. >> out of the presence of the jury, marianne crandall told the court that, like carrie zuck, she metoffer tom support. >> i don't mean to embarrass you, but you had sex with tom in his living room? >> he tried to. and it was stopped. >> who tried and who stopped? >> he tried, and we both stopped. >> you don't have a sexual relationship with somebody within two weeks after your wife's been murdered in that house. >> but the jury never heard marianne crandall's testimony because there was no indication of a romantic relationship prior to dar's murder, the judge ruled, just as he did in the first trial, that her testimony was prejudicial and therefore inadmissible. it was a huge blow to the prosecution's case. >> it supports the position that they weren't this deeply in love couple that he kept trying to present. i mean, that would have proven that. >> but norris still had her two key witnesses, tom's own son heath and heath's friend skyler watty, both two years older and now more certain than ever about what they saw and heard the day dar was killed. >> last year at church camp i went