dennis murphy (voiceover): grosse pointe park residents were shaken. it just didn't make sense. e well liked. bob, big bob as he was known around grosse pointe, with the vanity plates to prove it, was active in rotary, a past president, and hands on for almost any community fundraiser you could name. jane was a mainstay in the high school mothers group and regularly volunteered at her church. dennis murphy: so how did you meet jane? bob bashara: good friend of mine in high school married her best friend, and they introduced us, and we started dating. and we clicked pretty much right away. and within two years, i asked her to marry me, and she said yes. dennis murphy (voiceover): bob says he loved that jane didn't hold anything back. bob bashara: she was outgoing, a go getter, yet she was very loving and kind. and i just was attracted to her right from the beginning, because she had a good heart. dennis murphy (voiceover): the children came along, first robert, then jessica. dennis murphy: this is where the kids grew up? this is where the kids grew up. dennis murphy (voiceover): a

diallo argued that grosse pointe park police were overwhelmed by this case and made a series of blunderss huge, big news out of grosse pointe park, the homicide of one of its residents, correct? yes, ma'am. lillian dialo: nothing like this of this magnitude has ever happened under your watch. correct? correct. narrator: the defense zeroed in on what it said were some key early mistakes made by the grosse pointe park police. they noted officers didn't collect some of the victim's clothing for fiber evidence. they didn't pull the security camera footage outside the hard luck lounge to see if bashara was indeed there the night of the murder. and some of their early witness interviews were conducted improperly. does that lead you down the path of reasonable doubt in your arguments? it can. narrator: prosecutors said the department's mistakes didn't prevent them from coming to the right conclusions. but bob's defense argued that the errors accelerated the officer's rush to judgment that bob bashara was a murderer. you're not investigating to get to, ok, what happened? bob bashara. he's our du