thank you for joining us today. tune in tomorrow to the sunday show one former congressman senator richman the co-chair of the biden-harris campaign joins us live to discuss the critical week ahead for president biden in the 2024 election tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. pull the show on social media using the handle, at weekend capehart and catch close of the show on youtube. you can also listen to every episode as a podcast for free.

he was well-liked. he was well loved. he was smart. he was fun. i had the most senseless, empty feeling. this is how it ends? why would somebody do it? now what? >> white hat, wide-open smile, a handsome young veterinarian in big sky country. >> he loved helping animals. >> he asked me out that night. i was excited. >> and then, they found him dead on the floor. >> two shots went off and then the third shot into his chest. >> three gunshots that launched a long-running mystery. >> i think the perpetrator stood there and watched him die. >> there were so many different leads and rumors. >> i felt like if it wasn't for me it never would've happened. >> jealousy, rage, revenge? could anyone solve it? >> look at what it has done to our family. it was hard. >> i wanted justice.

sang aromodest dwelling in the grass. operator: emergency. >> there was a broad swath of prairie where the scattle outnumbered the people and they said summer breeze saying around a modest dwelling in the grass. >> they call it the bunkhouse though it was really just an old single wide trailer. a nondescript little place out on the montana prairie, a bit worn around the edges. the sort of place a young that could live cheap while he built his business. when the local sheriff's

deputies arrived, they found the body in the middle of the kitchen floor lying on its back. blood had pooled under its head. on 1 foot was issue of the sort people where in the water. the other was bare. the 357 magnum was on the floor not far from the dead man's left hand. marlene saw all this, too, same time as the deputies but she could tell right away that she had been wrong in the 911 call. the man did not shoot himself. >> bryan had a cut on his nose and the way his shirt was ripped and the blood on the floor. >> it looked like a struggle. >> yes, it was not a suicide. >> but, deputies went about their work as they saw fit, and thus on sunday, july 14, 1996, they clouded the mystery that has come down all the way to us. >> there were so many different theories, different suspects,

and so much conflicting evidence. it was your classic whodunit. >> or, perhaps your classic nightmare. i lay awake at night and ask god to give me some insight here. >> the victim on the floor was bryan rein, a veterinarian. charlie and teresa's brother. >> he was my brother, he was my best friend, he was my business partner. >> week they grew up together and kansas. >> we shared. >> bryan was the eldest. >> what kind of a an older brother was he? >> protective, ornery. >> that bryan was very smart was a given. >> i remember turning to him once and saying i just want to know what time it is. i don't need to know how the clock was made. here's what they got to do, growing up in a small town.

they joined 4h and future farmers of america. they raised animals and showed them often fairs and exhibitions and bryan knew from the very beginning there was one job he was meant to do. >> i never knew bryan not wanting to be a veterinarian. he always said that being a vet was way more difficult than being a doctor because an animal can tell you where it hurts or how they feel. you have to figure out how they feel. >> after finishing that school, bryan moved to montana, big open country, cattle ranches, and outdoorsman's paradise really, which suited bryan rein. he took full advantage of what montana had to offer, so in 1995, a year before the events in our story, he set up shop in a speck on the map called geraldine, population 300. >> it's always a struggle starting a new business in

starting a vet clinic is very expensive but it was doing very well. the young doctor hired marlene to help him run the office and moved into the bunkhouse on the property 11 miles outside of town. >> bryan had a heart of gold. he was part of the family. >> a good-looking young that in such a tiny place, there was lots of interest. >> i remember asking him if there was anybody there you're dating and he was like there are some girls, but they are just not the ones. >> it was possibly an overly modest answer. the handsome young vets arrival was practically a news event. heads turned. hearts may have followed. certainly, gossip did. and then summer of 1996. >> it was again the same question i asked her what was going on, do you have a girlfriend? well, there is this one girl. she comes over and does things

for me. she will clean up my house and stuff. >> it was strange, what begin to happen after he took up with that young lady. weird things. not exactly frightening. more like unsettling, like the rock that crashed through a window at the clinic. >> did he tell you what he thought it was or who? >> no. he did find a foot print out in back of the building but nothing ever came to of it. >> not long after, he called both sisters with her request. >> at one point he told me quit calling and hanging up. i said bryan, i'm not hanging up. he just wanted off. he's like it's not a big deal. >> but was it? on july 10, 1996, dr. bryan rein drove to bozeman, three hours away, to attend a conference. he returned home friday evening at 12:00. no one saw him on saturday, and then on sunday, marlene's

husband drove over to bryan's bunkhouse. >> it was about five or 10 minutes later, he came back and walked in the door and was very distraught, crying. >> such a shock, which is maybe why her husband got the mistaken identity that dr. rein committed suicide but later that same day when marlene heard and undersheriff repeat the real mistake to bryan's grandparents, here is what happened. >> brenda mae jumped up and she said no way with my grandson commit suicide. >> then, next day, with state investigators led by agent ken thompson of montana's department of criminal is an investigation arrived and looked at the ruined crime scene -- >> my partner and i looked at each other and thought oh, lord. you know, it certainly makes things very difficult. >> difficult, oh, yes. difficult was not the half of it.

coming up, what did happen to dr. rein? >> we had been told that he had committed suicide. >> did you believe that could be true? >> absolutely not . >> but, on the doorstep, bullets in the kitchen. the search begins for a killer. >> i think the perpetrator stood there and watched bryan die . >> when dateline continues. >> when dateline continues. cool leg warmers. thanks. they are just for the bus ride to work. they are not part of the official uniform. no tunes today? no. my apartment was robbed last night. took my cable ready tv, vcr, portable cassette player. yup. all the latest tech. if only progressive had renter's insurance like their home insurance. then we could bundle our cars and get the same 24/7 protection. -i think we just invented that. -huh. this is the best day ever. well i still got robbed. well still pretty good day.

it's started. it's... the side hug. tween milestones like this may start at age 9. hpv vaccination—a type of cancer prevention against certain hpv-related cancers, can start then too. for most, hpv clears on its own. but for others, it can cause certain cancers later in life. you're welcome! now, as the “dad cab”, it's my cue to help protect them. embrace this phase. help protect them in the next. ask their doctor today about hpv vaccination. introducing new advil targeted relief. the only topical pain reliever with 4 powerful pain-fighting ingredients that start working on contact to target tough pain at the source. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. new advil targeted relief. (marci) so, how long have you lived here? (opponent)8 hours oover forty years.. (marci) and how are the restaurants around here? are they good, bad, meh? what's the average household income? is there a mall? i don't know. a hair salon? where do you get your hair done?

(opponent) you gonna move, or what? (marci) oh, i'm sorry. it's a lovely neighborhood. (luke) marci, we've gotta go. (marci) i'm coming! (luke) we've got seventeen thousand more parks to visit. (marci) you wanna give me a hand? (luke) we bring you the best neighborhood info. (vo) ding dong! homes-dot-com. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me ♪ (♪♪) ♪ control is everything to me ♪ feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi is the first il-23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. and skyrizi is proven to help deliver long-lasting remission at one year. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to.

liver problems may occur in crohn's disease. now's the time to ask your gastroenterologist how you can take control of your crohn's with skyrizi. (♪♪) ♪ control is everything to me ♪ learn how abbvie could help you save. keith morrison: on a summer sunday afternoon outside tiny geraldine, montana, local sheriff's deputies used towels to mop up the blood around what they took to be a suicide. the town's veterinarian, doctor bryan rein, age thirty-one, was dead. his own .357 magnum lay near his left hand. >> summer sunday afternoon outside tiny geraldine, montana, local sheriff's deputies used towels to mop up the blood around what they took to be a suicide. the townssa veterinarian, dr. bryan rein, age 31, was dead. his own .357 magnum line near his left hand and the emissaries of sudden death delivered their message to his sister, teresa back in kansas.

>> i remember saying mom, i need to talk to you. >> i can imagine what it would be like to tell your mother that her firstborn son is dead. >> yeah, it was hard. and, he was that child. that perfect child. >> it was evening before the news found younger sister charlene. >> i was actually in las vegas. we've been told that he had committed suicide. >> did you believe that could be true? >> absolutely not. it was a long plane ride home. >> do you remember what your mind was doing during the plane ride? >> how can this happen? why would somebody do it? >> none of them believed bryan

capable of suicide and sure enough, the next morning, an autopsy revealed abrasions and contusions on the doctors head, a swollen right eye. clearly, there had been a struggle and he had been struck by three gunshots -- two in the lower right forearm and then a fatal shot to the chest. the conclusion, obvious. it was not suicide. it was homicide. how is it possible at first they thought it was a suicide? >> i can't answer that. i think you have to understand that this county had not had a homicide and i think it was like 19 years. >> it was monday when the state department of criminal investigation agent ken thompson was called in and by the time he got to the doctors bunkhouse, the locals had been gone, the scene left unguarded for more than 24 hours. >> montana is a remote state. sometimes you will drive eight hours to get to a crime scene, so it's not like a big city where you can roll in and everything is pristine.

>> in fact, the deputies in local corner had spent a few hours tromping around bryan's kitchen. they had taken about a dozen photos and in the process, had done things that could not be undone , like cleaning up blood on the floor under the victims upper body and tossing it to the garbage and a telephone handset found under dr. rein's head without swabbing for dna or dusting for fingerprints. those discarded materials were beyond recovery by the time investigator thompson arrived. the local deputies did tell him they found a water shoe on the bunkhouse doorstep. it appeared to of been knocked off in the struggle and then investigator thompson saw the blood drops out on the doorstep. >> we knew that was where the shooting had occurred. what a drop straight down, so it was just outside the trailer. >> did you find some bullets around there? >> they found two bullets lodged in the kitchen, covered, so the two shots that went through the arm went through the arm and through that wall

and came out into kitchen cabinets on the other side. >> thompson and his partner used string to simulate the path of the bullets. they even tried to act out what might have happened but before long, they came to some conclusions. how far away was the shooter? >> it was pretty close range. some kind of conversation went on, and a struggle ensued. two shots went off, and then the third shot into his chest. i think bryan then struggled to get in, to call for help and he sat there. i think the perpetrator stood there and watched bryan die. >> as for location of the gun so close to dr. rein's old hand

-- so, the killer must've put it there? >> correct. >> were there any fingerprints on the gun? >> no. it looked like it had been wiped off with a solvent. >> investigators now thought they knew how the murder occurred, but when it happened? that was not clear at all. friday night, saturday? it was an important question, of course, but just how important? they might not have fully imagined just then. but, there was no clear answer. in fact, the pathologist who conducted the autopsy left the space for time of death blank. remember, dr. rein returned home from a conference on friday evening but the body was not found until sunday. investigators canvassed nearby farms. >> there was a neighbor who live probably about a mile away, maybe a little less as the crow flies, that had seen an atv go by that might, and then said he heard two loud retorts about that time. >> that is friday night. but could it have been that night or the next morning or

something? >> at first he wasn't sure. >> phone records show the last time dr. rein received a phone call was at 10:15 on friday night. >> nobody heard from bryan after that last phone call on friday night . the thought that he would go all day saturday without having any contact with anybody was highly unlikely. >> on the other hand, dr. rein could have hung around his bunkhouse alone on saturday morning, or maybe he intended to go fishing. there were those water shoes, and they found a fishing pole near the door. of course, all this when and how did nothing to shine the light on who killed dr. rein, the question that was consuming everyone who knew him. >> my mind was just spinning trying to think who, you know, any little league at all. >> she knew this friend of dr.

ryans, larry hagenbuch, whose behavior had recently been erratic and she also knew that some people in town said they had heard larry bad mouthing bryan in a local bar though larry denied it but investigators almost immediately had it differently, and it was related to the broken window at the vet clinic and the hangup phone calls dr. rein and asked his sisters if they were making. so, he had no idea who is doing it? >> after he eliminated me, he had an idea. >> no, he knew or thought he knew who the hangup collar was, but he did not seem very worried about it. >> everything was going to be okay. bryan was not afraid of anything. >> maybe he should've been. coming up, a new relationship. >> i thought he was handsome. i was excited. >> and, a jealous ex. >> should i file a restraining order, should i do something? >> i was beginning to form an

opinion that it was somewhat a crime of passion. >> when dateline continues. pa >> when dateline continues. with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. (luke) this will be a gold mine of local intel. (marci) so, tell us about this corn festival. (stylist) oooh you got your corn pudding... (marci) so...is it safe around here? (stylist) sometimes. [luke gasping] (marci) no eyebrows? (luke) think of how light it'll feel in the summer. we gotta run. eleven thousand more neighborhoods to go! (vo) ding dong! homes-dot-com.

when we're young, we're told anything is possible... ...but only a few of us go out and prove it. witness the greatness of anna hall on a connection worthy of gold: xfinity mobile. only xfinity gives you the most powerful mobile wifi network, with speeds up to a gig in millions of locations. and right now, xfinity internet customers

can buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. get the fastest connection to paris with xfinity. keith morrison: veterinarian bryan

rein's family went into a tailspin at the news of his death. and when they heard that somebody murdered him? keith morrison: you kind of fell apart after that, huh? >> veterinarian bryan rein's family went into a tailspin with the news of his death. when they heard that somebody murdered him? they fell apart after that? >> yes. it was difficult to figure out where to go, what to do. >> bryan's mom was practically paralyzed in her grief so much of the dreadful work that demands to be done after such a death fell on teresa. >> i can remember sitting through the funeral and thinking to myself, i'm so tired, i just want to go to bed. >> they maybe played a role in teresa's mood because on that july day in 1996, dr. rein was buried in his hometown in

kansas and a large contingent of montanans made the trip to say goodbye. among them was the young woman from geraldine, the one who had gone over and cleaned his house, the one bryan had recently started seeing. >> i was almost annoyed she even came, and she was standing in our home and i really thought, why are you here? i was pretty irritated. >> those feelings were not lost on that young lady in the middle of her own grief and confusion. >> i just felt out of place because i felt like you know, they didn't know who i was. >> her name was ann. she was 21 then. she had don't dr. rein just two months, met him at rusty's bar in geraldine. >> i thought he was handsome and i was like, what is this guy doing in geraldine? it was surprising to me. >> they talked all night, she said, and in the morning -- how did you feel? >> i was excited. i felt giddy, excited that someone would be interested in me. >> complications, and a live-in boyfriend, a guy named thomas

jaraczeski, her high school sweetheart. they had been together for .5 -- 4.5 years and had they not had issues she might have married him and then she had that heart-to-heart with dr. rein. >> is like you're too young to be settling down and somebody telling you what to do. >> how did that strike you when he said that? >> i agreed with him. it made me see that i would be better without it, you know, because it had not been a good relationship for a while. i had a reason now to move on and let go of that. >> and she was going to tell tom as soon as she got up the nerve, but then, dr. rein left a message on her answering machine at the apartment she shared with tom, who of course, heard the message. >> he called me up and asked me what was going on. >> a boyfriend would want to know what was going on. >> when she told him -- >> he started crying and saying

i believe i was doing this and how i was throwing away everything. >> but, ann was done. she moved back to the family farm outside geraldine and tom begged her to come back, promised to do better. >> he told me that bryan would get tired of me and he would dump me and i would see. >> then the phone calls started, over and over again. >> asked him to leave me alone. i said i needed time, i needed space. >> one day, ann agreed to go for a ride in tom's new pickup truck so they could have the talk. big mistake. tom drove out of town and kept on driving. he would not let her get out of the truck. >> i was like okay, i started looking at the ditch thinking that's -- you know, i can lend in that grass. i will be okay so i opened the door and i was going to jump out and he grabbed my arm and said what are you doing? >> how did it eventually end?

>> he finally took me back. >> did you go home that night? >> know. i stayed with my brother. >> but then, tom, all of 23 years old, barged into bryan rein's place in the middle of the night when she was there, demanding to know the 31-year- old doctors intentions. what did bryan think of this? >> he thought he was a stupid kid. >> well, you would have to agree with that. >> yeah because i asked him i said, should i file a restraining order and he said no, he's just a stupid kid, he'll get over it. just give him time to get it out of his system. >> but, he did not get over it. one night when nobody was home, he went into ann's house, into her bedroom. >> he said he found my journal and read it. >> what did it feel like to have your personal journal read like that by him? >> it just felt like i'd been

violated. >> how did ann learn about? tom told her and quoted from her journal. >> at the end i said, and it was in a sarcastic way but it was like here, i can't believe i'm thinking i met the man of my dreams, he'll probably get killed in a car wreck and tom will probably kill himself. just thinking of all the negative possibilities. like here something wonderful has happened, something awful is going to happen. >> and that actually turned out to be kind of a prophecy, didn't it? it plays back like a bad dream now, how she told bryan what tom had been doing and then discovered it was even worse than she thought. >> he goes well, i got one better than that. he came over here last night saying he had car trouble and asked to use the phone. he said he let him use the phone and went back to bed. >> had to of been a ruse, bryan figured, designed solely to see if ann was sleeping there . >> what is to confirm that you

made the right decision. >> yeah, the more he did, the more i wasn't going back. >> all of that was just before the conference bryan attended out of town, the one he returned from friday night. the last phone call he was on, 10:15 p.m., he was talking to ann. >> all of a sudden he said i got to go in before i could say goodbye, he hung up. i thought it was kind of weird but it was late. i didn't want to read too much into it at the time. i kind of wondered. >> now that bryan was dead, ann wondered a lot about something she remembered tom said years earlier . >> if you ever cheat on me i will kill him and i will kill you. >> so, it will not surprise you to know that when he heard all this, investigator ken thompson made arrangements to call on young tom jaraczeski right away. >> you don't know what kind of person you're going to encounter and just with my limited knowledge of what had happened here, i was beginning to form an idea that it was

somewhat a crime of passion so i thought, let's see where this goes. maybe if this is heavy on his heart and it was just a tragic situation maybe we will get to the truth tonight. >> oh, if only the life of an investigator were that simple. coming up >> the first thing i thought everybody's going to suspect me. >> police have some questions for the envious ask, when dateline continues. k, when dateline continues. but this is a not flash. for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms due to menopause... ...veozah is the first and only prescription treatment that directly blocks a source of hot flashes and night sweats. with 100% hormone-free veozah... ...you can have fewer hot flashes... ...and more not flashes. veozah reduces the number and severity of hot flashes day and night. don't use veozah if you have cirrhosis, severe kidney problems, kidney failure, or take cyp1a2 inhibitors. increased liver blood test values may occur.

your doctor will check them before and during treatment. most common side effects include stomach pain, diarrhea, difficulty sleeping, and back pain. ask your doctor about hormone-free veozah... ...and enjoy more not flashes. you could save on veozah. visit saveonveozah.com to learn more. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitivity protection. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients. stuck at the dmv, and i think i'm late on my car insurance. good thing the general gives you a break with flexible payment options. let's get you a break while you wait. what is this place? this is our dmvip.

vending machine charcuterie? for a great low rate, go with the general. with powerful, easy-to-use tools, power e*trade makes complex trading easier. react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity. e*trade from morgan stanley

forecasters saying tropical storm darrell is expected to regain hurricane strength as it moves into the gulf of mexico. the hurricane center says burrell is set to approach the south texas coast by sunday. hurricane surge warnings were issued for portions of that state. vikings player kyrie jackson died in a car accident. he was 24. for now, back to dateline.

it was dusk that monday in montana after the weekend murder of dr. bryan rein when investigators drove out to a farm 11 miles east of geraldine. here, agent ken thompson in the local undersheriff intended to confront 23-year-old tom jaraczeski, the young man who had austin love and didn't take it well. when you arrived, what was his demeanor? >> i think his demeanor was to be helpful. he was welcoming, very polite. >> and my mom told me about bryan the first thing i thought is ariz going to expect the ex-boyfriend but that's not the case at all. >> tom jaraczeski admitted to living ann and admitted to being upset when he heard another man leave a phone message for his live-in girlfriend. >> i called ann right away.

she didn't say anything and i said so what is going on. she didn't say anything again. >> tom did not deny that he behaved badly then. he freely admitted that he found ann's family and friends. he even called some of bryan's former girlfriends. what did that say to you, that behavior? >> he was literally doing his own investigation of bryan. calling a man's friends, trying to get all the dirt he could on bryan so he could turn around and give it to an essay you need to end this relationship. this is a bad guy, he's just using you and you need to come back and be with me. >> in fact, tom admitted nearly all the strange behaviors ann described, the constant hangup calls, showing up at bryan's place in the middle of the night, sneaking into ann's empty house at 3:00 in the morning, snooping around in her bedroom, reading her diary.

>> he was actively pursuing her, aggressively pursuing her for her to change her mind to end that relationship and come back and start over. it was just a continual spiral of things that he was doing, and the more obsessed he got with her. >> it was, by his own admission, pathetic but when he drove an atv over and head outside ann's family farmhouse just hoping for a glimpse of her, he was then chased off by ann's brothers. >> i just apologize to them. i said i'm so stupid, i can't believe i did this and i told him i'm over the line, i don't deserve this and they said oh, don't say that, it's nothing to be in your head over. >> but, tom had a pretty solid alibi for most of the weekend when dr. rein was murdered except for friday night and he did admit he phoned dr. rein

that night. >> my intentions were to call him and tell him i didn't have any grudges against him and i wasn't going to interfere with the relationship and hoped he would take good care of ann. he answered the phone . he said hello twice and i just chickened out. this was this last friday. >> investigators have been thinking that friday night was possibly when dr. rein was murdered and after they heard tom's story, how he did not have an alibi for friday night, that seemed to clinch it. >> you call me up at 10:00 on friday night to say i don't hold any grudges against you? within hours, the guy is dead. >> but then tom dug a deeper hole for himself. remember, it appeared dr. rein scuffled with somebody before he was shot dead.

he told the agent that he had hurt his back that very friday night falling out of the pickup truck. >> i hurt my back. >> did you get any bruises or anything? >> no, i didn't. >> but, the next day, tom went to the hospital and was treated for back pain. the only things tom denied in that interview? faking a vehicle breakdown 10 days before the murder, and knocking on dr. rein's door to use the phone in the middle of the night. but, investigators were not buying tom's story. >> all the facts point to you. everything. everything you've got points to this place. that's all you've got to worry about. it's right there. >> there will be a carload of stuff [ inaudible ] >> good. >> when you left at the end of that first interview, did you think, this is our guy? >> i thought clearly he was a suspect. he clearly had done some things that were very troubling. >> but, did that mean he was

the killer? what would tom say if we asked him? >> they started accusing me of killing bryan. i was scared to death. i was worried they were going to charge me that night. >> the rest, could there be another person of interest in this case? >> we looked at him very seriously. >> when dateline continues. ♪ ♪ and i'm keeping the weight off. wegovy® helps you lose weight and keep it off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only fda-approved weight-management medicine that's proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight. wegovy® shouldn't be used with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines. don't take wegovy®

if you or your family had medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop wegovy® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may happen, including pancreatitis and gallbladder problems. wegovy® may cause low blood sugar in people with diabetes, especially if you take medicines to treat diabetes. tell your provider about vision problems or changes, or if you feel your heart racing while at rest. depression or thoughts of suicide may occur. call your provider right away if you have any mental changes. common side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. with wegovy®, i'm losing weight, i'm keeping it off. and i'm lowering my cv risk. that's the power of we. ♪ ♪ check your cost and coverage before talking to your health care professional about wegovy®. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth

and 24/7 sensitivity protection. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients. ♪♪ stay ahead of your moderate-to-severe eczema. and show off clearer skin and less itch with dupixent, the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists and allergists, that helps heal your skin from within. serious allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems such as eye pain or vision changes including blurred vision, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection.

don't change or stop asthma medicines without talking to your doctor. ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. chkeith morrison: then. plains of montana are no stranger to sudden, violent death. history is littered with it. but for the people living the history in july 1996 after the murder of the town veterinarian, bryan rein, it was all very, very hard. charlene: mom, for probably the next five years, >> the plains of montana are no stranger to sudden, violent death. history is littered with it but for the people living in july 1996 after the murder of the town veterinarian, bryan rein, it was all very hard. >> mom, for probably the next five years, crawled in a hole and did not come out.

>> and ann, the young woman in the middle? >> i was devastated. i thought here i've met somebody that treats me nice and treats me like an equal. >> somebody you spell professional -- felt a special with him >> yes. to have that ripped away, i didn't get the chance to find out. >> but what was worse, ann felt an overwhelming sense of guilt. >> i felt like if it wasn't for me it never would've happened. >> because of course, she broke up with him. >> it's unbelievable. >> and here he is, tom jaraczeski, ann is x, otherwise known as the prime suspect. >> it seems like a bad dream that i wake up from. >> how did you find out that he was killed? >> from my mom. she had gotten a phone call that the veterinarian and

geraldine had been killed. >> of course he knew perfectly well who his mother was talking about, his rival, the man who had taken his girlfriend and made his life so miserable and so -- >> you had to be sort of a little bit okay with that? >> no, not at all. i had no ill feelings toward bryan. >> a really, come on, you had to of had ill feelings toward rein. he took your girl away. >> yes, not for someone to lose their life. >> tom said he knew immediately that he would be high on the list of suspects, as of course, he was, so he was not surprised when agent ken thompson of the local undersheriff showed up at the family farmhouse. >> i was nervous. both guys had guns on their hips and came into my house and you know, i proceeded to tell them all these things i was doing as far as phone calls and the stocking, and when i told them all about that, they totally

change their tune and started accusing me of killing bryan. i was scared to death. i was worried that they were going to charge me that night. >> but, they didn't. while it was true as we said that the crime scene was compromised, there were hairs and fibers and fingerprints and blood samples yet untested, so the investigators told tom they would be back. sitting here now two decades later, tom told us yes, he did love ann. he thought they had a future together. >> you know, i felt like she was the one and we would be together forever. >> but, when he heard that phone message left by bryan rein at the apartment he shared with ann -- >> what did that feel like? >> felt like my heart was torn in half. >> you did some things than

that now in retrospect you must think were not the brightest in the world. >> yes. i didn't know anything about bryan so i started calling up some of nancy's family and some of ann's friends to see what they knew about bryan. i was concerned because he was a veterinarian and he had access to drugs. i thought maybe he was giving ann something. >> because why would she leave you for another guy? must be drugs involved or something other than just wanting to make a switch? >> yeah, that was my initial impression. >> and all that other stuff, the hangup phone calls, the stocking, going into her bedroom to read her diary? >> not great behavior. >> no. it was wrong of me to do that. i wanted to see her thoughts, what she had to say about me and what she said about bryan. >> you are having a lot of

trouble letting it go. >> i did, yes. there's no manual as to getting over relationships and it took a while for me. >> he swore when he talked to investigators that he had nothing to do with the murder of dr. rein, even though it looked pretty bad for him. >> they told me right away that this happened on a friday night, and i was home alone on a friday night. i had no alibi. and -- so, i was kind of stuck. >> although remember, the medical examiner was unable to settle on the time of death, so despite what the detectives told time, the murder could've happened on saturday when tom did have an alibi, which made another of the detectives interviews particularly interesting because yes, in fact, there were other persons of interest, and another man they went to visit did have an alibi for friday, but not saturday. that man happened to be a close friend of the victim. his name was larry hagenbuch. how seriously did you look at larry? >> we looked at him very seriously.

>> larry was the one who encouraged bryan to move from kansas to montana but larry was not a stable man just then. his wife was leaving them. he had been drinking a lot. he had tried to commit suicide a month before the murder using animal medication he had gotten from dr. rein. in fact, dr. rein intervened to save larry but here's the thing. detectives had heard that larry seemed to know intimate details of the crime scene, which had not been made public, as if he was right there when it happened. the problem? >> his story never stayed the same when he was even revealing it. at one point, he said there were bullet holes everywhere. later, he would say there were only two holes. at one point, he indicated that it was a rifle and then it was a pistol. >> still, from the sound of this 20-year-old recording, agent thompson was not accusing

larry of murdering his friend in cold blood. or like, things got out of hand somehow. >> i could just see this happening. i think larry thinking [ inaudible ] he gets to drinking again, whether he's depressed or mad, i don't know whether it's just going out to talk somebody and ending up in a stupid shouting match. here's the gun that's always laying around. i'll take care of this myself. i'll shoot myself than now, you ain't going to do that. let's fight over the gun and then whatever. i could see all that happening. we got in an accident. you know, we got a tragic accident. is that what happened? makes sense. >> makes sense but it didn't happen. >> not much more the detectives can accomplish at that point. in those days, dna took its sweet time getting tested, but the results, would they put other men at the crime scene? seemed like maybe it was time

for something hands-on, or knows-on, if you would. answer, calamity jane. well named, that dog. coming up -- >> that was the closest thing we had to a link. >> calamity jane stiffs out a clue and a sister his discovery is about to change the case. when dateline continues. but trelegy has shown me that there's still beauty and breath to be had. because with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open and prevents future flare-ups. and with one dose a day, trelegy improves lung function so i can breathe more freely all day and night. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition

or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. ♪ what a wonderful world ♪ ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy for copd because breathing should be beautiful. ( ♪♪ ) feel the power of osteo bi-flex®. taken every day, it's clinically shown to improve joint comfort in 7 days, with significant improvement over time. ( ♪♪ ) choose advil liqui-gels for faster, stronger and longer-lasting relief than tylenol rapid release gels because advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. so for faster pain relief, advil the pain away.

beckeith morrison: thepain at tweek after they buriedion. bryan rein near his childhood home in kansas, sister charlene came to montana curious about the progress of the investigation. and that's when local deputies told her about the mess up at the crime scene, how they threw away some potential evidence. charlene was horrified. keith morrison: have you ever heard of such a thing before? the week after they buried bryan rein near his childhood home in kansas, sister charlene came to montana, curious about the progress of the investigation, and that is when local deputies told her about the mess up at the crime scene,r

how they threw away some potential evidence. charlene was horrified. have you ever heard of such a thing before? >> no. he goes know, we cleaned it up. we didn't want the family to see it. i'm like why, where is everything? >> we got rid of it. >> but then when she went to her brothers bunkhouse, she discovered someone else must've gotten rid of something, too, something the cops did not know existed, and in an instant, charlene's discovery changed the whole theory of how the murder happened. >> they had found the gun beside him and i said well, where's the gun case? the gun case is missing. it was a gun case bryan had made. the gun was always either in it or beside it. >> a perimeter search of the property was organized and lo and behold, the gun holster, a leather case inscribed with rein's initials, was found lying in tall grass, 84 feet from dr. rein's door. how did it get way out there?

as he thought about it, the whole scene seemed to gel in ken thompson's mind. the way it happened, that is. the color must have stolen bryan's own gun while he was away at his conference then brought it back that night especially to kill bryan, discarding the holster on the way to the door. >> of it did not been for that holster out there, they could've been somebody came to the door, knocked at the door, bryan came to the door and maybe threatened him, the gun changed hands. >> it could've been, absolutely, but that holster being out there, there is just no other reason why that holster would be out there. >> that was agent thompson's theory, anyway. was tom jaraczeski capable of such a thing? he had already admitted he snuck into ann's house when it was empty and so, thought agent thompson, he must've been

perfectly capable of walking into dr. rein's place, too, and stealing that gun. >> he had plenty of opportunity to get the gun. the trailer was never locked. >> but why would he get bryan's gun? he could get again anywhere. >> you certainly have the ability to go over there undetected and walk into that trailer with ample time to look around and grabbed the gun. >> so, that became the leading theory. larry hagenbuch, the doctors trouble friend, if that was truly what he was, remained a person of interest but the primary suspect, no question, was still tom jaraczeski , but how to prove it? well, as luck would have it, a bloodhound is at the crime see that -- seen that day owned by a local guy, at dog named calamity jane. they let the dog sniff tom's baseball cap. >> the dog went into the trailer, went right out the back door, went right to where the holster had been found, went right to the bushes where

there was an indication that somebody had been standing in there. we believed that was a connection. that was the closest thing we had to a link from tom to the holster to a possible hiding spot. >> so you must've thought, we got him. >> well, it was the best that we had, given that we had no physical evidence. >> the poor thing kept trying to find some of that, too, at tom's place. what did they want from you? >> they took everything imaginable. they probably took at least 10 pairs of shoes and other items like sleeping bag, binoculars, the inside lining of a winter coat. >> but, not one thing from those searches could link tom to the crime. months passed. a year and more. back in kansas, bryan rein sisters watch their mother suffer. >> it got very difficult to

talk to her on a daily basis, because she was so down, and she wanted answers. >> she also frequently called agent thompson, and this is curious. so did thompson's prime suspect, tom jaraczeski. >> he was always wanting to know where we were in the investigation. >> turns out, tom also had something to share with investigators. coming up -- >> he says okay, i'm going to tell you something you didn't tell you before. >> tom changes his story and investigators pounce. another family distraught. >> i feel angry. you want to do anything you can to help him. >> and, help would arrive for tom jaraczeski in a most unusual way when dateline continues.

keith morrison: veterinarian bryan rein was

veterinarian bryan rein was dead. shot with his own gun. police quickly zeroed in on tom jaraczeski, a young man who admitted to some strange behavior after the dr.'s stole the love of his life. with no evidence linking him to the crime scene, the t -- case had stalled. january 1998, year and a half after the murder, detectives ran a bit to be bluff with tom. >> we posed it, why would we find anything in the house that would lead us to believe you were in the house? he said, i will tell you something i did not tell you before. >> detectives her time showed up at the place in the middle of the night saying his truck broke down. he needed a phone. back then, tom swore up and down that did not happen. but now? 18 months later?

and i just wanted to see if ann was there. i asked if i could use his phone. ken thompson: what type of evidence would you have left in that place? or could you have left? tom jaraczeski: could i have left? um, prints. i could have left some prints on the table. keith morrison: they didn't have tom's prints anywhere >> they didn't have his prints anywhere. tom admitted lying the first time and now was explaining how they might have found his dna or prints at bryan's place. >> he was only telling us things he knew we could confirm. >> from your experience, is that what guilty people do? >> yes. >> it wasn't long before -- >> i was leaving my apartment to go to work and some guy standing behind the stairs said, time, and i turned around. guns drawn and they put handcuffs on me. >> what was that like? >> shocking. i couldn't grasp it was

happening. >> tom jaraczeski wrote to fort benton . where they booked him into the county jail and charged him with deliberate homicide. what was it like to hear that? >> refreshing. good to have it solved and put it behind us. and, hopefully, mom and dad can keep going again. >> time in parents of five siblings tried to get their heads what seemed to them an outrageous accusation. cruel and unjust. what is it like to have your little brother facing life in prison? >> i feel angry. you want to do anything to help him. >> it was devastating. we'd never been through anything like that. >> it wasn't the money to hire some fancy high-priced attorney. time got a state appointed lawyer, bob peterson. what were your impressions of this kid. >> when i met him, knew he could not have done it.

>> oh, come on. what to think for a defense attorney to say. >> i have represented hundreds and hundreds of defendants. you get a sense of people and i got a sense of time. i was pretty sure he had not done it. as the evidence started rolling in, then i became very certain he was not the one. >> the attorney could've said lack of evidence because despite test after test, not a single physical thing. not dna or fingerprints or anything else connected time to those square feet where it happened. accept, there was plenty of circumstantial evidence. the phone calls. the stalking. middle of the nights visits to his bunkhouse and the days and weeks before the murder. most of all there was that dog.

calamity jane. who, with one sniffer time in baseball cap led the cops to the doorway of the bunkhouse to a grove of bushes where the cops found some footprints. the theory being that tom lay in wait for his opportunity to confront dr. rein at the door. calamity jane did her sniffing, the full 10 days after the body was found. what did attorney peterson think of that? >> to me that was not evidence. i made a motion before the judge to decide whether it should go before a jury. >> besides, he said, tom admitted he had been around there days earlier. that's what calamity jane hit on. bob peterson got calamity jane's handler on the witness stand at the hearing at the courthouse, and what do you know? neither dog nor handler word properly certified. >> when i asked for all the paperwork, he told me how he had put the paperwork about the dog and himself on the top of

his suburban, and it had all blown away so he could not provide a. >> not quite the dog ate my homework, but close. agent thompson was in the courtroom that they. >> what her as is when they asked him on the stand, that had happened 18 months earlier. where are your training documents since that time? he said he did not have any. i just -- i thought, oh my god. >> what did the judge do? he throughout the evidence and just like that, the state dismissed the case against tom. without calamity jane, the prosecution decided, there simply was not a provable case. tom jaraczeski was a free man. >> like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. it's done and over with. no more interrogations. no more search warrants. i can go on with my life.

>> bryan's family felt like they lost him all over again. >> that was disappointing. yeah. >> did you think at that point it's all over? we will never find out? >> maybe, one day. >> there was a reason she kept that in the back of her mind, both sides did. because the judge that day in 1998 dismissed the charge without prejudice. meaning? >> the state can bring a backup if they choose to. >> how much of a worry was that to you? >> you always have this nagging thing in the back of your mind as a defense attorney when something is dismissed without prejudice. you know something can happen in the future. >> ken thompson file it away as one lost cause, tough case that did not work out. >> i mean, you talk about a case where seemed everything was stacked against you.

this was that case. >> but, he did not let it go. just couldn't. there were no assignments. lots of other cases. years went by. but? >> i kept those 10 four ring binders. i move them from one office to another office to a third office. it was always on the bookcase. >> always on your mind. >> it was always on my mind. to solve its. >> there were times that ken would call and say we are working on it but we don't have anything. it just laid there. >> two years, five, 10, 13 the file steered from it shelf like an accusation. of course, we wouldn't be telling you this story of something didn't happen. would we? but what? turned out to be quite a

surprise. >> coming up. >> this is a homicide. we owe it to the family to go forward. >> another chance to solve the case. case. hey, flo. cool leg warmers. thanks. they are just for the bus ride to work. they are not part of the official uniform. no tunes today? no. my apartment was robbed last night. took my cable ready tv, vcr, portable cassette player. yup. all the latest tech. if only progressive had renter's insurance like their home insurance. then we could bundle our cars and get the same 24/7 protection. -i think we just invented that. -huh. this is the best day ever. well i still got robbed. well still pretty good day. it's started. it's... the side hug. tween milestones like this may start at age 9.

hpv vaccination—a type of cancer prevention against certain hpv-related cancers, can start then too. for most, hpv clears on its own. but for others, it can cause certain cancers later in life. you're welcome! now, as the “dad cab”, it's my cue to help protect them. embrace this phase. help protect them in the next. ask their doctor today about hpv vaccination. introducing new advil targeted relief. the only topical pain reliever with 4 powerful pain-fighting ingredients that start working on contact to target tough pain at the source. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. new advil targeted relief. (marci) so, how long have you lived here? (opponent)8 hours oover forty years.. (marci) and how are the restaurants around here? are they good, bad, meh? what's the average household income? is there a mall? i don't know. a hair salon? where do you get your hair done? (opponent) you gonna move, or what? (marci) oh, i'm sorry. it's a lovely neighborhood. (luke) marci, we've gotta go. (marci) i'm coming! (luke) we've got seventeen thousand more parks to visit.

(marci) you wanna give me a hand? (luke) we bring you the best neighborhood info. (vo) ding dong! homes-dot-com. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up ♪ ♪ i've got symptom relief ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me ♪ (♪♪) ♪ control is everything to me ♪ feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi is the first il-23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. and skyrizi is proven to help deliver long-lasting remission at one year. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to. liver problems may occur in crohn's disease. now's the time to ask your gastroenterologist how you can take control of your crohn's with skyrizi.

(♪♪) ♪ control is everything to me ♪ learn how abbvie could help you save. sleep more deeply and wake up rejuvenated. purple mattresses exclusive gel flex grid draws away heat, relieves pressure and instantly adapts. sleep better. live purple. right now save up to $800 off mattress sets at purple. visit purple.com or a store near you today keith morrison: accusations like the one do accusations like the one leveled at tom jaraczeski can do corrosive things to a person.

sour the joy of his sunrise on the montana prairie. alter the look on her neighbor's face at the local store. after prosecutors decided to dismiss murder charges against him, tom felt like he could not live here anymore. >> i couldn't stay in montana. i needed to move away. i decided to move to south dakota. >> you set up a new life there. >> i did. i got married. had a couple of kids. life was good. >> truly you thought it was over? >> i really did. i never thought it would come back again. >> neither did ann although she firmly believed that tom killed bryan, the man she left him for. montana soured for her too. she went to visit a sister in arkansas and stayed.

never found out that tom moved away. >> i didn't feel i could go back home to montana. >> why? >> because tom was there. i thought if he's willing to kill somebody to be with me, i did not know what he would do. >> corrosive. that's what it was. but then, 13 years after the murder, this man got a new job. this is brant light who in 2009 became the top prosecutor in the montana attorney general office and one of his duties was to help small counties prosecute difficult cases. cold cases. >> we don't get the slam dunks turned over to us. we get the older and difficult cases. we are expected to go forward. >> like the one ken thompson had never given up on solving. >> i felt comfortable saying would you just review this and

see what you think? >> what did you think when you review the information? was at work trying again? >> we had some work to do. i wanted them to make sure everybody was still around. we had to see the shape the evidence was in? >> evidence resubmitted to the crime lab. witnesses reinterviewed. more years passed. was their case to be made to let it go? how do you look at these things? >> i would let it go with we don't have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. this is a homicide. we owe it to the family to go forward. in my bureau, that's what we do. >> in february 2014, nearly 18 years after the murder, agent thompson travel to south dakota with an arrest warrant for tom jaraczeski who heard his name called out one day at work and was ushered into the back of a police car. >> i was wondering what the hell is going on here?

maybe a minute went by then ken thompson popped his head through the door, and said, tom, remember me? i told you i would be back for you. >> tom called his family and asked them to track down the attorney who helped him so much all those years before, bob peterson. who, for some reason, had been listening to a voice in his head all those years that told him, keep the file. >> usually i destroy my files after 10 years. for whatever reason, i maintained his files. >> and, so, when tom was charged again with murder, peterson got busy. he got time out on bond attached to a gps monitor, and then he read through his old files. and asked to see the prosecution's new evidence. >> my position was, let's see what they think they have. >> when he did?

attorney peterson could not of been more surprised. >> it was almost verbatim the same affidavit that was used in 1998 to charge him. >> no new evidence? >> i couldn't believe they would bring these charges back up again and not have one piece of new evidence to justify them doing that. >> you are mad. >> it made me mad. i'm not being very outraged about that. we defense attorneys have to control our emotions. >> who was he angry with? >> we had a prosecutor with a big ego, fashioned himself to be a cold case expert, and investigator who is student about the case since the beginning of it in 1996, and had an obsession with tom. all he wanted to do was get it

squared away before he retired. >> you are not really suggesting that a detective would not persuade a prosecutor to go ahead with the case, a favorite case of his, because he happened to be retiring? >>. i really am. >> to which investigator thompson and light would reply, it was just as they had in mind and not retirement. when attorney peterson asked the judge to throw out the murder charge? the answer was oh, no. it was not going to go away. not this time. >> coming up. >> it was murder that was planned. a murder that was premeditated. >> after almost 20 years, that case heads to court. ds to cour.

brant light: i think tom jaraczeski had finally made up his mind, and i don't think he had any problem going in the trailer. and i think he located the gun. keith morrison: tom jaraczeski in a fight for his life,

hi, i'm david, and i lost 92 pounds on golo. my life partner connie and i were in really rough shape when dateline continues. regarding our health. and our doctors told us that we needed to lose weight. i saw a golo commercial and i thought, "we really need to try this." as the weeks went by, the weight came off. we learned to make healthy choices and be supportive of each other. together, we've lost 170 pounds. golo worked for us. since losing weight on golo, i'm feeling grateful and hopeful about the future. (energizing music)

- [narrator] life with ear ringing sounded like a constant train whistle i couldn't escape. then i started taking lipo flavonoid. with 60 years of clinical experience, it's the number one doctor recommended brand for ear ringing. and now i'm finally free. take back control with lipo flavonoid. when we're young, we're told anything is possible... ...but only a few of us go out and prove it. witness the greatness of anna hall on a connection worthy of gold: xfinity mobile. only xfinity gives you the most powerful mobile wifi network, with speeds up to a gig in millions of locations. and right now, xfinity internet customers

can buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. get the fastest connection to paris with xfinity. bunkhouse was long gone. burned. it's ambers ground into prairie test. the young woman who'd fallen hard for the dashing veterinary

and was a mother of three. the young man accused of killing dr. bryan rein had growing sons of his own. two decades were a mere whisker of time to the law, and the historic county courthouse where, in september 2015, six years after the case was reopened, 19 years after the murder, tom's sister and the risk of the family assembled on one side of the courtroom. >> it was hard seeing people that you thought were your friends sitting on the other side of the courtroom. >> that would be a number of local people along with dr. rein's family whose attitudes was unlike that of many victim's families. >> i remember having a sinking feeling thinking, can we not

let this go and be done with it? >> so you weren't excited to finally justice would be done? >> nope. >> a tough case, to be sure said the prosecutor. >> to throw up your hands and say it's too tough for i don't want to lose a case, that's not right. >> mind you, the prosecutor could not be in the courtroom. he had another fight on his hands against lung cancer. he handed the trial to two trusted deputies. dan and mary. >> it was murder. it was murder that was planned. it was murder that was premeditated, and it was a murder where no evidence would be left. >> the big evidence was tom jaraczeski's bizarre behavior in the weeks after ann woke up with them and began dating dr. rein. this friend of and's testified. >> i thought bryan should watch his back. >> and told the jury about the hangup calls about the time

that tom snuck into her house and read her diary. about his middle of the night visits to dr. rein's trailer. >> i am scared. what was going to happen after tom had been acting weird. >> the stocking was unbelievable. he was overwhelmed by the fact that he had lost ann wishman. he had done everything he could to try to break them up. i think at the very end when he understood that was not going to happen, the only thing left was to take rein out of the picture. >> in fact, remember this? ann testified that she said tom once threatened to do just that should she ever cheat on him with any other guy. >> he said, if you cheat on me, i will kill him and i will kill you or i will want to kill you. >> tom has long denied ever saying that. even after the murder, ann

said, tom kept pursuing her. letters, cards, phone calls. >> he said he dreamed we had gotten married and we had kids. was telling me, you know, went into detail of life we were living together. >> then the strange story that one of tom's next girlfriends told the jury. >> did he ever mention to you an ex-girlfriend named ann? >> yes. >> he said he wished the veterinarian was dead so he and ann could get back together because that is what was keeping them apart. >> but by then, he was long dead. by tom's own hand, the prosecutors argued. >> nobody else had the opportunity, nobody else had the means in this tiny community to kill rein as tom did. >> so, how did he do it? he put his plan into action said the prosecutor when dr.

rein was away at the conference, before returning home friday, july 12. >> i think he said he had finally made up his mind. i don't think he had a problem going in the trailer and i think he located the gun. >> he argued the time stole dr. rein's own gun. that friday night, tom place to hang up call to dr. rein at 9:45 p.m. to ensure he was home. soon after that, second call to a second location. in another town half an hour down the road. >> he calls and ann answers so now we hangs up. now he know she is in great falls, 36 miles away. >> he knew he could go over there and not find anybody there besides bryan. >> he got into his atv and headed to the bunkhouse. is that what his neighbors saw? >> towards evening, did see a four wheeler go by.

the atv was dark green. >> he owns a green and black atv. within 19 years, no one has stepped forward to determine who else in that small community had a green and black atv. nobody did. >> and tom arrived at the bunkhouse the prosecutor said, he waited in the bushes where he could see dr. rein's door. >> he's got the weapon they are ended in the appropriate time, he decides he is going to walk to the back door. >> that must've been one time through the holster in the grass where it was found later, said prosecutor light. >> it happened said ann makes a call to bryan and they talk about getting a restraining order against tom jaraczeski. then ann said bryan almost abruptly gets off the phone as if somebody is there. >> according to ann, that was 10:40 p.m. >> i think bryan did not hurt

him. went to the back door and at that point when there is tom jaraczeski sitting on the back porch, has a gun, i think immediately bryan knew what was going on and the fight was on. i think it was a struggle. i think he shot him twice in the arm. i think bryan struggled to get the phone and tom shot him in the chest. left the weapon. got on the atv. >> and took off? >> took off. he hurt his back so the next day he had to go to the hospital. there you go. >> that was the prosecution's case. all circumstantial. no physical evidence was ever found to link him to the murder scene, but the pieces said the prosecution, the together to tell quite the story. only a story, time's defenders were about to say. a tall tale, if you will. which, they added, a good

montana steak would undo in a hurry. >> coming up. >> the state concluded the time of death was friday night. why? >> a whole new theory. >> it doesn't seem a plausible time of death. >> his last meal would tell a tale of its own. own. this is a hot flash. but this is a not flash. for moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms due to menopause... ...veozah is the first and only prescription treatment that directly blocks a source of hot flashes and night sweats. with 100% hormone-free veozah... ...you can have fewer hot flashes... ...and more not flashes. veozah reduces the number and severity of hot flashes day and night. don't use veozah if you have cirrhosis, severe kidney problems, kidney failure, or take cyp1a2 inhibitors.

increased liver blood test values may occur. your doctor will check them before and during treatment. most common side effects include stomach pain, diarrhea, difficulty sleeping, and back pain. ask your doctor about hormone-free veozah... ...and enjoy more not flashes. you could save on veozah. visit saveonveozah.com to learn more.

hi, i'm richard lui with a news update. forecasters saying tropical storm barrel is expected to regain hurricane strength. the hurricane center says it said to approach the south texas coach by sunday. surge warnings have been issued for portions of the state. an oscar-winning producer who worked closely with james cameron has died. he partnered with cameron on the 1997 film, titanic. they work together on the avatar film series. no cause of death was given.

he was 63. bryan rein's sister the murder trial of tom jaraczeski. they re-felt all the anger, loss, grief they had tried to put behind them. >> i distinctly remember sitting there almost feeling great, we have to relive this all over again. >> like attending a nightmare version of his funeral. >> at this funeral, we are not saying anything nice. >> because the sisters knew the defense attorney bob peterson and his new cocounsel would not only attack the case against tom jaraczeski but they would bring up all the old long forgotten gossip about rein. what a ladies man he was purported to be.

>> when they went on about how he was a womanizer and having multiple affairs. >> she knew it was coming, but the defense went beyond that and cast doubt on the very idea this 19-year-old mystery could be solved at all. >> throughout this trial, you will have the urge to want to solve this, and that's only natural. this case cannot be solved. >> that was the biggest point, your desire is going to want to close the book. close the chapter. give this family the relief they deserve, but it cannot be done. >> all that immature behaviors said the defense could not change two facts that tom had never been a violent person and , that not a shred of physical evidence linked tom to the

murder scene said this forensic scientist. >> you never found any fingerprint belonging to tom jaraczeski in any of the items that you tested, did you? >> i did not. >> that had his creepy behavior, sure. beyond that, they had nothing. they had nothing inside the house that connected him to this offense. there is no hair or fiber or blood or tissue. anything like that found inside the trailer. found on rein himself. found outside the trailer that belong to tom. trust me, they looked. >> the first responders all those years ago gave the defense a juicy target, given how they treated the murder at first like a suicide. >> you didn't take blood swabs that day. >> not that day. >> you did not take fingerprints that day.

>> what about throwing away potential evidence like the telephone they found under dr. rein's head? >> we looked at it and decided there was nothing on it to save it or we would not have thrown it out. >> the defense called them to the stand one by one to admit their mistakes. >> looking back, deputy, you probably should not have done that. >> we shouldn't have. >> if the state could make such a mess, confusing the manner of death, said the defense, maybe it's theory about the time of death was wrong too. >> the state had concluded that the time of death was friday night. our question to them always has been, why? why did they choose that time other than it's the only time that tom doesn't have an alibi? >> what if the state was wrong? and facts of the defenders, the state was wrong. how did they know? well, for one thing, there was

cody, dr. rein's dog. >> if the state's theory was correct, cody would've been left in the trailer with no exit through friday to saturday night until sunday morning without going to the bathroom at all. there was no evidence he had gone to the bathroom in the house. >> dr. rein's sisters disputed the idea that cody could not offend some way in and out of the trailer, but, the defense said, they had even more dramatic evidence that the murder did not happen until at the earliest, saturday morning when tom had an alibi. remember, dr. rein returned home from a conference friday night. but, at about 7:00 p.m. that evening, two local men testified that he stopped for dinner at a place. >> we ate and visited with him. >> what dr. rein had for dinner

according to the witnesses destroyed the theory of time of death. it was this retired rancher too ill to testify in person who delivered the haymaker, by remembering, clearly he said, what rein had on his plate. >> can you recall what he was doing when you sat down across from him ? >> i -- other than eating, montana steak, that's what he seemed to be -- >> a steak. why was that important? because, the autopsy, the one in which time of death was left blank, did not reveal any steak in his digestive tract. how could that be if he died friday night? the defense called a forensic bad colleges. >> if he had eaten a steak at 7:00 p.m. at night, and was shot and

killed at 11:00 p.m., would there be steak still in his stomach contents? >> yeah. my opinion is it does not seem like a plausible time of death. >> what was in dr. rein's stomach? according to the doctor who did the autopsy -- >> appeared to be scrambled eggs and green pepper and tomato. >> and the bunkhouse, eggshells in the garbage. dirty dishes in the sink as if he made breakfast. although dr. rein's sister testified it was his habit to stay up late, make eggs, and work late into the night, the defense of the evidence pointed that dr. rein being killed not friday night but sometimes saturday. and there was a certain someone who had no alibi for saturday. someone you have already met. remember him? larry hagenbuch was about to

take the witness stand. >> and, it is your statement that you went home, is that right? >> correct. >> you were home alone that night? >> correct. >> they were about to imply that the killer could have been him. >> coming up. >> a told us woman that rein was shot with his own gun. >> the 19-year-old mystery takes ace sudden twist. >> he started describing things you wouldn't know unless you had been there. . discover the power of wegovy®. ♪ ♪ with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. ♪ ♪ and i'm keeping the weight off. wegovy® helps you lose weight and keep it off. i'm reducing my risk.

wegovy® is the only fda-approved weight-management medicine that's proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight. wegovy® shouldn't be used with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines. don't take wegovy® if you or your family had medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop wegovy® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may happen, including pancreatitis and gallbladder problems. wegovy® may cause low blood sugar in people with diabetes, especially if you take medicines to treat diabetes. tell your provider about vision problems or changes, or if you feel your heart racing while at rest. depression or thoughts of suicide may occur. call your provider right away if you have any mental changes. common side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. with wegovy®, i'm losing weight, i'm keeping it off. and i'm lowering my cv risk. that's the power of we. ♪ ♪

check your cost and coverage before talking to your health care professional about wegovy®. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitivity protection. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients. ♪♪ stay ahead of your moderate-to-severe eczema. and show off clearer skin and less itch with dupixent, the #1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists and allergists,

that helps heal your skin from within. serious allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems such as eye pain or vision changes including blurred vision, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines without talking to your doctor. ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid. get all-day and all-night heartburn acid prevention with just one pill a day. choose acid prevention. choose nexium. we are developing agents... choo with powers faron. beyond mortal men or you might just explode. [ laughing ]

98 his truck, tom jaraczeski's defense team attempted to flip the playing field. not only did they challenge the prosecution's theory that dr. rein's murder occurred on a friday night, they also pointed their suspicion that a man who had no alibi for saturday. larry hagenbuch. that front of dr. rein's whose wife was leaving him, who had used medication he purloined from dr. rein to commit suicide a month before the murder. >> you took this combination of pills so you could check out. you wanted to kill yourself. >> it was time. i was done with all the bs. >> timmy, it's plausible that larry goes to mr. rein's

trailer and he's upset. he has been drinking. he wants either more pills from dr. rein and he refuses, and larry goes for the gun. >> the thing is the day the body was discovered, larry admitted he had gone to the bunkhouse, and the morning after? larry broke down crying in the waiting room of a counselor's office and while people listened, he described things only someone with intimate knowledge of the crime scene would know about. >> he started describing things you would not know unless you had been there. that dr. rein was laying on his back with his feet crossed. blood all over. the one fact i think that's the most important that stood out to me was he told this woman on monday morning that mr. rein was shot with his own gun. >> in fact, this woman who worked in the office overheard larry. >> did he make any statement

about who's gun that was? >> he said it was bryan's. >> during that investigation, these officers did not know this was mr. rein's own firearm that had been used. in the shooting. to me, that stood out as a major red flag. >> how did you know bryan was shot with his own gun? >> i don't. i probably said a gun. by that time i was in shock. >> do you recall telling her rein was shot saturday night? do you recall telling her that you were going to have a six pack of beer with him? >> no. >> so if she knows that information, monday morning, do you know where she would've gotten that information? >> i guess for me but i don't remember that. i remember telling her, my best

friend got shot. >> so, nobody saw you from saturday morning, 7:00 a.m. until dashes they didn't see you all saturday night? >> correct. >> sunday -- you come out to bryan's trailer. that is the first time anybody sees you from saturday morning until sunday morning? >> correct. >> larry denied any role in the shooting and detectives did not charge him with anything, the but the defense made its point. >> they made a decision that mr. rein died friday night. and, so, larry was around some people friday night, but all day saturday and saturday night and sunday morning, he was not around anyone. >> as if to twist a knife, the defense brought up one more thing. the thing that so upset dr. rein's sisters. the fact that in the underwear dr. rein was wearing at the time of his death, there was dna that was on identified.

>> my question would be as to when that would've gotten there and how and more importantly, who? >> the implication that he was seeking and having sex with someone in addition to ann. another potential suspect added to the pot. >> we are seeing tom may not be the only ex-boyfriend out there who would've been upset with mr. rein. >> that was tom jaraczeski's defense . did you kill him? >> no i did not. >> do you think larry hagenbuch killed the doctor? >> i have no idea who killed bryan . i know what it's like to be an innocent person wrongly accused and i am not going to sit here and accuse somebody else. >> the end was coming. very soon. >> coming up. >> tom jaraczeski was the only

person with the opportunity, the only person with the motive to take bryan rein out of the world. he committed this crime masterfully. >> did he or didn't he? t he? what would it be? tom jaraczeski: put my head down on the table and i cried. [coughing] copd hasn't been pretty. it's tough to breathe and tough to keep wondering if this is as good as it gets. but trelegy has shown me that there's still beauty and breath to be had. because with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy keeps my airways open and prevents future flare-ups. and with one dose a day, trelegy improves lung function so i can breathe more freely all day and night. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it.

do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. ♪ what a wonderful world ♪ ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy for copd because breathing should be beautiful. ( ♪♪ ) feel the power of osteo bi-flex®. taken every day, it's clinically shown to improve joint comfort in 7 days, with significant improvement over time. ( ♪♪ ) choose advil liqui-gels for faster, stronger and longer-lasting relief than tylenol rapid release gels because advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. so for faster pain relief, advil the pain away.

because advil targets pain at the source of inflammation.

keith morrison: imagine the poor jury with such a decision imagine the poor jury with such a decision to make. the dreadful loss of a young man with a bright future, but 19 years, a generation ago, had an suspicious behavior by the defendant been no physical evidence. they did have to answer the question, did tom jaraczeski pull the trigger? for prosecutors, the question for the jury was, who else could have done it? >> tom jaraczeski was the only person with the opportunity, the only person with the motive to take bryan rein out of this world. he did it. he committed this crime masterfully. >> the defense and its closing took a swipe at ken thompson, the agent who would not let the case go. >> you don't convict people because the lead investigator

is retiring and wants this case resolved. just so we can close the book. >> agent thompson wasn't in the courtroom to hear the lawyers and casey carried around so long. >> i felt the need to get out of there. i had to get away and reflect and think about it. >> the jury went out the next day. they did not return as quickly as one side expected. >> it's the worst time when you have a jury out, every hour that went by was pretty painful. >> and then, minutes before the 5:00 whistle. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. has the jury reached a verdict? >> i kept thinking if they said guilty, i thought, i am going to fall down. >> my heart was beating so hard, so fast.

i was either going to have a life was not going to have a life. >> we, the jury to try the issues in the above entitled cause into the following unanimous verdict. to the charge of deliberate homicide, not guilty. >> not guilty. >> i cried. i put my head on the table and cried. >> i put my arm around him and said it's over. >> the case is dismissed. the defendant is free to go. thank you. >> his family overjoyed. watched them cut off the gps monitor. >> did you realize it was over? >> yeah. it was a sense of relief and seeing tears of happiness for my family, it's the greatest thing ever. calling my boys up in south

dakota, telling them i am coming home. that was a wonderful call to make. >> while that was going on, across a courtroom -- do you remember that moment? >> [ crying ] i do. >> yeah. almost like you lost him all over again. >> [ crying ] >> i remember walking out and thinking, it turned out exactly the way thought it would. why did you waste our time? >> ken thompson didn't think so. but? >> i was disappointed. i truly was more at peace that people got to hear it all. because the jury said he was

not guilty, i don't think it changes anything. >> what do you believe? >> he got away with murder. >> clearly not what the jury believed. we asked the judge who spoke to the jurors after the trial. >> this was an incredibly tough case to prove. it was tough to prove in 1998. it became an incredibly tough case to prove in 2015. >> what did the jury think were the weaknesses? >> timing. they wanted to know why this case was coming to trial after 19 years. i think juries are motivated by what they see on tv. and, when they see an old case on tv, they expect that there was some new, scientific, technological advance. >> dna or something. >> dna that suddenly cracked

open this cold case after 19 years and brought it forward. that is not this case. >> a couple of months after the verdict, we spent sometimes with the woman at the center of that long-ago love triangle. who discovered she is still tormented by a guilt that will not go away. she wonders, if it had not been for her, would dr. rein be alive? it is odd whether or not tom killed dr. rein and especially if he did not, ann could've had nothing to feel guilty about, and yet, she does. i know everybody says, stop it. it's not your fault. it really is not. not even for a moment. >> i was hoping that if he was convicted the feeling would go away. that's what i wanted. i wanted them to say he was

guilty. and then i could quit feeling guilty. they didn't. >> they didn't. >> now i have to figure out -- >> the prosecutor believing he had the right guy all along closed the case. but the judge? >> i mean it when i told the jurors when they wanted to find out who did this, when they wanted to solve this crime, that literally, if they believe there is another world they go to some day, look at bryan rein when you get there and ask him who killed him? that is the only way that we will ever know who killed bryan rein. hello, i'm craig melvin. this is dateline. >> i