>> i'm craig, melvin and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is dateline. >> lead isn't a very good anniversary gift -- >> we need an emergency, ambulance my wife has a gunshot. >> a fatal gunshot, just hours after celebrating 16 years of marriage to a police officer husband. >> he told me, she may have tried to clean my gun, and it may have accidentally went off. >> police were suspicious, the victim's own mother wasn't. >> she was so opposed to anyone even exploring the idea that her only daughter had been

murdered. >> as the years went by, the case grew cold, until a reporter he did it up again. >> stayed up all night reading that file, and it was astonishing. >> it turns out there was a lot less to this marriage then met the eye. >> he cheated on vicky the day before they got married, and the day after they got married. >> but not every cheating part hides a killer. >> you could hear members of the jury gasp. >> hello and welcome to dateline, when it comes to solving a crime, time can be the enemy. this is the story of a murder that after seven years might never have been solved, the victim and new mother had been forgotten by almost everyone, except a complete stranger determined to find justice. >> in the lore of the lone star state, texas lawmen rank pretty

high, the good guys in the white hats. their badge brought prestige, their gun fights in the history books. but in the modern-day town of denton, texas, the little the outside the big the dallas deserved one texas law man with a curious past. all locked up in a box. >> no one left at the police department had any idea what was inside that blocks. >> they know the basics, the box told the tale of a blond beauty, a new mother found dead in her bedroom, a cops bedroom, her husband's bedroom. >> oh god. my wife has a gunshot. >> but the box, eventually fell silent to every year, but one. >> i just, the whole, time felt that vicky was there, she was there with me and she was waiting to see what was going to happen.

>> vicky was virginia parish a quiet girl, sweetest texas tea and loyal with a touch as soft as her dark blond hair. >> they can excel that everything that she tried to do >> -- were vicky's crew, friends as long as they can remember. -- sharing your, bicycle sharing your skates, getting out and playing. we had unusual circumstance, we had five girls within a block all the same age. and so we were a gang of girls. >> complete with that normal insecurities. for her part, vicky was a little chunky, she had braces. more the book warm then the social butterfly. >> very happy child, shy, but happy. >> a shyness that was

especially evident around boys, except one, bobby. >> once they started dating, if i saw vicky, i saw bobby. >> they hooked up the summer after vicky graduated from high school, bobby needed a job working at his family's ghastly shun. >> i saw him as the outcast loner type on his own. everybody knew of bobby but nobody knew him really well and he didn't hang out with anybody except for vicky constantly. >> so what do you think vicky saw in bobby back then. ? >> he showed hermits attention. >> and that seems to be the sunlight vicky needed to blossom. her friends soon saw different vicky on the outside at least. >> it was like wow, she found that side of, herself she enjoyed, and people were always there. she just may not have known how to bring out --

eventually changed as well, he joined the police academy and in time he did it look so bad either. >> when he went into the police academy he got buffed up and on a tactical squad, he had these camo looking gear, guns stopped all over the place and he looked very official. >> it was pretty cool-looking, i have to admit, i was a little jealous. >> they were two young lovers in the lone star state who were coming into their own together. at a time there was a wedding, and of course careers. vicky became an elementary school teacher and a good one at that, says a fellow teacher christie. >> i admired how she could have this cluster management because to get a bunch of fifth graders to not only lineup and state and line and walk down the hall, but they did it with love and respect. they did it because they loved her. >> the only person who appeared more loyal to vicky, was bobby,

who couldn't bear to be a part from her, even at work. >> he seemed like the husband who would show up at lunch, show up after school sometimes, he was just around all the time and unlike most other spouses, even the other newlyweds that were a school their husbands just didn't show up like bobby did. >> everyone wondered just how he found the time, he had been promoted to detective at the denton pd, a rising star as bright as his badge. fellow officers likely howell say he was good. very good. >> he was very thorough, very meticulous, in his, work as he was in a lot of his personal life. >> if you knew bob better than richard, he is the social worker at the department and funnily enough saw a lot of bubbly social along with his wife. >> they looked like a happy couple, the were so close together and joke round with

one another, hold hands, i think they would give each other a pack and this kind of thing. >> the icing on their seemingly perfect cake, came in 2001, a baby boy named monte. vicky was wildly happy, on the verge of their 16th wedding anniversary it seemed the -- i had it all, good jobs, good, family good sized home, more than 5000 square feet. and, supplemental income from vicky's mother who lived with them, even paid for part of that house. >> on july 5th 2002, bobby and vicky celebrated the anniversary, it would be their last. >> we need an emergency ambulance, my wife has a gunshot. >> the next night, -- kim home to find a horrific, seen vicky covered and, blood shot through the chest, lying in her bedroom. >> is she breathing? >> no. >> no, okay. >> she would never get out of bed again. >> coming up, and also tearful

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away from home, when he returned to find his wife vicky shot to the chest. >> is she breathing? >> no. >> no, okay. >> investigators -- rushed to the scene, one of their own was in trouble. richard, lobbies coworker at the police department, was one of the first to get the call. >> i'm driving down there thinking, please help me, please help me help these people. -- you never know what you are going into, but this was different it was different. >> different, and difficult. bobby was a friend, and so was vicky. now she lay dead in the couples bedroom. questions swirled, as richard approached the sergeant outside bobby's house. >> i said, what happen? he says, bob came home, he found vicky in the bed and she has a gunshot wound to her chest. >> inside bobby was waiting for his old friend -- tense it seemed, but at the ready with the details of the terrible preempt would lay on

the bed. bobby told richard he left home only briefly, if you come back and find vicky shot. his gun cleaning kit late right beside her. >> he said before he left, he took his gun and was going to clean it because vicky and him were going to the range the next day. he told me, she must have been trying to clean my gun, because she likes to tinker with stuff, and she may have tried to clean my gun accidentally went off. >> police photos showed the grisly result, her wounds was, fatal vicky was gone, her mother arrive later that evening to a crowd of investigators. the castle she helped pay for had now become her daughter's coffin. it fell to richard to break the news. >> oh no, not my, picky not my vicky, then she starts -- bobby, what happened? she is screaming. you never forget the sound of a mother who lost her child at the -- not lost. >> but somehow, in the middle

of all that grief, vicky's mother offered up a theory about what might have led to her daughters shooting >> she said did the dogs jump up, did the dogs jump up and make the gun go off? >> i thought that was on. >> vicky's, dogs small ones, they could have startled, but how could that have led to a wound in the middle of her chest. >> the only way gun can go off, is if you pull the trigger. you know -- you are not going to sit around a table and it will go off. >> the scene puzzled investigators, and the more they observed bob's demeanor, the more puzzled they became. >> did he seem agitated, though? >> he seemed uncomfortable with how and it was reacting, he's seen uncomfortable with the emotions that were there in the room. it was some heavy stuff. it was really thick with emotions and with grief. >> heavy, and that's emotional as that scene was, it wasn't for bobby. >> he did not seem to be

joining in that emotion with everyone. there is no to hear, is he is like, grimacing, faking like he is forcing himself to cry, but there is nothing there. >> paramedics also wondered, not a -- insisted on that 9-1-1 call that he tried reviving vacuous cpr, but to -- the lead paramedic one look at bobby made that seem unlikely. >> he certainly was not -- like someone who had done cpr at first, he didn't appear to have any blood on him which would have been very obvious based on the entrance wound of that bullet that -- where the hands would be placed on the chest. >> speaking of blood, luke noticed vicky's, it had settled around her ankles and back. it was another key steppingstone for investigators, who knew right away what the evidence meant. >> what did the pulling of the

blood tell you? >> that she had been deceased for a substantial amount of time. >> it seemed vicky couldn't have been alive just a half an hour earlier, the way bobby had said. >> he had a pretty good sense from the get-go that night that something wasn't right? >> sure, i think anyone who walks into that scene is going to think the same thing, something does not fit right, it does not feel right. >> but the piece that really didn't fit was bob's farewell to vicky. >> bobby told, me i want to see her before they take, or the medical examiner stopped the stretcher she was being wheeled out, on the body bags was unzipped, and then bobby uttered the strangest thing. >> all of a sudden he looks at her, he says, take care. >> take care? >> he turns, and he walks in the house. yeah, for someone to take care, and walk back inside like nothing happened, i thought that was really cold. >> maybe reality staring back from a body bag was too much for bobby to bear, maybe being

a detective had left him heart into death, or maybe bobby didn't really care about thank you the way everyone had thought. as night turned into don, an investigators pored over the scene, not a single piece of evidence pointed one way or the other. accident? suicide? or homicide? vicky's final moments were a mystery. >> but there was nothing mysterious about what bobby had been up to. >> coming up -- >> i said well, the problem with that, bobby, most guys that are married, they don't date. >> when dateline continues. when dateline continues abor day sale. shop indoor and outdoor area rugs up to 70% off. cooking must haves up to 60% off. and kitchen and bathroom upgrades from $19.99. shop our labor day sale now through sept 7th. (brad) how does apartments-dot-com create the most eye-tingling virtual tours around? watch this: activate shrink suit. (kevin) ahh!

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37th birthday, but she had just celebrating her 16th wedding anniversary and was toasting being a new mother as well. but just 24 hours after their anniversary dinner, her husband bobby, a texas call, came home to find vicky -- cleaning his gun when accidentally went off. but to his fellow officers, sympathy soon gave way to skepticism. >> you don't just don't normally see somebody cleaning a gun in a bed, in their pajamas, partially covered up and accidentally shoot themselves in the chest.

it just did not add up >> the whole was in charge of the investigation for the denton police department that, night and he was puzzled. he said bobby did not act like a grieving husband. >> he made no effort with any information. >> which left the evidence to tell the tale. first, investigators took a closer look at that gun cleaning kit, found on the bed next to vicky. >> it did not look to me like somebody had been cleaning the gun. it looks like it had been placed there as a prop. >> then they examined the gun itself >> the gun was dripping in oil. you could see where it was lying on top of a sheet of newspaper. >> it was like that? >> it looked to me like somebody had taken the, gun sprayed it down with a kind of oil. it was so. >> and yet vicky did not have any oil on her. not one drop. nothing on her hands? >> nothing on her hands. >> an accident likely, but so

too did seem suicide. >> on the way she was lying there, it would be a very awkward very unusual position for her to have shot herself. it would fit perfectly for somebody standing next to the bed over her pushing the gun down toward her. >> the clues spoke, but in a confusing language, and so did the key players. police were really stumped, why vicky's own mother. >> she was adamant that she wanted us to find it an accident. she made it very clear. i was very shocked that she reacted the way she did. >> what was her demeanor? >> very defensive of bobby, refusedto believe that he could have anything to do with it. she flat out told us that if we found anything besides an accident, that we would not be doing vicky a service >> but it was bobby who remained the most perplexed. his written statement about the

offense than that his wife died, sounded more like a dying -- then a report from a police officer. >> i would have to say it was the most bizarre statement effort that i have seen that was given by a witness or suspect in a criminal case 85, 90% of the statement was extraneous information and typically that is a good indication that somebody is being deceptive >> to investigators, it was troubling, to bob's friends his behavior sounded familiar. >> many who knew bob, often surmised there was something behind the badge that was not quite what it seemed. it was a husband, there were questions as well. like the schoolyard visits that bobby always paid to vicky outlines time, well her fellow teachers thought it was just a loving gesture first, but then they began to suspect the visits were really about something else. >> i think he wanted to see what she was eating, he wanted to be in control of the

coloration took in, and because weight was such a huge issue for him. >> he was the obsessed with? the >> yeah, he was. >> in fact he was so militant about her weight that for more than a decade of their marriage, he denied her the one thing she wanted most in life, a child. >> kristie asked vicky about that once, and couldn't believe the response. >> she didn't even answer, she just turned around and she went to her wallet and pulled out this picture of herself. she showed it to, me and she said, bobby makes me carry this picture of myself to reminds me of how fast i used to be. he doesn't want me to get pregnant, because he doesn't want me to get fat. >> this was about making sure that vicky was healthy, this was to make sure that vicky was thin. >> then. appearances were so important to him. >> not just make his appearance, his own as well. >> he was obsessed with his body, and body image in terms of always working, our having to be buff, looking good. >> looking back, richard said

it was almost comical how self obsessed bobby really was. you never had a hair out of place, and his eyebrows waxed. it was insistent on tanning, which never made sense to richard. >> i always told him, why do you ten? mexicans, we don't go to tanning with. we are brown enough. >> well i don't want my pigment to fade. >> it is genetic, it is not going to fade. >> fade, hartley, bobby sparkled. he was always pressed, always crisp, always pristine. always high and everything. a lot of effort, richard thought, not to look good for his wife, but to look good to others. richard told investigators that bob had wandering eyes, under those waxed eyebrows. how did he know? richard had a young intern or king for him at the department, and bobby had taken notice. >> he says hey, would you mind if i took her out for dinner? i asked, was he going, he said

no i want to take roe and date her. >> he said that straight up? >> yeah, and i thought, well, you know the problem with that -- what we said most guys that are, married they don't date. >> he says, all right, but would you have a problem with it? >> richard knew bob had made up his, mind all he could do was worn his intern. >> i'm thinking if he's asking, knew how many other people he has asked before you. and i said, he is married, so you might want to keep that in mind. i don't think that he's ever going to leave vicky. >> richard had no idea just how pathetic he was being. bobby never did leave vicky, but he did leave his marriage vows intact, not just with the intern, but with one woman after the other four years. 's off-duty lifestyle was far more crowded than investigators ever thought. >> coming up, did bobby's cheating drive vicky to take

her own life. >> the district attorney said i have two medical examiners telling me it was suicide. >> when dateline continues. hen dateline continues ♪ ♪ aleve x. its revolutionary rollerball design delivers fast,

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her husband -- was a very busy and secretive man. most of his fellow officers at the time did not know bobby was having a series of affairs, even his family says liu howell headed up the investigation for the denton police. >> his family thought that he was a harsh working on the police the parchment because he was always out late at night, sometimes overnight, it is being called out all the time, doing surveillance. >> made it sound like it was a pretty busy department. >> right. >> lots of midnight crime >> but if leonard is not making murder, investigators still did not have any clues into why vicky died even in the medical examiner threw up his hands. there is cause of death was undetermined he rolled. there wasn't enough evidence to point to a homicide, suicide, or even an accident. >> there was an obituary that did not say how she died >> the kinds of loosens crime

reporters love, and the denton record chronicle planted fielder was no exception. >> she knows around a bit, and stumbled on a series of departures. >> three weeks after his last -- bobby resigned from the police department, that give me a really good -- that something was up. >> but bob's resignation wasn't the only one >> cindy, another police officer, resigned at the same time >> she was also a detective with no obvious reason to quit the force but donna had noticed over the previous year and a half, cindy waters had chopped about 60 pounds >> bobby just was insistent that people around him, people he had control over beef it, and be slim >> cindy she figures and to be the other woman bobby will see at the time of ink is dead. bobby's coworker -- had seen them together often,

cindy he figured it was just the latest in a long line. >> i said you are not in love with any of these women, you are in love with the idea of being in, love and you like the feeling that you get when you are dating, when you are courting, everything like, that it is the chase >> but maybe something was different from the other women could she have something to do with vicky's death? investigators wanted the same thing in fact, the question sydney, and found out she had threatened -- not had all the makings of a possible motive what's more, bobby had more than $1 million in life insurance on vicky, so in light of that and the rest of the evidence, a circumstantial as it was, six months after vicky died, a grand jury indicted -- the theory, bobby had killed vicky so he wouldn't lose cindy,

even though she didn't know anything about why -- problem was, the indictment did not stick here and a half, later out of the blue, the district attorney decided he didn't have enough evidence to prosecute after all the indictment was dismissed, bobby was free and still no one knew what really happened to vicky. >> the reasons given or strange, it didn't make sense, could it make them fit what i knew. >> what really did not fit was the advice of an out of town medical examiner. >> the district attorney said i consulted this girl from chicago, and he says that it was -- and had communicated that to the medical examiner who did the autopsy, and he now agrees. so now have two medical examiners are telling me it was suicide so i cannot continue with this case >> but that wasn't really the case, a

medical examiner hadn't had changed his mind? >> he had not changed his mind. it still said undetermined on the medical examiner >> confusing, yes. final, it seems so. the case of vicky lozano was put in a box, sealed in an evidence room, and will soon forgotten by almost everyone, except donna. >> did this become an obsession? . we >> pretty much, i just felt an empathy for her >> not blocks in the evidence room held a key, but as far as belize were concerned, it was off limits to the media. >> there comes a point in the way i cover stories when i actually feel like i know the victim. i began to felt like i knew vicky, and i felt like vicky was giving a -- i wanted justice for vicky. >> she was vicky's voice, and a fake it was about to be heard, as donna finally got her hands on that box.

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interest in the keys case, she posted relief for access to that box of evidence and finally she got it her findings would lead to a front page article, and new outrage about vicky's husband. >> vicky was dead, but in the eyes of the state of texas, no one knew at whose hand, if anyone's. a grand jury had indicted her husband, for vicky's murder, but to the dismay of money, the district attorney shied away from pursuing, not enough evidence he said. so, bobby went on with his life, he kept dating cindy for a while, but he eventually broke up and went on to marry a woman he started a real estate business with. bobby was free to live his life, while vicky was not that court reporter donna fielder, she wanted to get her hands on vicky's case, especially that

box of evidence. a year went by, then two, then more. >> so for four years, you just kept hitting wall, after wall, after wall. so what kept you going? >> vicky was still there, and vicky had not had any justice >> she kept a, and finally a warm down police department relented, giving donna that box after a formal written request. the archaeological details of vicky's life and death were now in the hands of the one person it seemed who still cared. >> i stayed up all night reading that file, and it was astonishing -- someone looked in the window and saw him shoot her, but the totality of that case was so strong, i had no doubt whatsoever when i finish reading the report that bob had shot and killed his wife.

>> the overly detailed statement that bobby had made to police that left detective scratching their heads as well, struck donna just as odd. >> it was the strangest thing, but night before the anniversary was a friday night, he took her out to dinner at a nice place in dallas. >> romantic? >> sounded like it from his story his statement to the police about his wife dying, the first several pages were about the dinner they had, the wind they had with the dinner. what the three course dinner consisted of, how they came home and played with the baby -- you look at, not and thought what the heck -- did it sound like a fabrication? >> at that point i was willing to give the benefit of the doubt of up in the night before, but i just could not understand

why he would begin a statement about his wife's death that way. it said, the fellow sleep together, they found out later that was not true. >> he left something out. >> he left out the part about leaving her at home on their 16th wedding anniversary, and going to his girlfriend's house. >> a pretty big part to leave, out -- >> yes a very big part. >> the boxes contests were hardly flattering to bobby, and it was the article that don eventually wrote. a front page thread which to a sex, money, lies, and bloodshed she quote while there was no smoking gun, what there was was the tortured trail of ruined lives that bobby had left in his wake. now in black and white for all to see. >> there were five statements from five different women and those were only the women that they found there were many many more he told two of the girlfriends he cheated on vicky the day before they got married and the day after they got

married. >> he seemed proud of it? >> yes. he was very proud of his lifestyle, and bragged about it to people that he could brag about it too and not get in trouble. >> his conquest included a witness and a criminal case, and a woman charged with writing hot checks. he even hit on a rape victim who had come to the police department seeking help. >> so he clearly was not happy in the marriage. >> i think he was perfectly happy in the marriage. he had what he wanted. he wanted to be married, and particularly mary to which woman that could keep him up to the style which she had become accustomed, and he wanted the freedom to have all the coffins that she wanted. >> the money largely came from york's mother and helped by the half million dollar home. the kind the policeman and a teacher could hardly afford on their own salaries. hardly affeach and every one ofm talked about how much he was

focused on money they all sent, i finally came to the conclusion that he was never going to leave nikki because he was never going to leave that money. >> all of it was old evidence, but it was all new to the public. the daughters article hit new stance it landed like a bomb. letting loose of florida feelings, even for fellow officers now more than ever. because they thought bobby had gotten away with murder. >> so did the new da in town, who had this pocket, a pair of talented prosecutors. carrie and susan p. a married couple who couldn't wait to get bobby lozano in court. >> i like these cases, these hard cases. >> what was hard about it? >> it got dismissed because they said they don't have enough evidence. >> did it seem like a long shot? >> no, not a long shot. hard, but that's not the same as long shot. >> even vicky's own mother thought the effort was a waste of time.

in fact, she was just as adamant that bobby was innocent as she was the first time around. remarkably, she still live with him. in the same house. with bobby's new wife. >> it wasn't even that she didn't want him charged. she didn't want as opening the boxes. she didn't want us talking to anybody. it was shocking, to me. that she was so opposed to anyone even exploring the idea that her only daughter had been murdered in her own bed by this man she now knew had run around on her, constantly. >> this time, the case mom didn't get her wish. bobby was indicted a second time, for the murder of his wife. the problem, the facts of the case still the same old facts. the backside had failed prosecutors years before. >> we got no physical evidence.

>> not on him. >> we got no dna evidence. >> nope. >> we have the victims mother who doesn't want to prosecuted. >> you've got a medical examiner, who can determine the cause of death. >> the defenses got a pretty good shot of this. >> absolutely. >> coming up, the trial has defensive star witness, the victim's mother, testifying on behalf of her daughters accused killer. >> they wanted to hear and testify. and she gave them their money's worth. >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues o-severe eczema or atopic dermatitis under control? hide my skin? not me. by hitting eczema where it counts, dupixent helps heal your skin from within, keeping you one step ahead of eczema. hide my skin? not me. and that means long-lasting clearer skin and fast itch relief for adults. with dupixent, you can show more skin with less eczema. hide my skin? not me.

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several of them have appeared on the counter sense bobby lowe's anna found his wife picky dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. but, this july, he was on trial for her murder in the town he once served as a police officer, turned out to see his fate. >> it was just amazing, i like nothing i've ever seen in this courthouse. >> reporter, down the field, or had been on the police piece along. time after the reaction she got from her explosive article about obvious case. she knew his trial would be a circus. >> there are people waiting in the hallway, and we walked out, someone would walk in and take your seat. >> bob's offense was pretty simple. although he, and his attorney,

declined to tell it. but, in court, he argued that vicky's death was either an accident or suicide. bobby's only involvement there was that it was his gun that fired the shot. prosecutors carry that susan peel, knew they had a tough fight ahead. >> the perception from the observers after opening statement was that it was a tie. he said there's no blood on bob's clothes, there's nothing on him, you can't could prove he was in the room that she died. and he means, forensically of course. we couldn't. we can show anything. >> this omnipotence the jury? >> absolutely. >> the defensive star witness, vicky's own mother. who testified that bobby wasn't his wife's murder. she was his wife's savior. >> basically described vicky as being overweight, child, with friend issues. and that was lucky to snag a guy like. bobby bobby was helping her by

monitoring her food intake. >> she was a reason why the courtroom was filled, daily, they wanted to hear and a testify. and she gave them her money's worth. i asked her, at this moment, you still live in the same house. bobby sullivan in the same house, with his new wife. and he shares the same bedroom where vicky dies. you could hear members of the jury gasp. when they heard that. >> oh sorry action? >> yes, absolutely. >> to hear britney's mom tell, it bobby could not, would not, did not, pull the trigger that night. prosecutors thought that they needed to do was prove a motive. that is where the name sidney what his pop up again. while her affair with bobby ended years before the trial, at the time of nikki's death, she was bobby's latest conquest. yet another blond, a fellow police officer, who had up the ante. she expected bobby to marry

her. why wouldn't she? bobby had promised. >> in february of 2002, months before his wife died, he gave her a card describing her as his wife. my wife, soon to be, but not soon enough. it was a soon part, that seems to bother cindy the most. bobby had been stalling, despite his love letters to sydney that were dripping with bad pros. faces like my lips gliding lovingly over your cheeks. now hover or yours. >> he absolutely could've had a second career as a cheesy romance writer. >> they were incredible, he wrote that city was responsible for eastern has relationship with god. he played her in every way that worked. >> prosecutors say city had grown tired of the lies. and she was ready to walk. she threatened to leave him, in fact, more than once. >> he had told a series of lies that had created a situation of

his own doing. where he was backed into a corner. >> shouldn't be put off, she was different, she was a cop. >> she's in the space. everyday >> a lot of these girlfriends, he was in a much more power position and the position to easily walk away. sydney was a lot more complicated. >> bobby finally realize that he could have it all. he was in the control he seemed to crave. so much. >> he is desperately trying to win her back. he took his wife to dinner, to celebrate the anniversary, and then he left his wife at home alone in bed, and with the city's house and told sydney i'm going to prove to you a moving van is going to be my whitehorse. i'm going to show you. and the next day his wife is dead. >> for prosecutors, there was one other detail they were about to drop. those life insurance policies. bobby had more than 1 million dollars in insurance on vicky,

a fact they hoped would make those crime scene photos even uglier to the jury. there was the gun maverick's hand and the gun cleaning kit not far away. but, it was vicky's wound, right in the middle of her chest, i've a strange angle that carry want to jurist a question. >> for her to shoot herself she has to do this. you can barely do. it i could barely hold a gun. to squeeze the trucker and get this angle. >> you wouldn't hold that way to clean the gun either. said the experts. >> then, there was a matter of the bullet casing. just where did that go? turns out, it was line underneath the gun cleaning kit. another problem of physics, said carry. >> should put the box down on top of the case because she was dead. okay. so that case with under the box, that's only one person to do it, that's bob lozano. came, over go home. >> not quite. they had one other morsel of

evidence they hoped a jury would feast on. popcorn. >> popcorn was huge. >> microscopic bits of corn husker found on vicky's body. and a tiny fragment of popcorn was still in her mouth. who cleans a gun while eating popcorn? >> prosecutors mused, who brings the ball to bed if they plan a comedic suicide? no one, prosecutors thought. and then you bobby wood reason that is well. investigators say they never found ball with popcorn anywhere in the bedroom that night. prosecutors believe that's because bobby cleaned it all up. almost. >> we believe that he was picking the popcorn, the physical popcorn, because he knew that it was inconsistent with her cleaning a gun. and was inconsistent with suicide. >> the jury, almost all women, had heard both sides. they came back quickly. and less than five hours, to have a verdict. >> someone's gonna, loose and

they go to those bad. because that's fast. >> pamela, the narcissistic, well dressed, skirt tracing cop, stood expressionless and has been the whole trial. while the foreman read the verdict. guilty. he was sentenced to 45 years in prison. >> it was celebratory. everybody was ecstatic. >> except, of course, bobby. >> i think, what made this case original for me was not only did he get away with it for those years but that the people that should've cared didn't care. >> indeed, it wasn't the end strangers, who became key's voice beyond the grave. donna, especially. who felt an odd desire to tell vicky that she had one. in person. so she went to the church, or biggest actress are kept, and was taken aback. >> when i got there, i got such a feeling of peace. and i put my hand on that cabinet, where her ashes were.

and i knew that didn't tell picky anything. because she knew. that was the high point for me. because at rest, she's at peace. she said her justice. but >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm natalie morales, thanks for watching. watching her name was sarah, the sweet mom, the baby of a family. >> a family turned army when she vanished. >> this is how many people we have right now. , they just wanted to find her. back kind of emotion really drives you. >> where was she? >> with someone following her. the someone attacker? >> under scrutiny, the ex-boyfriend. >> they were pointing fingers at him. >> and three other she encountered that night. >> she was scared. >>