Lester Holt

The story had been out there for a while, but no one had pieced it all together as we were able to do to really get all the players, all of the key individuals in this and bring them together to tell the story.

And I think it's fair to say, Dan, I think you'll agree, as you watch this hour unfold, the way we put it together,

you can at least understand why some bells of suspicion were ringing.

And I think that was part of what we wanted to do was we were going to give a fair look at this and kind of put people to some extent, you know, in their shoes as they were investigating this in real time.

What made it?

I mean, I think they started off with his behavior, which they thought was odd, and that warranted more police officers coming to the scene.

But there were things like they said there was blood evidence that they had discovered in the home, you know, drops and smears.

But there was also another thing that we haven't talked about here, and that is the cadaver dog.

They called in a cadaver dog that's meant to hit on the scent of human remains.

And they say that it had a positive reaction in that house.

How that occurred, no one can explain because obviously there was no cadaver to be found.

Finally, on the blood, Tom had an answer for pretty much everything, including the blood.

which he said his father was a diabetic and sometimes he would bleed after he pricked a finger to get a blood sample.

And furthermore, there was a shower curtain that was missing.

Tom says that was, you know, it was removed during the move process.

But these are little pieces that, again, if you're thinking already in the direction that something nefarious happened, these could, you could see a scenario where this would reinforce the notion that

that this man had committed a crime.

Yeah, it kind of left me wondering.

That was the one piece that's kind of lingered out there and we just don't have an answer on it.

And neither do the police, by the way.