Ashley Schwamm

A car that's never been part of our investigation.

But it was now a pivotal discovery.

After talking to his parents, detectives learned that the night before the murder, James parked his mom's car near that ditch.

The next day, immediately after setting fire to Ashley's SUV, he ran to the awaiting car.

Police figured out where he dropped the car off.

They found a text his mother sent him.

From there, police said cameras picked up James again, running from the school back home.

Finally, they had an answer to a question that had nagged them from the start.

How James got back to Collingwood so quickly from the scene.

He had a getaway car.

But why?

Why would he do this?

And you won't believe who it was.

Detectives were convinced James Schwamm had planned his wife's murder, but they wanted to know why.

Her father, Ian, believed the affair was the catalyst.

He's very huge and really big and...

other people's perception of him.

I really believe that it was a huge blow to his ego.

After speaking to his firefighter friends, he was going through a lot of emotional withdrawal.

They also learned he'd been asking his fellow firefighters for advice on divorce.