that's what all the history says, but they need the support to get it done right and get it there in time. >> mark, thank you so much for being with me. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. i'm sam seeder. good night. i have a lot of guilt. it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i was the responsible one. >> a working mom, new at the office. she loved her job, and really loved her handsome young boss. >> the thing that i never wanted to face was the hurt that i was going to cause. >> a passionate 9:00 to 5:00 affair. the problem? she was married. and so was he. >> i grabbed his face and i was like, you know what? i love you.

i'm not going anywhere, just tell me what's happening. >> cheating husbands, scheming wives. suburbs are full of secrets. being unfaithful to your spouse isn't a crime, is it? that would come next. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> it was just like every emotion possible all in one second. >> i went, oh, my god! >> murder in the dark. who was behind it? and who would pay? >> when you see him on the video, he's armed and ready. >> two couples, two families, and the single moment that shattered it all. >> i knew one day that this was all going to come out. >> "deadly desire." hello and welcome to "dateline extra," i'm craig melvin. kandi hall was reeling from her husband rob's infidelity. then then she started an affair of

her own. the office romance gave kandi a new lease on leitcife, but she found herself tangled the a twisted love triangle. untangling what happened in that parking lot late one evening would fall to the police. here's keith morrison. >> look at this place now. so ordinary. with its pharmacy, its grocery store, carefully tended parking places, so alike the suburban strip malls from bismarck to bakersfield. but that night, that cold night a heat gathered here. sweet, terrifying, doomed. >> for the longest time, i couldn't go anywhere. because i'm thinking -- everybody's looking at me. >> this is the story of two married couples, how the advice they can offer others now that it's too late for them. >> i think if i could tell them

anything, it would be put your family first. >> but of course, that's not what happened. and this parking lot, there will be a body here before we're done. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> careful when you stir the hot pot of desire. the place is meridian, idaho. little brother to bigger boise here in the foothills of the majestic rook can is. this is where they got to their perfect place. the end of their rainbow. it was 2006 and luck was on their side. they had just moved from southern california and they were happy. they were fulfilled at work. they had two beautiful children. they had everything they ever wanted. they were rob and kandi hall. one of those charmed couples who had fallen in love at first sight. in their case, first sight meant admiring each other in the gym.

>> we went out that weekend and then we never stopped. >> what was it about that relationship? what was it about him that you liked so much, that was so good? >> we just connected instantly. >> by the time rob and kandi moved to idaho, they had been together for years. had two teenage daughters. rob landed an excellent job as a as a computer specialist at the ada county sheriff's office, specializing in vehicle locators inside squad cars. >> he loved every minute of his job. >> and as if it was a sign that this is where they belonged, kandi's career as a paralegal took off, too. she was a natural. could and did sell her confidence and skills to anybody who walked in the door. >> it didn't hurt that she was pretty. >> no, i didn't. and her coworker, sophia, idolized kandi. you became close? >> we became very close. she was just like a mother to me. >> yes, it was just all about

perfect. and then, who knows why these things happen exactly, they just do. and no one imagined, why would they, how this thing was going to end. about eight months into his new job, rob started traveling for work. nothing unusual about that, of course. but soon, he seemed to be staying away from home a little longer than he really had to. started snapping at her, too, kandi said, about little things. not like the old rob at all. so, at this point, you begin to suspect something. >> yeah. i start thinking, what is going on? why are you acting like this? >> and then one night, after a late flight in from california, rob laid down beside his wife in bed and it all came tumbling out. >> he just started to cry. and he said, i'm having an affair. and i laid my head on his chest and i said, rob, please, just fix it. >> you didn't get upset, you

didn't say, you didn't yell, you didn't scream, you didn't cry, you didn't do anything? >> that's what shocked him. you know, the typical response is, get the hell out. >> you throw the clothes out the window. >> oh, no. the last person on this planet you would think to have an affair would be robert. >> but of course, it was devastating, crippling. every day she went to work, and every day sofia saw her friend turn herself inside out and just seemed to wither. >> i watched her go through misery, sobbing in her hands daily and just trying to figure out what this woman had that she didn't. >> did she still love him? >> yes. dearly. >> and wanted the marriage to continue in spite of the affair? >> yeah, she did. she didn't want to believe in her head that he found something in this woman that wasn't in kandi. >> well, he felt bad about it, agreed to go through counseling with kandi -- but --

>> after he confessed to you and you said fix it, he didn't. >> he didn't know what he wanted. >> no, come on. he wanted to keep going with the affair. that's what he wanted. >> i for sure told him to stop. >> stop right now or i'll stamp my foot and hold my breath. and he kept doing it. >> it was my fault. he a void because of me. that's what i was thinking. >> what do you think the void might have been? or what did you think the void might have been? >> i just was boring. >> boring old kandi hall, rejected, apparently unlovable, and nearly 40. and then one day at work, kandi was introduced to a recent law school graduate who was looking to staff his new office. a boyishly handsome, smart as a whip, cocky young lawyer. his name was emmett corrigan. >> my friend, she said, emmett, you've not got to meet kandi. i mean, she's just as passionate and aggressive as you are, and she would be great for you. >> and something suddenly lifted

in kandi hall. by the time those words had left her friend's mouth, kandi knew. she just knew. >> kandi hall was about to make a choice that would have consequences she never imagined. deadly ones. coming up -- >> the text popped up and rob read it. >> three unfaithful spouses and their lies are piling up. >> i could hear him through the baby monitor. the hard part then was not a word he said was true. >> when "deadly desire" continues. ntinues.r own well-be, aetna never did. we're always here to help you focus on your health. because it's always, time for care.

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in boise, idaho, inside this law office in the fall of 2010, was a paralegal whose charmed life was falling apart. kandi hall was an unhappy woman. her marriage was dying or dead.

her 40th birthday was bearing down like a chinese bullet train. and then one day, it goes worse. kandi's boss told her she was also unemployed. my husband's had an affair. now my attorney who i work for has fired me. >> yep. pretty low. >> such problems. and then there was him. emmett corrigan fixed everything. he was handsome and he thought she was gorgeous. and, of course, he hired her right away for his new law office, and, well, you know what came next. soon there were racy emails, spicy text messages. >> i would like to be put on that pedestal and emmett made me feel that way. pretty much of an ego boost for me. >> and she really wasn't trying to get back at her husband, said kandi, at least not consciously. >> i was thinking about me and only me. you know what?

it made me feel good. it made me feel like i was on top of the world. >> sitting here now, is kandi still thinking only of kandi? perhaps as you heard the rest of the story, you could be the judge of that. anyway, back then, there were a few hitches in kandi's newfound fantasy life. to start with, emmett was also married, and lived in this quiet cul-de-sac, just a couple of miles from kandi with this woman. his wife, ashley. >> he was just a guy that everybody wanted to be around. >> enthusiastic, full of energy? >> sometimes too much energy, but that's kind of one of the things i loved about him. >> just like kandi and rob, ashley and emmett met in a gym. theirs was in college in utah, 2003. also inseparable from that moment on. and they certainly made a striking young couple. they were married after just six months together, made their vows before god and the church in the lds temple.

and -- >> we both were like, you know what? i think i'm ready to be a parent. >> first came twin girls, followed soon by a son and then another daughter. >> he loved being a dad as much as i loved being a mom. >> in the winter, they went skiing and sledding. in the summer, they camped and swam at the lake they so loved. they made memories. ashley never doubted this was how their life was supposed to be. she was pregnant with her fifth child when her ambitious husband opened his law office that fall of 2010. and made the fateful decision to hire a paralegal named kandi hall. not that he had any idea he was sealing his fate, of course. anymore that his wife ashley understood his private motivations. did you suspect she was involved with emmett? >> with emmett? >> yeah. >> no. >> why? >> the way he described her was an older woman who he looked up to in motherly way.

he said, she just believes in me, she thinks i'm going to be this great lawyer. >> and you saw her and she was an older woman. >> she was almost 40 and i was 28, so it wasn't something that i felt, like, a competition of, i guess. >> but for the many reasons that plainly escape those that aren't seated smack in the hot stove of desire themselves, emmett and kandi thought otherwise. they tried to keep their hands off each other for alittle while, said their coworkers, but if they believed they were hiding their obvious infatuation, their messy hair, hastily rearranged clothes, they were only fooling themselves. >> i noticed a significant change in her attitude. went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy. you know and -- >> spring in her step again? >> oh, yeah. >> such timing. now that rob seemed to want to fix their marriage, kandi became a study in pretense. honesty took a holiday. >> i was living a lie.

being in an affair is being in one big lie. you lie about everything. >> yes. and she lied to herself, too. you were thinking of you and he together, striding across the bow of the "titanic." this is going to be it for you forever. >> yes. >> and one night, a couple of months into the affair, events suddenly ticked measurably toward their deadly conclusion. around bedtime, kandi received a text from emmett and couldn't hide it. >> the text popped up and rob red it and i said, "i wish i was there were you tonight." >> what did he say? >> he was angry. kandi, what is this? and i said, i don't know. so he calls emmett. rob goes, why are you texting my wife? at this time of night? >> emmett's answer? two minutes later, he showed up at rob's house, they talked like dueling lovers out on the sidewalk.

then rob came back inside. >> rob tossed my phone up on our bed and he said, you win. i can't compete. he's young. he's a good-looking guy, he's an attorney. you make him a lot of money. what good am i? and he was just devastated. >> now you got yourself a pretty complicated life at this stage. >> yeah. >> of course, that february 2011, emmett's life was complicated, too. ashley could see how stressed he was, didn't understand it. that or why he seemed to avoid coming home. >> there was one time when my son asked me if he lived with us anymore. and later in the bedroom, he's like, what's that all about? and he's like, well, we miss you. and he just kind of yelled and screamed and left. >> ashley thought maybe it was her fault. she went to marriage counseling, emmett refused to go.

>> i had felt really pushed away and was trying to find an answer and tried to surprise him by cleaning out his car and found a weird envelope. >> a weird envelope? >> just an envelope with some sort of pill. i researched online and one of the side effects was problems with intimacy and sexuality, and i thought maybe if he was doing that, that that could explain why he didn't necessarily want me. >> did you take it personally, too, though? >> you want to be everything that they want. so, it was hard not to take personal. >> especially when emmett, who had been working out more and more, announced he was going to a fitness competition in ohio on their wedding anniversary. what did that feel like? >> lonely. he called and said, happy anniversary, i'll call you later. but didn't call back. and the night before he came

home, my oldest son who was -- he had just turned 4, was screaming one night for probably two hours, my dad's going to die, my dad's going to die, he's going to die and i just held him, trying calling him but he never answered his phone and it was a very strange weekend. >> strange? strange is not a big enough word to describe what was about to happen. coming up -- >> i literally was like, emmett, please, do not leave. and he said, no, i'm leaving. >> a secret meeting at wall greens and something will go horribly wrong. >> i said, no, i'm not doing this and he said, oh, we are doing this. >> when "deadly desire" continues.

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welcome back. rob hall seemed defeated after learning his wife, kandi, was having an affair with a much younger man who happened to be her boss, emmett cory began.

and emmett's wife, ashley, she was confused by his odd behavior, but did not know his secrets. not yet. each marriage was hanging by a thread and one of those threads was about to snap. returning to our story, here again is keith morrison. >> it was the 11th of march, 2011. this was it. the big event. d-day, you could say. it was early evening, cold as the sun went down in meridian, cold and bleak, and at two homes in particular, it was very bleak indeed. kandi hall arrived home from work to find her husband rob packing boxes. to leave? what other reason could there be? >> i know we were probably coming down to the wire. >> yur you're having the kind of unfair fights that married couple have all the time. they betray each other with abandon and wonder why it doesn't work out. >> yeah.

the thing i never wanted to face was the hurt that i was going to cause on so many people. i knew one day that this was all going to come out. but the way that it usually ends up. >> well, now you can only look back and wish it had turned out that way. >> right. >> around the same time across town, perhaps two miles away, ashley had just made the mistake of telling her hus 'band emmettn her desperate state of worry, she'd asked her family members to pray for them. >> he said, your family? i hate your family. i could beat your brother up, i could kill all of you. and i grabbed his face and i said, you know what? i love you. i'm not going anywhere. i don't care what it is. just tell me what's happening. and i don't know. i felt like that was the last chance and he didn't take it. he didn't open up about anything. >> that night, though, a trusted family member who had agreed to

help con sell tunsel the couple and emmett answered the phone. >> he went back into the bedroom and i could hear everything he was say iing becae the baby monitor was on. the hard part then was that nothing was true. >> what did he say? >> he said, i think she's sle sleeping with that person. then, i flipped the baby monitor. and he said how did it go? it went good. he thinks i'm as crazy as i do. and i said, do i get a turn? he said, you can, but you don't get to use my phone. and emmett said i'm going to run to walgreens, and i'll be right back. i put the phone down. i literally was like emmett, please do not leave. and he said no. i'm leaving. >> you must have felt like your life was falling apart and you didn't know what to do. >> i kind of felt like maybe this is the grand finale.

>> but he needed a wakeup call. >> he needed a wakeup call. >> be careful what you wish for. getting late now. very dark. over at the hall house, kandi was talking to rob. maybe he shouldn't move out. maybe they should try to fix their marriage, make it work somehow. and then, right in the middle of that, she suddenly told him she had an errand to run. couldn't wait. guess where? >> i said, i need to go to walgreens, i will go through the drive-through. i'll be right back. >> here's kandi's explanation for the way the meeting with the lover was arranged. >> as i was pulling out of back of my driveway, emmett said, hey, what are you doing? i said, i'm going to walgreens. he goes, i was just there, hey, meet me there. >> and then, what happened next, you can watch it yourself, right here on surveillance tape. >> i go to walgreenwalgreens, gh the drive-through and i go around and park my car. he pulls up, and i get in his truck and we go to fred meyer.

>> here they are again, getting gas at fred meyer when emmett opened the truck's rear door. >> he pulls out all of these prescription bottles. i said, what are you taking? and he said, if you don't want to grow a penis, don't take it. he got back in the truck and we drove off. >> kandi and emmett pulled into a secluded spot, and had sex under a streetlight, and that's where they were, tangled up in each other, when kandi's phone rang. her daughter had seen the car in that parking lot. >> mom, why is your car at walgreens? i called dad. like, ugh, all right. okay. i'll be home in a minute. >> too late. because now the wind was up, rob, the unfaithful husband, had to know now he was the aggrieved spouse and sure enough, as kandi talked to her daughter, here he was in his pickup truck, come to

walgreens to look for his wife. >> phone call from rob. he said, are you with emmett? and i go -- took a deep breath and i said, yep, i am. emmett looks over at me, takes the phone away from me and he goes, yeah, what's up, chief? and he says, yeah, wait right there. we'll be right there. you wait right there. and that's what i said, no, knock it off. we're not doing this. and he's like oh, we are doing this. >> there are moments in life when big choices are made. this was not a good one. three unfaithful spouses tangled in a love triangle. now, a late night meetup was about to turn deadly. coming up -- >> and i went, oh my god. i'll never forget, ever, but he took that last, you know,

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hello, i'm dara brown. here's what's happening. president trump signed four executive actions saturday for coronavirus economic relee. they address payroll taxes, student loan payments and evictions. trump authorized $400 per week in unemployment benefits. security forces clashed with demonstrators in beirut following a massive explosion that killed nearly 160 people earlier this week. the deadly blast happened in the middle of an economic and financial crisis, fueling more anger and unrest. now back to "dateline." welcome back to "dateline extra," i'm craig melvin. kandi hall told her husband rob she was going to run and errand, then rob discovered she was with

her lover, emmett corrigan. now, the two men were headed for a showdown in a suburb ban parking lot. soon, one of them would be dead. and the woman at the center of this love triangle would be a crucial witness. once again, here's keith morrison. >> here at a walgreens drugstore in meridian, idaho, just before 10:00 p.m. on a friday night in march 2011, time was up, devil wanted his due. robert hall was a man on a mission. as you can see on the store surveillance video, rob parked his pickup truck, went through the front door, roamed the beauty and cosmetic aisles. he was looking for his wife, kandi, who, of course, was in a pickup truck with her lover, emmett. here, you can see rob leaving the store, looking at kandi's parked bmw. then, strangely, getting back into his own pickup truck, pulling out and remarking it on the other side of kandi's car.

curiously, his door now just out of range of the store surveillance camera. this is when he made that phone call. the one in which kandi confessed she had been with her boss, emmett corrigan. and he said to rob, what's up, chief? and here was emmett's truck speeding through the parking lot, still time to stop this, if wiser heads had been in charge. but they weren't. nothing wise about what's coming. >> i see rob in his truck, and he has just this look on his face, like, oh, man. and i get out of truck, then emmett gets out and then rob gets out. walks over to us. >> this is just the sort of moment in which a person might have wanted to cool the overheated atmosphere. control the spitting anger. but had chosen words carefully. that is not what happened. >> rob was standing next to me and he's like, what are you doing out with my wife at 10:00 at night?

and emmett said, rob, she doesn't want to be with you anymore, okay? she's done. i mean, really rob, what did you make last year? maybe $40,000. kandi, what did we make last week, 27,0$27,000, in one week. that's how much i make. you don't make anything. >> nasty, air gant. like a selfish young buck. >> rob said, what about your kids and your wife? she just had a baby. they are at home waiting for you, and you are out with my wife. and at that moment, emmett's eyes got huge and he pushed himself off his truck and went over to rob and pushed rob, very hard, on his chest. >> and then the climax. the confrontation that had been building for weeks. >> that's when i said, enough! that's enough! you get in your truck and rob, we got to go. and as i was walking to my car, another car came by, and i had

to stop, and at that point, i hear pop, pop, pop. i didn't know what it was. i didn't know if the car just backfired? i had no idea. and i stopped and i went -- what was that? and all i see in my peripheral vision right here is rob covered in blood, like someone poured a can of red blood all over him and i went -- oh! >> frantically, kandi's fingers somehow found the thinumbers, 9-1-1. >> oh, my god, oh, my god! robert, robert, robert, robert. >> the pistol went flying somehow, no one disputes that. there it was lying on the pavement between two men. both shot. one alive, one dying. and kandi hall entered that twilight zone where memories are made that can't ever be erased. though as you and the police department, the lawyers and the

judge will soon see, they can certainly be amended. what we know for sure, she rushed to the prostrate body of one of those two men. >> i gave him a kiss on his cheek and will never forget, ever. but he took that last, you know, deep -- it was very surreal and was just turning gray here to here to here. i didn't have much time to think of much, other than thinking to myself, oh, my god. he's -- he's dead. >> but which one? and what just happened? a tragic lapse in judgment? thoughtless but unintended crime of passion? or was it murder in the first degree? >> "deadly desire" returns after the break. adly desire" returns r the break.

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welcome back. rob hall confronted his wife's lover, emmett corrigan, in a parking lot after discovers they had med for a roadside ren dayfs dead. investigators needed to find emmett's wife, ashley. she was not prepared for this stunning news. once again, here's keith morrison. >> ashley corrigan did not go to sleep after her angry husband announced he was going to the walgreens drugstore in meridian, idaho, so she was up at 1:00 in the morning when the police came. emmett was dead, they told her. killed by his lover's husband. and ashley entered a twilight zone of her own.

>> it was like the ultimate humiliation. it was -- not only is your husband gone, but you know that marriage you were trying so hard to save, here's all the answers of why it was going wrong. but now you don't have a marriage to save anymore. it was like every emotion possible. i went through a divorce and a death all in one second. >> bizarre. >> and then i had to get prepared to tell my kids. and what story do you tell little kids? well, there's been an accident and your daddy's spirit has left his body so he's not going to be on the earth with you anymore. they just stared at me, like, what are we supposed to do now? >> what now indeed. and that very moment, a few miles away, rob hall was in the hospital bed, recovering from a grazing gunshot wound to his head, the result, police said, of a botched suicide attempt, after rob put two bullets from his semiautomatic pistol into

emmett corrigan, one in his heart, one in his head. and over at the meridian police station, kandi hall, her clothes still covered in blood, was telling the first of several different versions of what happened in the parking lot. quite unprepared, of course, for the public torrent about to come down on her head. suddenly you are thrust into the public eye, big time. >> yes. >> as a jezebel, as a woman at the center of a tawdry love triangle. what is that like for you? >> it's scary. for the longest time, i couldn't go to the grocery store. i couldn't go anywhere because i'm thinking, everybody's looking at me. everybody knows who i am. >> everybody knows what i did. >> yes. but it did happen and i own it. >> there's something else that happened. although on the night of the

shooting, kandi rushed to kiss her dying lover, she rather soon was back in her husband's corner as his chief supporter, especially when robert hall was charged with premeditated first degree murder. >> we felt that the evidence supported that he planned to go to that walgreens and do exactly what he did when he got there. >> this was no sudden crime of passion, said jessica lorello and jason spillman, who prosecuted the case. >> this is a case of a man hunting down his wife's paramour and waiting for 17 minutes to have the opportunity to kill him. >> thank you, your honor. >> in fact, as they made their case for the jury, prosecutors portrayed rob as an angry man, furious about his wife's affair. a man who called emmett's law office repeatedly to berate kandi so loudly that others heard it all. >> statements such as, you're a

whore and why are you with him? >> and the night of the shooting, prosecutors played those surveillance tapes from walgreens showing rob arriving at the drugstore 17 minutes before the confrontation, walking through the aisles, looking for kandi. all the while with a pistol, not the one he usually carried, but the one kandi gave him, tucked in his pocket. then, the jury saw emmett and kandi arrive in the parking lot. and eight minutes later, heard kandi's 911 call after shots were fired. >> oh, my god. oh, my god, robert, robert, robert, robert! >> what happened? the prosecutor said the secrets of the shots told the story. two quick shots, a pause, and then one more. >> our theory all along was that rob hall had executed emmett corrigan with two successive shots, turned to face his wife, attempted to commit suicide with the third shot.

>> the theory backed up by forensics. the shots were fired from close range, two or three feet. there was a heavy concentration of gunshot residue only on robert hall's hands and only one man's dna on the trigger guard. >> the dna matched that of mr. hall. >> i think rob hall went to the walgreens in order to confront emmett corrigan, that he took a loaded gun and rob decided that was his opportunity to get his kandi back by killing emmett. >> why did he talk to emmett for eight minutes before he tifired? the store was closing, said the prosecutor. people were going home. >> i think he waited until there were no eyewitnesss and he executed emmett corrigan. >> a neat and tidy theory, agreed the defense, but completely wrong.

>> this fight was started by emmett corrigan. >> rob was a nice guy, said the defense, and it was emmett who was out of control. emmett, who kept amphetamines and steroids in his pickup truck. drugs with serious side effects. >> he had hyper irritability and as well impulsiveness, explosive temper. >> what really happened? rob didn't testify. a doctor backed his claim that because of his head wound, he simply couldn't remember. so the defense offered a theory that emmett started the fight, then the gun fell on the ground, emmett got the gun, shot rob and then shot emmett in sel self-defense. and the courtroom came to a halt. every head turned when a star witness took the stand to support that theory. >> would you please state and spell your name for the record? >> sure, kandi hall. >> kandi, who repeated

the story on the stand that she told us of emmett pushing rob, emmett becoming enraged, of hearing the two men scuffle as she walked away. before she heard, but did not see, the shooting. the only problem? she told the police a very different story the night it happened. >> you told detective mill er yu did not see or hear a physical altercation? is that right? >> i don't know. i don't remember. >> in fact, kandi changed her story about so many things, all helpful to rob's case. >> i'm trying to clarify that your story has changed after speaking with your husband? >> things were remembered after talking to my husband. >> in fact, later, the judge made a comment outside the jury's presence. >> he said, in all of his 30-some years on the bench, he had never seen a witness so thoroughly discredited. >> but before she left the witness stand, kandi expressed

her love and sorrow for the man she cheated on yet still loved. >> he knew, i mean, still loves in his heart, that i never stopped loving him. you just don't stop loving someone. >> and watching it all, emmett's wife, ashley. you watched as kandi testified and what was that like? >> it's hard to hear her tell her husband how sorry she was and how much she loved him. because ultimately, it was because of them that i didn't get that chance. >> and rob hall's version of events? he's about to tell you, the very first time he has spoken of this. but first, it's up to the jury to determine the wages of sin. coming up -- a husband with a stunning story to tell. >> last thing i remember was the gun pointed at my head. >> but whose story will the jury

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welcome back. rob hall was on trial for murder. prosecutors had painted him as a cold blooded killer who pumped two bullets into his wife's lover, emmett corrigan. the defendant was claiming emmett attacked him. which side would the jury believe? rob sat down with us to share his version of what he says happened in that idaho parking lot. here's keith morrison with the conclusion of our story. >> once he had everything he wanted. before he and his wife scratched the itch of wanting more. and now a jury was about to tell robert hall whether for the rest of his life he would have anything at all. he had a small advantage over the jury. hall did not testify. but he talked to us.

his first ever interview. to tell us he was sorry about what happened. yes, that, but also to tell us that it wasn't his fault. >> the notion that i brought a gun there to gun down emmett corrigan, i didn't bring a gun there to gun down emmett corrigan. >> hall's version? that despite what you've heard, he did not even know for sure that emmett was having an affair with kandi. that in the parking lot, emmett was the aggressor, pulled him down from behind by the hood of his sweatshirt. >> i don't think i made four steps before i was ripped off my feet. when i hit the ground, the first thing i thought was my cell phone hit the ground and i looked over and it was my gun. he reached down, grabbed my gun, and we just struggled over it. and last thing i remember was the gun pointed at my head, and the feeling of being hit upside

the head with a baseball bat, and i remember seeing everything black and gray. and that's all i remember. until sunday in the hospital. >> in that moment of extreme anger and passion, crazy things happen, and you're asking us to believe that the crazy thing that happened started when you got shot. >> yeah. >> and he pulled the trigger. >> yeah. >> and you must have taken the gun and fired two shots at him. >> yes. >> of course, he has a hole in his heart and a hole in his head. it sounds like those were targeted shots. is it possible that after you shot him, you decided you would shoot yourself? >> no, absolutely not. i have never been suicidal. >> the jury did hear the defense case, of course, just not robert's version of it. but it was enough for a verdict. >> robert dean hall guilty or

not guilty of first degree murder? >> not guilty. >> not guilty. hearts rose and fell. but then -- not so fast. >> is robert dean hall not guilty or guilty of second degree murder? guilty. >> guilty of murder. not premeditation per se, but of an intent to kill and a disregard for human life. rob hall looked like he been punched in the stomach. tears sprang to his eyes. hall was sentenced to 30 years in prison. he'll be eligible for parole in the 2028, just before his 60th birthday. so, as we sit here now, having been convicted of intentional murder, you're still not -- you're not taking responsibility for it as that? >> as murder? no. >> you're saying the architect of this tragedy is more emmett corrigan than you.

>> absolutely. yes. >> so you, sitting in prison for the next god knows how many years, are as much a victim as anybody else? >> it's devastating. i wish i had never gone there that night to get my wife. >> or if you went, that somehow you might not have taken your gun along. >> i think that. i do the what if game on that. and then i think, what if he would have pounded my face into the cement and not stopped? and then people would say, well, why didn't he have his gun with him? >> and thus you encountered one of the elements of classic tragedy, the thing you buy to protect yourself was the thing you used to destroy yourself. >> yeah. >> another thing to contemplate in your jail cell late at night. >> yeah. >> he also thinks about his two

daughters, whose lives, their graduations, triumphs, marriages, children, he will never witness. two girls at the ages of 18 and 14 back then found themselves without either patient in the home, because of a final twist of this story of betrayal and retribution, rob's wife, kandi, was sent to prison herself. because of the killing? no. she pleaded guilty to charges of grand theft for embezzling some $30,000 from the attorney for whom she worked before emmett corrigan. she served 18 months for that. she's on parole now. before she went to prison, she talked to us about regret. >> i have a lot of guilt still in me, a lot. and it has to do with my kids and his kids and it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i am the responsible one and it's something that i don't know, are they ever going to be

able to get through that? i mean, hopefully one day i can prove to them that it was just a mistake. >> in the years since, ashley has remarried and has become an author, blogger and speaker with a message to stand strong and faithful. >> i think there's thousands of people in this country that come to those crossroads and don't know what to do, but i think if i could tell them anything, it would be, put your family first. i guess i would like to say to rob, rob, he had five kids. couldn't this have been something you pictured as you held up the gun and targeted it at his head and his heart? >> once, in meridian, idaho, were two happy, successful families. wasn't quite enough for some of them. and the wreckage is forever. >> that's all for this edition

of "dateline extra." i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. . i'm craig melvin. and i'm natalie morales. i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> horrible, knowing the person you love is dead and you're being looked at for it. >> imagine you're shaken in the dead of night. >> my ears were ringing, i thought i was dreaming. >> in bed right next to you, your husband murdered. >> hard to get that one out of your head, isn't it? >> yeah. >> and here's the twist, you're the suspect. >> worst feeling to hear you're being blamed for your husband's death. >> could she have been the killer?