neighbor barbara hines -- >> the real estate market had folded.from sabina, not from tom, that they were highly, highly, highly leveraged. >> please call me for your reservation. >> reporter: and while sabina used her marketing skills to try to keep the motel afloat, she and tom couldn't do the same for their marriage. after more than a decade as husband and wife, they were that in name only. but what they did not do was divorce or divide up the business. >> they were always still good friends, very good friends. i mean they worked well together. >> reporter: romance part, the marriage part seemed to what? >> the romance part kind of -- >> maybe romance changed. >> reporter: it certainly did. as the detectives couldn't help but discover, tom and sabina had taken up with other people, both of them. he with a woman he'd known quite a while. she with a local artist who once worked at the motel as a handyman. and then there was the matter of the life insurance. how much did he take out on sabi sabina's life, the cops asked. $100,000 said tom. despite