he saw tom clayton smiling and kidding around with family members. he told the jury how investigators had immediately labelled tom a killer on the night of the murder. >> i think he attacked her. >> and the defense said investigators refused to change their minds even after it was clear michael beard was the one who beat kelly to death. >> the defense had basically alluded to the fact that there was a psychosis in michael beard and that he out of just hate and revenge against thomas and his other bosses went to the house that night with the intent of stealing and taking money and killed kelly in the process. >> the prosecution said that was nonsense. michael beard had no reason to murder kelly unless he was sent there by the defendant, tom clayton. the state called linda miller to testify. she recounted how tom borrowed her phone and then deleted the number he dialed, never dreaming she would do her own detective work. >> you really connected the dots. >> she did good. >> you can call it good. >> finally, the prosecutor said he knew why tom wanted hi

kelley and tom clayton's seemingly happy life together came to an abrupt end when she was found brutally murdered. investigators set out to uncover the truth, finding stories of betrayal and a witness who may have seen everything. the clayton's daughter, charlie. but in this case, not everything was as it seemed. here with "the house in the woods" is andrea canning. >> he wasn't exactly sure where the house was or what had happened there, but he knew it was bad. >> yeah, these ones are not fun to do. >> finally, he found it, down a secluded driveway, a man on the front lawn waving him in. >> what's going on. >> i'm the neighbor. >> inside, the deputy could see signs of a struggle, blood on the floor. >> got blood on the wall, blood on the steps. >> a broken wall. he searched the house. >> hey, kids' room, this one's

tom. >> clayton, thank you. >>> we do move now to new developments in papa john's controversy. the founder of the pizza empire who stepped down as chairman after he admitted to using the n-word is now explaining in a new interview why he used that word. here's abc's zachary kiesch. >> better ingredients, better pizza, papa john's. >> reporter: the embattled former ceo of papa john's speaking out. john schnatter, claiming in a radio interview, his use of the n-word was the result of pressure from a marketing agency. >> the agency was promoting that vocabulary in that genre and i made it real clear, listen, we're not gonna go there. we're not gonna talk about this. and they pushed me and it upset me. >> reporter: tonight, the agency is not commenting. and schnatter is doing damage control after this "forbes" article revealed that he complained during a conference call that kfc's colonel sanders called blacks the n-word and never received backlash. the fallout has been swift. the company schnatter helped build removing his image from promotional materials and the university of lou

tom? >> clayton, our thanks to you. i want to bring in abc's chief meteorologist ginger zee at the george washington bridge tonight. and ginger, this heat is not going away, and now there's a tropical system brewing in the atlantic? >> reporter: and tom, we are still talking intense heat and humidity. caribou, maine, for example, 94 today. they broke a record, and it's the hottest they've been in five years. those heat advisories stretch all the way to arkansas. but it is the southwest where the heat is going to just been explosive for the wildfires. 118, palm springs. yuma, 116. that's the hottest of the entire season. and then, we go to the atlantic. tropical storm beryl has formed. moving west at 16 miles per hour. it will briefly become a hurricane over the weekend, and then reach the lesser antilles by sunday night. tom? >> all right, we will stay on top of that storm. ginger, thank you. >>> next, we turn to the migrant families separated at the southern border. the government still facing a court-ordered deadline

tom. >> all right, clayton, thank you. >>> and we do move on now, we want to get to chief meteorologist ginger zee. she's at the george washington bridge. ginger, the big question tonight, just how much of a scorcher will it be for the fourth? >> reporter: thunderstorms have cut the heat and humidity around here, tom, but washington, d.c., baltimore, both had a heat index of 109 today. and you can see the excessive heat wash,s that stretch across the nation, really from california to maine. let's focus in on the fourth of july. the numbers are impressive and going to be sweltering, from 106 to boston back to st. louis at 102. finally, not good for the fires. even hotter air coming at you. 101 for los angeles by the time we kick off the weekend. 114 in phoenix. tom? >> just going to get tougher for the firefighters. ginger, thank you. >>> we turn now to the tense cave rescue and the new headline tonight. some say it could be months to get those boys out safely. that stunning image, the 12 boys and their soccer coach found alive, perched on a ledge deep underground. and now the rescue tea