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that would come next. >> oh, my god, oh, my god! >> it was just like every emotion possible in one second. i went, oh, my god. >> murder in the dark. who was behind it and who would pay? >> when you see him on the video, he's armed and ready. >> two couples, two families, and a single moment that shat r shattered it all. >> i knew one day that this was all going to come out. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." here's keith morrison. >> look at this place now, so ordinary, with its pharmacy, its grocery store, carefully tended parking places so like the suburban strip malls from bismarck to bakersfield. that night, that cold night a heat gathered here, sweet, terri terrifying.

>> for the longest time i couldn't go anywhere because i'm thinking everybody's looking at me. >> this is the story of two married couples and the advice they can offer others now that it's too late for them. i think if i could tell them anything, it would be, put your family first. >> but, of course, that's not what happened. and this parking lot, there'll be a body here before we're done. >> oh, my god, oh, my god! >> careful when you stir the hot pot of desire. . >> the place is meridian idaho, little brother to boise in the majestic rockies. this is where they got to their perfect place, the end of their rainbow. it was 2006 and luck was on their side. they had just moved from southern california and they

were happy. they were fulfilled at work. they had two beautiful children, they had everything they ever wanted. they were rob and candy hall, one of those charmed couples who'd fallen in love at first sight, in their case first sight meant admiring each other in this gym. >> we went out that weekend and we never stopped. >> what was it about that relationship? what was it about him that was so good? >> we just connected instantly. >> why the time rob and candy moved to idaho, they'd been together for years and had two teenage daughters. >> rob land and excellent job at the ada county sheriff's office specializing in locators inside sheriff's squad cars. >> he loved every moment of his job. >> as if it was a sign this was where they belonged, candy's job took off, too. she was a natural and could and did sell her confidence and

skills to anybody who walked in the door. >> it didn't hurt that she was pretty. >> no, it didn't. her co-worker idolized candy. knew became close. >> we became very close. she was like a mother to me. >> yes, it was all just about perfect. and then who knows why these things happen exactly, they just do. and no one imagined, why would they, how this thing was going to end. about eight months into his new job, rob started traveling for work. nothing unusual about that, of course, but soon he seemed to be staying away from home a little longer than he really had to, started snapping at her, too, candy said, about little things. not like the old rob at all. >> so at this point, you began to suspect something? >> yeah. i start thinking, what is going on? why are you acting like this? >> then, one night, after a late flight in from california, rob lay down beside his wife in bed and it all came tumbling out.

>> he just started to cry. and he said, i'm having an affair. and i laid my head on his chest and i said, rob, please, just fix it. >> you didn't get upset? you didn't yell? you didn't scream or cry or do anything? >> that's what shocked him. the typical response is, get the hell out. >> throw the clothes out the window. >> no. the last person on this planet that you would think to have an affair would be robert. >> but, of course, it was devastating, crippling. everyday she went to work and every day sophia saw her friend turn herself inside-out and just seemed to wither. >> i watched her go through misery. sobbing in her hands daily and just trying to figure out what this wom civilizing had that she didn't -- this woman had that she didn't.

>> did she still love him? >> yes. dearly. >> wanted the marriage to continue in spite of the affair? >> yes, she did. she didn't want to believe in her head he found something in this woman that wasn't in candy. >> he felt bad about it, agreed to go through counseling with candy but -- >> after he confessed to you and you said fix it, he didn't. >> he didn't know what he wanted. >> he wanted to keep going with the affair, that's what he wanted. >> i for sure told him to stop. >> symptom right now or i'll stamp my foot and hold my breath. he kept doing it. >> it was my fault. he had a void because of me, that's what i was thinking. >> what would the void might have been or did you think? >> i just was boring. >> borine ining old candy hall, rejected, apparently unlovable and nearly 40. then, one day at work, candy was introduced to a recent law school graduate who was looking to staff his new office, a boy initially handsome smart as a

whip cocky young lawyer. his name was emmitt corcorrigan >> my friend, she said, emmitt, you've got to meet candy, she's just as passionate and aggressive as you are. she would be great for you. >> something suddenly lifted in candy hall. by the time those words had left her friend's mouth, candy knew, she just knew. >> when we come back, candy hall has a decision to make and it will have consequences she never intended. deadly ones. >> the text popped up and rob read it. rob goes, why are you texting my wife? ♪ ♪ ♪

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in boise, idaho, inside this law office in the fall of 2010 was a paralegal whose charmed life was falling apart. candy hall was an unhappy woman, her marriage was dying or dead, her 40th birthday was bearing down like a chinese bullet train. then, one day it got worse. candy's boss told her she was also unemployed. >> my husband's had an affair, now, my attorney who i work for, has fired me. >> yeah. pretty low. >> such problems. and then there was him. emmitt corrigan fixed everything. he was handsome and he thought she was gorgeous. of course, he hired her right

away for his new law office. and you know what came next. soon there were racy e-mails, spicy text messages. >> i would like to be put on a stool. emmitt made me feel that way. it was pretty much of an ego boost for me. >> she really wasn't trying to get back at her husband, said candy, at least not consciously. >> i was thinking about me and only me. it made me feel good, made me feel like i was on top of the world. >> sitting here, now, is candy still thinking only of candy? perhaps as you hear the rest of the story, you can be the judge of that. anyway, back then, there were a few hitches in candy's newfound fantasy life. to start with, emmitt corrigan was also married and lived in this quiet cul-de-sac just a couple of miles from candy with this woman, his wife, ashley. >> he was just a guy that

everybody wanted to be around. >> enthusiastic, full of energy? >> sometimes too much energy but that's kind of one of the things i loved about him. >> just like candy and rob, ashley and emmitt met in a gym. theirs was in college in utah, 2003. also unacceptable from that moment on. and they certainly made a striking young couple. they were married after just six months together, made their vows before god and the church and the lds temple. and -- >> you know what, i think i'm ready to be a parent. >> first came twin girls followed soon by a son and then another daughter. >> he loved being a dad as much as i loved being a mom. >> in the winter they went skiing and in the summer camped at the lake lay loved. and they made memories. ashley never doubted this was how her life was supposed to be.

she was pregnant with her fifth child when her ambitious husband opened his law office that 2010 and made the fateful decision to hire a paralegal named candy hall, not that he had any idea he was sealing his fate, of course, any more than his wife, ashley, understood his private motivati motivations. >> did you suspect she was involved with him? >> with emmitt? >> yeah. >> no. >> why? >> the way he described her was an older woman who he looked up to in a meteorologicotherly way. she just believes in me thinks i will be this great lawyer. >> you saw her and she was an older woman. >> she was almost 40 and i was 28. it wasn't something i felt like a competition of, i guess. >> but for the many reasons that plainly escaped those who aren't seated smack from the hot stove of desire themselves, am mitt and candy thought otherwise. they tried to keep their hands off each other for a little while, said their co-workers.

if they believed they were hi hiding their obvious in f fatation, suddenly messy hair, hastily rearranged clothes, they were only fooling themselves. >> i noticed a significant change in her attute went from being depressed about what rob had done to happy, you know. >> a spring in her step again? >> oh, yeah. >> such timing. now that rob seemed to want to fix their marriage, candy became a study in pretense. honesty took a holiday. >> i was living a lie. being in an an affair is one big lie. you lie about everything. >> and she lied to herself, too. >> you were thinking of you and he together striding across the bow of the titanic, this is going to be it for you forever. >> yes. >> one night a couple of months into the affair events suddenly ticked measurably towards their deadly conclusion. around bed-time candy received a

text from emmitt and couldn't hide it. >> the text popped up and rob read it and it said, i wish i was there with you tonight. >> what did he say? >> he was angry, candy, what is this? i said, i don't know. so he calls emmitt. rob goes, why are you texting my wife at this time of night. >> emmitt's answer, two minutes later he showed up at rob's house. they talked like dueling lovers out on the sidewalk. then rob came back inside. >> rob tossed my phone up on our bed and he said, you win. i can't compete. he's young. he's a good looking guy, he's an attorney, you make him a lot of money. what good am i? and he was just devastated. >> now you have yourself a pretty complicated life at this stage. yeah. >> of course that february 2011,

emmitt's life was complicated, too. ashley could see how stressed he was, didn't understand it. that or why he seemed to avoid coming home. >> there was one time when my son asked me if he lived with us anymore. when we were in the bedroom, he said, what's that all about zwrrvelgts i said, well, we miss you. he kind of yelled and screamed and left. >> ashley thought maybe it was her fault. she went to marriage counseling, emmitt refused to go. >> i had felt really pushed away and was trying to find an answer, trying to surprise him by cleaning out his car and found a weird envelope. >> weird envelope. >> with some sort of pill. i researched online and one of the side effects was problems with intimacy and sexuality. i thought maybe if he was doing that, that that could explain

why he didn't necessarily want me. >> did you take it personally, too, though? snow you want to be everything that they want. it was hard not to take personal. >> especially when emmitt, who had been working out more and more, announced he was going to a fitness competition in ohio on their wedding anniversary. >> what did that feel like? >> lonely. he called and said, happy anniversary, i'll call you later but didn't call back. the night before he came home, my oldest son, who was -- he had just turned 4, was screaming one night for probably two hours. my dad's going to die, my dad's going to die. i just held him, tried calling him but he never answered his phone. it was a very strange weekend. >> strange. strange is not a big enough word to describe what was about to happen.

coming up. >> i literally was like, emmitt, please do not leave. he said, no, i'm leaving. >> a secret meeting at walgreens and something will go horribly wrong. >> i said, no, i'm not doing this. he's like, oh, we are doing this. >> w (sounds of birds whistling)

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it was the 11th of march, 2011. this was it, the big event. d-day, you could say. it was early evening, cold as the sun went down in meridian, cold and bleak. in two homes in particular, it was very bleak indeed. candy hall arrived home from work to find her husband, rob, packing boxes, to leave?

what other reason could there be? >> i know we were probably coming down to the wire. >> you were having the kind of unfair fights couples have all the time. they betray each other with abandon and wonder why it doesn't work out. >> yeah. the thing i never wanted to face was the hurt that i was going to cause on so many people. i knew one day that this was all going to come out. but the way that it usually ends up -- >> now, you can only look back and wish it had turned out that way. >> right. >> around the same time across time about two miles away, ashley corrigan had made the mistake of telling her husband, emmitt, in her desperate state of worry, she'd asked her family members to pray for them. >> he said, your family, i hate your family. i can beat your brother up, i can kill all of you. i grabbed his face and said, you know what, i love you. i'm not going anywhere, i don't

care what it is, just tell me what's happening. i don't know, i felt like that was the last chance. and he -- he didn't take it. he didn't open up about anything. >> that night, though, a trusted family member who had agreed to help counsel the couple called and emmitt answered the phone. >> he went back into our bedroom and i could hear everything he said because the baby monitor was on. the hard part then was not a word he said was true. >> what was he saying? >> i think she might be sleeping with this person. she says i'm the worst father ever just things i know i had never done. so when he walked out, i flipped the baby monitor off and i said, oh, how did it go? >> it went good. he thinks you're as crazy as i do. i said, okay, do i get a turn. he said, i don't care what you do but you're not using my phone. emmitt said, hey, i'm going to run to walgreens and i'll be

right back. i put the phone down and i literally was like, emmitt, please do not leave. he said, no, i'm leaving. >> you must have felt like your life was falling apart and you didn't know what to do. >> i kind of thought maybe this was the grand finale. >> he needed a wake-up call. >> he did. he needed a wake-up call. >> careful what you wish for. getting late now, very dark. over at the hall house, candy had been talking to her husband, rob. maybe he shouldn't move out. maybe they should try to fix their marriage and make it work somehow. then, right in this middle of that, she suddenly told him she had an errand to run, couldn't wait. guess where. >> i said, i need to go to walgreens, i'm just going through the drive through. i'll be right back. >> here's candy's explanation the way meeting with her lover was arranged. >> as i was pulling out of the back of my driveway, emmitt t t texted me, hey, what are you doing? i'm going to walgreens. i was just there.

hey, meet me there. >> then, what happened next, you can watch it yourself right here on surveillance tape. >> i go to walgreens, go through the drive through and i pull around and i park my car. then he pulls up and i get in his truck and we go to fred meyer. >> there again, they're getting gas at fred meyer when emmitt opened the truck's rear door. >> he pulls out all these prescription bottles. i said, what are you taking? he said, if you don't want to grow a penis, don't take it. he got back in the truck and we drove off. >> from there, candy and emmitt pulled to a secluded spot and had sex under a streetlight. that's where they were tangled up in each other when candy's phone rang. her daughter coming home from a date had seen her car in the parking lot. she said, mom, why is your car at walgreens? i called dad. all right.

okay, i'll be home in a minute. >> too late, because now the wind was up, rob the unfaithful husband had to know now he was the aggrieved spouse. sure enough as candy talked to her daughter, here he was in his pickup truck to come to walgreens to look for his wife. phone call from rob. he goes, are you with emmitt? and i go, took a deep breath and i said, dwreyep, i am. emmitt looks over at me and he takes the phone away from me and he goes, yeah, what's up, chief? and he says, yeah, wait right there. we'll be right there. you wait right there. that's when i said, no, knock it off, we're not doing this. he's like, oh, we are doing this. >> there are moments in life when big choices are made. this was not a good one. coming up, a late night

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here at a walgreens drugstore in meridian, idaho, just before 10:00 p.m. on march 2011, the devil wanted his due, robert was a man on a mission. rob parked his pickup truck, went through the front door, roamed the beauty and cosmetic aisle looking for his wife, candy, who was, of course, also in a pickup truck with her lover, emmitt. here, you can see rob leaving the store, looking at candy's parked bmw and strangely getting out of his own pickup truck and

re-parking it on the other side of candy's car. curiously his door just out of range of the store's surveillance camera. this is when he made that phone call, the one in which candy confessed she had been with her boss, emmitt corrigan and he said, what's up, chief? and speeding through the parking lot, still time to stop this if wiser heads were in charge. nothing wise about what's coming. >> i see rob in his truck. he has just this look on his face like, oh, man. and i get out of the truck. then emmitt gets out and then rob gets out and walks over to us. >> this is just the sort of moment in which a person might have wanted to cool the overheated atmosphere, control the anger and choose words carefully. that is not what happened. >> rob is standing next to me and he's like, what are you

doing out with my wife at 10:00 at night. emmitt said, rob, she doesn't want to be with you anymore, okay? she's done. really, rob, what did you make last year? maybe 4040,0$40,000. candy, what did we make last week? 27,0$27,000 in one week, rob, ts how much i make. you don't make anything. >> nasty, arrogant, like a thoughtless young buck who needed to be reminded of something. >> rob said, well, what about your kids and your wife, she just had a baby, they're at home waiting for you and you're out with my wife. at that moment, emmitt's eyes got huge and he pushed himself off his truck and went over and pushed rob very hard on his chest. >> and then the climax. the confrontation that had been building for weeks. >> that's when i said, enough! that's enough. you get in your truck and, rob, we've got to go. as i was walking to my car,

another car came by and i had to stop. and at that point, i hear pop, pop pop. i didn't know what it was. i didn't know if that car just backfi backfired. i had no idea. and i stopped and went -- like, what was that? and all's i see in my peripheral vision right here is rob covered in blood, like someone poured a can of red blood all over him and i went, ah! >> frantically, candy's fingers somehow found the numbers 911. >> oh, my god, oh, my god! robert, robert, robert! >> the pistol went flying somehow. no one disputes that. there it was, lying on the pavement between two men, both shot, one alive, one dying. and candy hall entered that twilight zone where memories are made that can't ever be erased, though as you and the police

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ashley corrigan did not go to sleep after her angry husband announced he was going to the walgreens drugstore at meridian, idaho. so she was up when the police came to her house at 1:00 in the

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

rob put two bullets from his semi-automatic pistol into emmitt corrigan. one in his heard and one in his head. over at the meridian police station, candy hall, her clothes still covered in blood, was telling the first of several different version office what happened in the parking lot, quite unprepared, of course, for the public torrent about to come down on her head. >> suddenly, you're thrust into the public eye big-time. >> yes. >> as a jezebel, a woman at the center of a tawdry love triangle. what is that like for you? >> it's scary. for the longest time i couldn't go to the grocery store, i couldn't go anywhere because i'm thinking everybody's looking at me, everybody knows who i am. >> everybody knows what i did. >> yes. but it did happen and i own it. >> here's something else that

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

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

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

but completely wrong. >> this fight started by emmitt corrigan. >> rob was a nice guy, said the defense. it was emmitt who was out of control. emmitt, who kept amphetamines and steroids in his pickup truck, drugs with serious side effects said a defenseman. >> he had impulsiveness and explosive temper. >> what really happened? rob didn't testify. a doctor backed his claim because of his head wound he simply couldn't remember. so the defense offer had theory that emmitt started the fight and then the gun fell on the ground. emmitt grabbed it, shot rob and during the pause, rob got hold of the gun and fired back in self self-defense. the courtroom came to a halt. every head turned when a star witness took the stand to support that theory. >> would you please state yoand

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

stand, candy expressed her love and sorrow for the man she cheated on yet still loved. >> he knew and he still knows in his heart that i've never stopped loving him. you don't just stop loving someone. >> and watching it all, emmitt's wife, ashley. >> you watched as candy testified. what was that like? >> it's hard to hear her stand up there and tell her husband how sorry she was and how much she loved him. because ultimately, it was because of them that i didn't get that chance. >> and rob hall's version of events? he's about to tell you, the very first time he has spoken of this. but first, it's up to the jury to determine the wages of sin. coming up. >> i wish i had never gone there. >> a husband with a stunning story to tell.

>> the last thing i remember was the gun pointed at my head. >> but whose story will the jury believe?

once he had everything he wanted before he and his wife scratched the itch of wanting more. and now a jury was about to tell robert hall whether, for the rest of his life, he'd have anything at all. we have a small advantage over the jury. hall did not testify but he talked to us, his first ever interview. to tell us he was sorry about what happened. yes, that, but also to tell us that it wasn't his fault. >> the notion that i brought a

gun there to gun down emmitt corrigan, i didn't bring a gun there to gun down emmitt corrigan. >> his version, despite what you heard, he did not even know for sure emmitt was having an affair with candy. that in this parking lot, emmitt was the aggressor, pulled him down from behind by the hood of his sweatshirt. >> i don't think i made four steps before i was ripped off my feet. when i hit the ground, the first thing i thought was my cell phone hit the ground and i looked over and it was my gun. he reached down, grabbed my gun and we just struggled over it. the last thing i remember, it was the gun pointed at my head, and the feeling of being hit up side the head with a baseball bat. i remember seeing everything black and gray. that's all i remember. until sunday in this hospital.

>> in that moment of extreme anger and passion, crazy things happened, and you're asking us to believe that the crazy thing that happened started when you got shot. >> yeah. >> when he pulled the trigger. >> yeah. >> and then you must have taken the gun and fired two shots at him. >> yeah. >> of course he had a hole through his heart and one in his head, which sound, for all the world, when you hear that, like those were targeted shots. is it possible you shot him and then decided you were going to shoot yourself? >> no. absolutely not. i've never been suicidal. >> the jury did hear the defense case, of course, just not robert's version of it. but it was enough for a verdict. >> is robert dean hall guilty or not guilty of first-degree murder? not guilty. >> not guilty. hearts rose and fell. then, not so fast. >> is robert dean hall guilty or not guilty of second degree

murder, guilty. >> guilty of murder, not premeditation, per se, but an intent to kill and disregard for human life. rob hall looked like he had been punched in the stomach. tears sprang to his eyes. hall was sentenced to 30 years in prison. he'll be eligible for parole in the year 2030, just past his 60th birthday. >> as we sit here now, having been convicted of intentional murder, you're still not -- you're not taking responsibility for it as that. >> as murder, no. >> you're saying the architect of this tragedy is more emmitt corrigan than you. >> absolutely, yes. >> and so you, sitting in prison for the next god knows how many years, are as much a victim as anybody else? >> it's devastating. i wish i had never gone there

that night to get my wife. >> or if you went, that somehow you like not taken your gun along. >> i think that. i do the what if game on that and think what if he would have pounded my face into the cement and not stopped. and then people would say, well, why didn't he have his gun with him. >> and thus you encountered one of the elements of classic tragedy, the thing you buy to protect yourself is a thing you use to destroy yourself. >> yeah. >> another thing to contemplate late in your jail cell at night. >> yeah. >> he also thinks about his two daughters whose lives, graduati graduations, triumphs, marria marriages, children he will never witness. two girls who would soon be living alone at the ages of 18 and 14 back then, because of a

final twist to this story of betrayal and retribution. rob's wife, candy, incredibly, was sent to prison herself, because of the affair? no. she pleaded guilty to charges of grand theft for embezzling some 30,0$30,000 from the attorney f whom she worked before emmitt corrigan. she served 18 months for that, is on parole now, and we're told, writing a book, her version of things. before she went to prison, she talked to us about regret. >> i have a lot of guilt still in me, a lot. it has to do with ply kimy kids his kids. and it makes me sick how i could do something like that. i am the responsible one and it's something i don't know are they going to ever be able to get through that? i mean, hopefully one day i can prove to them it was just a mistake. >> maybe her book will persuade

five children and a widow named ashley that it was just a mistake, or maybe not. in the years since, ashley has re-married and as a way to find healing and peace, has written three books herself and has become a popular blogger and speaker with a message to stand strong and faithful. >> there's thousands of people in this country that come to those crossroads and don't know what to do. but i think if i could tell them anything, it would be put your family first. i guess i would like to say to rob, rob, he had five kids. couldn't this have been something you pictured as you held up the gun and targeted it at his head and his heart? >> once, in meridian, idaho, were two happy successful families, wasn't quite enough for some of them. and the wreckage is forever.

>> that's all for now. i'm lester holt. this sunday, brexit. trump and clinton. the brits are getting out and immigration was the main cause. what might it mean for the u.s. presidential election this november? >> great similarities between what happened here and my campaign. people want to take their country back. >> the consequences for britain, europe, and the united states. plus, one by one, prominent republicans are abandoning trump. is it still possible the dump trump movement could succeed? his campaign chairman paul manafort is with me this morning. also, our brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll on the state of the race. >> and the veep steaks. who's on trump's short list for vice presidents and what about clinton's? i'll talk to the senator everyone assumes is at the very top of the clinton list, tim