO HAD ACCUSED BOB OF RAPE, 1164 01:10:31,664 --> 01:10:34,701 ALSO TOOK THE STAND. AND THOUGH IN COURT DOCUMENTS 1165 01:10:34,701 --> 01:10:37,971 PROSECUTORS MENTIONED EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, AN ASSAULT 1166 01:10:37,971 --> 01:10:41,708 BOB DENIED, THEY DECIDED NOT TO ASK THE JUDGE TO ADMIT THAT 1167 01:10:41,708 --> 01:10:46,913 EVIDENCE STEPHANIE DID TESTIFY THAT BOB 1168 01:10:46,913 --> 01:10:49,282 TOLD HER STACY DIED OF CANCER WHICH, OF COURSE, WAS JUST NOT 1169 01:10:49,282 --> 01:10:51,985 TRUE BUT ONE WITNESS JUST MIGHT CUT 1170 01:10:51,985 --> 01:10:55,522 THROUGH ANY UNCERTAINTY ABOUT BOB FELDMAN, HIS BEHAVIORS, AND 1171 01:10:55,522 --> 01:11:02,128 PERHAPS HIS MOTIVE FOR MURDER. SUSAN McBRIDE FLEW IN FROM ITALY 1172 01:11:02,128 --> 01:11:05,965 TO TESTIFY FOR THE PROSECUTION >> WHEN THEY TOLD ME TO POINT 1173 01:11:05,965 --> 01:11:09,736 HIM OUT, AS I GOT UP ON THE WITNESS STAND, I POINTED RIGHT 1174 01:11:09,736 --> 01:11:15,141 AT HIM AND LOOKED HIM RIGHT IN THE EYE. 1175 01:11:15,141 --> 01:11:19,779 AND I FELT STRONG. >> Reporter: SHE REREAD HER 1176 01:11:19,779 --> 01:11:23,683 EMAILS FOR THE JURY, EMAILS THAT DESCRIBED THEIR BRIEF 1177 01:11:23,683 --> 01:11:27,987 RELATIONSHIP AND THAT FATEFUL EMAIL TO STACY JUST HOURS BEFORE 1178 01:11:27,987 --> 01:11:32,859 HER DEATH. >> I HAD EVERY EMAIL 1179 01:11:32,859 --> 01:11:36,096 AND IT'S LUCKY I DID BECAUSE BOB HAD GONE IN THE DAY OF STACY'S 1180 01:11:36,096 --> 01:11:39,799 DEATH AND DELETED ALL THE EMAILS FROM ME, APPARENTLY. 1181 01:11:39,799 --> 01:11:43,570 I FOUND THAT OUT AT THE TRIAL. >> Reporter: SUSAN McBRIDE 1182 01:11:43,570 --> 01:11:47,807 TESTIFIED THAT STACY TOLD HER SHE WAS DONE WITH HER HUSBAND. 1183 01:11:47,807 --> 01:11:51,611 THE PROSECUTION TOLD THE JURY BOB WASN'T ABOUT TO ACCEPT THAT. 1184 01:11:51,611 --> 01:11:55,849 THEIR STAR WITNESS, DR. BILL SMOCK, GAVE HIS VERSION OF WHAT 1185 01:11:55,849 --> 01:11:58,518 BOB DID TO STACY NEXT. >> SHE HAS TRAUMA TO HER FACE, 1186 01:11:58,518 --> 01:12:01,788 PARTICULARLY HER NOSE AND MOUTH, AND SHE ALSO HAS EVIDENCE OF 1187 01:12:01,788 --> 01:12:06,626 STRANGULATION. >> Reporter: DR. SMOCK 1188 01:12:06,626 --> 01:12:10,397 EXHAUSTIVELY DOCUMENTED STACY'S 80-PLUS INJURIES, SOME OF WHICH 1189 01:12:10,397 --> 01:12:13,733 HE SAID THE ORIGINAL PATHOLOGIST MISSED, EXPLAINING HOW THEY 1190 01:12:13,733 --> 01:12:17,404 COULDN'T COME FROM A SINGLE SLIP AND FALL BUT FROM A PROLONGED 1191 01:12:17,404 --> 01:12:20,607 AND BRUTAL ASSAULT HE EVEN CLIMBED INTO THE WELL OF 1192 01:12:20,607 --> 01:12:24,978 THE COURTROOM AND DEMONSTRATED WITH MANNEQUINS, A SHOW-AND-TELL 1193 01:12:24,978 --> 01:12:31,418 HE REPEATED FOR US >> STACY HAD SOME UNIQUE 1194 01:12:31,418 --> 01:12:35,188 INJURIES ON THE INSIDES OF BOTH UPPER 1195 01:12:35,188 --> 01:12:40,093 ARMS WERE LARGE BRUISES. >> Reporter: DR. SMOCK SAID BOB 1196 01:12:40,093 --> 01:12:43,229 LIKELY KILLED STACY BY STRADDLING HER BODY AND THEN 1197 01:12:43,229 --> 01:12:45,965 SMOTHERING AND STRANGLING THE LIFE OUT OF HER. 1198 01:12:45,965 --> 01:12:49,135 >> PRESSURE IS PUT ON THE INSIDES OF BOTH ARMS 1199 01:12:49,135 --> 01:12:51,871 >> Reporter: BY THE KNEES? >> BY THE KNEES. 1200 01:12:51,871 --> 01:12:54,574 SO AT -- DURING THE ASSAULT, STACY HAD BOTH PRESSURE ON HER 1201 01:12:54,574 --> 01:12:57,243 FACE AND PRESSURE ON HER NECK AND ON THE INSIDES OF HER ARMS 1202 01:12:57,243 --> 01:12:59,946 >> Reporter: AND ALL THOSE INJURIES YOU SAW TO HER NOSE, TO 1203 01:12:59,946 --> 01:13:03,183 HER TEETH, HER -- HER -- THEY COULD HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED THAT 1204 01:13:03,183 --> 01:13:06,419 WAY? >> YES, EXACTLY. 1205 01:13:06,419 --> 01:13:10,557 WE HAVE BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA ON THE LIPS 1206 01:13:10,557 --> 01:13:15,061 >> Reporter: JUST PUSHING DOWN VERY HARD? 1207 01:13:15,061 --> 01:13:18,264 >> JUST PUSHING DOWN THE EVIDENCE IS -- IS CLEAR. 1208 01:13:18,264 --> 01:13:22,068 THE INJURIES THAT STACY HAD ARE THE RESULT OF ASSAULT THAT 1209 01:13:22,068 --> 01:13:25,805 RESULTED IN HOMICIDE >> Reporter: SMOCK BELIEVED BOB 1210 01:13:25,805 --> 01:13:29,075 THEN UNDRESSED STACY AND PUT HER IN THE TUB, FORGETTING TO REMOVE 1211 01:13:29,075 --> 01:13:33,413 THAT EXPENSIVE WATCH HE TOLD US HE ALSO HAD TO WONDER 1212 01:13:33,413 --> 01:13:37,717 IF BOB PLACED THOSE FENTANYL PATCHES ON STACY'S BODY TO MAKE 1213 01:13:37,717 --> 01:13:40,854 OVERDOSE SUSAN ALTMAN, OF COURSE, WAS 1214 01:13:40,854 --> 01:13:43,623 FAMILIAR WITH THE DETAILS OF STACY'S DEATH. 1215 01:13:43,623 --> 01:13:46,860 BUT SHE'D NEVER SEEN THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS BEFORE 1216 01:13:46,860 --> 01:13:49,095 >> I DIDN'T STARE AT THE PICTURES FOR VERY LONG 1217 01:13:49,095 --> 01:13:53,099 I NEEDED TO -- TO BE THERE WITH HER WHILE THAT WAS HAPPENING TO 1218 01:13:53,099 --> 01:13:55,468 HER. AND I IMAGINE THAT SHE WAS 1219 01:13:55,468 --> 01:13:58,138 THINKING ABOUT ME AND THINKIN' ABOUT HER FAMILY 1220 01:13:58,138 --> 01:14:01,341 AND I WANTED HER TO KNOW THAT I WAS STILL THERE WITH HER 1221 01:14:01,341 --> 01:14:05,111 >> Reporter: STILL FELT HER PRESENCE AT THAT POINT, HUH? 1222 01:14:05,111 --> 01:14:09,382 >> YUP I NEEDED TO BE WITH HER TILL THE 1223 01:14:09,382 --> 01:14:12,852 END. >> Reporter: AT THE END OF SEVEN 1224 01:14:12,852 --> 01:14:16,923 DAYS, THE PROSECUTION RESTED IT SAID STACY FELDMAN DIED A 1225 01:14:16,923 --> 01:14:20,160 HORRIBLE DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE MAN SHE ONCE LOVED AND 1226 01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:24,464 TRUSTED, HER HUSBAND >> THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE HAD 1227 01:14:24,464 --> 01:14:27,133 HAD ENOUGH AND SHE WAS MADE TO PAY FOR IT, 1228 01:14:27,133 --> 01:14:29,803 NOT JUST WITH A BEATING, BUT A BEATING THAT PRECIPITATED HER 1229 01:14:29,803 --> 01:14:32,505 DEATH. THAT'S THE THEME THAT THEY HAD 1230 01:14:32,505 --> 01:14:35,208 >> Reporter: BUT THE DEFENSE HAD A THEME TOO. 1231 01:14:35,208 --> 01:14:38,445 A STORY WITH THE SAME EVIDENCE, ONLY DIFFERENT VOICES WHOSE 1232 01:14:38,445 --> 01:14:42,182 EXPERTISE EVEN THE PROSECUTION COULD NOT DENY 1233 01:14:42,182 --> 01:14:45,418 >>> COMING UP -- WILL THERE BE JUSTICE FOR STACY? 1234 01:14:45,418 --> 01:14:49,189 >> Reporter: THE MEDICAL EXAMINER LEFT THE CONCLUSION 1235 01:14:49,189 --> 01:14:51,324 THAT THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS UNDETERMINED 1236 01:14:51,324 --> 01:14:53,526 WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A CRACK IN THE DOOR FOR A DEFENSE ATTORNEY, 1237 01:14:53,526 --> 01:15:14,214 FRANKLY. >> OH, 1238 01:15:14,214 --> 01:15:19,052 >> Reporter: SUSAN ALTMAN LED A STRANGE KIND OF ARMY IN THE 1239 01:15:19,052 --> 01:15:23,356 YEARS SINCE 2015 A GROUP OF PEOPLE ALLIED FOR HER 1240 01:15:23,356 --> 01:15:27,127 SISTER, STACY FELDMAN. TOGETHER THEY GATHERED ON THE 1241 01:15:27,127 --> 01:15:29,829 WOODEN BENCHES OF A DENVER COURTROOM TO FACE A MAN THEY SAW 1242 01:15:29,829 --> 01:15:32,532 AS A LONGTIME ENEMY. >> HE WAS A BEAST. 1243 01:15:32,532 --> 01:15:35,235 HE HAD NO EXPRESSION EVER THE WHOLE TIME THAT HE WAS THERE 1244 01:15:35,235 --> 01:15:37,370 NO REMORSE NO -- NO GUILT 1245 01:15:37,370 --> 01:15:41,641 NOTHING. THE GUY WAS STONE FACE THE 1246 01:15:41,641 --> 01:15:45,912 ENTIRE TIME. >> Reporter: TO HER, BOB'S GUILT 1247 01:15:45,912 --> 01:15:49,149 WAS OBVIOUS. BUT TO A JURY? 1248 01:15:49,149 --> 01:15:52,352 AFTER ALL, BOB HAD A CRACK DEFENSE TEAM 1249 01:15:52,352 --> 01:15:56,089 ATTORNEY ROBERT GOTTLIEB THOUGHT BOB'S LAWYERS DID EXACTLY WHAT 1250 01:15:56,089 --> 01:15:59,292 THEY NEEDED TO DO -- REINTERPRET THE EVIDENCE AND CONDEMN THE 1251 01:15:59,292 --> 01:16:04,731 INVESTIGATION ITSELF >> JUST A TERRIBLE, AMATEURISH 1252 01:16:04,731 --> 01:16:09,035 INVESTIGATION. >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE 1253 01:16:09,035 --> 01:16:11,171 HAMMERED DETECTIVE RANDY DENISON, POINTING OUT THAT 1254 01:16:11,171 --> 01:16:14,374 HE DIDN'T EVEN SUSPECT FOUL PLAY AT FIRST AND THEREFORE DIDN'T 1255 01:16:14,374 --> 01:16:17,544 COLLECT CRITICAL EVIDENCE. >> YOU TAKE ANYTHING AND 1256 01:16:17,544 --> 01:16:21,281 EVERYTHING THAT MEANS BLOOD, FINGERPRINTS, ANY PHYSICAL 1257 01:16:21,281 --> 01:16:24,517 EVIDENCE NOTHING WAS DONE HERE. 1258 01:16:24,517 --> 01:16:28,822 >> Reporter: MIND YOU, HE WASN'T THERE, AND DETECTIVE DENISON, AN 1259 01:16:28,822 --> 01:16:41,668 EXPERIENCED AND COMPETENT MAN, WAS. 1260 01:16:41,668 --> 01:16:46,406 >> UNLESS YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOMETHING THAT APPEARS TO BE A 1261 01:16:46,406 --> 01:16:50,110 MURDER YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ROPE EVERYTHING OFF AND KICK EVERYONE 1262 01:16:50,110 --> 01:16:53,213 OUT OF THE HOUSE >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE ALSO 1263 01:16:53,213 --> 01:16:55,915 TOOK ISSUE WITH THE WAY THE PROSECUTION CHARACTERIZED BOB'S 1264 01:16:55,915 --> 01:17:01,287 BEHAVIOR ON THAT 911 CALL AND IN THE HOUSE THAT DAY 1265 01:17:01,287 --> 01:17:04,557 AND GOTTLIEB WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREED 1266 01:17:04,557 --> 01:17:07,761 >> NO ONE IS GOING TO CONVINCE ME TODAY THAT THE WAY SOMEBODY 1267 01:17:07,761 --> 01:17:11,531 REACTS AT THE SCENE OF A MURDER, THAT THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY FOR 1268 01:17:11,531 --> 01:17:15,835 YOU TO BEHAVE OR THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO RESPOND TO AN EMT'S 1269 01:17:15,835 --> 01:17:20,040 QUESTION WHILE YOU'RE THERE TRYING TO SAVE YOUR WIFE 1270 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,809 >> Reporter: THE PROSECUTION'S THEORY OF MOTIVE WAS ALSO WEAK, 1271 01:17:22,809 --> 01:17:26,546 SAID GOTTLIEB. THE DEFENSE ARGUED THAT 1272 01:17:26,546 --> 01:17:30,784 SUSAN McBRIDE'S TESTIMONY, THAT SHE TOLD STACY ABOUT BOB'S 1273 01:17:30,784 --> 01:17:35,689 INFIDELITY, DIDN'T PROVE STACY CONFRONTED BOB, LET ALONE THAT 1274 01:17:35,689 --> 01:17:39,459 HE KILLED HER. >> SO THERE WAS AN ABSENCE OF 1275 01:17:39,459 --> 01:17:44,264 ANY CREDIBLE TESTIMONY THAT WOULD HAVE LED ULTIMATELY TO THE 1276 01:17:44,264 --> 01:17:46,966 CONFRONTATION LEADING TO HER DEATH. 1277 01:17:46,966 --> 01:17:49,069 >> Reporter: I GUESS SHE'D KNOWN THAT HE HAD CHEATED ON HER 1278 01:17:49,069 --> 01:17:52,872 BEFORE AND SO MAYBE THIS WOULDN'T BE A TERRIBLY BIG 1279 01:17:52,872 --> 01:17:55,575 SURPRISE >> RIGHT 1280 01:17:55,575 --> 01:17:58,278 SHE KNEW THAT IT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE 1281 01:17:58,278 --> 01:18:01,014 THEY RECONCILED. AND IF THIS REALLY WAS THE STRAW 1282 01:18:01,014 --> 01:18:03,683 THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK, YOU WOULD HAVE EXPECTED HER TO CALL 1283 01:18:03,683 --> 01:18:06,886 HER BEST FRIEND. YOU WOULD'VE EXPECTED HER TO 1284 01:18:06,886 --> 01:18:10,657 CALL SOMEBODY. >> Reporter: BUT WHAT, THEN, TO 1285 01:18:10,657 --> 01:18:13,927 MAKE OF STACY'S BATTERED BODY? WELL, HERE THE DEFENSE TURNED 1286 01:18:13,927 --> 01:18:17,664 THE EVIDENCE TO ITS ADVANTAGE, SAYING SHE WAS LIKELY STILL 1287 01:18:17,664 --> 01:18:20,900 ALIVE WHEN BOB TRIED REPEATEDLY TO PULL HER FROM THE TUB TO SAVE 1288 01:18:20,900 --> 01:18:24,637 HER. >> AND IN DOING THAT, YOU CAN BE 1289 01:18:24,637 --> 01:18:29,509 SURE THERE WOULD BE CONTUSIONS AND TRAUMA AGAINST THE SIDE OF 1290 01:18:29,509 --> 01:18:33,246 THE BATHTUB, THE FAUCET OR OTHERWISE. 1291 01:18:33,246 --> 01:18:37,050 >> Reporter: THE CORE OF THE DEFENSE ARGUMENT -- STACY WAS 1292 01:18:37,050 --> 01:18:41,654 NOT MURDERED AND TO PROVE IT, THEY CALLED A 1293 01:18:41,654 --> 01:18:45,091 WITNESS WHO WOULD NORMALLY BE TESTIFYING FOR THE 1294 01:18:45,091 --> 01:18:47,560 PROSECUTION -- THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST WHO PERFORMED 1295 01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,430 STACY'S AUTOPSY. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS 1296 01:18:50,430 --> 01:18:53,633 INTERESTING ABOUT THIS CASE WAS THAT MEDICAL EXAMINER LEFT THE 1297 01:18:53,633 --> 01:18:56,836 CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEATH WAS -- CAUSE OF DEATH WAS 1298 01:18:56,836 --> 01:19:00,640 UNDETERMINED, WHICH SOUNDS LIKE A CRACK IN THE DOOR FOR A 1299 01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,877 DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FRANKLY. >> OH, IT'S MORE THAN A CRACK. 1300 01:19:03,877 --> 01:19:07,647 IT IS A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. >> Reporter: THE PATHOLOGIST, 1301 01:19:07,647 --> 01:19:11,785 HER SUPERVISOR, AND AN ELECTED CORONER FROM ANOTHER COUNTY ALL 1302 01:19:11,785 --> 01:19:15,655 TOLD THE COURT THEY COULD NOT RULE STACY'S DEATH A HOMICIDE. 1303 01:19:15,655 --> 01:19:19,459 THEY CONTINUED TO INSIST THIS WAS AN UNDETERMINED DEATH. 1304 01:19:19,459 --> 01:19:23,229 >> THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGES TWO YEARS AFTER THE AUTOPSY IS 1305 01:19:23,229 --> 01:19:32,305 THAT AT THE BEHEST OF THE FAMILY, WHO DID THEIR OWN 1306 01:19:32,305 --> 01:19:36,576 RESEARCH, THE POLICE THEN CONTACT THIS DR. SMOCK 1307 01:19:36,576 --> 01:19:38,745 >> Reporter: DR. SMOCK THE DEFENSE TORE INTO THE 1308 01:19:38,745 --> 01:19:41,381 PROSECUTION'S STAR WITNESS THEY CALLED YOU A CHARLATAN. 1309 01:19:41,381 --> 01:19:44,084 SO HOW ARE YOU NOT A CHARLATAN >> I HAVE THE SAME TRAINING THAT 1310 01:19:44,084 --> 01:19:51,624 THE FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS HAVE I HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THOUSANDS 1311 01:19:51,624 --> 01:19:54,861 UPON THOUSANDS OF AUTOPSIES. >> Reporter: WITHOUT BEING AN 1312 01:19:54,861 --> 01:19:57,864 ACTUAL PATHOLOGIST >> CORRECT 1313 01:19:57,864 --> 01:20:00,200 >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE TOLD JURORS TO SEE STACY'S MULTIPLE 1314 01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,869 INJURIES AS EVIDENCE OF A VALIANT EFFORT TO SAVE HER LIFE, 1315 01:20:02,869 --> 01:20:06,072 NOT END IT, AND ASKED THE JURY TO LISTEN TO THE THREE 1316 01:20:06,072 --> 01:20:09,309 PATHOLOGISTS, IMPARTIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO 1317 01:20:09,309 --> 01:20:12,512 CONTINUED TO INSIST THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS UNDETERMINED AND FIND 1318 01:20:12,512 --> 01:20:16,216 NOT GUILTY IT HAD TAKEN SEVEN YEARS, ONE 1319 01:20:16,216 --> 01:20:20,520 SETBACK AFTER ANOTHER, TO BRING BOB FELDMAN TO TRIAL 1320 01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:27,460 IT TOOK THE JURY LESS THAN THREE HOURS TO REACH A VERDICT 1321 01:20:27,460 --> 01:20:30,964 >> NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS DID WE THINK THAT THAT WAS GONNA 1322 01:20:30,964 --> 01:20:33,366 COME THE SAME DAY THAT WE HAD CLOSING ARGUMENTS. 1323 01:20:33,366 --> 01:20:37,504 >> Reporter: STUNNED, THEY FILED BACK INTO THE COURTROOM. 1324 01:20:37,504 --> 01:20:41,441 THE VERDICT SWIFT JUST LIKE THE DELIBERATIONS. 1325 01:20:41,441 --> 01:20:45,679 >> WITHIN THE LAST FEW MINUTES WE LEARNED A JURY HAS FOUND 1326 01:20:45,679 --> 01:20:48,915 ROBERT FELDMAN GUILTY -- GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER 1327 01:20:48,915 --> 01:20:52,652 >> I THINK I WAS LIVING AN OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE, I HAVE 1328 01:20:52,652 --> 01:20:55,522 TO TELL YOU. I DIDN'T BURST INTO TEARS WHEN I 1329 01:20:55,522 --> 01:20:58,558 HEARD THE GUILTY VERDICT I KNEW IT WAS COMING 1330 01:20:58,558 --> 01:21:02,362 I FELT RELIEF AND -- AND JUSTICE. 1331 01:21:02,362 --> 01:21:06,166 >> IT'S A RELIEF, BUT IT REALLY ISN'T SO MUCH -- PERSONAL FOR 1332 01:21:06,166 --> 01:21:09,336 ME IT'S NOT ABOUT ME. 1333 01:21:09,336 --> 01:21:12,505 IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PROSECUTORS IT'S ABOUT THAT FAMILY 1334 01:21:12,505 --> 01:21:16,309 >> Reporter: YOU GUYS IN THAT DETECTIVE BUSINESS ARE A BUNCH 1335 01:21:16,309 --> 01:21:19,079 OF SOFTIES, YOU KNOW >> YEAH, I BELIEVE SO. 1336 01:21:19,079 --> 01:21:25,485 PARDON ME. >> Reporter: THE SENTENCE WAS 1337 01:21:25,485 --> 01:21:29,222 IMMEDIATE -- LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE 1338 01:21:29,222 --> 01:21:32,959 AND AFTER, THE WOMEN WHO'D SEEN BOB FELDMAN FOR WHAT HE WAS 1339 01:21:32,959 --> 01:21:36,730 FOUND REASONS TO BE THANKFUL LIKE STEPHANIE GALVAN, WHO 1340 01:21:36,730 --> 01:21:40,433 BELIEVED BOB USED A GRIEF COUNSELING CLASS TO PREY ON HER 1341 01:21:40,433 --> 01:21:43,203 AND IS CONVINCED HE COULD HAVE DONE MUCH WORSE. 1342 01:21:43,203 --> 01:21:46,006 >> I'M OKAY WITH HOW I HANDLED THINGS BECAUSE I'M ALIVE 1343 01:21:46,006 --> 01:21:48,575 >> Reporter: THAT'S KIND OF IMPORTANT, ISN'T IT? 1344 01:21:48,575 --> 01:21:52,579 >> I DID WHAT I NEEDED TO DO TO GET OUT WITHOUT ANYTHING 1345 01:21:52,579 --> 01:21:56,116 HAPPENING MORE THAN IT HAD >> Reporter: SUSAN McBRIDE, TOO, 1346 01:21:56,116 --> 01:21:58,785 IS THANKFUL. >> WE MET FOR THE FIRST TIME 1347 01:21:58,785 --> 01:22:03,623 TODAY. AND IT -- IT WAS AMAZING 1348 01:22:03,623 --> 01:22:05,191 IT WAS AMAZING TO BE - >> Reporter: THIS IS IT? 1349 01:22:05,191 --> 01:22:07,394 THIS IS -- YOU'RE -- YOU'RE MEETING NOW -- 1350 01:22:07,394 --> 01:22:12,699 >> THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME WE GOT TO TOUCH AND HUG 1351 01:22:12,699 --> 01:22:15,902 >> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT. OUR CAMERAS BROUGHT THESE TWO 1352 01:22:15,902 --> 01:22:18,605 SUSANS TOGETHER IN PERSON FOR THE FIRST TIME 1353 01:22:18,605 --> 01:22:21,241 BOTH WOMEN HAVE SUFFERED IN THESE YEARS SINCE STACY'S DEATH 1354 01:22:21,241 --> 01:22:23,943 BUT ALSO FEEL EMPOWERED NOW TO HELP OTHER VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC 1355 01:22:23,943 --> 01:22:27,147 VIOLENCE >> HE WAS A CON MAN. 1356 01:22:27,147 --> 01:22:31,484 AND I THINK HE WAS ABLE TO CON HER OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AS WELL 1357 01:22:31,484 --> 01:22:35,789 AS ME, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER WOMEN. 1358 01:22:35,789 --> 01:22:39,092 >> WE NEED TO MAKE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN -- IN -- IN THE 1359 01:22:39,092 --> 01:22:41,728 SPOTLIGHT. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT 1360 01:22:41,728 --> 01:22:44,931 WE NEED TO SAVE OUR -- OUR LOVED ONES 1361 01:22:44,931 --> 01:22:47,634 >> Reporter: HAVING MET, WILL YOU MEET AGAIN, DO YOU THINK 1362 01:22:47,634 --> 01:22:50,370 IS THIS IT FOR YOU TWO >> OH, IT'S NOT IT 1363 01:22:50,370 --> 01:22:54,107 >> OH, THIS IS -- NO WE'RE SISTERS NOW. 1364 01:22:54,107 --> 01:22:56,743 >> ABSOLUTELY. SUSAN McBRIDE IS PART OF OUR 1365 01:22:56,743 --> 01:23:01,047 FAMILY, YEAH >> Reporter: VERY NICE 1366 01:23:01,047 --> 01:23:07,620 A FAMILY DETERMINED TO GET JUSTICE FOR STACY AND WHICH IS 1367 01:23:07,620 --> 01:23:11,224 FIGHTING FOR HER STILL >> SHE KNOWS THAT WE DID RIGHT 1368 01:23:11,224 --> 01:23:14,427 BY HER AND THAT SHE KNOWS THAT OUR FAMILY IS TAKING AMAZING 1369 01:23:14,427 --> 01:23:18,231 CARE OF HER CHILDREN AND THAT THEY WILL GROW UP TO KNOW WHAT 1370 01:23:18,231 --> 01:23:21,401 AN AMAZING MOM THEY HAD. AND THEY'LL BE SURROUNDED BY 1371 01:23:21,401 --> 01:23:27,907 LOVE AND THEY'RE GONNA BE OKAY. 1372 01:23:27,907 --> 01:23:31,578 >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF "DATELINE." 1373 01:23:31,578 --> 01:23:34,314 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY AT 9:00, 8:00 CENTRAL. 1374 01:23:34,314 --> 01:23:37,751 AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY 1375 01:23:37,751 --> 01:23:37,751 EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY 1376 01:23:37,751 --> 01:23:37,751 NEWS."