and i said shele, please don't do this. >> eve talked her sister out of it that night, but shele was serious and so was rod. shele was 11 years older than him, but that didn't seem to matter. his parents, dave and carol covlin said he adored her right from the start. >> he told us he has a girlfriend, and we have to meet her. i said okay, passover is coming up. we don't have time right now. no, you have to meet her. >> a brunette back then, shele married rod six months later and reality set in as they settled down to life as a couple. it wasn't exactly bliss because while shele was a stunning overachiever, rod was, well, not in the same league. he was a stock trader of middle end success. >> what i did see was a guy who really had a lot of big ideas, and was unable to execute on any of them. >> but he had a couple of talents, martial arts. >> and he won money. >> two years after she married rod, shele gave birth to baby anna. >> she was inseparable from anna. she was doting on that child. she was an incredible mom. >> a second pregnancy followed, twins, but that ended in tragedy. >>

>> shele's children are growing up without much contact with shele's side of the family. is there anything that you want the children to know about their mother and how you feel about them? >> their mother with every breath she took and every ounce of her, she adored them. >> that's all for this edition of dateline. i'm andrea canning. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin and this is dateline. >> something is wrong here. the system doesn't want to acknowledge that they made a mistake, but you made a mistake. >> the detective was like you tell us you did this? i didn't do nothing. >> hearing the judge say guilty. two brothers convicted of murder fight back against the justice system. >> a pattern. how to gain a conviction. >> i knew they were innocent and the question is do we have enough? >> there are several witnesses saying the testimony is coerced. can they all be lying? >> if i have to die in this situation -- trying to prove i'm an innocent man. never gave up. never. >>> hello, and welcome to dateline. imagine spending nearly your entire adult life behind bar