in fact, living with sandra, said jack's daughters cheree and cheryl, was a fairy tale, the kind britain by the brothers grimm. >> oh, she was just mean to me. she wanted me completely gone. she did everything she could to try and get rid of me. >> reporter: when it came to her own children, they said, sandra was indulgent, eerily so with son tom. >> he was a really good mama's boy, to where it was -- to the point it was strange. very weird. >> very weird. >> weird thing to watch. >> they're always walking into the other room and closing the door. >> yeah. >> reporter: though jack seemed quite happy with sandra. until the spring of '98, that is. just a few months before the murder when jack was diagnosed with colon cancer. a shock, of course. but one of two shocks for sandra. and to those around her, the second seemed somehow worse. her beloved son, tom, up and moved to arizona. >> and she was flipping out about it. >> yeah. >> just -- she had to go there. >> reporter: she demanded jack move to arizona too. >> that woman was off her rocker. her tone was just scary. it was like somebody e