Death After Midnight
This episode appears to contain dynamically inserted ads. Transcript timestamps may be approximate.
Real people, real crimes, real life drama. [screaming] [indistinct shouting] [indistinct shouting] It is incredibly unbelievable. To see your kid laying in a bed with a bullet hole through them. He shot her, I know he shot her. I did not shoot my wife. What was that that made you decide this was a case worth investigating? There was enough there to suggest that there wasn't at least a thorough investigation. And so I thought I owed it to the family to look at that. I received a tip about this last week and have been working on it. That's my attention by a Fox 31 report. The new investigation that began after our story first. Probably four days after New Year's Eve 2011, a family came to me and said someone killed our daughter and got away with it. 2011, the New Year's Eve party, we were invited up by Ashley, our daughter, and Tom Fallis, her husband. It's recording! Ashley had a zeal for life. She loved life. She loved her kids more than anything. And Ashley and Tom had danced right prior to midnight. There was alcohol there. There was some drinking going on. There was a lot of laughter going on. They were having fun. The night started out as a normal night. There was an eruption during part of the party. Tom had been cussing and very loudly so I asked him to stop after a period of time because he was quite loud and there were kids in the house. And he got very, very angry with me. Got out of control. Got out of control. We were the last ones to see Tom Fallis in a fit of rage. A fit of rage. Our daughter given us hugs and goodbye kisses and her standing in the front porch waving goodbye. And that's the last we saw our daughter. I heard her gun call and I looked out. I was like, "What are you doing?" I just ran over door and I just grabbed her hand. I go, "I don't want to tell them all address." And I told them, "I want to shut yourself." From the very beginning, for whatever reason, the Evans Police Department ruled Ashley's death as a suicide. They said basically that it had been closed as a suicide within 24 hours and it was never looked at as a homicide. The central question that I had to look into as a reporter was whether or not on January 1st of 2012, whether Ashley Fallis, this mother, shot herself in the head or whether her husband, who was also a Sheriff's Corrections Officer, shot her and then covered it up. We hired a forensic animator who examined all the evidence of the death scene and he reached two equally plausible explanations. One murder. One suicide. That's a difficult case then, when the evidence could go either way. It's a difficult case. It was different than anything I'd done before. I fielded phone calls in the middle of the night more times than I can count. I mean, I'd never had a case where I did become part of the story. You start on this case and then all of a sudden what you uncover changes everything. It did. Did you ever expect what you would uncover would actually lead to an indictment? No, I did not. I never expected there to be a trial. He watched the most dramatic and traumatic thing any human being could ever be forced to watch. Go in the courtroom and you see Tom Fallis at the defense table. Isn't that what you always wanted? Absolutely. I desired to see justice served.
Transcription truncated.
A Colorado mom of three shot dead in her bedroom.