Summary
This episode originally aired March 14, 2019. When the wife of a dentist is found dead, police are unsure who killed her. As the investigation progresses, a woman confesses. Two years pass before fibers and a study of the weather on the night of the murder break the case open.
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| 0:00.0 | In August of 1986, Betty Walsifer, a 32-year-old housewife and mother, |
| 0:08.0 | was strangled and murdered by an assailant who had broken into her home. |
| 0:13.0 | Her husband, Dr. Glenn Walsifer, was also strangled and knocked unconscious but survived the attack. |
| 0:26.6 | His younger brother Neil lived right across the street and was the first to arrive at the scene. |
| 0:31.2 | A few months later, Neil Walsifer was dead too. |
| 0:35.6 | Some say because of what he learned about the intruder. Glenn and Betty Wolfsifer had been married for nine years. |
| 0:51.3 | It was a romance that had begun 20 years earlier. |
| 0:55.7 | The family, both on Betty's side and on Glenn's side, came from a very well-established, |
| 1:00.8 | influential families within the community, very well liked by all of the community. |
| 1:06.7 | Betty and Glenn were childhood sweethearts. They went through high school together. |
| 1:11.6 | Glenn Wilcifer went on to dental school. Later married Betty and after graduation, the couple |
| 1:17.6 | returned to their hometown of Wilkesboro, Pennsylvania, to set up practice. The Wolfsifers bought a home |
| 1:24.8 | on Bert Street, just a few houses away from Glenn's younger brother, |
| 1:28.8 | Neal. The two brothers were unusually close. They were almost like twins. They very rarely did things |
| 1:36.7 | apart. They were really big into sports, and they just grew up together like that, and they |
| 1:43.4 | lived near each other, and they were inseparable, he and his brother. |
| 1:47.3 | And when Glenn and Betty gave birth to a daughter, Danielle, their life together seemed perfect. |
| 1:54.2 | But tragedy struck. |
| 1:56.2 | On Saturday morning, August 30, 1986, just after dawn, Glenn |
| 2:02.4 | Walsifer called his younger brother, Neil, telling him that an intruder had broken into his |
| 2:07.3 | home. Neil ran across the street to Glenn's home, and when he saw that Glenn had been |
| 2:12.6 | assaulted, Neil phone police. When police arrived, Glenn Wilcifer was downstairs on the floor, |
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