. >> reporter: still, when dar's sisters, ladonna, lynn, and marla, learned that dar and tom intended to marry, they were left scratching their heads. >> my famous saying was, there's got to be something wrong with tom for him to stay with dar. >> reporter: 'cause you couldn't do it? >> no. >> reporter: you couldn't be around somebody who was, what, that much the center of attention? >> and telling you what to do. >> reporter: and that controlling? >> dar was not a domesticated person either. >> reporter: the foleys were married in 1994, and right from the start, dar took the lead. fair to say that she wore the pants in that house? >> i'd a probably 75%, 80% of the time she d. >> she was the breadwinner? >> yes. >> you stayed home and took care of your son? >> i did. >> reporter: heath was tom and dar's only child and the center of their lives. >> and we just loved being together. we were always together. >> reporter: and so the three foleys lived on the outskirts of coldwater in an old farmhouse they called "the heath bar farm." a picture-perfect family until that winter day back in