WEBVTT - S1: E21 – Louisiana Love Triangle, Part 2 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.960 A confrontation between two best friends turned deadly. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.480 There was a lot of alcoholic went on that night, 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.639 and we believe that's what led to the rage, which 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:11.840 led to the murder. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.800 And it all happened in front of the victim's wife. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.479 This poor woman has just watched her husband be gunned down. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.599 But even after the shooter's confession, the police believed there 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.120 was more to this story. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.520 There were just a lot of pieces that did not 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.640 make sense, and it. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.600 Put the spotlight on the wife of the victim. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.440 When we first came across her, she was playing the 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.760 grieving widow. But the more you look at this, the 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:41.919 more you say things aren't adding up. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.800 We are in Covington, Louisiana today for the conclusion of 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:50.159 the Louisiana Love Triangle. I'm slung glass and this is 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.720 American Homicide. Just a note that this episode contained some 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.480 graphic content. Please take care while listening. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:05.360 There's a saying about law enforcement in general, that's very 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.080 true for dispatchers, where it's a lot of periods of 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:14.240 boredom interspersed with minutes of panic, and that's very true 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:15.080 in Covington. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.200 Heather Jenkins spent two decades working as a dispatcher for 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.760 the Covington Police Department. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.760 You may not do anything for hours, and then you 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.280 may have, you know, an hour where you don't even 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.479 have time to take a drink of water. There's often 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.920 no rhyme or reason, you know, to how that happens. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.240 Covington is a suburban community that sits just across the 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.760 Causeway from New Orleans, and based on some of the 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.640 calls Heather receives, it seems even further away than that. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.040 I received a call about a cow loose in the city, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.200 and we did have to do a pursuit with that cow, 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.680 and we did get it back home. And we've had 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.440 peacocks loose in the city. We had a squirrel loose 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.320 in a home that actually did a lot of damage. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.720 Along with loose cows and squirrel break ins. She's responded 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.440 to her fair share of more serious calls, including the 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.680 December two thousand and four murder of Thomas Tally. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.239 Mister Tally had been shot and was laying in the driveway. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.880 And his wife, the mother to his children, Kendra, witnessed 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:25.720 the whole thing. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.959 Kendra Tally was outside yelling for help, yelling call no 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:31.519 long one. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.680 Kendra watched in horror as her husband, Thomas Tally was 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.280 shot and killed by his best friend, Tommy Row. Can 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.960 you even imagine. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.760 Kendra Tally was just basically there kind of freaking out. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.280 She was a victim of this horrible crime. Her husband 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.160 had just been shot. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.880 Kendra was able to identify the shooter as Tommy Row. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.560 At some point, he did surrender and was taken into custody. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:05.040 And that left the question on everyone's mind. Why on 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.520 earth would Thomas's best friend turn on him like that. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.040 It did not make any sense to me whatsoever, And 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.240 I don't really I don't know if anybody really understood 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.760 what happened in the very beginning. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.120 Well, according to Kendra, it all had to do with 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.920 a secret she told Tommy about what her husband did 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:28.320 to her. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:35.560 At some point, she did say that her husband forced 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.160 her into having sex. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.680 And that pushed Tommy rowl over the edge because you see, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.920 Tommy had feelings for Kendra and didn't want to see 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:46.480 her hurt. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.480 I think she told Tommy that to try and cause 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.920 him to be jealous, and that she got more jealousy 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.960 than she expected and couldn't talking out of it. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.720 Tommy Row's jealousy turned into rage. As the sun was 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.000 about to come up that morning, Tommy drove Kendra back 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:09.520 to her. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:18.040 Home, shots were fired, and mister Talley was dead almost immediately. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.320 Detective searched Tommy Raw's house and found pictures of Kendra 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.919 and her son, as well as a suicide note that 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.920 read like one part confession and another part love letter. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.680 I also want my mother to know that I love 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.120 her with all my heart and Kendra just as much 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.440 or more. I just hope Kendra can forgive me for 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.560 what I have done. I also hope Kendra will always 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.320 know how much I love her and what she means 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.040 to me. I just can't sit around and watch her 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.599 being hurt all the time. Love always Tommy. So was 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.320 Tommy upset because he shot Thomas or was he upset 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.520 that he fell in love with Kendra? And if he 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.960 couldn't stand to see Kendra hurt all the time, how 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.560 to killing her husband saw that? 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:11.520 I don't know. I mean, I can only surmise that 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.719 he cared about her. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.520 And if we didn't already have enough questions, the results 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.760 of Thomas Tally's autopsy presented a few more. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.440 Two guns were used. It didn't make sense. I just 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:29.360 felt that that was just such a juxtaposition of all 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:30.800 the stuff that had gone on. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.160 Tommy Row was an avid hunter, but did he really 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.159 use two different guns to shoot Kendra's husband? 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:44.000 And I just thought, this is not how I feel 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.559 like this went down. The story that Kendra had told 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.120 us that morning was not going to be the full story. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.560 According to Kendra, Tommy locked her in the truck while 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.200 he went and got two guns out of his house. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.600 You can't really lie somebody in a truck the way 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.640 that she said that he did. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.760 Kendra said when Tommy Raw fired the first shots at 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.400 Thomas from inside the truck, he pushed her head down 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.080 and shot through the passenger side window. Tommy then exited 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.560 the truck and fired two more bullets. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:24.440 There were just so many little pieces that didn't make sense, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.840 that it didn't mesh, and it had already become pretty 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:35.040 clear that this wasn't just a single man that had 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.359 a grudge against somebody's husband. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.720 Four days after her husband's murder, Detective Doug Eyirwood brought 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 Kendra back in for questioning. He wanted to know more 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.080 about the strange dynamic between her husband, Thomas, and his 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:53.600 best friend Tommy Row. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.000 She cleaned their ages on the rocks. She didn't know Thomas. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.400 He just wasn't great to be with. He was just 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.760 kind of a house husband and wasn't a party type 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.880 of guy. I no, she was a party girl. I 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.440 think he wanted to be the dedicated, calm life at 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.000 home with his wife and child and started to progress 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.520 in life as a married couple. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.080 Kendra then talked herself into trouble. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.000 She was telling me about how her husband that day 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.640 that had oral surgery, and in orders to help him, 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.080 she thought the best thing to do was to go 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:26.760 to the French Quarter with a boyfriend that night. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:32.720 Yes you heard that right. Kendra called Tommy Raw her boyfriend. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.280 So Tommy Raw wasn't just her husband's best friend who 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.080 happened to be obsessed with her. The two were actually 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:42.120 having an affair. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.720 There was this grand or they put together of that 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.080 being some sort of love between them. It was just 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:52.600 this incredible relationship. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:53.960 He asked me. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:54.840 It was a bunch of rubbish. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.440 Knowing Tommy and Kendra were having an affair certainly changed 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.760 the way to detectives viewed the night of the murder. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.040 So it shows you what kind of a class person 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.360 she is, and that immediately had my suspicions. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.760 The detective kept questioning Kendra, hoping to find the truth. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.000 Most of an interview with a police officer isn't like 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.000 you see on TV. It's not the good cup Bank cup. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.600 That's all TV stuff. The most successful interviews you sit down, 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.760 you talk with somebody and eventually you sort of getting 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.000 them to open up and then you get to the truth. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.640 But he didn't feel that happening with Kendra. She kept 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.600 changing her story and sometimes would answer questions with things 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.880 she said she read in the newspaper or saw on 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:39.720 the news. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.600 It was obvious that she was just not knowing what 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.760 to say, and she was lost for words because it's 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.360 difficult to put a lie on top of the lie, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.440 because she don't know what lie you've said. If I 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.880 contradict the other lie, which was contradiction of that because 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.440 I made up and I got to cover that one, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.520 it just goes on and on. It's nobles, It's a 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.520 domino effect. It just gets worse and worse. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:57.240 I think. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.120 Even though a couple of times her attorney sort of 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.760 looked at her and CURIATI WHI to ask her a 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.520 question because he was dying to find out in the 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.280 answer to some of these questions too, and they just 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.920 weren't forthcoming, they weren't believable. At the end of the interview, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.839 they said, Okay, we'll cooperate to do you need any more, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.640 you can contact us. What we're going to leave now 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.400 and I said, you, as the attorney may leade she 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:17.800 may not. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.400 The detectives believed they had enough evidence that just hours 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.600 before her husband's funeral, they arrested Kendra and charged her 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:33.080 with second degree murder. Instead of grieving her husband's death graveside, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.640 she'd be arrested, booked, and behind bars by the afternoon. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.000 And that's what makes the whole thing even more weird. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.320 That's Thomas's brother, Mark Tally. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.280 And if she did what she did, she's a good 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.880 actress because I did not see her that way. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.160 Mark was completely floored. Then not only was Kendra having 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.760 an affair, but that she could be involved in his. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.480 No, they didn't have their problems, but they seem genuinely. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.200 Happy with each other. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.120 I just know she's not going to go describe a 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.240 gun and shoot somebody. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.360 She has to be persuaded into doing that. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:18.920 That's again my opinion, I just think she got caught 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.520 up in something that was way over her head. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.920 Tommy Raw didn't talk after his arrest, but his mother did. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.839 She told reporters that Kendra visited Tommy nearly every day 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.600 and that the two were very much in love. She 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.920 said that you acted like a family, and even when 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.880 Christmas shopping together just before the murder. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.400 How they pulled this off is the one thing that 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.200 amazes name. How could they do this with all the 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.400 people that they know around and seeing around town? 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:54.600 How I could? 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.120 That's one thing I can't understand. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.480 Kendraw's mother also claimed that Hendra wanted out of her 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.160 marriage and had planned on leaving her husband to be 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:05.800 with Tommy. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.000 The behind the scenes stuff that I don't know. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.640 I'm sure there was a lot of arguments and disagreements 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.040 like any other family. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.040 But from what I. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:20.080 Saw, I think Kendred truly loved Thomas. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.000 The way I look at it is and it's not 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.000 knocking her in any way, more of a fourteen year 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.200 old than a twenty five year old body, you know, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:30.320 kind of defiant. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.600 With Kendra's arrest just hours before Thomas's funeral, can you 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.120 imagine how uncomfortable his memorial service had to be. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.880 It was almost like family feud. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:48.200 You had Kendra's family sitting on one side and the 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.800 other on the other. They actually had to have a 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.479 security detail. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.840 I'm like, come on, this is about Thomas. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.760 If you guys are gonna fight, I'm gonna leave because 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:00.880 I'm not gonna. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:01.040 Deal with this. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.960 Thankfully, everyone behaved themselves. The real battle would take place 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:16.040 years later in the courtroom. Nearly three years after Thomas 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.280 Talley was gunned down in front of his home, his 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.800 best friend Tommy Row went on trial for his murder, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.079 and from the moment he entered the courtroom, assistant Da 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.120 Jack Hofstadt feared the worst. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.520 Well, how Tommy look when he got arrested with just 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.400 Sember elevens was completely different. Now he looked when he 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.760 got the trial. He's six foot two, two hundred pounds 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.760 and he came hobbling in on the crotches. It shaved 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.000 real well. He looked real pretty as he could. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.800 They always seem to do this, come into court with 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.560 an ailment that seems to say feel sorry for me. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.360 I'm weak. There's no way I could have done this. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.760 Would jurors believe this? Fee who struggled to get around 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.080 the court room on crutches, could be capable of killing 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.080 his best friend. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.600 Those things sticking him mind. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:14.839 But I do know absolutely had Tommy Raoul killed a 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.079 shot mister Twing, and I do. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.400 Know that it was as cold blood as you're fit 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:21.640 in that. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.480 In Louisiana, there are three categories of murder, first degree, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.680 second degree, and manslaughter. Originally, prosecutors charged Tommy Rown with 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.520 first degree murder, which carried the death penalty. The lower 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.680 the charges to second degree, meaning Tommy faced life in prison, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.520 but Tommy's lawyer had aimed even lower. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:44.760 They were gone for manslaughter. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.080 If Tommy Rown was going to convince the jury, he'd 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.360 finally have to share his version of what happened the 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.040 night of the. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.000 Murder, so he pretty much had the testify. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.600 First. He testified about his relationship with Thomas Tally. He 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.319 said Thomas was one of his best friends. They barbecue, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.560 played darts, lid fireworks, and drank beer together. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.920 He was crying and this crying and kids are flowing 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.360 down his face. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.320 Tommy said he met Kendra when she was a teenager, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.520 although Tommy was twelve years older than her. He said 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.200 he eventually developed feelings for her, but Kendra went up 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.000 marrying his best friend, Thomas Tally. But about a year 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.520 before Thomas's murder, Kendra and Tommy started having an affair. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.800 Tommy and her had had a long term relationship. I 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.480 think he met her when she was sixteen. They had 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.880 had things were going on. She's running around in the husband. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.560 But the most explosive testimony was about how his and 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.960 Kendra's evening on Bourbon Street ended in murder. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.440 Kendrick went off with Tommy Rale and two other people 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.160 in one New Orleans drank some beer, took some math, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:08.040 and some marijuana. During the night, Thomas Talley kept calling 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.040 his wife on phone on fire when she was coming 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:11.960 home and where she was. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.000 According to Kendre, he had been an asshole. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.600 Apparently three o'clock in the morning, they go to the 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.040 waffle house, and at the waffle house. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.520 Kendra said that her husband had raped her. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.720 And that's when Tommy said he went into a wage 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.360 and left the restaurant. His version of what happened next 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.960 is very different than what Kendra told the police. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.960 At this point in time, the story is diverge. His 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:49.600 story was that they never went back to his house, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.960 that he always carried two guns in his vehicle, one 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.760 on his side and one on the other side. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.720 Tommy Rawle told the court that he drove to Thomas 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.360 and Kendra's home and when they arrived, it was Kendra 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.680 who made the first move. He said that Kendra honked 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:12.000 the horn and that made Thomas Tally walk outside. He 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.960 was barefoot, wearing sweatpants and a T shirt. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.480 He said they got there and that she was sitting 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:24.400 on the console right next to her, and she start 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:28.400 as shooting. He was shocked that Kendra had shot through 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.560 the window. He had no idea shot in a shoot 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.120 and when she was shooting through the window, he was 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.440 immediately getting out the call with his forty five and 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.960 went and shot Miss Tally twice. And who he described 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.160 as a very good friend. I don't know what he 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.560 did with his enemies, but he described him as a 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.680 good friend. He did a lot of stuff together. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.680 So this is a completely different story than Kendra's. If 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.680 you remember, Kendra told detectives it was Thomas who fired 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.920 first from inside the truck. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.160 She says that Tommy pushed her head down and shot 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.560 through the window glass one everywhere. Then she says that 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.800 Tommy got out the car and shot he husband two 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:14.560 more times. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.840 That was the only thing both sides agreed on. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.120 Which other story is true. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.720 We know that Tommy shot him in the head twice. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:28.360 Tommy Roll only admitted to firing the final two shots 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.199 at Thomas, and he said it all stemmed from what 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.960 Kendra told him about her husband sexually assaulting her. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.480 Yes, he is shot him, but he had shot him 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.280 because he was basically out of control. But he did 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.719 it because he was defending the honor of his girlfriend. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.760 And during cross examination, the prosecutor asked Tommy to show 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.800 the jury how he shot Thomas. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:57.240 Tally, I had co console lay on the floor and 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.359 Tommy got off the stand, stood over him and showed 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.480 the jury exactly how he shot him in the head. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:09.520 So there was Tommy Rowe on his crutches, looking all frail. Well, 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.320 he reenacted how he killed his best friend. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.520 On cross examination, I always ask questions that you got a. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:17.080 Yes or no. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.560 The prosecutor then asked Tommy if he cried while having 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:26.080 sex with his best friend's wife. Tommy didn't answer. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.800 And I thought asking him whether he was crying while 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.280 he was shooting him, and he was crying when he 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.640 was getting ready to have a shootout with the police. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.560 His tears just went away and. 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.720 He just had this like cold expression on his face, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.280 and he kept that throughout the cross examination. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.120 The prosecutor wanted the jury to know that Tommy Row 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.919 resorted to murdering his best friend when there were a 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.720 million other things he could and should have done if 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.359 his ultimate goal was to be with Kendra. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.320 The last question I asked him is how much is 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.800 forty five its cost? And he said between cloud and 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.480 fifteen dollars. I said that's cheap and hiring a lawyer, huh? 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:07.440 He said, yes, sir. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.199 In his closing arguments, Tommy's lawyer admitted that yes, his 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.159 client did shoot Thomas Talley twice, but he said the 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.560 real culprit wasn't Tommy Row. It was Tommy's love for Kendra. 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.800 He claimed it was a crime of passion because Tommy 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:30.200 was obsessed with Kendra and she manipulated Tommy. He said, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.360 when a woman knows that a man has been obsessed 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.320 with her for years and years and she tells him 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:41.560 someone violently, repeatedly assaulted her, what did she expect to happen? 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.480 Mrdicase, are the things that sticking in mind because there's 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.040 always a victim. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.400 Jack Hofstad prosecuted the case against Tommy Row. 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.800 Mister Tally was shot and we had to speak up 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.000 for him, wait to make sure he got justice. But 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.760 it was an unusual case. Him shooting twice forty five 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.840 is uncontested. He admitted that. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.720 But Tommy's lawyer argued it was a crime of passion 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:26.040 and therefore it was manslaughter, not murder in the second degree, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.359 and that it was all a result of Kendra Tally 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.879 telling Tommy that her husband, the father of her child, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.879 had sexually assaulted her. Neither the defense nor the prosecution 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:39.919 called Kendra to testify. 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.720 They were going for manslaughter and there was no reason 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.160 I would want to put her in the stand. Why 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.520 put somebody understand that you don't believe who're this's. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.520 Nd The case against Tommy Row went to the jury 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:58.000 and forty five minutes later they returned with a verdict. 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:05.880 They found him guilty of second degree murder. At his sentencing, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.040 the judge called it the most senseless crime he had 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.040 come across during his nine years on the bench. He 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:17.320 sentenced Tommy Row to life in prison and told him, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.280 you have made your own bed. Now you get to 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:26.000 sleep in it, although it won't be comfortable. Three years later, 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.080 and nearly six years after Thomas Talley was shot, Kendra 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.760 Talley went on trial for her role in her husband's murder. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.040 She's charge of the principal of the Myrtle and a 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.879 principal in Louisiana means that if you're involved in a 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.680 planning and you're just as involved as a person who 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:46.840 actually pulls the trigger, you're guilty. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:48.880 The best example is an on robbery. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.360 They might have one guy planning on robbery, another guy 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.680 at the getaway driver, and the third guy goes into 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:54.080 the bank. 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.480 Well, they're all equally guilty. 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.080 Even though one guy won in a bank, one guy 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.240 sit in a car, guys sitting his house. 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.080 And remember when this all began, Kendra was seen as 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:06.680 a victim. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.280 I looked at the police board, and everything on the 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.680 police boardinated no sense at all. I think everybody was 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.800 suspiciously of Kendre once they started. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:15.119 Looking at it. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.880 But as the trial kicked off, prosecutors faced an uphill 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:24.199 battle because Tommy Row refused to testify. 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.480 Tommy Raw was not going to come down and testify 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.640 to what he testified a trial, So all we had 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.280 at that point in time was her story and we 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.520 were going to have Tommy to come down were futed. 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.960 It was a huge hurdle for prosecutors, but they plowed forward. 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.600 On the first day of the trial, both sides presented 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:49.320 their opening statements before lunch. Afterwards, the two sets of 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.960 lawyers informed the judge of something no one in the 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:57.200 courtroom had expected. They had struck a plea deal. 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:03.919 I felt at that time still do that she was 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:09.520 involved in the murder. But it doesn't matter what I think. 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:14.000 It matters whether they have evidence. And let's just say 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.119