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we can't appreciate it enoowughe heavens and we can support our family and enjoy the time that we have with them through doing something that we like doing. it's just great. so thank you. >> thank you. i would just say thank you to him. >> one of the most important things i could tell you during this show is this right now. the one thing that i can't provide is you taking action. 10 years ago, that's the one thing that i did that changed our lives. i took action. i made the call. and now we are living a life and leaving a legacy for our children that we never could have imagined. if you come to my two-hour free event, i promise you this -- you're gonna learn something, and you're gonna be given opportunity to change your life for the better, regardless if you're doing great or you're in a position where it has to work. we've created an environment where that can happen. so i'm looking forward to seeing

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>> was it an maybe murd? you. >> the whispering started almost immediately. you're a murderer? >> when you're innocent, you don't think it can happen. >> just wait for the spell-binding moment in court. >> it is nothing i would have ever imagined in my life. >> i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." here's josh mankiewicz with "the quiet one." >> sometimes the fresh air of a small town can hide a lot of dirty laundry. >> my worst fear was all of a sudden true. >> sometimes sudden death with lay bare every secret. >> she had felt like she was abusing it. >> what happened in this small do town would tear apart a marriage, and at the same time, separate two families that were once

north of des moines, is a company town, headquarters for one of the largest grocery chains in the midwest, fairway. it's a family owned company and rick beck with is a family ceo. he and his wife raised a family of five, their youngest daughter emily. the sweet but quiet one. >> a shrinking violet? >> the older sisters said she never got spanked. >> she didn't. just remain silent and look at me with those big brown eyes and it was over. >> even though emily was from a prominent wealthy family, her friend said she never flaunted it. >> everyone knew that emily was a beckwith, but i never felt less in her presence or anyone in our family. >> emily was the girl ev

every boy wanted to >> could have any boyfriend. >> all the guys were ga ga over her. she was grge. you've seen pictures of her, even in high school, she was gorgeous. but it wasn't her thing to date. >> by the time she was 21, emily had moved to kansas city, missouri, working in a hair salon. one night in 2001, she went to a bar and a local boy names alex spotted her from across the room. and it's one of those a-ha moments, i have to go talk to that girl. >> after a few days, he said he knew she was the one. what did you like about her? >> what didn't i? she was beautiful. she was very nice. she dressed impeccably. yeah, what didn't i? >> alex's mother joann knew something was happening when her son

emily to sunday sai i have met and i would love to be able to bring her over so that you all can get to know her better. >> and you thought, here we go? >> yes, i did. >> emily's family also heard about the boy. >> she said, i met this fellow, he's italian, and she said, you're going to love his family, they're louder than us. she fell in love with the whole family immediately. emily's sister amy could see they were in love. her eyes sparkled. alex's eyes sparkled when they were together. just huge smiles on both of their faces. >> the girl who never dated was swept off her feet. emily and alex married may 10, 2003. >> how many people? >> i would guess at least 400. >> that's big. >> for an italian wedding, it's maybe mid size, but -- >> the couple h

and a year la alex took up emily's parents on an invitation to mov to boone. >> it was an open offer if he wanted to come and work for fairway. >> her father offered alex an opportunity as a family member to move way up the ranks, and at my husband's encouragement, he went. >> alex took an entry level job at a fairway store near boone. the beck withs gave the couple this house, just a five-minute drive from their own. soon there were two more additions to the family, ricky and cocoa. >> all emily webber wanted to be is to have a family and be a wife and a mother. >> it all seemed perfect until the night of january 29th, 2012. it was close to the kids' bed times. emily had gone up early to take her nightly bath, and alex was doing things his wife normally did. >> i was helping with laundry. i helped the

bath. >> start her bath, as he and the kids watched peter pan. there was a lot of sword fighting and things like that, and music, and it was really loud. and when it got quiet, i could hear the water still running. >> alex says the water was running for about 20 to 30 minutes, so he went upstairs to see what was taking so long and came upon a horrible scene. emily was submerged in the tub unconscious. >> i tried to -- as hard as i could, to get her out of that tub, as fast as i could. she slipped out of my arms. i started screaming help. i ran to the phone to call 911. and all i could say was help. >> 911, what is the location of your emerge

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>> this should have been a routine night at home in small town usa, boone, iowa. instead alex was telling a 911 operator how he just pulled his wife emily out of the bathtub. >> please! honey wake up! wake up! >> it got worse. the kids wandered in and saw their mother on the bathroom floor. >> stay away! kids, please, please. >> on the tape, you don't sound like you think there's much hope of

>> me personally, no, i didn't. ou >> but with the operator's help, alex tried. >> tilt her head back. okay? did you do that? >> yeah. >> sergeant john weeb old of the boone police department got the call and arrived at the house with two other officers. his body camera was rolling as alex led them to the bathroom. >> as we entered the master bathroom, emily was laying on the floor, face up, and she had a bluish tint to her. >> please help me. >> how long's she been in here? >> i don't know. she was taking a bath. >> could you tell whether he was still alive? >> i checked for a pulse and breathing, didn't feel any, so i instantly started cpr. >> how long? >> she's pretty cold. >> blood? >> no blood. no blood anywhere. she

forehead. >> what was around? anything? the bathtub was full of water, and there were oil droplets on top of the water, like bath oil. there was music playing from an ipad on the sink area. >> emts loaded emily into an ambulance and raced to the hospital. when her mother cindy got the call, she went straight there. >> and they told me she was in emergency room and then a fellow came in and he said, she's gone. >> emily was dead at the age of 32 and known new why. >> when you went home that night, what did you think this was? >> i didn't really know. sfs suspicious death for sure. we didn't if it was a suicide or a tragic accident or something else. >> around midnight, police asked alex to give a statement at pleat headquarters. >> i pulled her and she just flopped. you know, she just flopped on the floor.

initial interviews, you're not represented by an attorney? >> no. >> and you talked to the police and you handed over your phone? >> yes. >> almost as if you had nothing to hide? >> i didn't. >> he also told police something very few people knew. his wife had a dependence on prescription drugs. alex said he was sure emily's addiction had killed her. >> it's really not my wife that did it, it's the addiction. >> what did you think had happened? >> i didn't know if, you know, she'd tack a handful of pills. i was having a hard time trying to reconcile if she killed herself or if she just overdosed. >> you thought overdose, either deliberate or unintentional? >> yeah, i thought it was a reasonable assumption. >> reasonable because alex said he'd been dealing with his wife's addiction for more than a year, when he discovered she had stolen pain pills from his

father. now a few months later, alex's own doctor asked a strange question during a check-up. he said, and how's your shoulder? and i said, it's fine. why do you ask? he said, i wanted to make sure the vicodin i prescribed you are working. i said, excuse me! and i started crying. >> you hadn't asked for any vicodin? >> correct. >> vicodin is a powerful pain medication that can be highly addictive. emily had asked for the prescription, saying it was for alex, but he said she ended up taking the pills herself. alex said he confronted emily. >> i said, you're gonna have to choose between your family and this medicine. i said, i'm not going to stay married to you if you continue down this road. >> and she said? >> she said okay. she said it and she may have meant it, but alex said, in the months before she died, emily would seem okay one day, but not the next. >> i could see in

they -- like a glaze. she -- and then she would be fine for a period. >> finally, in december 2011, two months before her death, emily reached out to her mom for help. >> did she say she'd become addicted to this painkiller? >> i don't know if she used the word addiction, but she had felt like she was abusing it. and alex was upset about it. >> emily's doctors had recommended in-patient rehab. instead, she decided to detox at her mother's house and to hide it from alex and the kids by saying she had mono. >> the reason is because they were scared of what it would do to their image. >> is the reason that you put out this cover story about emily having mono, is that because sending her to rehab would have been some kind of embarrassment to your family and you didn't want your name tarnished?

we've always done the best thing for our children and it was emily's desire to keep it from alex. >> emily went cold turkey. cindy says the first couple days, her daughter hardly left her bed, suffering from severe headaches. but after only four days, emily went home. >> did you think she was clean, off drugs, that that problem was behind her? >> i knew that she was still tired. >> but no longer addicted? >> no. >> you were convinced that had been dealt with? >> yes. >> alex didn't find out about the detox until much later, but he said in the weeks before she died, emily still had a stash ever pain pills. >> how many times did you say to your wife, if you don't get off the drugs, i'm going to have to leave you? >> at least three. >> but she wouldn't do it? >> she would fall back into her old habits. >> she would

rehab? >> no. she te page, everything is fine. >> so alex was telling everyone that his wife was a victim of her own demons. but soon, new evidence would emerge that would send this case in a more sinister direction. coming up -- >> results came back clean. >> so it wasn't an overdose? >> it wasn't an overdose. >> what then could have killed emily? >> she was scared. there was something wrong.

alex fazeeno had lost his wife emily. despite his grief, he still had to be strong for his children. >> what did you tell your kids? >> i remember hugging them, i remember just telling them

mommy went to she can't come back. >> as two families mourned and said goodbye, alex had to come to grips with the fact that he was now a single dad with three kids under the age of 7. >> it's sickening to know that if emily would have got the help she needed, she could still be here for my kids, and probably for me. >> while emily's family tried to cope with their loss, state investigator don schnit ger was operating on the assumption that her death was linked to her addiction. >> she did have a drug problem. she had an addiction to opiate medication, prescription pills. >> an overdose would mean no crime, just a regrettable death or even a suicide. but then, six weeks later, something that changed the entire focus of the investigation. emily's toxicology report came ba

she wasn't under the influence of opiates at the time of her death. >> so it wasn't an overdose? >> it wasn't an overdose. >> no trace of the opiates she had been abusing. there was nothing in her system, no alcohol. so investigators had to take a look at the case, starting with the photos of bruises on her body. police saw a bump on her head, but during the medical exam, the medical examiner found more. >> she had trauma to all four sides of her head. >> possible those injuries could have occurred while alex was dragging his wife out of the tub? >> i don't think so. >> and there were bruises on her neck. >> she had strap muscle bruising that were of concern, that maybe

she was held under the water by her neck. >> alex said he tried cpr, that couldn't be caused by somebody who was doing cpr? >> our feeling is no. >> how could emily have gotten those bruises? >> well, i know she hit her head while i was gwyneetting her out the bathtub. or you would -- i mean, when i picked her up, i heard it hit when i was pulling her out, her head hit. >> the side of the tub? the floor? >> i don't know. i was heaving her out -- it was so hard to get her out. >> would you have bruised her neck doing that? i don't know. agent schnit ger wanted to know, what might be going on behind closed doors in the fazeeno marriage. he listened to another 911 call. >> and he's taking everything of mine and trying to take pills too. >> one week before h

emily called 911 to complain about alex. >> he's trying to take property that is not his. >> emily came home inebriated the night before and i'd had it. and i grabbed whatever pills i could grab and i was going to flush them down the toilet. >> and she got angry? >> she got angry, she called 911. >> no one was arrested or charged in the incident, but it seemed to be the breaking point. the next day emily filed for divorce, then alex did the same. both asked for custody of the children. and both were still living in the same house. a few nights later, emily called her father rick. >> the words were saying one thing, the voice was telling me something different. >> what were the voice telling you? >> she was scared. there was something wrong. >> they hung up around 6:00 p.m. two hours later, emily would be dead.

phone call. because that was the last time i heard her voice. >> for investigator schnit ger, a new picture was emerging, a marriage in shambles, a husband pushed to the edge. maybe it wasn't an accident or suicide. maybe it was murder. it seems hard to believe that alex would kill his wife, and his kids are just a couple of rooms away. >> but that's -- if you're thinking this is well thought out, you know, often times couples get in arguments and they escalate and somebody dies. >> you had seen your wife endanger her life. you weren't angry at your wife's inability to kick her habit? >> no. i was disappointed in her. i was disappointed that this happened, but angry, no, never angry with emily. >> but emily's family and friends say they were angry at alex. the beckwiths and the fazeenos, once so close, were now

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>> rotten eggs. >> skunk. >> garbage. >> joining me this sunday morning are andrea mitchell, nbc news's chief foreign affairs correspondent. hugh hewitt and joy reid. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press". >> announcer: from nbc news in washington this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning and we're happy to be back after a break for the olympics. how about team usa? worth the break to watch them dominate. let's state the obvious. it hasn't been a good week for either presidential candidate frankly or for the institution of american politics. a week that reagan with donald trump revamping ending with him

deport statements confused the public and left his staff tongue tied at times. at the same time, discovered some 15,000 new clinton state demeclinton throu campaign. once more, the clinton foundation faced pay for play charges and calls for the clinton's to distance themselves further from the foundation if hillary clinton wins the presidency and candidates called each other names in a nasty and negative campaign that appears to be turning voters off. we'll see what that means down the road. but we begin with donald trump's ham-handed efforts to find a middle ground on deportation. was he for it before he was against it or a little bit of both? in iowa yesterday, trump tried to explain again. >> all the media wants to talk about is the 11 million people. >> afterwe