While on a business trip in 1986, Ed Poe spent the morning jogging near his hotel in downtown St. Louis.

When he returned to his hotel room, he discovered his wife dead in the bathtub.

The medical examiner ruled the death was by drowning, presumably accidental.

But homicide investigators weren't so sure.

The Ed Post met Julie Thigpan when they were both students at the University of Southern Mississippi in the 1960s. They married in 1967, had two daughters, and moved to New Orleans.

Ed went to work in the real estate business.

His outgoing personality and sophisticated manner made him a successful salesman right from the start.

I thought Ed was a good fellow. What you'd expect a real estate salesman

to be, kind of relentlessly cheerful. After a few years, Ed Post became part owner of the Wagner

Truex real estate firm. Julie Post also joined the company and was very successful, selling over a

million dollars of real estate every year from 1982 on.

In June of 1986, the Post attended a real estate convention in St. Louis, Missouri at the Omni Hotel at Union Station.

On the morning of June 3rd, Ed Post decided to go jogging before the meeting started.

He said he drew his life a bath and woke her before leaving around 7 a.m.

On his way out, he thanked the hotel's concierge for a suggestion she made to the posts the day before.

Really wonderful.

Have a nice run?

Sure.

Edpost jog past Bush Stadium, around the city's famous arch, and returned to the hotel at 7.40.

How was your run, sir?

When he entered his hotel room, he said he discovered his wife lying face down and unconscious in the bathtub.

After pulling her body from the water, he called for an ambulance at 7.43.

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