After the Party

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, hours after saying goodbye to her guests at her New Years Eve Party, Ashley Fallis is dead. Years later it would be up to a jury to decide whether it was suicide or murder. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 22, 2016.

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0:00.0	He was a small, near-eared party.
0:06.7	We took off and then shortly thereafter we saw the peace car.
0:11.7	This can't be happening.
0:14.3	He was pacing around, frantic, screaming.
0:23.8	It was just crazy.
0:24.8	I didn't understand what was happening and why.
0:29.8	Ashley might have not been as happy as she seemed that night.
0:33.8	What was she saying?
0:34.8	She wants to end it.
0:35.8	She said you and the kids would be better off without me.
0:40.5	He says that he hated us all and went into the bedroom and slammed the door.
0:44.8	That wound on the back of her head isn't where she could do it herself, Tom.
0:49.1	It is not.
0:50.1	Boom.
0:51.1	It is not.
0:52.1	Boom.
0:53.1	I knew that Ashley wouldn't take her whole life.
0:54.6	I didn't shoot my wife.
0:56.1	I didn't do this.
0:58.0	My whole world is never going to be the same again.
1:01.7	Ever.
1:08.7	What is so optimistic as a party on New Year's Eve?
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