he had told his friends that he couldn't afford a child so there was more to michael ratley's marriagehan what there appeared to to be on the surface. >> and according to effie's family, there were other troubling incidents. like the time effie was driving to work on the interstate. michael called asking her to check the console to see if his medication was there. >> she nearly wrecked the car at that point. her girlfriends later repllayedo me that she was just plum hysterical when she got to work. yeah, she did have a fear of mice. >> we're not real sure if michael did it or not. >> investigators also learned effie had $150,000 of life insurance with michael as the beneficiary. in reconstructing the crime and analyzings the blood spatter evidence, investigators concluded that the killer would have been covered in blood. scientists tested the robe michael was wearing on the night of his wife's murder. >> i did look for the presence of blood on that bathrobe, but i did not find any. i was surprised. the whole house was searched, anything for weapons, the whole house was fingerprinted. d