being a dad and [bleep]. he was well-liked. he was well-loved. he was smart. he was fun. i had the most senseless, empty feeling. why would somebody do it? now what? >> white hat. wide open smile.ng veterinarian in big sky country. >> he loved helping animals. >> he asked me out that night. i was excited.ted. curious phone calls. ominous signs. >> there was a rock thrown through one of the windows.sking if he felt threatened.

the floor. >> two shots went off and then the third shot into his chest.hat launched a long-running mystery. who killed the veterinarian? >> i think the perpetrator stood die. >> there were so many different leads and rumors. >> jealousy? rage? revenge? a crime of passion, id. >> i felt like if it wasn't for me, it never would have happened. >> and the unbelievable thing, t leave a trace. >> it was your classic whodunit. >> could anyone solve it? >> you look at what it's done to our family. >> it was hard.ice for my brother. >> i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." here's keith morrison with "mystery in big sky country." >> reporter: there was a broad swath of prairie where the

sang around a modest dwelling in the grass. >> emergency. >> this is marlene protsman in geraldine. >> reporter: they called it the h it was really just an old single-wide trailer. >> the veterinarian shot himself.went down to check to see if he was going to pasture. >> reporter: a nondescript little place out on the montana prairie. a bit worn around the edges. >> do you know where he shot himself?ow. >> is he still alive? >> reporter: the sort of place a young vet could live cheap whileiness. >> well, if you can have somebody go check and see if he's still alive. i have paged the ambulance.n the local sheriff's deputies arrived, they found the body in the middle of the kitchen floor lying on its back. blood had pooled under its head. on one foot was a shoe of the sort people wear in the water.was bare. a .357 magnum was on the floor not far from the dead man's left

marlene protsman saw all this, too, same time as the deputies.ll right away, as apparently they could not, that she'd been wrong on the 911 call.shoot himself. >> bryan had a cut on his nose. and the way his shirt was ripped and just the blood on the floor, >> reporter: it look like a struggle? >> yeah. it wasn't a suicide. ies went about their work as they saw fit. and thus, on sunday, july 14th, 1996, they clouded a mystery that has come down all the way to us.ere so many different theories, different suspects, and so much conflicting evidence, it was your classic >> reporter: or perhaps your classic nightmare. >> i'd lay awake at night and ask god to give me some insight here.w?

on the floor, was bryan rein, veterinarian. charlene and teresa's big brother.ther. he was my best friend. he was my business partner. >> reporter: they grew up together in scott city, kansas. >> we shared bedrooms. we shared clothing.. >> reporter: bryan was the eldest. so what kind of an older brother was he? >> protective. ornery.ery? >> we were always playing pranks on each other and especially teresa, because she didn't take them so well. >> reporter: bryan was very smart was a giveoo smart? >> i remember turning to him once and saying, i just want to know what time it is. i don't need to know how the clock was made. >> reporter: here' do growing up in a small town. they joined 4-h, future farmers of america. they raised their special animals, showed them off in tions. and bryan knew from the very beginning there was one job he was meant to do.bryan not wanting to be a veterinarian. bryan always said that being a

being a doctor because an animal can't tell you where it hurts or how they feel.re out how they feel. >> reporter: after finishing vet school, bryan moved to montana.open country. cattle ranches galore. an outdoorsman's paradise, really, which absolutely suited bryan rein.antage of what montana had to offer. and often.a year before the events in our story, dr. rein set up shop in a speck on the map called geraldine, population 300.ways a struggle starting a new business. and starting a vet clinic is se ibive, but it was doing very well. >> reporter: young dr. rein hired marlene to help him run the office and moved into the marlene and her husband owned on their property 11 miles outside of town. so she was both landlady and

>> bryan had a heart of gold., part of the family. >> reporter: mind you, a good looking young vet in such a tiny place? there was interest. lots of it.ber asking him, is there anybody there you're dating? and he's like, well there's some girls, but they're just not the ones.was possibly an overly modest answer. the handsome young vet's arrival ws event. heads turned, hearts may have followed. certainly gossip did. and then, summer of 1996.gain the same question that i ask. so what is going on? do you have a girlfriend? well, there is this one girl.nd she does things for me. and i said things like? and he said, well, she'll clean up my house and stuff. so i was like, shame on you. you should be over cleaning her house. >> reporter: it was strange what began to happen after he took up with that young lady. weird things. not exactly frightening.

through a window of the clinic. did he tell you what he thought >> no. >> reporter: or who? >> no. and he did find a footprint out in the back of the building. but nothing really ever came of it. >> reporter: not long after, both sisters with a request. calling and hanging up. i was like, bryan, i'm not . he just ha-haed it off. he was like, it's not a big deal, teresa. it's not a big deal. on july 10th, 1996, dr. bryan rein drove to bozeman, three hours away, to attend a conference.riday evening, the 12th. no one saw him on saturday. and then on sunday, the 14th.d drove over to bryan's bunkhouse. >> it was about, i don't know, five, ten minutes later, he camein the door and was very distraught, crying.

is maybe why her husband got theat dr. rein had committed suicide. but later that same day when marlene heard an undersheriff repeat the mistake to bryan's re's what happened. >> verna mae jumped up and she said, no way in hell would my ommit suicide. >> reporter: then, the next day, when state investigators led by agent ken thompson of montana's department of criminal oked at the ruined crime scene -- >> my partner and i would look at each other and think, oh, my lord, you know?h. >> it certainly makes things very difficult. >> reporter: difficult? oh, yes. difficult was not the half of it.so what did happen to dr. rein? when we come back -- >> we had been told that he had committed suicide.ve that could be true? >> absolutely not. >> blood on the doorstep. bullets in the kitchen. >> how can this happen? o it? >> the search begins for a

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a summer sunday afternoon outside tiny geraldine, montana, local sheriff's deputies used towels to mop up the blood around what e a suicide. the town's veterinarian, dr. bryan rein, age 31, was dead.num lay near his left hand. and the emissaries of sudden death delivered their message tor, teresa, back in kansas. >> i remember saying, mom, i need to talk to you. >> reporter: i can't imagine like to tell your mother that her first born

>> yeah. it was hard. and he was that child. that perfect child. >> reporter: it was evening news found younger sister, charlene. >> i was actually in las vegas. we had been told that he had committed suicide. >> reporter: did you beltrue? >> absolutely not. it was a long plane ride home. >> reporter: do you remember what your mind was doing to you during that plane ride?happen? why would somebody do it? >> reporter: those questions ved bryan capable of suicide. and sure enough, the next morning an autopsy revealed and contusions on the doctor's head. a swollen right eye. clearly, there had been a struggle. and he'd been struck by three two in the lower right forearm,

the conclusion? obvious. it was not suicide. it was homicide. how is it possible at first they thought it was a suicide? >> i can't answer that. i think you have to understand had not had a homicide in, i think it was like 19 years. >> reporter: it was monday when state department of criminal investigation agent ken thompson was called in.by the time he got to the doctor's bunkhouse, the locals had been gone, the scene left unguarded for more than 24 hours.ontana's a remote state. sometimes you'll drive eight hours to get to the crime scene. so it's not like a big city where you can roll in and everything's pristine. not even close. in fact, the deputies and local coroner had spent just a few round bryan's kitchen, had taken about a dozen photos. and in the process, had done thin

floor under the victim's upper body. the garbage, a telephone handset found under dr. rein's head without swabbing for dna, or dusting for fingerprints. those discarded materials were beyond recovery by the time mpson arrived. the local deputies did tell him they found a water shoe on the bunkhouse doorstep. it appeared to have been knockedgle. the other was found on bryan's left foot. and then investigator thompson saw the blood drops out on the step. >> we knew that that's where the shoot hg occurred. blood had dropped straight down and so it was just outside the trailer. >> reporter: did you find some here? >> they found two bullets lodged in the kitchen cupboard. shots that went through the arm, went through the arm and through that wall and came out into kitchen cabinets on the other side.ee. thompson and his partners used string to simulate the path of

they even tried to act out what ned. and before long, they came to some conclusions. how far away was the shooter? >> reporter: so, if they struggle and the gun went off, it would be, right? >> yeah. some kind of conversation went on and a struggle ensued.ff, and then the third shot into his chest. i think that bryan then struggle to get in to call for help. he sat there. i think the perpetrator stood there and watched bryan die. >> reporter: and as for the location of the gun so close to own hand? so the killer must've put it there? >> correct. >> reporter: but were there any n? >> no. it looked like it had been wiped off with a solvent. >> reporter: so investigators now thought they knew how the murder occurred. but when it happened?at all. friday night? saturday? it was an important question, of

might not have fully imagined just then. but there was no clear answer.hologist who conducted the autopsy left the space for time of death blank. remember, dr. rein returned home from a conference on friday body wasn't found until sunday. investigators canvassed nearby farms. and?as a neighbor that lived probably about a mile away, maybe a little less as the crow go by that night. and then said he heard two lout >> reporter: that is, friday night. but -- it could've been that night or the next morning or something? >> at first he wasn't sure, and ure of the date. >> reporter: phone records showed the last time dr. rein received a phone call was at night.

that last phone call o the thought that he would go all day saturday without having any contact with anybody was just likely. >> reporter: on the other hand, dr. rein could have hung around his bunkhouse alone that saturday morning.nded to go fishing. there were those water shoes, and they found a fishing pole near the door.ll this when and how did nothing to shine a light on who killed dr. rein. a question that was consuming w him. >> my mind was just spinning trying to think who, you know, lead at all. >> reporter: there was, she knew, this friend of dr. rein's, larry hagenbuch, whose behavior ratic. and she also knew that some people in town said they'd heard larry badmouthing bryan in the local bar.ry denied it.

immediately had a different lead that seemed worth pursuing, and it was related to that broken t clinic and those hang-up phone calls dr. rein had asked his sisters if they were making. so he had no idea who was doing it?e eliminated me, he had an idea. >> reporter: so he knew, or thought he knew, who the hang-up caller was, but he didn't seem it. >> everything was going to be okay. bryan was not afraid of anything. >> reporter: maybe he should coming up -- a new relationship. >> i thought he was handsome. i was excited. ex. >> should i file a restraining order? should i do something? >> what would investigators make of him?ng to form an opinion that it was somewhat of

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you kind of fell apart after and so, much of the dreadful work that demands to be done after such a death fell on teresa.emember sitting through the funeral and sitting there thinking to myself, i am so tired. i just want to go to bed. maybe that played a role in teresa's mood. uried in his hometown in kansas and a large contingent of montanans made the trip to say good-bye,hat young woman gone over and cleaned his house, the one bryan had recently >> i was almost annoyed she even came. and i really thought, why are you here? i was pretty irritated. >> reporter: and those feelings that young lady in the middle of her own grief

>> i just felt out of place.ike, you know, they didn't know who i was. >> reporter: her name is ann. she was 21 then. she had known dr. rein just two months. rusty's bar in geraldine. >> i thought he was handsome. i was like, what is this guy ne? it was just kind of surprising to me. >> reporter: they talked all night, she said. and in the morning, how did you feel?. i felt giddy, just excited that somebody would be interested in me.r: ah, but complications. ann had a live-in boyfriend. guy named tom jaraczeski. her high school sweetheart. they'd been together 4 1/2 years.though the relationship had its issues, who know, she might have married him. and then she had that heart to heart with dr. rein. ng to be settling down and somebody telling you what to do. >> reporter: how did that strike have i

>> yep. it made me see that i would be better without it.t been a good relationship for a while. i had a reason now to move on and let go of that.r: and she was going to tell tom as soon as she got up the nerve. but then, oh, boy, dr. rein left machine at the apartment she share with tom, who, of course, heard the message. >> he called me up and asked me what the hell's going on.l, a boyfriend would want to know what the hell is going on, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: and when she told him?ted crying and saying he couldn't believe i was doing this and how i was throwing away everything. >> reporter: but ann was done. she moved back to the family outside geraldine. and tom begged her to come back. promised to do better. >> he told me that bryan would, e got tired of me he'd dump me. an then i'd see.

calls started.ain. >> i asked him to leave me alone. i said i needed time, i needed space. >> reporter: and he wasn't giving you any? >> no. >> reporter: one day ann agreed w pick-up, so they could have the talk. big mistake. tom drove out of town kept on driving. f the truck. >> so i was like, okay, i started looking at the ditch thinking, i can land in that grass. i'll be okay.d the door, and i was going to jump out. and he grabbed my arm. he's like, what the hell are you doing? >> reporter: how did it eventually end? >> he finally took me back. you go home that night? >> no. my brother was out of town so i asked bryan if i could stay with him. because i didn't want to be home >> reporter: that's a big step. did you feel safer? >> yeah. tom all of 23 years old barged into bryan rein's place middle of the night when she was there, demanding to know the 31-year-old doctor's

>> he thought he was a stupid kid. >> reporter: well, he was being a stupid kid.ree with that. >> yeah, because i asked him should i file a restraining order?thing? and he said, no, he's just a stupid kid. he'll get over it. just give him time to get it out of his system. >> reporter: but he didn't get over it.en nobody was home he went into ann's house, into her bedroom. >> and he said he found my journal and read it.t did it feel like to have your personal journal read like that by him? >> it just felt like i'd been violated. >> reporter: how did ann learn about it?. and quoted from her journal. >> at the end i said -- and it arcastic way. but i can't believe i'm thinking i met the man of my dreams. he'll probably getwreck. and tom will probably kill himself. >> reporter: just thinking all

wonderful's happened. something awful's going to happen. >> reporter: and that actually it turned out to be kind of a prophecy, didn't it? >> yeah.plays back like a bad dream now how she told bryan what tom had been doing and then discovered it was even worse than she thought. >> he goes, well, i got one . he came over here last night saying he had car trouble and asked to use the phone. he said he let him use the phone bed. >> reporter: had to have been a ruse, bryan figured, designed solely to see if ann was sleeping there. must have confirmed that you ecision breaking up with him? the more he did, the more it solidified that i'm not going back. >> reporter: all that was just re that conference bryan attended out of town, the one he returned from friday night. that last phone call he was on 10:15 p.m.?king to ann. like, well i got to go. and before i could say goodbye, he had hung up. >> reporter: really? >> i thought it was kind of now, it was late. i didn't want to read too much

i kind of wondered. >> reporter: and now that bryan ndered a lot about something she remembered tom said years earlier. >> if you ever cheat on me, i'lll kill you. >> reporter: so it will not surprise you to know that when he heard all this investigator thompson made arrangements to call on young tom jaraczeski. right away. >> you don't know the kind of person you're going to encounter. and just with my limited knowledge of what had happened i was beginning to form an opinion that it was somewhat a crime of passion. so i thought, well, let's see you know? maybe if this is heavy on his heart and it was a tragic situation, maybe we will get to >> reporter: oh, if only the life of an investigator were that simple. >> one of the first things i thought, everybody's going to suspect me.

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montana after the weekend murdern when investigators drove out to a farm 11 miles east of geraldine. here agent ken thompson and the ff intended to confront 23-year-old tom jaraczeski, the young man who'd lost in love and didn't take it well. what was his demeanor? >> oh, i think his demeanor was to be helpful. >> when my mom told me about bryan, one of the first things i thought of, oh, everybody's going to suspect me, the ex-boyfriend, but that is not >> reporter: tom jaraczeski admitted loving ann and being upset when he heard another man,a phone message for his live-in girlfriend.

right away and i said, oh, you bryan, and she didn't say anything. and i said, so what the hell's going on? and i said, you tramp. because i knew right then she must have cheated on me. >> reporter: tom did not deny that he behaved badly then. he freely admitted that he phoned ann's family and her friends.ven called some of bryan's former girlfriends. what did that say to you, that behavior? >> he was literally doing his igation on bryan. he was calling ann's friends trying to get all the dirt he d turn around and -- >> reporter: give it to ann. >> give it to ann and say, you need to end this relationship.y. he's just using you and you need to come back and be with me. >> reporter: in fact, tom admitted nearly all the strange behaviors ann described.g-up calls. showing up at bryan's place in the middle of the night.

around in her bedroom and reading her diary. >> so after reading that, i knewbryan was the big reason why she dumped me. >> he was actively pursuing her, aggressively pursuing her for her to change her mind to end p with bryan and come back and start over. iral, the things that he was doing, the more obsessed he got with her. >> reporter: it was, by his own admission, pathetic.he drove an atv over and hid outside ann's family farmhouse just hoping for a glimpse of her. f by ann's brothers. >> i just apologized to them and i said, i'm so stupid and i can't believe i did this, and i told him, you know, i'm lower ife. i don't deserve to live. say that. it's nothing to beat your head >> reporter: but tom had an alibi, and a pretty solid one, for most of the weekend when

except for friday night. oh and yes, he did admit, he rein that night. >> so my intentions were to just call him and just tell him that i didn't have any grudges against him. interfere with him and ann's relationship. and i hope you take good care of ann because she's a really special person.phone and he said hello twice and i just couldn't do it. i chickened out. and so i -- >> and when was that? >> this was this last friday, about quarter to ten. >> reporter: investigators had , though the medical examiner couldn't tell them, friday night was possibly when dr. rein was murdered. om's story, how he didn't have an alibi for friday night, that seemed to them to clinch it.him up at 10:00 on friday night. >> yeah. >> to say, i don't hold any grudges against you. >> that's right. >> within hours the guy's dead. then tom dug a deeper hole for himself. remember, it appeared dr. rein scuffled with somebody before he

that he'd hurt his back that very friday night falling out of a pickup truck?rt my back. >> did you get any bruises or anything? >> no, i didn't. >> no bruises on your chest or anything? >> no.r: but the next day tom went to a hospital and was treated for back pain. the only thing tom denied in that interview?ehicle breakdown ten days before the murder and knocking on dr. rein's door to dwrus the phone in the middle of the night. >> no. >> reporter: but investigators weren't buying tom's story. >> all the facts are pointing to you, tom. everything.hing we've got. >> what evidence at his place do you have against me? >> that's all be can worked on. trust me. >> okay, good. there's stuff. >> you won't find anything against me. >> there will be -- there will be a car load of stuff going go to the crime lab. >> well, good. because you won't find one thing the end of the first interview what did you think?

>> i thought clearly he was a suspect. hings that were very troubling. >> reporter: sure. but did that mean he was the killer?tom jaraczeski say if we ask him? coming up -- >> they started accusing me of killing bryan. i was worried that they were going to charge me that nightp. >> an arrest? hang on. could there be another person of case? >> we looked at him very seriously.

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f montana are no stranger to sudden, violent death.red with it. but for the people living the history in july 1996 after the murder of the town veterinarian, bryan rein, it was all very, >> mom, for probably the next five years, crawled into a hole and didn't come out.

>> i was devastated. i just thought, here i'd met somebody that treats me nice andn equal. >> reporter: somebody you felt special when you were with him? >> yes, and to have that ripped n know nothing may have ever came of it, but i didn't get the chance to find out. >> reporter: but what was worse,powering sense of guilt. you felt responsible? >> i felt like if it wasn't for ld have happened. >> reporter: because, of course, she broke up with him.elievable. >> reporter: and here he is, tom jaraczeski. ann's ex. otherwise known as the prime suspect.s like a bad dream that i couldn't wake up from. >> reporter: how did you find out that he was killed? >> from my mom.at she'd gotten a phone call that the veterinarian in geraldine had been killed.

knew perfectly well who his ng about. his rival, the man who'd taken his girlfriend and made his life so miserable.you had to be sort of a little bit okay with that? >> no, not at all. i had no ill feelings toward bryan. >> reporter: oh, really? come on.had to have ill feelings toward bryan. he took your girl away. >> yeah, but not for somebody to lose their life.r: tom said he knew immediately that he would be high on the list of suspects, as, of course, he was. so he wasn't surprised when agent ken thompson and the localff showed up at the family farmhouse. >> i was nervous. i mean, both guys had guns on and came into my house, and you know, i proceeded to tell them all these things that i was doing as far as the s and the stalking. and when i told them all about

their tune and started accusing me of killing bryan.s scared to death. i was worried that they were going to charge me that night. >> reporter: but they didn't. while it was true, as we said, the crime scene was compromised, there were hairs and fibers and fingerprints and blood samples yet untested.tors said their goodbyes and told tom they'd be back. all these years later., two decades later, tom told us, yes, he did love ann. he thought they had a future together. >> you know, i felt like she wase together forever. >> reporter: but when he heard that phone message left by dr. rein at the apartm ann? what did that feel like? >> like my heart was torn in half. >> reporter: you did some thingshich, in retrospect, probably you must think were not the brightest in the world?

>> reporter: what bothers you as you think about it?t know anything about bryan. and so i started calling up some of ann's family and some of ann's friends to see what they knew about bryan.ned because he was a veterinarian and he had access to drugs. i thought maybe he was giving ann something.se why would she leave you for another guy? must be drugs involved? must be something like that something other than just wanting to make a switch? >> yeah, that was my initial impression. all that other stuff? the hang-up phone calls, the stalking, going into her bedroomy? not great behavior. >> no. it was wrong of me to do that. i what she had to say about me, what she had to say about bryan. >> reporter: you're having a lot of trouble letting it go? >> i did, yes. there's no manual on how long it takes to get over a d for me, it took awhile. >> reporter: but he swore to us here, as he did when he talked to the investigators way back o

even though it looked pretty bad for him.right away that this happened on a friday night. and i was home alone on friday night.libi. and so i was kind of stuck. >> reporter: although, remember,l examiner was unable to settle on a time of death. so despite what the detectives told tom, the murder could have happened on saturday when tom i. which made another of the detective's interviews particularly interesting. because, yes, in fact, there sons of interest. and another man they went to visit did have an alibi for friday but not saturday. th friend of the victim. his name was larry hagenbuch. how seriously did you look at larry?him very seriously. >> reporter: hagenbuch was the one who encouraged bryan to move

but larry wasn't a stable man hen. his wife was leaving him. he'd been drinking a lot. he'd tried to commit suicide a murder using animal medication he'd gotten from bryan. in fact, it was dr. rein who save larry. and here's the thing, detectives had heard that larry seemed to tails of the crime scene which had not been made public, as if he was right there when it happened. the problem? >> his story never stayed the ven revealing it. i mean, at one point he said there was bullet holes everywhere. >> reporter: yeah. ere was only two holes. at one point he indicated that it was a rifle and then it was a pistol.gent ken thompson -- >> reporter: still, from the sound of this 20-year-old recording, agent thompson wasn't accusing larry of murdering his

somehow. >> i can just see this happening.larry thinking, well, [ bleep ] he gets to drinking again, whether he's depressed or whether he's mad. i don't know whether it's just k to somebody and it just ended up in a stupid [ bleep ] shouting match. oh, well, here's the gun that's ound. but hey i'll take care of this myself. i'll go out here and shoot my [ bleep ] self then.ht. nah, you ain't going to do that. let's fight over the gun and bang, bang, bang or whatever. >> yeah. >> i can see all that happening. >> yeah.ot an accident. you know, we got a [ bleep ] tragic accident. >> yeah. >> is that what happened? >> no. >> makes sense, though, doesn't it? >> makes sense, but it didn't cowboy. >> reporter: not much more the detectives could accomplish at that point.ys, dna took its sweet time getting tested. would the results put either of

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the week after they buried bryan rein near his childhood home in kansas, sister montana curious about the progress of the investigation. and that's when local deputies he messup at the crime scene, how they threw away some potential evidence. charlene was horrified.

he goes no, we cleaned it up. we didn't want the family to see it. >> reporter: wow. >> i'm like, why? where is everything?. >> reporter: but then when she went to her brother's bunk house, charlene discovered that someone else must have gotten , too. something the cops didn't know existed. and in an instant charlene's d the whole theory of how the murder happened. >> they had found the gun beside him., where's the gun case? the gun case was missing. it was a gun case that bryan had made. >> reporter: so the gun was n case? >> the gun was either in it or beside it.erimeter search of the property was organized. and lo and behold, the gun er case inscribed with bryan's initials,

feet from dr. rein's door. get way out there? well, as he thought about it the whole scene seemed to gel in ken thompson's mind. the way it happened, that is, have stolen bryan's own gun in its case while dr. rein was away at his conference, then brought it backssly to kill bryan, discarding the holster on the way to the door. if it hadn't been for that could've been somebody came to the door, knocked at the door, bryan came to the door with a gun to maybe threaten him and there was a tussle. >> that could've been, sure. >> reporter: the gun changed oom. >> it could've been, absolutely. reason why that holster would be out there. >> reporter: that was agent thompson's theory anyway. was tom jaraczeski capable of ng? well, he already admitted he sneaked into ann's house when it

he must have been perfectly capable of walking into dr. rein's place too and stealing that gun. >> he had plenty of opportunity to get the gun.ler was never locked. >> reporter: but why would he get bryan's gun? he could get a gun anywhere. it's montana, for god's sake, a gun. >> he certainly had the ability to go over there undetected and walk into that trailer. ample time to look around, to >> reporter: so that became the leading theory.h, the doctor's troubled friend, if that's truly what he was, remained a person of interest, but the primary suspect, no question, was still but how to prove it?uck would have it, a bloodhound was at the crime scene that day owned by a local guy. a dog named calamity jane. so they let the dog sniff tom's baseball cap. and? went right into the trailer, went right out the back

holster had been found, went agana bushes where there was an indication that somebody had been standing in there. >> reporter: what did you think? hat was a connection. that was the closest thing we had to a link from tom to the holster to a possible hiding >> reporter: so you must have thought, we got him? >> well, it was the best that we had, given that we had no e. >> reporter: of course, they kept trying to find some of that, too. at tom's place. what did they want from you? >> they took everything imaginable.ggest thing. they probably took at least ten pairs of shoes. they took other items like a ag, binoculars, the inside lining of a winter coat. >> reporter: but not one thing from those searches could link tom to the crime. months passed. a year. and more. back in kansas bryan rein's

suffer.t got very difficult to talk to her on a daily basis because she was so down and she wanted answers.r: she also frequently called agent thompson. and this was curious.mpson's prime suspect, tom jaraczeski. >> he was always wanting to know where we were in the investigation. >> reporter: finally, january ofa half after the murder, detectives ran a bit of a bluff with tom. >> we just pose it to him that, uld we find anything in the house that would lead us to believe you were in the house? and he says, okay, i'm goihing that i didn't tell you before. >> reporter: perhaps you'll remember detectives heard that tom once showed up at dr. rein's place in the middle of the night saying his truck broke down, he hone. back then, tom swore up and down that didn't happen. but

didn't tell you guys the first time that i talked to you. but that did happen, and it was was there. i asked if i could use the phone. >> what type of evidence would you have left in that place, or could you have left?left? prints. i could have left some prints on the table. >> reporter: they didn't have tom's prints anywhere on the first time and now was explaining how they might have found his dna or prints at bryan's place.only telling he us things he knew we could confirm. >> reporter: and if your experience that's what guilty people do?story once they realize they have to? >> the story evolves? yes. >> reporter: and it wasn't long before -- >> i was leaving my apartment toome guy that's standing behind the stairs says, tom? and i turned around and with guns drawn and they put the handcuffs on me. >> reporter: what was that like?

actually happening. >> reporter: tom jaraczeski rodelice car to ft. benton where they booked him into the county jail and charged him with deliberate homicide. what was it like to hear that? good to have it solved and put behind us. and hopefully mom and dad could going again. >> reporter: all neat and tidy like. except, of course, that's not ings happen, is it? coming up -- >> it was just devastating. >> another family distraught. >> so angry.o do anything, you can't help him. >> and help would arrive for tom jaraczeski in a most unusual

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montana. the motive, police say, jealousy. they've arrested the ex-boyfriend of a woman dr. rein but questions still linger. is he really the killer?h morrison. >> reporter: a half hour down the highway from little geraldine is a living remnant of america's old west., montana. still holding out against wind and weather and occasional outbursts of the worst humans ther. this is where, in a cell in the county courthouse, they installed tom jaraczeski. it was 1998.old. and he was charged with the deliberate homicide of dr. bryan rein.d five siblings tried to get their heads around what seemed to them an outrageous accusation, cruel and unjust. what's it like to brother charged with murder, facing life imprisonment? >> you feel angry. you want to do anything you can

we've never been through anything like that in our family. >> reporter: there simply wasn't the money to hire some fancy, d attorney. so tom got a state-appointed lawyer, bob peterson. what were your impressions of >> when i met him, i knew that he couldn't have done it. >> reporter: oh, come on. or a defense attorney to say. >> i've represented hundreds and hund get a sense of people. and i got a sense of tom. and i was pretty sure that he and so then as the evidence started rolling in, then i became very certain that he wasn't the one.r: attorney peterson could have said, lack of evidence because, in fact, despite test after test, not a g. not dna or fingerprints or

those few square feet where it all happened. there was plenty of circumstantial evidence. the phone calls. the stalking. the middle of the night visits to dr. rein's bunkhouse in the days and weeks before the but most of all, there was that dog. calamity jane. who, with one sniff of tom's d the cops from the doorway of the bunkhouse to a grove of bushes where the cops found and marked some . the theory being that tom lay in wait for his opportunity to confront dr. rein at the door. ane did her sniffing a full ten days after the body was found. so what did attorney peterson think of that?it wasn't evidence. i made a motion before the judge to decide whether or not it should go before a jury.ides, he said, tom already admitted he'd been around there days earlier.

hit on.erson got calamity jane's handler up on the witness stand at a hearing here at the courthouse.know, neither dog nor handler were properly certified. >> when i asked him for all the ld me about how he'd put the paperwork about the dog and himself on top of his suburban and it had, lown away. so he couldn't provide it. >> reporter: not quite the dog ate my homework, but close. agent thompson was also in the troom that day. >> what really hurt us was when they asked him on the stand, well that had happened 18 months earlier.ining documents and he said he didn't have any. >> reporter: right. >> i mean, i just -- it just -- oh, my god. >> reporter: so what did the judge do?

dismissed the case against tom. because without calamity jane, there simply wasn't a provable case. tom jaraczeski was a free man. >> kind of like a weight's been oulder. this is done and over with. no more interrogations. no more search warrants. fe. >> reporter: but bryan's family felt like they'd lost him all over again. >> tha >> reporter: yeah. >> yeah. >> reporter: did you think at that point, okay, it's all over?g to find out? >> i think back of your mind you think, well, maybe one day. >> reporter: there was a reason she kept that in the back of her mind. why both sides did.e judge that day in 1998, dismissed the charge without prejudice. meaning? >> meaning that the state can bring it back up if they choose to.ow much of a worry was that to you? >> you always have this nagging

as a defense attorney when missed without prejudice. you know that something could happen in the future. >> reporter: agent ken thompson y filed it away as one lost cause. a tough case that didn't work out.alk about a case where it seemed like everything was stacked against you. >> reporter: but he didn't let it go. just couldn't. mind you, there were new assignments, and lots of other cases. years went by. but -- >> i kept those 10 four-ring binders. i moved them from one office to another office to our third i mean, it was always on a book case in my office. >> reporter: and always on your mind?always on my mind, you know. and that's to solve it. >> there were times that ken

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him, tom felt like he just couldn't live here anymore. >> i couldn't stay in montana. away. and i decided to move to south dakota. >> reporter: so you set up a new life there? >> i did. i got married.le kids. life was good. >> reporter: and truly, you thought it was over? >> i really did.it would ever come back again. >> reporter: neither did tom's old girlfriend ann, though she tom killed bryan, the man she'd left him for. montana soured for her, too.t a sister in arkansas. and stayed. never found out that tom moved away. like i could go back home to montana. >> reporter: why? >> because tom was there, and i s willing to

didn't know what he'd do.r: corrosive. that's what it was. but then 13 years after dr. rein's murder, this man got a new job.ght, who in 2009 became the top prosecutor in the montana attorney general's office.ies was to help small counties prosecute particularly difficult cases. cold cases. >> we don't get the slam dunks s. we get the older cases. we get the difficult cases, and we're expected to go forward . >> reporter: like the one light's old friend ken thompson had never really given up on solving. o go to brandt and say would you just review this and see what you think. >> reporter: what did you think was it something worth trying again? >> yeah, well we had some work to do. i wanted them to go back and out make sure everybody's still around. we had to see what kind of shapece was in. >> reporter: evidence was resubmitted to the crime lab. witnesses were re-interviewed.

is there ever a case to be made t it go? how do you look at these things? >> i would let it go if we don't have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. i'm not going to roll the dice life. this is a homicide. we owe it to the family to go forward. and in my bureau, that's what we do.r: and then, in february 2014, nearly 18 years after the murder, agent thompson traveled to south dakota with anor tom jaraczeski. who heard his name called out one day at work and was ushered into the back of a police car.ondering what the hell's going on here, and maybe a minute went by. head through the door and said, tom, you remember me? i told you i'd be back for you. called his family and asked them to track down that attorney who helped him so much all those years rson.

listening to a nagging little voice in his head all those years that told him keep the file. i destroy all my files after 10 years. but for whatever reason i maintained his files. so when tom was charged again with murder, peterson got busy. first he got tom out on bond, s monitor. and then he read through his old files and asked to see the w evidence. >> my whole position was let's see what they think they have. >> reporter: and when he did, erson could not have been more surprised. >> it was almost verbatim the same affidavit that was used in arge him. >> reporter: no new evidence? >> none. i couldn't believe that they g these charges back

of new evidence to justify them doing that.ere mad? >> it made me mad, yes. i know i'm not being very outraged about that.ys have to control our emotions. >> reporter: who was the defense attorney angry with?a prosecutor with a big ego, fashioned himself to bee expert and an investigator who has stewed about this case since the begi an obsession with tom. then all he wanted to do was get this case squared away before he retired.eporter: you're not really suggesting that a detective would persuade a prosecutor to go case of his, just because he happened to be retiring?

i really am.which both investigator thompson and prosecutor light replied, no, it was justice they had in mind, . oh, and when attorney peterson asked a judge to throw out the murder charge, the answer was, oh, no.to go away. not this time. coming up -- . >> after almost 20 years, the case heads to court. >> if you ever cheat on me, i'lll kill you. >> tom jaraczeski in a fight for

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prairie dust.who'd fallen hard for the dashing vet is a happily married arkansas mother of three.n accused killing dr. bryan rein has his own. but two decades were a mere to the law and the historic chouteau county courthouse.ber, 2015, six years after the case was reopened, 19 years after the murder, tom's sister and the rest of the jaraczeski family assembled on one side of the courtroom.eeing people that you thought were your friends sitting on the other side of the courtroom. >> reporter: that would be a people along with dr. rein's family, whose attitude, must be said, was unlike that of many victims' families.ber having a huge

thinking, can we not just let this go and be done with it?you weren't excited at the possibility that finally justice would be done? >> nope. >> reporter: well, a tough case, to be sure, said prosecutor brant light. >> to just throw up your hands and say, well, this is too tough or i don't want to lose a case, >> reporter: mind you, prosecutor light himself could not be in the courtroom. he had another fight on his nst lung cancer. so he handed the trial to two trusted deputies, dan guzynski and mary cochenour. >> it was murder. it was a murder that was planned.that was premeditated and it was a murder where no evidence would be left. >> reporter: the big evidence of course was tom jaraczeski's bizarre behavior in the weeks after ann broke up with him and rein. this friend of ann's testified. >> i thought that bryan should

>> reporter: ann herself told he hang-up calls, about the time tom snuck into her house and read her diary, about his middle of the night visits to dr. rein's trailer. >> i'm scared.like, i didn't know what was going to happen after -- after tom had been acting so weird. >> the stalking was just unbelievable.verwhelmed by the fact that he'd lost ann wishman.e everything he could to try to break them up, and i think at the very end, when he understood that that wasn't going to happen, the only thing -- to take bryan out of the picture. >> reporter: in fact, remember this?testified about that time she said tom once threatened to do just that should she ever cheat on him with any other guy.ou ever cheat on me, i'll kill him and i'll kill you, or i'll want to kill you.

has long denied ever saying that.fter the murder, ann said, tom kept pursuing her. letters, cards, phone calls. >> he said he'd dreamed that ad gotten married and we had kids. and was telling me, you know, like we had went into detail about a life we were living together.n there was the strange story one of tom's next girlfriends told the jury. you an ex-girlfriend named ann? >> yes. that was the love of his life. he said he wished the vet was m and ann could get back together. because that was what was keeping them apart.then, of course, the vet was already long dead. by tom's own hand, the prosecutors argued. >> nobody else had the y and nobody else had the means in this very tiny community to kill bryan, as tom

>> reporter: so how did he do he put his plan into action, said prosecutor light, when dr. rein was away at that conference before returning home july the 12th. >> i think tom jaraczeski had finally made up his mind, and i don't think he had any problem going in the trailer. un. >> reporter: yes, he argued, tom stole dr. rein's own gun.ight, tom placed a hang-up call to dr. rein at 9:45 p.m. to ensure he was home.hat, a second call to a second location in another town a half hour down the road. >> he calls. ann answers. he hangs up.ow he knows ann's in great falls. that's 36 miles away. so he knew that he could go over there and not find anybody thereyan. >> reporter: then he got into

bunkhouse.hat his neighbor saw? >> well later, towards evening, i did see a four-wheeler go by. the atv was dark green.i owns a green and black atv, and within 19 years, no one has ever stepped forward to determine who in that small community had a green and black atv. nobody did. >> reporter: when tom arrived at the bunkhouse, said the prosecutor, he waited in the ould see dr. rein's door. >> he's got the weapon there. and i think at the appropriate at he's going to walk up to the back door. >> reporter: and that must have been when tom threw the holster in the grass where it was found ecutor light. >> now it just so happens that ann makes a call to bryan.bout getting a restraining order against -- against tom jaraczeski. and then ann says bryan almost abruptly gets off the phone as y's there.

that was about 10:40 p.m. >> i think bryan then heard him, went to the back door.hat point when there's thomas jaraczeski sitting on that back porch, has hink immediately bryan knew what was going on and the fight was on. and i think it was a struggle. i think he shot him twice in the arm. i think he then -- bryan struggled back to try to get to the phone and thomas shot him in the chest. left the weapon. got on that atv. took off? >> took off. and then he had hurt his back, so the next day he had to go to d there you go. >> reporter: and that was the prosecution's case. all circumstantial. no physical evidence was ever found to link tom to the murder scene. but the pieces, said the prosecution, fit together to

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a harrowing thing happened to bryan rein's sisters at the tom jaraczeski. they re-felt all the searing anger, loss and grief they'd d them. >> i can distinctly remember sitting there almost feeling, great, we're going to have to l over again. >> reporter: like attending a nightmare version of his funeral. >> but at this funeral we're not sa >> reporter: why would that be?

attorney bob peterson and his ennifer streano would not only attack the case against tom jaraseczki, they'd bring up all the old long about bryan. about what a ladies' man he was purported to be. >> when they went on about how he was a womanizer and he was affairs -- >> reporter: so she knew it was coming. defense went beyond that and cast doubt on the very idea that this 19-year-old mystery could be solved at all.out this trial you will have the urge to want to solve this.that's only natural. but this case cannot be solved. >> that was really the biggest point to stress to the jury, is going to want to close the book, close this chapter, give this family the relief they deserve, but it just cannot be done.r: all that immature

couldn't change two facts -- that tom had never been a violent person and that not a hysical evidence linked tom to the murder scene, said this forensic scientist. >> you never found any nging to tom jaraczeski in any of the items that you tested, did you? >> i did not. mean, they had all of his creepy behavior, sure. but beyond that they had nothing. they had nothing inside the cted him to this offense. there's no hair or fiber or blood or tissue or anything like inside that trailer, found on mr. rein himself, found outside the trailer that and trust me, they looked. >> reporter: those first responders all those years ago ainly gave the defense a

treated dr. rein's murder at first like a suicide. >> you did not take any blood swabs that day? >> you did not take any fingerprints that day? >> not that day. >> reporter: and what about throwing away potential evidence?telephone they found under dr. rein's head? >> we all looked at it and i'm sure decided there was nothing on it to save or we wouldn't ut. >> reporter: the defense called them to the stand one by one to admit their mistakes.now deputy dallum, you probably shouldn't have done that? >> yeah, we shouldn't have. >> reporter: and if the state a mess of things at the crime scene, confusing the manner of death, said the defense, maybe its theory about g, too. >> the state had concluded that the time of death was friday night.estion to them has always has been why? why did they choose that time other than it's the only time,

alibi?'ut what if the state was wrong? in fact, said tom's defenders, the state was wrong. well, for one thing, there was cody, dr. rein's dog.s theory was correct, cody then would have t trailer with no exit for friday to saturday night, saturday till sunday morning without going to the there was no evidence that he had gone to the bathroom at all in the house. >> reporter: dr. rein's sisters ody couldn't have found some way in and out of the trailer. but the defense said it had evenidence that the murder did not happen until, at the earliest, saturday morning, when tom had an alibi.in returned home from a conference on friday

but at about 7:00 p.m. that even bryan stopped for dinner at a place called the square butte country club. . >> reporter: and what dr. rein had for dinner, according to these witnesses, destroyed the f time of death. it was this retired rancher, too ill to testify in person, who ymaker by remembering clearly, he said, what bryan had on his plate. >> do you recall what he was doing when you sat down across from him? >> i -- other than sitting there eating a good looking montana steak. that's what he seemed to be most in. >> reporter: a steak. why was that important?e autopsy, the one in

blank, did not reveal any steak in his digestive tract.e if he died friday night? the defense called a forensic pathologist. steak at 7:00 at night and was shot and killed at 11:00 at night, wo still in his stomach contents? >> yeah. my opinion is that it doesn't seem like a plausible time of death.r: so what was in dr. rein's stomach? according to the doctor who did the autopsy --d to be scrambled eggs and green pepper and tomatoes. >> reporter: and in the bunkhouse?e garbage. dirty dishes in the sink. as if he'd made breakfast. although dr. rein's sister t was bryan's habit to stay up late, make eggs and work late into the night,

not friday night but some time saturday. someone who had no alibi for saturday. someone you've already met. remember him?was about to take the witness stand. >> and it's your statement that you then just went home. >> correct. >> and you were home alone that night? >> that's right.question what the defense was about to imply, that the killer could have been him. >> he told that mr. rein was shot with his own gun. >> the 19-year-old mystery takesist. >> he started describing things that you wouldn't know unless

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dr. bryan rein's murder occurred on a friday night, they also eir suspicion at a man who had no alibi for saturday. >> the defense will call larry hagenbuch.r: larry hagenbush, that friend of dr. rein's whose wife was leaving him, who had he purloined from dr. rein to try to commit suicide a month before the murder. >> you took this combination of pills so that you could check out?ll yourself? >> it was time. i mean, i was done with all the bs. >> it's, to me, very plausible.. rein's trailer. he's upset. he's been drinking.more pills from mr. rein. mr. rein refuses. and larry goes for the gun. is, the day bryan's body was discovered, larry admitted he had gone over to the bunkhouse.r, larry

room of a counselor's office. and while people around him listened, he described things h intimate knowledge of the crime scene would know about. >> he started describing things wouldn't know unless you had been there. that mr. rein was laying on his back with his feet crossed, blood all over.e fact that i think that's the important that stood out to me was that he told this woman on monday morning that is own gun. >> reporter: in fact, this woman who worked in the office larry. >> did mr. hagenbuch make any statements about whose gun that was? >> he said it was bryan's.g that investigation, these officers did not know that this was mr. rein's own firearm that had been used in this, in this

major red flag. how did you know pryian was shot? >> i don't. i probably said a gun. by that time i was in pretty good shock. >> do that bryan was shot saturday night? >> no. >> do you recall telling her that you were going to go out and have a six pack of beer with him? >> no. >> so if she knows all of that information monday morning, do you know where she would have gotten that information? >> i guess from me.t remember any of that because i do remember telling our counselor that my best friend got shot. saturday morning, 7:00 in the they didn't see you all saturday night, correct? >> correct. >> and sunday you hear, you come out to bryan's trailer. >> yeah.o that's the first time anybody sees you from saturday

>> reporter: larry denied any role in the shooting, and remember, detectives didn't charge him with anything.had made its point. >> it comes back to they made a . rein died on friday night. and so larry was around some people friday night, but all dayday morning, he wasn't around anyone. >> reporter: and then finally, as if to twist the knife, the thing. that thing that so upset dr. rein's sisters. the fact that in the underwear as wearing at the time of his death, there was dna that was unidentified. >> so my question would be as tohave gotten there, and how, and more importantly, who? >> reporter: the implication, of co having sex with someone in addition to ann.

to the pot. just saying tom may not be the only ex-boyfriend out there who would have been upset with mr. rein. >> reporter: that, in essence, ki's defense. anyone but tom. did you kill him? >> no, i didn't. >> reporter: do you think larry ll the doctor? >> you know, i have no idea who killed bryan. i know what it's like to be an wrongly accused. and i'm not going to sit here and accuse somebody else. end was coming very soon. coming up --.ed this crime masterfully. >> did he or didn't he? >> this was an incredibly tough case. >> the jury's decision.?

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by the defendant. ce. but they did have to answer the question -- did tom jaraczeski pull the trigger? the question for the jury was who else could have done it.om jaraczeski was the only person with the opportunity, the only person with the motive to take bryan rein out of this world. and he did it.mitted this crime, masterfully. >> reporter: the defense, in its closing, took a swipe at on, the agent who for two decades wouldn't let the case go.ict people because the lead investigator is retiring and wants this case we can close the book.

wasn't even in the courtroom to end the case he'd carried around so long. >> i just felt a need i had to get out of there. i didn't want to listen to it. >> reporter: the jury went out first thing in the morning the next day. they did not return as quickly e, at least, expected. >> it's just the worst time when you have a jury out. every hour that went by was pretty painful. then? whistle -- >> all right. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. mr. foreman, has the jury t? >> yes, your honor. >> i kept thinking if they said guilty, i thought, i'm going to fall down.ating so hard, so fast. either i was going to have a life or i wasn't going to have a life. >> we the jury, duly empanelled and sworn to try the issues in the above entitled cause, enter the following unanimous verdict.

>> reporter: not guilty. >> i cried. i put my head down on the table and i cried. arm around him and said, it's finally over. >> the case is dismissed. the defendant is free to go. >> go get a group hug. >> yeah.r: his family, overjoyed, watched them cut off the gps monitor. did you realize it was finally over?eah. it was a sense of relief. of happiness from my family, it's the greatest thing ever.ing my boys up in south dakota, telling them i'm coming home.

>> reporter: but while that was going on, across the courtroom --ember that moment? >> reporter: yeah. almost like you lost him all over again? remember walking out of there and thinking, and it turned out exactly the way i thought it would. why did you waste our time?r: did he? ken thompson didn't think so, of course. but -- >> of course, i was disappointed.ut i truly was more at peace that people got to hear it all. because a jury said he was not guilty, i don't think that changes things.they either believed he did or believed he didn't. >> reporter: what do you believe?

the jury believed. we ask judge greg pinski. s an incredibly tough case to prove. it was a tough case to prove in 1998. it became an incredibly tough case to prove in 2015. >> reporter: what did the jury think were the weaknessness in the case? >> timing.now why this case was coming to trial after 19 years. i think juries are motivated a lot by what they see on tv.hey see an old case on tv, they expect that there was some new scientific vance. >> reporter: some dna or something, yeah. >> some dna that suddenly cracked open this cold case af forward. and that's not this case. >> reporter: a couple months t, we went to

the woman at the center of that long discovered she is still tormented by a guilt that will not go away. she wonders if it hadn't been for her, would dr. rein be alive?really. whether or not tom killed dr. rein and especially if he d have had nothing to feel guilty about. and yet she does. says this to you, but stop it. it's not your fault. it really isn't. not even for a moment. >> i was hoping that if he was maybe that feeling would go away. that's what i wanted. i wanted them to say he's guilty. could quit feeling guilty. and they didn't.eporter: no, they didn't. >> so now i got to figure out a

>> reporter: so do they all. the prosecutor, believing he had th closed the case. but the judge? >> i mean it when i told the jurors when they wanted to find d this, when they wanted to solve this crime, that literally if they believe there's another world that they look up bryan rein when you get there and ask him who killed him. because that's the only way we are ever going to know who killed bryan rein. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." we'll see you tomorrow at 8:00, 7:00 central for the "dateline" ystery. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, good @ forensic teams headed to @akron after human remains were