phillies pitchers combined for 205 pitches. to the 101. that block is thrown. over to third. scooped up by arroyo. 16 ground ball outs. >> trusting the defense. >> that's a lot of ground ball outs. when you think about it. bullpen action now all of the sudden. brian morse, the veteran. 25 outs. 16 are on the ground.

the ball bablg toward the middle. tomlinson gets to it. kendrick will have his second hit. tommy joseph will scroll to the plate. >> very rarely will you get a chance to have four at-bats against a pitcher in a given game especially in this day and age in baseball. top of the order having a chance to do so against blach. >> back in 2015 blach had two shut outs.

down in the minor leagues with sacramento. he's had six complete games in the minors. six complete games, four shut outs during his minor league career. in this day and age they don't always let guys finish games off. >> no. >> they have seven inning games when they play double headers. the liner out toward left field. caught. two outs. >> one of the hardest hit balls we have seen tonight. >> good swing by tommy. >> very good swing. >> here is franco.

8 and two-thirds. seven hits. four strikeouts. he's got at least seven innings in the last five starts. barring something absolutely crazy. he will be 4-0 in the five starts with an earned run average hovering around two. he's not madison bumgarner who actually started to throw. just throw on wednesday. his presence has been sorely missed by the giants this year. 0-2 pitch. outside. one ball, two strikes. over to third base.

kicked for a moment by arroyo. ty blach, the young left hander has pitched his first major league shut outs. a 10-0 win. asking for the baseball and rightfully so. he was fantastic tonight with 17 ground ball outs. as the giants take game one of the three-game series. >> he was excellent. ball after ball on the ground. you get that many ground balls you're living on the knees. you're right at the catcher's shin guards all night long. >> that's exactly where a pitching coach would like it. he's our chevrolet player of the game for his efforts. i don't know the last time we saw this many ground outs in a game by a pitcher. >> chevrolet player of the game. he could have given it to denard span as well with his five for six performance. ty blach had it going tonight. ground ball after ground ball.

trusting his defense. induced double plays. galvis fishing. everything is down. final out. 27 for the phils. your chevrolet player of the game. >> the phillies lose it 10-0. the giants take game one. that's a baseball he'll keep for a long time. we'll be right back to wrap it up after this.

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. >> reporter: police in saco, maine had a strange, violent crime on their hands. a home invasion with a shooter at large and a victim in intensive care. >> she was very pale. she looked horrible. >> reporter: rachel owens had been shot in the head. >> reporter: you were told that "she might not make it." >> yes. >> reporter: that is very terrifying news. >> it was definitely challenging to see. i -- it was emotional. i, to see her like that. like, i thought -- i thought that was going to be the last time i'd see her. >> reporter: as rachel lay in the icu, police in maine needed to get in touch with her husband gregg. they called their counterparts in londonderry, new hampshire, ninety miles away. sergeant nick pinardi is with the police department there.

>> we were working a midnight shift. it was me and a couple other officers. >> reporter: saco police wanted him to go break the news to gregg in person. >> so i simply went over and told him, "your wife was shot in -- in maine." at that point mr. owens said he thought he was having a heart attack. so the officers helped him to the ground, sat him down. >> reporter: it turned out it wasn't a heart attack, he'd apparently gone into shock. gregg was eager to go see his wife. but first he went down to the police station, full of questions about her condition. >> status of my wife. >> yeah. she's at the hospital right now. >> she's alive? >> she's alive. >> prognosis? >> we're not sure right now. she's still in surgery. but she is, you know, still alive right now. >> any idea what happened? >> we're tr -- we're -- maine's trying to get some background information. they're investigating it on their side. >> reporter: gregg explained that his wife had gone up to maine for a few days to stay with friends. he said she had been struggling with her health recently and

needed a getaway. >> what is the issue? >> they're saying that it's really -- it's an early onset dementia. >> he said she had trouble taking care of herself and remembering. he described how he really was the caretaker, had to make sure she ate. >> reporter: gregg said he thought the visit to maine would do rachel some good. >> he described a very loving relationship with him and his wife and their family. >> reporter: now as he talked about her, he could barely contain his emotions. >> i'm sorry, sir. go ahead. >> okay. do you know anybody that would wanna hurt either your -- your wife or the -- >> not to my knowledge, sir. my -- no. that's why when you told me about -- when the officer told me my wife had been shot i damn near had a heart attack. there's no -- nobody up there that would hurt or harm her to the best of my knowledge. >> reporter: as police spoke to gregg, another theory of the crime occurred to them. >> how about yourself? with -- with your line of work. considering what you've -- the

type of you work on. >> reporter: gregg described that work he did for military contractors, which often involved counter-terrorism and sensitive security issues. >> would anybody have thought you may have been up there? and would you have possibly been a target for any of this? >> i hadn't even considered that thought. but no, sir. i don't think there's anybody associated in my line of work that would wanna target me or my wife. >> reporter: of course, whether it was a robbery gone bad or a targeted attack, one more theory had to be looked at too. after all, he was the husband. so before taking gregg to see his wounded wife, investigators took him through a timeline of his night. >> did you go to maine at all last night at all? >> no, sir. i did not. >> reporter: he told them he'd worked all night on his computer, writing a proposal. and said he left his house twice. once at night to go to the local circle-k to get some cigarettes, and once in the morning to grab coffee. >> mr. owens was very open and willing to come talk to us and help out with our investigation. >> reporter: gregg assured police he completely understood why they had to ask him so many

questions. >> i've done my fair share of on scene battlefield interrogations. we look for the discrepancies. >> and that's, again -- that's why people ask, ask, ask. you know. then you said you did -- >> somebody hurt my baby. >> he was essentially there as a helper on our end to help us build information for this case. >> obviously if information comes in regarding -- >> the -- the best thing -- >> anybody's -- >> the best news was my wife's alive. >> reporter: and gregg told police he was desperate to see her, so they wrapped up their interview. >> i understand i'm being cleared. >> reporter: and promptly escorted him up to maine to be by his wife's side, along with their son wayne. doctors had to make a tough call about that bullet still lodged in the back of rachel's head. >> they were making a decision whether to operate or not operate. and then she had to go in for an angiogram to determine, like, the impact of what the bullet was doing, like, on a vein in her -- in her head. >> reporter: rachel was in and out of consciousness.

wayne spoke to her hoping she could hear him. >> reporter: what did you say to her? >> i just told her i was here. and that i was sorry. and that i would be here until she got better. >> reporter: that must have been so important, just seeing your face. >> i think it was. i hope so. >> reporter: and investigators had their own hopes. if rachel could pull through, maybe she could help identify the shooter. >> reporter: coming up: a step in the right direction. they had discovered a foot print that was left in a flower bed. >> reporter: who left it? and what were they really after? there was no burglary. nothing was stolen. no computers, no electronic devices. >> reporter: when dateline continues. a dress. no dress. ♪ uh-uh, you're not going anywhere in those rags. ♪

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leave it. they probably would cause more damage than good. >> reporter: wayne and his dad knew it was very possible she wouldn't pull through. >> i just wanted her to know that -- that her family was there. we were all there, like, wanting her to get better, and stay with us. >> reporter: but 36 hours after the shooting, her vitals stabilized. >> it was like a new day. there was like hope. >> reporter: rachel was going to make it. >> that pit just that's in your stomach like just kind of dissolves. >> i mean, someone should be dead if they're shot in the head. >> you would think. it's amazing how lucky she was, and that maybe it wasn't maybe like one centimeter to the left or right, hit just that right angle where it didn't impact too far. >> reporter: rachel gradually woke up, began to heal, started her long road to recovery, and here is rachel today. two years after the shooting, she still feels the effects of

her injuries, but sat down to tell us her story. >> this has been an incredible ordeal. >> reporter: does it surprise even you sometimes that -- that here you are today, looking as good as you do, feeling as good as you do? >> it is. it is. i'm surprised that i'm still here. >> reporter: what is it like having a bullet lodged in your head? >> i don't feel it. it's just staying still in the back. it just -- it went all around my brain. it just plopped there, and when the doctors told me that, we couldn't get the bullet out, you know, i said, okay. what am i supposed to do? >> reporter: she says she got through it with the support of her family. during her rehab, wayne made multiple trips to see her, and she'd wake up to see her husband gregg by her side. >> he says, i'll be right here when i'm done -- i had to do therapy. i'll be right here, and then he'd fix me my food, and then we'd eat together. >> reporter: rachel took us back to her time in maine and the hours leading up to the shooting. >> reporter: what had you all been doing that day, just while

you were at your friend's. >> yeah, we went out to eat, just you know, having fun, and we went and did a little shopping, and we went back to her house, and then later on at night, that's when everything started. >> reporter: and once everything started, she says her memory essentially goes blank. >> is there anything you remember? >> i don't. >> about that night? >> cause i was sleeping in my room. >> reporter: there was only one image she said she could remember about the shooting, the same thing she told police. the intruder seemed to have a hat with a jamaican look. >> i was sleeping. so i remember a jamaican hat. that's the only thing i remember. >> reporter: as she focused on recovering, police kept investigating. they didn't know what to make of that jamaican hat detail from rachel. it didn't match the ski-mask-wearing description the homeowner had given police. they zeroed in on evidence at the home. >> what was the crime scene

telling you? >> the crime scene was telling us that there -- they had first discovered a foot print that was left in a flower bed, and that was preserved immediately by the saco police department. >> how did they preserve that? >> the lead detective actually took off his coat that he was wearing that night, because it was a rainy night, and he actually laid his coat on top of the footprint itself to prevent the rain from destroying it any further. >> reporter: close to that footprint, they also saw that the window on the door to the garage was broken. >> they assumed that the intruder gained entry into the house initially by busting open that -- that door, busting that window. >> was there anything left there on that window pane? >> no, nothing -- nothing obvious. >> any blood on it, anything? >> no blood. >> nothing? >> nothing. >> reporter: at first glance it seemed the intruder had left no trace, but on closer inspection, they saw something. >> one of the crime scene

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. >> reporter: police in saco, maine believed the home invasion in their town was a targeted attack. attack. rachel owens had been shot in the head and detectives were chasing leads. >> at this time, they're thinking, what do we have here? is there a danger to the public? >> reporter: then they got a phone call. >> is this just a wow moment in this investigation? >> it's -- yes, it is. it's -- it's a very big moment in this investigation.

>> reporter: the call led them all the way to oshkosh, wisconsin to this woman. her name is betsy wandtke. >> put your arms, hands around my neck. >> reporter: betsy is the founder of the warrior princess training academy, where she teaches self defense to women. >> and i will pull, and whenever i pull you that's when you're gonna go. >> reporter: over the years she's held a number of other jobs. >> i have been an emt for over 20 years. i was a firefighter. i ran the first responder team up in ogdensburg, wisconsin, and i was a first responder for quite awhile in oshkosh. >> you're, like, action woman? >> well, i -- like to help people. >> reporter: she says physical strength and fitness have always been important to her. >> you were a body builder? >> yes. i was always into weight lifting. so i did a body building competition and a fitness competition. and it taught me a lot. >> safe to say, you can protect yourself? >> i think that's safe to say. >> reporter: but back in 2006, betsy says she was feeling vulnerable. her marriage of twenty years was

falling apart. >> it was hard 'cause my husband and i were best friends. we just did everything together. >> reporter: then, as she boarded a flight home from a business trip one morning, a twist of fate. >> the stewardess came back and said -- "there's a man that's upgraded you to first class. >> and that only happens in, like, romance novels? >> right. right. so i walked up there and this man stood up and he said, "i think this is your seat." >> reporter: the two settled in and talked for the entire flight, realizing they had a lot in common, like shared passions for sports, hunting and fishing. >> we became friends. >> did you feel like you really got a sense of this man, just on this one flight? >> i did. i felt like we were-- we had been connected for a long time, it happened so fast. but it was so easy. >> reporter: he and betsy stayed in touch as friends for the next three years. then betsy got divorced. >> i thought it was a good time for -- for us to start seeing each other and maybe see if there was more there. >> reporter: turned out, there was a lot more.

the two embarked on an intense love affair. the name of the new flame -- none other than gregg owens. >> he was very romantic. and he will not be happy i'm telling you this. but he used to love to give me pedicures. he would -- >> wow. >> if we-- we were gone somewhere, he would draw me a bath and he would pour me a glass of wine. i had never dated anybody w-- that was that romantic. >> reporter: gregg told her he was married to a woman named rachel. he said they were separated and getting divorced. but he did check in on her now and again because of her health issues. >> he wanted to make sure that she was well-taken care of, which i agreed with wholeheartedly. but that he had to kinda keep track of her because she was having some accidents and, you know, he wasn't sure how long he could leave her alone. >> reporter: at the time he said he'd taken a contract job in texas, and would be back and forth to betsy's about every two weeks. >> she was very excited every time he was gonna come home. >> reporter: joe lemire and his wife becky lived next door. >> how in love was betsy-- >> very-- >> with greg?

>> very in love. >> could you just see it? >> absolutely. >> was it-- was it in her words, or her actions? >> both of them together. they were very affectionate. we'd be sitting on their deck, and, you know, a song would come on, and he'd yank her up, and start twirlin' her around. they would just dance on the deck, you know. >> reporter: the two began building a life together traveling on cruises to the carribean and safari trips to africa. >> is this your knight in shining armor? >> oh, of course. >> reporter: after they'd been together five years, gregg helped betsy start her business. he even came up with that name the warrior princess training academy. >> turn your body. you feel it? >> yeah. >> reporter: gregg would provide advice and teaching skills based on the special forces training he told betsy he received from the army. but his military background, that betsy admired, also came with a hitch: he told her his work as a defense contractor would mean a lot of overseas travel sometimes on top secret

missions he couldn't discuss. >> he would tell me that he was being shipped to afghanistan or pakistan to save other contractors, military contractors. >> these are dangerous areas? >> absolutely. >> reporter: for one of his trips, gregg told betsy he was going to afghanistan and would be gone for weeks. he said they probably wouldn't talk but -- just a few days into his trip, betsy got a strange call. >> i heard h-- his voice. i started s-- i started calling his name. >> reporter: she thought he was calling from afghanistan and worried something had gone wrong on his mission. >> and i wasn't getting any response. and then i hear him talking to someone. >> reporter: but as she listened -- >> i heard a woman's voice. and then i heard him say, "wow, that was a good one, rach." and my heart just sunk. >> reporter: gregg hadn't meant to call her. it was a 'butt dial.' >> you know he's -- gregg is in america? >> i do. >> reporter: and she knew he was home sounding perfectly happy with his wife. all that talk about getting a

divorce seemed to be a lie. betsy called back to confront him. >> i said, "i know you're in new hampshire. and i know that you're with rachel." and he said, "no, you must have heard a satellite call that i was making to her." and i said, "don't lie to me." i was furious. i was wild. i was shaking. and then he said "i am here. but rachel had an accident. she almost burned down the house because she left a burner on. and so i had to come back here and get things organized." >> did you believe any of it? >> i really wanted to. but there was that part of me that said, "don't be stupid. somethin's goin' on." >> reporter: betsy put her foot down. there was no way she could be with a married man. >> i said, "i'm done. i can't do this anymore. you have to make a decision. you know, if you're -- if this divorce is not gonna go through, it's because you don't want it to go through. so if you wanna go back to rachel, you need to do that. all of your stuff is in the garage." >> that was strong. >> uh-huh. >> how did he take that?

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. >> reporter: in december 2014, betsy wandtke told her boyfriend gregg owens that after five years together, she was done. after hearing that accidental call, she realized he'd been lying to her and wasn't separated from his wife rachel. >> where do you go from here? >> i had to cut it off. i had to stop it before it ruined me. >> he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would go down without a fight, to get you back? >> you have that right. >> reporter: sure enough, gregg kept calling her, insisting he loved her and that he really was divorcing rachel. deeply upset, she opened up to her friends becky and joe about that 'butt dial' that changed everything. >> she said that she had listened for, like, 20 minutes to the conversation and couldn't

take it anymore. >> reporter: then, two weeks after the butt dial, betsy heard the disturbing news from maine. rachel had been shot in a home invasion. >> i was frantic. i was calling everybody i could think of. >> reporter: even though she'd broken up with him, betsy called gregg out of concern for him and his wife. >> and he said, yeah, i just found out. i think that somebody's targeting the people i love. >> reporter: she says gregg was in a panic, with his own suspicions about the shooting. >> it was someone that wanted to frame him and discredit him and ruin his life. and that's why rachel wasn't killed, just injured. and i might be the next one. >> you could be a target if what he's saying is true? >> right. i went home and loaded every gun i have and i had knives in other rooms. i was ready for war. bring it on. >> wow. this is action betsy at her best? >> what do you? i'm not gonna cower in a corner. i don't do that. >> reporter: while betsy was on alert, her friend joe heard

about the shooting too, and he had a very different reaction. that's because he wasn't just betsy's neighbor. he was the local police chief. >> i said, "in the world i come from, i don't believe in coincidences." i said, "i've gotta do something." >> reporter: joe thought the investigators in maine needed to know what he knew about gregg owens and his relationship with betsy. so the chief in wisconsin called his counterparts to fill them in. >> chief lamiere calls and puts a new spin on the whole thing. >> gregg owens had been living a double life. >> uh-huh. yeah. >> reporter: with that news, gregg quickly became investigators' main suspect in the shooting. but betsy couldn't believe he would ever harm his wife. >> 'cause he loved rachel. he had never spoken ill of rachel. had he lied to me about being there? yeah, he did. but that doesn't make somebody a killer. >> reporter: and the gregg she knew was an experienced marksman, a sniper. >> and if a sniper wanted someone to die, don't you think they could get that done? as-- as awful as that sounds, i'm trying to make a point.

the point is that if he really wanted to kill her, i think he coulda done it. >> reporter: and gregg kept insisting that the person who did shoot rachel was really out to get him. he began sending betsy alarming emails, writing "the ambush was meant for us. we were blown and setup. go dark if anyone talks to you." >> what did he mean by, go dark? >> oh. going dark means don't talk to anybody, don't tell 'em anything. law enforcement, friends, family. >> reporter: so when local police came to question her about her relationship with gregg, she lied and said the two were just friends. nothing more. >> what do you say to those people who are going to be like, "betsy, come on, what's wrong with you? you seem like this smart lady. >> well, the first question i would ask is have you ever been in love, i mean, head over heels in love, to the point where you would do anything to protect that relationship and -- and the person you love? >> reporter: but then betsy got a visit from the fbi. because the case now involved three different states, it was a

federal investigation. >> what were they telling you, the f.b.i.? >> that she had gotten shot. shot in the arm, shot in the leg, a bullet grazed her abdomen and -- and a bullet was lodged in the back of her head. >> is that when reality just sets in that, my gosh, someone wanted this woman dead? >> right. >> reporter: that's when betsy decided to come clean about her relationship with gregg, and the lies. >> she was very critical. >> she came across very well. >> reporter: federal prosecutors darcie mcelwee and jim chapman took on the case. they believed the key to it all was the double life gregg was leading with betsy. >> she was the motive. it became clear that he was truly in love with her and that she was the one he wanted to be with, which would explain how someone who never had shown any violence towards his wife, was capable of something like this. >> reporter: but if the prosecutors' theory was true, that gregg had tried to kill his wife to be with betsy, his plan had failed. and after three weeks in the hospital, rachel was set to go

home with gregg. >> we believe she was going home with a man who tried to kill her. >> rachel was about to be released from this hospital. >> so we were afraid that she was gonna be finished off. we had the swat team ready. we had surveilled him and we followed him essentially up to this intersection, the swat team overtook him and arrested him. >> this must have been a dramatic scene outside this hospital. >> it was pretty crazy. >> reporter: that's when special agent flick went inside and broke the news to rachel, the fbi believed she was shot by her own husband. >> and she looked up at me with these beautiful, big eyes and said, "gregg shot me?" and i said, "yes, he did." >> i just couldn't believe it. 'cause he was comin' to see me. so i had no knowledge that he would've done that to me. >> did you think that gregg was capable of doing something like that. >> no, i never thought he'd do

that to me. >> reporter: wayne couldn't quite fathom it either, his own dad, the hero of his youth. >> i guess i was more in denial than anything. i didn't want to accept that he really did shoot my mom and try to kill her. >> reporter: gregg owens was charged in federal court with crossing state lines to commit a crime of domestic violence and put in jail. prosecutors knew their case was mostly circumstantial. >> there's not that smoking gun, if you will? >> correct. we did not have one piece of evidence that stood out and made it significant. >> reporter: what's more, gregg had an alibi. he had told police he was working at home that night, 90 miles away from the shooting. he'd sent emails to his co-workers that he said proved it. when the case went to trial, betsy would have to testify against the man she once loved, and he was reaching out from behind bars, to stop her. coming up -- greg's emails indicated he was

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. >> reporter: gregg owens was now in jail. he'd pleaded not guilty in the shooting of his wife. and as he was awaiting trial. >> you have a collect call from -- >> gregg owens. >> reporter: he continued to reach out to his former girlfriend betsy, still trying

to convince her they could be together someday. >> when the divorce is final, which should be here in the next six to eight weeks, i will send you a copy of it. just the final copy. >> i've heard from so many people that the divorce was never filed. >> the divorce has been filed. all right? i didn't lie to you about it. i was trying to keep it hidden for a reason. >> reporter: but betsy wasn't standing for the lies anymore. >> you told me were in afghanistan and you weren't. you were at home, in new hampshire. >> i wasn't. i was not. that's the whole point. >> reporter: over and over gregg pledged his love for her. betsy believes he was desperately trying to keep her on his side before the trial. >> betsy, i love you more than life itself. you are my partner, my lover, my life, and -- i'm out of time. >> reporter: "you're my partner, my lover and my life." >> yep. >> reporter: is that pulling at you hearing that? >> oh, god, yeah.

>> all those memories? >> yeah. he knew how much i loved him. and he was willing to play on that. and that really made me more angry. >> reporter: gregg owens' trial began in january 2016, just over a year after the shooting. the prosecutors presented a number of pieces of physical evidence investigators had uncovered against gregg. in his car, a pair of muddy boots. one appeared to match that print at the crime scene. and at his house they found a ski mask that resembled the one the homeowner described. and these shell casings in a cup on his desk. why were those so critical? >> they were critical because they were the same 1987 ammunition with the same head stamps as those found at the scene. >> reporter: and there was one more big piece of the puzzle still remaining. remember the glass from the garage door that was swabbed for dna? after gregg's arrest, the results finally came back. >> the dna found was in fact gregg owens' dna. >> reporter: this is really sealing your case. >> we felt so. we thought it did. >> reporter: and the prosecutors gave the jury their theory of

why gregg owens wanted to kill his wife, saying it was all triggered by that "butt dial" to betsy two weeks earlier. >> because it gave us a critical time point. because that appeared to be when he began making preparations to harm rachel. >> reporter: was this a man who wanted to have his cake and eat it too? >> exactly. >> absolutely. >> reporter: they brought betsy to court to tell the jury about her five-year romantic relationship with gregg. >> when i got in there, i sat down. and he actually winked at me. and i would have crawled across that table and put my hands around his neck. >> reporter: what was that wink trying to say to you, do you think? >> it was more manipulation. it was, "let's reconcile." >> reporter: rachel took the stand, too, showing the jury her injuries. and she took her own chance to wink at gregg. what was with that? were you just being a little mischievous? >> i don't -- exactly. you know what? that was my time in court with him, you know? and i could do that to him. i went like that. >> reporter: then it was the defense's turn, starting with a simple point. >> no one could i.d. the

shooter. >> reporter: scott dolan covered the trial for "the portland press herald" newspaper. he says gregg's attorney carefully tried to poke holes in the prosecution's case beginning with rachel's one memory of the intruder. >> she described him as wearing a jamaican hat. so no one i.d.ed gregg owens. >> reporter: and while investigators collected a number of guns from gregg's home, none turned out to be the weapon from the shooting. >> they never recovered the gun. and when police went to gregg owens' house in new hampshire, he was there. he wasn't in maine. >> reporter: gregg's attorney noted that even with all the traffic cameras along the route from his house in new hampshire to maine, police never found an incriminating image. >> they had to go through all the highway footage looking at car after car after car, and there was no sign of gregg's car. >> reporter: and the one image that was captured of gregg seemed to corroborate his alibi. it was this -- gregg getting coffee at dunkin' donuts in new hampshire at 4:35 a.m. that was 90 miles away from the

shooting in maine. his attorney said he couldn't have made the trip that quickly. >> that was a big piece. if the jurors didn't believe that he could drive from new hampshire to saco and back in the timeline laid out, they would have some doubt. >> reporter: as for that dna on the glass, the defense explained it like this. >> it made sense that owens' dna would be there. he had been there for an anniversary party in that very garage. >> reporter: and gregg had his computer alibi. the defense said timestamps on his e-mails showed he'd been working at home that night just as he'd told police all along. but prosecutors said not so fast. on closer inspection his computer had another tale to tell. >> the day before the shooting he conducted a google search how to change clock on computer. and then he had a note on the desk in front of the computer, "change time, change chrome time." >> reporter: and lo and behold, forensic investigators

determined gregg had tampered with the computer's timestamp. >> he knew the shooting happened around 2:45, and he wanted to make it look like he was at his computer as late as 2:30. >> that would be incapable for him to have been in saco. >> reporter: after hearing two weeks of testimony, the jury retired to deliberate. three hours later, they had their verdict. guilty. rachel was in the courtroom. what did you think when you heard that guilty verdict? >> i said, "yes." >> reporter: it's amazing that you were there to be able to say, "yes," after everything. >> yeah, it was a long journey. let me tell you that. >> reporter: did you have mixed emotions when you heard that? i mean, that's your father. >> to be honest, it's sad. it's sad that it had to come to all of this. you know, i'm losing a father. i was grateful that he was found guilty. to say i was happy? no, definitely not. i was happy that my mom was well. and that she could have, you

know, some peace. >> reporter: five months later, the judge sentenced gregg owens to life in prison. he's now appealing his conviction. >> i have no doubt that he loved rachel. i do believe he loved me. i think that he was just narcissistic enough to believe that he could have both lives. >> reporter: today betsy says she's a little embarrassed that the head of the warrior princess training academy was duped by a man who was no prince at all. here you are fighting against violence against women. and the man you loved did it right under your nose. >> it is the ultimate irony. because he knows i have fought for women's rights, and then he does this? i don't know how you could disrespect somebody even more? >> reporter: but most of all, she says, she hopes that rachel can move on from this tragedy and heal, physically and mentally. is there anything you would say to her? >> oh, my god, yeah. i'm sorry. i wish i could change it.

i wish it had never happened. she doesn't deserve it. she's a great lady, and she's strong. she's so strong. so yeah, i wish her the best. i want her to get on with her life. i hope that things work out. >> reporter: even though they both testified at trial, the two women in this nearly deadly love triangle have never met. so we shared with rachel what betsy said about her. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: what do you make of that? >> that's something. that means she really thought of me. that's good. that's a nice lady there. >> reporter: today, rachel lives with wayne and her grandchildren, and despite that bullet in her head she remains strong, eager to put her now ex-husband far behind her. have you talked to him at all, heard from him? >> no. >> reporter: anything you would

say to him? >> it wouldn't be appropriate. >> reporter: we'd need bleeps? >> exactly. yeah, he's the loser. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, good night. ♪

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