He Found His Wife Murdered: Who Really Killed Her?

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And I thought, well, that’s unusual.

And it wasn’t until I opened the door.

Hey babe, >> that I just froze.

I stood in the doorway and it was like I was in a tunnel.

Lane’s 18-year-old wife, Marilyn, is lying on the living room floor covered in blood.

>> She’s dressed only in a night gown and it’s up over her breast hanging uh just sort of uh on her upper chest close to her neck.

She has a pairing knife stuck in her chest.

>> Lane falls to the floor.

He touches his wife’s wrist, hoping to find a pulse.

>> I couldn’t hear no other sounds.

I was just trying to hear her breath.

I felt ants all over me.

And I was waiting for my reasoning to come back.

I was just in shock.

He found his wife lying there on the floor.

>> Clearly having been bludgeoned and then stabbed.

>> Lane immediately rushes out the door and races to his neighbor’s unit.

>> I knocked on the neighbor’s door, which was right beside my front door.

I asked her, “Did you see anything? Did you hear anything?” >> “Well, I didn’t hear.

” >> She heard the dog barking.

>> And then a panic thought raced through my mind.

Christopher, is he okay? I rushed past her into the back bedroom where his 3-month old son was in the crib.

>> Christopher, >> that was his immediate concern.

Thoughts were reeling through my head, spinning around like a tornado, and I thought, I need to call the police.

>> This is before 911 exists.

And so if you had to call the police department, you had to be able to know the number.

>> Yeah.

Well, >> so he calls his mother and says, “Call the police.

Marilyn’s been killed.

>> I need you to call the sheriff’s department.

I don’t remember the number.

Christopher’s fine.

” No, he’s fine.

Okay.

Please.

>> Within minutes, police respond to the McIntyre home.

>> It’s a huge It’s like a 10 megaton bomb dropping in the middle of the city when an 18-year-old mother of a 3-month-old child is found murdered in her own home.

Because Lane McIntyre is the victim’s husband and the one who found her body, he’s the obvious initial suspect.

The first order of business for police is to remove both him and baby Christopher from the house.

And there were three officers in my living room.

A fourth officer was escorting me out.

And that’s when I looked down at Marilyn and it’s the first time that I even saw the knife in her chest.

I don’t understand why I didn’t see it the first time walking in.

I was like a zombie.

It all began to hit me that I’ll never be able to hold Marilyn again in my arms.

And then I remember the sensation of falling, dark, weight, sad pain, grief, agony.

got home around 7 7:05 am >> Neighboring Milwaukee has seen two women brutally murdered in recent months.

>> Hey, detective.

We need to see you inside.

>> But crimes like this don’t happen in sleepy Columbus.

>> When you examine a crime scene like this, the first thing comes to mind is overkill.

This poor woman was bludgeoned, choked or strangled and eventually stabbed.

In addition, there was some evidence of sexual trauma.

You know, that’s a lot of rage.

And when you see that type of overkill, frequently it’s a personal type attack or one where the parties were known to one another.

>> One key question for police, how did her killer get into the house? >> There wasn’t any forced entry.

The remainder of the house didn’t appear to be disturbed.

There didn’t appear to have been a theft.

Nothing was stolen.

>> Did Marilyn answer the door and let someone in? Technicians process the place, lifting fingerprints and collecting other trace evidence.

>> You have to let the crime scene lead you or direct you.

And when you see that type of violence, you you have to ask yourself why.

I just couldn’t believe that this was happening.

I was so heartbroken thinking, you know, what could she have done so horribly bad that somebody would do something like that to her? >> The fact that baby Christopher was unharmed baffles police.

>> He’s very fortunate.

Our experience has been that when a crime like this occurs, uh, you know, anyone in the area is in danger.

Often if there’s a murder in the home, everyone’s at risk.

>> In the couple’s bathroom, they find a critical clue.

>> There were some pin head size stains were found.

And they collected them in a fashion with, I guess, scientific protocol in mind.

>> Next, police questioned Lane’s neighbor.

She tells them that she and her husband had a restless night.

Babe, do you hear that? Hear what? I’m going to go take a look.

>> The neighbors, a husband and wife, were awakened by the dog’s chain that had been wrapped around the porch pole, pulling so hard that they said it felt like it was shaking the house and and it had awakened these folks.

They thought that was odd and they were concerned about it.

>> Neighbor’s dog’s going crazy.

I’m tired.

>> But no one reports seeing anyone other than Lane that night.

>> The neighbor also questions Lane’s behavior after the murder.

>> My wife got murdered.

>> She described Lane’s demeanor as being much more calm and matterof fact than what she would have expected from someone not involved in his wife’s murder.

Christopher Let’s hang out.

I’ll be back.

>> It seemed odd that his first instinct was to run to the neighbors.

And the neighbor told police that she thought Lane’s demeanor was a bit off or a bit odd.

He seemed perhaps too calm for somebody who had just discovered his wife’s murdered body.

Although Lane is a probable suspect, seasoned detectives know everyone handles grief differently.

>> It’s a horrific crime scene.

No one should find a person like this, especially not someone they know or love.

>> Did Marilyn know her attacker or was she targeted by an unknown predator? >> Was this a psychotic killer that was completely out of control roaming the neighborhood? I believe we’re all a human animal and given the right set of circumstances and environmental impacts, we’re all capable of potentially horrific things.

In the winter of 1980, police in Columbus, Wisconsin are on high alert.

18-year-old Marilyn McIntyre is dead, and the person responsible for her savage murder is still at large.

Everybody knows, everybody uh generally people didn’t lock their doors at night.

Everybody felt safe.

>> Many in Columbus believe if Marilyn McIntyre could meet such a fate.

No one is safe.

People found her to be friendly, the sort of person who you could talk to, who would be a good listener.

So to think that anyone’s going to be murdered in Columbus is a stretch.

But if you’re going to pick somebody who’s least likely, even in a sleepy town, Marilyn McIntyre would be high on the list.

>> Struggling to find a motive, police look closely at the murder weapon and the mode in which she was killed.

that blunt force injury to her head, the amount of blood that had come out of there, the strangulation or those marks on her neck.

She was almost displayed to be seen as as you come in.

And the knife really appeared to be just a last degradation to her.

Police wonder if there is a link to the two recent brutal murders of young women in Milwaukee.

At first, police looked into whether Marilyn’s death could have been the work of a Milwaukee serial killer.

>> In both cases, the killer violently raped each victim before strangling them.

The women’s bodies were found dumped on the outskirts of the city.

Was the killer moving into new territory? >> It it really didn’t fit.

Most of the victims of the Milwaukee serial killer were Africaname and Marilyn was the only one who’d been stabbed.

>> Another detail does not meet the profile of a serial killer.

The fact that Christopher is not harmed is able to help take a certain population like sociopaths and psychopaths and put them off to the side because they wouldn’t have any problem with killing a 3-month-old and their mother.

>> Police also believe that Marilyn most likely knew her killer.

You have neighbors in very close proximity and they don’t hear anything consistent with any sort of struggle, which would be what you might expect if someone has to force their way in or if they’re a stranger.

>> The lack of physical evidence in the home points to only one possible suspect.

In law enforcement, when there’s a murder in the house, you look at who everyone else is in the house.

So, you know, Lane is clearly a number one suspect right out of the shoot.

>> Was it possible that the McIntyre’s marriage wasn’t all it seemed? The following day, police bring Lane McIntyre in for questioning.

>> I was interrogated for 7 hours.

They kept asking me the same questions over and over.

Lane, it’s all >> the obvious one would be, did you kill her? That’s rather blunt, but I can see the point that they’d have to ask that.

What did I do? Where did I go? >> Lane insists he spent the evening at work and urges investigators to look at people in Marilyn’s past.

>> Would anybody want to do this to her? >> The one person whose name surfaces is Aaron Henderson, Marilyn’s ex-boyfriend.

She had this ex-boyfriend that was around a lot.

>> Aaron lived a block away from me.

>> A background check shows Aaron has a criminal record, although there is no history of violence.

Police wonder if he is the jealous type.

>> You’re Marilyn McIntyre, didn’t you? >> Yeah.

>> He was Maryland’s, you know, most recent relationship prior to her relationship with Lane.

>> Who were you the night of the murder? uh he lived in the area or nearby.

He you know and he didn’t have a particularly convincing or strong alibi for lack of a better word.

He you know for an explanation of his whereabouts in that evening.

>> Stay in town.

We’ll be in touch.

>> Aaron moves up on the list of suspects.

But police shift their attention when Marilyn’s brother-in-law Eli Williams comes forward with a strange story.

>> So where are you tonight? I >> was on my way home from work.

Eli tells police he finished his shift as a welder and drives by a local bar to see if his wife was inside.

When he doesn’t see her car in the parking lot, he keeps on driving.

So Eli in returning home from work drove past the McIntyre residence and at that time he noted that it was dark.

He didn’t see the dog outside and he continued on home.

When Rhonda doesn’t arrive home by 3:00 am, he goes looking for her again.

Since the bar is closed, he drives past Marilyn’s house a second time around 3:15 to see if Rhonda ended up there.

>> The second time he went past their house, the front porch light was on and their dog was tied outside in the front.

And that’s something that Delane and Marilyn never did.

>> That’s it.

>> Police wonder if Eli is telling the whole truth.

>> Did you go inside? >> No.

I’m >> He was out and about at the time that this happened by himself.

So, you know, he’s someone we wanted to know more about.

The story that Eli gave police was very helpful to them because it allowed them to confirm Marilyn’s time of death.

Police were suspicious of Eli because he was Marilyn’s brother-in-law.

And so police felt that she would have let him into the home even very late at night with no questions asked.

And because he was a welder, they felt that he was strong enough to have forced his way into the home if she didn’t let him inside.

>> But police have little more to go on.

until a puzzling lead sends the investigation in a chilling direction.

In Columbus, Wisconsin, police scrambled to sort through a growing list of suspects in the murder of young wife and mother Marilyn McIntyre.

One of the most promising is Marilyn’s brother-in-law, Eli.

was on the way home from work >> who admits to being in the area at 3:15 am precisely the time of the murder.

>> He’s very consistent saying, “Hey, I didn’t kill nobody.

” And gets very upset at the mere prospect or mention of someone even implicating him.

But what he critically brings to the table is timing.

>> The story that Eli gave police was very helpful to them because it allowed them to confirm Marilyn’s time of death.

However, there is no physical evidence linking him to the crime scene.

So, who would Marilyn let into her home at 3:00 in the morning? >> Police got a tip that they should start looking at a man named Kurt Forbes.

>> A witness in town, tells police that Kurt Forbes, a friend of the family, had long been obsessed with Marilyn McIntyre.

Investigators set out to ask Kurt and his girlfriend Misty some questions.

Let me see.

We’re here.

You see, Curtis, >> I’m back.

Thanks.

>> The two couples would hang out together.

They played cards together.

They went fishing together.

>> Curtis, did you hear about Maryland? >> Sure.

Yes.

It’s all over town.

>> There had been uh information that Kurt was interested in Maryland and he had expressed his desire to have a relationship with Maryland.

I mean, you know, I was friends with Landon Marilyn.

>> Kurt Forbes would be sort of flirtatious with Marilyn on occasion, but I never took it seriously because Marilyn was repulsed by him.

>> Police suspected that possibly he had gone over there, you know, in an attempt to make a romantic overture.

Kurt would have known that Lane was at work, so he would think that it was something he could get away with.

Where >> were you the night of the murder? >> I was at the bar.

What >> time did you leave? >> When confronted by police, Kurt insists that he never hit on Marilyn.

>> He also denies having anything to do with her murder.

On the night of the murder, he claims he was out with friends.

They had gone to dinner at a supper club in Columbus and after that they had gone to some of the bars in the downtown area.

>> After the bar closes, Kurt goes to see his former girlfriend, Jennifer Brown.

>> Am I coming? >> Unknown to Kurt.

I assume was that Jennifer’s boyfriend was there when he arrived.

>> I I get it.

>> And they said Kurt, you know, smoked a cigarette and then left shortly there after.

Then he heads to his girlfriend Misty’s house.

>> I mean, ask her if you want.

>> Maybe back for more questions.

>> He claims he stopped along the roadside at one point to urinate and then continued up there uh arriving sometime after 2:00 am, but certainly before 3.

Police questioned both women who confirm Kurt came to see them.

Police feel strongly that Marilyn’s death occurred around 3:15 am and believe there is no way Kurt could have been involved.

>> When no concrete evidence points to Aaron Henderson, Eli Williams, or Kurt Forbes, the police are out of leads.

Police take another look at Marilyn’s husband.

>> Friends say they sometimes witnessed the couple getting into heated arguments.

>> Things you can make with like chicken or something other than >> I don’t have anything else.

Okay.

>> There were times in which there was controlling behaviors or violence occurring between Lane and Marilyn.

>> Why don’t you get a job? Maybe that would help me.

>> My job is taking care of Chris.

Nothing on this sort of scale by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s not as if everybody says everything was perfect.

>> Well, unfortunately, taking care of Christopher doesn’t pay for a damn thing.

>> There have been at least more than one occasion where Lane and Marilyn may have got in an altercation or had at least an argument that turned physical between the two of them.

I >> pay for everything.

How’s that for responsibility? >> Do nothing.

I should have never married you.

I did slap her.

She forgave me just like any other couple.

What goes on behind closed doors.

>> Sorry.

>> I never hit anybody since.

And I’m ashamed that I hit her.

Detectives do some more digging and find Lane’s job is less than 15 minutes away from his home.

Even more alarming, he has a regular scheduled break at 3:00 am >> He didn’t have the kind of job where he was chained to his workstation or where there were cameras that you could look at to say, “Were you where you needed to be the entire time?” And so, uh, Lane has opportunity in terms of how close his third shift job is where nothing would preclude him from being able to slip away from the plant, get home, kill Marilyn, go back to the plant and not necessarily have his absence noticed.

>> To make matters worse, investigators discover that Lane took out a life insurance policy on Marilyn shortly before her death.

and he claims a door-to-door salesman approached him about insurance after reading birth announcements in the community newspaper.

Lane thought it seemed like a good idea after having a baby.

Not long before Marilyn’s death, a insurance man showed up at our door and convinced me to buy a life insurance policy on myself.

That would be for 25,000.

And then sitting on the couch with Marilyn, he said, “You know, you can have a rider put on the policy to cover your wife as well for $10,000.

” And I didn’t want Marilyn to feel like she wasn’t worth the $5.

And I said, “Sure, put it on.

” I had no idea that that was the money that I needed to pay for her funeral.

It’s not a king’s ransom by any means, but $10,000 is a significant amount of money for them.

>> Was it possible Lane McIntyre killed his own wife for money? Police grow even more suspicious when Lane remarries less than a year after Marilyn’s death.

Too quickly for most persons comfort level.

if you have truly been devastated by the loss of your wife.

>> Lane vowed that he had never cheated on Marilyn.

But he said that he remarried so quickly after her death because he was a young father with a baby and he needed somebody to help him take care of the child.

>> Okay, there was a lot of clich.

Investigators ask, “So why did Lane get married so quickly after the tragic loss of his wife?” >> In Columbus, a lot of people were ly >> from the waist up, sir.

>> A lot of people were making their own assumptions and there was a lot of people that were blaming my brother Lane and saying that he murdered her for that money.

>> It’s okay.

It’s okay.

Did you kill your wife? >> No, I didn’t kill my wife.

Okay, I’ve explained this a 100 times.

I have nothing to do with her dying.

>> I knew immediately that I’m going to be accused just because I was her husband.

All eyes were trained on me, scrutinizing me by every move, my every word, trying to dissect me.

>> Did you kill your wife? I told you a hundred times I didn’t kill her.

It’s just futile to try to reason with people that already made up their minds.

Columbus, Wisconsin is buried under a blanket of rumors as the town looks for answers in the brutal murder of 18-year-old Marilyn McIntyre.

Her husband, Lane, is the prime suspect.

Whether you think Lane did it or whether you think he did not do it, he >> killed his wife.

>> Either way, it’s unacceptable to think about the fact that there’s not a killer behind bars and instead out walking the streets among you.

>> There’s not enough proof to arrest Lane, but nothing to clear him either.

Over time, the leads go ice cold.

>> It’s a who done it.

It’s an entire community waiting for there to be someone held accountable, waiting for a solution to that question.

Who killed Marilyn McIntyre? Marilyn’s family never gave up hope in solving her murder.

Marilyn’s birthday would serve as a reminder to her family.

And so every year, year after year, they would call the Columbus Police Department for updates on the case.

>> Every family wants an answer.

They want to know why.

They want to uh put it to rest.

>> It’s 2007.

Maryland’s niece called the county sheriff’s department to ask about updates on the case, but the niece had called the wrong agency.

When the dispatcher is unable to locate the case in the sheriff department’s database, the call is transferred to Lieutenant Wayne Smith.

>> In checking our records, you can’t find this.

I’m like, boy, I wonder what this person is talking about because I can’t find this name in our records.

I I’m not aware of this unsolved homicide.

That’s odd.

We learned that this is a 1980 case from Columbus.

We call down to the city of Columbus and say, “Hey, we’ve got this call.

Do you really have an unsolved homicide?” to which we learned they did and uh they asked for our assistance.

>> The sheriff’s office takes the reigns immediately, pumping new energy into the cold case.

>> This happened in 1980.

I wasn’t even in high school yet.

It was full of pitfalls and challenges and you just can’t allow a homicide to go unanswered.

I made a promise to this family.

I said, “I can’t promise you we’re going to arrest somebody or that they’re going to be charged and convicted, but I promise you that when we’re done, I’ll tell you who I think did it.

” >> Authorities start by reviewing the old case files.

>> You know, you open this box and it had reports like I would expect, but it also had notes and loose pieces of paper that you look at and you went, “Oh boy, what did they just get involved in?” There are almost insurmountable challenges that a cold case presents.

Not everybody keeps records forever or uh people move away and you don’t know where they’ve gone.

People’s memories fade because now maybe they have Alzheimer’s or they just can’t plain remember no matter how hard they might try.

And you have this aspect that people die and once they’re dead that what they once knew, they take to the grave with them.

Faced with the same list of suspects as the initial investigators, detectives have no choice but to rule them out one by one.

They first hone in on the most likely suspect and bring Lane McIntyre in for another round of questioning.

Look, >> I told you time and time again I didn’t kill my wife.

>> Lane sticks to his story.

They also take another look at Kurt Forbes.

Police records reveal that Kurt was not entirely cooperative during the initial investigation.

>> They asked him, “Would you agree to a polygraph?” He says, “Yeah, I will.

” But then when it’s time to show up for the polygraph, he doesn’t show up for it.

They had asked Lane if he would take a polygraph, and he said, “Sure.

” And he showed up for his.

“Not at all.

Whatever will help, sure, I’ll do it.

” >> Forbes eventually skips town and heads to Florida.

When they finally catch up with Kurt, he once again denies having anything to do with Marilyn’s murder.

>> What? What are you talking? Why am I here? Police hit another dead end.

Without evidence, this case will never be solved.

Lieutenant Smith makes one final desperate attempt.

He decides to test the original blood evidence.

There were some stains that were collected, uh, particularly a very minute, almost pin headsiz stain that was found in the sink.

Detectives focus on the small blood stain collected in 1980.

>> Although this was an extremely small stain, it’s now near 30 years old and degraded to some extent, it still was viable and could be tested.

>> The long shot reveals the biggest break in the case in nearly three decades.

>> When it was collected, they didn’t know it was a mixture stain.

They just knew it was a red stain.

Well, it turned out to be a mixture stain of Marilyn’s blood and another contributor in this bathroom sink.

>> Could the killer have cut themsel and tried to clean up, leaving behind a drop of their own blood? This piece of evidence was powerful.

was powerful in the sense that not only did it bring all the circumstantial things that we had developed, it also eliminated every other single suspect that we had in this case 100%.

>> 29 years after Marilyn McIntyre’s murder, investigators believe they’re finally closing in on her killer.

Analysis of the blood stain collected from the crime scene reveals it’s a mixture of two people, the victim and possibly the killer.

Investigators obtain a blood sample from Kurt Forbes and run a DNA test, comparing it to the blood stain found in the sink.

The results end nearly three decades of suspicion that have haunted Lane McIntyre.

>> I was in shock.

I knew immediately that I’m going to be accused just because I was her husband.

>> Did you kill your wife? >> Of course I didn’t kill my wife.

>> When you’re innocent and you know it, it gives you an objectivity.

Kind of like being outside of yourself.

>> No, I didn’t kill my wife.

Okay, I’ve explained this a 100 times.

I had nothing to do with her dying.

There’s only two people that know for a fact that I did not kill Marilyn and that is me and Kurt Forbes and it had his DNA and her DNA in it but not mine.

That’s damning.

>> How it was a very weak result.

Uh the weakest I’ve ever seen in my 26 years in law enforcement.

It was a one in 98 which is really small.

Usually these are numbers in the hundreds of thousands to millions of a likelihood.

>> The sample is so small in size and so degraded the evidence is not strong enough to charge Kurt with murder.

Detectives turn their attention to finding a hole in Kurt’s story.

Can we come in? >> What do you want? >> They track down his old girlfriend, Misty Thompson.

It turns out the two are now married.

>> Yeah, that’s not a crime.

>> No, it’s not a crime.

>> What time did Curtis come home that night? >> While she had originally stated that Kurt showed up at her home, now she’s not so sure when he arrived.

She changed her story to being uncertain at the time and saying, well, she had looked at her watch and now she’s not certain if it was the big hand or the small hand she saw.

So, either it was perhaps 4:10 in the morning or 220.

>> She also tells them that when Kurt arrived home the night of the murder, there was blood on his shirt and he was acting strangely.

there was blood.

>> She eventually admitted to them that when Kurt arrived, he wasn’t himself.

He was upset.

And she laid with him in the house.

As he laid there and shivered and shook, >> stepped out of the vehicle.

Hands on the back of your head.

>> Step back.

On March 24th, 2009, authorities arrest Kurt Forbes.

He is charged with the 1980 murder of Marilyn McIntyre.

But as the case goes to trial, the DNA evidence against him is ruled inadmissible because of the sample’s degraded state.

The trial was a gamble because prosecutors had to go ahead with only circumstantial evidence in a very, very old case.

>> The jury wasn’t going to hear it.

Now, we’ve lost one of the legs to our stool.

What happens when a stool has two legs? It falls over.

>> There was blood.

>> Their one key witness is Curt’s own wife, Misty.

Prosecutors were dealt a major blow when Misty took the witness stand during the trial and she changed her story and said that she did not see blood on his shirt the night of the murder.

>> Prosecutors get creative, allowing the jury to hear a prison phone call between Kurt and his wife 2 days after his arrest.

In it, Misty angrily asks Kurt why his shirt was bloody.

>> He knows it’s a recorded phone call.

And he knows it’s the proverbial way of painting himself into a corner.

And when you paint yourself in a corner, you don’t leave yourself with any way out.

And he wants a way out.

And so he says, “Not on the phone.

” >> The facts are I did not murder Marilyn McIntyre.

>> Then where’d the bloody shirt come from? >> I’ll explain all that.

Well, explain it to me then.

>> I’m not on the phone.

>> It’s as good as a confession.

That’s not a confession as you could ever, ever get because that blood leads back to the homicide scene, which puts him in a position of being in that home.

>> Prosecutors further contend Kurt had bragged about the crime to at least three different people.

This one time I slept with my friend’s wife.

She didn’t want to, but I baited her.

[snorts] Pretty sure she’d never breathe again that night.

Never got caught.

>> He also has a history of violence.

>> We believe Misty was not only afraid of Kurt, but probably controlled by Kurt uh for the majority of her life.

Is that really Curtis? >> Marilyn concerned for her friend had counseledled Misty and encouraged her to end that relationship for her own safety.

>> I feel like you should just leave him or at least come to my house for a few days.

>> Girls don’t want to hurt my name.

You talk about me.

>> The night of Marilyn’s murder, Kurt was drunk, angry, and looking to score.

He was rebuffed first by Lane’s sister, Rhonda, at the bar.

Can you >> stop? >> He seemed different that night, getting upset the first time when he asked me to leave with him when I kind of pushed him away, you know, when he tried to kiss me.

I can see in his eyes that he was brewing, you know, because I’ve seen that look in his eye before when he’d been in bar fights >> with his train of thought that night and and the anger that he had.

He just to me seemed like he was on a mission.

Yeah.

>> Still looking to score, he left the bar and headed to Jennifer Brown’s home, unaware her new boyfriend was there.

>> That’s when he decided to take out his aggression on Marilyn, the woman he blamed for destroying his relationship with Misty.

He knew Lane was at work.

What are you doing here? Curtis, go home.

Go see Misty.

[laughter] I believe Marilyn saved Misty’s life, but she couldn’t save her own.

Kurt and Lane had known each other since high school.

They’d been friends a really long time.

So, this is an ultimate betrayal.

It’s the kind of betrayal that very few people can imagine that somebody that you’ve known for so long and who was so close to you and your family could have done something like this.

>> After the murder, Kurt went to find Misty.

>> He intimidated her and forced her to take him back.

you need to help me clean up and not tell anyone about this.

>> I believe that Misty knew all about it all these years, but she was so afraid of him.

And I believe that Kurt would have told her, “If you don’t want to end up the same way, just stay quiet.

” And she was a broken woman.

I remember when the verdict was said, there was this rush out of me just, you know, 30 years all pent up and just released all in that one instant.

Like finally justice for Maryland.

Kurt Forbes is sentenced to life in prison.

Lane McIntyre is completely exonerated.

You can’t imagine the pain all those years.

There’s no book you can read how to behave after tragedy like this.

So I ask myself over and over again, what would Marilyn want me to do? She was my guiding star.

Would Marilyn be proud of me if I did this? Did that.

That’s how I conducted myself.

I never ran away like Kurt Forbes did.

I stayed and I fought cuz innocent men do not run away.

I was a very lucky man to be married to a living angel and then it was gone.