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[Music] up next did an intruder commit this brutal murder could this have been even a professional
hit and was the victim's lifestyle to blame when we find nude photographs what role
does she play but the evidence points in a different direction you weren't too smart bobby
you got murdered the roofing business can be very lucrative 42 year old bob bosley started his
roofing business from scratch in his hometown of alexandria kentucky and grew it into a multi-million dollar
operation bobby loved to help people there was a woman that needed some repair work
on her roof because it was bad weather and she was more or less worrying how she was going to pay for it
and he told her ma'am it's christmas merry christmas don't worry about it bob and his wife amy had two small
children and lived a very comfortable life he was very well off he had nice cars nice home
love boats he had pretty much all the toys that anybody could want until one night something happened that
changed their lives forever shortly before dawn they woke to find an intruder in their bedroom
shots were fired and the intruder fled someone is breaking into our house and my husband
during the call amy could hear the intruder who was still in the house there was a loud thump and suddenly amy
wasn't on her end of the phone anymore the 911 it took police only minutes to get to
the scene we found bob bosley face down on the mattress his knees to the floor kind of in a i
guess a kneeling position slumped over the bed face down multiple bullet wounds obviously deceased
amy's clothes were torn and there were abrasions on her chest and behind her ear the children were
unharmed in their bedrooms the most horrific part of this crime to me was the fact that it was committed
when children were in the home amy described the assailant as a white male about five
feet six inches tall 170 pounds with a stocking over his face she also said he smelled of urine and
had a speech impediment the house appeared to be ransacked there were kitchen cabinets open there were pills
that had been strewn all over in the bathroom police found evidence that the crime might have
been drug related what caught my attention was the medicine if someone is going to go
through the medicine cabinet they're obviously looking for drugs some type of prescribed narcotic on the bedroom floor
were shell casings from a nine millimeter handgun [Music] it appeared that the killer entered the
house by breaking a window in the back door we were looking for something that could have been used to
break that window open then investigators found something intriguing when we find nude photographs
in the safe of a man who's married he's now deceased it's something we have to look at who is
this person you know why does he have nude pictures of her in a safe what role does she play in this the
photos gave investigators a whole new set of suspects [Music] the only thing we've rolled out at this
point is the wife we believe that a subject entered the bosley residence was confronted by mr bosley uh
shot mr bosley and then exited the residence the biggest concern was that there was a murderer on the loose in our
county and we needed to react quickly and find out what happened and where this person might be
to make sure that everybody else in our community was safe officials closed the elementary school
nearby and the k-9 unit tried to pick up the killer scent an autopsy revealed bob had been shot
seven times but only two shell casings were found in the bedroom when somebody shot seven times and we
only find two shell casings there's only one explanation somebody picked up the shell casings
even though the house had been ransacked the motive didn't appear to be robbery there was hundreds of dollars strewn
across the floor that had been in the hat with a wallet amy bosley told police she thought the killer might be one of
bob's clients or employees [Music] there's times when bob has disagreements with people
he's pretty nasty and he's very in their face you definitely know where he's thinking
and what he thinks he had a high turnover rate so if someone was fired from his job a disgruntled
employee that would be another area that we would have to check amy told police about an argument bob
had with his friend noah heim just two days before the murder now i heard bob money he came in check
for like yeah i think over a thousand dollars and he only love noah and bob grew up together
bob employed him as a contractor and noah served as best man at his wedding when questioned by police noah heim
denied any involvement he also had an alibi for the night of the murder i'd like to get some closure find out
why why this happened why my best friend was was murdered in the middle of the night
investigators started to doubt whether the killer was someone from work he would do
anything to help somebody out one of his workers would come up and say robert i'm i'm a little low on money
this week and he would just pull out his wallet pull out a couple hundred dollar bills
and give it to him to pay back we never get a chance now investigators turned to the racy
photographs they found in bob safe apparently bob bosley worked hard and played hard
boat parties on lake cumberland were his favorite escape and he'd take friends clients and lots
of young women was there nudity yeah a lot of alcohol yeah it was at one of these parties that bob
met darla cope one of the women in the pictures she was 10 years younger than bob
and there were rumors they'd had an affair could there possibly have been a jealous
husband could there have been an ex-boyfriend somebody who is not happy with bob's
involvement with someone in their life but darla told police she had an alibi for the night of the
murder there was no bad blood there was no reason for her to commit this crime nor
a jealous boyfriend or husband that would have come in and committed the crime you know
because of her when questioned amy bosley claimed that bob did most of the partying
but the evidence contradicted that sheeper took in the same type party atmosphere that he did it
wasn't uncommon for her to be on the houseboat with other people you know in some sort of un state of undress there
were a lot of rumors surrounding bob and amy's relationship in their marriage i think that people thought that it was
possible that both of them were having affairs and when police interviewed the bosley's
children who were 7 and 10 at the time they provided some new information about the night of their father's murder
amy bosley's statement was that an intruder broke in through the back door window
came in shot her husband and then fled what the children heard was somewhat quite the opposite the
children heard shots fired and then heard glass breaking after the shots were fired
investigators were convinced that the key to finding out who killed bob bosley could be found
in the evidence at the crime scene the police were executing a search warrant on the residence
and one of the areas where they decided to look was in the basement there hidden beneath the stairs
investigators found an aluminum baseball bat with something embedded in the soft aluminum the fresh scratches
on the bat are important because that represents probably more recent damage they were shiny with very sharp edges
and they had some fine white powdery material in them forensic examiner maureen botrell
discovered that the material was glass botrell compared it to the glass from the broken window at the crime scene
using what's called the refractive index refractive index is a measure of the speed of light
through a transparent object the glass is placed in a silicon liquid then heated the point where the glass
disappears is called its refractive index the five fragments that have the same refractive index
as the fragments that will recover from the door are consistent with having originated from the door
they came back with not only the glass fragments that match the window panes but also paint and wood samples that
were contained within that ball bat which matched the doorway or the frame of that door
but where did the bat come from the bosley's children identified it as one of theirs
and it appeared that the glass was broken from inside the house since most of the glass was outside the
door investigators found something else hidden in the basement of all places inside the clothes washer
one of the officers found a towel that contained four shell casings and it was rolled up
and shoved to the bottom of a washing machine that was full of clothes and water
and i thought that we had just hit the pain dirt we were looking for in the case
the casings from the washing machine were compared to the casings found in the bedroom i looked at the
individual marks that these specimens had i examined six cartridge cases four from
the washing machine two from the bedroom i reached the conclusion that all six of these have
been fired from the same firearm and a closer look at the night shirt amy was wearing on the night of the murder
revealed an inconsistency the shirt that she was wearing apparently been torn by the bad guy
forensic analysis of that t-shirt showed that in fact had been cut through the collar and then pulled apart
and amy's injuries looked suspicious too probably with a pair of scissors in that
she scratched her chest when questioned by police amy denied any involvement you know i'm gonna ask you
this at some point did you shoot your own no you know it's not uncommon for criminals to lie
happens all the time when the internal revenue service heard about bob bosley's murder
they called prosecutors with a possible motive they told police that the bosley roofing
company hadn't paid their corporate taxes for the last five years and owed the government 1.7
million dollars amy was the company's bookkeeper amy would withhold the state income tax
federal income tax workers com social security those items but it was never sent to
them but where was the 1.7 million dollars i think that's the 1.7 million dollar question what did amy do
with the money the irs first met with amy bosley dissatisfied they later wanted to meet
with bob too but amy wouldn't allow it the irs investigator insisted on talking to bob
so amy actually got onto the phone and started talking to this agent she was disguising her voice trying to
sound like bob bosley and what the investigator told us was that it really sounded like somebody
acting like kermit the frog the irs asked amy for her business records and she promised to comply
she never provided the information nor did she arrange a meeting between her husband
and these agents but there was no indication bob bosley knew anything about the tax
problem we kind of know he didn't know about irs i think he would really have a fit if he
knew he had owed any money she had their income tax returns prepared each year she
actually took them to bob and had him sign these returns in his mind he believed that everything was taken care
of amy could put off investigators for only so long they demanded a meeting with her and bob
for the morning of bob's murder there was no choice they were coming that morning and she
knew it within a few short hours after her husband had been murdered amy had the wherewithal to make a call
to that irs agent she said sorry we're not going to be able to meet with you today bob's been
murdered investigators now believed that amy bosley murdered her husband because she didn't
want him to find out she hadn't paid the income taxes for their roofing business
for the last five years this embezzlement had been going on for quite some time the figure that we had received from the
irs was that the bosleys had owed approximately 1.7 million dollars in back taxes and federal liability she
didn't want to sit down with her husband and explain to him that the business you
spent your entire life building i've destroyed by not paying taxes they're going to take it all away from
apparently amy mistakenly believed that bob's death would take her off the hook amy thought that because bob was the
owner of the business that all liability would fall on him and if he was no longer there
there was no one to accept that liability so if bob wasn't alive the chances are that the
our agents would just quit and go home prosecutors believe that amy panicked when the irs demanded
a meeting with her husband instead of telling bob what she'd done amy chose murder
the night before the irs meeting amy put the children to bed and waited for bob to fall asleep
she took bob's nine millimeter handgun and shot him then tried to clean up by picking up the
shell casings although she missed some of them amy then ransacked the house to make it
look like robbery rope the glass in the back door then hid the shell casings in the
washing machine to make it look like there was a struggle prosecutors believe amy cut her
night shirt then scratched herself with the scissors then called 9-1-1 she gave an all-star performance someone is
breaking into our house this morning at approximately 10 45 a.m the campbell county police department
arrested and charged amy bosley with the murder of her husband robert bosley but where was the murder weapon we have
searched by land we have searched by air and we have searched the by water rescue there's a pond out
there we drudged the pond to searching for the gun and we still have not been able to
locate the firearm in question when police looked at footage of amy bosley leaving
her home on the night of the murder they noticed that amy wasn't carrying her pocketbook
her sister was after amy's arrest amy's sister finally got around to looking inside
when she did she found a nine millimeter handgun her sister did the appropriate thing she
hired an attorney to turn over this key piece of evidence and that's how it made it to our office
she was hoping her sister would chuck it in the river or dispose of it ballistic experts compared the handgun
to the shell casings found in the bedroom and inside the washing machine they all had class characteristics that
were like that produced by the submitted pistol one year after bob's murder amy bosley
accepted a plea bargain she pled guilty to first degree murder in return for a sentence
of 20 years in prison i didn't want the kids on the stand because i didn't want to tear them any
more apart than they were what did amy do with the money i don't know if anyone can answer that except for amy
bosley i think that that 1.7 million dollars probably went to support their lifestyle
probably went to help buy the big boats to buy the property in pendleton county to help build their dream
home i think that over time their lifestyle might have gotten beyond their means prosecutors believe
that amy bosley might have hidden some of the money but where remains a mystery although people disagree in this regard
i think that when amy gets out she's probably got some money waiting for her somewhere
i would really love to know who's got that i would really love to know the bosley's children now live with
their grandparents bob's once thriving business died with him it wasn't a good relationship
they were bitter at each other you had to go way back to find a husband and wife that loved
each other in that relationship tragedy upon tragedy redeemed only by the science
that proved who was responsible if someone was to actually burglarize a house they
wouldn't take the time to hide the shell casings they wouldn't take the time to hide the baseball bat
so that just you know right there showed that you know she was just lying by her own
actions amy made her children witnesses to their father's murder that to me is horrific the mere fact
that we would have to use them as witnesses against their mother was appalling and she did that she's the
one that did that

The victim was a self-made man who never minced words. Perhaps he was murdered by a disgruntled client or employee. Perhaps the racy photos in his safe held the clue to solving the crime.

Brief Summary

Bob Bosley was murdered; his wife Amy was arrested for the crime amid financial troubles and suspicious evidence.

Key points

The Murder of Bob Bosley. Bob Bosley was found murdered in his home, leading to a complex investigation.
Amy Bosley's Alibi. Amy claimed an intruder killed her husband, but evidence suggested otherwise.
The IRS Investigation. The IRS revealed that the Bosley roofing company owed $1.7 million in taxes.
Amy's Arrest. Amy Bosley was arrested for the murder of her husband after evidence mounted against her.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Merry Christmas, don’t worry about it.

Bob comforting a woman in need during Christmas.

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