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And it turns out Tom's words were a little different, but still troubling.

It sounds like the best Harry could remember, this interaction with Tom happened about a week before his murder.

And while investigators obviously couldn't verify that Tom said those exact things to Harry, they were able to verify that thing about Tom changing Dawn to his insurance beneficiary.

Tom had life insurance policies totaling more than $57,000.

Dawn told them the insurance agent visited about every six months, and during the last visit, they had changed the beneficiary from Tom's mom to her.

But if insurance money was a motive for Dawn to kill her husband, it certainly wasn't vast cash.

The insurance company delayed payout while Dawn remained a suspect.

She eventually sued and collected just over $42,000 in June 1992.

But it's not all that unusual for a wife to be the beneficiary of her husband's policy.

And Tom's friend Dave didn't think Dawn would kill Tom for money.

He said that Tom gave her anything she wanted.

And by the way, investigators knew that Dawn came from a family of means.

I mean, her father was an optometrist with a thriving practice in Des Moines.

So if money wasn't the motive, and Tom really was afraid of his wife plotting to kill him with someone else, what was?

A week into the investigation, rumors were flying.

Investigators heard that Dawn was upset about Tom changing his work hours.

Him moving from working nights to days meant a pay cut and a new routine, which, if the other rumor they started hearing was true, could mean less time to carry on an affair.

Now, none of these affair rumors came from anyone close to the couple.

Investigators just received some third-hand reports that Tom and Dawn had been at a bar the night before his death.

And the rumor was that Tom argued with a blonde-haired man Dawn was hanging around.