little bit more, we could all go a lot farther. so mike strastrahan, you are my this week. thank you for being here. i'm really glad you joined me. remember, tonight is not all. you can catch the nightcam again tomorrow, saturday night. 11:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. e sent me a message. and i knew something terrible must have happened. he said, hanna has jumped out the window. what? she did have a tendency to be a little bit off the rails

when she was drunk. i was very confused because i didn't see any signs. she didn't say any goodbyes. there was no note. she told me that she had had the affair with craig's friend. craig was upset, as to be expected. there was deep gouges on both hands. this is not a person that jumps out the window. did you think he had killed her? yes. did he pick hanna up and throw her out that window? no. hanna was really wonderful. i just have to believe it was a terrible accident. [theme music] dennis murphy (voiceover): it's a funny thing, looking back at photos of happy times.

you don't know yet which of them is doomed-- her, him, maybe both. but don't think of that yet. the wedding is underway. it was 2005. he was a us navy man of action, craig becker. she was a bookish grad student studying psychology, hanna hove. and they were head over heels in love. her college roommate, elizabeth aciego, remembers how the couple first met at a university swimming pool. elizabeth: she definitely told me. she was like, i think this guy is the one. and i was super excited about that, because she had never really mentioned anybody that was going to be special to her. dennis murphy (voiceover): craig and hanna had been dating for a while when elizabeth, who

incidentally, is a first-rate photographer, got a call from craig. so he called me. he said, hey, i want to do this surprise wedding. are you down to come to destin and take these pictures? so it's on the beach, toes in the sand. the ocean's there. yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): think of it as a plan to elope, but only the groom knew about it. and it was going to happen on the white sand of a resort on the florida panhandle. so completely in the dark, hanna drove to the beach hotel and checked in. and what was the cover story for her? that she was having a spa day. and she was supposed to go pamper herself and have a great day. have a day of beauty. have fun. - yeah. - la-tee-da. and they were going to have a date night at the hotel that night. i went and knocked on her door. and she opened the door. and she's like, what are you doing here? and i was like, well, open the closet. and she opened the closet, and her wedding dress was in there. - no. so that's pretty much how she found out that that's what was happening that day. did the dress fit? the dress fit perfectly.

dennis murphy (voiceover): the marriage ceremony came off without a hitch as elizabeth snapped away. elizabeth: i think he felt that me taking the pictures was kind of having somebody special there for her so she wouldn't be there by herself. you nudged them a little bit into some pg-rated photos? i did. well, i mean, craig's a good-looking guy. you know, he works out. dennis murphy: so there goes the shirt. there goes the shirt. dennis murphy: in your memories, liz, was it a romantic event? elizabeth: very much so. they were in love. they were happy. craig is not the most emotional guy. he's not somebody who's gonna wear it on his sleeve. and he was-- they were both over the moon. us navy lieutenant. yeah. yes. and just-- usually, he's very stoic. but he was obviously very happy that day. dennis murphy (voiceover): craig's sister, tara daniels, later heard all about it and was thrilled for the couple. they were always together. they were always very affectionate with each other, always laughing, joking.

she became one of my sisters. dennis murphy: really? - yeah. so you liked her? i loved her. dennis murphy (voiceover): the elopement was a moment of joy, a brief respite from the constant concern tara had for her brother, craig. after all, his day job was clearing bombs in war zones. dennis murphy: his job assignment became very hazardous. it did, yeah. did you guys worry about that? i mean, he was in charge of units that were defusing explosive devices. i mean, that was always a worry. even when i was younger, i always worried about him. craig was quiet. and he is quiet. that's just who he is. and i think some of that was to protect us. to not know about it or-- tara: to not know as much about it, to not-- what he was going through. --just, again, to make sure that we weren't as worried about him as we could have been. but god forbid, the family has to fear that phone call, the officer standing at the door with the worst news in the world, huh?

exactly. dennis murphy (voiceover): randy lapelle loved craig like a brother, a brother in arms. they'd served together in afghanistan, where lieutenant craig becker was a warrior and commanded a 19-man bomb disposal unit. he was a bold leader. and in the long run, it was paying huge dividends, because he had a war fighter's mentality. and he was assertive. he led men well. he led men great. dennis murphy (voiceover): the lieutenant with a top-secret clearance became a war hero. he was awarded two bronze stars-- in one case, for helping save two soldiers' lives. military brass were taking note of craig's career. craig was crushing it. craig could do no wrong, almost. would you trust your life with him? oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt, without hesitation. i love craig. craig was just better than most.

dennis murphy (voiceover): by 2013, craig's fast-track career had resulted in a plum assignment at a nato base in belgium. dennis murphy: and he was going great. yep. i mean, aide to top guy at a nato facility. correct. was he on his way to harvard? he had applied to harvard, yes, harvard business school. and it was looking good for him? it was. dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna and craig's new home would be a provincial city in belgium called mons-- cobblestoned, french speaking, and appropriately euro in feel. they'd found a spacious penthouse apartment on the seventh floor of a downtown building. that's their bedroom window, just below the peak of the sloped roof. craig settled into his desk job at nato. and then they were three. baby isabelle entered the picture. she was adorable, the sweetest baby, a very happy baby, very close to both hanna and craig.

dennis murphy (voiceover): now, hold that picture in your mind, this american family off on a european adventure. what looked from the outside like a cozy family photo had all gone suddenly horribly wrong, because the barefoot bride on a beach in florida was now a barefoot young wife moaning in agony on a busy sidewalk in a belgian city. hanna had fallen 75 feet from her apartment window above. the bystanders would never forget her bloodcurdling scream as she dropped. and the police wanted to know what happened. what did you observe of that man, chief inspector? the husband. was very calm. we now return to our interview with the insurance whistleblower. [music playing] [ distorted ] i just think everyone should know there's an insurance company out there exposing other companies' rates so you can compare them and save.

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dennis murphy (voiceover): october 8, 2015, downtown mons belgium. romero gonzales, a mailman by trade, was on a cigarette break at 8:50 pm when he heard a terrifying shriek from down the street. dennis murphy: what did you hear? a woman was screaming. and you walked-- and i ran. and i ran. you ran here? just here, on the corner. dennis murphy (voiceover): crumpled on the sidewalk near the entrance to an apartment building lay a seriously injured woman dressed only in underwear and a t-shirt. she was terrified. and she was alive as she lay on the ground? yes, she was alive. dennis murphy (voiceover): bystanders gathered around. then ramirez says a man ran out from the apartment building, speaking english. he was frantically trying to explain to the crowd what had just happened. he said, she's drunk. she has drugs. and she jumped. she's taking drugs? she's drunk? she's drunk, taking drugs, and she jumped.

so this man who comes out, you don't know who he is yet. no. dennis murphy (voiceover): the man was lieutenant craig becker. and the woman on the ground was hanna. at that same time, 4,500 miles away, in jacksonville, florida, john hove, hanna's father, was at work when his wife, yvonne, called hysterical. she just talked to their son-in-law. craig called yvonne on the landline to our home and said, hanna's jumped out the window. and i have to go down. and yvonne starts trying to ask him questions and gets very, very little answers. and he said, no, i gotta go, and click. hanna's jumped out the window, just as-- hanna's jumped out the window-- just as stark as that? --from the apartment. dennis murphy (voiceover): craig's call left hanna's parents in stunned disbelief. and we both break down. and it's like, what? it can't be right. it can't be true. and i said, she jumped out from the seventh floor?

you-- what? dennis murphy (voiceover): john was so distraught, he asked a colleague to take him home right away, an agonizing 15-minute drive. so we call him up from home. and he said, well, i'm down on the street now. she's still alive. oh, here's the police. i can't talk. hey, craig, craig, craig, what's going on? i can't talk now. click. dennis murphy (voiceover): while hanna's parents waited for news, any kind of details, police officers in belgium, frederick valle and arthur scorry, were on the scene. there is a woman on the street. maybe she will die. she is in very bad condition. dennis murphy (voiceover): they could see emts working to stabilize hanna on that sidewalk. it looked for all the world like an attempted suicide. but it was early minutes in the case. and the officers would need to investigate further.

craig asked to go to the hospital with his wife. but the officer said he first needed to accompany them upstairs to his apartment, his flat. i said, mr. baker, that we are going in the flat. but he can't touch anything. dennis murphy: don't touch. don't touch anything. dennis murphy (voiceover): inside, they saw the couple's 16-month-old daughter, isabelle, asleep in her crib. dennis murphy: was there any sign of turmoil in the flat-- furniture upset, or glasses broken, or anything? no, the apartment was a normal apartment. so no sign of a fight or a struggle? no sign of fight, no sign of fight. what did you observe of that man, chief inspector? the husband. was very calm. dennis murphy: calm? yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): the officer thought the 34-year-old husband may have been in shock. when we are at school, we learn that everyone can react differently from a very bad situation. some people shout. some people cry. and maybe it was his reaction to a dramatic accident.

dennis murphy (voiceover): the officers would have plenty of questions for craig becker, most of "what just happened here" variety, because remarkably, even after that 75-foot fall, she was still alive when they loaded her into an ambulance. and amazingly, there was a flickering hope hanna herself could tell her own story. [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.

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ask your doctor about once-daily trelegy for copd dennis murphy (voiceover): jacksonville, florida. hanna's parents were an ocean away from their only child, helpless, waiting to hear if their badly injured daughter would survive. how could it be possible that their fearless hanna, so strong, so determined, might have only minutes more left in her life?

a life that began in sweden. that's where the hoves are from and where hanna was born. even as a little girl, she could be feisty and strong willed. wintertime, you have to get all these clothes on. and she decided, mm, i don't think so. and so as soon as you dressed her, and you dressed yourself, she took half of it off. dennis murphy (voiceover): very little, it seemed, scared little hanna. we had a fairly steep hill. so we went tobogganing. i had her between my legs. and we were going down. it was a drop of about, i would say, about 150 feet. and hanna liked it? oh, yeah. she was screaming all the way with excitement. and then we trod back up. and we'd do it again. dennis murphy (voiceover): john, his wife, and hanna emigrated to america, to florida, in 1989. hanna was six years old. and she thrived here, growing up loving the warm weather, a place she could indulge in her sports year round.

jacksonville stood out and checked all the boxes. hanna must have loved florida, huh? she did. it is so different than sweden. yeah, you can play tennis all year round here. she'd play for hours a day, huh? yeah, she did. and then she went into triathlon as well. she was very fit. dennis murphy: wow. very fit. dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna's dad is a mechanical engineer, with the engineer's tenacious instinct to identify a problem and solve it. he'd made a huge success for himself as an entrepreneur in the transportation business, container freight. his pursuit of what used to be called the american dream rewarded his family with the best of everything. so jason, you and hanna grew up in some nice neighborhoods-- good schools, days filled with tennis, and-- yeah. --as much athletics as you wanted, huh? yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): jason johnson was one of hanna's best friends growing up. she was well-to-do. and-- and she wanted to help people that didn't have as much, huh? she was extraordinarily giving.

dennis murphy: jason says to understand hanna is to understand her heart and her spontaneity, like the time late one night when they were in their early 20s, driving by a closed public supermarket. there, on racks out front, were stacks of bread. so we were like, well, look at all this food that's just going into the dumpster every night. like, that's ridiculous. we are gonna go, and we're gonna take that, and we're gonna deliver it to, like, homeless shelters. and first, we load her car. we're having trouble closing the trunk, there's so much bread in it. and my car is equally as full of bread. dennis murphy (voiceover): they tried to give the bread away. but there was too much of it. it wasn't until later that the two realized, whoops, they'd made a big mistake. in fact, it wasn't day-old bread. it wasn't. it was bread that the publix company fully intended to sell to its customers the next morning. yeah. we had robbed publix of quite a bit of bread unintentionally. did anybody know other than the two of you? no, but we were waiting for the apb to come out from the--

bonnie and clyde have struck again. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): that woman with the big heart who wanted to feed the world, the triathlete, the young mother, was now fighting for her life. the phone rang again at the hove house. it was craig. the struggle was over. hanna had died. all parents that lose a child has the same big grief, lifelong grief. it's never gonna go. you just miss your child. children die in different ways. there's traffic accidents and all sorts of stuff. but i think this was extra painful. i'm not saying that because it's me. i'm just saying that this kind of situation, i wouldn't want anybody to go through. it's just been very painful. dennis murphy: hanna, just 32, died from

massive internal bleeding. she was never able to speak with police to tell them what happened. hanna's old college roommate was preparing for a photo shoot when hanna's husband called. and what, in fact, did he tell you when he called? that she had passed away. and he just let me cry on the phone. any details at that point, liz? nothing. i didn't ask. i was a mess. i was just crying. what did you hear in his voice? he sounded devastated to me. hanna: go, isabelle, go! dennis murphy (voiceover): elizabeth immediately thought of hanna's daughter, isabelle-- hanna: walk! yay! dennis murphy (voiceover): --who would now grow up without her mother. hanna: good job! uh-oh. dennis murphy (voiceover): tell me about what that meant for her, to have a child. she was obsessed with her. she loved her daughter. and she told me that was what life was about.

dennis murphy (voiceover): everyone on both sides of the ocean in those moments, grappling with so many unanswered questions. there was hope the police investigation that was underway would offer some solid answers. but instead, it may have just added more confusion. so you didn't think it was a homicide? no.

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northeast. dry conditions and low reservoir levels are compounding the challenge of containing flames. for now back to dateline. were investigating what appeared to be a suicide. craig becker said his wife had leaped from a seventh-floor bedroom window in their penthouse apartment. chief inspector arthur scorry. he told us that his wife was in depression. and he told us that that night, she was upset. and then she mixed wine and medicine. dennis murphy (voiceover): mixed wine with some medicine. my wife is clinically depressive. what's more, she is using alcohol in an unwise fashion. yeah, the way that he told us could be, really, very realistic. dennis murphy (voiceover): craig told police that after work, the couple had a lasagna dinner together. he had one glass of wine. but he said hanna drank much more, eventually draining the bottle. and at one point, the husband said, she took some pills.

but he wasn't sure what kind or how many. then, later, as the couple was giving their daughter a bath, craig said hanna became so drowsy, he told her to go to bed. it was about 8:00 pm. she was wearing only her underwear and a t-shirt. with his wife tucked away for the night, hanna's husband said it was about 50 minutes later when he heard a noise from the bedroom. he opened the door and saw his wife's lower body go out the window. that meant she went head first. dennis murphy: the husband was telling you a story of suicide, the steps that lead up to suicide. yes. dennis murphy: police also noted the unusual, by american standards, design of the window itself, how it swung out and away, with a more narrow opening at the bottom. so they regarded an accidental fall as unlikely. on the fourth-floor balcony directly below the becker's apartment, there were shattered flowerpots

on top of a patio table. there was a table on the balcony. so she fell onto the people below's balcony-- yes. --and then catapulted into the street. yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): other observations-- her cell phone in the living room, a partially open suitcase on the floor, and next to her bed, a wine bottle and glass. and when i go in the room, i see the bottle was empty. and the glass was-- there was a little bit of wine in the glass. dennis murphy (voiceover): the officers say craig, meanwhile, was cooperative. he showed them his arms. and the police didn't notice any scratches or injuries to his body. the husband also turned over the unmarked bottle that contained the pills he said hanna took. that bottle was sent immediately to the hospital. to the cops on the scene, it all added up to one easy conclusion. for us, the first time, what we see, what we heard,

it was a suicide. so you didn't think it was a homicide? no. dennis murphy (voiceover): in a surprisingly brief amount of time, about two hours after hanna's fall, the police investigation was concluded-- suicide. here's how it works in belgium. a judge was phoned that night and officially signed off on the investigation. dennis murphy: at that point, is this, as we say in english, a case closed? was that the end of the matter? in belgium, when the circumstances are clear, yes, the case closed. dennis murphy (voiceover): after the case was closed, craig opened up about some other details of the night to his family. his sister, tara, says craig tried to save hanna before she fell. tara: craig heard her scream. and he ran to see her. and she was out the window. and what does he do? he tried to catch her. he tried to bring her back, but wasn't able to. dennis murphy (voiceover): and craig said, when he went downstairs, where his wife lay fatally injured, she spoke to him.

dennis murphy: what does craig see when he gets down there? hanna, still alive. and he said that she kept saying, i am so sorry. please help me. i love you. dennis murphy (voiceover): as for hanna's parents, two days after their daughter's death and after a long flight from florida, they arrived in belgium. they were surprised to see craig accompanied by two military escorts. they were assigned to keep a watch on craig. they put him on suicide watch because it was deemed as hanna had jumped as a suicide thing. and therefore, he being the husband, grieving husband, they put him sort of automatically on suicide watch. dennis murphy (voiceover): they gathered at the apartment with the sloped roof to grieve with their son-in-law. then something happened that changed the climate of the case forever. john went looking for the window where hanna went out. as i walk into the bedroom, i open the window,

and i look down, and i see all these tracks, marks on the shingle roof. so i call. hey, craig. come look at this. so he comes into the doorway of the bedroom. i said, have you seen these marks? he said, no. i haven't looked down. dennis murphy (voiceover): what hanna's dad saw stunned him. and it would make him question everything he had been told about that night. it was beginning to seem to him that his daughter's death just might be foul play. (♪♪) from celebration moments to joyride moments your moments are worth protecting against rsv rsv is a highly contagious virus if you're 60 or older with certain chronic conditions

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dennis murphy (voiceover): what john hove saw out his daughter's window rattled him to his core. these are photos of the scratch marks he observed on the sloping roof below.

to hanna's father, they look for all the world like the grooves made by someone clawing with their hands and legs in a desperate act to hold on. this is not a person that jumps out the window. this is not marks from anybody jumping out the window. so immediately, there, it's like, no. this is impossible. scratch marks as though somebody is trying to restrain themselves? yeah, right. dennis murphy (voiceover): then something else caught the father's eye-- small nails sticking up from the shingles, no longer neatly nailed in. i saw several copper nails that were standing straight up. that half inch was straight up. it was pointing up and then, pft, bent up. what did that tell you? they were right in the track where hanna's hands had made the marks. ah. so as she went down, theoretically, the sloping roof, did her hands cause the nails to-- yes. so i said, you know, i really want to see her hands.

if this was done by hanna, and she did not jump, she was frantically trying to hold on, and her-- the copper nails would have gone into her hand and ripped it all the way. dennis murphy (voiceover): the grieving father had gone into amateur detective mode. john decided he would go to the morgue and see his daughter's body for himself. were there, in fact, injuries to her hands, made as she tried and failed to arrest her fall? hanna's mom, yvonne, was totally against such a macabre visit. yvonne said, really? do we have to do that? and i said, well, for hanna, we have to. dennis murphy (voiceover): reluctantly, hanna's mom agreed. by then, their daughter's body had been moved to a funeral home. the parents asked to inspect their dead daughter's hands. the response i got from the proprietor there said, no, sorry. we cannot do that. i said, it's very important. all you have to do is get her hands up like this so i can take photos.

well, let me go and ask the supervisor, the man in charge. and she came back after five minutes and said, yes, we can do that. dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna's parents entered a room where their daughter's body lay in a casket. her hands were turned up. and john took some photos. very traumatic. and there was the cut-up hands. there was deep gouges on both hands, starting here and going up. and the pain that that had caused her must have been tremendous. you thought that was caused by her trying to control her slide down? yeah. sure. i don't want to go off this roof. exactly. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): and then john started to wonder about craig's account of seeing hanna go out the window. i open a door. i see a hand, or might have been a foot,

disappear out the window. just like that, you see something. maybe it's a hand. maybe it's a foot. and i said, hand or a foot? you can't see the difference? well, you know, it went so fast. i said, ok, well, did you rush to the window, run to the window, look down? he said, no, no, no, no. you didn't look down? no. and so i said, so what did you do then? if you didn't look down, did you run downstairs? and he said, well, i took the elevator. you took the elevator? well, why didn't you run? it would be faster. dennis murphy (voiceover): wheels were turning in john hove's head. the son-in-law's story wasn't adding up. and forensically, to him, the scratch marks on the roof did not describe a body in free fall. had mons officials ruled too quickly that his daughter's death was a suicide? dennis murphy: what did you think of the quality of the belgian investigation, john? i mean, they didn't really do much of an investigation. and they just concluded, oh, this looks like suicide to us too. she probably jumped, you know? but no crime scene processing.

nothing. took it all at face value. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): john started to ponder something simply unthinkable. did craig throw hanna out that window? hanna's best friend in belgium had questions too. i met her at a barbecue for my husband's workplace. dennis murphy: did you think, i might have a friend here? i did. i liked her right away. dennis murphy (voiceover): eda blomquist was a danish military wife and officer herself. she first met hanna at a military function. and they quickly became very close. she says hanna had seemed so happy, not suicidal. so eda became suspicious. i was very, very confused, because i didn't see any signs. at one point in particular, anything that just made no sense to you of the various issues? that she didn't say any goodbyes, that she didn't-- you know, there was no note. there was no nothing. were you angry with her? it would be natural.

i was. i was angry, because the word "suicide," i don't like the word. i don't like people doing that, because i think it's a selfish act. so i was angry with her. but then the anger went away because i knew she couldn't have done that. dennis murphy (voiceover): that's because eda knew craig and hanna's relationship had not only turned rocky. it appeared their marriage was coming apart at the seams. why are you following you that? i [bleep] hate it. they look like [bleep]. they're horrible. (♪♪) “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like life was moving on without me. then i found a chance to let in the lyte.” discover caplyta. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta is proven to deliver significant symptom relief from both bipolar i & ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. caplyta can cause serious side effects. call your doctor about sudden mood changes,

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remember how craig surprised hanna with that romantic beachfront wedding? well, her parents didn't see it as a dreamy, soft-focus memory. hardly. they were ticked at her. we got a phone call. and hanna said, hey, dad. i just want you to know that i got married. and i said, what? yeah, 10 days ago. what? you know, it's like complete shock. and i said, whoa, whoa, whoa. what's going on? is craig there? put craig on the phone. let me talk to him. and i said, what's going on, craig? you're marrying our daughter, and you didn't even talk to us? and that was the first sign of-- i had a sense that he wanted to control the situation and not be controlled. that becomes an important word in the story, doesn't it? control. yes. yes. culturally, what he should have done was what? approach you, the father, and say-- absolutely. --i'm interested in your daughter, to the point where i'm going to ask her to marry him? right.

dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna's friend jason says from the beginning, he also saw troubling signs in the relationship. he felt craig tried to isolate her from loved ones. jason: she told me he was very possessive, very jealous. and he tended to not treat her friends well or respectfully. he wanted your nose out of the tent, huh? that's the feeling that i definitely got, that she was already sort of policing herself for him. dennis murphy (voiceover): jason remembers his once-frequent calls with hanna slowly drying to a trickle. yet jason also knew how alone his friend felt because craig continued to volunteer for overseas combat tours. he's a military guy. he's not in the house very much. he's gone a lot. was hanna becoming a lonely woman, do you think? i definitely think-- yeah, i mean, he doesn't even have the consideration to maybe decline deployment and, you know,

spend some time with this woman. dennis murphy (voiceover): five years into their marriage, hanna confided to friends that her loneliness had led her to make a mistake she'd later regretted. it happened right before they moved to belgium. and it involved one of her husband's buddies. she told me that she had had the affair with craig's friend. she was sleeping with him. mm-hmm. she definitely had regrets about having done it. she did feel very guilty about the situation. did you say to your friend, look, are you guys gonna be able to hold this marriage together? i asked her, what are you gonna do? and she told me, it's really bad. dennis murphy: really bad, huh? it's been really bad. she, says i made some mistakes recently. and i feel like i have to try to atone for them. she's referring to the affair that she had? yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): it was after they moved overseas that craig learned of the extramarital relationship. he saw a message on his wife's laptop.

craig's friend randy. dennis murphy: did you know that she had an affair with his friend? craig told me about it. he was upset, as to be expected. he was shocked, and hurt, and taken back by that. dennis murphy (voiceover): if craig had been controlling before, jason says it only got worse once craig learned of the affair. she calls me. and she's telling me about how difficult it is to maintain contact with me. with you? yeah, because she can't have my number in her cell phone, because craig is policing her cell phone at this point. and who's this, kind of thing? yeah, he really objects to her having any men in her cell phone. but as you say, you're gay. you're not a romantic threat to him. yeah. to his claim on her or whatever. exactly. what's your take on that, jason? what's going on? i was like, this is not normal. dennis murphy (voiceover): and the marital climate didn't improve while the couple was living in belgium.

eda, her closest friend there, remembers liking hanna immediately. but she never really warmed up to craig. it was when he came to our house. he made me feel uncomfortable in my own home. how could that be? i don't know. it was kind of the way he carried himself, or the way he looked at things, or just his posture. like you weren't measuring up to his standards? exactly. dennis murphy (voiceover): then there was that one unforgettable, and what eda felt was an unforgivable, incident. it changed her opinion of craig forever. what are you doing? hanna: videotaping you. dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna wanted to surprise her husband by making some drapes for their penthouse. am i supposed to-- like, you're videotaping me-- dennis murphy (voiceover): so excited to show him her creation, she recorded the moment he first saw them. craig: i think it looks [bleep] terrible. i think it's the most hideous fabric i've ever seen in my entire life. and i want it taken down immediately. he thought they were hideous. why are you following me with that? i [bleep] hate it.

they look like [bleep]. they're horrible. dennis murphy: how disappointed was she? very disappointed. she had put such effort into this. she had went to the store to buy the fabrics. i'm sure the craftsmanship's wonderful. but whatever [bleep] colors that you and your friend picked out make me want to throw up in my mouth. eda: in the video, he referred to me as "your friend." i didn't even have a name. you didn't have a name, just-- no, i was just a friend. she had spent a whole day at my house making the drapes. and she had hung them herself. and then she was very disappointed. was that a moment in the marriage where you learned something about craig and hanna? he should have told her in a nicer way that he didn't like them. it wasn't a place they were gonna spend the rest of their lives living in. so i think that's what people do in a marriage. there are compromises. dennis murphy (voiceover): by winter 2014, less than a year before her death, craig and hanna's relationship was ripped and torn on the rocks.

hanna had hopes a family christmas trip back home to florida could help heal her marriage. her father john recalls the visit. it was very tense already when they arrived. dennis murphy: what was the issue? john: well, the issue was that he was still upset about her affair. and you know, she was blaming him for not paying attention to her. and they argued about it openly. in front of you? yeah, to the point where he actually first suggested, you know what? i'm gonna go to a hotel. i can't put up with this. and i said, you know what, craig? that's a good idea. he left for a hotel. and he said, i'm gonna rebook my ticket. i'm going back to belgium. dennis murphy (voiceover): craig flew home alone. it was then that hanna's family and friends sat her down, intervention style, and bluntly asked what was going on in her marriage. she tells me that he had been emotionally abusive almost the entire relationship,

that he had been very controlling, and that this had all just been a mistake. and she was gonna leave him. and i was like, that's great. i think you should leave him. and don't go back to belgium. yeah, don't go back to belgium. i mean, i said that in no uncertain terms. and she's like, but i've got all my stuff there, all my clothes, and my car, and this and that. and i'm like, who cares? like, you've got isabelle. you got you. those are the two most important things you're ever gonna have. you don't need to go back. john: we're pleading with her every day. please, hanna, stay. stay here. get a job here. i mean, cool down. at least stay for six months, you know. you don't have to go back. dennis murphy (voiceover): but against advice of family and friends, hanna decided to return to europe with baby isabelle. she wanted to keep her commitment to the marriage. john: that if she wouldn't go back, it would shine a bad light on her, that she's given up, that she couldn't handle the situation.

does this go back to her being the toughest swimmer in the pool and the toughest athlete on the triathlete course? i think so. i think so. i'm not gonna give up. i'm gonna finish this. you know, i'm gonna do this. i'm gonna make this work. dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna got a new job working at the base youth center. but when it came to the marriage, hanna and craig threw in the towel. eight months after returning to belgium, they both realized they couldn't make it work. by the summer of 2015, the marriage was all but history. craig and hanna were sharing an apartment, but sleeping in separate bedrooms. a divorce was in the works. hanna, meanwhile, had struck up a relationship with a guy at work named chris. he was the maintenance man there. and he was gonna help hanna move her stuff when she and craig finally broke up. craig, according to her friends, did not like the new boyfriend. craig did not approve of him at all. no, apparently not. he was being replaced by this new guy. and his station in life-- well, he was

a maintenance guy, a janitor. yeah, he was a janitor. did that not add up to craig-- his standards? no. dennis murphy (voiceover): no matter. it seemed hanna had taken her lumps and was ready to start the next chapter of her life. at work, she attended a luncheon with her colleagues just hours before her death. her supervisor, mary louise manning, says she seemed happy. she was really in good spirits. she had just-- because the divorce was progressing. and she had to find an alternate place to live. and she had found another one. and she had just signed the lease on that apartment. and she was super excited for the next step. dennis murphy (voiceover): in fact, hanna signed a lease for that new apartment on the day she died. she was starting a new life. she found furniture for her apartment online. she just signed the papers for the apartment. yeah, she signed the lease on the very same day. and she was going to china. dennis murphy (voiceover): hanna had a long-planned trip to meet her dad in china. her flight was scheduled to leave the day after she died.

and it appeared she was getting ready. remember, police took a photo of luggage on her apartment floor that night. she was gonna come meet me there. and then, after two days, she was gonna go back. it's kind of exciting. yeah. dennis murphy (voiceover): for hanna's friends and family, her actions those last few hours of her life didn't add up to someone who was suicidal. and her dad especially couldn't stop thinking about those images engraved in his mind-- the long marks on the roof beneath his daughter's window. in my view, it's impossible that this is created by somebody jumping out the window. dennis murphy (voiceover): john felt the marks couldn't have been made by someone intentionally jumping, especially considering the unusual way the window opened. so you had to crawl out under the window and then just let yourself go, rolling, or perhaps you could close the window from outside, and stand up, and jump. either way, you wouldn't make the marks

that i saw right there. dennis murphy (voiceover): that's when john concluded his son-in-law was lying to him and everyone else. did you think he had killed her? yes. yeah. i was convinced. were you open to the possibility, for reasons unknown, that she might have done it, that she might have jumped herself? very remote. dennis murphy (voiceover): remote, perhaps, but not out of the question, because hanna had talked about suicide in the past. and she flies off the handle and is just really upset. she says, at one point, maybe i should just kill myself. [music playing]

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hanna hove: good job. dennis murphy: family and close friends of hanna started questioning whether she would take her own life and speculated about something gruesome. had her husband thrown her out the window? but even those close to hanna couldn't discount her complicated mental health history. when she was in her early 20s, hanna struggled to keep weight on. and after a bad breakup with a boyfriend, her problem got worse. jason was her roommate at the time. what happened? what got triggered? jason: she's a little depressed because of how this relationship has sort of panned out, for sure. like, she invested a lot in it, and she's not really eating enough. she's not eating healthfully. you thought she had an eating disorder. she definitely did at this point. she was too thin. she was underweight. she was probably under 100 pounds, and she's, maybe, 5'8" or 5'9". dennis murphy: then, one night, her world seemed to collapse. it happened when her parents were at her and jason's apartment for dinner.

jason: she has, maybe, two glasses of wine, and on her second glass of wine, she's just clearly inebriated. and we-- you know, either her father or i broached the topic of her eating disorder or her anorexia. and we're like, you're too thin. and she flies off the handle and is just really upset. and she says at one point that she is-- maybe i should just kill myself. i'd like to kill myself. yeah. and she's like, well, maybe i do. did you think she was serious? did you think that she might have killed herself? i didn't. i mean, i think she might have if we hadn't have had the intervention. john hove: the right thing is to hand this over to somebody professional. and so you start with calling 911. and basically, i said, you know, i'm here with my daughter, and she says she doesn't want to live anymore. and-- you didn't know whether that was a fact, or you didn't--

john hove: no, no. you didn't want to find out, certainly. exactly. you know, you-- how serious is this, you know? dennis murphy: hanna was voluntarily committed to a hospital. she was released after a few days. john hove: they deemed that she is no harm to herself. she's not sick or ill, or you know, it's not going to go any further. dennis murphy: later, jason says, hanna told him she felt like her old self. jason: she said something like, i realized my life wasn't that bad. it was pretty good, and i had a lot to live for. and i can't believe that i let myself get to the state that i let myself get to. dennis murphy: as the years went by, hanna gained back her weight and seemed to be in altogether better spirits, eventually, of course, marrying craig. but before they moved to belgium, craig groused to his friend, randy, that his wife had an alcohol problem. i know he was very upset with her drinking being--

what-- inebriated pretty heavily and very regularly. so that bothered him a lot. so we all know there's, kind of, gradations of being a bad drunk. were you hearing stories about her being a sloppy, embarrassing drunk, making a scene? yeah. so that was part of what upset craig, is that he would be embarrassed to be around her when she got that way, and felt like he couldn't go anywhere with her. dennis murphy: and hanna's emotional state seemed, at times, to go up and down, as in the instance when her old college roommate had a chance encounter with her at an airport. i walked up to the gate, and there's my friend, her husband, and a baby. dennis murphy: the unexpected meeting happened during that visit the family made back to the states from belgium, about 10 months before hanna's death. elizabeth was on the same flight as the family, and craig made her an offer too good to pass up. immediately, craig went and told them that he was giving me his seat.

and so they were in first class, so i went and sat with her. so lucky you. you're in first with your friend. i know-- [chuckles] so that we could catch up. and he sat in my seat in the back. dennis murphy: elizabeth says hanna opened up and shared she was taking prescription medicines that made her feel not like herself. she felt that the medication that she was on wasn't correct and that she felt that-- she used the word, "zombie," a lot-- that she was, basically, a zombie, and that if she-- where was she with her emotional well-being? what did you think was going on? this was the first time that i had seen her in a state that i would call unstable. unstable. elizabeth aciego: i did not see her as the hanna that i knew. dennis murphy: elizabeth can't remember what medications her friend told her she had been taking, but hanna had multiple prescriptions to treat severe anxiety and depression. on that plane, elizabeth says she no longer recognized the person sitting next to her. what had changed, liz?

well, one, there was a lot of drinking in a 45-minute flight. but two, it was just-- she just wasn't herself. it felt like a shell of who she was. dennis murphy: in hindsight, craig's sister, tara, says she now feels hanna never got the support she needed. hanna's mental stability, her mental health-- what would you want people to know about her? hanna was a wonderful human. a wonderful human. but i think she fell prey to the fact that she didn't have the diagnoses, maybe, that she should have, and didn't necessarily have the mental health help that she probably should have had. dennis murphy: and tara thinks it's possible hanna's past problems reared their head again because she was going through the stress of divorce and starting a new life. tara daniels: if you have mental health issues, you understand that things can change at the drop of a hat. and you think that's what happened there. i do. dennis murphy: hanna's dad strongly disagreed.

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dennis murphy: it's called shape, or supreme headquarters allied powers europe.

it's the place where lieutenant craig becker worked, and so did police inspector claude cloosen. he was assigned to a belgian federal police station located on the base. and within 48 hours after hanna's death, an american major walked in with an unusual story. a major came in our office and said that mr. becker took pills out of a drawer where he used to work in the office. he had gone to retrieve from his old desk-- claude cloosen: yeah. --these pills. and the fact that he came, we found it a little bit suspicious. dennis murphy: the major said lieutenant becker came back to retrieve a bag of pink pills from a desk he'd once used. the major also said he was aware that hanna had just died and thought he should tell someone about those mysterious pills. inspector cloosen decided he should let a magistrate or judge know this new information. and this magistrate said, we will have an autopsy done.

dennis murphy: an autopsy. hanna's body was to be cremated, but the judge put a stop to that. rather, hanna's body was sent instead to a coroner. as a federal agent, cloosen had not been involved with the local investigation that concluded hanna died by suicide. but after a stream of visitors started showing up at his station, he now found himself on the case. you'd had more people drop into your office, didn't you, with stories to tell? claude cloosen: we had a lot of people, and they came to tell us it's not logical that she committed suicide, and she didn't have any problem. dennis murphy: eventually, hanna's parents also went to the inspector's office, bringing with them those photos of the scratched-up roof tiles and their conviction that their son-in-law was behind hanna's death. hanna's friend, ida, also showed up. i felt i was going to do it for hanna, and especially for isabelle, because i didn't want her growing up thinking

that her mother chose not to be her mother but chose to commit suicide. dennis murphy: so what was your message to the police? i don't know what happened here, but i don't like what i'm hearing about this? ida birk blomqvist: i said, i don't believe what hanna's husband had told me over the phone about the suicide and her killing herself. dennis murphy: another arrival-- someone else who also had concerns-- hanna's new boyfriend from work. what did he have to say? he came to the office and said that they had relations together and that he wanted to give all the text messages he has in his phone. he had a story told by his phone. yeah. dennis murphy: on the morning she died, hanna and her boyfriend exchanged text messages. in one, hanna said, "oh, and by the way, i love you, christopher lamar, and i don't care if it makes you squirm when i say it." chris responded, "xxx, it does not make me squirm. just getting used to it. i believe every word."

but that same night, the messages turned unsettling and dark. at 8:37 pm, about 13 minutes before hanna's fall from the window, her boyfriend received this message. "craig is being so damn sweet and it is confusing. i love him and i love you." "i have the sweetest little baby with him. he wasn't [bleep],, but now, he's changed." 41 seconds later-- "and he doesn't want me anymore, because he knows i've been with you." the final message, about 10 minutes before her fall, was this-- "i [bleep] hate my life." the phone records kind of a history of the last hours of her life, huh? yeah, exactly. dennis murphy: cloosen, now retired, was a 39-year police veteran. and as he started to do some digging, he noticed someone else had come in to talk to one of his colleagues two days before hanna died. it was her husband craig. he just came to the office in order to explain that he will separate from his wife

and that he didn't want that the friend of his wife come into his apartment to do the moving. dennis murphy: craig said he didn't like that hanna's new boyfriend, chris, had been to the apartment and had moved out some of her personal things. so inspector lieutenant craig becker comes, and his first point is, i think my wife's new boyfriend is bad news. i want you to tell him to stay away. but he also wanted to tell you about his wife, didn't he? he wanted also to explain to my colleague that his wife had problems with alcohol and medication. that is, her behavior was not proper. dennis murphy: according to the report that was filed, craig said his wife drank between 1/2 and 3/4 of a bottle of wine alone, five days a week. the officer then noted, "we asked him what he wanted our police to do., and he repeated two or three times that the only thing he wanted was a written record of coming to our office." lieutenant becker comes in and makes his complaint.

there's nothing you can do with it. it wasn't a complaint. he just wanted a trace that he had been at the police station. dennis murphy: four days after hanna's death, john was at the couple's apartment when he learned the police had reopened the case. we are in the apartment, and there is, sort of, a ring on the telecom. and it says, they're police, we'd like to come up. and i think there was a total of 10 or 12 detectives. there was a photographer. there was technicians. and this is the first real attempt to begin an investigation. yes. so basically, everybody, sit still. who's craig becker? identified him. and they said, ok, we're starting an investigation in the death of your wife, and we're going to detain you for interrogation. dennis murphy: what is the husband saying?

i mean, here, the authorities have come back. there's officers in the apartment with a search warrant. is he saying, what are you guys doing, what's this about? he did agree with the search warrant. he didn't say, i don't want so. and we started the search with the criminal police, and we have seized a lot of things, so the phones, computers, and so on. dennis murphy: over the next few weeks, craig was called in multiple times to be interviewed by detectives. and then, five months after hanna's death, lieutenant becker was called in for another talk. this time, there was a magistrate or judge present. we asked him if he killed his wife. he said, no, no, no, no. and the magistrate said, mr. becker, you're lying. i deliver you an arrest warrant. and he was charged with murder by belgian authorities. charged with murder with premeditation. premeditation? yes. dennis murphy: police accused craig of meticulously planning his wife's murder,

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dennis murphy: built in the 1800s, it's one of belgium's oldest prisons, and after his arrest in 2016, the place where lieutenant craig becker resided. he'd been considered a flight risk, so he was held without bond. his sister, tara. what does he tell you stories about what his conditions were, where they put him? abhorrent. i know that there was a riot during his time there, and he was not given access to family, friends, counsel, because of that riot. dennis murphy: with craig behind bars, someone needed to care for baby isabelle, and that ignited a new crisis. tara daniels: my mom went out to belgium, as per craig's wishes, to get isabelle. and there was a back-and-forth and a fight to get isabelle. dennis murphy: hanna's parents got word from a friend that the plan was for becker's mother to bring isabelle back to the us. john hove: we've heard that the mother is going to give

the child to one of becker's buddies in norfolk, or somewhere in virginia. and we thought that sounded horrendous. we have blood relatives here. we can take care of her. if you can't take care of her, we certainly can. dennis murphy: john immediately had his attorney call belgian authorities, who sprang into action and put out an alert. so kind of an apb, all points bulletin? yes. stop a woman with a small child? yes. when my mom and my sister tried to get isabelle out of the country to bring her home, because they were given that ok, her passport had been flagged by john hove. hanna's father-- tara daniels: correct. --had blown the whistle on him. yup. dennis murphy: stop these people from leaving the country-- - correct. --with a little girl. yep. dennis murphy: craig's mom was stopped at the frankfurt germany airport, where she and isabelle were making a connecting flight back to the us. isabelle was taken away by german department of children

and families overnight. so she was in a foreign country with people she didn't know. dennis murphy: isabelle was returned to belgium, where she was temporarily placed with an american military family. within six weeks, a court did award custody to craig's mom. hanna's dad was disappointed with the decision. and while he waited for craig's murder trial to begin, he threw himself into a project he'd been working on for 10 years in florida. restoring this magnificent waterfront mansion to its nearly 100-year-old glory has been his seemingly endless labor of love. john hove: hanna really wanted to live here in the apartment. this was going to be hanna's digs, right? here, where we are. yes, exactly. dennis murphy: the carriage house was being built for hanna and isabelle, part of john's lavish plans for his 15,000-square-foot mansion. i've had this house renovation as a sort

of anchor point for me. therapy? therapy. yeah. keeps me away from going into a corner and feeling sorry for myself. dennis murphy: sorry for himself, because there was even more tragedy after his daughter's death. john says his wife never got over losing hanna. jason says, on his family visits, he could tell yvonne was struggling with it all. every time i went and saw yvonne, she was so unhappy, so desperately unhappy. hanna was the pride of her life. dennis murphy: john says that in the wake of their daughter's death, yvonne tried twice to take her own life. she was so depressed about-- in despair about-- --losing hanna. yeah. dennis murphy: then, john's wife suffered a medical emergency. early morning, 2:30 in the morning, she starts talking incoherent, like a different language.

so i tried to get her out of bed. i get her loaded into the car. [sighs] finally, get her out in the garage. and i'm trying to lift her and put her in the front seat, and she dies in my arms. dennis murphy: the cause of death was a ruptured aneurysm. yvonne was 69. the couple had been married 42 years. john hove: when the fire rescue came in, he put his fingers here and said, oh, she's gone. that's when you lose it, when you hear somebody professional tell you that your wife's dead. dennis murphy: two years after losing his daughter, john was now mourning the death of his wife. around the same time, craig's defense team had gotten the case transferred from the belgian court system to a us military court martial. craig returned to the states. he was then placed on active duty, no longer incarcerated.

his family and friends just couldn't understand any of it. why was he arrested in the first place? and even worse, why did he now have to stand trial for murder? craig's sister says, at the end of the day, the person she holds most responsible for her brother facing life in prison is hanna. the burden of being in court and having your brother on trial for murder. i do think that it's hanna's. you still love her. i love her to pieces, and i am so sad to be saying those words. but i do think that it's hanna's fault. in a bad moment, she made a poor decision. yes. dennis murphy: craig's military friend agrees. not an easy conclusion, but he feels everything points to hanna dying by suicide. there's no question, randy, that hanna went out the window and ended on the street. what makes sense to you? i mean, i don't want to sound cold. but for me, if it looks like a duck, it smells like a duck--

i mean, she had mental health issues. she was drunk and/or medicated. it doesn't sound shocking to me that she could have jumped, just out of frustration and depression. and likewise, can you say that familiar phrase, beyond a reasonable doubt, that craig is the one responsible for it, that he is guilty? there's no question about it? there is absolutely no way. you have that evidence? it's absolutely beyond reasonable doubt. dennis murphy: seven years after hanna's death, craig would finally stand trial for murder, and prosecutors were ready to show jurors a demonstration of how they think he did it.

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i mean, the whole thing is tough. it's-- you know, you don't get trained for this. and it just comes back up. you know, i think about hanna every day. dennis murphy: craig pleaded not guilty. his military court martial was run like a normal criminal trial, except the jury was made up of officers at ranks higher than lieutenant becker's. the prosecutor began by arguing that hanna was anything but suicidal. friends, family, and co-workers all testified she was moving on with her life, with her new boyfriend, her new apartment, new plans. hanna's boss from the youth center took the stand. i just know that our staff definitely did not believe that she committed suicide. that's for sure. based on what? just her personality and her demeanor, just being happy. and there was no signs of any depression. and it was isabelle, too. she loved her daughter so much.

her daughter was her world that-- and she was looking forward, as you saw it. yeah, the concept of her committing suicide and leaving her daughter, none of us could fathom. we just couldn't believe it. dennis murphy: hanna's friend, ida, was called as a witness, too. here he is at the table. you're testifying against him. did he look at you? did you look at him? i decided to be the one looking at him, because that was my choice. and i just felt sad for him, because he looked so small. dennis murphy: ida testified that after hanna's miserable trip back to florida at christmastime, she returned to belgium a different woman. she had made a decision to cut way back on her drinking. people would later talk about hanna and alcohol drink. could she handle a drink? do you remember her--? we only got drunk once during our friendship that lasted two years, so she wasn't a drunk or an alcoholic. sometimes we had wine when she was over for dinner, but when she was pregnant, she never drank any alcohol.

and you didn't see her being sloppy drunk. no, not at all. the one time we got drunk, we were at my house, and isabelle was with her father, and she was going to spend the night. so there was nothing unusual about it, just two girlfriends having fun. dennis murphy: and to underscore that, the prosecution played one of its strongest cards, a true head-snapper. hanna's bloodwork showed only a trace amount of alcohol the night she died. and the analysis of her hair showed she hadn't abused alcohol for months on end. that contradicted her husband's account that she was a heavy drinker, including information that he'd filed with police just two days before her death. so he had lied when he came into the police station-- he lied. he lied, for sure. --you need to know that she's a big drinker. yeah. what do you think he was doing that day? he was already preparing his murder. you need to be aware that this woman, hanna, has got troubles. yeah. seeding the story. yeah, preparing everything.

dennis murphy: preparing the story, getting you ready for it. investigators alleged it was all part of craig's master plan to kill his wife. and part of that plan included picking up a bottle of wine the night of hanna's death. detectives had the receipt. claude cloosen: the only one who bought alcohol that day was mr. becker. he's come to you days before, saying, you need to know that my wife is an alcoholic. she doesn't handle booze well. and yet, here on this evening dinner, he's provided the wine. did that make sense? that doesn't make sense. dennis murphy: something else that didn't make sense to police was what was found in hanna's body-- ambien, the sleeping pill. the pills are generally pink in color. do you remember a major had come to the police and said lieutenant becker had retrieved a bag of pink pills from a desk? prosecutors allege the pills were ambien, and craig had squirreled them away, all part of that plan of his.

connect the dots, as we say, your suspicion about retrieving this medicine he'd left behind in his desk. how was it used in the murder, as you believe? what we think that happened is he places that in hanna's lasagna. ah, in the food itself. yeah, in your food. dennis murphy: prosecutors believe craig secretly laced his wife's lasagna with ambien and made up the story about her taking pills on her own. next, the husband put her to bed, as the theory played out, and placed an empty wine bottle next to her. everything was going step by step. dennis murphy: and those text messages between hanna and her boyfriend became an important prosecution point, too. the story went, she'd reportedly sent them just minutes before she died, including the one that she "[bleep] hated" her life. a police photo from that night shows her phone in the living room, not at hand in her bedroom, because, police say, craig sent them, not hanna. we thought it wasn't possible for her to have written those text messages.

so we came to the fact that it was him who wrote it. so he made a mistake in not picking up the phone and-- --saying that she could have text-messaged while she's drunk and out of her mind. dennis murphy: the prosecution's picture had snapped into focus-- craig drugging his wife with the sleeping pills, rendering her a limp rag doll he could more easily throw out the window. according to a police report, craig said he came into the room as hanna was exiting, head first. but prosecutors said an examination of the marks on hanna's body showed, in fact, her legs went out first. they did recreations from a mockup window with a stand-in. they theorized she woke up as craig pushed her out, hung on to the sill for a few moments, and then fell. those marks on the roof-- an indication of just how desperately she tried to hold on. and when he tells you that she went out head first, he gets that wrong, too.

claude cloosen: that's wrong. if she had fallen, the head first, all the injuries would be from the top to the bottom, and everything was from the bottom to the top. dennis murphy: then came a recounting of a disturbing story. craig had allegedly been hands-on violent with his wife. hanna's dad told jurors about getting a frantic call one night from his daughter in belgium. and she shouts down the phone, he's trying to kill me, he's trying to kill me. and i said, wait, wait, wait, what are you talking about? dennis murphy: according to a police report, in 2013, the couple was staying at a hotel when hanna said her husband picked her up and threw her down on the ground multiple times, following an argument. hanna later told her dad craig tried to strangle her. well, you know, craig did this to me, because i'd upset him. you know, with my-- because she had had an affair with his friend. yeah. dennis murphy: but the next day, hanna recanted her entire story. she wouldn't press charges.

no. no. why would she do that? we believe strongly that it's because she realized that if she goes through with it, his career is over. dennis murphy: and that's what prosecutors and hanna's dad say was craig's motive to do away with his wife. there's no reason for him to kill hanna unless he felt that she was a threat-- a threat to him, that she would go back to the military and reinstate her claim about the strangulation event. and that would be finish for him, isn't it? that would be the end of his career. dennis murphy: as the prosecution wrapped up, inspector cloosen felt confident about the case. there was no doubt. and my colleague said, regularly, he did it. he did it. claude cloosen: he did it. because all what he said, nothing was matching. dennis murphy: but the defense was about to argue, not so fast. they'd built their own window recreation, which

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let me set the record straight. you're in good hands are people born wicked? or do they have wickedness thrust upon them? oh! -ah! [ laughter ] no need to respond. that was rhetorical. hm, hmm. dennis murphy: after 10 days of prosecution witnesses, the defense attorneys came out swinging. they argued there was no motive for craig to kill hanna, and there was no indication that any type of struggle occurred in their apartment. there is no hard evidence that would establish,

in any way, shape, or form, beyond any reasonable doubt, that lieutenant becker committed this crime. dennis murphy: david sheldon is currently one of craig's attorneys. though he didn't argue the original case, he insists craig is innocent. first off, he says the investigation by belgian authorities was severely flawed, and therefore can't be trusted. start with the police failing to seal the apartment or collect physical evidence the night hanna died. david sheldon: they don't seize her cell phone. they don't seize her ipad. they don't seize my client's evidence. they don't seize the wine bottle. there is wine actually in the glass. so if this is, in fact, an investigation, what kind of grades do you give? i would say it's f, and you don't get to repeat the course. you're out of the program. that's what i would say. i mean, and on this score, they lost evidence. they did not obtain and seize evidence.

they didn't interview prescient witnesses. they didn't take statements. dennis murphy: as for the ambien in her system, the defense said that was consistent with craig's story of seeing his wife take some pills that night. david sheldon: he sees her take a pill from a pill bottle. does he know what it is? no. and he gave those pills to the police immediately as they were taking her away. dennis murphy: if you remember, the pills were sent to the hospital. but after hanna's death was, at first, ruled a suicide, the pills were thrown away. the defense also challenged the blood results that showed no alcohol in hanna's system. one reason-- the blood was stored in a refrigerator where employees kept their lunch. craig's sister was in the courtroom. tara daniels: they don't know what the chain of evidence was. could have been tampered with, it could have it could be the wrong sample, for all they know. dennis murphy: the defense also denied that craig had ever been emotionally or physically abusive and disputed

the testimony about what happened in that hotel room. has he assaulted her? no. no, he did not. he cooperated with the authorities. dennis murphy: and they say there never was a master plan for him to kill hanna, and then cover it up by faking a suicide. take that bag of pink pills craig retrieved from an old desk. his attorney said they weren't sleeping pills but actually ritalin, a medication prescribed to the lieutenant to help him concentrate. police say they never did find the bag. they were the adhd pills that becker had been using and had left in that desk. and becker wants 'em. he's getting ready to take care of hanna, because his wife is going to china. he's getting ready to go to graduate school. so it's not beyond the ken to suggest that, yeah, i want my adhd pills that i left in this desk. dennis murphy: and something else--

the attorney says there's a plausible reason why craig went to the police in the days before his wife's death. he needed legal guidance. because he was in a foreign country, craig wanted to know if he could stop hanna's new boyfriend from coming into their apartment. david sheldon: what he did was he went to the police, and he said, hey, what are my rights? we're separating, and i need to know. do i have the right to be able to dictate who's in that house and who's not in that house? dennis murphy: and to help prove its case, the defense brought on a number of its own witnesses, including someone you've met-- her college friend who took those wedding photos, now a witness for the defense. she had been your friend. right. dennis murphy: and yet, you were, in a way, being asked to choose. choose between hanna and craig. i don't really feel like i have to choose, because i wasn't there. i don't know what happened. but i think hanna would want the truth to be told. dennis murphy: and elizabeth says that's what she did.

she told jurors the story of her friend becoming very drunk during that flight they shared. she just didn't believe craig was a killer. prosecution story seems to be, well, he crushed some sleeping potion, got her groggy, and then threw her out the window. can you see craig doing that? no. but that's what you have to believe if he's the killer. i just can't see him doing that. dennis murphy: craig's sister agreed. she could not believe the prosecution was accusing him of being a calculated killer. in the trial, they tried to paint my brother as a monster. my brother is not a monster. he's quiet, and he's reserved, but he's not a monster. dennis murphy: the defense argued, despite hanna's relationship with a new boyfriend, she actually still loved her husband and hadn't moved on from their relationship at all. in fact, she wanted to get back together. david sheldon: she didn't want to be alone. and i think that when she faced things, she saw her life not with the person that she truly loved--

craig becker. and that crushed her. dennis murphy: the defense version of that night has hanna waking up in her bedroom and hearing her husband in another room, talking on the phone with a woman named jackie-- someone hanna had suspected, even before they separated, of having had a long-term affair with her husband. was it sexual? were they sleeping together? i don't know when they started an intimate relationship together. i think it was around this time. dennis murphy: did jealousy drive hanna to take her own life? an intriguing theory for the jury to consider, but craig's legal team wasn't finished. they had one more bombshell to drop. (♪♪) from celebration moments to joyride moments your moments are worth protecting against rsv rsv is a highly contagious virus if you're 60 or older with certain chronic conditions

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thank you, zeke. dennis murphy: at a us air base in belgium, lieutenant craig becker insisted he had nothing to do with his wife hanna's fatal fall from their apartment window. she climbed out, he said-- a decision fueled by despair, jealousy, and wine. but that wasn't all. craig's lawyer said there was another powerful factor involved. hanna, the jury heard, was abusing a substance called tramadol, a painkiller and opiate. lab analysis of her hair showed she had regularly used it in her final months. i think the fact that she was using prescription drugs inappropriately is indicator enough

of mental health issues. dennis murphy: that was a key point for the defense-- hanna's mental state and depression. their theory-- she impulsively approached the window, started crawling out, but then changed her mind. she tried to hold on. and at that point, i think that she realized, oh, my god, what did i do? maybe she didn't want to die. dennis murphy: while craig initially said he saw hanna fall out of the window head first, the defense acknowledged at trial, it was possible that hanna fell feet first, but she wasn't pushed. an eyewitness testified she saw hanna fall. a nurse who worked across the street heard a scream, looked up, and saw a woman briefly hanging from the window. what the eyewitness saw is that she was pedaling her feet like you would pedal a bike, trying to get up. dennis murphy: to test the nurse's observation,

the defense hired voyko banjac, a forensic scientist with 30 years' experience in studying what happens to the human body in motion. he built his own scale model mockup of the window and used a woman, similar in height and weight to hanna, to demonstrate several scenarios. she most likely, for whatever reason, changed her mind, attempted to, as the eyewitness said, bicycle-pedal her way back through the window into the apartment. dennis murphy: the defense argued that those peddling motions could have created these marks on the roof, just as the test subject had done. and in this recreation, banjac says, it would have been difficult for craig to push his unconscious wife out the window, because her limp body would have simply fallen back into the apartment. voyko banjac: it would be almost impossible for a perpetrator, like lieutenant becker--

or any reasonable human being, for that matter-- to manipulate her body through that window. it seems counterintuitive. you're saying her body, in that instance, would end up inside the apartment. absolutely. dennis murphy: the motion expert also testified the prosecution seemed to want to have it both ways. if hanna was knocked out by sleeping pills, how was it that several witnesses, including ramiro gonzales, would say they heard her scream? if, as the prosecution claims, lieutenant becker drugged his wife and she was unconscious, i do not know how that scream could happen. a scream is normally associated with a conscious, aware person. so your scientific opinion? homicide or suicide? by far, the most likely, suicide. dennis murphy: with that, the defense rested.

it was up to a jury made up of higher ranking officers who would now decide the lieutenant's fate. if it turns out that he is, in fact, guilty as charged, what would you say to him? just-- my heart would be broken for his daughter. and for-- for a person that wouldn't have deserved that. hanna was really wonderful. so i just have to believe it was a terrible accident. dennis murphy: the jurors deliberated for 2 and 1/2 days, then reached a verdict on april 3, 2022-- hanna's birthday. the foreman stood up and said, we, the jury, find craig becker guilty. and it was like, yes. yes, thank you.

tara daniels: they had thought that without a reasonable doubt, he had done it. i don't understand how they came to that conclusion. dennis murphy: what about you, inspector? do you think it was a good verdict? is this justice? i'm not the one who can say it is the justice. it's the result of the investigation we made. the one who can say it's justice-- it's the father. because somebody of his family is gone. dennis murphy: craig was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole and sent to the us military prison in fort leavenworth, kansas. he is appealing the decision. isabelle is being raised by craig's family. when last we spoke, john hadn't seen his granddaughter in years. you still have a lot of work on this project. as for his mansion, he told us the renovation

was nearly finished-- a grand home for his family that no longer exists. the passion of this project began with family. was your late wife who found the place? yeah. dennis murphy: hanna thought she'd have a lovely life with her baby in the garage apartment. john hove: yeah. and now, they're both gone. but i'll finish the house, like i promised. dennis murphy: at the end of the day, he says, no lavish home, no amount of money, can take away the pain of losing his only daughter. [music playing] rtment. police department. [wailing] bj horn: he looked like he was trying to save his wife. he was doing cpr. you know, it was an emotional situation.