Death After Midnight

48 Hours

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True Crime, Tv & Film

4.1 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, Ashley Fallis, a mother of three, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head in her bedroom. Did she die by suicide, as her husband Tom Fallis maintains, or was it murder, as Ashley’s parents insist? “48 Hours" Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.

This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 8/24/2019. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays and stream on demand on Paramount+.

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0:00.0	It is a please.
0:03.0	Please,
0:04.0	please,
0:06.0	it is It is incredibly unbelievable to see your kid, laying in a bed with a bullet hole through them.
0:32.6	He shot her. I know he shot her.
0:35.6	I did not shoot my wife.
0:38.3	What was that that made you decide this was a case worth investigating?
0:43.3	There was enough there to suggest that there wasn't at least a thorough investigation.
0:47.3	And so I thought I owed it to the family to look at that.
0:50.3	I received a tip about this last week and had been working on it.
0:53.3	It was brought to my attention by a Fox 31 report.
0:55.0	The new investigation that began after our story first.
0:58.0	Probably four days after New Year's Eve 2011, a family came to me and said,
1:04.0	someone killed our daughter and got away with it.
1:06.0	Happy a year!
1:08.0	2011, New Year's Eve party. We were invited Happy a year!
1:14.0	2011, New Year's E-Party.
1:18.3	We were invited up by Ashley, our daughter, and Tom Fallis is her husband.
1:20.7	It's recording!
1:24.1	Ashley had a zeal for life.
1:24.8	She loved life.
1:27.4	She loved her kids more than anything.
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