All language subtitles for Episode 10 The Business of Murder

He had been shot three times.

The final shot was the shot
in the head.

There is $400,000 out there.

I believe that
that would be a reason

for someone to wanna kill him.

If you look strictly
at the financial aspect,

he's worth more dead than alive.

Where you have infidelity,

you automatically up the ante

that not one but two people
may be motivated by jealousy.

If in fact the mother
did kill the father,

it's not impossible that she
would have learned from that.

Both individuals, they pointed
the finger at each other.

This turns out to be
a game changer.

This is the same vehicle
depicted

in the surveillance footage.

It puts him right
in the wheelhouse

that we're looking for.

The timeline fit perfectly.

Every day in North America,

dozens of people are murdered.

The key to solving the toughest

of these homicides
lies in the final 24 hours

of the victim's life.

To crack the case,

detectives must reconstruct

that critical timeline.

The minutes and hours
containing evidence

that can help unlock the mystery

and catch the killer.

St. Charles, Missouri,

a small town rich in charm,

nestled on the banks
of the Missouri River.

St. Charles, Missouri is part

of the St. Louis
Metropolitan area.

Most of the people
who live there

commute in to St. Louis
to work.

It's suburbia.

It's a historic district.

Some of the buildings there
go back to the 1800 or so.

People tend to feel

pretty safe out there.
Indeed, a lot of people

move to St. Charles
for that sense of safety

and community.

But on a warm spring morning,

a local postal carrier

makes a grisly discovery.

About 12:30 PM,
the mail carrier,

she goes into the office
with the mail, finds a man,

and she realizes
that he's either dead

or very seriously hurt.

The mail carrier runs out,
screaming for help,

and there just happened to be
a police officer driving by.

At that time,
she flagged him down.

When the
officer entered the office,

he locates the victim,

gunshot wound to his head.

Capt. Patrick McCarrick

of the St. Charles
Police Department

and his partner, Donald Stepp,

are called to the scene.

We arrived
at the scene approximately

12:55 after hearing the call

come out over the radio.

Upon entering the office,

everything looked normal
until you see a male is shot.

He had been shot three times.

One was near his chin,

one was in his neck,

the final shot
was the shot in the head.

We found the bullet
flattened on the floor.

So the bullet's trajectory

was easy to ascertain.

He had been shot by someone
standing right over him.

It made it an extremely
coldblooded

execution type murder.

The victim is Bob Eidman,

a local entrepreneur
with a successful career

selling car insurance.

Bob was well-known

in the business community
particularly

in insurance circles.

He'd been in the business
for a long time.

His clientele were high risk
auto insurance clients.

Bob Eidman
was a very popular person.

He was a salesman,
very outgoing, very friendly.

People tended to like him.

Bob had been married

to his high school
sweetheart, Diane,

for almost 30 years.

He and
his wife, Diane, lived nearby.

They had no children,

they were pretty quiet people.

To find
Bob Eidman's killer,

detectives must unravel

the last 24 hours of his life.

They start by processing
the crime scene.

We found shell casings
and live ammo

laying on the floor.

The bullets were on the floor

between the door and the body.

Bob is probably seated
at the desk.

And someone comes in

and there's an immediate
confrontation.

He stands up.

It looks like he was shot

pretty soon
after the shooter entered.

The fact that
there's live rounds

being ejected along
with spent rounds

is significant to me,
because either the shooter

had a defective weapon

or it was a nervous
or inexperienced shooter,

because you don't eject live
rounds normally, you know.

The office did not appear
to be ransacked.

Then, investigators noticed

an unusual detail.

They can't locate Bob's wallet.

We saw that his wallet
was missing.

We cut out the rear pants pocket

and sent it to the lab,

thinking that if the killer
had reached

into his pocket
and taken the wallet,

they could have left DNA
in the pocket.

We're very hopeful that DNA's

going to show up other than
Bob Eidman's DNA

in that pocket.

Touch DNA
is becoming more prevalent

to establish identification.

What most people don't realize

is that our skin and oils
on our fingertips

actually leave behind residue.

And when you touch an object,

um, you're actually leaving DNA.

As detectives continue

surveying the crime scene,

a theory about the murder

comes into focus.

With the wallet
being missing,

we believe
that this was probably

a robbery that went bad.

The fact that Bob was shot

execution style indicates
that probably the shooter

had a personal motive
to shoot Bob

or he was eliminating Bob
as a witness.

There were
no struggles and sign

that looked like
he's gonna fight.

Whoever came into the office,

Bob probably was familiar with

or that they came
underneath disguise

of doing business.

Searching for answers,

police turned to the community.

We immediately start
checking the area

for possible witnesses.

Bob's office is located
in a strip mall.

Talked to the Mexican
grocery store.

We learned that Bob
came to work at 10:00 AM.

With the postal worker
making her delivery

at approximately 12:30,

he was already deceased
at that time,

so we knew
that the incident happened

between 10:00 and 12:30
that morning.

We also talked to a lady
who ran a printing business

that was located
below Bob's office.

She heard some loud noises
in Bob's office

at about 11:00 AM,
and we felt right away

that that was probably
the time of the crime.

When you have witnesses

who heard these noises,

if you can narrow down
the timeframe,

that's a big lead to have

towards trying to solve
the crime.

Shortly after
canvassing the area,

Bob's wife, Diane Eidman

arrives on the scene.

Diane arrived
at approximately 3:00 PM.

She didn't know
what was going on.

She made multiple phone calls
to the office

that Bob didn't answer.

The police have
to break the news to her

that her husband
has been murdered

in a very violent way.

She just became very quiet,

almost catatonic.

In fact, I was concerned.

People react in different ways,

but I certainly thought
that it was unusual.

At this stage
in an investigation,

everyone is a potential suspect,

especially a spouse.

That's police investigation 101.

You always look to the spouse.

With the crime
scene being processed,

detectives bring Diane Eidman
to the station

for an interview.

Diane, she was a quiet person.

She said they didn't drink.
They didn't go out to party.

Detectives asked
Diane about Bob's activities

leading up to his murder.

The day before the incident,

they had left the office
approximately 3:00 PM.

They were visiting
a car dealerships

to hand out business cards,

trying to drum up new business.

They had dinner at home
that evening

approximately 6:00 PM.

And then, Bob went to bed

in between 10:00
and 10:30 PM.

The next day,
Bob woke up and went to work

approximately 9:00 AM.

With Diane's
unemotional demeanor,

detectives wonder

if she could have had
something to do

with Bob's death.

We asked Diane
about an insurance policy.

She believes
that she had one policy

and she thought it was valued
approximately $5,000.

When it looks like
life insurance is $5,000,

that's not much of a motive.

But we thought
that was kind of odd

for an individual
that sold insurance.

Detectives asked
Diane about her whereabouts

in the hours leading up
to Bob's death.

Diane worked
at a local hospital,

St. John's Mercy.

Diane told us
she had been at work

from 5:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

We checked Diane's alibi

by talking to her supervisor

and confirmed
that she was at work that day.

With Diane's alibi
checking out,

detectives asked
if she can think of anyone

who may have wanted to hurt Bob.

Diane told us
that Bob was having issues

with a competitor, Rick Godson.

She said that Bob and Godson
had been fighting over

a long time customer
and Bob said

they were both claiming
as being their own.

Bob was pretty agitated

according to Diane that this guy

was stealing
one of his damn customers.

He was angry about it.

It was possible that this
might be our suspect.

We needed
to get a hold of that guy

to find out what's going on.

Did he have a motive
to harm Bob?

In the brutal murder

of insurance salesman,
Bob Eidman,

investigators are chasing
a new lead.

Could Bob have been killed
by a local business rival?

We found out
through Bob's wife, Diane,

Bob had a confrontation
with another insurance agent

named Rick Godson.

This appears to us
to be possibly a motive.

Bob is gonna take it
kind of personally

when this guy poaches
one of his clients.

With Rick
in their crosshairs,

detectives pay him
a visit at his office.

When we contacted Rick,
he had heard about

what had happened on the news.

Godson was very shocked
that Bob had been killed.

Rick Godson denies
any involvement

in Bob's murder.

Godson admitted that
there had been some dispute

but never anything
that would've got

to the level of a homicide.

Rick told us that recently

Bob had come to his office
and was obviously angry

over the customer
and shouting at him about it,

but, uh, Rick said,

"I didn't have any beef
with the guy.

He was mad at me,

but I didn't have any reason
to wanna harm the guy."

Detectives asked Rick

about his movements
on the day of Bob's murder.

Rick told us that he had gone
to get some office supplies

about 10:15 AM

and he arrived at his office

at about 10:30 AM.

To verify his alibi,

detectives contact
the office supply store

Rick claims to have visited
on June 8th.

After Godson left the store,

he arrived at his office
at 10:30 AM.

He was at his office
all day long,

which we were able to verify
with his receptionist.

Our belief
was the murder happened

about 11:00 AM.

This would eliminate Rick
as a suspect.

With Rick Godson
no longer a suspect,

detectives are back
to square one.

Capt. McCarrick
is somewhat of a legend

in the metro area,
especially when it comes

to homicides.
And he was a very big mentor

in my career.

In search of new leads,

Detectives McCarrick and Stepp

take a closer look
at Bob's business.

Bob's business

was a one man office.

His clients were...

Basically they were buying
insurance from Bob

because they couldn't get it
anywhere else.

They were high risk

because of their driving record,

their employment record.

Most of them
were paying in cash.

Now, anytime you run
a cash business,

there is a risk it becomes

a tempting target for a robbery.

I mean,
you're not gonna get

the kind of money
you'd get robbing

the First National Bank,

but you're probably not gonna
get caught either.

Working a new theory

that Bob could have been
killed by one of his clients,

detectives dig
into his client files,

looking for potential suspects.

There were hundreds
and hundreds of names.

We had to run down
each and every one.

What we do is we'd run
a criminal history

on each person.

Individuals that had a violent

criminal history
were looked at stronger

than people who didn't have
that history.

Going through the names,
we did not have a suspect.

Investigators catch a break

when they received
surveillance footage

from the grocery store
next to Bob's office.

We got a video
from the surveillance camera

in the bodega on the day
of the murder, June 8th.

This camera pointed at the door

and captured just a narrow
part of that roadway

right in front of Bob's office.

The video surveillance showed
a light colored vehicle

driving past at 10:50
and at 10:54 AM.

Based on the individual
driving past twice

and the timeframe that
coincided with the gunshot

was being heard
at approximately 11:00 AM,

we believed that that vehicle
had something to do

with the homicide.

If you were gonna go
to that strip mall,

there would be no reason to
circle that business twice.

For detectives,
this is a significant lead.

They worked to track
down more information

about the vehicle.

From the video surveillance,
we weren't able to obtain

a license plate number
or a description

of the individual or individuals

inside the vehicle.

We couldn't
identify the car exactly,

but we had a guy
on the police department

who could identify
any car or truck.

He looked at this thing and
said, "That's a Ford Focus."

When we ran all the models

registered
in St. Charles County,

there were 1,300
Ford Focuses registered.

We began
to try to make contact

with some of those people,
but it's just

needle in a haystack, you know.

We released
the image to the media

hoping that someone will be
able identify the vehicle,

but nothing came
back being concrete.

So the car, the information,

that's not very useful
at that point.

There is a potential
that it will be

if we find a suspect

who's associated
with a car like that,

but we haven't
identified anybody

who's under suspicion, yet.

This was a very
frustrating investigation.

We had the main pieces,
but we did not have a lock.

We needed something
to lead us to the suspect.

Detectives take
a closer look

at Bob's finances,
hoping for some answers.

This was Bob's
first venture out on his own

and it wasn't going the way
Bob intended it to go.

He had a franchise

from an insurance company

and they were getting ready
to revoke his franchise

because the business was so bad.

Bob had $160,000
that we found invested

in the franchise
and if he lost the business,

he was gonna lose that $160,000,

and he would have been
in serious financial trouble.

In terms of motivation,
that brings us back to Diane

because if Bob is in trouble
financially,

Diane's in trouble financially.

Digging deeper,

detectives discover something
even more unsettling.

In looking
into the life insurance

picture as Diane
had told us originally,

she thought about $5,000
in life insurance on Bob.

When we looked, we found
that there were actually

three policies.

The total coverage on his life

was around $400,000.

$400,000,
that's a lot more than $5,000.

Diane Eidman
is the sole beneficiary

in all three policies.

If you look strictly

at the financial aspect,

Bob is worth more to Diane
dead than alive.

Large life insurance policies

have always been a potential
motive for murder.

That sounds like the oldest
motive in the book,

but it's still in the book
because people actually do it.

There's a lot of reasons

to kill your husband.

$5,000, that's not much
of a financial motive

for murder,

but $400,000 could well be.

In the coldblooded murder

of insurance salesman
Bob Eidman,

investigators have uncovered
a crucial detail

that puts his wife Diane

squarely back in their
crosshairs as a suspect.

When asked
about life insurance

in a routine
initial interview with Diane,

she failed to mention
the total coverage

on Bob's life
was around $400,000.

The question every
investigator needs to ask is,

"Who benefits
from this person's death?"

And if there's a sizable
life insurance policy,

his death triggers
a windfall for Diane.

She's the only one who benefits.

Detectives bring
Diane to the station again

and confront her
with their recent findings.

When we asked Diane about

the three life insurance
policies,

she stated
that she didn't remember

that she had three.

We thought that was very odd.

There is $400,000 out there.

I believe
that that would be a reason

for someone to wanna kill
Bob Eidman.

Even though Diane Eidman
was at work on June 8th

until approximately 2:45 PM

and her alibi was confirmed
that she was at work,

doesn't mean that she
couldn't have been involved

in the murder.

We investigated Diane Eidman.

We pulled emails.

We pulled phone records.

We did a mail trace.

We did anything that we could

to figure out that Diane Eidman

had been communicating
with someone

about the homicide.

But we
can't find a communication

between Diane and a go-between

or a potential contract killer.

When looking
at Bob and Diane's

phone and computer records,

detectives find evidence

that their marriage
might not have been as solid

as Diane claimed.

When we checked
Bob's computer records,

we found out Bob
was visiting masseuses

on his lunch breaks.

And then,
we found out that he was

talking consistently
with an individual

Darryl Lewis
from Independence, Missouri.

We get a hold of Darryl

and discovered
that he is in fact

Bob's extramarital affair.

We were very surprised

when we found out that Bob
was leading a second life.

I mean, your
typical suburban insurance man

who goes to work, and goes home,

and barbecues
with the neighbors,

that's a low risk lifestyle.

If you're going to
massage parlors

and having extramarital affairs,

that's a high risk lifestyle

and brings in the possibility

of people having a motive
to wanna harm you.

Detectives
pay a visit to Darryl

to get more information.

When we talked to
Darryl Lewis in Independence,

he said he met Bob
using a phone dating service.

He said that him and Bob,
they were having an affair.

He said they'd meet and spend
the weekends together.

Knowing that they were
involved in a relationship,

there was a possibility

that Darryl
could've been a suspect.

When detectives asked Darryl

if there was any trouble
in their relationship,

he becomes distraught.

He said that his relationship
with Bob had ended.

Bob had told Darryl
that his wife

had found out about the affair.

Bob called him and told him

that Diane found his email

and confronted Bob about it.

Bob said, "I'm going to have
to not see you for a while

because Diane's
angry about this."

Darryl was very upset that Bob

had ended their relationship.

Jealousy could have been
a motive at this point.

The breakup, that could
have created a motive

for Darryl to wanna harm Bob

or just the nature
of their affair itself.

I mean, if you have
a love triangle,

everybody's got a motive to

shoot everybody else
sometimes, you know.

The infidelity
and the second life

naturally opens up a new realm
of possibilities

in terms of that
personal motive to kill Bob.

In any case where
you have infidelity,

you automatically up the ante

that not one but two people

may be motivated by jealousy
or by competition.

With suspicions
swirling around Darryl,

detectives asked
about his whereabouts

during the window of time
Bob was killed.

When we asked
Darryl where he was on the 8th,

he said that he was at work
from 8:00 AM until 5:30 PM.

He worked at a car dealership
in the Independence area.

We checked Darryl's alibi

and we spoke with his employer,

who did put Darryl Lewis
at work from 8:00 to 5:30 PM.

Having eliminated
Darryl as a suspect,

detectives turn their attention

back to Bob's wife, Diane.

It was significant
that Diane had discovered the affair

some weeks before the murder,

but had never told us about it.

In terms of Diane,

we have a possible
financial motive,

but we also can't discount
the fact that, uh, Bob's lover

may have triggered some
jealous instinct in Diane

that was also
the motivation for murder.

We reached the point
in the investigation

where we see several
possible motives for Diane.

She's a beneficiary of a
large amount of life insurance

and recently she has discovered

that he's got an extramarital
affair going on with a man.

Everything is coming back
around to Diane.

Detectives bring Diane in

for another round
of questioning.

When we confronted
Diane with the information

that we knew that Bob
was having an affair,

Diane kinda blew it off

like it wasn't
that big of a deal.

Diane,
she said that their relationship

wasn't anything
that would motivate her

to wanna harm Bob
and she didn't think

it was significant enough
to tell us about it.

I'm not sure if I buy that.

A classic motive
for spousal homicide

is that your husband
or wife is fooling around.

It could in itself create
a motive for her to harm Bob,

and the fact that she wouldn't
mention something like that,

could mean that
she's concealing something.

She failed to tell us
a couple of things

that just makes her
more suspicious.

Without evidence
directly linking Diane

to Bob's murder,

detectives are forced
to let her go.

At this point, the
investigation still was ongoing.

We still don't have the
evidence of who killed Bob.

Without having any additional
information or evidence,

we'd have to find the angle
or something new,

so we were no closer
at that point

than we were in the beginning
of the investigation.

For investigators,

this really is puzzling
and frustrating

and you need to then
start opening other doors

and using, in some cases,
less conventional methods.

This is a very twisted case.

Unable to
connect Diane Eidman

to the murder of her husband,

the investigation
into the homicide

of Bob Eidman hits a wall.

There's
nothing more frustrating

for law enforcement
than having a brutal murder

that occurred
in your jurisdiction

and it goes unsolved.

The public wants to know
what happened,

so there's a lot of pressure
to try to resolve this,

most of it coming
from the police themselves

and they wanna solve every case.

Detectives dig deeper

into Diane's background

and make a surprising discovery.

We've learned Diane's mother,

uh, had been accused
of murdering her father

when Diane was a young girl,
I think about 12 or 14.

And it looked like the
evidence was pretty strong,

but she was eventually taken
to trial and acquitted.

Police, in this case,

learned that
Diane's mother Lenora

was accused of committing murder

against her domestic partner.

This may have impacted her life,

maybe she inherited, uh,

a predisposition
towards aggression

or potentially this could be
a recipe,

um, for acting out
or using violence.

There's no doubt
the father was murdered by somebody

and that the mother
was the only person

ever formally charged,

but if the mother
did kill the father,

then it's not impossible

that Diane would have
learned from that

and seen, "I have a serious
problem in my marriage.

This is a way I might be
able to deal with it."

After learning about
the suspicious circumstances

surrounding her father's death,

detectives zero
in on Bob's wife, Diane.

Up to this point, we both
believe that Diane Eidman

could have been involved
in the murder.

We asked Diane Eidman to take
a polygraph examination,

which she agreed to.

Type of questions
we would ask would be,

"Did you kill Bob?
Do you know who killed Bob?

Were you involved?"

Those answers came back
as being inconclusive.

The results are
not enough to hold Diane.

Detectives once again
must let her go.

Then, the touch DNA results
from Bob's pants

come in from the lab.

Nine months
after submitting Bob's

back pocket for DNA analysis,

they were able to identify
two DNA profiles.

One of the DNA profiles came
back belonging to Bob Eidman,

the second to an unknown male.

This was huge.

We
certainly believe that's gonna be

the killer's DNA
or a participant,

a direct participant
in the crime.

There's no reason
for somebody's DNA

to be in Bob's pocket
other than Bob.

That DNA doesn't rule Diane out.

We know Diane
didn't commit the crime,

but if she had someone do it,

either directly
or through an intermediary,

that could be
the identified profile.

Investigators
enter the DNA profile

in the national database,

hoping to find a match

that would reveal Bob's killer.

We ran the DNA,
we did not have a match.

When you're working on a lead,

and it comes up to
being a dead end,

it's very frustrating.

You just have to keep going.

Months turned to years,

and detectives
are no closer to an arrest

than they were on day one,

but when they receive
unexpected news,

the course of
the investigation changes.

Three
years later, we're notified that

the unidentified DNA
is identified

with a man named Paul White

who's in
the Missouri Penitentiary

on an unrelated charge.

Paul White has
an extensive rap sheet.

There was eight or nine prior
felony convictions.

Most interestingly there
was a robbery first degree.

And in that case,
the victim had survived.

And they were able
to arrest Paul White

because he left the victim,
the witness alive.

It's possible that was not
a mistake Paul White

was willing to make again

no matter how ruthless
he had to be

to accomplish that.

We're convinced
at that point that Paul White is our guy.

But we have to
find the connection

between Bob Eidman
and Paul White.

There has to be some kind
of an inside connection,

either direct or indirect.

We're gonna clear this
by the time the dust settles.

Detectives
dig deeper into Paul White's

activities in the week
surrounding Bob's murder.

We discovered this traffic stop.

And Paul,
he was a passenger in a car

driven by another
guy named Cleo Hines.

And the car is a Ford Focus,
silver in color.

We believe it is the Focus
we were looking for at that time.

This turns out
to be a game changer

because this is the same vehicle

depicted in
the surveillance footage

that seems to be
circling Bob's office

in the moments leading up
to his murder.

After
a three-year investigation

into the murder of insurance
salesman Bob Eidman,

detectives get a DNA match
that places a new suspect

at the crime scene, Paul White.

Paul White's DNA
is in Bob's pocket

where his wallet
was stolen from.

It's got to be the killer's DNA.

While reviewing all
the evidence they've collected,

investigators uncover
another link

connecting Paul White
to Bob Eidman.

Paul White,
his wife bought

a car insurance policy
from Bob Eidman

some months before the murder.

And on at least one occasion,

Paul was with her

which completes the element

that we're looking for
under robbery

that he has some knowledge
of the business.

He knows where the business is.

He knows the nature
of the business,

that it's a cash business,
the environment,

low visibility.

It puts him right
in the wheelhouse

that we're looking for.

Having established
a clear financial motive

for Paul White
to kill Bob Eidman,

detectives visit Paul
in prison to question him.

The interview
with Paul White was conducted

in Missouri Department
of Corrections.

Paul was in shock that
we were there to speak to him

about something that happened
years earlier.

When the police
interviewed Paul White,

his demeanor seemed very cool,

calm, collected,
indeed almost arrogant.

One of the first things
the detectives did

was show him a picture
of Bob Eidman,

in fact they showed him
two pictures.

The first one, they said,

do you recognize this guy?

He doesn't break a sweat.

He doesn't miss a beat.

He said no, I don't...
I don't recognize him.

They show him a second picture.

He says, yeah, I don't know,

he looks familiar
but I can't place him.

He leans back.

He's got his arms
behind his head.

He's calm, he's joking.

The first interview with Paul

is pretty clear
that he doesn't think

we have anything on him.

Even if we identify the car,

it doesn't put him
at the scene of the crime.

DNA, fingerprints,

he doesn't think there's
a possibility of that,

he thinks that
they don't have any evidence.

He's very confident of that.

Paul White
claimed he had nothing to do

with Bob Eidman's death.

When I told Paul White
that we have his DNA

in the pocket of Bob Eidman,

he said, there is no way
you have that.

There's no way.

With Paul White
playing hardball,

detectives McCarrick
and Stepp shift their focus

to the driver of the Ford Focus,

Cleo Hines.

We learned
that Cleo Hines was a roommate

- and friend of Paul White.
- There's a probability

that if Cleo's car is
at the scene of the crime,

Cleo's there, too.
We don't know that for sure.

But we're certainly
gonna suspect

that he may
have been there also.

If we let him believe
that we can identify his car,

he's gonna believe
that's a good bluff.

That's like when
the third spade shows up

at your Texas hold 'em game
and you raise big,

maybe you got a flush,
you know, maybe you don't.

When we conducted
an interview with him,

Cleo was very quick to confess

to his involvement
with the homicide.

Cleo tells us that
on the day of the crime,

Paul had lost money
at the casino

and came to him, needed money

and wants Cleo to
help him commit a robbery.

Paul tells Cleo
that he knows a guy,

an insurance guy named Bob
who runs a cash business

and believes they can rob him.

Cleo tells us that Paul

puts a gun to his head
and threatens him.

So he goes along with it.

Cleo Hines admits
that he was driving the car

the morning of the crime.

And Paul gets out by himself

and goes out to do the robbery.

Afterwards, Paul comes back,

gets in the car,
and they drive away.

Detectives
press Cleo for the reason

why Paul would want to kill Bob.

When we asked Cleo why
he didn't report the crime,

he said that
he was afraid of Paul.

Detectives
can now finally rule out

Diane Eidman as a suspect.

Diane, she hasn't done
anything wrong.

And we kinda put Diane
through the wringer.

We feel bad about that.

But if I had to do it
again tomorrow,

I would have to do
the same thing

because our responsibility
is to find out

who made Bob dead
before he was supposed to be.

Diane's his wife,

but she had to also
be a suspect,

and that often can't be avoided.

Armed with Cleo's confession,

investigators confront
Paul White.

We're telling
Paul that Cleo has confessed

and Paul still denies
that he had any involvement.

As they confronted him
with more and more evidence,

that smirk
got wiped off his face

as he came to realize

just how much trouble he was in.

Eventually,
Paul gives us his version.

He admits being there,

and he admits
planning the robbery,

but he denies being the shooter.

He says that he takes
Bob's wallet out of his pants

and Cleo began shooting,

and shoots Bob and killed him.

Basically, both men,

they pointed the finger
at each other.

Under Missouri law,
if you aid, assist,

or encourage someone
in committing the crime,

you're as guilty
of the crime as they are.

I do believe that
Paul White likely was the shooter.

Well, we don't have to prove
that beyond reasonable doubt.

We just have to prove
that they conspired

and acted in concert
to commit the crime.

They're both guilty
of the... of the crime.

Investigators
can now piece together

Bob Eidman's final 24 hours.

At 12:30 AM on June the 8th,

Paul takes a trip to the casino

and loses $1,200.

Later, Paul goes home,
he talks to Cleo,

tells him he needs money,

and he suggests a robbery

of Bob Eidman
in his insurance office

because Bob did a cash business.

So at 10:50 AM,

they arrive in the area
of Bob's office,

they drive past once
to case the place.

They come back
around again at 10:54

and they go inside.

They come through
the door at 10:55.

There's an immediate
confrontation.

Bob's probably seated
at his desk.

The two guys demanded money.

Bob is beginning
to stand up from his desk.

The first shot is fired,
probably strikes him in the chin,

then another shot
strikes him in the neck.

At 11:00 AM,

Paul White stands over Eidman,

and puts another round
into his head

killing Bob Eidman.

$200 was stolen from Bob Eidman.

This was completely
and utterly senseless.

This was something that
should never have happened.

I don't understand how
anyone could do something like that,

can have so little remorse,

so little sense of conscience,

it's mind boggling.

For his role
in the murder of Bob Eidman,

Cleo Hines is charged with
second degree murder and robbery.

As the likely shooter,
Paul White is charged

with first degree murder
and robbery.

Both men are sentenced
to life in prison.

In a police investigation,

the key to understanding
why something happened,

the first step
to understanding why

is to understand when.

It's not always a luxury
that police have.

In this case, it was something

they had going for them,

they had a very clear timeline.

Once all
the pieces were found,

the timeline fit perfectly.

I didn't know Bob in life.

Usually, we don't know
our victims in life,

we only know them in their...

in their death.

Bob is gone but he has survivors

that will think
about him every day

for the rest of their lives.

Diane is one of them.

Bob didn't deserve this,

and Diane and his survivors
didn't deserve it.