1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: After a night of partying in New Orleans, an angry 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: friend lost control after what he heard. 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: She did say that her husband forced her into having 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: sex with her. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: When it was all over, one man was dead and 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: another was in custody. 7 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 3: There was a lot of alcohol it went on that night, 8 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 3: and we believe probably drugs as well. I believe that's 9 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 3: what led to the rage, which led to the shooting 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 3: death of our husband. 11 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: But when witness statements didn't match up with the evidence, 12 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: investigators scrambled to understand what was true and what was not. 13 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 2: And I just thought, this is not how I feel 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 2: like this went down. 15 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: And the investigation exposed more than just murder. 16 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 4: How they pulled this off is the one thing that 17 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 4: amazes me today. 18 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: We're just outside of New Orleans for part one of 19 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: the Louisiana Love Triangle. I'm Sloane Glass and vis is 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: American Homicide. Just a note that this episode contained some 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: graphic content. Please take care while listening. On the other 22 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: side of Lake Pontatrain is the charming and quiet suburb 23 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: of Covington, Louisiana. 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 3: Covent's the last bedroom community is close in your Orleans. 25 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 3: So you've got the convenience of the city if you 26 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: need it with everything that goes with that. 27 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: Doug Arrowood is a former detective with the Covington Police Department. 28 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: You'll notice an accent. Detective Airwood was born in the UK, 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: but moved to the States and lived here on and 30 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: off throughout his life. It's a unique background for a 31 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: local detective. 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 3: It's a city where you have almost mentioned that you 33 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 3: see in magazines and see on TV and they make 34 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 3: you jaw drop. But you also have rapport areas of 35 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: town where people live in little shacks that you wouldn't 36 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 3: think chickens would want to live in. So it's got 37 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 3: everything from a to Z. 38 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: As people grow up and out of the party atmosphere 39 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: of New Orleans nearby, Covington is a great place to 40 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: art and raise a family if. 41 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 3: You want a quieter atmosphere, a slower pace of life, 42 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 3: very friendly folks here about. It's a great place to live. 43 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: You can spend any amount of time here. When you 44 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 3: bump into somebody that you've not met before, within five 45 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 3: or ten minutes, you've already got ties with them. 46 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: That sort of camaraderie gives the city of Covington a 47 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: small town feel that. 48 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 3: What's what makes it so interesting, Especially as a police officer. 49 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: You've got that nature of everybody knows everybody, so it 50 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 3: is a pretty good chance when something happens, you know 51 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 3: who did that, that's all so and so, and you 52 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 3: know which way to start looking, which is helpful. 53 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: On the morning of December eleventh, two thousand and four, 54 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 1: Covington Police dispatcher Heather Jenkins was wrapping up after working 55 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: the overnight shift. 56 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: We were getting off at six in the morning and 57 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 2: right at shift change, nine to one one phone rang. 58 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 2: The report was that someone hanked a horn and that 59 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,559 Speaker 2: this gentleman came outside and there were gunshots. 60 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 1: The call came from a worried resident. 61 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 2: We did not have a lot of crime in that subdivision. 62 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,559 Speaker 2: When we did, it would be things like a mailbox 63 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: got smashed or you know, loud noise complaints, that type 64 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 2: of crime. 65 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: Within a minute, another call came in, and then another. 66 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 2: We had seven regular lines into nine one one lines, 67 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 2: and more calls started coming in that there were gun 68 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: shots and that someone actually was down and had been shot. 69 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: With each phone call, more details emerged about the shooting. 70 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 2: This neighbor could see that someone had been shot and 71 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 2: was laying in the driveway. 72 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: That someone was Thomas Tally, who lived on Gratitude Drive 73 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: with his wife, Kendra, and their two year old son. 74 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: There were other people calling to say that Kendra Tally 75 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 2: was outside yelling for help. 76 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: And neighbors reported seen a gold colored Chevy truck flee 77 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: the scene. As Kendra cradled Thomas on the driveway. He 78 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: was bloodied and wounded, wearing only his pajamas. 79 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 2: Kendra Tally was just basically there kind of freaking out. 80 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: Anyone would freak out. Imagine how difficult it was for 81 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: Kendra to hold her dying husband in her arms. And 82 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: that happened just as Covington police and emergency responders arrived 83 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 1: at the Tally's home. 84 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 2: The Ambulance Service did arrive and try to save him, 85 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 2: but they were not able. Mister Tally was deceased there 86 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 2: in the driveway. 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: The only good news for the investigation was that Thomas's wife, Kendra, 88 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: witnessed the whole ordeal. 89 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 2: This poor woman has just watched her husband be gunned down. 90 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: You know, how can we work this situation to get 91 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 2: this resolved. 92 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: Here's Detective Doug Arrowood describing the scene. 93 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 3: At that point in time. I believe there were four 94 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 3: of as detectives and once she got a case of 95 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 3: that magnitude, all hands on deck, everybody's coming out, so 96 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 3: we're all called out, and there had been a body 97 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,239 Speaker 3: just laid out on the drive. 98 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: Work next to Thomas's body. Detectives found shards of glass, 99 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: some spent shell casinges, and of course a devastated Kendra. 100 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 3: I recall her being obviously very upset, hugging her husband, 101 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: saying keep breathing, stay with me, stay with me, and 102 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 3: wors to that effect. 103 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: Kendra Tally was twenty four years old at the time. 104 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: She was short and petite, with dark reddish hair. 105 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 3: She was obviously a mess. She looked like she'd been 106 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 3: out for a couple of nights, which you could probably 107 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 3: say that somebody's been through something as traumatic as that, 108 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 3: they're probably going to fold to pieces pretty quickly. 109 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: The one good thing about Kendra Tally witnessing her husband 110 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: being shot was that she could tell the detectives what happened. 111 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: Kendra said the shooter was no stranger, but rather a 112 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: good friend of her and her her husband, a man 113 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: named Tommy Row. Now it gets a little confusing here 114 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: because both The husband and the shooter have similar names, 115 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: so keep in mind that Kendra's husband was Thomas Tally 116 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: and the shooter was. 117 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: Tommy Row Tommy Roll. He'd been a friend of the family. 118 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 3: They'd known each other quite some time. 119 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: Tommy Roll lived about thirty miles north of Covington in 120 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: rural Buggaloosa. He had three children and was very close 121 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: with Kendra and Thomas. They spent a lot of time 122 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: together and they had known Tommy Row for years. Even 123 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,679 Speaker 1: their children all played together. 124 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 3: Tommy Roll had left the scene and gone to his 125 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 3: house as the. 126 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: Police search for Tommy Row. Detectives questioned Kendra. She said 127 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: that she, Tommy Rowll and some other friends had been 128 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,679 Speaker 1: out on Bourbon Street while her husband stayed home. 129 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 3: Her husband that day had had oral surgery. He's at 130 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 3: home recovering. He just had both wisdom teeth out in 131 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 3: the bottom. For those that have had the wisdom teeth out, 132 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 3: they know it takes a couple of days to recover 133 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 3: from that. And he was in some discomfort. He was 134 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 3: under medication. 135 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: So what happened on Bourbon Street that caused Tommy Raw 136 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: to go to his friend's house and gun him down? 137 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 3: There was a lot of alcohol. It went on that night, 138 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 3: and we believe, uh probably drugs as well. And because 139 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: of the drugs, I believe that's what led to the rage, 140 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 3: which led to the shooting death of her husband, Thomas Telly. 141 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: So here's what a devastated Kendra told detectives. Just after 142 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: the bars closed, Tommy Row went into a murderous rage 143 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: and took it out on her husband. 144 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 3: He was going to take care of businesses. 145 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: What Kendra said, the Covington PD turned their attention to 146 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: finding the shooter. It was a pretty simple case, but 147 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: Tommy Roll was long gone by then. 148 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 3: He got on a struck and he left. So once 149 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 3: we kind of established that we had the victim's wife 150 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 3: here and we had that locked down with them, went 151 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: to try and find the repartrator. 152 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: The police believe Tommy Row was hiding out at his 153 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: home in a wooded area of Bugaloosa about half an 154 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: hour away. 155 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 3: He was armed, probably dangerous after what we discovered, so 156 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 3: we wanted to take all precautions. We've got the Sheriff's 157 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: office involved, We've got the SWAT team involved. 158 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: With Kendra's help, more than a dozen law enforcement officers 159 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: spent that early Saturday morning on a manhunt for an 160 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: out of control killer. 161 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 3: If you're not careful, you can be led in that 162 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,079 Speaker 3: wrong direction. You need to take it one step at 163 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 3: a time and make sure that you're going in the 164 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 3: right direction. You know what's happening that I felt was 165 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 3: going to be the most pivotal moment of the case. 166 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: As the sun rose and Covington Tommy Raw showed up 167 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: at his best friend's house and opened fire on him. 168 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 4: This happened two weeks exactly to the day before Christmas Day. 169 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: Mark Kelly woke up to learn his younger brother Thomas 170 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: was gone. Here's Mark. 171 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 4: Kendro's sister in law started calling me about six in 172 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 4: the morning and she said Thomas had been shot. He 173 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 4: was shot in the driveway. She said, I think he's dead. 174 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure he's dead. I think he's dead. And 175 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 4: you just imagine him barefoot and pajamas laying on his 176 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 4: concrete driveway with blood around him. Yeah, that does a 177 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 4: number on you, and so I have to I just 178 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 4: shut everything off. I shut my phone off, I shut 179 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 4: the TV, the radio off. I just I just needed 180 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 4: to be alone at that time. 181 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: As you can imagine, it was an awful day for Mark. 182 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 4: He was my younger brother by a little over five years. 183 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: When they were kids, Mark said Thomas was the typical 184 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: younger brother, always followed him around. 185 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 4: Me and Thomas had a lot of similar interests. We 186 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 4: tinkered a lot with stuff. We weren't into the whole 187 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 4: hunting fishing thing. We did like to trek through the 188 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 4: woods and just goof off and play around Thomas. He 189 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 4: was on on a roll in school for several years. 190 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 4: Very sweet kid. Same with Kendra. 191 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: Kendra and Thomas met a few years earlier while working 192 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: at the local pizza hut. 193 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 4: He was a delivery person, she worked inside, and sparks 194 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 4: happened and they went from there. He called me one 195 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 4: time said, remember the girl, Kendra said, now she wants 196 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 4: to go out with me. So I was happy for 197 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 4: him because I knew the kind of person. She was 198 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 4: very bubbly and energetic and happy, and she was very 199 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 4: pleasant to be around, and I think that's what Thomas 200 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 4: liked in her. 201 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: The two eventually got married and had a. 202 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 4: Baby boy, and then everything after that fell in the place. 203 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: Most recently, Thomas worked as a courier. 204 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 4: Thomas was working two jobs, sometimes another job after that 205 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: to support his family. 206 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: And becoming a husband, father, and provider were rules that 207 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: Thomas embraced. 208 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 4: He'd always wanted that. He was kind of like me, 209 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 4: settled down type. 210 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: Although Thomas was six years older than Kendra, it didn't 211 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: make a difference. 212 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 4: At first. I didn't think she was motherhood material, but 213 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 4: she was very good. 214 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: It's understandable given that Kendra went from a girl barely 215 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: out of her teens to mother and wife. 216 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 4: She still had that in her, the party girl type, 217 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 4: but that did not hurt her from being a great mother. 218 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: Mark had last seen Kendra and his brother a couple 219 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: weeks earlier at Thanksgiving dinner. 220 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 4: We all were together and she cooked a mean Thanksgiving dinner. 221 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 4: We all had a great time. Kender was happy, Thomas 222 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 4: was happy. But three weeks later, Boom Thomas had been shot. 223 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 4: It sends shockwaves. 224 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: Even more shocking was that Thomas's best friend, Tommy Row, 225 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: had pulled the trigger. 226 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 4: That was one thing I struggled with. You're sad, then 227 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 4: you're this, then you're angry. I went through all that 228 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 4: all day. It was terrible. 229 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: Law enforcement was on the lookout for an armed and 230 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: dangerous Tommy Row. 231 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 4: I basically Barrick hated myself in my house. 232 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 1: Think about it. This was somebody they were all friends with. 233 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: Mark was scared. He didn't know what Tommy would do 234 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 1: next or where. 235 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 4: He was, and they went to go look for him. 236 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 4: That had the whole slot team. 237 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: Heather Jenkins was a local nine one one dispatcher. 238 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 2: When Kendre Tally told the investigator who the shooter was, 239 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 2: we notified the sheriff's department and they activated their SWAT 240 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 2: team because she had told the investigator that he was 241 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 2: kind of a conspiracy theorist and had cameras outside of 242 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 2: his home and blackout curtains and lots of guns and 243 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 2: just very kind of a scary guy. 244 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: The police found the gold colored Chevy truck that Tommy 245 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: Row was driving parked outside of his home in Bugalusa. Covington, 246 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: where the crime took place, has a low crime rate 247 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: compared to the national average. Meanwhile, Buggaloosa has one of 248 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: the highest crime rates in the country. 249 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 2: He was at home and had evidently barricaded himself in 250 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 2: the home. That was afraid that it was going to 251 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 2: turn into a big standoff with this guy, and they 252 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 2: were out there for you know, a while at. 253 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: The time, Tommy was thirty six years old and on 254 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: probation after being charged with cocaine possession. 255 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 2: There was a real concern that he was not going. 256 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: To give up. 257 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 5: His sister apparently called him up and did the cops 258 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 5: or come up to carry you and you take care 259 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 5: of yourself. 260 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: Jack Hofstat worked for the District Attorney's office. 261 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 5: According to him, he put all the guns in a bed, 262 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,439 Speaker 5: loaded them up, and that he was even shoot it 263 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 5: out with him because he didn't want to die. 264 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: You'd think if he didn't want to die, he would surrender, 265 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: But Tommy wasn't your typical character. He was an avid 266 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: outdoorsman who liked to hunt and fish. He owned numerous weapons, 267 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: and the police weren't taking any chances. The tents stand 268 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: off with Tommy Row went on for nearly four hours 269 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: until one of the officers made a breakthrough. 270 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 5: His job is to get somebody out of the house 271 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 5: without having to kill him, and he finally gets Tommy 272 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 5: on the telephone and Tommy tells him immediately without being asked, 273 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 5: that he had killed somebody. 274 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: Tommy Row's guilty conscience got the best of him, Fest 275 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: to killing his friend Thomas Tally when the officer on 276 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: the other end heard this, he purposefully denied that Thomas 277 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: Tally was dead. 278 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 5: He says, no, no, he didn't kill anybody, He just wounded. 279 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: The officer hoped that by saying Thomas Tally was wounded 280 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: and not dead, that Tommy would peacefully surrender. 281 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 5: He didn't tell him anything he could to get him 282 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 5: out of the house where at somebody else. 283 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: Getting hurt, and thankfully it worked. 284 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,479 Speaker 5: He eventually came out and then they arrested. 285 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: Him with Tommy Rowlan custody. Detective searched his house for evidence, 286 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: and the inside looked like a junkyard. 287 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 5: They went up and got the guns and Kendra's cell phone, 288 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 5: which had numerous phone calls from her husband trying to 289 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 5: find out where she was and when she was coming home, 290 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 5: and his notebook with a suicide note in it. 291 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: Tommy really was planning on killing himself. He had penned 292 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: a suicide note in it. He speaks to his relationship 293 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: with Kendra. Here's one part of it. I also want 294 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: my mother to know that I love her with all 295 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: my heart and Kendra just as much or more. I 296 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: just hope Kendra can forgive me for what I have done. 297 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: I also hope Kendra will always know how much I 298 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: love her and what she means to me. I just 299 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: can't sit around and watch her being hurt all the time. 300 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: Love always, Tommy. Tommy Rawll confessed to two things, being 301 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: in love with his best friend's wife and killing him. 302 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: The Covington police charged him with murder. 303 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 4: I still remember the vivid pictures of the camera crew 304 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 4: when they arrested him, putting him in the patrol car. 305 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: It was all so shocking for Thomas's brother Mark. 306 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 4: It's so rare to have a shooting murder, especially the 307 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 4: way it was done here on the north shore of 308 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 4: Lake Pont Train stuff like that's not supposed to happen here, 309 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 4: and that's what made unfortunately the biggest news, not my 310 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 4: brother dying, but that because no one gets killed here. 311 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: As the police search Tommy Row's home, they uncovered evidence 312 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: which to them pointed to his long running obsession with Kendra. 313 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: There was that strange suicide slash love note, along with pictures, 314 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: including a family photo. But here's the strange part. The 315 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: photo was of Tommy with Kendra and Kendra's son. 316 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 4: That seems to be a little off to me. 317 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: Tommy Row often hung out with Thomas and Kendra. He 318 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 1: was a regular at many of the Tally's parties and barbecues, 319 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 1: and his three children often played with the Tally son. 320 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 4: All I know is he worked with Thomas installing car 321 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 4: stereos carl arms back in the day. I think he 322 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 4: worked at Pizza Hut, I think where him and Kendra met. 323 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: In Mark's mind, Tommy Row was just one of the 324 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: many friends the couple had. 325 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 4: He comes off as a pleasant person, but he only 326 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 4: will talk to you if you ask him a question. 327 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be judgmental, but it just seemed a 328 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 4: little odd. 329 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: Tommy's deadly obsession with Kendra appeared to be a slam 330 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,239 Speaker 1: dunk for prosecutors. They had a confession and eyewitness and 331 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: plenty of incriminating physical evidence. 332 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 4: He still cared about her, and almost in an overwhelming way. 333 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 4: My gut feeling was saying, something's not right. I still 334 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 4: think he had a thing for Candor after Thomas got 335 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 4: married to her, and I think that always stopped. 336 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: But the results of Thomas Talley's autopsy would throw a 337 00:18:52,920 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: wrench in everything. Just before sunrise on December eleventh, two 338 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: thousand and four, Thomas Tally was gunned down in his 339 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: driveway in Covington, Louisiana. A few hours later, his killer, 340 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: Tommy Row, who had been his best friend, was in custody. 341 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: Jack Hofstat worked for the District Attorney's office. 342 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 4: We have very few murders. 343 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 5: Most murders that we have are what I call business disputes. 344 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 5: One drug dealer killing another, or somebody's robbing a drug 345 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 5: dealer because they've got the money. And every once in 346 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 5: a while we have something like the Raal Tally case, 347 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 5: which it really doesn't fit in with the norm. 348 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: In addition to murder, Tommy also faced a drug possession charge. 349 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 1: Police had found crystal meth inside his truck. His case 350 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: appeared to be open and shut until the result of 351 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: Thomas Tally's autopsy came back. 352 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 5: The pathologist, the medical examiner, is the one that decides 353 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 5: exactly what killed him. 354 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: That report stated that Thomas Tally was shot in the chest, hip, head, 355 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: and groin area a total of six times. But the 356 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 1: detective's job got a whole lot harder when the report 357 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: listed the origin of those six bullets two different tests. 358 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 5: One was a RUGU nine milimeter, the other was a 359 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 5: LAMA forty five. 360 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: Okay. The fact that the victim took bullets from two 361 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 1: different guns, well, that changed the entire investigation. 362 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,719 Speaker 5: Se We shot four times with the nine milimeter and 363 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 5: two with the forty five. The first shots to none 364 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 5: milimeter shots were shot in a downward pattern, but they 365 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 5: weren't close shots. They were at least thirty six inches apart. 366 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 5: The last two shots were directly standing over and the ones. 367 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 3: Are the forty five. 368 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what that means. Four bullets were fired 369 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: from inside Tommy's truck and two bullets from a different 370 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: gun were fired outside the truck. 371 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 3: We had multiple gun shot wounds and two calibers. When 372 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 3: you have two calibers, you know you have two guns. 373 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: It was up to detectives to figure out who fired 374 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: the second gun. Was it someone else or did Tommy 375 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: fire both guns? Here's Detective Doug Arrowood. 376 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 3: In reality, that's usually not the case unless you've got 377 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 3: the old Wild West one gun in each hand. People 378 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 3: are not at all comfortable with shooting on an everyday basis. 379 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 3: Very very few people up. 380 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 1: The only other person law enforcement knew of who had 381 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: been at the crime scene was Kendra. She had already 382 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: talked to the detectives right after witnessing her husband being 383 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: shot to death in the driveway of their home. 384 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 3: She was definitely worse for work, so to speak. But 385 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 3: given the circumstances, you've got to say that's understandable in 386 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 3: a very traumatic time. Maybe there's something that she missed. 387 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 3: Maybe there's something she could tell us that would either 388 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 3: say yes I did it or no I didn't, and 389 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 3: here's why, and we'd say, you know what, you have 390 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 3: a point, you're good to go. So she agreed to 391 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 3: come in within attorney, I'm agree to talk to us. 392 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: Kendra held the key to what happened and had been 393 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: so helpful to the investigation. So the detective had Kendra 394 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: walk him through what happened that night one more time. 395 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 3: She was telling me about how she was abused by 396 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 3: her husband. 397 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: At the time, Kendra told the detective that her husband, Thomas, 398 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: had sexually assaulted her a few weeks earlier. On tape, 399 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: Kendra said, he forced himself on her and did some 400 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: things he had never done before. 401 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 3: I didn't think there was a lot of love lost 402 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 3: in this marriage. Maybe there wasn't a lot of love 403 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 3: at all in this marriage. 404 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: Kendra explained that in the hours leading up to Thomas's murder, 405 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: Kendra and Tommy grabbed breakfast after their night on Bourbon Street. 406 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 3: They went to a local all night establishment waffle house 407 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 3: and they were sitting there eating and she claimed that 408 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 3: he pressed her, saying something wrong. What is it? What 409 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 3: is it? 410 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: And that's when Kendra first shared her secret about how 411 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: her husband had sexually assaulted her. 412 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 3: She said, okay, well, this is what happened, but you know, 413 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 3: please forgive him. It's not that big a deal. 414 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: But it was a big deal for Tommy. He loved 415 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: Kendra and he was furious and he. 416 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 3: Went into a rage and says, that's it. He loved 417 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 3: her so much he didn't want to see anything happening 418 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 3: to her, so that was it. He was going to 419 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 3: go and take care of business. 420 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,959 Speaker 1: Tommy rouse stormed out of the restaurant. Kendra followed and 421 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: found him in his truck, and she said she'd tried 422 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 1: to calm him down because she feared he was going 423 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: to hurt her husband. 424 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 3: She talk to him out of it and she thought 425 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 3: everything was okay. 426 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: Kendra and Tommy drove to his house, where she says 427 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 1: he seemed to. 428 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 3: Cool off, but they got to his house, he got 429 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 3: into more of a rage. Then he locked her in 430 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 3: the truck. 431 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 4: She said. 432 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: Tommy grabbed her cellphone, ran into his house, and returned 433 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: with two guns. Now armed and dangerous, Tommy drove them 434 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: back to Covington. Kendra said she had never seen Tommy 435 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,919 Speaker 1: like that and feared the worst. 436 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 3: She said she was kicking him and resisting to the 437 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 3: fullest extent, begging him not to do what he was 438 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 3: going to do. 439 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: When the two arrived at Kendra's house, her husband heard 440 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: the sound of Tommy's horn and walked outside. Kendra said 441 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,359 Speaker 1: she screamed for him to go back inside, and that's 442 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: when Tommy row grabbed a gun and opened fire on 443 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 1: him from inside the truck. Kendra then exited the vehicle 444 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: and ran to get help, but Tommy wasn't finished. 445 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 3: He got out, went around the truck, and he put 446 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 3: a couple in him, just to finish him off, just 447 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 3: to make sure. But the more you look at this, 448 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 3: the more you say things aren't adding up. 449 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: That's probably what you were thinking too. A few key 450 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: details of Kendras's story stuck out. 451 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 3: She was telling me during the interview about how he 452 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 3: with one hand drove one curvy windy roads in the 453 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 3: middle of the night, and with the other hand tied 454 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 3: her up and then tied her to the steering wheel. 455 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,399 Speaker 3: Can you imagine tying somebody to the steering wheel of 456 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 3: a vehicle. Every time you turn a corner, they're going 457 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 3: to be a new lap and then they're going to 458 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 3: be off to the side again. 459 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: And speaking of the truck, remember how Kendra said Tommy 460 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: locked her in his truck. 461 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 3: Sure, I've known plenty of people be locked out of 462 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 3: a vehicle. I've helped him get into their vehicle when 463 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 3: their key's been sitting in there. I've never known somebody 464 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 3: been locked in a vehicle unless they were an infant 465 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 3: in a cradle and couldn't get out, or unless it 466 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 3: was a dog. 467 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: Her husband, Thomas's funeral was scheduled for December fifteenth, two 468 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: thousand and four, but that morning, Kendra was a no 469 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 1: show at the service. 470 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 5: Was arrested, and she was charged. She was charged of 471 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 5: the principals of the mardle. 472 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: Just before her husband's funeral, the police arrested Kendra Tally 473 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: and charged her with being the principal to his murder. 474 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 3: We had a pretty good idea of the evidence that 475 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 3: We found at the scene that she was involved in 476 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 3: this and not just a victim. 477 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: Was Kendra the other shooter or was someone else involved? 478 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 1: The police were about to hear a whole different side 479 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: to this story. 480 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 5: We had two peoples tell and two different stories. We're 481 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 5: trying to figure out which story is true. 482 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: In Part two of the Louisiana Love Triangle, just as 483 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: Thomas Tally was laid to rest, we'll learn how two 484 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: lovers turned on each other to save themselves. I'm Sloane Glass. 485 00:26:47,800 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: That's next time on American Homicide. Can contact the American 486 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: Homicide Team by emailing us at American Homicide Pod at 487 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. 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