[intense music playing]
He had been shot three times.
The final shot was the shot in the head.
[intense music playing]
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.
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[Michael Arntfield] 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.
[Det. Donald Stepp] The timeline fit perfectly.
[narrator] 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.
[intense music playing]
[narrator] 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.
[Philip Groenweghe] People tend to feel
pretty safe out there. Indeed, a lot of people
move to St. Charles for that sense of safety
and community.
[narrator] But on a warm spring morning,
a local postal carrier
makes a grisly discovery.
[caller speaking]
[dispatcher speaking]
[caller speaking]
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.
[Det. Stepp] When the officer entered the office,
he locates the victim,
gunshot wound to his head.
[narrator] Capt. Patrick McCarrick
of the St. Charles Police Department
and his partner, Donald Stepp,
are called to the scene.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[narrator] The victim is Bob Eidman,
a local entrepreneur with a successful career
selling car insurance.
[Capt. Patrick McCarrick] 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.
[Groenweghe] Bob Eidman was a very popular person.
He was a salesman, very outgoing, very friendly.
People tended to like him.
[narrator] Bob had been married
to his high school sweetheart, Diane,
for almost 30 years.
[Capt. McCarrick] He and his wife, Diane, lived nearby.
They had no children,
they were pretty quiet people.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Det. Stepp] We're very hopeful that DNA's
going to show up other than Bob Eidman's DNA
in that pocket.
[Atty. Roots Gadhia] 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.
[narrator] As detectives continue
surveying the crime scene,
a theory about the murder
comes into focus.
[Det. Stepp] With the wallet being missing,
we believe that this was probably
a robbery that went bad.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[narrator] Shortly after canvassing the area,
Bob's wife, Diane Eidman
arrives on the scene.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Groenweghe] The police have to break the news to her
that her husband has been murdered
in a very violent way.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] With Diane's unemotional demeanor,
detectives wonder
if she could have had something to do
with Bob's death.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Det. Stepp] But we thought that was kind of odd
for an individual that sold insurance.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] We checked Diane's alibi
by talking to her supervisor
and confirmed that she was at work that day.
[narrator] With Diane's alibi checking out,
detectives asked if she can think of anyone
who may have wanted to hurt Bob.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] We needed to get a hold of that guy
to find out what's going on.
Did he have a motive to harm Bob?
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[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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."
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] Our belief was the murder happened
about 11:00 AM.
This would eliminate Rick as a suspect.
[narrator] With Rick Godson no longer a suspect,
detectives are back to square one.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] In search of new leads,
Detectives McCarrick and Stepp
take a closer look at Bob's business.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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."
[Det. Stepp] When we ran all the models
registered in St. Charles County,
there were 1,300 Ford Focuses registered.
[Capt. McCarrick] We began to try to make contact
with some of those people, but it's just
needle in a haystack, you know.
[Det. Stepp] We released the image to the media
hoping that someone will be able identify the vehicle,
but nothing came back being concrete.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] Detectives take a closer look
at Bob's finances, hoping for some answers.
[Det. Stepp] This was Bob's first venture out on his own
and it wasn't going the way Bob intended it to go.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] Digging deeper,
detectives discover something even more unsettling.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] If you look strictly
at the financial aspect,
Bob is worth more to Diane dead than alive.
[Arntfield] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] But we can't find a communication
between Diane and a go-between
or a potential contract killer.
[narrator] 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.
[Det. Stepp] When we checked Bob's computer records,
we found out Bob was visiting masseuses
on his lunch breaks.
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[Det. Stepp] And then, we found out that he was
talking consistently with an individual
Darryl Lewis from Independence, Missouri.
[Capt. McCarrick] We get a hold of Darryl
and discovered that he is in fact
Bob's extramarital affair.
[Det. Stepp] We were very surprised
when we found out that Bob was leading a second life.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] Detectives pay a visit to Darryl
to get more information.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Arntfield] 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.
[narrator] With suspicions swirling around Darryl,
detectives asked about his whereabouts
during the window of time Bob was killed.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] Having eliminated Darryl as a suspect,
detectives turn their attention
back to Bob's wife, Diane.
[Capt. McCarrick] It was significant that Diane had discovered the affair
some weeks before the murder,
but had never told us about it.
[Arntfield] 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.
[narrator] Detectives bring Diane in
for another round of questioning.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Without evidence directly linking Diane
to Bob's murder,
detectives are forced to let her go.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Arntfield] 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.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Unable to connect Diane Eidman
to the murder of her husband,
the investigation into the homicide
of Bob Eidman hits a wall.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[intense music playing]
[narrator] Detectives dig deeper
into Diane's background
and make a surprising discovery.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Stockdale] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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."
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] Investigators enter the DNA profile
in the national database,
hoping to find a match
that would reveal Bob's killer.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Arntfield] 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.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] 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.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] While reviewing all the evidence they've collected,
investigators uncover another link
connecting Paul White to Bob Eidman.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[detective speaking]
[narrator] With Paul White playing hardball,
detectives McCarrick and Stepp shift their focus
to the driver of the Ford Focus,
Cleo Hines.
[Det. Stepp] We learned that Cleo Hines was a roommate
-and friend of Paul White. -[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[dramatic music playing]
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[narrator] Armed with Cleo's confession,
investigators confront Paul White.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[narrator] Investigators can now piece together
Bob Eidman's final 24 hours.
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.
[Det. Stepp] 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.
[Groenweghe] 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.
[narrator] 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.
[Det. Stepp] Once all the pieces were found,
the timeline fit perfectly.
[dramatic music playing]
[Capt. McCarrick] 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.